The Black Ghost is my homage to Walter B. Gibson and his famous character The Shadow. Volume 1 contains the first four novelettes, Murder Town, Calling The Black Ghost, The Black Ghost At Bay! And Dark Night of The Black Ghost. Set in contemporary times, Jimmy Malone dons a black hood and cape sending fear into the hearts of evildoers, as he battles the underworld in the tradition of a modern day Shadow or Spider. Volume 2 contains four novelettes, Town of Fear, Death And The Black Ghost, Highways In Hiding & Bullets of Terror. Set in contemporary times, Jimmy Malone dons a black hood and cape sending fear into the hearts of evildoers, as he battles the underworld in the tradition of a modern day Shadow or Spider. Burning eyes, a mocking laugh, and blazing automatics announce his entrance into an affray. Gangsters cringe when they come up against the guns of the Black Ghost!
Idle hands can - and often do - get themselves involved in things they shouldn't. As to what that might be, it's best to ask the dark thinking Thirteen O'clock authors, for their imaginations range far and wide, as you will find when you delve into this anthology. It might stop your idle hands from getting involved in dark things, but then again...
The story of Earth’s last war starts with Hope’s sticky fingers… The multiple award-winning Batwoman team of J. H. WILLIAMS III (Promethea, The Sandman: Overture, Batman) and W. HADEN BLACKMAN (Star Wars, Elektra) reunites! They’re joined once again by colorist supreme DAVE STEWART and master letterer TODD KLEIN. In a bizarre future world that has forgotten its history, reckless thief Hope Redhood holds the key to excavating its dark, strange past―if only she and her crew can escape a tyrannical wizard and his unstoppable daughter. But fate will send them all on a path leading to a war between worlds. ECHOLANDS is a landscape-format, mythic-fiction epic where anything is possible―a fast-paced genre mashup adventure that combines everything from horror movie vampires, to classic mobsters and cyborg elves, to Roman demigods and retro rocket ships. It’s going to be a helluva ride! Select praise for ECHOLANDS: “Subverts expectations at every turn while building an ever-expanding world. J. H. WILLIAMS III & W. HADEN BLACKMAN have constructed a magical world for their charming characters in ECHOLANDS.” —Comic Book Resources “With a format and style all its own, ECHOLANDS is nearly a brochure for its own potential to be the Next Big Important Comic.” —AIPT “Overflowing in the best way possible… this comic is an explosion of excess and unyielding, chaotic fun.” —Multiversity Comics “A comic you should try based on artwork alone.” —ComicBook.com “A blast of immersive fantastical originality. The story J. H. WILLIAMS III & W. HADEN BLACKMAN have come up with is rife with mystery and suspense, and delivered with masterful precision. Williams and Dave Stewart’s visuals are inconceivably wild and wonderful, matched only by the pair’s other works.” —Monkeys Fighting Robots “It’s every fictional world, each with its own artistic style, intersecting and exploding with JHW3 magic and crackle. I can’t wait to see where he and W. HADEN BLACKMAN are taking us―into a world in which anything can happen, and undoubtedly will.” ―NEIL GAIMAN “So complex and unique and expertly executed it pushes the medium forward in new directions and leads to invigorated interest in the medium of comics itself.” ―ROBERT KIRKMAN “A dazzling, kinetic ride through an exquisitely realized fantasy world, bursting with graphic energy and excitement.” ―DAVE GIBBONS Collects ECHOLANDS #1-6 TRIM SIZE: 11.125" x 7.25"
