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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
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 was the first Graphic Album ever published for the direct sales market, the book
that started a startling revelation in the comics industry!
NUTS! BONKERS!
All of which we took as compliments.
'ROUND THE BEND!
NOT HOOKED UP RIGHT!
SABRE is a book populated with vivid characters beyond Sabre and Melissa Siren, the first woman born from
a test tube fetus! In "Slow Fade of an Endangered Species," the first Sabre story, you have
THE OVERSEER!And also, the inimitable
MISTY VISIONS!
WILLOUGHBY!
CLARENCE THE SKELETON!
BLACKSTAR BLOOD!So popular, Eclipse Comics wanted him to have his own MINI-SERIES!
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"Don McGregor and Paul Gulacy were 20 years ahead of their time when they did the first comic graphic novel: SABRE. The edition has been repackaged and the magic is still there!" -- Michael Sangiacomo (Plain Dealer, Jan 23, 1999)
"In SABRE, Don McGregor created a series that was like nothing else on the stands." -- Beau Yarbrough (Comic Book Resources' Comic Wire, Dec 21, 1998)
"(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)
Here's the LINK TO THE 20th ANNIVERSARY SABRE SIGNED AND NUMBERED EDITION OFFER. There's only 300 COPIES in this EXCLUSIVE AUTOGRAPHED BOOKS by Writer/Creator Don McGregor!
And in there, you'll also see the image of Sabre that became a POSTER, and contained the words that shouted his jubilant defiance:
THEY CAN'T BEND HIM!
THEY CAN'T BREAK HIM!
HE'S THE ULTIMATE IDEALIST IN THE ULTIMATE CORRUPT SOCIETY!
SABRE - THE BOOK AND THE MAN!
THEY'RE STILL BOTH ONE OF A KIND!
AND...IN 1999...FOR THE FIRST TIME...THE COMPLETE, GROUND-BREAKING EPIC 2ND SABRE GRAPHIC NOVEL BY DON McGREGOR And BILLY GRAHAM!
"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.
And this 100 PLUS PAGE SABRE GRAPHIC NOVEL is coming to you complete, from SABRE #3 TO SABRE #9!
It'll also include a MEMORIAL TO BILLY GRAHAM, who worked with Don on Warren Horror stories, PANTHER'S RAGE, THE PANTHER VS. THE KU KLUX KLAN, and SABRE: AN EXPLOITATION OF EVERYTHING DEAR.
And just to whet your appetite, a mock-up of the wraparound cover that'll enclose the book.
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