From the press release:

GENTLEMAN THIEF – SCIENCE-FICTION HERO!

Slippery Jim aka The Stainless Steel Rat may be the greatest con-man of all time. He’s charming, quick-witted and a mas­ter thief and adventurer. Yet the road to infamy doesn’t always run smooth and Jim diGriz finds himself forced into serving the Special Corps elite law enforcement agency and confronting the beautiful but deadly Angelina – his future wife! Things get even stranger for the Rat when he has to travel through time to stop a master criminal meddling with the past and then later help overthrown an evil President by running for the job himself!

Now read Harry Harrison’s science-fiction classic, collected together as a graphic novel for the very first time and featuring the stunning artwork of Carlos Ezquerra.

Details:

Stainless Steel Rat

Harry Harrison ♦ Kelvin Gosnell ♦ Carlos Ezquerra

Available July 2010 for £15.99

About the creators

Harry Harrison is the much-loved author of the Stainless Steel Rat and Bill the Galactic Hero novels. He is also a highly respected science-fiction critic and anthologist. Harry penned the story that inspired the classic SF film Soylent Green.

As co-creator of Judge Dredd Carlos Ezquerra designed the classic original costume as well as visually conceptualizing Mega-City One. He also co-created Strontium Dog. He has also illustrated A.B.C. Warriors, Judge Anderson, Tharg the Mighty, Al’s Baby and Cursed Earth Koburn amongst many others. Outside of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic, Ezquerra first illustrated Third World War in Crisis magazine, and has since become a regular collaborator with Garth Ennis, working on Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, Bloody Mary, Just a Pilgrim, Condors and The Magnificent Kevin. He also penciled two special Preacher episodes.

Kelvin Gosnell served as 2000 AD’s second editor, from Progs 17 to 85 (18^th June 1977 – 7^th October 1978). He also wrote Blackhawk, Dan Dare, A Joe Black Adventure, Judge Dredd, One-Offs, Project Overkill, Ro-Jaws’ Robo-Tales, The Stainless Steel Rat and Tharg’s Future Shocks, as well as co-writing the first series of Flesh.

For more information visit: http://www.2000adonline.com/books/coming_soon.php

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