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ZETARI – SPECIAL EDITION

A limited print run, 136-page, deluxe hardback; containing both stories produced about this sexy, brave, fantasy warrior.

• The Monastery of Dreams
• The Bright Face of Death

All the artwork has been restored and is looking sharper, cleaner, and more colourful than ever before. This has been painstakingly executed by Robert Hammond, who has previously run awards for doing large collections of strips in this deluxe format (Robin of Sherwood, The Tomorrow People, Stingrary, Terrahawks, etc), using the highest quality copies of both stories in print form.

Plus, both stories are making their debut in English for the VERY FIRST TIME in four decades since the initial publications of these two tales. The new English dialogue is taken from the original scripts for both of these stories, by Martin Lodewijk (who has kindly supplied this to us), which John M. Burns used to illustrate from.

This special edition will Include illustrations and sketches, some of which have never been seen before; direct from the late artist’s studio.

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John M. Burns (1938 – 29 December 2023) was an English comics artist, with a career stretching back to the late 1950s.

In the 1960s, Burns worked on TV Century 21 and its sister magazines, including Lady Penelope. For a while, he drew daily comics strips for national syndicated newspapers, including The Seekers, Jane, and – for a year-long period – Modesty Blaise.

Burns moved on to illustrate very popular TV tie-in strips for Look-In (an example of which, The Tomorrow People, has already been collected in two volumes as special hardbacks for Andrews UK Ltd). He also worked on the title story for Countdown, which used design elements from the Stanley Kubrick classic movie, 2001.

Burns was already well known by the start of the 1980s, but it was when he made the crossover to 2000 AD that his position in British comics was cemented; working on Judge Dredd, Nikolai Dante, and The Bendatti Vendetta.

He retired in 2023 and sadly passed away at the end of the same year.

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Martinus Spyridon Johannes Lodewijk (born 30 April 1939) is a Dutch comics writer and cartoonist, and advertising adviser.

For the weekly comics magazine Pep, he co-created – with Jan Kruis – the immensely popular Agent 327 comic in 1966, a feature he ended up writing and drawing for close to fifty years. He provided scripts for other strips too, such as Don Lawrence’s Storm and Zetari with John M. Burns. After Pep became Eppo, Lodewijk became Eppo’s chief editor.

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There has been extensive research to provide the history of Zetari, written by editor Colin Brown (moderator of the John M. Burns appreciation group on social media), which will be in our ‘Making Of’ feature; as well as uncensored panels (some of which were excised for original publication) – in all their gory and sexual glory!

Our Foreword has been supplied by the eminent artist and writer, David A Roach, of 200AD (and more) fame…

We have a small batch of these books left over from the sucessful Kickstarter for this book, and once they have gone they have gone. The feedback and praise for the quality of the book has been amazing!