‘Michael Moorcock’s Multiverse’

Michael Moorcock’s Multiverse

New York: DC Comics outsized paperback, 1999 (November);
by Michael Moorcock, Walter Simonson, Mark Reeve & John Ridgway;
original price: $19·95;
287 pages;
I.S.B.N.: 1-56389-516-1;
cover artist: Simonson (also interior [along with Reeve & Ridgway]);
colourist: Tatjana Wood;
letterer: John Workman;
introduction by Captain Oswald Bastable (a.k.a. Moorcock).

Michael Moorcock’s Multiverse is an original graphic novel, although it might also be viewed as three novels combined, ultimately weaving its separate narrative strands (each illustrated by a different artist) into one cohesive whole. It was first serialised in twelve parts (1997/’98) — see below — before being published as a single-volume omnibus. The script of one of the three strands (Duke Elric, textual form) was later collected in the Duke Elric omnibus (2009), then in 2023 the whole graphic novel was republished in two volumes, slightly retitled as Moorcock’s Multiverse.

Serialisation preview, August 1997, 8 pages, comprising 5 of black-&-white extracts.

Serialisation by Michael Moorcock (scripts), Walter Simonson (‘Moonbeams And Roses’), Mark Reeve (‘The Metatemporal Detective’) & John Ridgway (‘Duke Elric’); $2·50; 36 pages (including letters pages, unconnected advertisements, etc.); covers by Simonson.

**No. 1, November 1997, including ‘Welcome To My Multiverse’ (non-fiction by Moorcock), comprising 12 pages** by **Simonson, 5 by Reeve** & **7 by Ridgway.**

**No. 4, February 1998, including ‘Multiverse’ (letters** [incl. by “Lapis”]**, ed. Rick Klaw), comprising 12 pages** by **Simonson, 6 by Reeve** & **6 by Ridgway.**

**No.** **7, May 1998, including ‘Multiverse’ (letters** [incl. by Guy Lawley]**, ed. Klaw), comprising 12 pages** by **Simonson, 6 by Reeve** & **5 by Ridgway.**

**No.** 10, August 1998, including ‘Multiverse’ (letters, ed. Klaw), comprising **6 pages by Ridgway, 5 by Reeve** & 11 by **Simonson.**

**No. 2, December 1997, comprising 13 pages** by **Simonson, 5 by Reeve** & **7 by Ridgway.**

**No.** **5, March 1998, including ‘Multiverse’ (letters, ed. Klaw), comprising 13 pages** by **Simonson, 6 by Reeve** & **6 by Ridgway.**

**No.** **8, June 1998, including ‘The Winds Of Limbo Roar: The Musical Career Of Michael Moorcock’ (non-fiction by Klaw[?]), comprising 12 pages** by **Simonson, 5 by Reeve** & **6 by Ridgway.**

**No.** 11, September 1998, including ‘Multiverse’ (letters, ed. Klaw) & **‘A Few Words From Michael Moorcock’ (non-fiction by Moorcock)**, comprising **8 pages by Ridgway, 2 by Reeve** & 13 by **Simonson.**

**No. 3, January 1998, comprising 12 pages** by **Simonson, 6 by Reeve** & **6 by Ridgway.**

**No.** **6, April 1998, including ‘Multiverse’ (letters, ed. Klaw) & **‘Michael Moorcock And The Comics Of The Multiverse’ (non-fiction by Klaw)**, comprising 10 pages** by **Simonson, 7 by Reeve** & **6 by Ridgway.**

**No.** **9, July 1998, including ‘Multiverse’ (letters** [incl. by Guy Lawley]**, ed. Klaw), comprising 13 pages** by **Simonson, 4 by Reeve** & **5 by Ridgway.**

**No.** **12, October 1998, comprising 23 pages** by **Simonson** & **1 (‘Epilog’) by Ridgway.**

OMNIBUS,
with contents resequenced
(i.e. not in strict comic-book order).