Cover: Tom Taggart

The Big Book of Martyrs #[nn]

Oct 1997 · DC · 14.95 USD; 20.95 CAD

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This volume from DC's Factoid Books imprint collects the one-shot comic The Big Book of Martyrs, originally published in 1997. It presents a graphic, encyclopedia-style overview of historical and contemporary martyrs, blending factual accounts with sequential art to explore the lives and deaths of figures who died for their beliefs.

Contains 51 stories

To Be a Martyr

4 pp

Voice in the Wilderness

4 pp

St. John the Baptist

Suffer the Children

3 pp

The Holy Innocents

The Rock

4 pp

St. Peter

The First Martyr

3 pp

St. Stephen

Apostle of India

4 pp

St. Bartholomew

The Great Evangelist

4 pp

St. Paul

Of Myth and Men

5 pp

The Apostles

While Rome Burned

3 pp

A Sea of Faith

3 pp

St. Clement

The Willing Martyr

2 pp

St. Ignatius

On Grounds of Christianaity

2 pp

St. PtolomaeusSt. Lucius

The Cult of Saints

2 pp

St. Polycarp

Testament of Courage

4 pp

St. PerpetuaSt. Felicity

Burning Devotion

2 pp

St. Laurence

Boy Wonder

4 pp

St. Vitus

Lamb of God

3 pp

St. Agnes

Healing Hands

4 pp

St. Blaise

The Grave Gardener

3 pp

St. Phocas

The Slave Pope

3 pp

St. Callistus

Noble Heart

4 pp

St. Agatha

Women's Liberator

3 pp

St. Wilgefortis

Good King-Bad King

4 pp

St. Wenceslas

Murder in the Cathedral

4 pp

St. Thomas Becket

The Arrogance of Kings

4 pp

St. Thomas MoreSt. John Fisher

Cruel Britannia

4 pp

The Good Pagan

3 pp

St. Alban

Piercing Devotion

4 pp

St. Sebastian

The Thundering Legion

3 pp

The Ultimate Sacrifice

3 pp

St. Oswald

The Reluctant Soldier

4 pp

St. Edmund

Hammer of the Heathens

3 pp

St. Olaf

Against the Mongol Horde

3 pp

St. Michael of Chernigov

Maid of Orleans

4 pp

St. Joan of Arc

Dragonslayer

4 pp

St. George

Time Enough for Love

3 pp

St. Valentine

Christ-Bearer

4 pp

St. Christopher

Portrait of a Saint

3 pp

St. Rhipsime

The 11,000 Virgins

3 pp

St. Ursula

Extreme Prejudice

3 pp

The Boy Martyrs

Wheels on Fire

4 pp

Catherine of Alexandria

The Phantom Martyr

3 pp

Philomena

Remains of the Day

2 pp

St. ProtusSt. Hyacinth

On Savage Shores

7 pp

Crucifixion at Nagasaki

3 pp

St. Paul Miki

Cruel Practices

3 pp

Fear No Evil

3 pp

The Good Child

3 pp

St. Maria Goretti

Auschwitz Priest

4 pp

St. Maximilian Kolbe

A Case for Canonization

4 pp

Edith Stein

Tomorrow's Martyrs

3 pp

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Full credits

writer John Wagner

artist, inker George Freeman

cover pencils, inks Tom Taggart

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Reprinted in Graphic Ink: The DC Comics Art of Frank Quitely #[nn] (2014)

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