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The Big Book of Kolchak: The Night Stalker                      Trade Paperback
Featuring seven complete Kolchak stories: “The Night Stalker”, “Get of Belial”, “Fever Pitch”, “Mask of Moment”, “Devil in the Details”, “Pain Most Human”, and “Pain without Tears”… all presented in Glorious Black & White. Awesome!!
Cover by: Cortney Skinner

Kolchak: The Night Stalker is an American television series that aired on ABC during the 1974 – 1975 season. Kolchak: The Night Stalker was created by Jeff Rice. It featured a fictional Chicago newspaper reporter – Carl Kolchak, played by Darren McGavin – who investigated mysterious crimes with unlikely causes, particularly those that law enforcement authorities would not follow up. These often involved the supernatural or science fiction, including fantastic creatures. The series was preceded by two television movies, The Night Stalker (1972) and The Night Strangler (1973). Although the series lasted only a single season, it garnered a world-wide fan following and is considered a cult classic in horror television. Subsequent novels and comic books later followed. And it later influenced the creation of the X-Files, which is in the same vein as Kolchak: The Night Stalker.

In 2002, Moonstone began publishing Prestige Format one-shots that pick up where the television show left off in 1975. Moonstone continues the creepy horror anthology that is: “Kolchak: The Night Stalker” in various comic book related projects. Cue the “Kolchak: The Night Stalker” intro theme music and be prepared to get totally spooked out… with seven complete Kolchak stories: “The Night Stalker”, “Get of Belial”, “Fever Pitch”, “Mask of Moment”, “Devil in the Details”, “Pain Most Human”, and “Pain without Tears”… wow, what a line up! It’s Carl Kolchak, The Night Stalker at his Best… all presented in Glorious Black & White! Awesome!!

The Big Book of Kolchak: The Night Stalker (Moonstone 2012) Trade Paperback reprints/collects:

Kolchak: The Night Stalker (2002)
Writer: Jeff Rice
Artist: Gordon Purcell
Inker: Terry Pallot
Colorists: Ken Wolak & Dawn Groszewski
Letterer: Chuck Maly
Editors: Mark Dawidziak & Joe Gentile

TV’s first paranormal investigator, reporter Carl Kolchak, is drawn into a series of unusual murders in Las Vegas, where all the victims suffer from “severe blood loss”. What is really prowling the streets of this gambling mecca? It’s Kolchak versus the rest of the world, as he fights for the truth, while battling corruption, ignorance, terror, and ultimately, himself.

Newspaper reporter Carl Kolchak recounts the events of the greatest manhunt in the history of Las Vegas: several women have been found dead, their bodies drained of blood, and two small puncture wounds are found on their necks. Using eyewitness accounts the police track down and corner the killer, only to learn that he possesses great physical strength, and is immune to bullets. Kolchak investigates but soon comes up against a cover-up by both the police and the city government; despite warnings he continues to look into the story, and becomes convinced that the murderer is a vampire. He tracks the undead creature to its lair and manages to kill it by driving a wooden stake through its heart. However, the authorities then use the threat of a murder charge to blackmail Kolchak into killing the story.

Kolchak: The Night Stalker – Get of Belial (2002)
Screenplay by: Donn Mullally
Writer: Joe Gentile
Artist: Art Nichols
Colorist: Jeremy Roberts
Letterer: Gary Bishop
Editor: Mark Dawidziak

And Now, Moonstone Presents, “Kolchak: Night Stalker – Get of Belial” Based on the old 70s show of the same name, this comic is an adaptation of a screenplay by Donn Mullally. When grizzled reporter Carl Kolchak gets assigned to the story of striking West Virginia coalminers, you can be sure that he’s going to find more than he bargained for… when a series of slasher killings look an awful lot like the work of a werewolf. But Kolchak will not stop at nothing to get the story. Kolchak heads down to Winship County, West Virginia to get the lowdown on a heated miner’s strike. When the mine’s bossman is violently torn to shreds the obvious answer is one of the hard-hats just couldn’t take it anymore. The M.E. rules a pickaxe did him in. A miner’s tool. And when a striker gets it in the exact same manner? Must be retribution. Sure,… Carl Kolchak knows better, and what he suspects scaries him to go out when the Moon is full. It’s Carl Kolchak versus a Werewolf!

