Glory (Avatar)

    (Avatar, 2001-2002)

The best way to typify Avatar Comics is that at any moment an evil sorceress can appear wearing a pink French maid’s outfit — and it’s not supposed to be funny. Garish covers explode with outrageous imagery (a recent one featured alien fetuses riding miniature dinosaurs) and girls falling out of their underwear, while the contents read like a failing junior-high-school literature composition. They’re like the Golden Age all over again — in the worst way possible.

Publishing Alan Moore’s Glory will go a long way toward changing Avatar’s image. There’s a big surprise in this issue, and it’s not the script by Moore, which, after sitting in a drawer for years, still crackles with his unexpected, obvious-after-the-fact ideas (like a genuinely schizophrenic secret identity for a super-hero). And it’s not the Golden Age Glory story by Melinda Gebbie, which nicely replicates the primitive charm of ’40s comics. No, it’s the art by Marat Mychaels: It’s much, much better than any of his previous work.

— S.A. Bennett
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  • 0/D
    #0 Variation D
    Glory holding cape on Cover D
    Dec 2001
    Cover: $3.50
    W: Alan Moore, Robert Lugibihl  ·  A: Brandon Peterson, Ron Adrian, Joseph Michael Linsner, Sean Shaw, Marat Mychaels, Matt Haley, Karl Waller, Matt Martin
    1 copy for $0.99
  • 0/E
    #0 Variation E
    Glory holding cape on Cover E
    Dec 2001
    Cover: $3.50
    W: Alan Moore, Robert Lugibihl  ·  A: Brandon Peterson, Ron Adrian, Joseph Michael Linsner, Sean Shaw, Marat Mychaels, Matt Haley, Karl Waller, Matt Martin
    Platinum foil stamped title; Prelude to Alan Moore’s Glory
    1 copy for $2.25
  • 1
    #1
    Wrap Cover by Marat Mychaels
    Dec 2001
    Cover: $3.50
    W: Alan Moore  ·  A: Marat Mychaels
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  • 1/A
    #1 Variation A
    Cover A by Marat Mychaels
    Dec 2001
    Cover: $3.50
    W: Alan Moore  ·  A: Marat Mychaels
    Glory with sword and outstretched hand; Large figure in background
    1 copy for $0.99
  • 1/D
    #1 Variation D
    Cover D by Joseph Michael Linsner
    Dec 2001
    Cover: $3.50
    W: Alan Moore  ·  A: Marat Mychaels
    2 copies from $2.00