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The swamp reveals a truth no one imagined--and Alan Moore rewrites the rules of horror in this new DC Compact Comics collected edition. A monster reborn. A secret unearthed. A revelation that changed comics forever. Alan Moore''s groundbreaking work on Saga of the Swamp Thing begins with "The Anatomy Lesson," the now-legendary chapter that shattered everything readers believed about Alec Holland. What follows is a masterstroke of horror and storytelling craft--melding ecological dread, philosophical unease, and haunting atmosphere into a tale that redefines what superhero and horror comics can be. Featuring evocative, mood-drenched artwork from Stephen Bissette, John Totleben, and Dan Day, this DC Compact Comics edition distills one of the most influential issues in comics history into a portable, bookshelf-friendly format. This is the moment Swamp Thing became immortal--a perfect entry point for new readers and an essential artifact for longtime fans. Collects The Saga of the Swamp Thing #20-27.

It''s 1958. A time of Rock and Roll, of protest, riot and change... and London is full of danger. Dennis Knuckleyard is finally growing up, and above all he wants to leave the Great When in the past. For nine years, he''s avoided so much as thinking about the magical shadow version of London, managing even to palm off what should''ve been his last souvenir of that experience - an iron key he secretly brought back. But while Dennis may believe he''s done with the Great When, it''s not done with him. The unsuspecting rube now in possession of the key has discovered its magical properties, bringing forth mythic, occult beings into Dennis''s London and sparking riots in the capital. Worse still, Dennis hears his first love Grace has returned to the Great When to investigate strange happenings in both cities. Desperate to keep Grace safe and return London to normal, Dennis follows her back into Long London. But once it has him back, The Great When will not let him go away again so easily. Grace must fight to set things right or forever lose everything. Electrifying, absurd, magical and more true than you might believe, I Hear A New World takes the reader back to Long London for a thrilling and fantastical second installment. Praise for The Great When: the first book in a new series by Sunday Times-bestseller and icon, Alan Moore. ''A breathless time-travelling classic. Savage, humane, comic, terrifying'' Iain Sinclair ''Brilliant and so powerfully imaginative'' Adam Curtis ''A weird book and a complete joy'' Mariana Enríquez ''Extraordinary . . . very funny . . . It does what fantasy does best which is show us something beyond our experience'' Susanna Clarke

''I was in the wrong London. It was horrible. I''d fallen in by accident, and it was all alive and trying to eat me.'' The year 1949, the city London. Hapless second-hand bookseller Dennis stumbles through a city still shaking off the war. While out procuring inventory, Dennis''s life changes forever when he chances upon a novel that shouldn''t exist; an entirely fictional book from inside another novel. The book hails from The Great When, a magical shadow-London, where reality blurs with fiction and concepts like Crime, Poetry and Riot are incarnated as mystical beings that stalk the streets. This discovery brings terrible danger, as the book''s presence leaves the doorway open between the two Londons, and The Great When must remain a secret. Soon Dennis finds himself in the city''s occult underbelly, negotiating sorcerers, gangsters, and murderers - some imaginary, some all too real, and all with plans of their own. If Dennis cannot return the book and close the gate, he risks dire repercussions... Neither London will ever be the same again. History collides with magic in The Great When. Dark, ridiculous, propulsive, Sunday Times bestseller Alan Moore opens the gates to capital metafictional chaos in the genre-busting first instalment of the Long London series. ''It does what fantasy does best which is show us something beyond our experience... this shows us something absolutely new'' Susanna Clarke ''A breathless time-travelling classic. Savage, humane, comic, terrifying'' Iain Sinclair ''Brilliant and so powerfully imaginative'' Adam Curtis ''A weird book and a complete joy'' Mariana Enríquez ''A masterful step from one of our very best, uncompromising storytellers; Moore peels back the layers of London and reveals not only the history we know, but the histories that could have been, and, underneath it all, both the dark and beautiful truths about who we are as a nation.'' Heather Parry

