‘The Sailor On The Seas Of Fate’ (graphic adaptations)

The Sailor On The Seas Of Fate

Elric: The Sailor On The Seas Of Fate: seven-part graphic adaptation by Roy Thomas, Michael T. Gilbert & George Freeman; Evanston, IL: First Comics, 1985/’86 comics.

**No. 4, December 1985, $1·75, 36 pages.**

**OMNIBUS**
**Chicago: First Publishing outsized paperback, 1987 (August);**
original price: $14·95;
200 pages;
**includes Introduction** (non-fiction) **by Michael Moorcock;**
**Afterword** (non-fiction) by Bob Wayne;
I.S.B.N.: 0-915419-**24-6**;
cover artist: P. Craig Russell.

**No. 2, August 1985, $1·75, 36 pages.**

**No. 5, February 1986, $1·75, 36 pages.**

**Fullerton, CA: Graphitti outsized hardcover, 1987;**
original price: $35·95;
I.S.B.N.: 0-936211-05-9;
**“This is … in a limited edition of 1200** [numbered printings]**. Signed by the author and artists”.**

**No. 3, October 1985, $1·75, 36 pages.**

**London: Titan Comics hardcover, 2015** **(September 2nd**);
part of the **Michael Moorcock Library**;
original price: £22·99;
216 pages;
includes new Introduction (non-fiction) by Guy Lawley;
I.S.B.N.: 9781782762898;
cover artist: Gilbert & Freeman.

Graphic adaptation (of ‘Sailing To The Present’, the second section in The Sailor On The Seas Of Fate, together with other elements) by Julien Blondel & Jean-Luc Cano (scripts), Julien Telo, Robin Recht, Ronan Toulhoat & Jean Bastide; Grenoble: Glénat, 2017 outsized hardcover.

*Elric 3: Le Loup Blanc*, 2017 (September 20th);
written by Blondel & Cano, art by Telo, Recht & Toulhoat, colours by Bastide;
original price: unknown (“Code Prix GL54”?);
65 pages, including (quote): “16 pages of unpublished illustrations reserved for the first edition”;
also includes ‘Avant-Propos’ (Foreword; non-fiction) by Neil Gaiman;
I.S.B.N.: 978-2-7234-8706-1;
cover artists: Bastide & Recht.

**Exclusive dust-wrapper: “when purchasing the album *Elric Tome 3: Le Loup Blanc*, CANAL BD bookstores offer you this exclusive cover limited to 2,500 copies”;**
**cover artists: Telo & Recht.**

**Elric 4: ***Le Cité Qui Rêve***: Édition spéciale, 2018 (December 12th);**
**original price: unknown** (“Code Prix GL71”?);
56 pages;
includes ***Elric, Stormbringer Et Cymoril: Entre Amour, Manipulation Et Trahison*** (non-fiction) **by William Blanc;**
I.S.B.N.: 978-2-344-03224-4;
**cover artist: Telo**.

First English-language version (of Le Loup Blanc): Elric: The White Wolf (in two parts [with variant covers]); London: Titan Comics, 2018, translated by Edward Gauvin, £3·99.

**No. 1 (Cover A, by Tim Sale), 2018 (September 5th [**dated “October” on copyright page**]), 32 pages.**

**No. 1 (Cover B, by **Bastide & Recht**).**

**No. 2 (Cover A, by Gary Jamroz-Palma), 2018 (October 3rd [**dated “November” on copyright page**]), 32 pages.**

OMNIBUS: Titan: Elric: The White Wolf, 2018 (December 12th) outsized hardcover;
original price: £17·99;
64 pages;
I.S.B.N.: 9781785864025;
cover by Bastide & Recht.

Graphic adaptation (of ‘Sailing To The Past’, the third and final section in The Sailor On The Seas Of Fate, together with ‘The Dreaming City’) by Julien Blondel & Jean-Luc Cano (scripts), Julien Telo, Ronan Toulhoat & Stéphanie Paitreau; Grenoble: Glénat, 2021 outsized hardcover.

(‘Sailing To The Past’, in the novel The Sailor On The Seas Of Fate, was an absorption of the 1973 novella, The Jade Man’s Eyes, revised in order to bring it in line with the developing series.)

*Elric 4: Le Cité Qui Rêve*, 2021 (April 28th);
written by Blondel & Cano, art by Telo & Toulhoat, colours by Paitreau;
original price: unknown (“Code Prix GL55”?);
76 pages, including (quote): “16 pages of previously unpublished illustrations reserved for the first edition”;
also includes ‘Avant-Propos’ (Foreword; non-fiction) by Jean-Pierre Dionnet;
I.S.B.N.: 978-2-7234-8707-8;
cover artists: Jean Bastide.

**Elric 4: ***Le Cité Qui Rêve***: Édition spéciale, 2021 (December 15th);**
**original price: unknown** (“Code Prix GL71”?);
64 pages;
includes *Melniboné: L’Île Inversée* (non-fiction) **by William Blanc;**
I.S.B.N.: 978-2-344-04635-7;
**cover artist: Telo**.

First English-language version (of Le Cité Qui Rêve): Elric: The Dreaming City (in two parts [with variant covers]); London: Titan Comics, 2021, translated by Jessica Burton, £3·99.

**No. 1 (Cover A, by Mike Mignola), 2021 (August 18th [**dated “September” on copyright page**]), 28 pages.**

**No. 1 (Cover B, by Valentin Sécher).**

**No. 1 (FOC [‘Final Order Cuttoff’] Cover, by Telo).**

**No. 2 (Cover A, by Frank Brunner), 2021 (September 8th [**dated “October” on copyright page**]), 30 pages.**

OMNIBUS: Titan: Elric: The Dreaming City, 2022 (March 29th) outsized hardcover;
dated “December 2021” on copyright page;
original price: £17·99;
79 pages;
includes ‘Foreword’ (non-fiction) by Jean-Pierre Dionnet;
I.S.B.N. (Standard Edition): 9781785867712;
I.S.B.N. (Diamond Edition [whatever that’s supposed to mean!]*): 9781787738423;
cover by Sécher.

* Plus, as if there weren’t already enough versions of this…

Titan: Elric: The Dreaming City, the so-called “Diamond Edition” (available exclusively from a comic-book distributor of that name), 2022 (March 29th) outsized hardcover;
dated “December 2021” on copyright page;
original price: £17·99;
79 pages;
includes ‘Foreword’ (non-fiction) by Jean-Pierre Dionnet;
I.S.B.N.: 9781787738423;
cover by Mignola.