*DC: When DC decided to spotlight their magical characters in a four issue Prestige Format mini-series, negotiations with the original writer, J.M. DeMatteis, happily fell through. We say ‘happily’ because then-newcomer Neil Gaiman got the gig, and created an everyman character, young Timothy Hunter, who over the course of four successive volumes, each drawn by an A List artist – John Bolton, Scott Hampton, Charles Vess and Paul Johnson) was mentored by, in succession, the Phantom Stranger, John Constantine, Doctor Occult and Mister E. Along the way, multiple other magic-based characters appeared, and the result was a dense and richly layered fantasy, as Tim decides whether to embrace or defy his destiny to be the world’s greatest magician. This is available as a complete set, in VF/NM condition.
PICTURED: BOOKS OF MAGIC #1 VF/NM; COMPLETE SET #1-4 AV. VF/NM £30 SOLD