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AMETHYST, PRINCESS OF GEMWORLD

"Amethyst: Princess of Gemworld is the name of three comic book series published by DC Comics in the 1980s. They followed the adventures of a young girl named Amy Winston who discovers on her 13th birthday that she is in fact the princess from a magical world. Amy also learns that the parents that she has known are not her real parents; her real parents are dead, and a dark figure from Gemworld is out to destroy her. Now Amy must travel to Gemworld, becoming older through the voyage (since time moves differently in Gemworld, Amy ages into a woman in her early twenties while there) and fight the evil that is attacking her" - from Wikipedia

Original Medium: Comic Books
Published by: DC Comics
First Appeared: 1983
Creators: Dan Mishkin, Gary Cohn (writers) and Ernie Colón (artist)

"The story of Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld, is a cautionary tale of what can happen to a character perceived to have little commercial value, when editors allow her to be buffetted by the vicissitudes of a superhero universe. She started out as an excellent fairy-tale hero with a strong female appeal, and wound up being stretched in a dozen different directions by writers of all kinds of disparate series.

DC Comics' original Amethyst series ran 12 monthly issues, starting with a May, 1983 cover date. It consisted of a complete, self-contained story about Amy Winston, who on her 13th birthday discovered that what every little girl dreams of was, for her, true. She was, indeed, adopted; and her rightful position was, indeed, as princess of a magical land in another plane of existence. What's more, since time flowed differently in her other-worldly realm, when she was there, she was a 20-year-old woman, Amethyst, and was loved by the dashing and handsome Prince Topaz. And if that wasn't enough to rope in every adolescent female, in the fifth issue, she got herself a winged unicorn.

Writer Dan Mishkin, one of Amethyst's co-creators, is also known for his work on Wonder Woman and various other DC Comics characters, including Blue Devil, which he co-created. Gary Cohn, who co-wrote the initial series, is also known for DC work, and as one of Blue Devil's other co-creators. Amethyst's third co-creator, artist Ernie Colón, was already known for his work at Harvey Comics, where he drew Jackie Jokers, Hot Stuff the Little Devil etc. In Amethyst, as in other DC work such as Arak Son of Thunder, he proved himself capable of excelling in more than one style, delivering a job as different from the standard superhero fare as from his own earlier work.

Together, the three crafted a tale of adventure, intrigue, romance, and all the other elements of a fine page-turner, as Amethyst struggled against Dark Opal, who had murdered her parents, to establish herself as rightful ruler of the Gemworld.

Even while her 12 issues were running their course, however, the character started being used elsewhere. An early guest appearance with Superman established her as a part of the mainstream DC Universe, and therefore fair game for use in other series. Within a few years, she'd been swept up into DC's first big crossover event, Crisis on Infinite Earths; become allied with Dr. Fate's Lords of Order; and gotten integrally involved with the back-story of The Legion of Super Heroes. She's dropped the Amy Winston persona, merged with the Gemworld itself, manifest herself as a spirit entity, and even been used as a villain. You'd scarcely know her anymore.

But if you can find them, those original twelve 1983-84 issues (which have never been reprinted, unfortunately) still make up a fine adventure story for young people."
— DDM (Toonopedia)

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This torrent includes:
* The initial 12-issue Maxiseries plus the Annual.
Published from 1983 to 1984.

* The 16-issue run plus the Special one-shot.
Published from 1985 to 1986.

* The 4-issue Miniseries.
Published from 1987 to 1988.
Note: this mini had a different creative team:
Plot: Keith Giffen
Dialogue: Mindy Newell
Art: Esteban Maroto
Letter: John Constanza
Colors: Tatjana Wood
Editor: Karen Berger

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