Description: The best-selling Treasury of British Comics archival series The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire reaches its sixth, and penultimate, amazing volume
This penultimate omnibus collection of the original The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire stories, collecting all the strips originally published in Look & Learn from 1977 through to 1980. This book contains Oliver Frey and Mike Butterworth's final work on the series, as they pass the baton to Ken Roscoe and Gerry Wood who will work on the remainder of the series. This volume collects for the first time thirteen classic, fast-paced, yet beautifully painted, stories featuring the Emperor Trigo, ruler of the Trigan Empire, holding the line against monsters, alien threats, and internal usurpers, with the help of his nephew Janno, and the scientist Peric.Brief description: In addition to taking over the scripting of The Rise & Fall of the Trigan Empire after Mike Butterworth's departure, Ken Roscoe was also the editor of Speed & Power.
Review Quotes: "The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire is a stand-out strip on the UK comics' landscape" - Tripwire