SPELLBINDERS set of 1986 Quality Comics (no relation) issues #1-12

By Pat Mills & Kev O'Neill

Full color Reprints of stories originally published in the UK in "2000 A.D."

First 4 issues have a slight "corner bump" to bottom right corner but overall most issues are VG++ to FINE or BETTER CONDITION with the slightest traces of the normal amount of minor wear and stress to edges & spine associated with having been read, handled and stored. See scanned images.

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Spellbinders is a twelve-issue series that reprinted stories with a magic/horror twist from 2000AD (Slaine and Nemesis the Warlock) alongside an earlier strip from another UK comic (Smash!) entitled

'Amadeus Wolf' (a retitled reprint of the Cursitor Doom strips) plus a handful of Library of Death stories from UK horror comic Scream! Confusingly, for the UK market, Quality carried on the Spellbinders numbering after issue #12, but the comics just reprinted their other ongoing title 'Scavengers'. The 'Spellbinders' title was dropped after issue #13.

US Series:

Spellbinders #1-12 which was followed by Scavengers #1-14

#1

Slaine: "The Beast in the Broch" (reprinted from issues 331-334 of 2000 A.D. (UK)). Slaine and Ukko, having thieved some gold from the nearby city of Gabala travel North. Slaine makes secret visits to the King's chosen bride, Niamh, is caught, and narrowly escapes. Ukko uses both of their shares of the gold to buy a prison called the Broch, thinking it a sound investment. Unfortunately, there's a monster in the dungeon that will need attending.

Nemesis the Warlock: "The Gothic Empire" (part 1 & 2 reprinted from issues 387 & 388 of 2000 A.D. (UK)). Nemesis the Warlock is asked to assist the alien race, the Goths, against the scourge of the Galaxy, the Terminators, who have vowed to cleanse the Galaxy of all other life forms. There is a double cross afoot and a grab for power in the Goth Empire.

"Amadeus Wolf, Stalker of the Supernatural vs Kalak the Evil" part 1 (reprinted from the UK comic book Smash!. In the original, the title character was named Cursitor Doom but was changed to Amadeus Wolf for this reprint). Jimmy Brannigan answers an ad for the position of assistant to

Amadeus Wolf, and is hired. In London, an archeologist is studying Kalak, a sorcerous dwarf who threatened the power of the King and was turned to stone, and finds the petrified body. The mind of Kalak lives on, and possesses those around it to pursue his evil agenda, now controls the actions of a newspaper reporter.

#2

Nemesis the Warlock: "The Gothic Empire" (part 3-5 reprinted from issues 389-391 of 2000 A.D. (UK)).

Slaine: "Warriors' Dawn" (reprinted from issue 335 of 2000 A.D. (UK)).

Slaine: "The Beltain Giant" (reprinted from issue 336 of 2000 A.D. (UK)).

"Amadeus Wölf Stalker of the Supernatural vs. Kalak the Evil!" part 2 (reprinted from the UK comic book Smash!. In the original, the title character was named Cursitor Doom but was changed to Amadeus Wölf for this reprint).

#3

Nemesis the Warlock: "The Gothic Empire" (part 6-8 reprinted from issues 392-394 of 2000 A.D. (UK)).

Slaine: "The Bride of Crom" (part 1-3 reprinted from issues 337-339 of 2000 A.D. (UK)).

#4

Nemesis the Warlock: "The Gothic Empire" (part 9-11 reprinted from issues 395-397 of 2000 A.D. (UK)).

Slaine: "The Bride of Crom" (part 4-6 reprinted from issues 340-342 of 2000 A.D. (UK)).

Amadeus Wölf - Stalker of the Supernatural: "Scorpio Rising" part 1 (reprinted from the UK comic book Smash!. In the original, the title character was named Cursitor Doom but was changed to Amadeus Wölf for this reprint).

#5

Nemesis the Warlock: "The Gothic Empire" (part 12-17 reprinted from issues 398-403 of 2000 A.D. (UK)).Slaine: "The Creeping Death" and "The Bull Dance" (reprinted from issues 343-344 of 2000 A.D. (UK)).

Amadeus Wölf - Stalker of the Supernatural: "Scorpio Rising" (part 2) (reprinted from the UK comic book Smash!. In the original, the title character was named Cursitor Doom but was changed to

Amadeus Wölf for this reprint).

#6

Cover by Steve Whitaker

Nemesis the Warlock: "The Gothic Empire" part 18-20 reprinted from issues 404-406 of 2000 A.D. (UK)

Nemesis the Warlock: "Ego Trip" reprinted from issue 430 of 2000 A.D. (UK)

Amadeus Wölf: "The Vengeance of Ranak the Red" reprinted from the UK comic book Smash!. In the original, the title character was named Cursitor Doom but was changed to Amadeus Wölf for this

reprint.

Nemesis's Future-Shocks: "Fangs" reprinted from issue 34 of 2000 A.D. (UK) - this story was titled Tharg's Future-Shocks in it's original publication.

