I've been on a Richard Corben kick lately, and Corben's work offers a wide selection of other-genre material, including adaptations of Robert E. Howard, H.P. Lovecraft, Harlan Ellison, Edgar Allen Poe, and others.

DEN is Corben's creator-owned version of Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Corben started out doing underground comics from 1970 to 1973, mostly anthologies, such as ANOMALY, FANTAGOR, GRIM WIT, SLOW DEATH, UP FROM THE DEEP, FEVER DREAMS, SKULL COMICS, and others. Mostly horror and sci-fi in the E.C. tradition.
These were almost all collected in three 8" X 11" trades, about 100 pages each, titled RICHARD CORBEN: COMPLETE UNDERGROUND WORKS, volumes 1, 2, and 3 (although it isn't quite complete)

I recommend not buying these early issues unless you can get them cheap, because many of them are reprinted repeatedly as backups in Corben's 1980's/1990's self-published Fantagor Press comics, in color and on better paper. And many are also collected in one or more of Corben's 8" X 11" graphic novels.

Here's a list of Corben's 8" X 11" graphic novels (alphabetically). All are on glossy paper and full color, unless otherwise noted :

  • BLOODSTAR (Robert E. Howard adaptation, 1979, b & w, glossy paper)
    BODYSSEY (1985)
    JEREMY BROOD (1982)
    CORBEN's ART BOOK, vol 1 & vol 2 (1990, 1994)
    CORBEN: COMPLETE WORKS vol 1, 2, 3 (1985-1987, B & W, not on glossy paper)
    DEN 1 (r from serial in HEAVY METAL, 1977-1978)
    DEN 2 (r from serial in HEAVY METAL, 1982-1983)
    DEN 3 (r from Fantagor's CHILDREN OF FIRE 1-3, 1986)
    DEN 4 (r from Fantagor's DEN comic book series 1-5, 1986-1987)
    DEN 5 (r from DEN comics series 6-10, 1988-1989)
    DEN SAGA 1-4 (glossy color magazine, 1993-1994)
    FROM THE PIT # 1 (glossy color magazine, 1994)
    MUTANT WORLD (1983, r from serial in 1984 and 1994 Warren magazines)
    NEW TALES OF THE ARABIAN NIGHTS (1979, r from HEAVY METAL serial)
    EDGAR ALLEN POE (1985, r from Warren magazines, and the CORBEN SPECIAL published by Pacific in 1983)
    RIP IN TIME (1988, b & w, r of the 5-issue 1986-1987 series)
    VIC AND BLOOD (1989, adapts "A Boy and his Dog" by Harlan Ellison)
    WEREWOLF (1984, collects werewolf stories by Corben from underground anthology comics, and from Warren magazines, most nicely colored for the first time)


Corben did stories in CREEPY, EERIE, VAMPIRELLA, 1984 magazine(issues 1-10)/1994 (issues 11-27) and other Warren magazines from 1973-1983, and the stuff collected in graphic novels above, and for HEAVY METAL from 1977-1986.

From 1986-1994, Corben produced a nicely formatted set of comics in his self-published Fantagor Press, most of them reprinted in the graphic novels above, including RIP IN TIME, DEN, CHILDREN OF FIRE, HORROR IN THE DARK, SON OF MUTANT WORLD, FROM THE PIT, and DEN SAGA.

Since then, Corben's been doing a lot of mainstream work for Marvel and DC, including:

HELLBLAZER:HARD TIME,
HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND (a 1930's horror pulp adaptation),
Azzarello's BANNER 1-4,
Azzarello's CAGE 1-5,
Ennis' PUNISHER: THE END,
SOLO (a Richard Corben anthology one-shot from DC),
BIGFOOT 1-4,
and
SWAMP THING 7, 8, and 20.

Corben's most recent work has been HELLBOY:MAKOMA 1 and 2 (in collaboration with Mignola).

And on the stands now, EDGAR ALLEN POE's HAUNT OF HORROR 1-3 (which are new stories inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, with aa bit of EC-horror-brand shock, in black and white. I initially thought they were reprinting earlier Corben Poe adaaptations, they're not.)


And here's a very helpful and specific online checklist of Corben's work, that indexes the many reprinted stories, both where they are reprinted from, and all the places each original story is reprinted.