From Hell
Eddie Campbell Comics.
From Hell (10-issue mini + Dance of the Gull 1-shot; w Alan Moore;
a Eddie Campbell). [From Eddie Campbell Comics: Ten
years in the making, at last the collected From Hell, winner of many awards
and soon to be a movie. This bedtime graphic novel features the story of
Jack the Ripper, the most infamous serial murderer of all time. Alan Moore
names Dr. Gull as the villain and creates the most compelling and terrifying
psychological study ever undertaken in a comic book. All the conspiracies
and cover-ups are considered and bound together in this vortex of terror.
Reprints all 14 parts of the From Hell melodrama (the original 10 issues)
and the "eleventh issue", the epilogue about the study of Jack
the Ripper since the murders called "Dance of the Gullcatchers",
as well as all of Alan Moore's footnotes and comments on the work.]
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