Kolchak is investigating a miners’ strike in Winship County, West Virginia when he learns of a series of horrific deaths; he learns that the bodies of the victims appear to have been mutilated either by angry miners using picks, or by savage, wild animals. Kolchak investigates and discovers a connection to the Blackshear family; Sarah Blackshear is a faith healer, but there is a lethal price for her miraculous ability to cure…

Kolchak: The Night Stalker – Fever Pitch (2002)
Writer: Stuart M. Kaminsky
Artist: Christopher Jones
Inker: Mark Schultz
Colorist: Andre Maitland
Letterer: Gary Bishop
Editor: Mark Dawidziak

Moonstone’s first all-original Kolchak story! Guts-Mayhem-Kolchak! For three nights straight, some poor innocent spontaneously combusts in front of a horrified witness. Like chain links, the previous night’s witness is the following evening’s victim. But who’s behind these deaths? The Wolfman? An Anaconda? A Giant Spider? According to police reports, these three monsters were spotted at the scene. Kolchak, hot with the flu, makes a little report of his own that adds up to some lifesaving advice-Never Turn Your Back On Fear! Kolchak investigates a series of spontaneous combustions – with a twist, of course! Each time, an innocent victim explodes in front of a stunned witness, and the next night, the witness is the next victim. It’s a horrifying chain of events that leads the flu-ridden Kolchak into an fear-fraught situation that may mean the end of his career as a reporter.

A flu-ridden Kolchak investigates a series of gruesome deaths, and discovers that each person that witnessed a death soon became the killer’s next victim. Even more disturbing is that each witness reported seeing each victim’s body literally explode from within, unleashing a different, horrifying monster. Unable to track down the killer, Kolchak encounters Doctor Kinatu, who reveals the terrible truth behind the horrific murders – but to stop the killer, Kolchak must face his fears…

Kolchak: Mask of Moment (2004)
Writer: Stefan Petrucha
Artists: Andy Bennett & Dave Atkins
Colorist: Wally Lowe
Letterer: Terri Boyle

10 page story original presented in Kolchak: The Night Stalker – Volume 1 (2004) Moonstone, finds Carl Kolchak getting his own exclusive “interview with a vampire,” when he meets with Avad Gyorok, a self-confessed vampire and a suspect in the disappearances of beautiful young woman. Is it deja vu all over for Carl with another serial vampire killer, or does Gyorok’s have a darker secret in his quest for notoriety… it’s Natural Born Killers with Vampires. Carl Kolchak in a graveyard being relentlessly pursued by a vampire. Momentarily escaping into an old coal room, Kolchak discovers to bound women… of which one on them is already dead. With the vampire not far behind… starting to break in, Kolchak determines to do something about it… if only he can get his scared self together. It’s Kolchak versus the vampire (again) with more than his life at stake!

Kolchak: The Night Stalker – Devil in the Details (2003)
Writer: Stefan Petrucha
Artist: Trevor Von Eeden
Colorists: Ken Wolak & Dawn Groszewski
Letterer: Vince Sneed
Editors: Mark Dawidziak, Joe Gentile, & Garrett Anderson

On the surface, this one looks like an open and shut case of embezzlement, as Chester Fredesen takes off with his company’s loot while his brother (and business partner) Barry lies dying in a hospital bed. Soon, other members of the family begin to vanish, and Barry’s disease goes into an impossible state of remission, as Kolchak tumbles headlong into a hi-tech horror story. Kolchak: The Night Stalker – Devil in the Details finds the intrepid reporter for the Independent News Service investigating the disappearance of Chester Fredersen, millionaire co-founder of Byte-by-Byte, Inc., a computer firm in Santa Clara, California. You’re thinking it’s a kidnapping, right? Nope. Fredersen disappeared in the literal sense, leaving behind his clothes – in the shape of their former occupant. Things get more complicated when other members of Fredersen’s family start disappearing…

Kolchak investigates the disappearance of businessman Chester Fredersen, who has apparently embezzled his company’s profits and then run off, leaving his brother and business partner, Barry, in hospital dying of Lou Gherig’s Disease. Before he vanished, Chester called his wife from work at the Byte-by-Byte corporation, screaming that he was literally being eaten away. After Diana Fredersen also dissolves into nothing while on a date with Kolchak, Barry’s condition goes into an impossible state of remission. Kolchak believes that the key lies in a bottle of impossibly-small robots…

