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SANDMAN SPECIAL: ORPHEUS #1!
Written by Neil Gaiman!
Drawn by Bryan Talbot! featuring an incredible GLOW IN THE DARK cover designed by DAVE MCKEAN.
THIS VERSION IS LONG OUT OF PRINT.
This is the RARE original 1991 published version of Gaiman's ORPHEUS story, and was never sold in any mass market retail outlets. It was only available to purchase through comic book specialty shops.
This is one of Neil Gaiman's earliest comic books written for DC in 1991, and presents a flashback story in the saga of The Sandman. This special tells the tragic story of The Sandman's son ORPHEUS. Even back then Gaiman shows what a fresh talent and unique storyteller he is.
The GLOW IN THE DARK cover is what is truly special about this highly prized collectible as a haunting image is revealed once you turn out the lights!
Neil Gaiman wrote the award-winning graphic novel series The Sandman, and with Terry Pratchett, the award-winning novel Good Omens. His first book for children, The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, illustrated by Dave McKean, hasn't yet won any awards, but was one of Newsweek's Best Children's Books of 1997. Angels & Visitations, a small press story collection, was nominated for a World Fantasy Award and won the International Horror Critics Guild Award for Best Collection, despite not having any horror in it. Well, hardly any.Born in England, he now makes his home in America, in a big dark house of uncertain location where he grows exotic pumpkins and accumulates computers and cats. He is currently at work turning his first novel Neverwhere into a film for Jim Henson films.
Asked why he likes comics more than other forms of storytelling Gaiman said “One of the joys of comics has always been the knowledge that it was, in many ways, untouched ground. It was virgin territory. When I was working on Sandman, I felt a lot of the time that I was actually picking up a machete and heading out into the jungle. I got to write in places and do things that nobody had ever done before. When I’m writing novels I’m painfully aware that I’m working in a medium that people have been writing absolutely jaw-droppingly brilliant things for, you know, three-four thousand years now. You know, you can go back. We have things like The Golden Ass. And you go, well, I don’t know that I’m as good as that and that’s two and a half thousand years old. But with comics I felt like — I can do stuff nobody has ever done. I can do stuff nobody has ever thought of. And I could and it was enormously fun.”
HARD TO FIND COLLECTORS ITEM FEATURING THE COLLABORATION BETWEEN TWO INCREDIBLE TALENTS!!!
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