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Follows the adventures of storybook and nursery rhyme characters who live side-by-side with humans.

What would the Gotham City of one hundred years ago have been like?. In an age of mystery and superstition, how would the people of Gotham react to a weird creature of the night, a bat-garbed vigilante feared by the guilty and the innocent alike?. Some would live in terror. Others would rest easier. Only one man would take no notice at all, a man with other matters to attend to. His name?. No one knows for sure. Most people know him only as Jack. Jack the Ripper. Batman, Gotham by gaslight collects the classic tale of the Victorian era Bat-Man's encounter with the Butcher of Whitechapel alongside its acclaimed sequel, Master of the future, in which the Dark Knight encounters a crazed prophet determined to prevent Gotham City from entering the twentieth century.

Presents the adventures of the Victorian-era Batman. At the tail end of an unforgiving century, Batman is pitted against both Jack the Ripper and a maniacal death-dealer from the blimp-filled skies.

As a former dancing girl poses as the dead oracle of a primitive cult, Conan of Cimmeria puts his experience as a thief and a soldier together to pursue some of the most prized jewels in the world--the Teeth of Gwahlur. Original.

Provides graphic interpretations of four works and introduces each piece with an educational text on the work and its author.

This collection of Russell’s classic adaptations concludes with Pelleas & Melisande by Maeterlinck and Debussy, Salome by Richard Strauss and the all new The Godfather’s Code from Cavalleria Rusticana by Mascagni.

The next volume in the prize-winning and greatly acclaimed series of complete adaptations of Wilde’s tales presents “The Devoted Friend” on what constitutes real friendship, and “The Nightingale and the Rose” a stirring story of sacrifice to love with a cruel twist