Includes Certificate of Authenticity
Personally signed and dated by Joe Hill directly into the book.
IDW Publishing (March, 2022). Joe Hill "Locke & Key: The Golden Age". Co-author: Jay Fotos. Signed First Edition, First Printing. Personally signed and dated by Joe Hill on "25 Sept. 25" directly into the book. Hardcover graphic novel without dust-jacket as issued. Art by Grabiel Rodriguez. Bookseller issued COA.
"1 2 3 4" as required for a first printing with "MARCH 2022. FIRST PRINTING" on the copyright page.
Key Details
- Format: Deluxe hardcover.
- Publisher: IDW Publishing.
- Illustrator: Gabriel Rodriguez.
- Features: Includes extra covers and behind-the-scenes content.
- Page Count: 232
- Color: Full Color
- Yellow Ribbon Marker
Signature Scarcity: While some copies of this title were signed by Joe Hill at special events or, in some cases, sold through specific bookstores, these signed copies represent only a small fraction of the total, often small, print run.
Market Demand: Locke & Key has a massive following and has since been adapted into a Netflix series, which increased demand for rare, authorized signed copies.
Locke & Key: The Golden Age
The beloved graphic novel series turned Netflix hit continues!
Take a trip through the past and unlock moments from Keyhouse's long history that expand the saga of the Locke family in this collection of stories including the crossover with Neil Gaiman's Sandman Universe!
Contains three prequel short stories, "Small World," "Open the Moon," and, collected for the first time, "Face the Music," leading into the gut-wrenching tour de force that begins with ...In Pale Battalions Go... and culminates with the Sandman Universe crossover Hell & Gone.
Each of these individual stories takes a glimpse into the lives of the Locke family ancestors from the early 20th century as they use the keys to fight battles big and small. From the killing fields of Europe during WWI to the depths of Hell, the Lockes struggle desperately to keep the dark forces of their world at bay.
Unlock moments from Keyhouse's long history, expanding the saga of the Locke family in this collection of stories, which includes the epic crossover with DC's The Sandman Universe! For two hundred years, the Locke family has watched over Keyhouse, a New England mansion where reality has come unhinged and shadows are known to walk on their own. Here they have guarded a collection of impossible keys, instruments capable of unlocking both unparalleled wonder and unimaginable evil. Take a glimpse into the lives of Chamberlin Locke and his family in the early 20th century as they use the keys to fight battles big and small. From a giant spider inside Keyhouse to the killing fields of Europe during WWI and the depths of Hell, the Lockes are in a constant struggle to keep the dark forces of their world at bay. Collects three standalone tales, "Small World," the Eisner-nominated "Open the Moon," and the never-before-seen "Face the Music," along with the 3-part ...In Pale Battalions Go… and the epic 80-page crossover with The Sandman Universe, Hell & Gone" all from the co-creators of Locke & Key, Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodríguez!
Locke & Key: The Golden Age is a graphic novel by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez that explores the Locke family's history in the early 20th century, featuring prequel stories about ancestors using magical keys during World War I and a crossover with Neil Gaiman's Sandman Universe. Published in 2022, the collection expands the Locke & Key saga with horror, fantasy, and historical fiction, detailing the family's battles against supernatural forces and the consequences of using the keys.
Key aspects
Authors/Artists: Written by Joe Hill and illustrated by Gabriel Rodriguez.
Content: A collection of five stories, including "Small World," "Open the Moon," "Face the Music," "In Pale Battalions Go…," and the Sandman crossover "Hell & Gone".
Setting: Primarily set in the early 20th century, focusing on the Locke family's ancestors.
Plot: Follows the Lockes as they use magical keys to fight battles, from the trenches of WWI to Hell, exploring the origins and consequences of their power.
Genre: Horror, fantasy, historical fiction, and mystery.
Joe Hill
Joe Hill is the #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of The Fireman, NOS4A2, Heart-Shaped Box, and Horns. His book of short stories, 20th Century Ghosts, won the Bram Stoker Award and British Fantasy Award for Best Collection. He earned the Eisner Award for Best Writer for his long-running comic book series, Locke & Key, featuring the art of Gabriel Rodriguez.
