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SABRE 20th Anniversary Edition
Created & Written by Don McGregor
Illustrated by the inimitable Paul Gulacy
SABRE was the first
graphic novel ever published for the direct sales market of comic-book
stores. Released August 1978 — a full two months before Will
Eisner’s A Contract with God
— SABRE proved a startling revelation in the comics
industry, and paved the way for all the heroic-fiction and superhero graphic
novels that followed
Don:
“That's what people claim. What do I know? I was just trying to write the
best damn book I could. I wanted to tell stories in this medium I love!
“But
there were people who told Publisher Dean Mullaney and I that we were
NUTS! BONKERS!
'ROUND THE BEND!
NOT HOOKED UP RIGHT!
“All of which we took as compliments.
“There
was one editor who saw the first illustration of SABRE, the one you'll
see when you click into the link for the 20th Anniversary signed and numbered
edition of SABRE, who said, shaking his head, ‘Don, who's going to
buy a book about a black guy with a lot of guns?’
“Well,
SABRE isn't just a book about a black guy with a lot of guns, but try
telling the head weasels that.
“SABRE
is in the tradition of Errol Flynn as Captain Blood, the bold adventurer who
can't turn his eyes away from injustice and cruelty. And at its emotional
center, in the midst of this fight to retain personal integrity and
individuality, SABRE is a passionate love story, about a man and woman:
Sabre and Melissa Siren. The world may be going to hell and back. Society's
values may all be askew. But Sabre and Melissa — they'll fight time,
distance and anyone who tries to keep them apart!”
SABRE is a book
populated with vivid characters beyond Sabre and Melissa Siren. You’ll
also meet
THE OVERSEER!
MISTY VISIONS!
WILLOUGHBY!
CLARENCE THE SKELETON!
And also, the inimitable BLACKSTAR BLOOD!
70s
SABRE STORY
IN
That's what the headline of
"In SABRE, Don McGregor
created a series that was like nothing else on the stands." -- Beau
Yarbrough (Comic Book Resources' Comic
Wire,
“[SABRE] is a strange combination of street-fighter rebel and romantic idealist:
James Dean with a cause in a Wonderland Nightmare... The story is pure,
unbridled McGregor...one of the few surviving believers in independent thought
and action." -- Howard Zimmerman (Rock Scene)
Available Items
Here's
the LINK
TO THE 20th ANNIVERSARY SABRE SIGNED AND NUMBERED EDITION OFFER.
And in there, you'll also see the image of
Sabre that became a poster:
"Don McGregor wrote two gay male lovers
into his fledgling comic series, SABRE, for Eclipse. SABRE was already a
controversial series in some camps, as it depicted an interracial relationship,
but the inclusion of two gay men who were happy with their gayness and loved
each other strongly, was greeted with much less furor than any had expected.
McGregor, who had been the first to show lesbians in comics, was also the first
to show physical affection (including kissing in issue #7) between two
men." – Andy Mangels, “Out Of The Closet, and Into The
Comics,” Amazing Heroes
“In one issue [SABRE #7), there was a very graphic scene of the birth of [Sabre
and Melissa’s] twins, and a love scene between two gay supporting
characters." -- Mike Sangiacomo, The
Plain Dealer
This 100-
Here’s a mock-up of the book’s
wraparound cover.
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