Grendel Tales: Devil’s Hammer

    (Dark Horse, 1994)
™ and ©1994 Matt Wagner

The Grendel Tales titles offered writers other than Grendel creator Matt Wagner a chance to work with the Grendel characters and mythology.

Devil’s Hammer finds the Grendel mythos in the hands of writer Rob Walton. In the course of its three issues, Walton spins a bleak morality play wherein a young acolyte named Petrus is physically possessed by the spirit of Grendel. In performing the exorcism, the abbot himself must come to admit the crimes he has committed in the name of preserving the church.

Reading between the lines of this allegory, Devil’s Hammer is a surprisingly sharp attack on the Catholic Church which was accused of shepherding Nazi killers to safety in the name of combating “the godless Communists” during and after World War II.
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#1 (Matt Wagner and Rob Walton painted cover by Matt Wagner and Rob Walton)

February, 1994
Cover Price: $2.95
13 copies available from $1.13 		Matt Wagner, Rob WaltonRob Walton
#2 (Matt Wanger and Rob Walton painted cover by Matt Wagner)

March, 1994
Cover Price: $2.95
11 copies available from $1.40 		Rob Walton, Matt WagnerRob Walton, Matt Wagner
#3 (Matt Wagner painted cover by Matt Wagner)

April, 1994
Cover Price: $2.95
8 copies available from $1.13 		Rob Walton, Matt WagnerRob Walton, Matt Wagner