''The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born'' is a seven-issue

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published by

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. It is the first comic book miniseries based on

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's '' The Dark Tower'' series of novels. It is plotted by

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, scripted by

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, and illustrated by Jae Lee and Richard Isanove. Stephen King serves as Creative and Executive Director of the project. The first issue was published on February 7, 2007.

Overview

The first issue of ''The Gunslinger Born'' was released at midnight on February 7, 2007. Creators Peter David and Jae Lee, and Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada appeared at a midnight signing at a Times Square, New York City comic book store to promote it. ''The Gunslinger Born'' is an expansion and interpretation of events covered in The Dark Tower series, beginning with Roland Deschain's manhood test against List of characters from the Dark Tower series#Cort, Cort and ending with the last events of the flashback sequences in ''The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass, Wizard and Glass''. Furth indicated that later arcs would "cover the time period between Roland leaving Hambry and the fall of Gilead".

Issues

Related releases

*''The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born Sketchbook'' (December 2006) *''Marvel Spotlight: The Dark Tower'' (January 2007) *''The Dark Tower: Gunslinger's Guidebook'' (August 2007)

Collected editions

The entire seven-issue run of ''The Gunslinger Born'' was collected into a hardcover edition, released by Marvel on November 7, 2007 (), though it does not include the prose work that ran in the individual issues. A paperback edition was later released on May 19, 2010 (). The series was also included in the hardcover release of ''The Dark Tower Omnibus'' on September 21, 2011 (). On August 28, 2018, Gallery 13 republished the original hardcover collection as ''Stephen King's The Dark Tower: Beginnings - The Gunslinger Born (Book 1)'' (). On October 23, 2018, this edition (along with Books 2-5) was included in the boxed set ''Stephen King's The Dark Tower: Beginnings - The Complete Graphic Novel Series'' ().

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