#7

Nemesis the Warlock: "Vengeance of Thoth" part 1-5 reprinted from issues 435-439 of 2000 A.D. (UK)

Ro-Jaws' Robo-Tales: "The Dating Game" reprinted from issue 176 of 2000 A.D. (UK)

#8

Cover by Tom Grindberg

Nemesis the Warlock: Vengeance of Thoth "Book Five" part 6-11 reprinted from issues 440-445 of 2000 A.D. (UK)

#9

Cover by Tom Grindberg.

Nemesis the Warlock: "Torquemurder!" part 1 & 2 reprinted from issues 482 & 483 of 2000 A.D. (UK) (12 pages)

Script: Pat Mills

Art: Bryan Talbot

Letters: Steve Potter

"Fiends of the Eastern Front" part 1-4 reprinted from issues 152-155 of 2000 A.D. (UK) (19 pages)

Script: Gerry Finley-Day Art: Carlos Ezquerra

"Nemesis the Warlock" pin-up by Kevin O'Neill

#10

Cover by Tom Grindberg

Nemesis the Warlock: "Book Five" reprinted from the pages of 2000

A.D. (UK) Script: Pat Mills Art: Bryan Talbot Letters: Steve Potter

Centre spread "Star Pin-Up" by Kevin O'Neill

"Fiends of the Eastern Front" parts 5-7 reprinted from issues 156-158 of 2000 A.D. (UK)

Script: Gerry Finley-Day Art: Carlos Ezquerra

#11

Cover by Tom Grindberg

Nemesis the Warlock: "Book Five" reprinted from the pages of 2000 A.D. (UK)

Script: Pat Mills Art: Bryan Talbot Letters: Steve Potter

Nemesis the Warlock and the A.B.C. Warriors versus Torquemada

"Fiends of the Eastern Front" parts 8-10 reprinted from issues 159-161 of 2000 A.D. (UK)

Script: Gerry Finley-Day Art: Carlos Ezquerra Letters: Jack Potter Vampires and Nazis

Centre spread "Star Pin-Up" by Kevin O'Neill

"At Death's Door…" reprinted from issue 1 of Scream!" (5 pages) Script: Barrie Tomlinson Art: Cam Kennedy Letters: Mike Peters

"The Final Cut!" reprinted from the pages of Scream! (1 page - uncredited) A horror movie director keeps pushing the actors for more, and one of them finally gives him what he is asking for.

#12

Cover by Kim De Mulder

Nemesis the Warlock: "Book Five" reprinted from the pages of 2000 A.D. (UK)

Script: Pat Mills Art: Bryan Talbot Letters: Gordon "Kid" Robson

Nemesis the Warlock: "Book Five Epilogue" reprinted from issue 505 of 2000 A.D. (UK) Script: Pat Mills Art: Bryan Talbot Letters: Gordon "Kid" Robson featuring Thoth and Satanus

Library of Death: "Sea Beast!" from issue 13 & 14 of Scream!

Script: Simon Furman Art: Steve Parkerhouse Letters: Asa Bovc

Spellbinders Contents Data reposted from

http://www.comiccollectorlive.com/LiveData/CoverTitle.aspx?id=1b0ea923-a77a-412e-8d0f-29ca42f485d1

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Nemesis the Warlock is a comic series created by writer Pat Mills and artist Kevin O'Neill which appeared in the pages of the weekly comics anthology 2000 AD. The title character, a fire-breathing

demonic alien, fights against the fanatical Torquemada, Grand Master of the Terran Empire in Earth's distant future, and his attempts to exterminate all alien life. The series began in 1980, in issue 167 of 2000 AD, with a story called Comic Rock "The Terror Tube", in which a freedom fighter called Nemesis escaped from Torquemada, the chief of the Tube Police, after a protracted chase through a complex travel-tube system on a planet called Termight, later revealed to be Earth ("Mighty Terra"). All that was seen of Nemesis was the outside of his organic spaceship, the Blitzspear. In "Terror Tube" the police were portrayed as a cross between the Spanish Inquisition (Torquemada is named after the notorious inquisitor Tomás de Torquemada) and the Ku Klux Klan (or from Spanish Easter penitents), making it easier to position them as the bad guys.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_the_Warlock

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2000 AD is a weekly British science fiction-orientated comic. As a comics anthology it serialises stories in each issue (known as "progs") and was first published by IPC Magazines in 1977, the first

issue dated 26 February. IPC then shifted the title to its Fleetway comics subsidiary which was sold to Robert Maxwell in 1987 then Egmont UK in 1991. Fleetway continued to produce the title until

2000, when it was bought by Rebellion Developments. It is most noted for its Judge Dredd stories, and has been contributed to by a number of artists and writers who became renowned in the field internationally, such as Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, Brian Bolland and Mike McMahon. Other characters in 2000 AD include Rogue Trooper, Strontium Dog and

the ABC Warriors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_AD_(comics)

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