WRATH OF THE GODS & GHOST WORLD Super Limited Edition

This Super Deluxe Edition includes: - The complete Wrath of the Gods and The Ghost World book, 16-page book reprinting the final Wrath Quests from Boys' World Annuals, two prints scanned from Frank Bellamy's Ghost World original art, two John M. Burns prints scanned from unpublished artwork and a print of an original pencil sketch by John M. Burns. Plus a custom clamshell case and custom binding. The complete Wrath of the Gods by Ron Embleton and John M. Burns and the complete Frank Bellamy's The Ghost World in one huge volume. Here are three of Britain’s finest comics artists in one unique deluxe hardcover. All the Embleton and Burns double-page spreads are printed as deluxe fold-outs, 60 in all, in this handsome oversized volume. This is the first time since their first publication in Boys' World in 1958 that these strips have been reprinted. The stories have been professionally scanned and color adjusted to create the feel of the original artwork in this deluxe collector's volume. Boys' World was a boys' comic magazine published in the UK by Longacre Press. It ran for 89 issues beginning on 26 January 1963, and in 1964 it merged with the Eagle. Boys' World featured the mythological serial strip Wrath of the Gods, painted in color by Ron Embleton and the earliest comic strip parody of Doctor Who: Dr. What and His Time Clock. Among the other artists who worked for the comic were Brian Lewis and Frank Bellamy. Writers included Harry Harrison, Sydney Jordan and Michael Moorcock. In the 7th December issue Bellamy started his next regular weekly assignment with “Brett Million and the Ghost World”. The story has our hero going 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. The story ends after 21 episodes in which Bellamy shows even with one page he can create dynamic panels. Many trademark Bellamy devices are here from space shots to futuristic hardware similar to his Dan Dare creations. Frank Bellamy is much loved for his work on Dan Dare, Heros the Spartan, Thunderbirds, Fraser of Africa and many other well known British adventure strips, His artwork was second to none. Bellamy worked continuously on Garth for five years, although drawing in black and white rather than color gave him time to maintain a number of other regular commissions. In 1969 he drew the first comic strips The Sunday Times had ever run in its magazine as non-fiction journalism. He also regularly produced illustrations for the BBC's Radio Times television listings magazine, in particular for the Doctor Who television program. Frank Bellamy died suddenly in 1976, at the height of his powers. He had plans for many projects, including a Western strip he was to write himself, inspired by the spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone. The Society of Strip Illustration (co-founded by Denis Gifford) named one of its awards after Bellamy: The Frank Bellamy Award for Lifetime Achievement. Ronald Sydney Embleton (6 October 1930 - 13 February 1988) was a British illustrator who gained fame as a comics artist. In the 1950s and 1960s, Embleton also pursued a career as an oil painter, and he exhibited his works widely in Britain, Germany, Australia, Canada and the USA. He was a member of the London Sketch Club and the National Society of Painters, Sculptors and Printmakers, and in 1960 was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters. Following Embleton's death at age 57, his obituary in The Times described him as "responsible for some of the finest full-color adventure series in modern British comics ... a grandmaster of his art." In the 1960s, Embleton was also a prolific contributor to Look and Learn, producing illustrations for numerous series. In 1969, Embleton illustrated a fill-in story in the long-running Trigan Empire. In 1971, he became a frequent contributor to IPC's World of Wonder magazine, a similar publication to Look and Learn which also relied on painted illustrations by a roster of British artists. Embleton provided artwork for long-running features such as Men of Waterloo (1971), Ships of the Seven Seas (1971), The Winning of the West (1972) and Mutiny! (1972), as well as contributing a number of cover paintings. Late in 1973, he returned to World of Wonder to illustrate an adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. During the late 1970s, Embleton was commissioned by This England magazine to draw what became a total of forty-three characters from Dickens and the Classics which were published quarterly throughout the 1980s. As well as providing illustrations for historical books and prints, Embleton spent much of the remainder of his career illustrating full-color comic strips for Penthouse. "Oh, Wicked Wanda!" (1973–1980) was written by British author Frederic Mullally and poked fun at politics and sexual mores; it was followed by "Sweet Chastity," written by Penthouse founder Bob Guccione.