Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser by Howard Chaykin

With a cover price of $29.99, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Omnibus is due out from Dark Horse Books in comic shops on Wednesday, June 14th, 2023, and in bookstores on Tuesday, June 27th, 2023. The new omnibus edition marks the first time all of the previously-published stories featuring the characters have been collected in one volume. Their rollicking adventures in the fantastic land of Nehwon have influenced the work of some of the best in modern fantasy, including Michael Moorcock, Terry Pratchett and countless others. The newly combined Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Omnibus trade paperback will be available in comic shops on June 28, 2023, for a retail price of $29.99.Ĭheck out the classic Mignola cover below and stay tuned to Conskipper for all of your vintage comic and fantasy needs.This new omnibus edition collects Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser and Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser: the Cloud of Hate and Other Stories by comics legends Howard Chaykin, Mike Mignola, Dennis O’Neil, Walter Simonson, and Jim Starlin, and includes the Hugo and Nebula Award winning “Ill Met in Lankhmar” by Chaykin, Mignola, and Sherrilyn Van Valkenburgh. Join the hulking barbarian and the diminutive rogue as they battle swordsmen, necromancers, and flagons of strong drink!įor nearly fifty years Leiber penned stories starring the new omnibus’s title characters, which became the author’s best-known work. Dark Horse has previously released two paperback collections in 20 of comics stories featuring Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, which themselves collected tales originally published by DC Comics and Epic Comics in the ’70s and ’90s, respectively. Since their first appearance in 1939, Fritz Leibers Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser have ranked among the most beloved characters in fantasy. Some of the adapted stories include: “The Price of Pain-Ease”, “Thieves’ House”, “The Cloud of Hate”, and “The Sunken Land”.ĭark Horse Comics previously collected the original Marvel mini-series in 2007 and DC’s Sword of Sorcery issue in a separate edition in 2016. Along with his celebrated comics oeuvre, Howard Chaykin has a long list of TV writing credits, including episodes of The Flash, Viper, and Mutant X.

The new collection contains the original DC Comics appearances from the short-lived Sword of Sorcery comic book from 1973 (by Dennis O’Neil, Walter Simonson, Howard Chaykin, and Jim Starlin) and Marvel Comics (Epic Comics to be specific) Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser four issue mini-series from 1990 (by Howard Chaykin and Mike Mignola). Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser comic adaptations return to print in an over-sized omnibus from Dark Horse Books in June of 2023. In 1973, industry titan Denny O’Neil joined master artists Howard Chaykin and Walt Simonson to adapt stories starring Fritz Leiber’s timeless fantasy characters, the barbarian Fafhrd and the.

Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser by Howard Chaykin