ALAN MOOREÕS VIOLATOR IS HERE!ÊThe long-awaited reprinting of the 1994 three-issue miniseries is now in trade paperback! ViolatorÕs siblings, Vacillator, Vindicator, Vandalizer, and Vaporizer, along with ruthless mobsters, hire assassin Admonisher to kill Violator. Stripped of his powers, Violator must defend himself against attacks from his brothers and Admonisher. In a twist of fate, an unexpected team-up with none other than SPAWN to help Violator along the way. Collects VIOLATOR #1-3

Following directly after DC Finest- Batman- Year One and Two, the 1980s adventures of the Dark Knight continue, including the seminal The Killing Joke! DC Finest presents comprehensive collections of the most in-demand and celebrated periods in DC Comics history, spanning genres, characters, and eras! DC Finest- Batman- Year One and Two, one of the first DC Finest volumes, collected the initial years of the post-Crisis on Infinite Earths exploits of the Dark Knight. DC Finest- Batman- The Killing Joke and Other Stories picks up right where that volume left off, including the titular Batman- The Killing Joke by writer Alan Moore and artist Brian Bolland-one of the most influential Batman stories of all time, and a defining moment in the lives of both The Joker and Barbara Gordon. This volume also includes Batman- Son of the Demon by Mike W. Barr and Jerry Bingham, which detailed the relationship between Batman and Talia al Ghul and directly inspired Grant Morrison and Andy Kubert''s "Batman and Son," the story that introduced Damian Wayne. Plus, more major Bat-stories including "Ten Nights of the Beast" by Jim Starlin and Jim Aparo! Collects Batman- The Killing Joke #1; Batman #413-422; Detective Comics #580-589; and Batman- Son of the Demon #1.

The most acclaimed writer in comics history, Alan Moore, joins his late mentor Steve Moore (no relation) for one last graphic grimoire: a sprawling and stunning introduction to magic in all its timeless forms, brought to life by six wondrous and whimsical artists. Splendid news for enquiring minds, and guaranteed salvation for humanity! Messrs. Steve and Alan Moore, proprietors of the celebrated Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels (sorcery by appointment since circa 150 AD), have produced a clear and practical grimoire of the occult sciences that offers endless necromantic fun for all the family. Exquisitely illuminated by a host of adepts including Kevin O’Neill, John Coulthart, Steve Parkhouse, Rick Veitch, Melinda Gebbie, and Ben Wickey, this marvellous and unprecedented tome promises to provide all that the reader could conceivably need in order to commence a fulfilling new career as a diabolist. Its contents include profusely illustrated instructional essays upon this ancient sect’s theories of magic, notably the key dissertation “Adventures in Thinking,” which gives reliable advice as to how entry into the world of magic may be readily achieved. Further to this, a number of “Rainy Day” activity pages present lively and entertaining things to do once the magical state has been attained, including such popular pastimes as divination, etheric travel, and the conjuring of a colourful multitude of spirits, deities, dead people, and infernal entities from the pit, all of whom are sure to become your new best friends. Also contained within this extravagant compendium of thaumaturgic lore is a history of magic from the last ice age to the present day, told in a series of easy-to-absorb pictorial biographies of fifty great enchanters and complemented by a variety of picture stories depicting events ranging from the Palaeolithic origins of art, magic, language, and consciousness to the rib-tickling comedy exploits of Moon and Serpent founder Alexander the False Prophet (“He’s fun, he’s fake, he’s got a talking snake!”). In addition to these manifold delights, the adventurous reader will also discover a series of helpful travel guides to mind-wrenching alien dimensions that are within comfortable walking distance, as well as profiles of the many quaint local inhabitants that one might bump into at these exotic resorts. A full range of entertainments will be provided, encompassing such diverse novelties and pursuits as a lavishly decorated, decadent pulp tale of occult adventure recounted in the serial form. Completing this almost-unimaginable treasure trove is a lengthy thesis revealing the ultimate meaning of both the Moon and the Serpent in a manner that makes transparent the much-obscured secret of magic, happiness, sex, creativity, and the known Universe, while at the same time explaining why these lunar and ophidian symbols feature so prominently in the order’s peculiar name. (Manufacturer’s disclaimer: This edition does not, however, reveal why the titular cabal of magicians consider themselves to be either grand or Egyptian. Let the buyer beware.) A colossal and audacious publishing triumph of three hundred and fifty-two pages, beautifully produced in the finest tradition of educational literature for young people, The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic will transform your lives, your reality, and any spare lead that you happen to have lying around into the purest and most radiant gold. Book design by John Coulthart. Co-published by Top Shelf Productions & Knockabout Ltd (UK).

