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Brooklyn Dreams comic books issue 1

  • Issue #1-1ST
    Brooklyn Dreams HC (2025 Dark Horse) 2nd Edition 1-1ST


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    2nd Edition - 1st printing. Written by J.M. DeMatteis. Art and cover by Glenn Barr. The critically-acclaimed graphic novel is back in print! Vincent Carl Santini wants to tell you a story about his senior year in high school, but memory is a tricky thing. That one story becomes a hilarious and occasionally harrowing journey through all of Santini's childhood growing up in 1960s and 70s Brooklyn. J.M. DeMatteis and Glenn Barr's BROOKLYN DREAMS is a nostalgic visit to a very specific time and place, as well as a universal search for hope and meaning. Hardcover, 408 pages, B&W. Cover price $34.99.

  • Issue #1-1ST
    Brooklyn Dreams GN (1994 Paradox Press) 1-1ST

    Volume 1 - 1st printing.

    Written by J.M. DeMatteis. Art and cover by Glenn Barr.

    The launch of DC's Paradox Press imprint continues with the first of the Paradox Fiction books.

    The veil of memory both distorts and embellishes the past. Most of the time, the truth (whatever that is) gets lost in the shuffle.

    In BROOKLYN DREAMS, Brooklyn-born Vincent Carl Santini, hitting 36, sorts through the pivotal events of his life and relives the moments when his life was just a dream, when dreams were more important than life, and when life and dream merged and mingled into a cloud that memory could not separate.

    Written by J.M. DeMatteis, with art by Glenn Barr, BROOKLYN DREAMS is a very personal recollection. Santini's remembrances, both sad and funny, are mirrored by Barr in a variety of styles befitting the subject. Sometimes the images are outrageously distorted, sometimes photo-realistic, but they always have the ring of truth.

    DeMatteis's script is loose and flowing, skipping and dancing spontaneously from even to event in the conversational style that worked so well in earlier works such as the critically-acclaimed MOONSHADOW.

    Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 96 pages, B&W. Mature Readers

    Cover price $4.95.