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BOOKS OF MAGICK: LIFE DURING WARTIME #1 COMIC BOOK -
written by NEIL GAIMAN
The Books of Magic is still a delightful, eye-opening story about magical potential. Gaiman, who was already deep into his Sandman mythos by this time, unleashed a new force on the world of comics with this book, which quickly became a successful, ongoing Vertigo series. Now Gaiman returns to his creation once again to breathe new life into the concept and turn it on it's ear with a Grown Up Tim Hunter!
7 years before HARRY POTTER was first published in 1997, Neil Gaiman created the story of a
British boy named Tim Hunter, who wears glasses and has a pet owl. He lived in the mundane world until a group of mysterious strangers arrive to inform him that he is a magician with a destiny involving the fate of the world!
Note: one of his teachers on this magical Journey is the occult detective John Constantine, Hellblazer. Portrayed by Keanu Reeves in the smash hit feature film CONSTANTINE.
In this volume, Tim Hunter is now an adult and the series starts fifteen months into the war between the Born and the Coalition.
On the real world John Constantine finds himself in charge of the besieged city of Kraków. The forces inside are surrounded by the soldiers of the Born under the command of a monstrous Faerie known as The Cherish, and the food stores ran out seven months previously. In Jerusalem Zatanna searches for a way to obtain the three keys that will give her access to the Books of Magick. Her hope is that the books will allow Tim Hunter to regain all of his memories when he comes back from his exile.
HARD TO FIND COLLECTOR'S ITEM BY NEIL GAIMAN.
ONE OF GAIMAN'S EARLIEST WORKS FOR DC COMICS, FOLLOWING HIS ACCLAIMED GRAPHIC NOVEL SERIES SANDMAN, GAIMAN RETURNS TO REINVENT THE TITLE IN THIS ALL NEW SERIES WHICH FOLLOWS TIM HUNTER INTO ADULTHOOD.
Published by DC Comics.
Written by NEIL GAIMAN (Sandman, Coraline, Neverwhere, American Gods, Books of Magic, Black Orchid, Miracleman).
Writer(s):
Neil Gaiman
Si Spencer
Penciller(s):
Dean Ormston
Inker(s):
Dean Ormston
Colorist(s):
Fiona Stephenson
Letterer(s):
Todd Klein
Editor(s):
Shelly Bond
Cover Artist(s):
Vincent Deighan - 'Frank Quitely'
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.