{"title":"Creators \/ Harry Harrison","description":"\u003cp\u003eBorn in Stamford, Connecticut, USA in 1925. In 1943 Harry was drafted into the Army Air Corps, where he worked on secret military computers, as an armourer and gunnery instructor, and finally - promoted to sergeant - a Military Policeman. During his time in the army, Harry proved himself an excellent shot, and was awarded the Sharpshooter medal. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  A skilled artist, Harry began his career in the SF world by providing illustrations for books and magazines. He soon teamed up with comics legend Wally Wood and began drawing comics for Fox and EC. Around this time Harry soon found himself re-writing the often barely-literate scripts. Then he was writing original scripts, and soon moved on to editing comics. Around that time Harry was also writing for a number of men's magazines, \"true-life\" stories along the lines of \"I Went Down With My Ship\" and \"I Was an Iron-Lung Baby.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  In 1956 he became a freelance writer \/ editor \/ anthologist, concentrating mostly on short stories and novels, but he didn't abandon the comics industry: for ten years, Harry wrote the daily and weekly Flash Gordon newspaper strips, as well as a large number of other strips for American and British comics. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Harry's first work to appear in the pages of 2000 AD was \"Rick Random and the S.O.S. from Space\" in the 1978 Sci-Fi special, reprinted from Super Detective Library, November 1957. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  The Stainless Steel Rat (adapted by Kelvin Gosnell and Carlos Ezquerra from the first novel to feature the character) made his first appearance in prog 140 (24 Nov 1979), and featured a half-page introduction by Harry. The story proved a big hit with fans who consistently rated it second only to Judge Dredd. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World (the third Rat novel) started in prog 166 (5 July 1980), and was followed in prog 393 (24 Nov 1984) by The Stainless Steel Rat for President (the fifth novel).\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"grn378-the-stainless-steel-rat-digital","title":"The Stainless Steel Rat","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGENTLEMEN THIEF-SCIENCE-FICTION HERO!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSlippery Jim, aka The Stainless Steel Rat, may be the greatest con-man of all time. He's charming and quick-witted, a master thief and adventurer. Yet the road to infamy doesn't always run smooth and Jim diGriz finds himself forced into serving the Special Corps elite law enforcement agency and confronting the beautiful but deadly Angelina - his future wife! Things get even stranger for the Rat when he has to travel through time to stop a master criminal meddling with the past... and then help overthrow an evil President by running for the job himself!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow read Harry Harrison's science-fiction classic, collected together as a graphic novel for the very first time and featuring the stunning artwork of Carlos Ezquerra. Harry Harrison is the author of the Stainless Steel Rat and Bill the Galactic Hero novels, and the book which inspired the science fiction movie Soylent Green.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"publishing","offers":[{"title":"Standard Edition \/ Digital","offer_id":53832291778897,"sku":"GRN378","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0860\/6836\/3601\/files\/00.large_0393e726-cd0c-4ba6-a805-26b1738263f6.jpg?v=1779386504"},{"product_id":"grn884-the-stainless-steel-rat-colour-omnibus-digital","title":"The Stainless Steel Rat - Colour Omnibus","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cb\u003e2000 AD\u003c\/b\u003e adaptation of Harry Harrison's classic science-fiction novels by Kelvin Gosnell and Carlos Ezquerra returns in a new full colour omnibus!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Bolivar DiGriz aka 'The Stainless Steel Rat' is many things - a con man, a thief, and a member of an elite law-enforcement agency known as the Special Corps. After escaping the corps, DiGriz crosses paths with the beautiful but deadly Angelina who, like Jim DiGriz, is also a master criminal, albeit a lot more ruthless. 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