VIC AND BLOOD #2 June 7
Issue 2, February 1988, Mad Dog ($2.00)
“A Boy And His Dog” Part Two / “Run, Spot, Run”
story, Harlan Ellison; art & cover, Richard Corben;
lettering, Diane Valentino; logo, Diane Valentino & Kevin Nowlan; editor, Jan Strnad
About
The two-issue black-&-white series Vic and Blood adapts the three “Vic and Blood†stories (â€Eggsucker,†“A Boy And His Dog,†and “Run, Spot, Runâ€) that Harlan Ellison had written at the time. These three stories are three parts of a novel Ellison has said he would write about Vic and Blood (Blood’s A Rover). “A Boy And His Dog†adapted into the film A Boy And His Dog (1975) directed by L.Q. Jones and starring Don Johnson.
“A Boy And His Dog†is continued from Vic And Blood #1. Both issues of the series were reprinted in color in the NBM volume Vic and Blood (1989) and the iBooks collection Vic And Blood: The Continuing Adventures of A Boy and His Dog (2003).
Original Stories
- “A Boy And His Dog” first appeared in New Worlds, April ’69 and has been included in the following collections: The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World, 1969; The Essential Ellison, 1987; and Edgeworks 4, 1997
- “Run, Spot, Run” first appeared in Amazing Science Fiction, January 1981
Reprints
- Reprinted in Vic and Blood, NBM, 1989
- Reprinted in Vic And Blood: The Continuing Adventures of A Boy and His Dog, iBooks, 2003
See Also
- Vic and Blood #1
- Vic and Blood (NBM, 1989)
- Vic And Blood: The Continuing Adventures of A Boy and His Dog (iBooks, 2003)
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