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Robert Asprin (writer) and Phil Foglio (artist), Myth Adventures
Airship Entertainment (1978, 1985, 1986, 2007) ISBN: 978-1-890856-43-4
Score: 5

This is a reprint of the Foglio's graphic novelization of Asprin's Another Fine Myth, originally published by Warp Graphics as 8 issues and then as two collections; not to be confused with Myth Adventures vol. 1, which is an omnibus of Asprin's first six Myth books with illustrations by Foglio. I had already read the first collection when it came out and most of the novels, but I'm still glad I got this; there are some differences from the text in the second part, including some information not available in any of the novels (backstory for Tananda, Garkin, and Isstvan).

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Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo, Asterix and the Class Act
(translated by Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge)
Orion (2003) ISBN: 0-75286-068-2
Score: 1

A collection of short stories (in comic book format), most of them promotional bits. It is subtitled "Fourteen All New Asterix Stories", though as you can see from the contents below, in this case "all new" means "published in the last 50 years" and "fourteen" means "thirteen", unless you count the one page intro which is a slightly modified version of the "Press Conference" used to promote Asterix and the Big Fight. This does seem to be the first English publication of these stories (except for the press conference and "The Birth of an Idea", both of which appear (B&W, with slightly different text) in Kessler's The Complete Guide to Asterix, and "In 50 BC" which was originally published in National Geographic). Not a very good introduction to the series.

Starred entries were written by Rene Goscinny:
* "Asterix and the Class Act" (1966, 2 pages)
"The Birth of Asterix" (1994, 4 pages)
* "In 50 BC" (1977, 3 pages)
"Chanticleerix" (2003, 5 pages)
* "For Gaul Lang Syne" (1967, 2 pages)
* "Mini Midi Maxi" (1971, 2 pages)
"Asterix as you have never seen him before..." (1969, 3 pages)
"The Lutetia Olympics" (1986, 4 pages)
"Springtime in Gaul" (1966, 2 pages)
* "The Mascot" (1968, 4 pages)
* "Latinomania" (1973, 1 page)
* "The Obelix Family Tree" (1963, 4.5 pages)
* "The Birth of an Idea" (1962, 1 page)

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