DIE KLASSISCHE SAGA ZUM ERSTEN MAL AUF DEUTSCH In den 1980er-Jahren revolutionierte Autor Alan Moore den Monster-Comic mit seiner Saga über das Ding aus dem Sumpf. Für ihre Beziehung zu einem Monster wird Swamp Things große Liebe Abby von ihren Mitmenschen verurteilt und sogar vor Gericht gestellt. Swamp Thing, voller Wut darüber, tobt in Gotham City und trifft dort erneut auf Batman. Und schließlich gerät er sogar mit Superman aneinander ... Der finale Prachtband mit der visionären Saga von WATCHMEN-Autor Alan Moore, Rick Veitch, Stephen R. Bissette, John Totleben und anderen, in deutschsprachiger Erstveröffentlichung und mit üppigem Bonusmaterial. ENTHÄLT: SWAMP THING 51-64 & DC COMICS PRESENTS 85

Quand le Comédien, justicier au service du gouvernement, se fait défenestrer, son ancien allié, Rorschach, mène l'enquête. Il reprend rapidement contact avec d'autres héros à la retraite dont le Dr Manhattan, surhomme qui a modifié le cours de l'histoire. Alors qu'une guerre nucléaire couve entre les USA et l'URSS, tous s'interrogent : qui nous gardera de nos Gardiens ?

"In his first-ever short story collection, which spans forty years of work, Alan Moore presents a series of wildly different and equally unforgettable characters who discover--and in some cases even make and unmake--the various uncharted parts of existence. In "Hypothetical Lizard," two concubines in a brothel of fantastical specialists fall in love with tragic ramifications. In "Not Even Legend," a paranormal study group is infiltrated by one of the other-worldly beings they seek to investigate. In "Illuminations," a nostalgic older man decides to visit a seaside resort from his youth and finds the past all too close at hand. And in the monumental novella "What We Can Know About Thunderman," which charts the surreal and Kafkaesque history of the comics industry''s major players over the last seventy-five years, Moore reveals the dark, beating heart of the superhero business. From ghosts and otherworldly creatures to theoretical Boltzmann brains fashioning the universe at the big bang, Illuminations is exactly that--a series of bright, startling tales from a contemporary legend that reveal the full power of imagination and magic"--

Alan Moore's definitive tales of the Man of Steel featuring Batman, Wonder Woman, Robin and more is offered in a Deluxe Edition hardcover for the first time. Legendary writer Alan Moore's seminal Superman tales are collected in this Deluxe Edition hardcover in which the Man of Steel faces his greatest foes and his final battle with the combined forces of Brainiac and Lex Luthor! Also featuring the classic story "For the Man who has Everything" from Superman Annual #11 in which Batman, Robin and Wonder Woman fight the evil warlord Mongul for the fate of The Man of Steel, as illustrated by Moore's Watchmen collaborator, artist Dave Gibbons. And in a tale from DC Comics Presents #85, Superman meets Swamp Thing, a character fans have identified with Moore for over 20 years!

Le Joker s''est à nouveau échappé de l''asile d''Arkham. Il a cette fois pour objectif de prouver la capacité de n''importe quel être humain de sombrer dans la folie après un traumatisme. Pour sa démonstration, il capture le commissaire GORDON et le soumet aux pires tortures que l''on puisse imaginer, à commencer par s''attaquer à sa chère fille, Barbara Gordon.

