The Rook

Description

The Rook is a time-traveling comic book hero created by Bill DuBay and Budd Lewis for Warren Magazines. First appearing in March 1977, The Rook was published in the pages of Eerie, Vampirella, & Warren Presents. In the 1980s, The Rook gained his own book, The Rook Magazine. In 2014 the original The Rook comics were introduced to a new generation in Eerie Archives 17, and then all-new material written by Steven Grant and illustrated by Paul Gulacy appeared in Dark Horse Presents and a Dark Horse comic book series in 2015. This book collects those all-new stories!

Steven Grant is an American comic-book writer best known for his 1985-1986 Marvel Comics mini-series, Punisher, with artist Mike Zeck and for his creator-owned character Whisper. Since 2005, Grant has written several works for IDW Publishing including original comics featuring the characters from the television show CSI. He wrote a one-shot featuring an updated version of his character Whisper and created a crime series, 2 Guns, about undercover cops, for Boom! Studios. At Avatar Press, he produced two creator-owned mini-series, Mortal Souls and My Flesh Is Cool, as well as adapting Frank Miller's original Robocop screenplays to comics which deviated considerably from the filmed versions. The author lives in Las Vegas, NV..

Praise for one of the comics that comprise The Rook: "Readers looking to be entertained by two legends of the medium should check this out...". --comicbookresources.com