Sin City: Hell and Back # 2 NM Frank Miller 1st print Dark Horse Comics Movie

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Sin City Hell and Back (1999) #2

Published Aug 1999 by Dark Horse.

Story and art by Farnk Miller. Esther. He had met the woman only a few hours earlier, yet he knew he couldn’t live without her. She was everything he was looking for–intelligent, beautiful, creative . . . and they wrenched her from his arms. He doesn’t know who they were or why they took her, but he’s going to find out . . . even if it kills him! Comic book Renaissance man, Frank Miller, continues his bone-breaking journey through the Town Without Pity, with his latest venture, Hell and Back. Follow the sensitive, yet deadly, Wallace as he navigates through the mean streets of Basin City, searching for his newfound love, Esther. 32 pages, B&W.

Hell and Back is the longest of the Sin City stories, spanning 9 issues. It tells the story of Wallace, an artist/war hero/short order cook who saves a suicidal woman named Esther. She likes his art and they go out for a drink. They are ambushed by two men, who drug Wallace and kidnap Esther. When Wallace recovers, he vows to find Esther and deal with those who kidnapped her.

Sin City (also known as Frank Miller’s Sin City) is a 2005 American neo-noir action crime anthology film written, produced, and directed by Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez. It is based on Miller’s graphic novel Sin City.

Much of the film is based on the first, third and fourth books in Miller’s original comic series. The Hard Goodbye is about a man who embarks on a brutal rampage in search of his one-time sweetheart’s killer, killing anyone, even the police, that gets in his way of finding and killing her murderer. The Big Fat Kill focuses on an everyman getting caught in a street war between a group of prostitutes and a group of mercenaries, the police and the mob. That Yellow Bastard follows an aging police officer who protects a young woman from a grotesquely disfigured serial killer. The intro and outro of the film are based on the short story “The Customer is Always Right”, which is collected in Booze, Broads & Bullets, the sixth book in the comic series.

The film stars Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Clive Owen, Jessica Alba, Benicio Del Toro, Brittany Murphy and Elijah Wood, featuring Alexis Bledel, Michael Clarke Duncan, Rosario Dawson, Carla Gugino, Rutger Hauer, Jaime King, Michael Madsen and Nick Stahl, among others.

Sin City opened to wide critical and commercial success, gathering particular recognition for the film’s unique color processing, which rendered most of the film in black and white but retained or added coloring for selected objects. The film was screened at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival in competition and won the Technical Grand Prize for the film’s “visual shaping”.

A sequel, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, was released on August 22, 2014. Production for the sequel began in October 2012 with Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller directing a script co-written by them and William Monahan. The film was based mainly on A Dame to Kill For, the second book in the Sin City series by Miller, and also included the short story “Just Another Saturday Night” from the Booze, Broads, & Bullets collection, as well as two original stories written by Miller for the film, titled “The Long Bad Night” and “Nancy’s Last Dance”. Actors Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Rosario Dawson and Jessica Alba all reprised their roles in the sequel, amongst others. The sequel was not as critically or financially successful as the first film.

Near mint condition. 1st printing.