Moebius
#4 - Blueberry
(1989)
Graphitti Designs,
1989 Series
- Price
- 45.95 USD
- Pages
- 252
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Graphitti Designs Inc.
- ISBN
-
0-936211-20-2
Issue Notes
Limited to 1500 copies, each one is signed by Jean Giraud / Moebius.
May you live in interesting time...
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 2 pages
- Script
- Mike Dunphy
The Life and Times Of Lieutenant Blueberry
text article / 20 pages
- Script
- Jean-Michel Charlier; Jean-Marc Lofficier (translator); Randy Lofficier (translator)
Indexer Notes
Illustrated with photos from that period.
[no title indexed]
Blueberry / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Characters
- Blueberry
- Reprints
Once Upon a Time in the West ...
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Script
- Jean-Marc Lofficier; Randy Lofficier
- Pencils
- Jean Giraud
- Inks
- Jean Giraud
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Foreword illustrated with small cover art from Blueberry (Dargaud éditions, 1965 Series) #15.
Book 1: Chihuahua Pearl
Blueberry / comic story / 46 pages
- Script
- Jean-Michel Charlier; Jean-Marc Lofficier (translator); Randy Lofficier (translator)
- Pencils
- Jean Giraud (signed) [as GIR]
- Inks
- Jean Giraud (signed) [as GIR]
- Colors
- Jean Giraud (signed) [as GIR]
- Letters
- Phil Felix
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- U.S. Cavalry Lieutenant Mike S. Blueberry [Mike S. Donovan]; General McPherson; Red Wooley and Jimmy McClure; Finlay and Kimball; Vigo; Chihuahua Pearl; Gobernador Lopez; Mexican Federales; bandits; outlaws; soldiers; townspeople
- Synopsis
- Arizona-New Mexico, c. 1867. Lt. Mike "Blueberry" intercepts a fugitive with a letter for President Grant. He's soon "volunteered" for a spy mission deep into Mexico. Drafting Red and Jimmy, Blueberry endures beatings, torture, and betrayal to meet Chihuahua Pearl, a dance hall girl and a Federal agent! The prize is a half-million dollars in Confederate gold. Everyone wants it, especially unreconstructed Rebels who want the South to rise again. Blueberry learns the only man who knows where it's buried is locked up - in the toughest prison in Mexico...
- Reprints
-
from Epic Graphic Novel: Blueberry (Marvel, 1989 series) #1 - Chihuahua Pearl (1989) which is reprinted -
from Blueberry (Dargaud, 1965 series) #13 - Chihuahua Pearl (1973) which is reprinted - from Pilote (Dargaud, 1960 series) #566, #588, #574 (5 november 1970)
-
Book 2: The Half-A-Million Dollar Man
Blueberry / comic story / 46 pages
- Script
- Jean-Michel Charlier; Jean-Marc Lofficier (translator); Randy Lofficier (translator)
- Pencils
- Jean Giraud (signed) [as GIR]
- Inks
- Jean Giraud (signed) [as GIR]
- Colors
- Jean Giraud (signed) [as GIR]
- Letters
- Jim Novak
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Butch Reagan; CSA ex-Colonel Trevor, AKA Lindsay
- Synopsis
- Continuing... Red Wooley and Jimmy McClure search. Blueberry is ambushed by bandits and thrown in prison. He finds Trevor/Lindsay, who knows where the Confederate gold is buried. Chihuahua Pearl agrees to marry Gobernador Lopez. Red and Jimmy partner with Rebels. Blueberry and Trevor go over the wall, but are sold out. Until Red's crew rolls down a wagonful of dynamite and a herd of wild steers. Pearl dumps Lopez. Trevor leads everyone to a hidden "swallowhole" oasis, then rides off to dig up the gold...
- Reprints
- from Epic Graphic Novel: Blueberry (Marvel, 1989 series) #1 - Chihuahua Pearl (1989) which is reprinted
- from Blueberry (Dargaud, 1965 series) #14 - L'homme qui valait 500 000 $ (1973) which is reprinted
-
The Unmaking of a Hero
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Script
- Jean-Marc Lofficier; Randy Lofficier
- Pencils
- Jean Giraud
- Inks
- Jean Giraud
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Foreword illustrated with small cover art reprint from Blueberry (Dargaud éditions, 1965 series) #16.
