Dark Horse Comics is one of the largest independent American comic book publishers, behind dominant publishers Marvel Comics and DC Comics.

Mike Richardson, the owner of several comic book shops in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area, began to publish in 1986 with an anthology series called Dark Horse Presents, investing profits from his stores into Dark Horse Comics. The publisher is based in Milwaukie, Oregon.

Overview

Dark Horse publishes many licensed comics, including comics based on Star Wars, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Aliens, and Who Wants to be a Superhero? Dark Horse also publishes creator owned comics such as Frank Miller's Sin City and 300, Mike Mignola's Hellboy, Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo, Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira and Michael Chabon's The Escapist. From 1993-1996, Dark Horse published a line of superhero comics under the Comics Greatest World imprint, which was later re-named Dark Horse Heroes. After 1996, publication in this line came to a near halt, ceasing production of any books concerning the characters with the publication of the last crossover books involving Ghost, in the early 2000s. Today, the comic arm of the company flourishes despite no longer having their own universe of superpowered characters.

Dark Horse's film arm, Dark Horse Entertainment, produces films based on Dark Horse Comics, including The Mask and Hellboy.

Their DH Press imprint publishes novelizations of their more popular comic book titles, including Aliens and Predator.

Dark Horse titles

Original titles

• 300
• Abe Sapian
• The American
• Age of Reptiles
• Agents of Law
• Apocalypse Nerd
• ArchEnemies
• Badger
• Barb Wire
• Battle Gods: Warriors of the Chaak
• Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot
• Billi 99
• Billy the Kid's Old Timey Oddities
• Black Cross
• The Blackburne Covenant
• Boris the Bear
• BPRD

• Catalyst: Agents of Change
• Cheval Noir
• Concrete
• Cravan
• Creatures of the Night
• Criminal Macabre
• Cut
• Damn Nation
• The Dark Horse Book of
• Dark Horse Presents
• Dead or Alive
• The Deadlander
• El Zombo Fantasma
• Fear Agent
• Freaks of the Heartland
• Gary Gianni's The MonsterMen
• Ghost
• Gigantic
• Girl Crazy
• Give Me Liberty
• The Goon
• Grendel
• Groo

• The Hammer
• Hard Boiled
• Haunted Man
• Heartbreakers
• Hellboy
• The Helm
• Hero Zero
• HyperSonic
• Kingdom of the Wicked
• Living With The Dead
• Lords of Misrule
• Marshal Law
• The Mark
• The Mask
• Maxwell Strangewell
• The Moth
• Motorhead
• The Milkman Murders
• Out of the Vortex

• The Perhapanauts
• Red Rocket 7
• Revelations
• Rex Mundi
• Samurai: Heaven and Earth
• Scarlet Traces
• The Secret
• Sin City
• SpyBoy
• The End League
• The Thirteenth Son
• Timecop
• Tongue*Lash
• Trekker
• Truth Serum
• The Umbrella Academy
• Usagi Yojimbo
• Virus
• H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds
• Wacky Squirrel
• Will to Power
• X
• Zero Killer

Licensed properties

• Æon Flux
• Aliens
• Aliens vs. Predator
• Army of Darkness
• Conan the Barbarian
• The Dirty Pair
• Disney's Gremlins
• Digimon
• Doctor Solar
• Dr. Giggles
• Emily Strange
• The Escapist
• The Fog

• Gamera
• Godzilla
• Hard Looks
• Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor
• Hellgate: London
• The Hire
• The Incredibles
• Indiana Jones
• King Kong
• Kull of Atlantis
• Little Lulu
• Magnus, Robot Fighter
• Man with the Screaming Brain
• Megatokyo - Vols. 1-3 only

• Nothing Nice to Say
• Pathfinder
• Penny Arcade
• Pigeons from Hell
• Planet of the Apes
• Predator
• Red String
• Serenity: Those Left Behind
• Serenity: Better Days
• Shrek
• Solomon Kane
• Star Wars

• Superman vs. The Terminator
• Tarzan
• Terminator
• The Thing
• Vampire Hunter D
• Xena: Warrior Princess

Buffy the Vampire Slayer titles

• Spike & Dru
• The Origin
• Viva Las Buffy
• Slayer Interrupted
• A Stake to the Heart
• Dust Waltz
• Ring of Fire
• Remaining Sunlight
• Uninvited Guests

• The Final Cut
• Bad Blood
• Crash Test Demons
• Pale Reflections
• Angel: The Hollower
• Food Chain
• Blood of Carthage
• Oz
• Giles

• Jonathan,
• Buffy/Angel crossover: Past Lives
• Out of the Woodwork
• Haunted
• False Memories
• Willow & Tara
• Autumnal
• Ugly Little Monsters
• Chaos Bleeds comic prequel

• Death of Buffy
• Reunion
• Note from the Underground
• Creatures of Habit
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight
• Fray

Manga

• 3x3 Eyes
• Akira
• Appleseed
• Astro Boy
• Berserk
• Black Magic M-66
• Blade of the Immortal
• Blood+
• Bubblegum Crisis (Bubblegum Crisis: Grand Mal)
• Cannon God Exaxxion
• Caravan Kidd
• Club 9
• Crying Freeman
• Dominion: Tank Police
• Domu
• Drakuun

• Eden: It's an Endless World!
• Gantz
• Ghost in the Shell
• Gungrave
• Gunsmith Cats
• Gunsmith Cats BURST
• Hellhounds: Panzer Cops (Kenrou Densetsu)
• Hellsing
• Hipira
• Intron Depot
• Ju-on
• King of Wolves
• Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service
• Lady Snowblood
• Legend of Mother Sarah
• Lone Wolf and Cub
• Lost World

• Mail
• Metropolis
• MPD Psycho
• Nextworld
• Ohikkoshi
• Oh My Goddess!
• Oldboy
• Orion
• Outlanders
• Octopus Girl
• One Missed Call
• Path of the Assassin
• Reiko the Zombie Shop
• Samurai Executioner
• Satsuma Gishiden
• School Zone

• Seraphic Feather
• Masakuzu Katsura's Shadow Lady: Sudden Death
• Shadow Star (Narutaru)
• Spirit of Wonder
• Super Manga Blast
• Katsuya Terada's The Monkey King
• The Ring
• Two Faces of Tomn
• Tapenshu
• Tomie (Museum of Terror)
• Trigun
• Translucent
• Venus Wars
• What's Michael?
• Who Fighter with Heart of Darkness
• You're Under Arrest

Manhwa

• Banya: The Explosive Delivery Man
• Bride of the Water God
• Chunchu: The Genocide Fiend
• Shaman Warrior
• ''XS Hybrid

Notes

References

• Dark Horse Comics: The First Twenty Years (by Mike Richardson, Frank Miller and others, 384 pages, Dark Horse, March 2008, ISBN 1593076088)
• Dark Horse Comics at the Big Comic Book DataBase

External links

• Dark Horse Comics - Official Site
• MySpace Dark Horse Presents - MySpace Dark Horse Presents
• Things From Another World - Online retailer of comics and collectibles, sister company of Dark Horse Comics