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Alien: The Illustrated Story

By Archie Goodwin
Series: Alien
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Alien: The Illustrated Story adapts Ridley Scott's iconic 1979 sci-fi horror film into a graphic novel format. This edition reunites the original talents of Archie Goodwin and Walt Simonson, delivering a meticulously restored visual narrative that captures the terror and suspense of the classic motion picture.
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Two of comics' greatest talents joined forces in 1979 to bring Ridley Scott's epic "Alien" motion picture to comics. This edition (released to coincide with Scott's "Prometheus") has been meticulously restored from original artwork in Walt Simonson's studio.

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Two of comics' greatest talents joined forces in 1979 to bring Ridley Scott's epic Alien motion picture to comics. Out of print for over thirty years, this brand new edition—released to coincide with Scott's Prometheus—has been meticulously restored from original artwork in Walt Simonson's studio.

Presenting, for the very first time, the definitive artist's edition of the greatest sci-fi horror ever.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781781161296

Publisher: Titan Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 September 2012

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Titan Books Ltd

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Walt Simonson

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 6.0mm

Width: 207.0mm

Height: 276.0mm

Weight: 278g

Pages: 64

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Archie Goodwin Fiction General Fiction Graphic Novels Horror & Supernatural Sci-Fi & Fantasy Science Fiction Series: Alien

About the Author

Archie Goodwin was an American comic book writer, editor, and artist. He is best known for his Warren and Marvel Comics work. For Warren he was chief writer and editor of landmark horror anthology titles Creepy and Eerie, and for Marvel he set up the creator-owned Epic Comics as well as adapting Star Wars into both comics and newspaper strips.

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