DC Universe Trail of Time (Movie in Your Mind) [Audio CD]

Jeff Mariotte (Author)

Book Description

Series: Movie in Your Mind

Clark Kent is living in a dark world where he has no powers, no memory of ever being anything other than human. His world is controlled by mystical forces no one can challenge, with the triumvirate of Vandal Savage, Mordru, and Felix Faust calling the shots. The Demon and Phantom Stranger approach Clark and tell him that he is really Superman, that alterations made more than a hundred years ago to the time stream are causing space-time fluctuations that will result in this particular reality becoming the sole reality, unless something is done. Since Superman is powerless in this reality, and since the alterations were made in the past, the three heroes have to travel into the past, specifically into the American Southwest of the 1870s, where Jonah Hex, Bat Lash and other DC Western heroes help them set things right again. Copyright (p) & © 2010 DC Comics. All Rights Reserved. All characters, their distinctive likenesses, and related elements are trademarks of DC Comics.

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About the Author

Jeff Mariotte was born in Park Forest, Illinois. He's lived in Arlington and Reston, Virginia, Worms and Schriesheim, Germany, San Jose, San Diego, and Arizona. He graduated from San Jose State University with a degree in Radio/TV/Film. He has worked delivering the Washington Post, in a comic book store, fast food, selling encyclopedias door-to-door, and as maintenance supervisor for a large regional shopping center. He was the manager of Hunterís Books, La Jolla when his first fiction was published. He has been VP of Marketing and Senior Editor for comic book publisher WildStorm Productions, Editor-in-Chief for IDW Publishing, and a freelance writer. He and his wife Maryelizabeth Hart and partner Terry Gilman are the owners of Mysterious Galaxy, an independent bookstore specializing in mystery, science fiction, fantasy, and horror. He currently lives in Arizona with Maryelizabeth, daughter Holly, son David, two cats and two dogs, in a house filled with books and comics and toys and music and laughter. --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.

From AudioFile

Grab the popcorn and settle in for a ride through time and parallel universes starring Clark Kent aka Superman, the Demon Etrigan, and the Phantom Stranger, who team up with DC 1870s Western heroes Jonah Hex and Bat Lash to save the universe from the evil cooked up by Vandal Savage, Mordu, and Felix Faust. The good guys chase the villains through time and universes to keep the world safe. Sound effects and music accompany each scene and punctuate moments of drama and horseback riding. The principal narrator's gravelly voice draws the listener into adventure stories that will have them cheering for their favorite heroes. M.B.K. © AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine

Product Details

• Audio CD: 1 pages
• Publisher: GraphicAudio (July 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1599506750
• ISBN-13: 978-1599506753
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #455,702 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jeffrey J. Mariotte is the multiple award-winning author of more than forty-five novels, including original supernatural thrillers Cold Black Hearts, River Runs Red and Missing White Girl, horror epic The Slab, thriller The Devil's Bait, and the Stoker-Award nominated teen horror quartet Dark Vengeance, as well as books set in the universes of Supernatural, CSI, Spider-Man, Superman, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Conan, 30 Days of Night, and more. He is also the author of more comic books than he has time to count, including the horror graphic novel Zombie Cop, the original Western series Desperadoes (some of which have been nominated for Stoker and International Horror Guild awards) and the bestselling Presidential Material: Barack Obama. He is a member of the International Thriller Writers, Western Writers of America, and the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers. With his wife, Maryelizabeth Hart, and partner Terry Gilman, he co-owns Mysterious Galaxy, a bookstore specializing in science fiction, fantasy, mystery and horror. He lives on the Flying M Ranch in the American southwest with his family and pets in a home filled with books, music, toys, and other examples of American pop culture. More information than you would ever want to know about him is at jeffmariotte.com, where you'll also find a link to his blog.

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars DC Universe: Trail of Time, March 4, 2007

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Harry J. Thiel (Pacific Northwest) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: DC Universe: Trail of Time (Mass Market Paperback)

I have read all four of the DC Universe books published so far. They are all worth reading but Trail of Time is by far the best. To have Jonah Hex, Bat Lash, Scalphunter, El Diablo, and Johnny Thunder together helping Superman, Phantom Stranger, and the Demon (Jason Blood)against Vandal Savage, Mordu and Felix Faust was magnificent. I never have seen a text adventure featuring the DC western heros before. This novel also has Dr Occult, Lois Lane, and Zatanna guest starring.

I hope that Warner publishes more of the DC Universe series as having the lessor known heros featured was a real trreat,

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars DC Universe;Trail of Time, September 1, 2009

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Carlos M. Fernandez "Carlos M Fernandez Super... (Panama City ,Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: DC Universe: Trail of Time (Mass Market Paperback)

This book should be the next DVD they make.A wonderful imaginative story,well written,exiting from start to end,takes you to the medieval past,parallel worlds,doppledangers and even a foray into hell with Superman,The Phantom Stranger and Etrigan duking it out with demons.The three villians Vandall Savage,Mordru the magician,and the wizard Felix Faust make formidible opponents for our heroic trio.Add in Western heroes Jonah Hex,El Diablo,and Batlash,and you get a mishmash,superbly imagined that leaves you breathless trying to guess what comes next.A must for Superman fans.Gives a lasting tribute and shows the importance of the Man of Steel in mythology.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Super Reader, May 2, 2008

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Blue Tyson "- Research Finished" (Legion clubhouse) - See all my reviews

This review is from: DC Universe: Trail of Time (Mass Market Paperback)

Superman, The Demon, and The Phantom Stranger.


One of the odder team-ups to come down the line, particularly in a novel.

This story opens with Clark Kent in a dystopian, scared future, with tight media control, and Lois pretty much a reporter with a double life, illegally investigating reports of a shadowy overlord known as Vandal Savage. It doesn't go to well for her.
This world also has a red sun.

The Stranger and Etrigan turn up, tell the Clark of this world of a dual-world timestream plot involving Mordru, Felix Faust and Vandal Savage.

Into this story we add Jonah Hex, Bat Lash, El Diablo, Scalphunter, and Johnny Thunder in separate interludes, as the heroes from modern times try and work out how to stop the plot, which from the aforementioned group of gunslingers is likely to end up in the Old West.

There's also a Lois Lane investigating people smuggling subplot, not sure why that was added - whether to have a significant female character, or to juxtapose the free-world Lois with what happens to the three overlord controlled variety, not sure, but it is the only part that doesn't seem to fit as well.

There are also cameos by Zatanna and Dr Occult.

So, barring the old Challengers of the Unknown or Blackhawks novels, this is likely the DC novel with the most obscure characters that may ever appear.