Kolchak: The Night Stalker – Pain Most Human (2003)
Writer: C.J. Henderson
Artists: Greg Scott w/ Trevor Pallot, John Statema, & Dave Ulanski
Colorist: Andre Maitland
Letterer: Vince Sneed
Editors: Mark Dawidziak & Joe Gentile

Everyone – including his editor – thinks he’s crazy. Now, the man who has encountered vampires, zombies, and werewolves wants to cover a “straight” story, but instead, stumbles onto a military cover-up that hides a secret every bit as far-fetched as anything he’s written before. This issue really cranks up the noir, as it dives deep into Kolchak’s very soul. He begged Tony for a nice, normal lead, and that’s what he got. Seems an Air Force base in upstate New York’s engaged in a little cover up, so our man Carl Kolchak high tails it cross country in a fresh pressed suit and a smile on his face. Using his singular reporting skills, and his annoying interpersonal skills, he gets all the answers all right. Too bad these answers may send him straight to an insane asylum. How cruel is Man? Wanna find out? Carl did and would love to lay it out for you. Right here. Right now.

Tired of covering stories that involve monsters and demons, Kolchak asks Tony for a simpler, more normal assignment. His editor sends him to Camerton, N.Y., to find out just what it was that fell out of the sky a few weeks ago; although initial reports stated that the object was a crashed U.F.O., the story was subsequently retracted by the nearby army base, which then issued an announcement that one of their experimental jet planes had crashed. With the diverting assistance of local waitress Kathy Phlinsen, Carl’s investigations lead him to check out the nearby Lupoff Foundation, a factory complex that manufactures hi-tech computer chips. That night, Kolchak decides to sneak into the army base, only to discover that visitors from outer space are not the real monsters in this case…

Kolchak: Pain without Tears (2004)
Writer: C.J. Henderson
Artist: Dennis Calero
Letterer: Terri Boyle
Editor: C.J. Henderson

Kolchak finds himself on death’s door in defense of a beautiful woman with strange powers. Rekindling a part of him he thought extinguished, she haunts every thought his mind can hold. What is her secret, and why are so many willing to Kill to control it? And how will Carl survive the twin bullet shots to his body and soul?

Depressed at how his life has become nothing but a succession of frightening encounters with vampires, werewolves and energy beasts, and faced with the prospect of yet more grisly death and horror, reporter Carl Kolchak heads for a bar and proceeds to drink himself into oblivion. During his liquid breakfast, Carl encounters a young Chinese girl, Yitt Feng, who encourages him to unburden his troubles on her; after pouring out his life story to the attentive and sympathetic girl, Carl is surprised to find himself feeling much better. But this happiness is short-lived upon the arrival of two groups of men – a trio of sinister corporate ‘Men in Black’ and two Asian thugs – who try to take the Chinese girl away by force. While Kolchak’s attempts to protect Yitt only result in him being beaten up, Yitt somehow manages to evade her pursuers, and she disappears into the night. Realising that he has fallen for the girl, Kolchak turns to Tony Vincenzo for help in finding Yitt; using the newspaper’s resources he eventually tracks the girl to a nunnery. Here, Carl learns from the mother superior that Yitt is an empath, capable of healing people by absorbing their pain into herself. Reunited with Yitt, Carl encourages her to come away with him; but as they leave the convent but they are once again faced with the trio of Men in Black – and Carl is promptly shot dead…

Moonstone Trade Paperback reprints/collects:
Kolchak: The Night Stalker (2002)
Kolchak: Get of Belial (2002)
Kolchak: Fever Pitch (2002)
Kolchak: Mask of Moment (2004)
Kolchak: Devil in the Details (2003)
Kolchak: Pain Most Human (2003)
Kolchak: Pain without Tears (2004)

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

First Printing
Publisher: Moonstone
Publication Date: 2012
Format: BW, 320 pages, TPB, 10.25″ x 6.5″
ISBN-10: 1936814145
ISBN-13: 9781936814145

Collectible Entertainment note: Trade Paperback is New & Unread.  Very Fine + condition.  Beautiful!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious Kolchak: The Night Stalker and/or Horror collector / enthusiast.  A fun & entertaining read.  Highly Recommended.

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