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Richard Corben's Den-Fantastic Adventures #5

Fantagor

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Son of Mutant World #1-5 (of 5) (1990), with script by Jan Strnad and art by Richard Corben.

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▶️ Fantagor #1 (1970)

Source: Internet Archive

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Dark Horse Comics Celebrates The Legacy of Iconic Horror Artist Richard Corben with the Release of Hellboy Artists Collection: Richard Corben

Dark Horse Comics Celebrates The Legacy of Iconic Horror Artist Richard Corben with the Release of Hellboy Artists Collection: Richard Corben #hellboy #mikemignola #comics #comicbooks

Legendary artist Richard Corben created some of the most unforgettable and unnerving comics of all time, inspiring and horrifying generations of readers around the world. Corben’s comic career spanned five decades, with seminal stories in Heavy Metal, Creepy, and Eerie, as well as his legendary fantasy underground masterpieces, like Den and Murky World, which were first published by Fantagor…

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30 Days of Writing: 1/30

16. a game of confidence. (DC: batboys and girls, leverage/con artist!au, for @fantagore​ and day 4: AU of the batfamweek 2018)

Gotham belongs to one man. His name is B.

He mostly runs long cons and he mostly runs with the same crew. B stands for boss, it also stands for Bruce, and nobody gets a cut of this city without his say (he says no).

But word on the street is this: The B man is out of town and the kids are left all on their own.

Dick likes to play this game with all the newbies that join the crew.

He calls it: “Trust fall!”

And then he is hurtling himself at the newbie from a height of way too fucking high.

Duke catches him, only barely. Gets the two of them tangled in his line, Duke’s hand a death grip on Dick’s ankle and nothing else. It looks like some kind of miracle that they are both alive. It isn't. It is calculated risk banking on Dick’s ability to read Duke’s every last tell.

Upside down, Dick is grinning right at Duke.

“I knew you had it in you.” Dick says even if he doesn’t, not in any measurable quantity at least. But the trick to a good lie is that there is always a part of the truth in it.

Everything else that comes after can be a little blurry.

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Duke is just getting to know this, but here is the know for those in the know.

(Not for those that knows a guy that knows a girl from losing a game of three card monte on a bench in Robinson Park who says she knows B in some vague sense of the letter while she whistles a little rhyme about finding the queen.)

B runs a tight crew.

Dick came first, he is a grifter in any other name but he calls himself an actor. Jason came next, and Jason is a thief turned, well, better thief. Then it is Tim who takes right after B, a mastermind behind what has to be some very elaborate cons even without the years to his name.

Somewhere along the way, there is Barbara then Cass, and Barbara is a hacker as much as Cass is a hitter. In some short brisk words: They are good. In a few more words: They are damn near too good.

After that, it is Stephanie and Damian and now, Duke who has just passed some kind of audition to join B’s crew without the B.

(It's an R, they do not say.)

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It takes both Cass and Jason to untangle Duke from Dick from the line the two of them were suspended from and if Duke is not crazy about heights, he is not about to let that show now.

From the solid albeit rocky ground he is now standing on, Duke asks. “So, what’re we supposed to be? A bunch of modern day robin hoods?”

“We usually just call ourselves Robin for short.” Steph says, glancing up from where Tim and her are mapping their way further into this cave they are in, “but yeah, that’s the point.”

Hearing the echo that follows each step they tread while they head deeper within, Duke tries again. “So, what’re we really doing here?”

The cave looks dark, looks vast, looks like it could become something of a diamond mine if they dress it up a little.

Tim grins as he stops at the front of their little excursion, looking forward at a nice dead end. Turns back to them and answers.

“Would you believe me if I said we’re going spelunking?”

Mind you, they are not.

No matter how much Dick is looking like he is more than a little bit eager to throw himself off another deep end, safety net seemingly a non-existent concept to the man. Duke simply resigns himself to picking up one of the axe pick to start.

As they work, Jason grumbles the entire time why marks can't just be happy with being handed a fake diamond these days, oh no, it is a whole diamond mine or nothing. Barbara laughs from the comm in his ear while Steph just laughs in his face.

Cass isn't laughing but she might as well be.

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It isn’t an exact formula but a good con comes together all the same.

It always starts with a bad man, usually he is in a position of power and wealth. They each play a part. Sometimes it takes a week to hook the mark in, sometimes it takes a month. But the rule of the con stays the same: You can't con an honest man.

It is a good thing there is a whole lot of greed in this city alone to keep them all busy.

When the job is done, and the mine literally goes crumbling down around that very bad man (Dick calls it poetic justice, Jason tells him to read a book), B comes home and doesn’t ask them to get rid of their faux collapsed diamond mine.

And, Robin as a collective whole might even call the man proud.

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Richard Corben, Fantagor #2, 1972

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Back cover of Fantagor #2 (1972) by Richard Corben.

Reprinted in Schwermetall #69 (September 1985).

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Dark Horse announces new editions of Richard Corben’s visionary graphic novels, launching next year

Books by the celebrated Grand Prix at Angoulême recipient and Eisner Award Hall of Famer to be exclusively republished with new material, starting in 2023

Long out of print and overdue for rediscovery, the late Richard Corben‘s visionary graphic novels are getting new editions by US publisher Dark Horse from next year. Known for his legendary fantasy underground masterpieces published by Fantagor Press as well as in Heavy Metal, Richard Corben’s work returns to Dark Horse in an exclusive line that will reprint his long-out-of-print work with new…

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Children Of Fire #1

Fantagor Press

Cover by Richard Corbin

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The Drinkers Of Dust by Jan Strnad and Alex Nino (Richard Corben’s Den #9)

Fantagor

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DenSaga #1-4 (Fantagor Press, 1992-93) by Richard Corben.

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Richard Corben

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SDCC 2022: Dark Horse and Fantagor Press launch a series of deluxe graphic novels of Richard Corben's Library

SDCC 2022: Dark Horse and Fantagor Press launch a series of deluxe graphic novels of Richard Corben's Library #comics #comicbooks #sdcc #sdcc2022

Known for his legendary fantasy underground masterpieces published by Fantagor Press as well as in Heavy Metal, Richard Corben’s work returns to Dark Horse in an exclusive line that will reprint his long-out-of-print work with new material in deluxe hardcover editions, including introductions from other comics legends, and never before published graphic novels as well. The first book in the line…

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Original and final cover art by Richard Corben from Fantagor #4, published by Last Gasp, 1972.

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Happy birhday to Richard Corben, an artist who’s been a Heavy Metal contributor since day one. He wrote and illustrated “Den,” the first story in issue #1, and he’s still going strong! We’ve been serializing his “Murky World” in recent issues, and the forthcoming issue #295 contains the ninth installment. This image is cover art from “Son Of Mutant World” (1990) a comic series he did with Jan Strnad. Dimentia and Ollie, a girl and her bear. . #richardcorben #corben #den #murkyworld #heavymetalmagazine #sonofmutantworld #janstrnad #fantagor #fantagorpress https://www.instagram.com/p/B3F8Qx1FSUj/?igshid=1ilmoo0hrhb4f