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Bacchus is a comics character created by Eddie Campbell and based upon the Roman god of wine and revelry, known to the Greeks as Dionysus. ==Publication history== Bacchus first appeared as a character in ''Deadface'' (March 1987), a Harrier Comics title which lasted eight issues. In issue five Campbell spun the character out of that book and into his own comic, the eponymous ''Bacchus'', a book that lasted two issues, focussing the ''Deadface'' comic on Joe Theseus, an updated version of Theseus. When Harrier Comics ceased publication, Campbell managed to sell stories containing the character to numerous publishers; the American publisher Dark Horse, where the character appeared in their anthology title ''Dark Horse Presents'', and who also collected the ''Deadface'' comics in the ''Deadface:Immortality Isn't Forever'' collection published November, 1990; and two British publishers, Trident Comics, where the stories appeared in their black and white anthology, ''Trident'', and Atomeka, appearing in ''A1'', another black and white anthology. Dark Horse then collected these short stories and serialised them in comic book form as the three issue mini-series ''Deadface: Doing The Islands With Bacchus'' (1991), as well as serialising the adventures of another character from the mythos, The Eyeball Kid, grandson of Argus "all eyes", in ''Cheval Noir'', which was later extended and repackaged as a three issue mini-series, ''The Eyeball Kid'' in 1992. After these collections and repackaging, Dark Horse commissioned the new storyline, ''Deadface: Earth, Water, Air, & Fire'', a four issue mini-series published in 1992. Following this in May 1993 came ''1,001 Nights of Bacchus'', a single issue comic book compilation of various other previously uncollected storylines which Campbell had placed with various publishers but which he had also created within a unified framing sequence. The next storylines related to the Bacchus mythos were again serialised, this time in ''Dark Horse Presents'' as ''Hermes vs the Eyeball Kid'' (1993-1994) and ''The Picture Of Doreen Grey'' (1995), the former also collected as a three issue mini-series in 1994-1995. The final work in the Bacchus mythos to be published by Dark Horse was also the first time Bacchus appeared within a comic published in colour, ''The Ghost In The Glass'', published in 1995. At this point Campbell decided to self-publish his own comic, ''Eddie Campbell's Bacchus'', in which he published two new storylines featuring Bacchus, ''King Bacchus'' and ''Banged Up'', while concurrently revising and reprinting the material already published, and also adding new stories to the ''1,001 Nights of Bacchus'' sequence. The Bacchus character's stories came to an end after the ''Banged Up'' storyline, and although Campbell eventually finished the reprinting of the previously published material, he continued publishing ''Eddie Campbell's Bacchus'', updating the name to ''Eddie Campbell's Bacchus Magazine'' to reflect the growing number of text pieces he was running, before cancelling the book with issue sixty. Campbell also published these revised storylines in the graphic novel format in collaboration with the publisher Top Shelf. The entire Bacchus saga is to be published in two 500 page volumes by Top Shelf Productions. These volumes are currently scheduled for release in 2012 (Vol 1 ISBN 978-1-60309-026-1, Vol 2 ISBN 978-1-60309-027-8). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bacchus (comics)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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