The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist

The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist
Author: Michael Chabon
Publisher: Paw Prints
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-07-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781442047310

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Don't miss out on this thrilling first volume of The Escapist, featuring an original story by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Kavalier & Clay. . .Michael Chabon.

Michael Chabon Presents....The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist Volume 1

Michael Chabon Presents....The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist Volume 1
Author: Michael Chabon
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2016-09-06
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1630089214

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Master of Elusion, foe of tyranny, and champion of liberation — The Escapist! Operating from a secret headquarters under the boards of the majestic Empire Theater, the Escapist and his crack team of charismatic associates roam the globe, performing amazing feats of magic to aid all those who languish in oppression’s chains. The history of his creators, Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay, was recently chronicled in Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. The best of the Escapist’s adventures are now collected into one volume for all to enjoy! This thrilling volume of Michael Chabon Presents…The Amazing Adventures of The Escapist collects the first two issues of the comic book and features an original story penned by Michael Chabon, the comics debut of novelist Glen David Gold, a new story written and drawn by Howard Chaykin, the painted artwork of Bill Sienkiewicz, and a wraparound cover by Chris Ware!

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content)

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content)
Author: Michael Chabon
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 706
Release: 2012-06-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0812993675

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The epic, beloved novel of two boy geniuses dreaming up superheroes in New York’s Golden Age of comics, now with special bonus material by the author “It's absolutely gosh-wow, super-colossal—smart, funny, and a continual pleasure to read.”—The Washington Post Book World One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • One of Entertainment Weekly’s 10 Best Books of the Decade • Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize A “towering, swash-buckling thrill of a book” (Newsweek), hailed as Chabon’s “magnum opus” (The New York Review of Books), The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a triumph of originality, imagination, and storytelling, an exuberant, irresistible novel that begins in New York City in 1939. A young escape artist and budding magician named Joe Kavalier arrives on the doorstep of his cousin, Sammy Clay. While the long shadow of Hitler falls across Europe, America is happily in thrall to the Golden Age of comic books, and in a distant corner of Brooklyn, Sammy is looking for a way to cash in on the craze. He finds the ideal partner in the aloof, artistically gifted Joe, and together they embark on an adventure that takes them deep into the heart of Manhattan, and the heart of old-fashioned American ambition. From the shared fears, dreams, and desires of two teenage boys, they spin comic book tales of the heroic, fascist-fighting Escapist and the beautiful, mysterious Luna Moth, otherworldly mistress of the night. Climbing from the streets of Brooklyn to the top of the Empire State Building, Joe and Sammy carve out lives, and careers, as vivid as cyan and magenta ink. Spanning continents and eras, this superb book by one of America’s finest writers remains one of the defining novels of our modern American age. Winner of the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award and the New York Society Library Book Award

The Escapists

The Escapists
Author: Brian K. Vaughan
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2016-09-14
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1630089206

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Inspired by Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, this is Vaughan’s love letter to his chosen medium, a story about what it takes to start out with nothing in Cleveland, Ohio, and end up with a comic so hot a major corporation wants to steal it from you! Brilliantly interweaving the lives of the creators with the world of their creation, artists Steve Rolston and Philip Bond bring the comic-booking trio Maxwell Roth, Case Weaver, and Denny Jones to life, while the inimitable Jason Shawn Alexander and Eduardo Barreto illustrate the thrilling trials and exciting extrications of the new -- and old -- Escapist!

Michael Chabon Presents....The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist Volume 2

Michael Chabon Presents....The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist Volume 2
Author: Michael Chabon
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2016-09-20
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1630089222

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Following in the footsteps of the massively successful Volume One, the second volume of Michael Chabon Presents the Amazing Adventures of the Escapist collects issues three and four of the likewise popular quarterly series. Among the stories in this volume: "To Reign in Hell" by Brian K. Vaughan and Roger Petersen; "Heil and Fear Well" by Marv Wolfman, Joe Staton, and R. Sikoryak; "The Trial of Judy Dark" by Kevin McCarthy and Dean Haspiel; "The EscapeNot" by Paul Hornschemeier; "Escapist 2966" by Stuart Moore and Steve Conley; "The Boy Who Would Be the Escapist" by Kevin McCarthy and C. Scott Morse; and "Chain reaction" by Matt Kindt. Plus historical text by Roy Thomas and a bevy of pinups by Mike Mignola, John Cassaday, Farel Dalrymple, Jim Mahfood, and more!

