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DEN
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/DenRichard Corben's best known signature work, in collected graphic novel form. It's best known as it was serialized in the earliest issues of HEAVY METAL.
Corben labored a long time on this series, he started it in two previous versions, in GRIM WIT issue 2 (1973), the first 15 pages.
And then again in ARIEL magazine issues 1 (Autumn 1976, 16p) and 2 (Sept 1977, 15 p) and then were partially re-drawn and re-lettered with some refinement when serialized in HEAVY METAL 1-13 (April 1977-April 1978).
The DEN II graphic novel was serialized in Sept 1981-March 1983 issues of HEAVY METAL.
There's also DEN 3, 4, and 5 graphic novels.
And the last, a DEN SAGA 1-4 series, in magazine size from 1992-1994, not collected, but essentially DEN 6. Corben's comics company, Fantagor Press, went out of business after that.
Also from Fantagor Press, a DEN comic book that ran 10 issues from 1988-1989.
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Den-1988/Issue-1?id=144528Issues 1-3 were later collected as the DEN 4:DREAMS graphic novel (1992).
Issues 4-7 were later collected as the DEN 5:ELEMENTS graphic novel (1992).
Issues 8-10 later collected as DEN 3:CHILDREN OF FIRE graphic novel (1991), that also collects material from the CHILDREN OF FIRE 1-3 (1988) comic series.
I enjoy it, but with amusement, I think of it as a semi-pornographic softcore version of an Edgar Rice Burroughs novel, such as Carson of Venus, or John Carter of Mars.
