Baron 5 (Digital Version)

This is the last work of Dick Giordano. 

BARON FIVE 
 
“This invasion is not being fought with vast armadas of warships or ruthless armies but on a genetic warfront.” 
 
Baron Five aka Margus Von Kalev is a 14th century Estonian aristocrat who stumbled into blaster crossfire between alien forces. To atone for nearly destroying him, his decimated body was re-engineered by the benevolent Dagon. These alien law enforcers have entrusted him as their agent on Earth combating the rouge clan the Kuri. He is joined in this struggle by his alien liaison Tartu who has been consigned into the form of a wild boar, the young psychic Phoebe Tuckett, and Seattle homicide detective Keisha Walker. It is a bit of CSI meets Sci Fi as they uncover clues and conspiracies leading to the evil Sarvik’s plans for genetic invasion.

BARON FIVE ARTISTS  

DickGiordano: Artist and editor. A veteran of more than five decades in the comic book field, Dick Giordano began his career in 1951 working as an apprentice at the Jerry Iger Studio. After a short time, Dick left Iger's to become a freelance artist for Charlton Comics in 1952 where he later became the company's editor-in-chief in 1965, launching the short-lived but well-remembered Action Heroes line. In 1967 he moved to DC for a three-year stint as editor and became part of a creative team that helped to change the face of comic books in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Together with writer Dennis O'Neil and penciller Neal Adams, he helped to bring Batman back to his roots as a dark, brooding "creature of the night" and raise awareness of contemporary social issues through the adventures of Green Lantern and Green Arrow. The winner of numerous industry awards, Giordano later returned to DC and rose to the position of Vice President-Executive Editor where he was instrumental in launching Batman Returns, Watchmen and Crisis on Infinite Earths, among other mega hits before "retiring" in 1993 to once again pursue a full-time career as a penciller and inker. Since then he has worked for a variety of publishers, was featured in his biography "Dick Giordano - Changing Comics One Day at a Time"published by Twomorrows and written and drawn a how-to book for F+W Pubs, Draw Comics with Dick Giordano. Baron Five was Dick’s last artwork in a long and stellar career.

RobJones: . Rob is an illustrator whos work has appeared in books from Heroic Publishing, Students of the Unusual, MoonStone Books, in projects for companies like FedEX, and was the last assistant to train under industry legend Dick Giordano. Since Dick's passing in early 2010, Rob has been working with another industry legend and fellow Giordano disciple Bob Layton.

Author:

Mike O Quinn