The Books of Magic Vol. 1 by Neil Gaiman
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Overview: The Books of Magic is the title of a four-issue English-language comic book mini-series written by Neil Gaiman, published by DC Comics, and later an ongoing series under the imprint Vertigo. Since its original publication, the mini-series has also been published in a single-volume collection under the Vertigo imprint with an introduction by author Roger Zelazny. It tells the story of a young boy who has the potential to become the world’s greatest magician.
Gaiman used the four issues to formally split the structure of the story, and allow for a different artist to draw each issue:
In Book I: The Invisible Labyrinth (artwork by John Bolton), Tim is introduced to the history of the DC Universe by the Phantom Stranger;
In Book II: The Shadow World (artwork by Scott Hampton), he is taken around the present world by John Constantine;
In Book III: The Land of Summer’s Twilight (artwork by Charles Vess) he visits Faerie, Gemworld, Skartaris, King Arthur’s Camelot, Hell, and the other mystical realms with Doctor Occult;
In Book IV: The Road to Nowhere (artwork by Paul Johnson) he travels to a possible future of the universe with Mister E.
This structure allowed Gaiman great scope to include various magical characters from across DC’s ranges, as well as reintroducing characters that weren’t currently in print. In his introduction to the collected edition, author Roger Zelazny also noted that the structure bore some similarity to the key story points of the mythic structure identified by Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces – although he did allow that this might come from Gaiman’s intimate knowledge of the same source material rather than a deliberate attempt to follow Campbell’s guidelines.[4] When the book was initially released over 1990/1991, it proved very popular and led Vertigo Executive Editor Karen Berger to make it a regular ongoing series under editor Stuart Moore.
Genre: Comics
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