Grendel #16 Matt Wagner 1986 - 1st Issue of Arc, New Format, Peter Bagge Library

Description: FREE shipping for orders of 8 or more items, and multi-item orders over $100! Comes sealed in acid-free bag with backing board.. Packaged between cardboard in a padded flat mailer (all made from 100% post- consumer recycled materials), by a one-man/single father independent shop. Combined shipping discounts available! Add another book for $1 ($0.50 for comics). Use the "Request Total" link above your cart if on a computer, or checkout normally and I will provide shipping discounts via refund! This comes from the former personal collection of Peter Bagge.. editor at Fantagraphics Books and Weirdo Magazine, also the creator of “Hate” and “Neat Stuff”. A few years back I obtained a large lot of books that were formerly his. A bunch of the books from this lot were clearly artist submissions while Mr. Bagge was running things at Weirdo and then FB (as some came with unique little notes and original artist sketches). Others such as this I'm assuming were personal interest readers. There were a couple short boxes of rare, and more common readers, copies of things he contributed to and/or edited, along with multiple new copies of certain titles submitted to him by artists. Grendel #16 (1986 COMICO Comics) featuring "Story of Lt. Polk" and Mage back-up story: "Interlude Premiere Partie"Captain Wiggins recounts an eerie tale of the original Grendel in an untitled story. Matt Wagner, the creator of Grendel uses a different layout arrangement for this issue. Script and art by Matt Wagner. Issue also has the Mage in "Interlude – Premiere Partie." Script and art by Matt Wagner. Wraparound cover. Cover price $1.50. below is from the series Wikipedia page regarding the new story arc which begins with this issue: Issues #16–19: Devil Tracks and Devil EyesWhen Bernie Mireault asked Wagner if Grendel could ever inhabit a crowd, Wagner was inspired to re-imagine the whole series. Starting with #16, he broke from the "next person puts on the mask" theme that connected the previous stories and instead had Captain Wiggins relate untold tales of Hunter Rose. Devil Tracks appeared in Grendel #16–17; Devil Eyes appeared in Grendel #18–19. Both were written and drawn by Wagner. Dark Horse republished them as a two-issue miniseries, Grendel Classics: Devil Tracks and Grendel Classics: Devil Eyes, in 1995, and collected them as Grendel: Devil Tales in 1999, now out of print. The now-retired Captain Wiggins is asked to write about his experiences concerning Brian Li Sung and Christine Spar decades earlier. Not wishing to dredge up old ghosts from his past, Wiggins decides instead to tell stories concerning Hunter Rose, the original Grendel whom he never met. One story centers on NYPD Lt. Lewis Polk, who investigates a diamond smuggling operation supposedly engineered by Rose. Another story told by Wiggins expands on informant Tommy Nuncio, a character briefly mentioned in Devil by the Deed.

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