British Update: Storm – Complete hardcover collection of Don Lawrence’s sci-fi spectacular
*Collected Editions: Following his departure from the famous ‘Trigan Empire’ strip in 1976, illustrator Don Lawrence looked for new worlds to conquer – and found them in Europe, where his work had long had a huge fanbase. Liaising with a Dutch publisher, he started the sprawling saga ‘Storm’, about an eponymous astronaut who, in the best tradition of John Carter and myriad other heroes, finds himself marooned in a strange fantasy world, and has to make his way through it with only the aid of a gorgeous redheaded warrior woman and a chunky red-skinned alien prince. The ‘Storm’ series continued for decades, but not in English (save for a single paperback volume in 1982 and two Titan albums in the late ’80s), leaving fans frustrated. But at the beginning of this century, a determined collective started issuing sumptuous large-format, full-colour hardcovers reprinting not only all 22 Don Lawrence ‘Storm’ adventures, (two to a book) in English, but also sketches, designs, and a huge amount of ‘behind-the-scenes’ material. Produced in extremely limited numbers, these volumes are now vanishingly scarce, and we are fortunate enough to have a series of all twelve (including a couple of duplicate numbers) in stock. For details on price, please see the Collected Editions series of our online catalogue.