Skull & Bones (DC Comics)

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Skull & Bones
Publication information
Publisher DC Comics
ScheduleMonthly
Format Mini-series
Publication date 1992
No. of issues3
Creative team
Created by Ed Hannigan
Written by Ed Hannigan
Artist(s) Ed Hannigan
Inker(s) Ed Hannigan
Colorist(s) Alex Wald

Skull & Bones is a three-issue graphic novel mini-series by Ed Hannigan published in 1992 by DC Comics. [1] It is in prestige format.

Contents

Plot

Following the end of the Soviet Union occupation of Afghanistan, soldier Andrian Trofimovich Linov returns home with a plan to destabilise the government. However, faced with an impending genocide, he is forced to defend the very system he sought to tear down. With the assistance of his friends Elektrik Feliks and Nadejda Kosakhova, he must stop the release of a deadly bioweapon that will cause World War III.

Reception

A review in The Slings & Arrows Comic Guide stated, "Creator Ed Hannigan's art is admirably dark and his plotting dense and diligent, with not a page wasted. A true graphic novel." [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Plowright, Frank, ed. (1997). The Slings and Arrows Comic Guide. London: Arum Press. p. 506. ISBN   9781854104861.