Absolute League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vol. 1 Moore

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Description: Title: Absolute League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Author: Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill ISBN: 1401200524 Publisher: DC Comics Publication Date: 2003 This book has been opened but is in very good condition. Neither books nor slipcase suffer from significant bumps or scuffing. This is the ideal format for appreciating the numerous small details, obscure Victorian cameos, and humorous details which make Moore ’s stories so rich and O’Neill’s art so entertaining. Also, in this format the art is frankly beautiful and the insight provided by the supplementary materials is astounding. Please contact me if you have any questions. This is the edition to have if you are a serious fan or collector of Alan Moore or graphic novels. Please look at my other auctions for other rare editions of major graphic novels by major writers and artists which I am letting go for great prices. Product Description from publisher’s website: Some of literature's greatest heroes — Allan Quatermain, Mina Murray, Captain Nemo, Dr. Henry Jekyll, Edward Hyde, and Hawley Griffin — came together in THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN, Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill's celebrated Victorian adventure that took the comics world by storm. Now the classic miniseries is collected in a truly fitting format in this massive, two-book, oversized (8 1/4" x 12 1/4") hardcover edition that comes in its own slipcase. The 224-page Book One contains the original 6-issue miniseries, featuring the introduction of the League and its first epic adventure as these 19th century heroes set out to protect Britain in her hour of need. Book Two, checking in at 192 pages, presents — for the first time ever — Moore 's complete scripts for the miniseries, which are renowned for their length and detailed descriptions. As an added bonus, a series of previously unpublished spot illustrations by O'Neill accompany the text. From Publishers Weekly Acclaimed comics author Moore (Watchmen) has combined his love of 19th-century adventure literature with an imaginative mastery of its 20th-century corollary, the superhero comic book. This delightful work features a grand collection of signature 19th-century fictional adventurers, covertly brought together to defend the empire. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comprises such characters as Minna Murray (formerly Harker), from Bram Stoker's Dracula; Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll (and his monstrous alter ego, Mr. Hyde); and Jules Verne's Captain Nemo, restored to the dark, grim-visaged Sikh Verne originally intended. T's also Hawley Griffin, the imperceptible hero of H.G. Well's The Invisible Man, and Allan Quatermain, the daring adventurer of King Solomon's Mines and other classic yarns by H. Rider Haggard. It's 1898, and these troubled adventurers are spread around the globe, in the midst of one pickle or another. Quatermain is found near death, delirious in a Cairo opium den; the perverse Griffin is captured terrorizing an all-girls school (leaving behind a series of mysterious pregnancies); and the gruesome Mr. Hyde is rescued from the mob set to kill him at the end of Stevenson's classic novel. This collection of flawed and gloomy heroes is recruited to fight a criminal mastermind (a notorious 19th-century literary villain) intent on firebombing the East End of London . The book also includes "Allan and the Sundered Veil," a rip-snorting, prose time-travel story starring Quatermain and written in the manner of the 19th-century "penny dreadful." Moore and O'Neill have created a Victorian era Fantastic Four, a beautifully illustrated reprise of 19th-century literary derring-do packed with period detail, great humor and rousing adventure. Purchasing: Items may only be purchased through PayPal and payment is expected within three days of the end of the auction. Buyers with negative or no feedback may be declined. Please contact me before bidding if you have any questions. ... read more

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