BATMAN 3-D GRAPHIC NOVEL! written and drawn by JOHN BYRNE
Introduction by Archie Goodwin; Includes a 3-D Pin-Up Gallery; Includes a reprint of Batman Adventures In Amazing 3-D Action from December, 1953, which was a 3-D reprint of Batman #42, the August-September issue, reconstructed by Ray-Zone based on the original 3-D effects created by DC production managar Jack Adler; Included 3-D glasses are in the shape of the Batman logo of the 60’s TV series
pin-up artists include... Alex Toth, Bret Blevins, Dave Gibbons, Barry Windsor-Smith, George Pérez, Arthur Adams, Mike Zeck, Jerry Ordway, Jim Aparo, Mike Mignola, Klaus Janson, Curt Swan, Ray Zone
RARE and OUT OF PRINT.
HARD TO FIND COLLECTORS ITEM FOR FANS OF ALIENS AND BATMAN.
ALAN MOORE BATMAN ANNUAL #11 COMIC BOOK! RARE and OUT OF PRINT.
HARD TO FIND COLLECTORS ITEM WHICH INCLUDES A STORY WRITTEN BY ALAN MOORE (THE ACCLAIMED WRITER OF THE WATCHMEN).
Alan Moore, writer of the top-selling graphic novels V FOR VENDETTA and WATCHMEN, writes a Tale of the GREEN LANTERN CORPS.
Alan Moore's Mortal Clay: Batman Annual No. 11 is similar to the The Killing Joke in that it gives similar treatment of Batman and his relationship to the villain. The stories focus on the psychology of the villain and their motivations and psychosis. Mortal Clay is the story of Clayface III.
Clayface suffers from what psychologists might term an object relations disorder. He loves a manikin that he thinks is his wife (who died in the fire that turned him into Clayface), and apparently has the same relationship with the manikin that he had with his deceased wife. The story does a good job displaying the obsessive psychology of Batman’s villains.
Annual 11 featured two stories with a "Villains In Love" theme. The first was by Alan Moore and George Freeman and featured Clayface's insane obsession with a mannequin. Alan Moore's Batman wants to both stop the bad guy and then help him reform.
The second story is a Max Collins and Norm Breyfogle Penguin story wherein he tries to reform for his love, but fouls up trying to do something good.
Published by DC COMICS in 1997.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
About the Author Alan Moore is one of the most respected and admired writers in comics today. His credits include The Ballad of Halo Jones, Watchmen, V For Vendetta and Swamp Thing. His own line of ABC Comics, including Tom Strong, Top Ten, and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen has been a massive success.
Featuring the humble beginnings of Villians from Batman's Rogues Gallery by Neil Gaiman and other talents, including SAM KEITH, co-creator of The Sandman and creator of THE MAXX (as seen on MTV's LIQUID TELEVISION)! Fantastic cover by BRIAN BOLLAND. THIS EDITION IS LONG OUT OF PRINT. PUBLISHED IN 1989. ONE OF GAIMAN'S EARLIEST PUBLISHED WORK!
HARD TO FIND COLLECTOR'S ITEMS. One of the few times Gaiman wrote regular mainstream comic book characters like Batman and his Rogues.
Highly Recommended!
Gaiman writes the framing sequence as well as a very whimsical Secret Origin for the Riddler, which pays nostalgic homage to Frank Gorshin's portrayal of the character in the 1960's Adam West television adaptation of Batman. One of the more unique Batman stories of that era (which coincided with the first Time Burton Batman movie). Sam Keith illustrates the Secret Origin of the Penguin with his unique art-style, and finally the Secret Origin of Harvey Dent AKA Two Face is explored.
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.”
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