why I love The Master...

From Hell started life by being serialised in Steve Bissette's groundbreaking Taboo (SpiderBaby Grafix & Publications), with chapters 1 to 6 appearing in issues #2 to #7 between 1989 and 1992. Besides these six installments of the story, there were also three illustrations by Alan Moore which appeared on the inside back covers of issues #2 to #4. These illustrations featured various characters and places from From Hell, and were entitled Major Arcana. It seems probable that Moore intended this to be a longer series, but these three are the only ones that I know of. The first of these also appears on the cover of Book One of From Hell: The Compleat Scripts, and it is possible that subsequent volumes were intended to feature the other illustrations on their covers.

All images appear exactly as the are on the page, and the apparent poor quality of the third image and the poor framing of it are as they are in the original publication.

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The Bowing Machine, written by Alan Moore and with art by Mark Beyer, originally appeared in RAW Vol 2 No 3 (Penguin Books, 1991).

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