Heavy Metal Magazine cover featuring the strip's main early characters: The Queen, Den and Catherine Wells

Den is a fantasy comic book series by Richard Corben. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (520x706, 49 KB)Cover of Heavy Metal Magazine This image is of a scan of a magazine cover, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the magazine or the individual contributors who worked on... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (520x706, 49 KB)Cover of Heavy Metal Magazine This image is of a scan of a magazine cover, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the magazine or the individual contributors who worked on... Fantasy is a genre of art that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... Heavy Metal Magazine cover by Corben featuring three of his Neverwhere characters: The Queen, Den and Catherine Wells Richard Corben (born November 1, 1940) is an American comic book artist best known for his illustrated fantasy stories in Heavy Metal (HM) magazine. ...

It is about the adventures of a young man who is whisked to a fantasy world named Neverwhere where he is changed into a naked, muscled and sexually well-endowed adventurer who is hunted by powerful forces, threatened by dangerous creatures and lusted after by impossibly beautiful, naked, large-breasted women. A fantasy world is a type of fictional universe in which magic or other similar powers work. ...

"Den" is an acronym of the young man's real name: David Ellis Norman.

The Den saga originated from a 1968 short film entitled Neverwhere (the first graphic novel would share the same title), animated and produced by Corben at his native Calvin Studios in Kansas City, Kansas, United States. Den then graduated to a short feature in an underground comic book. 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Kansas City is the third largest city in the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Wyandotte County; it is part of the Unified Government [1] which also includes the cities of Bonner Springs and Edwardsville. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

The series was a major feature in the early Heavy Metal magazine in the late 1970s and it was adapted in a highly condensed fashion in the Heavy Metal animated film. Jean-Michel Nicollets cover for the first issue. ... This article is about the magazine as a published medium. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... Heavy Metal is a Canadian animated film released in 1981 and produced by Ivan Reitman with the cooperation of various international animation studios. ... Animation refers to the process in which each frame of a film or movie is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photographing a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model (see claymation and stop motion), and then photographing the result. ...

Corben began self-publishing Den through his company Fantagor Press in the 1980s, beginning with Children of Fire, which was later revealed to be the prequel to the Heavy Metal-era Den adventures. Corben followed this with an ongoing Den series which did not have the full frontal nudity that was the hallmark of the original Heavy Metal strips. Corben went back to the adult content with DenSaga, which filled in some of the details between Children of Fire and Neverwhere/Muvovum.

The Den series was published in the following graphic novels and serials, in order:

1. Neverwhere
2. Muvovum
3. Children Of Fire
4. Dreams (compilation of smaller color Den comics)
5. Elements (second compilation of further smaller color comics)

• DenSaga Vol 1-4

All the above books are out of print.

The most latest incarnation of Den appeared in Penthouse Comix as "Denz", following another individual taking on the mantle of Den. This series had a more humorous tone than the previous entries in the saga.

External Links

• Den's Legacy at Muuta.net