Jeremy Brood #1: “Relativity”

Nov. 1982. Fantagor. 8-1/2″x10-7/8″. 60 pages. Cover: glossy color. Guts: full color on white on pgs 13-59, B&W on pgs 3-12. Story: Jan Strnad, Art/Color: Richard Corben. [id,ober]Relativity was suppoused to be first part in a projected series of three full-color graphic albums (see ad in Heavy Metal #71 (1983)). Series was never completed as planned. In Fantagor [#5] Presents Brood (1983) Corben ended story quick; on Back Inner Cover he says, “I’m forced to plug the book because the stupid publisher printed way too many copies of it”.

“Jeremy Brood [#1]” [PICT].
Front Cover Art-Richard Corben. Color.
“Crude and Hardy” [PICT].
Back Cover Art-Richard Corben. Color.

Preproduction sketches by Richard Corben and Stan Dresser (pgs 3-7).

Says, “tbc” on pg 57. In the begining Corben tells about planning the story (pgs 5-9). It contains a lot of early drawings of comic.

Jeremy Brood, Part #1: “Relativity” [SYNOPSIS].
50 pgs: pgs 10-59. Reprinted as preview (pgs 5-11) in Epic #15 (1982) and full story (both parts) in Jeremy Brood [Album].
Comic begins with 4 pg (two spreads) space openings and ends into back inside cover as 2 pg (one spread) pict of Jeremy watching sky full of the Minions of Holobar heading to town. There is a title “Relativity” on pg 11 (the right page of the first space spread).

Story’s truncated end appeared in Fantagor [#5] Presents Brood: Jeremy Brood #2: The Big Shriek! (1983).

Jeremy Brood #1: “Relativity” [HB]

1983. Fantagor. Edition of 500. Signed. Hard Bound with Spilcase, with Part 2 as an inserted magazine. Cover: glossy color. Guts: glossy color on white. Story: Jan Strnad, Art/Color: Richard Corben. [Fantagor Presents Brood (1983)] [ober,ecm] [PICT].
Black Hard Bound covers binded on soft covers of the original soft cover print. Inside Title Page (that is Front Inner Cover of the original Soft Cover print) printed additional full pager pict (see bellow).

Black Hard Bound Covers have got only a tittle on them.

“Jeremy Brood [#1]” [PICT].
Title Page-Richard Corben. Color.

“Brynne Atop Altar” [PICT].
Inside Title Page-Richard Corben. Color. Full pager.

Preproduction sketches by Richard Corben and Stan Dresser (pgs 3-7).

Says, “tbc” on pg 57. In the begining Corben tells about planning the story (pgs 5-9). It contains a lot of early drawings of comic.

Story’s truncated end appeared in Fantagor [#5] Presents Brood: Jeremy Brood #2: The Big Shriek! (1983).

Jeremy Brood [TB]

1989. Fantagor. 8-3/10″x10-7/8″. 68 pages. Cover: glossy color. Guts: full color on white. Story: Jan Strnad, Art/Color: Richard Corben. [id]

“Jeremy Brood [TB]” [PICT].
Front Cover Art-Richard Corben. Color.

Story starts from pg 2 (i.e. inner front cover), though first spread, space opening, (from Jeremy Brood, Part One) they placed in the end of story (i.e. on last page and inner back cover) and left in the beginning only second space opening. The end of part one, spread pict of Jeremy watching sky, belongs to story and you can find it from the middle of two parts even in this version. They added on pg 3 the title of story “Jeremy Brood” and “Fantagor Press”.

Jeremy Brood #1: “Relativity” [SYNOPSIS].
48 pgs: pgs 2-49. r[Jeremy Brood #1: Relativity (1982)].
Comic begins with 4 pg (two spreads) space openings and ends into back inside cover as 2 pg (one spread) pict of Jeremy watching sky full of the Minions of Holobar heading to town. They erased the title of the first part, because title spread is now in the end of part two.

Jeremy Brood #2: “The Big Shriek!” [SYNOPSIS].
18 pgs: pgs 50-67. r[Fantagor [#5] Presents Brood: Jeremy Brood #2: The Big Shriek! (1983)].
From the beginning they erased the “itle” and title of part. In the end of story you can find the first space spread of part one.