Soon to be an HBO original series, Watchmen, the groundbreaking series from award-winning author Alan Moore, presents a world where the mere presence of American superheroes changed history--the U.S. won the Vietnam War, Nixon is still president, and the Cold War is in full effect. Considered the greatest graphic novel in the history of the medium, the Hugo Award-winning story chronicles the fall from grace of a group of superheroes plagued by all-too-human failings. Along the way, the concept of the superhero is dissected as an unknown assassin stalks the erstwhile heroes. This edition of Watchmen, the groundbreaking series from Alan Moore, the award-winning writer of V For Vendetta and Batman: The Killing Joke, and features art from industry legend Dave Gibbons, with high-quality, recolored pages found in Watchmen: Abslolute Edtion.

Sophie Bangs is an ordinary college student in a futuristic New York who finds herself transformed into Promethea, the living embodiment of the imagination. Her trials have only begun, as she must master the secrets of her predecessors before she is destroyed by Promethea’s ancient enemy. Complete with character sketches, variant covers and other bonus material, this new hardcover collection is perfect for any fan of this incredible series. Collects issues #1-12 plus the complete script for issue #3.

Legendary swords clash atop the Paris Opera in 1913, while almost a century later a declining London witnesses assassination attempts, summit meetings in Haggerston Park, and the catastrophic return of a 1960s super-adventurer. Elsewhere, in the four-dimensional territories adjacent to the North Pole, a lost Shakespeare play sees its first and last performance, while Queen Gloriana''s conjurer finally reveals the nature of his 500-year-old game. Topping off an already heady mixture, this issue''s classic Seven Stars reprint depicts our halcyon heroes as "Captives of the Creepyverse," another reason not to miss the unfolding of Moore and O''Neill''s fulgurant finale in issue four of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume IV: The Tempest.

"The Nemesis of Neglect." The first modern serial killer strikes his first victims, and reluctant Inspector Abberline is assigned the case of a lifetime. Five unsolved murders. Two of the greatest creators in the history of comics. One sprawling conspiracy, one metropolis on the brink of the 20th century, and one bloody-minded Ripper ushering London into the modern age of terror. The award-winning bestseller FROM HELL, often ranked among the greatest graphic novels of all time, takes on haunting new dimensions in FROM HELL: The Master Edition, enhanced with impressionistic hues by Eddie Campbell himself. This volume contains Chapter 5, as well as all the original annotations.

Don't miss this extensive collection featuring the World's Greatest Super-Heroes as interpreted by one of the most acclaimed authors in comics. The work of Alan Moore ('Watchmen', 'V for Vendetta', 'The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen') in the DC Universe during the 1980s is considered a benchmark for great stories with fresh approaches to iconic characters.

"...Alan Moore deconstructs all of HP Lovecraft''s concepts, reinventing the entirety of his work inside a painstakingly researched framework of American history. Both sequel and prequel to Neonomicon, Providence begins in 1919 and blends the mythical visions of HPL flawlessly into the cauldron of racial and sexual intolerance that defined that era on the East Coast of America."--Back cover of Act 1.

Alan Moore (Watchmen) and Eddie Campbell (Bacchus), grandmasters of the comics medium, present a book often ranked among the greatest graphic novels of all time: From Hell. Two master storytellers. Five unsolved murders. A hundred years of mystery. One sprawling conspiracy, one metropolis on the brink of the twentieth century, one bloody-minded Ripper ushering London into the modern age of terror, and one comics masterpiece. From Hell is now available in a handsome hardcover edition, with a brand new cover.

