When the crew of an ocean-going tug discover an abandoned Chinese radar ship adrift in the Pacific, it seems like their ticket to Easy Street. Maritime law says they can lay claim to the vessel and the millions of dollars worth of top-secret electronics on it. However, collecting on those millions is easier said than done. Full-color throughout. Graphic novel format.
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When the crew of an ocean-going tug discover an abandoned Chinese radar ship adrift in the Pacific, it seems like their ticket to Easy Street. Maritime law says they can lay claim to the vessel and the millions of dollars worth of top-secret electronics on it. However, collecting on those millions is easier said than done. Full-color throughout. Graphic novel format.
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Add this copy of Virus; #4 (of 4) to cart. $34.50, very good condition, Sold by Ground Zero Books, Ltd. rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Silver Spring, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1993 by Dark Horse Comics, Inc.
Edition:
Presumed First Edition, First printing of this issue
Publisher:
Dark Horse Comics, Inc
Published:
1993
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17149005263
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Howard Cobb (Penciled) and Jimmy Palmiotti (Inked) Very good. Unpaginated (32 pages plus covers). Profusely illustrated (with colorful imagery). Charles Patrick Pfarrer III (born April 13, 1957) is an American writer, film producer, and former United States Navy SEAL. As an author, he has penned published screenplays, novels, comic book, and nonfiction works. Regardless of medium, his work usually deal with themes pertaining to the military, and he has worked on blockbuster films like Navy SEALs, Darkman, and Hard Target. He is the author and creator of six graphic novels for Dark Horse Comics, and wrote and produced two interactive full motion videos, Flash Traffic and Silent Steel, both for Tsunami Media. Virus is a Dark Horse Comics comic book, written by Chuck Pfarrer, drawn by Canadian artist Howard Cobb and first published in 1992. The story is about an alien life form which takes over a Chinese Navy research vessel and reconfigures it-using both the damaged electronics and the dead bodies of the crew, it propagates itself by making various "creatures" created out of both organic and inorganic parts. When a salvage ship shows up they have to deal with the life form or be taken over as well. Pfarrer said in an interview that when he wrote the original story as a script in the early 1990s, the special effects for a film adaptation wouldn't have been possible, so he sold the script to Dark Horse as a comic. It was later filmed (in 1999) as Virus. This is the conclusion of the four issue story. Howard Cobb is a Canadian fine artist and comic book illustrator who provided interior art for the comic Virus and Predator: Blood on Two-Witch Mesa for Dark Horse Comics. Cobb received his arts education in Canada and Utah at Brigham Young University then worked for years as a successful fine artist and book illustrator in Canada--with a particular focus on water colors--with his works displayed internationally. Cobb then decided to shift his career to a new focus on comics in the 1990s. He successfully broke into the field for a time, first doing an issue of the comics adaptation of the popular TV-series Quantum Leap for Innovation Comics. He then got hired as a freelancer by Dark Horse to draw the four-issue miniseries Virus (later turned into a movie starring Jamie Lee Curtis), and then other projects including Blood on Two-Witch Mesa. He was also starting in at Marvel comics. As Cobb describes it, his comics career then suddenly vanished as editors abruptly stopped offering him work. He then returned to fine arts and now works primarily in oil paints, occasionally returning to watercolors as well. Sometimes he draws comic book characters in his sketchbook too. James Palmiotti (born August 14, 1961) is an American writer and inker of comic books, who also does writing for games, television and film. Palmiotti started at Marvel Comics in 1991, inking titles such as the Punisher, Ghost Rider, The Nam and the Marvel 2099 line, Palmiotti has accumulated extensive inking and writing credits and has often inked the work of his friend and collaborator Joe Quesada, notably on Ash (which they co-created, along with Painkiller Jane) and Daredevil (esp. the 'Guardian Devil' arc penned by Kevin Smith). He also worked for Dark Horse Comics, as the inker during the Doug Mahnke run on X. He inked Paul Gulacy on Shang-Chi: Master of Kung Fu, Punisher and Catwoman. He inked Steve Dillon on Punisher, as well as Brad Walker's pencil's on the DC Comics miniseries Secret Six-Six Degrees of Separation.
Add this copy of Virus to cart. $87.09, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1995 by Dark Horse Books.
