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Starting in 2006, Black Coat Press launched The
Hexagon Comics Library, a 40-plus volume archive collection of the universe
of super-hero, science fiction, fantasy and adventure comics published in France by Editions Lug between 1963 and
2003. The new collection intends to reprint both the "classic" and modern stories in a series of 200+-page
black-and-white trade paperbacks à la Marvel's Essentials or DC's Archives.
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This ambitious project gained the support of comic book legends Will Eisner, Stan Lee and Roy Thomas who have written
forewords to the first volumes of the series. New covers by Steve Rude, Ladronn, Stephen R. Bissette and others
will grace the series. "I applaud this discovery of unsung European talent," writes Will Eisner, who goes on to describe artists such as Luciano Bernasconi, Giorgio
Trevisan, Lina Buffolente and others as "comic book loyalists who labored
for decades creating popular series in the mold of their American counterparts at DC and Marvel." "Verily, I say unto thee that those are but
the tip of an iceberg of wonder that awaits thee," rhapsodizes Stan Lee.
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1. WAMPUS (Volume 1) by Franco Frescura
and Luciano Bernasconi, cover by Stephen R. Bissette. 
