Ahead of the August premiere of Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller's movie sequel Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, Dark Horse has announced it will debut a massive omnibus hardcover collecting the artist's entire landmark crime saga.
In addition, the publisher will bring Frank Miller: The Art of Sin City back into print in trade paperback format, and re-release the hardcover edition 1993's A Dame to Kill For. All three are scheduled to arrive on June 25.
Frank Miller's Big Damn Sin City brings together Miller and Lynn Varley's seven hardboiled tales -- The Hard Goodbye, A Dame to Kill For, The Big Fat Kill, The Yellow Bastard, Family Values, Booze, Broads & Bullets and Hell and Back -- in one 1,344-page volume that Dark Horse contends is "suitable for home defense."
The omnibus will be accompanied by the softcover edition of the long-out-of-print Frank Miller: The Art of Sin City, featuring an introduction by critic R.C. Harvey, and the 212-page A Dame to Kill For, in hardcover for the first time in years. See the covers and solicitation text for all three books below.
UPDATE (Jan. 3): Dark Horse has notified us that Frank Miller's Big Damn Sin City will retail for $100. The price originally listed was incorrect.
AS DAMN BIG AS THEY COME!
Frank Miller’s Big Damn Sin City HC
Frank Miller (W/A/Cover) and Lynn Varley (C)
On sale June 25
b&w/FC, 1344 pages
$100
HC, 7” x 10”
The biggest, baddest Sin City ever is here, just in time for Fall’s Sin City 2: A Dame to Kill For! This imposing volume, suitable for home defense, contains all seven of Frank Miller's landmark Sin City yarns! In these tales of Marv, Dwight, Gail, Miho, Hartigan, Nancy, and the Yellow Bastard, no corner of Basin City is left unturned, and no bloody deed is left undone. Written with unmatched intensity and drawn in the starkest black and white imaginable, the Sin City books make up the greatest crime saga in comics history, and Big Damn Sin City is the best way to rediscover it!
• Every blood-soaked page of Sin City to date!
• Over one million Sin City books in print!
Frank Miller: The Art of Sin City TP
Frank Miller (W/A/Cover)
On sale June 25
b&w/FC, 128 pages
$25.00
TP, 9” x 12”
Frank Miller’s Sin City has set the gold standard for crime comics, both for Miller’s unflinching stories and for his visceral, powerfully charged art. To honor the artist and his groundbreaking work, Dark Horse is proud to return Frank Miller: The Art of Sin City to print, now in an affordable softcover edition. An astonishing look into a master’s process, containing pieces both published and unpublished, and featuring items ranging from preliminary sketches to promotional pieces, this beautiful artistic showcase holds everything a Sin City fan, or connoisseur of fine art, could ever hope for.
• The out-of-print masterpiece, now in softcover!
• Available just in time for the release of Miller and Robert Rodriguez’s Sin City: A Dame to Kill For!
• Includes rarely seen art!
• Introduction by art critic R. C. Harvey!
The inspiration for this Fall’s most anticipated film!
Sin City 2: A Dame to Kill For HC
Frank Miller (W/A/Cover) and Lynn Varley (C)
On sale June 25
b&w, 212 pages
$24.99
HC, 7” x 10”
Stuck with nothing but a seedy gumshoe job and some demons, Dwight's thinking of all the ways he's screwed up and what he'd give for one clear chance to wipe the slate clean, to dig his way out of the numb gray hell that is his life. And he'd give anything. Just to feel the fire. One more time. But he can't let himself lose control again, can't ever let the monster out. And then Ava calls.
• Eisner Award–winner for Best Limited Series!
• Back in hardcover for the first time in years!