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Marseille
Edmond comes home to Marseille. He has work, family, love and a future ahead of him.
Eyeball Comics presents
TheCountofMonte Cristo
A twelve-volume graphic adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ novel.
Featured Volume
Volume I
The Fall of Edmond Dantès
Volume I begins in Marseille, where Edmond Dantès returns home with everything ahead of him: a promising career, his father, and Mercédès. Within a single day, jealousy and fear turn that future into a trap.
A false accusation interrupts his marriage feast, and Edmond is taken from the open Mediterranean world to the walls of Château d’If. This first volume follows the moment a young sailor’s life is broken apart - before the prison changes him, before the Count, and before revenge begins.
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A Visual Narrative
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Betrayal
Jealousy and fear lead to a false letter. A few ordinary choices put an innocent man in danger.
03
The Marriage-Feast
Edmond and Mercédès are celebrating their marriage when officers arrive and take him away.
04
Château d’If
The open harbor is gone. Sea, darkness and prison walls close around Edmond.
Inside the Book
Finished Spreads from Volume I
Pages 1–2 of 20. The Volume I title page appears beside the Series Note, introducing the twelve-volume adaptation and its aim to preserve the novel’s scale and narrative sequence.
Pages 1–2 of 20
Paperback edition · Photo 1 of 12
Available Editions
Available in Paperback, Hardcover & Kindle
- Paperback
- A4 / 8.27 × 11.69 in78 pages · Premium color interior on white paperGlossy paperback cover
- Hardcover
- 8.25 × 11 in / 20.96 × 27.94 cm78 pages · Premium color interior on white paperCase-laminate hardcover · Matte finish
- Kindle ebook
- Digital illustrated editionComplete 78-page Volume I · Full-color artworkOriginal page composition preserved · Kindle devices & apps
This is not a shortened retelling.
This adaptation does not squeeze The Count of Monte Cristo into a quick summary. It follows Edmond Dantès step by step, keeps the important characters, places and events, and gives the story time to show why people make their choices and how those choices change everything.
The complete story is planned across twelve graphic volumes, so the journey can unfold at its own pace instead of being rushed.
The Twelve-Volume Journey
One Novel. Twelve Volumes.
Volume I is the finished physical book. Volumes II-XII are planned. Their covers are concepts that show the direction of the series. They are not books for sale yet.
Volume I - The Fall of Edmond Dantès
About Eyeball Comics
Classic stories, seen anew.
Independent graphic adaptations of great books.
Eyeball Comics is an independent publishing project by Ian Kirs, bringing classic literature into long-form graphic editions while preserving the scale, atmosphere and narrative depth of the originals.
The Count of Monte Cristo is the first project - a twelve-volume graphic adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ novel.
Human-directed. AI-assisted.
Why this edition
Discover it for the first time. Return to it differently.
For younger and first-time readers, the graphic form opens a door into Dumas through faces, places, atmosphere and momentum - without reducing the novel to a quick summary. The twelve-volume format gives the story room to breathe.
For readers who already know and love The Count of Monte Cristo, the series offers another way to inhabit the novel: cinematic in image, but paced like a book - a world to pause over, revisit and experience again.
Planned as twelve matching physical volumes, it is also a collection to build, keep on a shelf and give - to a young reader discovering the story, to a lifelong admirer of Dumas, or simply to someone who loves beautiful books.
For someone meeting Edmond Dantès for the first time - or someone who has never really left him.
Begin the Journey
Explore Volume I
The story starts in Marseille - before the prison, before the Count and before revenge.