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Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean ’s Violent Cases , Mister Punch , Signal To Noise - Speculator Corner
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Of deep , Neil Gaimanhas become one of the hottest figures in mod - day fantasy fiction , with two successful telecasting series based on his written material presently in production on 2nd seasons , with more on the elbow room or in the pipeline . Sandman , Good Omens , American Gods , Mirrormask , Neverwhere , Stardust , Anansi Boys , Coralineand so much more , people are looking to take those stories to new eyes . DC Comics is bringing back Tim Hunter and potentially rebooting hisBooks Of Magicas well , withDead Boy Detectivesback on the slab too .
As a result of theSandmansuccess particularly , there has been a godsend in sales of collections of the serial , as well as a astute uptick in the value ofSandmanback issue , the interrogation is , which other comic book might a incisive collector decide might be worth nibble up and getting slabbed ahead of everyone else ?
1. Violent Cases by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean
This has to be the big one , the first graphic novel work by the pair , and primitively published in fateful - and - white by Man At The CrossroadsPaul Gravett , of Escape Comics in 1987 . It went to at least three prints at Escape , before being publish in color by Titan Comics , then by Tundra / Kitchen Sink and at last by Dark Horse Comics who more of late release an anniversary version , and there have been many print between them . But for speculator , I would take care to those first three UK printings . The account is told by the narrator , Neil Gaiman , as a small son who was admit by his father to be handle by an osteopathist once employed by Al Capone , with a small fry ’s mind trying to grok the implication of all this . Copies have sold for£4to£10recently .
Violent Cases First Printing, Escape Comics
Violent Cases Third Printing, Escape Comics
Violent Cases American Printings, Titan Comics, Tundra/Kitchen Sink & Dark Horse
2. Signal To Noise by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean
Signal to Noise was originally serialised in the UK style magazineThe Face , beginning in 1989 , and collected as a pictorial novel in 1992 by Victor Gollancz Ltd in the UK and Dark Horse Comics in the US . It is a write up of the difference between a global apocalypse and an apocalypse happening to just one man , with a film - maker envisage the celluloid he no longer has the time to make . It ’s already been adapt for radiocommunication , the stage and a short film . For speculators looking for the first variant , they will wantThe FaceVol 2 , government issue 9 from June 1989.A copy just sold for a Sudanese pound on eBay .
3. Mr Punch by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean
Again with multiple mass , Mister Punch reunite the yoke on a standalone graphic novel , published in 1994 by proper book publisher Gollancz , in paperback and hardback , before catch the same the following twelvemonth from DC Comics , recently reprinted in 2006 in paperback by Bloomsbury and in 2017 in hardcover by Urban Comics . The rule book conform to the childhood memories of the teller , how the instinctive world and adult earthly concern are render by the young mind , while frame up with the seaside wickedness of the Punch And Judy puppet show . Clearly one for CBBC . you may get asigned transcript of the Bloomsbury variation on eBay decent now for £ 30 .
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