Present: THE BIBLE" might well be it. Originally gifted to me by a friend of my mother's, this DC Comics Treasury Edition book saw publication in 1975.
Rather than try to explain it myself, I offer you the introductory text and accompanying headshots from inside the book's front cover:
It says that the creators did a good deal of research for this book, but I can't help but imagine Mayer getting drunk on scotch and yelling about the bible to Kubert over the phone.
The book's first biblical tale is that of Adam and Eve. Being treasury-edition-sized made for literally thousands of acres of naked Eve.
...and our first ancestors eating suggestive fruit. Yes, suggestive of the power of knowledge:
This book also features the first appearance of DC's Cain and Abel, who were revived by Neil Gaiman for his Sandman series.
Included in "The Story of Abraham" is a super-hot lady statue:
We also get a lesson in biblical archaeology, and coverage of "The Tower of Babel" and the story of "Sodom and Gammorah" and crazy old Lot:
I feel lucky to have found this comic again in the midst of moving one summer, buried in the bottom of a box of random books. This is truly the Ten Commandments of comic books, featuring astounding craft that fits the format used:
Oh, whoops. That's more naked Eve.
3 comments:
great post thank, you are lucky nothing happened to that comic book being buried like that.
I am a huge Redondo fan, and I have been hunting con's high and low for this one. I could nab it on line, but it takes some of the fun out of collecting that way... hopefully it will surface sooner or later. Thanks for sharing some scans of it.
Mike, I honestly don't know anything about Redondo, but if he inks everywhere as finely as he inked Kubert here, I can see why you're a fan.
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