Comic book issue is 60 interior pages (unpaginated); b/w illus. The four-page "Beowulf" presentation begins on p. [26], but is listed in the Table of Contents as beginning on p. [28] (the Table of Contents evidently counts the front cover in the pagination). It uses extracts from Garnett's translation, originally published in 1882 with a 2nd ed. in 1885, but its attribution (on p. [30]) dates it to 1892, thus indicating use of Garnett's 3rd ed.

Rather than giving a continuous narrative, "Beowulf" consists of four vignettes: Grendel carrying away victims from Heorot; Beowulf fighting Grendel, shown with his arm torn away; Beowulf fighting Grendel's mother; and Beowulf fighting the dragon. The snippets of Garnett's text accompanying each picture do not enable inference of the relationships among these adversaries, or even their clear identification; the purpose seems to be to create a sense of excitement and archaic grandeur around isolated moments of confrontation.

The other stories in the issue are "Hellspawn" and "The Defiers" before "Beowulf," and after it, "Zadzillca" and "Olan." Immediately following "Beowulf," at the center of the saddle-stapled booklet, is a two-page spread called "Middleward" ([30]-[31]) that gives some information about the issue's contents. "Middleward" features a large bust image of Beowulf, and two of the other stories, "Hellspawn" and "Olan," have Beowulf resonances detectable in the collocation; see separate listings.

Not in MO2.

BAM.