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The Warlord (1976-1988(single issues))
Series · 6 books · 1979-2025

Books in series

The Warlord 1 book cover
#7

The Warlord 1

Skartaris

2009

Die Rückkehr des populären Fantasy-Helden in einer edlen Schwarz-Weiß-Edition! Zum ersten mal werden alle von Mike Grell getexteten und gezeichneten Abenteuer auf Deutsch veröffentlicht. Atemberaubende Abenteuer in der Tradition von Edgar Rice Burroughs und Jules Verne! WARLORD erzählt die Geschichte des amerikanischen Airforce-Piloten Travis Morgan, der bei einem Testflug über dem Nordpol vom Kurs abkommt und einen Zugang zu einer Welt im Inneren der Erde entdeckt. Nach einer Bruchlandung erwacht er in einem Land, in dem eine ewige Sonne scheint und in dem Magie und Barbarei neben Dinosaurieren und Robotern existieren. Eine Welt, in der man täglich um sein Überleben kämpfen muss und in der hinter jeder Wegbiegung unglaubliche Gefahren lauern können. Schnell wird Morgan wegen seiner militärischen Kenntnisse für die unterdrückten Bewohner zum Helden, zum WARLORD, der Sklaven befreit, fantastische Monster bekämpft und sich dem despotischen Herrscher des Landes, dem Hohepriester Deimos, entgegenstellt. Eine großartige Fantasy-Spielwiese für den Autor und Zeichner Mike Grell. Vorerst sind im Rahmen der Neu-Edition sechs Bände mit insgesamt über 1.000 Seiten geplant. Als Extra gibt es in jedem Band eine farbige Galerie mit den Covern der US-Heftausgaben und zusätzliche redaktionelle Seiten.
The Warlord 2 book cover
#8

The Warlord 2

Deimos

2010

Skartaris: Eine aus Zeit und Raum gefalle Welt im Inneren der Erde, in der alles möglich scheint und Magie und vorzeitliche Kreaturen herrschen. In dieser Welt strandet der US-Air-Force-Pilot Travis Morgan nach einem Absturz über der Arktis und schlägt sich fortan als der Warlord, Freiheitskämpfer und Abenteuerer, durch das unbekannte und allen Gesetzen der Natur trotzende Reich. In Band 2 der von Lesern und Kritikern gefeierten Gesamtausgabe von Mike Grells legendärer Hit-Comicreihe aus den 80er Jahren müssen Morgan und seine Begleiter, der Königssohn Machiste und die russische Wissenschafterin Mariah, aus den Fallen eines Großwildjägers entkommen, bieten dem leibhaftigen Tod die Stirn und kommen schließlich einem Komplott des Erzmagiers Deimos auf die Spur, der sich aus dem Totenreich erhoben hat, um Rache an Travis und seinen Freunden zu nehmen. Ein unvergessliches Comic-Juwel, aufwändig retuschiert und zum ersten Mal komplett auf Deutsch präsentiert.
Warlord #22 book cover
#22

Warlord #22

2025

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#24

Warlord #24

1979

#29

The Warlord no. 29

2025

Showcase Presents book cover
#128

Showcase Presents

Warlord, Vol. 1

2009

Inspired by Edgar Rice Burroughs and Jules Verne, WARLORD is the story of Air Force Pilot Travis Morgan, who crash-lands in the primitive, hidden land of Skartaris. Morgan becomes a leader of Skartaris, fighting to protect his newly adopted home from invaders wielding magical powers and hand-held weapons.

Author

Mike Grell
Mike Grell
Author · 57 books

Mike Grell (born 1947) is a comic book writer and artist. Grell studied at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, the Chicago Academy of Fine Art, and took the Famous Artists School correspondence course in cartooning. His entry into the comics industry was in 1972, as an assistant to Dale Messick on the Brenda Starr comic strip. In 1973 Grell moved to New York, and began his long relationship with DC Comics. His first assignment at DC was on Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes, a high-profile assignment for an artist with no prior experience illustrating a monthly comic book. Grell says he got that job because he was walking in the editor's door to ask for work, literally, as the previous artist was walking out the door, having just quit. These stories were written by Cary Bates and Jim Shooter. The Bates/Grell/Shooter run on the title is very well-regarded today by Superboy/Legion fans, who consider it one of the high-water marks in the character/team's history. Grell's work on SATLOSH is widely thought to be some of the best beefcake/cheesecake ever committed to comic book pages, and is affectionately referred to as the 'disco Legion' in retrospect by fans of the title. A writer as well as artist, Grell cemented his status as a fan-favorite with his best-known creation, The Warlord, one of the first sword and sorcery comics, and reportedly the best-selling title published by DC Comics in the late-1970s. The character first appeared in 1st Issue Special #8 (Nov 1975) and was soon given his own ongoing title (The Warlord #1, Jan/Feb 1976). In this book, Air Force pilot Travis Morgan crash-lands in the prehistoric "hidden world" of Skartaris (a setting highly influenced by Jules Verne's A Journey to the Center of the Earth and Edgar Rice Burroughs' Pellucidar). For years thereafter, Morgan engages in adventures dressed only in a winged helmet, wristbands, boots, and breechclout, and armed with a sword and (years before Dirty Harry handled one) a .44 Auto Mag. At DC, Grell also worked on titles such as Aquaman, Batman, and the Phantom Stranger, and with writer Dennis O'Neil on the re-launch of the Green Lantern/Green Arrow series in 1976. [edit] Tarzan Grell wrote and drew the Tarzan comic strip from July 19, 1981 to February 27, 1983 (except for one strip, February 13, 1983, by Thomas Yeates). These strips were rerun in newspapers in 2004 - 2005. [edit] First Comics: Jon Sable Freelance and Starslayer Cover to Jon Sable Freelance #7. Art by Mike Grell.Through the 1980s Grell developed creator-owned titles such Jon Sable Freelance and Starslayer. Jon Sable Freelance was published by the now-defunct First Comics. Starslayer, a space-born science fiction series, started at Pacific Comics, but shifted to First. The titular character of Jon Sable Freelance was a former Olympic athlete, later a African big-game hunter, who became a mercenary. First appearing with a cover date of June 1983, Jon Sable Freelance was a successful non-super-hero comic book in an era when successful non-super-hero comic books were almost unheard of, and a graphically violent comic sold in mainstream comic book stores in an era when such was as rare. Jon Sable was a precursor to what would eventually be called, by some, "the Dark Age of Comics," when even long-established super-heroes would become increasingly grim and violent. The character was heavily influenced by Ian Fleming's James Bond novels as well as drawing on pulp fiction crime stories. Also, many of the stories of Sable's hunting exploits in Africa were influenced by Peter Hathaway Capstick's novels. At a convention in the late 1980s, Grell stated that his idea for Sable was "something like a cross between James Bond and Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer." Sable was adapted into a short-lived television series and the character's origin tale, "A Storm Over Eden," from the comic book, was expanded and novelized by Grell under the title Sable, which was publ

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