Neil Gaiman's THE CHILDREN'S CRUSADE #1 and #2.
RARE AND OUT OF PRINT! DOUBLE SIZED COMIC BOOKS!
WRITTEN BY NEIL GAIMAN.
An epic storyline featuring some of Neil Gaiman's most popular creations. The Deadboy Detectives from THE SANDMAN team up with TIM HUNTER from BOOKS OF MAGIC, and THE BLACK ORCHID.
In 1212, yet another Crusade was ending in bloody failure. As the story goes: a monk cried out, saying that God was not allowing the Christians to prevail, since their souls were already stained with sin. What was needed, he said, was an army of innocents—a children’s crusade. The call went out, and fifty thousand girls and boys answered. They sailed on one hundred ships toward the Holy Land. But on the way, a storm arose and wrecked all but two of the ships. 49,000 children died in one night. The remaining two ships delivered their passengers into slavery and pain. But for a few of these doomed children, there was salvation, of sorts, as they escaped into another place.
Centuries later, it seems that an entire village of children has also found the doorway into that other world. Just as the Pied Piper stole the children of Hamelin, someone—or something—has caused every child in tiny Flaxdown to disappear…into a mysterious world for lost children.
An EXTREMELY RARE item!!
This item was not available in any mass market retail outlet and could only be found in comic book specialty stores.
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.
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