Price: 14.95 USD; 19.95 CAD
Pages: 132
On-sale Date: 1990-04-12
Editing: Art Young (credited) (assistant editor)
This issue has 4 variants

Issue Data

Series Data

  • Color: color
  • Dimensions: standard Modern Age U. S.
  • Binding: trade paperback
  • Publishing Format: graphic novel
  • Publication Type: book

[no title indexed]

blank page(s) / 1 page

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover.

illustration / 1 page

Pencils:
Dave McKean (credited) (painting)
Inks:
Dave McKean (credited) (painting)
Colors:
Dave McKean (credited) (painting)

credits, title page / 1 page

Letters:
typeset

Arkham Asylum

credits, title page / 1 page


The Passion Play As It Is Played To-Day

illustration / 2 pages

Pencils:
Dave McKean (credited) (painting)
Inks:
Dave McKean (credited) (painting)
Colors:
Dave McKean (credited) (painting)
Letters:
typeset

Icaronycteris [Icon]

illustration / 2 pages

Pencils:
Dave McKean (credited) (painting)
Inks:
Dave McKean (credited) (painting)
Colors:
Dave McKean (credited) (painting)
Letters:
typeset

Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth

illustration / 2 pages

Pencils:
Dave McKean (credited) (painting)
Inks:
Dave McKean (credited) (painting)
Colors:
Dave McKean (credited) (painting)
Letters:

[no title indexed]

credits, title page / 2 pages

Pencils:
Dave McKean (credited) (painting)
Inks:
Dave McKean (credited) (painting)
Colors:
Dave McKean (credited) (painting)
Letters:
typeset

[no title indexed]

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 2 pages

Script:
Lewis Carroll (credited)
Pencils:
Dave McKean (credited) (painting)
Inks:
Dave McKean (credited) (painting)
Colors:
Dave McKean (credited) (painting)
Letters:
typeset

  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:But I don't want to go among mad people...
Reprints (1)

A Serious House on Serious Earth

Batman / comic story / 102 pages

Script:
Grant Morrison (credited)
Pencils:
Dave McKean (credited) (painting)
Inks:
Dave McKean (credited) (painting)
Colors:
Dave McKean (credited) (painting)
Letters:
Gaspar Saladino (credited)

  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
Mrs. Arkham (dies in flashback); Pearl; "Mad Dog" Martin Hawkins (dies in flashback); Constance Arkham (dies in flashback); Henriette Arkham (dies in flashback); Charlie; Ruth Adams (introduction); Carl Jung; Aleister Crowley; Thomas Wayne (dies in flashback); Martha Wayne (dies in flashback); Joe Chill (flashback); Clayface; Croc; Dr. Charles Cavendish
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

All art work is painted/shadow box collage.
The Dr. Arkham flashbacks are a retelling of the story told by Len Wein in the entry for Arkham Asylum in Who's Who in the DC Universe (DC, 1985 series) #1. Constance and Henriette are named in this story.

[no title indexed]

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 2 pages

Script:
Lewis Carroll (credited)
Pencils:
Dave McKean (credited) (painting)
Inks:
Dave McKean (credited) (painting)
Colors:
Dave McKean (credited) (painting)
Letters:
typeset

  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:And is not that a Mother's gentle hand that withdraws your curtains...
Reprints (1)

[no title indexed]

Batman / character profile / 6 pages

Script:
Grant Morrison (credited)
Pencils:
Dave McKean (credited) (painting)
Inks:
Dave McKean (credited) (painting)
Colors:
Dave McKean (credited) (painting)
Letters:
Gaspar Saladino (credited)

  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
Reprints (1)

[Biographies]

text article / 2 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Dave McKean (credited) (painting)
Inks:
Dave McKean (credited) (painting)
Colors:
Dave McKean (credited) (painting)
Letters:
typeset

[no title indexed]

blank page(s) / 1 page

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page

Script:
Grant Morrison (credited)
Dave McKean (credited)
Letters:
typeset

  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Thanks to Judy Cartwright, Jim Clements, Neil Jones, Neil Gaiman…
Reprints (1)

[no title indexed]

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page

[no title indexed]

blank page(s) / 1 page

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover.

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