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Beowulf Promotional Sampler

  • Genre/Type Descriptor(s)
    Graphic Novel
    Comic Book or Serial Comic
     
    Language(s)
    English
  • Artist
    Hinds, Gareth
    Translator
    Gummere, Francis B.
    Compiling Editor
    Hinds, Gareth
  • City
    Cambridge, MA
    Publisher
    [author as] TheComic.com
    Date
    1998
  • Relationships
    (Upstream) Uses excerpt(s) from -> Beowulf, Gummere, Francis B. (1910)
    (Downstream) Incorporated into -> Beowulf, Hinds, Gareth (1999-2000)
  • Descriptive Notes

    16 pp. (numbered 17-32); color art. A promotional print of part of the first issue of Hinds' graphic novel Beowulf (fully published serially in 3 issues, 1999-2000), corresponding to eventual pp. 17-32 of that first issue.  For the text, Hinds uses extracts from the Gummere translation (1909), but drawn from the 1910 Harvard Classics text published by P. F. Collier & Son. The first interior page has this text box, spoken by Hrothgar:

    Never to any man erst I trusted,
    since I could heave up hand and shield
    this noble Dane-Hall, till now to thee.
    Have now and hold this house unpeered,
    remember thy glory; thy might declare;
    watch for the foe! (17)

    The sequence included in the book (Beowulf's fight with Grendel) contains no other text, but the following additional extracts from Gummere do appear:

    "More I hear, that the monster dire,
    in his wanton mood, of weapons recks not;
    hence shall I scorn brand or buckler
    to bear in the fight: but with gripe alone
    must I front the fiend and fight for life,
    foe against foe. Then faith be his
    in the doom of the Lord whom death shall take." (inside front cover)

    And "So lived the clansmen in cheer and revel a winsome life, till one began to fashion evils" (back cover).

     
    Authentication

    BAM.

  • Last Updated
    03/29/2022