Doctor Star & The Kingdom of Lost Tomorrows: From the World of Black Hammer

Doctor Star & The Kingdom of Lost Tomorrows: From the World of Black Hammer
Author: Jeff Lemire
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2018-11-27
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1506706029

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This dual-narrative story set in the world of the Eisner-award winning Black Hammer series chronicles the legacy of a Golden Age superhero. Collects the first four issues of Doctor Star from New York Times bestselling and Eisner-winning creator Jeff Lemire! An aged crime fighter desperately wants to reconnect with his estranged son, who he hoped would one day take the mantle of Doctor Star. Over the course of the story we learn his World War II-era origin, how he got his powers, his exciting astral adventures, the formation of some of Black Hammer's greatest heroes, and more in this heartbreaking superhero tale about fathers and sons.

Michael Chabon Presents...

Michael Chabon Presents...
Author: Eddie Campbell
Publisher: Paw Prints
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-07-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781442047280

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This volume of The Escapist collects issues five and six of the popular, Eisner Award winning quarterly series and features the late Will Eisner's return to the Spirit, in a crossover tale with the Escapist! Fans of classic comics will not want to miss what became Eisner's last comics work, completed just two weeks before the death of the legendary comics godfather. Also in this volume is the comics writing debut of award-winning author and Guggenheim fellow Chris Offutt, illustrated by Thomas Yeates. Dan Best and Eddie Campbell contribute a fully painted story from the 1939 World's Fair in Empire City, and 2004 Russ Manning Award winner Eric Wight brings a polemic story from writer Jason Hall to life. Among the other notable contributors are Howard Chaykin, Paul Grist, Shawn Martinbrough, David Hahn, Roy Thomas, Matt Wagner and indie stalwarts Jeffrey Brown and Jason!

The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist

The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist
Author: Michael Chabon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2004-02
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9781593071646

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"Based on The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon."

Werewolves in Their Youth

Werewolves in Their Youth
Author: Michael Chabon
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2011-12-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1453234128

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By the New York Times–bestselling author of Moonglow: “When you read these stories, it may strike you how seldom you come across really beautiful writing” (USA Today). Cherished by readers and critics alike for such extraordinary novels as The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, and Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon is at the height of his considerable powers in this striking and bittersweet collection of short stories. An anxious young misfit does nothing to protect his best friend from the scorn of their teachers and classmates. A kleptomaniac real estate agent leads an unhappy couple on a disastrous house tour. A heartbroken grifter finds his ex-girlfriend’s grandmother to be an easy mark—and an unexpected source of redemption. Throughout these stories, Chabon’s characters, suffused with yearning but crippled by broken love, often find themselves at a crossroads—and faced with sudden insight. Michael Chabon is “Updike without the condescension,” wrote James Hynes in the Washington Post Book World, “Cheever without the self-pity, a young American Nabokov who writes with a rueful joie de vivre.” In this darkly funny, achingly delicate collection, he renders the compromises of adulthood and the vivid fantasies of childhood with clarity and warmth. This ebook features a biography of the author.

Black Hammer Volume 5: Reborn Part One

Black Hammer Volume 5: Reborn Part One
Author: Jeff Lemire
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2022-02-22
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1506714269

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The Eisner Award-winning superhero saga returns in this ongoing series picking up twenty years later with new series artist Caitlin Yarsky. In 1986, Black Hammer and the rest of Spiral City's greatest superheroes seemingly died defeating the cosmic despot known as Anti-God and saving the world. But one woman refused to believe they were truly gone: Lucy Weber, the daughter of Black Hammer. Learning that her dad had sacrificed himself to save the other heroes, Lucy soon took up the mantle of Black Hammer and carried on the legacy of her father as the world's greatest superhero. Now, it's twenty years later, and Lucy, and the world, have moved on. Living in the suburbs of Spiral City, Lucy is married and has children. But all is not blissful. Her marriage is falling apart, her job has reached a dead end, and for mysterious reasons, she hasn't picked up the hammer in years. But, as her domestic life begins to crumble, the secrets of the last twenty years, and the reasons Lucy really gave up being Black Hammer, begin to resurface, threatening her family, and the peace she has tried hard to find for herself. Black Hammer: Reborn is the next era of the Black Hammer Universe; a twelve-issue series by Jeff Lemire and Caitlin Yarsky that juxtaposes an achingly human story of domestic life, marriage, parenthood, and destiny with a pulse-pounding superhero thriller that peels back new layers of mystery, and pulls the Black Hammer history into the present. Collects Black Hammer: Reborn #1-#4.