Written by Darwyn Cooke James Robinson Kelley Puckett & Alan Grant Art & cover by Tim Sale & Jimmy Palmiotti Over the years many artists have contributed to the look of one of the most iconic characters in popular culture Batman One of the influential & popular illustrators of the Dark Knight is Tim Sale who in addition to providing artwork for the hit TV series Heroes illustrated the Eisner Award-winning graphic novels BATMAN THE LONG HALLOWEEN BATMAN DARK VICTORY & SUPERMAN FOR ALL SEASONS Sale distinctive vision of the Dark Knight put the iconic hero back in the shadows & updated his image for a new generation of fans Now for the first time ever these Batman tales drawn by Tim Sale early in his career are collected in one sensational volume ...

Written by James Robinson Darwyn Cooke Kelley Puckett & Alan Grant Art by Tim Sale & Jimmy Palmiotti Cover by Tim Sale The collection of award-winning artist Tim Sale various Batman stories is now presented in trade paperback! Collecting tales from SHOWCASE '94 3-4 LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT 32-34 SHADOW OF THE BAT 7-9 SOLO 1 & BATMAN BLACK & WHITE Advance-solicited; on sale January 7 o 240 pg FC 1999 US ...

The Dark Knight stars in this new collection of tales written by Alan Brennert from THE BRAVE & THE BOLD 178 181 182 & 197 DETECTIVE COMICS 500 BATMAN HOLY TERROR 1 & more guest-starring Deadman Black Canary The Creeper Hawk & Dove & more ...

For the first time the Batman stories from legendary comics writer Archie Goodwin are collected together Collects stories from Detective Comics 437 438 & 440-443 Detective Comics Annual 3 Showcase '95 11 Batman Black & White 1and 4 Batman Legends of the Dark Knight 132-136 & Batman Night Cries ...

In 1964 DC Comics enlisted artist Carmine Infantino to introduce the "new look" Batman As he had with The Flash & Adam Strange before Infantino came up with a slick modern look for the series making the Dark Knight a creature of the shadows once more These stories & especially their cover illustrations showcase Infantino's powerful design sense one that influenced DC's cover artwork for years to come In addition Batman's many battles against crime in the streets of Gotham City paralleled the action on the 1966 Batman TV series Collects various issues of Detective Comics & Batman plus The Brave & the Bold 183 190 & 194 ...

San Francisco 1976 A naive young secretary fresh out of Cleveland tumbles headlong into a brave new world of laundromat Lotharios pot-growing landladies cut throat debutantes & Jockey Shorts dance contests The saga that ensues is manic romantic tawdry touching & outrageous
- unmistakably the handwork of Armistead Maupin
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The fourth in the Fantasy Masterworks series the Dying Earth saga inspired writers like Michael Moorcock & Gene Wolfe who freely acknowledges his debt to Vance in his own Book of the New Sun Here in one volume is Hugo Nebula & World Fantasy Award-winning author Jack Vance's classic Dying Earth saga comprising The Dying Earth The Eyes of the Overworld Cugel's Saga & Rhialto the Marvellous Travel to a far distant future when the sun bleeds red in a dark sky where magic & science is one & the Earth has but a few short decades to live ...

' Dear holy cleric' they said 'these old warriors tell you no more than a third of their stories because their memories are faulty Have these stories written down on poets' tablets in refined language so that the hearing of them will provide entertainment for the lords & commons of later times' The angels then left them Tales of the Elders of Ireland is the first complete translation of the late Middle Irish Acallam na Senorach the largest literary text surviving from twelfth-century Ireland It contains the earliest & most comprehensive collection of Fenian stories & poetry intermingling the contemporary Christian world of Saint Patrick with his scribes clerics occasional angels & souls rescued from Hell the earlier pagan world of the ancient giant Fenians & Irish kings & the parallel timeless Otherworld peopled by ever-young shape-shifting fairies It also provides the most extensive account available of the inhabitants of the Irish Otherworld
- their music & magic their internecine wars & their malice toward & infatuation with humankind
- themes still featured in the story-telling of present-day Ireland This readable & flowing new translation is based on existing manuscript sources & is richly annotated complete with an Introduction discussing the place of the Acallam in Irish tradition & the impact of the Fenian or Ossianic tradition on English & European literature ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Eric Rohmer&s charming witty & exquisitely observed quartet of romantic comedies are among the veteran director s most popular & acclaimed works A Tale of Springtime An enchanting comedy of manners in which a newly formed friendship between two girls is put to the test when one suspects the other of some mischievous matchmaking A Winter&s Tale A young Parisian woman&s idyllic holiday romance results in the birth of a daughter Through a mix-up over her address she loses touch with the baby&s father but dreams of one day being reunited with her lost love A Summer&s Tale In a beautiful Brittany seaside resort a young man becomes romantically entangled with three beautiful young women As their patience with him wears thin he must make the difficult choice between them An Autumn Tale The final story is a light-hearted romantic comedy set in the vineyards of the Rhône Valley When Isabelle attempts to play matchmaker for her lifelong friend Magali she finds things don t go quite according to plan ...

In the world of Erdas there's a story of four noble animals who sacrificed everything to protect their homes from the ambitions of a mad king Briggan the Wolf Uraza the Leopard Jhi the Panda & Essix the Falcon Long before they were spirit animals the four were still legends--Great Beasts the most powerful beings to roam the wilds of Erdas Aided by a brave resistance of humans & animals they gave their lives to protect the world from a threat more dangerous than any it had seen before their own kind Wise & cunning gentle & ruthless these are tales of the true heroes & villains in the war that started it all ...