Book Three: Ballad For a Coffin
Blueberry / comic story / 62 pages
- Script
- Jean-Michel Charlier; Jean-Marc Lofficier (translator); Randy Lofficier (translator)
- Pencils
- Jean Giraud (signed) [as GIR]
- Inks
- Jean Giraud (signed) [as GIR]
- Colors
- Evelyne Tran-Le
- Letters
- Kenny Lopez; Michael Heisler
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- U.S. Cavalry Lieutenant Mike S. Blueberry [Mike S. Donovan]; General McPherson; Red Wooley and Jimmy McClure; Finlay and Kimball; Vigo; Chihuahua Pearl; Gobernador Lopez; Mexican Federales; bandits; outlaws; soldiers; townspeople; Donnogan
- Synopsis
- Continuing... Blueberry's allies find an iron-bound coffin in a church. Stealing a wagon, breaking out with booby-trapped mules and a smokescreen, they race for the border. Switching to a stage and cutting a bridge, boarding a ferry across the Rio Grande, they cut the cable and drift through rapids. Gunning down more villains, they open the box to find - lead bars. The Federale Vigo explains Juarez "borrowed" the Confederate gold to finance his revolution. The gang drifts away. Blueberry stands court-martial for stealing the gold and is sentenced to 30 years in a Federal penitentiary...
- Reprints
- from Epic Graphic Novel: Blueberry (Marvel, 1989 series) #2 - Ballad for a Coffin (1989) which is reprinted
- from Blueberry (Dargaud, 1965 series) #15 - Ballade pour un cercueil (1974) which is reprinted
-
Afterward by Jean Giraud
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 2 pages
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Jean Giraud explains changes he made between the story was serialized in Pilote magazine and when it was published in book form.
Book Four: The Outlaw
Blueberry / comic story / 44 pages
- Script
- Jean-Michel Charlier; Jean-Marc Lofficier (translator); Randy Lofficier (translator)
- Pencils
- Jean Giraud (signed) [as GIR]
- Inks
- Jean Giraud (signed) [as GIR]
- Colors
- Jean Giraud (signed) [as GIR]
- Letters
- Jim Novak; Gaspar Saladino
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Warden Kelly; Big Nose (mentioned); Cartwright; Guffie Palmer; Blake; Marmaduke "Angel Face" O'Hare; President Ulysses S. Grant (mentioned)
- Synopsis
- Continuing... Dying by inches in Francisville Prison, Blueberry bluffs to reveal the Confederate gold. Warden Kelly sends him by train, but it's ambushed by Blake's bandits, who invite Blueberry to join. He moves on to Santa Fe and Guffie Palmer, a retired madame. Blake shows up with a mission: escort "Marmaduke" to Colorado, as "Angel Face" secretly practices sharpshooting with a take-down rifle. They reach Durango as President Grant visits - meet Warden Kelly! Blueberry will be tagged as the president's assassin, while "disgruntled gentlemen" seize the country's reins...
- Reprints
- from Epic Graphic Novel: Blueberry (Marvel, 1989 series) #2 - Ballad for a Coffin (1989) which is reprinted
-
Afterword by Jean-Michel Charlier
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 2 pages
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Afterword illustrated with small cover art reprint from Blueberry (Dargaud éditions, 1965 series) #2.
The Words of Chief Seattle
Chief Seattle / comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- Ted Perry [as Chief Seattle]
- Pencils
- Jean Giraud [as Moebius]
- Inks
- Jean Giraud [as Moebius]
- Colors
- Jean Giraud [as Moebius]
- Letters
- Typeset
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Synopsis
- Illustrated version of the famous ecological speech of "Chief Seattle".
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Chief Seattle was a historical figure, but his speech was fabricated by Ted Perry, a screenwriter, during the Ecology Movement of the 1970's.
Jean-Michel Charlier Skyknight & Myth Maker Extraordinaire
text article / 3 pages
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Text article illustrated with small cover art reprint from Blueberry (Dargaud éditions, 1965 series) #6.
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Blueberry -
1.
[no title indexed]
Blueberry -
2.
May you live in interesting time...
-
3.
The Life and Times Of Lieutenant Blueberry
-
4.
[no title indexed]
Blueberry -
5.
Once Upon a Time in the West ...
-
6.
Book 1: Chihuahua Pearl
Blueberry -
7.
Book 2: The Half-A-Million Dollar Man
Blueberry -
8.
[Tacoma graveyard]
Blueberry -
9.
The Unmaking of a Hero
-
10.
Book Three: Ballad For a Coffin
Blueberry -
11.
Afterward by Jean Giraud
-
12.
Book Four: The Outlaw
Blueberry -
13.
Afterword by Jean-Michel Charlier
-
14.
The Words of Chief Seattle
Chief Seattle -
15.
Jean-Michel Charlier Skyknight & Myth Maker Extraordinaire
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16.
[no title indexed]
Blueberry
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