Ten years in the making, comes a literary work Like no other, from the legendary author of Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and From Hell. In the half a square mile of decay and demolition that was England’s Saxon capital, eternity is loitering between the firetrap housing projects. Embedded in the grubby amber of the district’s narrative among its saints, kings, prostitutes, and derelicts a different kind of human time is happening, a soiled simultaneity that does not differentiate between the petrolcolored puddles and the fractured dreams of those who navigate them. Fiends last mentioned in the second-century Book of Tobit wait in urine-scented stairwells, the delinquent specters of unlucky children undermine a century with tunnels, and in upstairs parlors laborers with golden blood reduce fate to a snooker tournament. An opulent mythology for those without a pot to piss in, through the labyrinthine streets and pages of Jerusalem tread ghosts that sing of wealth and poverty; of Africa, and hymns, and our threadbare millennium. They discuss English as a visionary language from John Bunyan to James Joyce, hold forth on the illusion of mortality post-Einstein, and insist upon the meanest slum as Blake’s eternal holy city. Fierce in its imagining and stupefying in its scope, Alan Moore’s epic novel, Jerusalem, is the tale of Everything, told from a vanished gutter.

Presented in stark black and white, BATMAN NOIR: THE KILLING JOKE collects BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE, “An Innocent Man” story, and a collection of Bolland’s Batman covers. ALAN MOORE (WATCHMEN, V FOR VENDETTA) and BRIAN BOLLAND (CAMELOT 3000) take on the origin of comics’ greatest super-villain, The Joker-and changes Batman’s world forever. One bad day. According to the grinning engine of madness and mayhem known as The Joker, that’s all that separates the sane from the psychotic. Freed once again from the confines of Arkham Asylum, he’s out to prove his deranged point. And he’s going to use Gotham City’s top cop, Commissioner Jim Gordon, and his brilliant and beautiful daughter Barbara to do it. Now Batman must race to stop his archnemesis before his reign of terror claims two of the Dark Knight’s closest friends. Can he finally put an end to the cycle of bloodlust and lunacy that links these two iconic foes before it leads to its fatal conclusion? And as the horrifying origin of the Clown Prince of Crime is finally revealed, will the thin line that separates Batman’s nobility and The Joker’s insanity snap once and for all?

Al Simmons ist Spawn, der finstere Antiheld aus der Hölle. In dieser klassischen Geschichte von Comic-Gott Alan Moore bekommt Simmons allen Grund, die symbiotische Beziehung zu seinem monströsen Kostüm zu hinterfragen, das eigenständig denkt und handelt -mordet?! Kann Spawn gegen den Symbionten und gegen einen skrupellosen Vampirjäger bestehen? Prolog und Miniserie komplett in einem Band. Ein weiteres SPAWN-Abenteuer von Alan WATCHMEN Moore.

The massive, multilayered city of Neopolis, built shortly after World War II, was designed as a home for the expanding population of science-heroes, heroines and villains that had ballooned into existence in the previous decade. In 1985 the city accepted jurisdiction by a police force covering many alternate Earths, headquartered on the world known as Grand Central. Our own outpost of this network, Precinct Ten (known affectionately as Top 10), recruits its members from Neopolis and its environs, working much like Earth’s other police precincts, with one major exception: Like the citizens of the city, the officers of Top 10 have the abilities needed to deal with Neopolis’s exotic denizens. Rookie cop Robyn Slinger, alter ego “Toybox,” hits the streets for the first time along with a colorful crew of fellow officers, each having the required training to deal with science-villains and super-crimes, as well as the common misdemeanors of city life. You’ll never look at powers, or police work, the same way again! From Alan Moore, the writer of WATCHMEN and V FOR VENDETTA, and artists Gene Ha (JUSTICE LEAGUE) and Zander Cannon (Transformers), the Eisner award-winning series TOP 10 is collected here in its entirety!

1992 wurde eine der unvergesslichsten Figuren der Comic-Geschichte erstmals auf ein nichts ahnendes Publikum losgelassen: Spawn. Und dies sind die Geschichten, mit denen alles begann. Die ersten zwölf Hefte der erfolgreichsten Independent-Comic-Serie aller Zeiten endlich in einem Band. Mit umfangreichem Bonus-Material! Die ultimative Sammlerausgabe für alle SPAWN-Fans! Inklusive der bisher in Deutschland unveröffentlichten Heft-Ausgabe Spawn 10! Die Grundlage für die erfolgreichste Independent-Comic-Serie aller Zeiten!

