Total Eclipse?

[vikingspawn]

Damn right he does (or Nightwing)... good call. Gotta admit, I think that is an awesome looking cover.

I actually quite like the look of it as well. It is done in a very similar style to the Alice Cooper: Last Redemption or whatever it was called, by Alice and Neil Gaiman.

Holy crap, you totally nailed it... I 'thought' it looked familiar but just could NOT place the name/title and what not.

dammit, now I am on the prowl for this book even stronger.

At least one printing was done by Marvel if that helps.

I got a TPB (Can't remember who published that one but am sure it was not Marvel) at a show a while ago for my other half who collects Gaiman stuff.

I got the Dark Horse version of the trade. With the white cover and the shadow eyes looking out at the top. It's a b&w digest for a trade.

[vikingspawn]

Wow, an Image book. I am sure I passed this by and my LCS may have one BUT it puts this book on my list.

This is on my list for sure now. Does anybody have a lead on one of these ? Tried Ebay and either the search didnt reach or there is not one of these on Ebay. So, I thought to check here (I usually try and check here first)

I heard it had a print run of 1000 copies....this comic might be the "Birth of Defiant Universe" version to the Spawn comics.

[vikingspawn]

Here's Beau Smith's column/article with more back story on the Total Eclipse comic:

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Total Eclipse One
Image Comics, 1998.
One Shot Retail Incentive Book.
Written by Beau Smith and Ted Adams.
Art by Terry Dodson, Greg Capullo, Kelly Jones, Brian Stelfreeze, Dwayne Turner, Alex Garner, Danny Miki, John K. Snyder III, Flint Henry, Richard Johnson, Chance Wolf, Aron Wiesenfeld, Richard Bennett and more.

In 1998 while VP of Publishing/Marketing for Todd McFarlane Productions and Image Comics, I also had the wonderful opportunity to be a part of a "Sorta" revival of the Eclipse Comics characters that I once worked on. When Eclipse Comics went bankrupt in 1994, Todd McFarlane stepped in and bought the company in the auction. His intent was to bring all the characters back at some point and add them to the Spawn publishing empire.

Things happened, only bits and pieces of the Eclipse characters surfaced and not always in the forms readers remembered. Total Eclipse One was the new "Bible" for most of those Eclipse characters, Airboy, Skywolf, The Black Terror, The Heap, Valkyrie, Misery and others. Ted Adams, who was then VP of Entertainment of TMP and now-IDW Publishing President, and I, worked up a rather large publishing business plan for not only the Eclipse characters, but the Spawn characters as well. Under Todd's suggestions, we revamped the Eclipse characters for this new character bible. We then offered this book as a limited, direct market retail incentive (one of the first) for retailers. We published roughly 3,000 copies BUT, only 1,000 got stapled and produced as comic books. The other 2,000 were "guts", interior pages that we were going to eventually produce into comics and or use as company manuals for creators once the new publishing banner was established. That didn't happen. Todd's mind changed on producing more characters as well as some lawsuits that are now pretty common knowledge. Stuff happens.

It doesn't change the fact that there were only 1,000 copies of Total Eclipse One produced and put into circulation. Most of the "guts issues" were thrown away, destroyed or are laying around in a box somewhere. As a side note, Total Eclipse One had a Miracleman "Easter Egg" placed in it. Besides the comic book being very rare, this also adds a little more rarity to its air. When you do find a copy of Total Eclipse One, you'll usually find it pretty cheap at around $2.50. This is because most folks don't realize what they have.
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[Drift]

Damn right he does (or Nightwing)... good call. Gotta admit, I think that is an awesome looking cover.

I actually quite like the look of it as well. It is done in a very similar style to the Alice Cooper: Last Redemption or whatever it was called, by Alice and Neil Gaiman.

Holy crap, you totally nailed it... I 'thought' it looked familiar but just could NOT place the name/title and what not.

dammit, now I am on the prowl for this book even stronger.

At least one printing was done by Marvel if that helps.

I got a TPB (Can't remember who published that one but am sure it was not Marvel) at a show a while ago for my other half who collects Gaiman stuff.

I got the Dark Horse version of the trade. With the white cover and the shadow eyes looking out at the top. It's a b&w digest for a trade.

That is the one I picked up for my girlfriend a while ago but couldn't remember who published it. It seems like Marvel did the individual issues while DH did the trade. There were also varying sizes of at least the first issue as we had a standard sized comic whilst I have seen copies on ebay described as A5 size so I can only hazard a guess that these are actually ashcan size and may be the copies that came with the album but do not quote me as I am just speculating.