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    The Final Problem: A Sherlock Holmes Graphic Novel
    The Final Problem: A Sherlock Holmes Graphic Novel
    The Final Problem: A Sherlock Holmes Graphic Novel
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    The Final Problem: A Sherlock Holmes Graphic Novel

    By Petr Kopl

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    The death of detective Sherlock Holmes shakes the world. Even The Queen herself expresses resentment over the loss of the popular Victorian hero. Petr Kopl gives us a graphic kick and picks up his third World heroes of tomorrow through the eyes of genius writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. He takes us to a place where evil has a true face, men are gentlemen and women are ladies. We visit his comic world of excitement and adventure. Come and bear witnessto the last heroic battle where Sherlock Holmes paid with his life. Or did he?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMX Publishing
    Release dateDec 21, 2016
    ISBN9781780928364
    The Final Problem: A Sherlock Holmes Graphic Novel

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      The Final Problem - Petr Kopl

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      It has been a number of years since I first encountered comics. I cannot even remember the first one. Among these were Foglar’s Fast arrows (Rychlé šípy), which was read with much excitement in old tattered copies of magazines such as Mladý hlasatel or Vpřed. It was much later that the ABC and Čtyřlístek magazines were added to the list. Over time, classic newspaper strips appeared from the USA containing favourite comic book characters such as Peanuts by Charles Schultze, which featured my favourite character, Snoopy. This all happened at some point in the 1970s, by which time I was already deeply engaged with Sherlock Holmes, supported by the various clippings sent to me by fellow Sherlockian and collector from Washington. From then on, my encounters with comics were infrequent, usually only if the genre was of particular interest to me.

      However, two years ago, I bought two comics at once - two completely different concepts and adaptations of the same story, probably the best-known detective story in the world today - the Hound of the Baskervilles. In the first case, it was a completely traditional retelling and artistic rendering of the story. Sherlock

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