Turf is a five-issue comic book

Comic book

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 limited series

Limited series

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, written by Jonathan Ross

Jonathan Ross

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, illustrated by Tommy Lee Edwards

Tommy Lee Edwards

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 and published by Image Comics

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Publication history

The story was originally published by Image Comics

Image Comics

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 and then serialised in CLiNT

CLiNT

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, before being collected.

Plot summary

The narrative is set in 1920s Prohibition

Prohibition

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-era New York and features period typical gangsters alongside vampires and aliens. Ross himself, describes the comic as:

Reception

The first 20,000 copies of issue 1 sold out on pre-orders alone. In interview, Ross has said that he intends the mini-series to run for five issues, eventually being released in a hardback collection and potentially a film adaptation, to be made by Matthew Vaughn

Matthew Vaughn

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Collected editions

The series was collected into a single volume

Trade paperback (comics)

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• Turf (180 pages, hardcover, Images Comics, August 2011, ISBN 1607064006, Titan Books
  Titan Books
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  , September 2011, ISBN 1848568959)