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Issue: Age of Bronze #1
Publication Date: July 2001
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Issues: #1 of 4 Issues
Title: A Thousand Ships
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagImage
Brand: ImageView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: Image Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/31/2001
Volume: 1
Pages: 228
ISBN: 1582402000
UPC/EAN: 978158240200001995
Price: $31.32 CAD
$19.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 26 (1 story, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: Second Printing: November 2003
Third Printing: November 2005
Fourth Printing: March 2008
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Publication Type: Trade Paperback
Color: color cover; black and white interior
Dimensions: 7 in. x 10.5 in. (17.7 cm x 26.6 cm)
Paper Stock: cardstock cover; smooth white interior
Binding: squarebound; softcover
Publishing Format: collected edition
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A Thousand Ships

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Genres: adventure, historical
Character(s): Helen
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Character(s): Paris; Agelaus
Synopsis: Paris sees Troy for the first time.
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A Thousand Ships

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Age of Bronze Volume 1 A Thousand Ships

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Age of Bronze Volume 1 A Thousand Ships

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For Mom.

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Contents

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Map of the Bronze Age Aegean

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Disclose Notes: Quotation from Doctor Faustus, Scene XIII (circa 1588); decorative borders copied from half-title page.
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A Thousand Ships

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A Thousand Ships

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Genres: adventure, historical
Character(s): Paris; Agelaus; Oenone; Kassandra; Troilus; Priam; Hekuba; Menelaus; Hektor; Polyxena; Herakles; Aeneas; Helen; Thetis; Cheiron; Achilles; Agamemnon; Klytemnestra; Kalchas; Cressida; Nestor; Odysseus; Pandarus; Penelope; Palamedes; Diomedes; Peleus
Synopsis: The story of the events leading up to the Trojan War: Paris learning of his true parentage and wooing Helen, the gathering of the Achaean army, and the search for Achilles's hiding place.
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From Content Item: FlagAge of Bronze #2 published January 1999
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From Content Item: FlagAge of Bronze #3 published March 1999
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From Content Item: FlagAge of Bronze #4 published May 1999
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From Content Item: FlagAge of Bronze #5 published October 1999
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From Content Item: FlagAge of Bronze #6 published January 2000
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From Content Item: FlagAge of Bronze #7 published March 2000
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From Content Item: FlagAge of Bronze #8 published August 2000
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From Content Item: FlagAge of Bronze #9 published December 2000
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Pages: 184
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Afterword

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Disclose Notes: Editorial about why Eric Shanower decided to do a comics version of the story of the Trojan War, and explaining the storytelling decisions that were made in adapting it; decorative borders copied from half-title page.
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Glossary of Names

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Acknowledgments

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Genealogical Chart: The Achaeans

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Genealogical Chart: The Trojan Royal Family

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Join the Defense of Troy

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Disclose Notes: Endorsement for the Friends of Troy (an organisation funding archaeological studies at the site of Troy).
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Bibliography

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Disclose Notes: A list of the literary and archaeological sources consulted in the preparation of the comics adaptation; decorative borders copied from half-title page.
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First Line: I'm going to Troy!
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Disclose Notes: Illustrated with artwork from page 33 of this book.

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