Scarlet Traces comic books issue 1

Volume 1 - 1st printing.

Written by Ian Edginton. Art and cover by D'Israeli.

Alien Nation!

The chance of anything coming from mars are a million to one, he said. But still they came. In the last years of the Nineteenth Century England fell to the martians. The population was devastated, but the martians were wiped out and Britain survived. A decade later, the British Empire has rebuilt and expanded its influence using the alien technology that brought it to its knees. Captain Robert Autumn and his manservant, Archie Currie, investigate the disappearance of Archie's niece and uncover the sinister conspiracy behind the empire's power.

Collects War of the Worlds and the sequel, Scarlet Traces.

Softcover, 144 pages, full color.

Cover price $19.99.

Add to cart Fine $2.65

Add to cart Fine $2.65

IAN EDGINTON (W) and D'ISRAELI (A). After almost four decades of conflict, the British invasion of Mars has ground to a bloody stalemate in the dust of the red planet. Launched to fanfares and cheers, the times and mood have changed, as the British Government under the iron hand of Prime Minister Spry struggles to wage a war another world away while keeping its grip on an increasingly troubled and turbulent empire. Riven with revolt and revolution, the glory that was Great Britain is unraveling at the seams with freedom and free-speech brutally sacrificed to maintain order. However, this is nothing compared to what is happening on Mars and the worst is yet to come! ? This fantastical new miniseries picks up where the critically acclaimed hardcover left off. Cover price $2.99.

1st printing.

Written by Ian Edginton. Art by D'Israeli.

A decade after the Martians abortive assault on the Earth and their attempt to establish an invasion bridgehead on the British Isles; the industrious Victorians have assimilated the Martian technologies into their everyday lives. Hansom cabs now scuttle along the Capital's streets on multi-limbed crab legs and the terrible monopoly of the Martian heat-ray has assured the dominance of the British Empire over two-thirds of the Earth's surface, and whose benign tyranny looks to continue to do so far into the next century.

However, there is something rotten at the heart of the Empire. When the bodies of several young women are found washed up on the Thames, drained of blood, enter Captain Robert Autumn (retired soldier turned gentleman adventurer) and his former Sergeant Major now manservant Archie Currie. Together they are drawn into the mystery which leads them from the gin palaces of the East End, and the grinding poverty of North, to Whitehall's corridors of power and the very Hall of the Martian King! A scientific adventure by Messrs Ian Edginton & D'Israeli, purveyors of fantastic fiction for young gentlefolk and the mentally deficient.

Hardcover, 88 pages, full color.

Cover price $14.95.

2nd and later printings.

Written by Ian Edginton. Art by D'Israeli.

A decade after the Martians abortive assault on the Earth and their attempt to establish an invasion bridgehead on the British Isles; the industrious Victorians have assimilated the Martian technologies into their everyday lives. Hansom cabs now scuttle along the Capital's streets on multi-limbed crab legs and the terrible monopoly of the Martian heat-ray has assured the dominance of the British Empire over two-thirds of the Earth's surface, and whose benign tyranny looks to continue to do so far into the next century.

However, there is something rotten at the heart of the Empire. When the bodies of several young women are found washed up on the Thames, drained of blood, enter Captain Robert Autumn (retired soldier turned gentleman adventurer) and his former Sergeant Major now manservant Archie Currie. Together they are drawn into the mystery which leads them from the gin palaces of the East End, and the grinding poverty of North, to Whitehall's corridors of power and the very Hall of the Martian King! A scientific adventure by Messrs Ian Edginton & D'Israeli, purveyors of fantastic fiction for young gentlefolk and the mentally deficient.

Hardcover, 88 pages, full color.

Cover price $14.95.

1st printing. Collects Scarlet Traces: The Great Game (2006) #1-4. By Ian Edington and D'Israeli. From Dark Horse Comics. The front line of the War of the Worlds has been taken to the red planet itself! After almost four decades of conflict, the British invasion of Mars has ground into a bloody stalemate. The nation is cracking at the seams, and liberties are being revoked as Prime Minister Spry struggles to maintain order at home while waging war another world away. What does Spry have up his nasty little sleeve? Robert Autumn, aged gentleman adventurer and hero of Scarlet Traces, is determined to find out! He approaches the gifted photojournalist Charlotte Hemming with an offer she can't refuse - a covert mission that will send her straight to Mars, and into the heart of the beast! As the last great battle in the War of the Worlds rages around her, and the Martians close in, she stumbles across a secret history of the planet...and an even greater revelation that could spell the extinction of all human life on Earth. Hardcover, 106 pages, full color. Cover price $14.95.