Articles Upgrade March 2016 part two

For a complete list of  all books reviewed in this blog, please visit the index page.

Another full upgrade for Alan Moore & Melinda Gebbie's seminal Lost Girls Top Shelf box set edition. One of the jewel of my collection design and content wise.

Beware, strong adult content!

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol 3 Hardcover Edition

Script by Alan Moore, art by Kevin O'Neill with Ben Dimagmaliw. All material presented here is ©Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill. For a complete list of all books reviewed in this blog, please visit the index page.

This hardcover collected edition of century (7 x 10.5 inches or 18 x 27 cm, 256 pages) designed by Todd Klein, was co-published in June 2014 by Top Shelf (ISBN: 978-1-60309-329-3, cover price $29.95) and Knockabout Comics (ISBN: 978-0-86166-232-6, cover price £19.99). It comes with a fully illustrated dust jacket (see pictures above and below) and, as I have bought the 2014 San Diego comic con version, it features a signed and numbered embossed bookplate (mine is #376). Note that this bookplate was inserted in the regular book but the later was sold 50$ at the July SDCC convention.

I will try to pinpoint exhaustively all the new exclusive illustrations done especially for this edition by Kevin O'Neill, starting with dust jacket cover and flaps, and the beautifully painted second and third of covers. The third picture below is for size comparison with the regular third issue of the series (Century #3: 2009), and the oversized Delcourt French edition for Century #1:1910.

The inner book displays a black embossed canvas hardcover (there is no design on the back cover).

this illustration is exclusive to this edition

page left taken from 1910, page right exclusive to this edition

page left taken from 1910

page right exclusive to this edition

Every B&W third of cover of original issues ending Minions of The Moon are published here in colourised form.

page left exclusive to this edition

colourised version from third of 1910's cover

The thirteen pages extra section displays:

• Promotional art for Volume III presentation
• All three back covers for original issues
• original cover devised for the Italian Edition
• All three original covers for original issues
• All three limited Gosh! bookplate illustrations
• An exclusive patchwork illustration

page left from 1910 credits page, page right promotional art dated circa 2003

back cover for 1969

page left back cover for 2009, page right cover for Italian edition

cover for 1969

1969 and 2009 Gosh! limited bookplate

exclusive illustration

This edition doesn't included second of cover (vintage advert page), credits page as well as opening "helmeted Lady with a trident (LOEG associated symbol)" opening page from 1969 and 2009.


I have been lucky enough to put my hands on the Gosh! limited signed and numbered (out of 1000, respectively #820, 8 and 954) bookplates.

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Black Dossier Absolute Edition

Script by Alan Moore, art by Kevin O'Neill with Ben Dimagmaliw and William Oakley. For a complete list of  all books reviewed in this blog, please visit the index page.

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol 2 Absolute Edition

Script by Alan Moore, art by Kevin O'Neill with Ben Dimagmaliw and William Oakley.

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol 1 Absolute Edition

Script by Alan Moore, art by Kevin O'Neill with Ben Dimagmaliw and William Oakley. All illustrations are ©Moore and O'Neill.

Promethea Absolute Oversized Slipcase Collection

Script by Alan Moore, art by J.H.Williams III with Mick Gray, Jeromy Cox and Todd Klein.

Published in three volumes by America's Best Comics through Wildstorm (book one and two) and DC (book three), these are oversized slipcase (8, 5 x 12,8 inches, 21.5 cm x 32.5 cm) editions printed on quality thick glossy paper.


In chronological appearance we have book one (ISBN 978-1-4012-2372-4, cover price 99,99$) issued in October 2009. Some pictures of the outer slipcase:

And here is the inner cover book:

This first volume displays up to 300 pages with the first 12 issues. The following pictures shows some element of how the reader is introduce to the book (note the bookmark cord, and the short rhymes for each chapter):

Each original cover is reprinted in this beautiful edition, and this first book has also a two pages foreword written by Alan Moore, and an afterword written by Brian Meltzer (no other extra).

Then we have the second book (ISBN 978-1-4012-2842-2 , cover price 99,99$) issued one year later in October 2010. Again, some pictures of the outer slipcase:

And here is the inner cover book:

This second volume displays up to 300 pages with issue 13 to 23 and an extended bonus section (28 pages) with cover art gallery (pencils, back cover and front cover for the previous hardcover and softcover editions), sketchbook and washes. Again, each original cover is reprinted.

And finally, here is the third book (ISBN 978-1-4012-2947-4, cover price 99.99$), published in December 2011, first outer slipcase..

..and the inner book.

With this third volume (circa 300 pages) we have issue 24 to 32 reprinted with their original cover, and an extended bonus section (75 pages!) that displays:

• 2 pages foreword by Eric Shanower,
• issue 32 in a two sided A3 poster form (the original came in two separated A2 posters),
• variations for the cover of issue #32 and its making of,
• appearances of Promethea in the ABC universe including the entire story "Little Margie in Misty Magic Land" from the 64 pages ABC's giant special (Steeve Moore & Eddie Shanower),
• pictures and pencils for the action figure and statue,
• J.H. Williams III commentary of his work on the last part of the saga (5 illustrated pages),
• the entire Alan Moore script for issue #29.

Bragging section know, as I can also display here the Magical Edition of issue #32, including the two A2 posters version of the story (see the two pictures above and imagine them in A2 size), all issues (and collected edition) virgin covers, and limited to 1000 copies.

front signed cover

44 pages worth of covers art

one of the collected edition cover

a two pages afterword by JH Williams III dated December 2004

hand numbered back cover