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Army of Darkness (1992 Movie Adaptation)                                               Comics Lot
Featuring the film’s original ending that was cut from the theatrical release by Universal Pictures! Awesome!!
Also Featuring John Bolton’s Macabre Artwork from Cover to Cover!
Writers: Sam Raimi & Ivan Raimi
Adapted by: John Bolton
Artist: John Bolton
Letterer: John Bolton
Editor: Mike Richardson
All Covers by: John Bolton

Army of Darkness is a 1992 American dark fantasy comedy horror film directed and co-written by Sam Raimi and Ivan Raimi. Starring Campbell and Embeth Davidtz, it is the third installment in the Evil Dead franchise. Following Evil Dead and Evil Dead II, Army of Darkness picks up where Evil Dead II left off and follows Ash Williams (Campbell) as he is trapped in the Middle Ages and battles the undead in his quest to return to the present. At the end of the 1992 movie, back in the present, Ash recounts his story to a fellow employee at an S-Mart department store. As he talks to a woman who is interested in his story, a surviving Deadite, allowed to come to the present because Ash again forgot the last word, attacks the customers. Ash kills it using a Winchester rifle from the Sporting Goods department and exclaims “hail to the king, baby” before passionately kissing the woman. In the film’s original ending, Ash miscounts the amount of potion needed to be able to correctly return to his own time. As a result, he wakes up in a post-apocalyptic future where human civilization is destroyed, and he screams in dismay at having overslept. Universal Pictures objected to this climax, feeling that it was too negative in tone, and a more optimistic ending was filmed and ultimately incorporated into the theatrical cut.

The story begins when a man named Ash finds the Necronomicon at a remote cabin he had rented with his wife Linda. The book, a leftover from Evil Dead was an unspeakably evil artifact bound in human flesh and written in blood. When Ash began reading it, a demonic force was unleashed that stole his wife Linda. Then it got into Ash’s body through his hand. To stop it, he had to lop the hand off. Ash tried reading a different passage of the book which was meant to open a hole in time that would send the evil back. Unfortunately, it ended up sending Ash back into a dark age of sorcery in approximately 1130 A.D.

Story/Spoilers (featuring the full Army of Darkness 1992 Movie Synopsis for nostalgic remembrance)
After being transported to the Middle Ages, Ash Williams is captured by Lord Arthur’s men, who suspect him of being an agent for Duke Henry, with whom Arthur is at war. He is enslaved along with the captured Henry, his gun and chainsaw are confiscated, and he is taken to a castle. Ash is thrown in a pit where he kills a Deadite and regains his weapons from Arthur’s Wise Man. After demanding that Henry and his men be set free, as he knew it was a witch hunt, and killing a Deadite publicly, Ash is celebrated as a hero. He grows attracted to Sheila, the sister of one of Arthur’s fallen knights. According to the Wise Man, the only way that Ash can return to his time is through the magical Necronomicon Ex-Mortis. Ash then starts his search for the Necronomicon. As he enters a haunted forest, an unseen force pursues Ash into a windmill, and he crashes into a mirror. Small reflections of Ash in the mirror shards come to life, with one becoming a life-sized clone, after which Ash kills and buries it. When he arrives at the Necronomicon’s location, he finds three books instead of one and has to determine which is the actual book. Attempting to say the phrase that will allow him to remove the book safely – “Klaatu barada nikto” – he forgets and tries unsuccessfully to mumble and cough “nikto”. He then grabs it and rushes back, while the dead and his evil clone resurrect, uniting into the Army of Darkness. Upon his return, Ash demands to be returned to his own time. However, Sheila is abducted by a Flying Deadite and later transformed into one. Ash becomes determined to lead the humans against the Army, and the people reluctantly agree. Using knowledge from textbooks in his 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88 and enlisting the help of Duke Henry, Ash successfully leads the medieval soldiers to victory over the Deadites and Evil Ash, saves Sheila, and brings peace between Arthur and Henry. The Wise Man tells him how to return to the present by giving him a potion after reciting the phrase. The Wise Man tells him six drops of the potion shall return him to his own time. Ash wanders away musing to himself… taking the drops 1, 2, 3 ,4… As he settles, he really wonders if he should go back to his own time… back to his S-Mart job, and decides yeah, that he should, so takes the remaining drops needed to get back to his own time 4,5,6… Ash miscounts the amount of potion needed to be able to correctly return to his own time. As a result, he wakes up in a post-apocalyptic future where human civilization is destroyed, and he screams in dismay, “Dear God…They screwed me”!

Comics lot contains: Army of Darkness (1992 – 1993) Issues #1-3.  Dark Horse Comics

Comics are bagged & double boarded and will be carefully / securely packaged then shipped via USPS Priority Mail to ensure that it arrives to you perfectly and quickly.

All First Printings
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Publication Date: 1992 – 1993
Format per comic: FC, 32 pages, Comic, 10.25″ x 6.5″
UPC: None Stated

Collectible Entertainment note: Comics 1,2,3 in Very Fine + condition.  Beautiful Set!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious Army of Darkness, Evil Dead, Horror and/or John Bolton collector / enthusiast.  A fun & entertaining read.  Recommended.

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