Cairo comic books issue 1

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1st printing. Written by G. Willow Wilson. Art and cover by M.K. Perker. Written by breakout talent G. Willow Wilson, a Cairo-based journalist, and drawn by renowned illustrator M.K. Perker, the original hardcover graphic novel CAIRO is action-adventure that brings the ancient and modern Middle East together with a Vertigo twist! A stolen hookah, a spiritual underworld, and a genie on the run change the lives of five strangers forever in this modern fable set on the streets of the Middle East's largest metropolis! This magical-realism thriller interweaves the fates of a drug runner, a down-on-his luck journalist, an American expatriate, a young activist, and an Israeli soldier as they race through bustling present-day Cairo to find an artifact of unimaginable power, one protected by a dignified jinn and sought by a wrathful gangster-magician. But the vastness of Africa's legendary City of Victory extends into a spiritual realm - the Undernile - and even darker powers lurk there. Softcover, 7-in. x 9-in., B&W. Cover price $17.99.

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1st printing. Written by G. Willow Wilson. Art and cover by M.K. Perker. Written by breakout talent G. Willow Wilson, a Cairo-based journalist, and drawn by renowned illustrator M.K. Perker, the original hardcover graphic novel CAIRO is action-adventure that brings the ancient and modern Middle East together with a Vertigo twist! A stolen hookah, a spiritual underworld, and a genie on the run change the lives of five strangers forever in this modern fable set on the streets of the Middle East's largest metropolis! This magical-realism thriller interweaves the fates of a drug runner, a down-on-his luck journalist, an American expatriate, a young activist, and an Israeli soldier as they race through bustling present-day Cairo to find an artifact of unimaginable power, one protected by a dignified jinn and sought by a wrathful gangster-magician. But the vastness of Africa's legendary City of Victory extends into a spiritual realm - the Undernile - and even darker powers lurk there. Hardcover, 7-in. x 9-in., B&W. Cover price $24.99.

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Cover by Bob Oksner. Stories and art by Jerry Albert, Sol Hess and Bob Oksner. One-shot featuring a female adventure hero, based on the short-lived good-girl comic strip. As World War II winds down, Cairo Jones joins forces with reporter Steve Racy to track down her fugitive war-criminal ex-husband, Saber von Tigron. The story features some nice good-girl and action-girl art by a pre-DC Bob Oksner. Plus backup comedy strips featuring Simp O'Dill and the Silly Dillys. Miss Cairo Jones; Simp O'Dill; Silly Dillys. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

1st printing.

Written by Magdy El and Chip Rossetti. Art and cover by Magdy El.

When Shihab runs afoul of a loan shark, all avenues of salvation in Mubarak's corrupt, oppressive Egypt are closed to him but one: robbing a bank. In striking their blow against their crumbling society, Shihab and his friend Mustafa happen on evidence of vice that points to the upper reaches of the regime. In art as alive and immediate as Cairo itself, Magdy El Shafee has delivered an arresting and prescient portrait of a crumbling society and Egypt's coming eruption.

Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 112 pages, B&W.

Cover price $20.00.