In July, Titan will also release The Prisoner: Original Art Edition, a hardcover edition of previously unreleased work by Kirby, Kane and writer Steve Englehart from their attempt to adapt the pilot episode of the TV show to comics during the 1970s. In addition to featuring the complete Kirby artwork for his unpublished issue — six pages of which were inked and lettered by his long-term collaborator, Mike Royer — the collection will also feature 18 pages of Kane’s pencils, and the complete script for Kane’s issue by Englehart.

All of this material was created for Marvel, which had the comic rights to the show in the mid-1970s, but never published anything. The Prisoner would make its comic debut more than a decade later when DC published a sequel, The Prisoner: Shattered Visage.

2018 marks the 50th anniversary of The Prisoner’s debut on U.S. television; the show had aired a year earlier, in 1967, on U.K. network ITV.

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