Fashion Beast continua con un numero che vi lascerà senza fiato. Dopo le rivelazioni sul passato di Celestine, per Doll è ora di fare i conti con le proprie origini, per capire dove la porterà il futuro. E “Tomboy” le darà una mano... Da una sceneggiatura originale di Alan Moore per un film mai girato.

Il 1985 è stato un anno cruciale per Alan Moore: era al lavoro su Swamp Thing e V for Vendetta quando su proposta di Malcolm McLaren, il manager dei Sex Pistols, accettò di scrivere una sceneggiatura per un film ispirato a La Bella e la Bestia. Fashion Beast non venne mai girato e, a quasi trent’anni di distanza, Anthony Johnston e Facundo Percio ne realizzano una versione a fumetti sotto la supervisione dello stesso Moore. La storia del gender bender Doll, proiettato ll’improvviso nel crudele mondo della moda, è un nuovo piccolo capolavoro a fumetti.

"FOR THE MAN WHO HAS EVERYTHING..." It's Superman's birthday and Batman, Robin and Wonder Woman head to the Fortress of Solitude to celebrate. Legendary comic book writer Alan Moore pens a tale that asks readers the all-important question: what do you get for the man who haseverything?

Don''t miss this comprehensive collection featuring the World''s Greatest Super-Heroes as interpreted by one of the most acclaimed authors in comics! The work of Alan Moore (WATCHMEN, V FOR VENDETTA, THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN) in the DCUniverse during the 1980s is considered a benchmark for great stories with fresh approaches to iconic characters. Collected in this volume are all of Moore''s Superman and Batman stories, including ''Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?'' BATMAN:THE KILLING JOKE, and so much more. Collects ACTION COMICS #584, BATMAN ANNUAL #11, DC COMICS PRESENTS #85, DETECTIVE COMICS #549-550, GREEN LANTERN #188, THE OMEGA MEN #26-27, SECRET ORIGINS #10, SUPERMAN #423, TALES OF THE GREEN LANTERN CORPSANNUAL #2 & 3, SUPERMAN ANNUAL #11 and VIGILANTE #17-18.

The bestselling League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series continues in this standalone graphic novel! It''s 1925, fifteen long years since Janni Dakkar first tried to escape the legacy of her dying science-pirate father, only to accept her destiny, at last, as the new Nemo, captain of the legendary Nautilus. Now, tired of her unending spree of plunder and destruction, Janni launches a grand expedition to surpass her father''s greatest failure: the exploration of Antarctica. Hot on her frozen trail are a trio of genius inventors, hired by an influential publishing tycoon to retrieve the plundered valuables of an African queen. It''s a deadly race to the bottom of the world -- an uncharted land of wonder and horror where time is broken and the mountains bring madness. Jules Verne meets H.P. Lovecraft in the unforgettable final showdown, lost in the living, beating, and appallingly inhuman HEART OF ICE.

Continuing Alan Moore's award-winning run on THE SAGA OF THE SWAMP THING, this third volume is brimming with visceral horrors including underwater vampires, a werewolf with an unusual curse, the hideous madman called Nukeface. Best of all, this volume features the comics debut of John Constantine, Hellblazer, who launches Swamp Thing on a voyage of self-discovery that will take him from the darkest corners of America to the roots of his own long-hidden heritage. Collecting issues #35-42.

A powerful story about loss of freedom and individuality, V FOR VENDETTA takes place in atotalitarian England following a devastating war that changed the face of the planet. In a world without political freedom, personal freedom and precious little faith in anything, comes a mysterious man in a white porcelain mask who fightspolitical oppressors through terrorism and seemingly absurd acts in this gripping tale of the blurred lines between ideological good and evil.