FROM HELL: The Compleat Scripts by Alan Moore (Limited) Slipcase Signed

Alan Moore

ISBN 10: 1880325071 / ISBN 13: 9781880325070

Published by Borderlands Press, Baltimore, 1994

About this Item

FROM HELL: The Compleat Scripts by Alan Moore (Limited) Slipcase Signed A sharp tight unread copy with very slight bumping to bottom corner. Slipcase in Very Good condition with moderate wear - square and shiny but for a bumped lower rear corner, a rubbed corner tip, and some surface wear. A sharp bright dust jacket with a tiny crease to bottom corner. Not price clipped. "Book One". Limited Edition. One of the 1000 copies numbered and signed by Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell, and Stephen R. Bissette. This is # 459/1000. It is the authoritative text. Black cloth with silver lettering to spine and cover, in dust jacket with original printed prices on front flap: "Limited Edition $95. Deluxe, Lettered Edition $450". Housed in a black Slipcase. Seller Inventory # HCX17789-2

Bibliographic Details

Title: FROM HELL: The Compleat Scripts by Alan ...

Publisher: Borderlands Press, Baltimore

Publication Date: 1994

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: Eddie Campbell(Illustrator) Stephen R. Bissette(Afterword)

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: Limited Edition.

Book Type: BOOK

About this title

Synopsis:

Legendary comics writer Alan Moore and artist Eddie Campbell have created a gripping, hallucinatory piece of crime fiction about Jack the Ripper. Detailing the events that led up to the Whitechapel murders and the cover-up that followed, From Hell has become a modern masterpiece of crime noir and historical fiction.

Review:

The mad, shaggy genius of the comics world dips deeply into the well of history and pulls up a cup filled with blood in From Hell. Alan Moore did a couple of Ph.D.'s worth of research into the Whitechapel murders for this copiously annotated collection of the independently published series. The web of facts, opinion, hearsay, and imaginative invention draws the reader in from the first page. Eddie Campbell's scratchy ink drawings evoke a dark and dirty Victorian London and help to humanize characters that have been caricatured into obscurity for decades. Moore, having decided that the evidence best fits the theory of a Masonic conspiracy to cover up a scandal involving Victoria's grandson, goes to work telling the story with relish from the point of view of the victims, the chief inspector, and the killer--the Queen's physician. His characterization is just as vibrant as Campbell's; even the minor characters feel fully real. Looking more deeply than most, the author finds in the "great work" of the Ripper a ritual magic working intended to give birth to the 20th century in all its horrid glory. Maps, characters, and settings are all as accurate as possible, and while the reader might not ultimately agree with Moore and Campbell's thesis, From Hell is still a great work of literature. --Rob Lightner