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03/26/09

Big Numbers #3

Filed under: Literature, ComicsKyle Email @ 08:57:52 am

The greatest tragedy of Alan Moore's comics career is that he never got to finish Big Numbers. Begun around the same time as From Hell and Lost Girls, Big Numbers was a collaboration with Bill Sienkiewicz that involved photo-realistic pencil drawings. Sienkiewicz had trouble keeping up with the intensive work load, and a second artist, Al Columbia, was brought on. He eventually quit as well, and his issues were never published.

So Big Numbers, what Alan Moore considered to be a potential magnum opus, never got past issue #2, which is a shame.

Today, though, glycon posted scans of the complete Big Numbers #3. You can read his whole story of how it got to him. The pages are photocopies of photocopies, so there is some loss in visual quality, but the illustrations and text are still very clear.

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