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JLA : riddle of the beast / writer, Alan Grant ; character design, Michael Wm. Kaluta ; artists, Andrew Robinson ... [and others] ; letterer, Kenny Lopez.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Comics Collection PN6728.J87 G735 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grant, Alan, 1949-2022.
- Series:
- Elseworlds
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fantasy comic books, strips, etc.
- Superheroes--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Superheroes.
- Justice League of America (Fictitious characters)--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Justice League of America (Fictitious characters).
- Genre:
- Comics (Graphic works)
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Rothman, Steven D. (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 100 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Other Title:
- Justice League of America, riddle of the beast
- Riddle of the beast
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : DC Comics, [2001]
- Summary:
- Sword fights, sprawling battles, demonic uprisings and creatures that beggar description fill this high fantasy epic. In a peaceful corner of a land plagued by hideous creatures and fractured by war, a young hero named Robin is sent on a lonely quest to unify the feuding lords of the sundered realms against the menace of the risen Beast. Robin's journey takes him through a DC Universe never before conceived including the cliffside huts of Haven, the haunted crags of Gotham, the deeply forested Amazonia, the squalid streets of the City at the Center, and the Jeweled towers of fabled Kryptonia. Each chapter of this book is rendered by today's top comics painters. Complete, colorfully rendered maps of these realms and a world history written in true sword-and-sorcery tradition are also included.
- Contents:
- Haven's Doom 8
- Portal of Bones 18
- Wings of the Hawk 25
- The Dragon's Sting 29
- Temple of Evil 41
- A Stranger's Tale 51
- Haunted City 56
- Brothers of the Night 67
- When One Becomes Another 70
- World's End 84
- Character design sketchbook 102
- Artist Credits
- Andrew Robinson 5
- Hermann Mejia 8
- Carl Critchlow 16
- Alex Horley 17
- Liam McCormick Sharpe 19
- Martin T. Williams 30
- Glenn Fabry 34
- Doug Alexander Gregory 35
- Rafael Garres 41
- Jon Foster 45
- Saverio Tenuta 56
- Jim Murray 70
- John Watson 78
- Gregg Staples 84
- Simon Davis 97
- Michael Wm. Kaluta 2.
- Notes:
- "A nameless world of starless night. An uneasy peace between fearful nations. And an unwilling heir to a heroic destiny who must find the strength to rise above the forces of ignorance and terror, even after his own land has been put to the torch"--Dust jacket.
- "In Elseworlds, Heroes are taken from their usual settings and put into strange times and places -- some that have existed, or might have existed, and others that can't, couldn't, or shouldn't exist."----publisher.
- ISBN:
- 1563898675
- 9781563898679
- 1840234490
- 9781840234497
- 156389873X
- 9781563898730
- OCLC:
- 48567737
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