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Time Bandits                                          One-shot Comic      
Featuring a Marvel Movie Special Adaptation!
Writer: S.J. Parkhouse
Artists: David Lloyd & John Stokes
Colorist: Don Warfield
Letterer: Irving Watanabe
Art Director: John Romita
Editors: Jim Salicrup & Jim Shooter
Cover by: Ed Hannigan & Al Milgrom

Time Bandits is a 1981 British fantasy film co-written, produced, and directed by Terry Gilliam and starring Sean Connery, John Cleese, Shelley Duvall, Ralph Richardson, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Michael Palin, Peter Vaughn, and David Warner. Time Bandits presents escapism through a child’s imagination as a young boy accidentally joins a band of time travelling dwarves, as they jump from era to era looking for treasure to steal.

Time Bandits is a lighthearted romp through time with a boy named Kevin and a wacky bunch of time bandits. They’ve stolen a map from the Supreme Being that identifies all the time holes—and wouldn’t you know it?—one of those time holes is right in Kevin’s closet.

Kevin is eager to escape from his parents, who think a fully-fitted, automatic kitchen is the epitome of existence. Together with the bandits, he travels to Italy as Napoleon is conquering it, into Sherwood Forest to meet Robin Hood, to ancient Greece, to escape from some hungry ogres, and much more. It would all be fun and games except that the dread Evil Genius wants the map, too, and has a nefarious plan to get it from the time travelers.

Story/Spoilers (featuring the full Time Bandits 1981 Movie Synopsis for nostalgic remembrance)
Eleven-year-old Kevin is fascinated by history, particularly that of Ancient Greece; his parents ignore his activities, having become obsessed with buying the latest household gadgets to keep up with their neighbors. One night, as Kevin is sleeping, an armored knight on a horse bursts out of his wardrobe. Kevin hides under the covers as the knight rides off into a forest where once his bedroom wall was; when Kevin looks again, the room is back to normal and he finds one of his photos on the wall similar to the forest he saw. The next night he prepares a satchel with supplies and a Polaroid camera but is surprised when six dwarfs spill out of the wardrobe. Kevin quickly learns the group has stolen a map and is looking for an exit from his room before they are discovered. They find that the bedroom wall leads to a portal. Kevin is hesitant to join until the apparition of a floating, menacing head—the Supreme Being—appears behind them, demanding the return of the map. Kevin and the dwarfs fall into an empty void at the end of the hallway.

They land in Italy during the Battle of Castiglione. As they recover, Kevin learns that Randall is the lead dwarf of the group, which also includes Fidgit, Strutter, Og, Wally and Vermin. They were once employed by the Supreme Being to repair holes in the spacetime fabric, but realized the potential to use the map that identifies these holes to steal riches and escape via time/space travel. With Kevin’s help, they visit several locations in spacetime and meet figures such as Napoleon Bonaparte and Robin Hood. Kevin uses his camera to document their visits. However, they are unaware that their activities are being monitored by Evil, a malevolent being who is able to manipulate reality and is attempting to acquire the map.

Kevin becomes separated from the group and ends up in Mycenaean Greece, meeting King Agamemnon. After Kevin inadvertently helps Agamemnon kill a Minotaur, the king adopts him. Randall and the others soon locate Kevin and abduct him, much to his resentment, and escape through another hole, arriving on the RMS Titanic. After it sinks, they tread water while arguing with each other. Evil manipulates the group and transports them to his realm, the Time of Legends. After surviving encounters with ogres and a giant, Kevin and the dwarfs locate the Fortress of Ultimate Darkness and are led to believe that “The Most Fabulous Object in the World” awaits them, luring them into Evil’s trap. Evil takes the map and locks the group in a cage over a bottomless pit. While looking through the Polaroids he took, Kevin finds one that includes the map, and the group realises there is a hole near them. They escape from the cage and Kevin distracts their pursuers while the others go through the hole.

Evil confronts Kevin and takes the map from him. The dwarfs return with various warriors and fighting machines from across time, but Evil has no trouble overpowering them all. As Kevin and the dwarfs cower, Evil prepares to unleash his ultimate power. Suddenly, he is engulfed in flames and burned into charcoal; from the smoke, a besuited elderly man emerges, revealed as the Supreme Being. He reveals that he allowed the dwarfs to borrow his map and the whole adventure had been a test. He orders the dwarfs to collect the pieces of concentrated Evil, warning that they can be deadly if not contained. After recovering the map he allows the dwarfs to rejoin him in his creation duties. The Supreme Being disappears with the dwarfs, leaving Kevin behind as a missed piece of Evil begins to smoulder.

Kevin awakes in his bedroom to find it filled with smoke. Firefighters break down the door and rescue him as they put out a fire in his house. One of the firemen finds that his parents’ new toaster oven caused the fire. As Kevin recovers, he finds one of the firemen resembles Agamemnon and discovers that he still has the photos from his adventure. Kevin’s parents discover a smouldering rock in the toaster oven. Recognising it as a piece of Evil, Kevin warns them not to touch it because it is pure evil. They touch it and explode, leaving only their shoes. As the Agamemnon-firefighter winks at the boy before leaving, Kevin approaches the smoking shoes and is seen from above as his figure grows smaller, revealing the planet and then outer space, before being rolled up in the map by the Supreme Being.

Comic is bagged & triple 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: Marvel Comics
Publication Date: February 1982
Format per comic: FC, 48 pages, Comic, 10.25″ x 6.5″
UPC: 07148602088

Collectible Entertainment note: One-shot Comic is in Fine + condition.  Nice!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious Time Bandits and/or Movie Adaptations collector / enthusiast.  A fun & entertaining read.  Recommended.

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