Alan Moore
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English
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"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...
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Series
Long London volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
315 pages : map ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The year is 1949, the city London. Amidst the smog of the capital stumbles Dennis Knuckleyard, a hapless eighteen year-old employed by a second-hand bookshop. One day, on an errand to acquire books for sale, Dennis discovers a novel that simply does not exist. It is a fictitious book, a figment from another novel. Yet it is physically there in his hands. How? Dennis has stumbled on a book from the Great When, a magical version of London beyond time...
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English
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"In the grim cold of February 2013 a new League of Extraordinary Gentlemen book will surface: Nemo: Heart of Ice, a full-color 48-page adventure by the inestimable Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill. It's 1925, fifteen years after the death of Captain Nemo, when his daughter Janni Dakkar launches a grand Antarctic expedition to lay the old man's burdensome legacy to rest. Accompanied by Nemo's shipmate Ishmael, a ration of rum, and her father's log, Janni...
5) Watchmen
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DC Comics
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English
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This stunning graphic novel chronicles the fall from grace of a group of superheroes plagued by all too human failings. The concept of the superhero is dissected and inverted as strangely realistic characters are stalked by an unknown assassin. Originally published as 12 issue series in 1986 and 1987, Watchmen remains one of DC Comics' most popular graphic novels.
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
456 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"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...
7) Watchmen
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Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
[New edition].
Physical Desc
414 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
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English
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"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."--Publisher
8) Top 10
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Publisher
DC Comics/Vertigo
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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"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 existance in the previous decade. Bringing these powered beings together solved some problems but created others - turning Neopolis into a pressure cooker that normal policing methods could never contain. Join rookie cop Robyn Singer, alter ego "Toybox,"...
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Liveright Publishing Corporation, A Division of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
[807]-1266 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
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English
Description
Vernall's inquest is book three of a trilogy that makes up the epic novel Jerusalem. Alan Moore channels both the ecstatic visions of William Blake and the theoretical physics of Albert Einstein through the hardscrabble streets and alleys of his hometown of Northampton, UK.
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Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, A Division of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
363 pages : illustration, map ; 21 cm
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English
Description
The Boroughs is book one of a trilogy that makes up the epic novel Jerusalem. Alan Moore channels both the ecstatic visions of William Blake and the theoretical physics of Albert Einstein through the hardscrabble streets and alleys of his hometown of Northampton, UK.
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Liveright Publishing Corporation, A Division of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
[364]-803 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
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English
Description
Mansoul is book two of a trilogy that makes up the epic novel Jerusalem. Alan Moore channels both the ecstatic visions of William Blake and the theoretical physics of Albert Einstein through the hardscrabble streets and alleys of his hometown of Northampton, UK.
13) Occupy comics
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[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : black, white and color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
14) V for vendetta
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Language
English
Description
In a futuristic Britain where a totalitarian regime rules, a young woman is rescued from death by a masked vigilante calling himself "V," who launches a one-man crusade against government tyranny and oppression.
15) Watchmen
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Publisher
DC Comics Inc
Pub. Date
1987, c1986
Physical Desc
[413] p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
Deutsch
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Publisher
DC Comics
Language
English
Description
"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'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...
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English
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Legendary comics writer Alan Moore and artist Eddie Campbell have created a gripping, hallucinatory piece of crime fiction about Jack the Ripper. Detailing the events that led up to the Whitechapel murders and the cover-up that followed, From Hell has become a modern masterpiece of crime noir and historical fiction.
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League of extraordinary gentlemen volume 2
Publisher
America's Best Comics, LLC
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
When alien invaders from Mars attack London, the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is called upon to protect the empire. They prepare a defense, but when the Invisible Man joins the Martians' cause, all may be lost. Includes "The New Traveller's Almanac," a 19th-century travelogue.