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3 unusual facts about The Dark Tower: Treachery


The Dark Tower: Treachery

The series is written and illustrated by the same creative team as The Gunslinger Born and The Long Road Home, which includes writers Robin Furth and Peter David, and illustrators Jae Lee and Richard Isanove.

On February 11, 2009, Marvel released the The Dark Tower: Guide to Gilead written by Anthony Flamini and Robin Furth.

Artist Mike Perkins was also present to promote The Stand: Captain Trips, Marvel's comic book adaptation of Stephen King's novel, The Stand.


A'Lelia Walker

In October 1927, she converted a floor of the home into The Dark Tower, a cultural salon that became legendary as one of the gathering place of the era, a places where Harlem's talented artists socialized with their Greenwich Village counterparts as well as European and African royalty.

Christina's World

In the fourth novel of Stephen King's series The Dark Tower, one of the gunslingers is reminded of this painting when one of his company finds a new wheelchair.

Maybrook, New York

Maybrook is referenced in the seventh volume of The Dark Tower by popular horror novelist Stephen King.

Robert Browning

Stephen King's The Dark Tower was chiefly inspired by the poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" by Robert Browning, whose full text was included in the final volume's appendix.

Roland Deschain

According to a supplemental prose story by Robin Furth included in The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born (issues #7 & #2, respectively), Roland's ancestry traces back to Arthur Eld and Emmanuelle Deschain, the daughter of his seneschal, Kay Deschain, while the Crimson King's ancestry traces back to an affair between Arthur and the Crimson Queen.

The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger

This world has a few things in common with our own, however, including memories of the song "Hey Jude" and the child's rhyme that begins "Beans, Beans, the Musical Fruit".

The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born

In August 2007, Marvel released the The Dark Tower: Gunslinger's Guidebook written by Robin Furth and Anthony Flamini.

The Dark Tower: The Long Road Home

The series is written and illustrated by the same creative team as The Gunslinger Born, which includes writers Robin Furth and Peter David, and illustrators Jae Lee and Richard Isanove.

In July 2008, Marvel released The Dark Tower: End-World Almanac, written by Robin Furth and Anthony Flamini.

The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl

Plus, the fantasy western structure is reminiscent of other stories such as Jonah Hex, Brisco County, Jr., and Stephen King's The Dark Tower series.


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