These editions have the stories as originally printed without any of the frames that were missing in some of the other reprints, notably the Hawk publications book. In recent years, the parts of the Trigan Empire that were drawn by Don Lawrence have been reprinted by the Don Lawrence Collection in luxury hardback limited editions. Both the Hamlyn and Hawk books have parts cut from some of the original stories, most notably in the Hawk book there are sometimes entire pages that have been taken out. A later book was printed by Hawk Publishing in 1989 as Tales of the Trigan Empire in hardback form.
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In the United Kingdom, Hamlyn Publishing printed one book called simply, "The Trigan Empire", this was printed in the United States by Chartwell Publishing.
#TALES OF THE TRIGAN EMPIRE SERIES#
The series ran in Look and Learn until the title ceased publication with issue 1049, April 1982, an extraordinary run of 854 issues between the two magazines. Both titles were weekly educational magazines designed for young people although mainly filled with articles on life, history, science and technology, both contained a small comic strip section in each issue. The strip first appeared in the first issue of the British magazine Ranger in September 1965 and then in the British Look and Learn magazine from issue 232 (June 1966) when the two titles merged after the 40th issue of Ranger. Eventually, at a very advanced age, a scientist - Peter Richard Haddon - who had studied the books from the spaceship as a young man manages to decrypt the volumes, and begins to relate the tales. After many years, the spaceship is turned into the central attraction of an amusement park. Studies of the crew reveal them to be humanoid, but around 12 feet tall. The first strip told of a spaceship crashing into a swamp on Earth, the crew frozen to death, with many written volumes inside in an unknown language. Several of the other civilizations show a similar blend of both low and high tech. In a later story, the Trigans create a rocketship in months to fly to one of Elekton's moons. The fledgling Trigan nation is established under the leadership of Trigo, with the trappings of a Romanesque civilization with swords, lances and Roman-style clothing, but with high tech ray guns, aircraft and a high-tech navy. Trigo persuades his more conservative brothers that in the face of changing events, namely the ambitions of the Lokan Empire, that they must settle. The Trigans began as a nomadic tribe called the Vorgs, with no technology, initially under the leadership of three brothers, Trigo, Brag and Klud. The series was a strange blend of low and high tech. The Trigans' clothing was similar to that of the Romans, with many of the populace dressed in toga-like garments, or in the case of the soldiery, in Roman-style armour.Ī similar likeness could be drawn with Hericon, the chief rival in power to the Trigans, whose appearance seemed to mirror that of elements of the Byzantine empire, and the Persian Empire. This similarity even extended to Trigan City, the capital being built on five hills, in a similar fashion to the seven hills of Rome. Chief among these was the Trigan Empire, apparently modelled on the Roman empire.
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Heavily influenced by mythological tales, a number of the societies seemed to be based on ancient cultures that had existed in history.
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It initially ran from 1965 to 1982, dealing with the long-past events of an empire on the distant planet of Elekton. It told the story of an alien culture that contained an educational blend of science and Earth-like ancient civilizations. The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire, later called simply The Trigan Empire was a science fiction comic series written mainly by Mike Butterworth and most notably drawn by Don Lawrence.
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The Trigan Empire (The Don Lawrence Collection) (2004 - 2008) (12 vols) The Look and Learn Book of the Trigan Empire (1973) Original material for the series has been published as a strip in the comics anthology(s) Ranger and Look and Learn.