Allan Quatermain may not be as well known as Tarzan or Indiana Jones, but he adventured his way through lost civilizations long before those two characters’ adventures had been put into writing. Perhaps not surprisingly, he’s about to make a comeback.

Quatermain first appeared in Sir H. Rider Haggard’s 1886 novel King Solomon’s Mines, and he set the standard for generations of adventure heroes. Haggard’s second most famous character, the Ayesha, followed a year later in the rousing “lost civilization” yarn, She. Both Quatermain and Ayesha proved to be so popular that Haggard wrote one of the earliest versions of a “crossover” with the characters, both of whom have proven to be durable over the decades in print and on film.

With a resurgence in pulps and classic adventure at an all time high, Sequential Pulp’s Michael Hudson felt a graphic novel series built around the adventures of Allan Quatermain was due. The results: A Quatermain Adventure: King Solomon’s Mines and A Quatermain Adventure: She.

“Our version of King Solomon’s Mines is the first in a series of wild adventures that take Quatermain and his companions all over the world…and even beneath it. The second graphic novel in the series is an adaptation of She, which blends elements from both the original novel and She and Allan. I’m thrilled to have two creators well versed in adventure comic storytelling in Mark Ellis and Pablo Marcos on King Solomon’s Mines. The work that has been coming in is stunning!” Hudson said.

Sequential Pulp’s King Solomon’s Mines will solicit mid 2013 followed by She.