THE OTHER “GOLDEN AGE”

If you enjoy the short stories which appear at the centre of “The New World” book of Chris Reynolds comics, published by New York Review Comics, you'll come across a strange little story called “The Golden Age”.

This is where, as that book's editor, Seth, points out, rationality beats out the force of intuition and young Robert's teacher, Mr Ranger, stops him from pursuing an important dream. Seth particularly liked this story and, even before “The New World” came about, included it in his 2005 Appreciation of Mauretania Comics in The Comics Journal, pointing out certain aspects of the plot which interested him, comparing the features he'd found there to other stories, particularly the Penguin Books' long “Mauretania” story about Susan Black, where he explained that he saw another clash between rationality and intuition, but this time with a different result.

That “Golden Age” story, like most of the others in Seth's “The New World” originally appeared in an issue of Mauretania Comics in the late 1980s.

But it was only part of the “Golden Age” sequence. There were many more “Golden Age” stories which appeared in the original run of Mauretania Comics.

These missing stories are now available as part of “Grand Old Tales from the World of Mauretania”.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Chris-Reynolds/e/B002PVY8J6

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Image: Robert and Catherine among the ruins of their city.