Black Dossier: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen [Gosh Comics Issue]

by Moore, Alan and Kevin O'Neill

$1,020 · Offered by Biblio · No longer available

First edition · Signed · In dust jacket

La Jolla, CA: America's Best Comics, 2008. First British edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This is the grail item in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen graphic novel series written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O'Neill—the British import Knockabout Comics issue purchased from Gosh Comics with the suppressed 7-inch vinyl record, with both the book and the record signed by the author and the artist. This book is set in 1958, with a storyline incorporating George Orwell's Big Brother, Allan Quartermain, James Bond, and Bulldog Drummond. The publisher was a subsidiary of DC Comics, with whom Alan Moore had a tense relationship, going back to the publication of his landmark Watchmen graphic novel. According to the Internet, Moore deliberately incorporated lots of literary characters still under copyright into Black Dossier, as a way of testing DC's tolerance for risk and support of free expression. Moore also wrote two parody songs, in the style of 1950s rock-and-roll, to accompany the book. DC produced a test pressing in 2007, as Black Dossier was in development but never issued the record commercially. The book was not issued in the UK, which has stricter copyright laws than the US. However, in 2012, the British comic book publisher Knockabout imported copies of the second American printing of Black Dossier and sold them with a new barcode label sticker. On the publication day, the book was available at Gosh Comics, in London, with the single by "Eddie Enrico and His Ha

• Publisher: America's Best Comics
• Year: 2008
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: later
• Binding: hardcover

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