WRATH OF THE GODS & GHOST WORLD Collector's Edition

The long-awaited reprint of the complete Wrath of the Gods by Ron Embleton and John M. Burns and the complete Frank Bellamy's The Ghost World in one oversized volume. Three of Britain’s finest comics artists in a lush FULL color book -- and amazingly enough, all the Embleton and Burns double-page spreads are printed as deluxe fold-outs, 60 in all. This is the first time since their first publication in Boys' World in 1958 that these have been collected. The stories have been professionally scanned and color adjusted to create the feel of the original artwork in this deluxe collector's volume. Wrath of the Gods, written by Willie Patterson (credited for his work in No. 14, the strip often wrongly attributed to Michael Moorcock) is regarded as one of Boys’ World’s finest strips, the first story drawn in colour by Ron Embleton, replaced by John M. Burns for the rest of its run. "The mythic adventure starred Arion, a Greek warrior," notes Martin Crookall in an overview of the title, “who, on finding his family and friends slaughtered in his absence at the wars, cursed Zeus and the whole rotten lot and found himself appointed a kind of mortal trouble-shooter drafted in by the Gods to carry out fantastic missions." Ghost World (also known as "Brett Million and The Ghost Planet"), written by Harry Harrison and drawn by Frank Bellamy, was a sequel to another strip written by Harrison, Angry Planet, adapted from one of his novels, Deathworld, drawn by Frank Langford, a story about a character called Brett Million, who attends a training survival school on the planet Pyrrus. Ghost World was a totally new tale created for the comic, which ran in the back page of Boys’ World from Volume One No. 46 ( cover dated 7th December 1963) to Volume Two No. 17 (25th April 1964). In Ghost World, Brett heads to the planet Eisen, a mining planet, where people and things are disappearing. Needless to say, it is not ghostly activity, but Million discovers the planet’s natives are moving faster than humans can. Spanning 21 episodes, Frank Bellamy expert Norman Boyd notes the hugely talent artist shows even with one page he can create dynamic panels. "Many trademark Bellamy devices are here," Norman observes, "from space shots to futuristic hardware similar to his Dan Dare creations." Published in England, import.