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“This comic features sex, pirates, swordfights, poetry, AND people puking. It’s basically classic Shakespeare?”

—Ryan North (Creator, To Be or Not To Be—That is the Adventure, Writer, Adventure Time Comics)

Hamlet, Juliet, Othello, and Shakespeare have barely escapted the destruction of Prospero’s Island. But the island has not completely loosened its grip on our heroes as madness and memories threaten to turn them against each other.

Meanwhile, the Pirate Captain Cesario and his first mate—and lover—Viola patrol the Sea of Messaline in their ship, The Boreas, always on the hunt for easy prey...

KILL SHAKESPEARE: THE MASK OF NIGHT #1:

“A Notable Pirate”

WRITTEN BY

Conor McCreery and Anthony Del Col

COVER CHECKLIST:

ART BY

Andy Belanger Adam Gorham INK ASSISTS BY

Shari Chankhamma COLORS BY

Chris Mowry LETTERING BY

Tom Waltz EDITS BY

STANDARD COVER Art by Andy Belanger Colors by Shari Chankhamma

SUBSCRIPTION COVER Art by J.K. Woodward

Special thanks to Keith WTS Morris, Martha Cornog, Dr. Toby Malone, Sam Zimmerman, Tom Waltz, Chris Ryall, Jerry Bennington, Nate Murray, Nathan McNair, David Hedgecock, Dirk Wood, Greg Goldstein, Mike Ford, Alan Payne and everyone at IDW, Wolf Plancke, Thomas Vande Giste, Ryan North, Geoff Moore, Alice Quinn.

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KILL SHAKESPEARE: THE MASK OF NIGHT #1. JUNE 2014. FIRST PRINTING. Kill Shakespeare: The Mask of Night is © and ™ 2014 Kill Shakespeare Entertainment, Inc. All Rights Reserved. All logos, character likenesses and related elements featured in this publication are © and ™ Kill Shakespeare Entertainment, Inc. © 2014 Idea and Design Works, LLC. All Rights Reserved. IDW Publishing, a division of Idea and Design Works, LLC. Editorial offices: 5080 Santa Fe Street, San Diego, CA 92109. The IDW logo is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Any similarities to persons living or dead are purely coincidental. With the exception of artwork used for review purposes, none of the contents of this publication may be reprinted without the permission of Idea and Design Works, LLC. Printed in Korea.

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