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Speculator Corner: Luther Arkwright

Published Mon, 12 May 2014 19:00:15 -0500

Rumours of movie adaptations of Bryan Talbot's Luther Arkwright are in the air again. Bryan Talbot mentioned such mutterings at the British Library launch of Sally Heathcote: Suffragette last week.

But for folks searching for early appearances of the character to collect, they are going to have a struggle.

The multi-dimensional psychedelic adventurer first appeared in Brainstorm Comix #3 in 1976, retitled Mixed Bunch, with The Papist Affair. It recently sold on eBay for $15.

Before jetting over to Near Myths for five issues (alongside heavily-influenced-by-Talbot Grant Morrison) a recent issue of which sold for $8.

Before continuing in the avant garde UK magazine pssst! from issues 2 to 10.

There was a four pager Arkwright story in Moon Comics #3 from 1979 and two pages in Imagine #14 from TSR.

All these were reworked and published in the nine issue series The Adventures Of Luther Arkwright from Valkyrie Press, with a tenth issue addendum featuring a Neil Gaiman poem. The nine issue set recently sold for $10 on eBay. Most of this was collected in a trade paperback and then the series remastered and republished by Dark Horse Comics in the US, beginning the publisher's long relationship with the creator.