"We get people who say they never thought they'd come into a comic book store but think this is so much fun," Dial said. "We get people of all ages in a mostly LDS demographic."

The first volume covered the first 14 chapters of the Book of Mormon. The second volume picks up the story in 1 Nephi 15 and continues through 2 Nephi 27, and it includes the story of Nephi breaking his bow.

Dial said Volume 3 probably will be released by September.

Allred, who started out in the business drawing Spider-Man, Superman and the X-Men, is self-publishing the series, and his Web site hypes the series with the bold strokes and capital letters typical of comic books: "The Breathtaking Adventure, Romance, Terror, Joy, and Power of THE BOOK OF MORMON Begins Here."

It's just the thing for Glenn, whose great-great-great-grandfather joined the LDS Church two years after the Book of Mormon was published but somehow didn't think to pay $1.20 for an extra copy to hand down to his great-great-great-grandson.

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