The Jewel In The Skull/Hawkmoon: The Jewel In The Skull
London/Manchester: Big O/Savoy, 1979 (April) outsized paperback;
original price: £2·95;
79 pages (80pp. in 1978 edition [see below]);
includes ‘James Cawthorn: Interviewed By David Britton’ (pp. 74–79 [pp. 75–80]);
I.S.B.N.: 0-86130-006-8;
cover artist: James Cawthorn;
illustrated by Cawthorn.
OMNIBUS: London: Titan Comics hardcover (as The Chronicles Of Hawkmoon: The History Of The Runestaff – Volume One: The Jewel In The Skull & The Crystal And The Amulet), 2019 (January 9th);
part of the Michael Moorcock Library;
original price: £35·99;
192 pages;
includes ‘James Cawthorn: An Introduction By Burne Hogarth’ (pp. 5–13);
also includes ‘James Cawthorn: Interviewed By David Britton’ (pp. 184–189);
I.S.B.N.: 9781785864223;
cover artist: James Cawthorn;
illustrated by Cawthorn.
Cawthorn’s graphic adaptation of The Jewel in the Skull first appeared in 1978 (October 26th). It disappeared shortly thereafter, when it was discovered that the printers had misbound all copies, resulting in double-spreads on opposite sides of the same page instead of on facing pages. All were supposed to have been pulped, but it is suspected that this did not happen (at least not entirely) as misbound versions still surface on occasion to this day. A correctly bound edition came out finally in 1979 — see above — and is dated for that year, allowing it to be distinguished from its wayward predecessor…
Also…
Hawkmoon: The Jewel In The Skull, four-part graphic adaptation by Gerry Conway (script), Rafael Kayanan (pencils) and Alfredo Alcala & Rico Rival (inks); Chicago: First Comics, 1986 comics
(Followed by The Mad God’s Amulet)
OMNIBUS
as Hawkmoon: The Jewel In The Skull
(Hawkmoon: Jewel In The Skull on front cover)
Chicago: First Publishing trade-sized paperback, 1988 (April 15th);
original price: $9·95;
118 pages;
I.S.B.N.: 0-915419-32-7;
cover artists: Rafael Kayanan & Rico Rival.
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