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).
BAM.