The Stuff of Legend is a comic book

Comic book

A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...

 metaseries produced by Th3rd World Studios. The writers of The Stuff of Legend are Mike Raicht and Brian Smith. The illustrator is Charles Paul Wilson III.

Publication history

The series is released as 56-page comic books, with Volume 1 a two-issue mini-series

Limited series

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. A second volume of four issues, as well as a third, was announced in 2010.

Plot

The story takes place in 1944 Brooklyn. A band of toys go on a journey, into the Dark realm to rescue a young boy, who is their master, from an infamous monster.

Collected editions

The comics are being collected into trade paperbacks

Trade paperback (comics)

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• Book 1: The Dark (collects Volume 1: The Dark, Issues 1 and 2", 128 pages, Villard Books, April 2010, ISBN 0345521005)
• "Book 2: The Jungle" (collects "Volume 2: The Dark, Issues 1 through 4", 144 pages, Th3rd World Studios, April 2011

Awards

In 2010, Wilson was nominated for the Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award

Russ Manning Award

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for his work on The Stuff of Legend.