Article Update May 2017

I have upgraded my Ronin Gallery Edition to the signed and numbered version, and I am very, very happy about that. The Graphitti Design Signed Gallery Editions line has in my opinion the most beautiful design on the market (debossed slipcase and debossed taped-spine).

The related article have been updated accordingly.

Batman The Dark Knight Returns Limited Signed and Numbered Gallery Edition

Script by Frank Miller, art by Frank Miller and Klaus Janson (original coloring by Lynn Varley). All illustrations are ©DC Comics. For a complete list of all books reviewed in this blog, please visit the index page.

Another instant hit by the Graphitti Designs team!

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol 1 Limited Remarqued Kevin O'Neill Gallery Edition

Script by Alan Moore, art by Kevin O'Neill (lettering by Bill Oakley). All illustrations are ©Moore and O'Neill. For a complete list of  all books reviewed in this blog, please visit the index page.

This is simply the artist's edition I was waiting for because Kevin O'Neill is my favorite artist.

Frank Miller's Ronin Limited Signed and Numbered Gallery Edition

Script and art by Frank Miller (colouring by Lynn Varley). All material is ©Frank Miller and DC Comics. All illustrations are ©DC Comics. For a complete list of all books reviewed in this blog, please visit the index page.

Daredevil Graphitti Designs Visionaries: Frank Miller Limited Edition Hardcover Collection

Script Frank Miller, Roger McKenzie and David Micheline, art Frank Miller and Klaus Janson, all material is ©Marvel Comics.

outer mat dust jackets

Elektra Assassin Hardcover Editions (w/ Daredevil Love and War)

Script Frank Miller, art Bill Sienkiewicz, all material is ©Marvel Comics.

Marshal Law The Deluxe Edition

Art and color by Kevin O'Neill (except "Marshal Law Takes Manhattan" coloured by Mark Chiarello), scripts by Pat Mills. All illustrations used here are ©Pat Mills & Kevin O'Neill.

This book was published in April 2013 by DC comics (ISBN: 978-1-4012-3855-1, 11 x 7.5 inches or 29 x 19 cm, cover price 49.99$, 420 pages) and printed on thin glossy paper.

It comes with a fully illustrated dust jacket. A picture below gives an insight of the size of this edition compared to previous ones that don't share the same content (French edition, larger UK magazine edition, Graphitti Designs edition, US paperback and regular one shot). Second and third of cover originate from the French edition and were already used for the Graphitti Designs edition.

The inner hardcover book comes with the same virgin illustrations.

Here is the global content of this edition. The book is introduced by Jonathan Ross (2 pages dated November 2012) and Pat Mills has wrote a 2 page afterword in December 2012. A two page coloured map of San Futuro and a new Sleepman title page illustration are exclusive to this edition.

Each story are presented with their original virgin cover (with credits for the "Takes Manhattan" story, and fully developed for the "Secret Tribunal" original comics) and title pages. In fact the main content is quite similar to the UK Titan Books paperbacks series.

one of the greatest splash page ever produced

The book ends with a ten page 'Shooting Gallery'. Most of the material listed here has previously been published in the Graphitti Designs edition:

• Toxic #14 cover + illustration used for the US "Fear and Loathing" paperback introduction
• fully developed cover from the second issue of "Secret Tribunal"
• Covers from "Strip" magazine #1 and #3
• Covers from volume 2 and 3 of the French Zenda edition
• Two character designs (Marshal Law and Celeste) for a proposed movie adaptation
• Illustration for a Marvel retail poster (1989)
• Back cover of the third volume of the French Edition

Secret Tribunal #2

Marvel poster

French edition virgin covers

character designs

For more details, don't hesitate to go here (English) or here (French).

Elektra Lives Again Graphitti Designs Hardcover Signed Edition

 Script and art by Frank Miller, color art by Lynn Varley (© Epic Comics)

Watchmen Absolute Edition

Script Alan Moore, art Dave Gibbons, re-colored by John Higgins. © DC Comics. For a complete list of all books reviewed in this blog, please visit the index page.

Watchmen Graphitti Designs Limited Slipcase Hardcover

Script Alan Moore, art Dave Gibbons and John Higgins.

From Hell Graphitti Designs Limited Signed Edition

Script Alan Moore and art by Eddie Campbell.

Canvas hardcover book (7.9 x 10.2 inches, 20 x 26 cm, ISBN: 0-936211-57-1, $95) printed on high quality mat paper.

picture on ebay from gods3rdeye seller (sticker on the plastic shrink wrap)

This book is the limited signed hardcover edition of 1000 published in December 1999 by Graphitti Designs (mine is #936/1000). It begins with an exclusive illustration signed by both the artist. Note that all the pages (circa 575) are individually numbered by the hand of Eddie Campbell (but reproduced as such of course). All the introduction pages from the original comics are reprinted here.

Notice that a Painfully limited edition of this book was produced by Eddie Campbell in 2002. From ChrisMcLaren' blog: "only 19 copies of this edition exist, each one created personally by Campbell. The book comes in a clothbound clamshell case with a black kangaroo leather cover and an original color painting by Campbell inside the front cover".

Here is the exact content of my "regular" limited edition of the book:
- the prologue,
- the fourteenth chapters,
- the epilogue,
- maps of London,
- the Appendix,
- "Dance of the gull catchers" as Appendix II.

You will find more other pictures on Comicstrade here.

Marshal Law Graphitti Designs Limited Edition

Script Pat Mills, art by Kevin O'Neill. All material is ©Pat Mills and Kevin O'Neill. For a complete list of  all books reviewed in this blog, please visit the index page.