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Olan

  • Genre/Type Descriptor(s)
    Comic Book or Serial Comic
     
    Language(s)
    English
  • Artist
    Gustovich, Mike
    Author
    Stoker, John
    Author
    Kindervatter, Lynn
    Author
    Schuler, Eleanor
  • Serial Title
    The Lands of Prester John
    Location Details
    Volume 1, number 1, pages [52]-[59]
    City
    Warren, OH
    Publisher
    Noble Comics Group
    Date
    1976
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  • Descriptive Notes

    Comic book issue is 60 interior pages (unpaginated); b/w illus. "Olan" begins on p. [52], but is listed in the Table of Contents as beginning on p. [55] (the Table of Contents evidently counts the front cover in the pagination, but even so, "Olan" ought to be listed as starting on p. [54]). It is preceded by "Hellspawn," "The Defiers," "Beowulf," "Middleward," and "Zadzillca."

    "Olan" would not warrant a database entry if it did not collocate with Gustovich and Gorman's "Beowulf." However, given the collocation, Beowulf resonances seem inevitable in this retelling of the tale of St. George and the dragon. The issue as a whole moves from a Grendel-like creature and story ("Hellspawn"), through a series of Beowulf vignettes ("Beowulf") and another image of Beowulf ("Middleward"), to a hero's defeat of a dragon ("Olan").

     
    Authentication

    BAM.

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    04/03/2022