Career
Hill chose to use an abbreviated form of his middle name for his professional surname in 1997, out of a desire to succeed based solely on his own merits rather than as the son of one of the world's best-selling and most-recognized living novelists. After achieving a degree of independent success, Hill publicly confirmed his identity in 2007, the year his first novel came out, after an article the previous year in Variety reported his identity.
Hill is a recipient of the Ray Bradbury Fellowship. He has also received the William L. Crawford award for best new fantasy writer in 2006, the A. E. Coppard Long Fiction Prize in 1999 for "Better Than Home", and the 2006 World Fantasy Award—Novella for "Voluntary Committal". His stories have appeared in a variety of magazines, such as Subterranean Magazine, Postscripts and The High Plains Literary Review, and in many anthologies, including The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror (ed. Stephen Jones) and The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror" (ed. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin Grant).
Hill's first book, the limited edition collection 20th Century Ghosts (published in 2005 by PS Publishing), showcases fourteen of his short stories and won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection, together with the British Fantasy Award for Best Collection and Best Short Story for "Best New Horror". In October 2007, Hill's mainstream US and UK publishers reprinted 20th Century Ghosts, without the extras published in the 2005 slipcased versions, but including one new story.
Hill's first novel, Heart-Shaped Box, was published by William Morrow/HarperCollins in February, 2007 and by Victor Gollancz Ltd in UK the following month. The novel reached number eight on the New York Times bestseller list on April 1, 2007. In September, 2007, at the thirty-first Fantasycon, the British Fantasy Society awarded Hill the first ever Sydney J. Bounds Best Newcomer Award. In 2008, Hill's comic book series Locke & Key was released. The first issue, released on February 20, 2008, sold out its initial publication run in one day. A collection of the series in limited form from Subterranean Press sold out within 24 hours of being announced.
Hill's second novel, Horns, was published in February 2010. A film based on the novel was released in 2014, directed by Alexandre Aja and starring Daniel Radcliffe and Juno Temple. NOS4A2, his third novel, was published in April 2013. The novel peaked at number five on the New York Times Best Seller list. Hill's fourth novel, The Fireman, was released in May 2016. It entered the New York Times Best Seller list at number one, making it his highest-ranked novel.
In 2019, In the Tall Grass, co-written with his father Stephen King, was released as a Netflix Original film. Filming for the Locke & Key TV series, also by Netflix, began in the middle of January 2019 and the first season aired in February 2020. AMC began broadcasting a TV series of NOS4A2 in July 2019. The first season of Creepshow, released in September 2019, featured an adaptation of Hill's short story "By the Silver Waters of Lake Champlain".
Following DC Comics's announcement in June 2019 that it would suspend publication of its Vertigo Comics imprint, they announced that Hill would oversee and share the writing for a new horror line, Hill House Comics. which Hill has begun discussing with editor Mark Doyle in 2017. The line was originally to be titled Vertigo Fall, then Joe Hill's Vertigo Fall, before being given its eventual name.
Among Hill's unpublished works is one partly completed story with his father ("But Only Darkness Loves Me"), which is held with the Stephen King papers at the Special Collections Unit of the Raymond H Fogler Library at the University of Maine in Orono, Maine.
Gabriel Rodríguez
Born in Santiago, Chile, Gabriel Rodríguez began working as an illustrator in the late 90s and in 2002 started drawing books for IDW Publishing, including CSI, George Romero’s Land of the Dead, and Beowulf, amongst others. In 2007, he co-created the award-winning series Locke & Key with Joe Hill. He continued developing other creator-owned projects: the Eisner-winning Little Nemo: Return to Slumberland, with Eric Shanower; Sword of Ages; and the gritty sci-fi adventure Onyx, with Chris Ryall. In 2019, he partnered with Hill once again for two new Locke & Key stories, “Dog Days” and “Nailed It.”
- Publisher:
- IDW
- Edition:
- Signed First Edition / First Printing
- Format:
- Hardcover
- Author:
- Joe Hill
- Title:
- Locke & Key: The Golden Age
- Certification:
- COA
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