Fans of Stephen King’s epic dark fantasy series The Dark Tower can save over 50% on the beautiful omnibus editions of the official graphic novel adaptation. All three hardcover omnibuses are included in Amazon’s Buy Two, Get One Free Book Sale this week: The Beginnings, The Gunslinger, and The Drawing of the Three. Published by Gallery 13 in 2023, these hefty full-color omnibuses retail for $100 each, but Amazon has each one priced from $55-$59. If you add all three to your cart, an additional $55 discount will show up at checkout. The end result is you’ll get the complete 2,000-page graphic novel series for only $114.73 (was $300), which breaks down to roughly $38 per book.
2,000 pages is a lot, but that’s less than half the page count of Stephen King’s original Dark Tower novel series. The Dark Tower Complete 8-Novel Box Set is available for $100 (was $161) at Amazon and is also eligible for the Buy Two, Get One Free promotion. The eight books total 4,720 pages, making it by far the longest story arc of King’s prolific career. It’s one of several Stephen King book box sets and omnibuses included in Amazon’s B2G1 Free Sale. You’ll also find numerous recent Stephen King releases in the B2G1 catalog, including hardcover editions of King’s classic novels The Running Man and The Long Walk, New Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand, Hansel and Gretel, and the Classic King 3-Book Box Set.
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The Beginnings Omnibus is an 800-page hardcover collecting the first five graphic novels from Marvel’s graphic novel adaptation:
- Beginnings: The Gunslinger Born
- The Long Road Home
- Treachery
- The Fall of Gilead
- The Battle of Jericho Hill
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The Gunslinger Omnibus is a 736-page hardcover with six graphic novels:
- The Gunslinger: The Journey Begins
- The Little Sisters of Eluria
- The Battle of Tull
- The Way Station
- The Man in Black
- Last Shots
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The Drawing of the Three Omnibus is a 464-page hardcover collecting the final four volumes in the series:
- The Drawing of the Three: The Prisoner
- House of Cards
- The Lady of Shadows
- Bitter Medicine
The Dark Tower: The “Complete” Graphic Novel Saga
Most of Stephen King’s 65-plus novels are standalone works, though he has written a few series, with The Dark Tower being the longest by a significant margin. The eight-novel, 4,000-plus page tale was published over the course of 30 years. In 2007, Marvel began adapting The Dark Tower into comic books. Although King himself didn’t write the comics, he served as the creative supervisor on the project.
But it’s important to acknowledge that Marvel canceled the ambitious adaptation before it could reach its proper conclusion. Thus, The Complete Graphic Novel Saga is both correct and incorrect. If you read all three omnibuses, you will have read everything that’s available, but you need to read King’s novels to get the full story.
If you’re unfamiliar with King’s opus, here’s a quick breakdown: The series features a compelling mix of high fantasy, science fiction, and horror. But at its most basic premise, The Dark Tower is a traditional hero’s journey. Set in the post-apocalyptic Mid-World, the story follows Roland Deschain’s quest for the eponymous tower and the Man in Black, a powerful dark sorcerer. The novels often jump across time periods and different worlds, but the graphic novels, for the most part, are more linear, which gives them a more intimate reading experience.
The massive 800-page The Dark Tower: Beginnings Omnibus may be of particular note for long-time fans of the series. Essentially a prequel, this hardcover omnibus contains five graphic novels chronicling Roland Deschain of Gilead’s coming-of-age story that led to him becoming the last gunslinger. It covers and expands upon Roland’s backstory as alluded to in flashbacks and conversations throughout the series.
The other two omnibuses–The Gunslinger and The Drawing of the Three–are named after the first two books in the series. While they cover the same major plot points as their novel counterparts, the comics also cover new ground that many fans would find interesting, even if you recently read the novels themselves. All three hardcover volumes contain gorgeous artwork drawn by a team of illustrators.
$100 (was $161)
The Dark Tower is one of the best fantasy series around, and there’s nothing really quite like it. The series mixes dark fantasy, horror, and Western fiction to create a wholly original world brimming with interesting characters and locales. It’s filled with beautiful and cryptic passages that immerse you in King’s fascinating world.
Scribner published the first book in series, The Gunslinger, in 1982. It’s a beautifully writen novel of roughly 300 pages–a short one by King’s standards. The seventh mainline novel, The Dark Tower, brought the series to a close in 2004. King returned to the fantasy world in 2012 with The Wind Through the Keyhole, a short novel that takes place between the four and fifth books.
If you don’t want to commit to the whole series, five of The Dark Tower novels are included in Amazon’s Buy Two, Get One Free Book Sale. You can also get the picture book version of Charlie the Choo-Choo, an in-series story written by the character Beryl Evans.
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