THE HISTORY OF “GRAND OLD TALES FROM THE WORLD OF MAURETANIA”

The main story from “Grand Old Tales”, “The Golden Age”, was originally serialised in issues of the original run of “Mauretania Comics” in the late 1980's. At that time I thought it was overlong and would take forever to finish, and so we printed the later episodes at a reduced size, four pages to fit on one normal page. This at least enabled me to bring the story to an end reasonably quickly. I thought that this was OK as I didn't think anyone particularly liked the story but I wanted to bring it to a conclusion.

To my surprise, I later heard that for several readers, it was their favourite thing, so much so that Marc Baines, editor and published at Glasgow's Kingly Books insisted on including “The Golden Age” in his 2005 “The Dial and Other Stories” collection of Mauretania Comics strips, so this became the first prestigious full-size representation of the tale. When the Kingly edition had sold out, a Lulu Press edition had slightly different contents but still included “The Golden Age”. But then the story did not appear in New York Review Comics' “The New World” edited by Seth for reasons of space.

And so it appears as part of “Grand Old Tales From the World of Mauretania”.

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