Near Myths

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Near Myths
Near Myths 3 cover.jpg
Cover of Near Myths #3.
Publication information
Format Ongoing series
Publication dateSept. 1978–Apr. 1980
No. of issues5
Main character(s) Luther Arkwright
Gideon Stargrave
Creative team
Written by Grant Morrison, Bryan Talbot
Artist(s) Grant Morrison, Graham Manley, Bryan Talbot
Editor(s)Rob King (issues #1–4)
Bryan Talbot (issue #5)

Near Myths was a comic magazine published in Edinburgh during the late 1970s that only ran for five issues. The initial editor was Rob King and it was produced by Galaxy Media. Near Myths featured the first professionally published work of Grant Morrison, Graham Manley and Tony O'Donnell, and saw the start of Bryan Talbot's seminal graphic novel The Adventures of Luther Arkwright . Teenager Grant Morrison's contribution, Gideon Stargrave, later found his way into Morrison's Vertigo series The Invisibles .

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Publication history

O'Donnell credits Manley as inspiring the creation of Near Myths. [1] Founding editor Rob King also ran a science fiction bookshop in Edinburgh. Deeply in debt, he ending up leaving town, abandoning both the shop and Near Myths. His landlord later broke in and eventually pulped leftover copies of the magazine. [2] Bryan Talbot took over as editor for the magazine's final issue.

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  1. Ewing, Garen. Interview with Tony O'Donnell (July 1998). Originally intended for the British comics fanzine Vicious, run by Pete Ashton and Jez Higgins. Archived at GarenEwing.co.uk.
  2. Johnston, Rich. "ComICA – ‘Dark We Were And Golden Eyed’ Panel Report," Bleeding Cool (November 8, 2009).

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