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The Shadow of the Torturer (Gene Wolfe’s…)

    (Innovation, 1991-1992)
™ and ©1980 Gene Wolfe. Adaptation/art ©1991 Innovative Corp.

This six issue mini-series from Innovation adapts Gene Wolfe’s dark 1980 novel by the same name. It’s set sometime in the future, when man has entered into a new dark ages, far worse than the first ones. The world of that age had become a necropolis—a city of the dead.

The story follows Severian, a young man who was grown from early childhood to become a torturer. In this necropolis, torturing had become a guild profession, and was studied as avidly as a priest studies religion. Severian was no different in his devotion to this profession—until he met a strange man named Vodallus who gave him a coin—and began his transformation into a new man.
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  • 1
    #1
    Jul 1991
    Cover: $2.50
    W: Scott Rockwell  ·  A: Ted Naifeh
    Movie adaptation; Novel adaptation
    3 copies from $8.50
  • 2
    #2
    Sep 1991
    Cover: $2.50
    W: Gene Wolfe  ·  A: Ted Naifeh
    Movie adaptation; Novel adaptation
    No copies available
  • 3
    #3
    Nov 1991
    Cover: $2.50
    W: Gene Wolfe, Scott Rockwell  ·  A: Ted Naifeh
    Movie adaptation; Novel adaptation
    No copies available
  • 4
    #4
    Cover: $2.50
    ca. 1992
    No copies available
  • 5
    #5
    Cover: $2.50
    ca. 1992
    No copies available
  • 6
    #6
    Cover: $2.50
    ca. 1992
    No copies available