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NEIL GAIMAN TOTAL ECLIPSE GRAPHIC NOVEL! V4THE FIRST TIME MIRACLEMAN IS WRITTEN BY NEIL GAIMAN FOLLOWING IN CREATOR ALAN MOORE'S FOOTSTEPS.
RARE and OUT OF PRINT. 1988
HARD TO FIND COLLECTORS ITEM. INCLUDES A STORY WRITTEN BY NEIL GAIMAN. WHO WAS GIVEN OWNERSHIP OF THIS TITLE BY ORIGINAL WRITER ALAN MOORE...THE CREATOR OF THE WATCHMEN!
FOR FANS OF INNOVATIVE REVISIONIST SUPERHEROES!
This graphic novel series was created in celebration of Eclipse Comics’ tenth anniversary. The story begins with a total eclipse that took place millennia ago. At that moment, a baby was born and was commanded to be sacrificed. The primitive people complied, only to be stunned when the sacrifice…failed.
Since that day, the boy called Zzed has been immortal. But while he once cherished his longevity, he now seeks oblivion destruction above all else. Sadly for him, knives, bullets, bombs, and even dissection are unable to cause him permanent harm. He simply reincorporates, and his life drags on. Finally, he has decided that the only way to destroy himself is to destroy the entire world.
To stop him, Eclipse gathers all of its modern characters, including Miracleman, the Prowler, Strike!, Aztec Ace, and others in an incredible anniversary event.
Miracleman or Marvelman as he is known in the UK, is the British version of CAPTAIN MARVEL AKA SHAZAM! This is the beginning of Neil Gaimans' saga of "The Golden Age", following Alan Moore's ultimate superhero battle that ended his run on the title.
"The Golden Age", shows the world as a utopia gradually being transformed by alien technologies, and benignly ruled by Miracleman and other parahumans, though he has nagging doubts about whether he has done the right thing by taking power. Gaiman's focus in "The Golden Age" is less the heroes themselves than the people who live in this new worldV
MARK BUCKINGHAM (collaborator on GAIMAN'S SANDMAN and DEATH series) lavishly illustrates this fantastic high quality full color comic book printed on high quality paper stock.
Published by ECLIPSE COMICS in 1990. This item is long out of print and will be unlikely reprinted due to the bankruptcy of Eclipse and the subsequent lawsuits between TODD MCFARLANE and NEIL GAIMAN over ownership of the character.
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About the Author
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.