Dark Horse Comics

**Dark Horse Comics** is an American company that creates comic books and manga. It is one of the largest "independent" comic book publishers. The company was founded by Mike Richardson.

Richardson is the owner of several comic book shops in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area. In 1986, he began to publish an anthology series called *Dark Horse Presents* using money from his stores. The company is based in Milwaukie, Oregon.

## Overview
Dark Horse creates many comics based on other peoples characters and settings. These include comics based on *Star Wars*, *Buffy the Vampire Slayer*, *Aliens*, and *Who Wants to be a Superhero?* Dark Horse also publishes comics by artists who own their own settings. These include 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 name Comics Greatest World. This was later renamed Dark Horse Heroes. After 1996, publication in this line slowed greatly. They stopped making any books about the characters in the early 2000's. Today, the company does very well even though they do not have their own universe of superpowered characters.

Dark Horse's movie company, Dark Horse Entertainment, creates movies based on Dark Horse Comics. These including *The Mask* and *Hellboy*.

The company also produces novels based on some of their more popular comic book titles, including *Aliens* and *Predator*.

## Dark Horse titles
### Original titles
**300*
**The American*
**Age of Reptiles*
**Agents of Law*
**ArchEnemies*
**Badger*
**Barb Wire*
**Battle Gods: Warriors of the Chaak*
**Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot*
*''Billy the Kid's Old Timey Oddities*
**The Blackburne Covenant*
**Boris the Bear*
**BPRD*
**Catalyst: Agents of Change*
**Cheval Noir*
**Concrete*
**Cravan*
**Criminal Macabre*
**Cut*
**Damn Nation*
**The Dark Horse Book Of*

**Dark Horse Presents*
**The Deadlander*
**Dr. Giggles*
**El Zombo Fantasma*
**Freaks of the Heartland*
**Gary Gianni's The MonsterMen*
**Ghost*
**Girl Crazy*
**Give Me Liberty*
**The Goon*
**Grendel*
**The Hammer, Kelley Jones'*
**Hard Boiled*
**Haunted Man*
**Heartbreakers*
**Hellboy*
**Hero Zero*
**HyperSonic*
**Kingdom of the Wicked*
**Living With The Dead*
**Lords of Misrule*

**Marshal Law*
**The Mask*
**Maxwell Strangewell*
**Motorhead*
**Milkman Murders*
**Out of the Vortex*
**The Perhapanauts*
**Red Rocket 7*
**Rex Mundi*
**Samurai: Heaven and Earth*
**Scarlet Traces*
**The Secret*
**Sin City*
**SpyBoy*
**The Thirteenth Son*
**The Umbrella Academy*
**Usagi Yojimbo*
**H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds*
**Will to Power*
**X*

### Licensed properties
**Æon Flux*
**Aliens*
**Aliens vs. Predator*
**Army of Darkness*
**Conan the Barbarian*
**The Dirty Pair*
**Disney's Gremlins*
**Digimon*
**Doctor Solar*
**Emily the Strange*
**The Escapist*
**The Fog*
**Godzilla*
**Hard Looks*
**Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor*

**Hellgate: London*
**The Hire*
**The Incredibles*
**Indiana Jones*
**King Kong*
**Little Lulu*
**Magnus, Robot Fighter*
**Man with the Screaming Brain*
**Megatokyo* - Vols. 1-3 only
**Pathfinder* 
**Penny Arcade*
**Planet of the Apes*
**Predator*
**Red String*
**Serenity: Those Left Behind (Firefly)*

**Shrek*
**Star Wars: Crimson Empire*
**Star Wars: Crimson Empire II*
**Star Wars: Empire*
**Star Wars: Rebellion*
**Star Wars Tales*
**Star Wars: Legacy*
**Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic*
**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* (Set 200 years+ in the future)

### Manga
**3x3 Eyes*
**Akira*
**Appleseed*
**Astro Boy*
**Banya: The Explosive Delivery Man*
**Berserk*
**Black Magic M-66*
**Blade of the Immortal*
**Blood+*
**Bride of the Water God*
**Bubblegum Crisis* (aka Bubblegum Crisis: Grand Mal)
**Cannon God Exaxxion*
**Caravan Kidd*
**Club 9*
**Crying Freeman*
**Dominion: Tank Police*
**Domu*
**Drakuun*
**Eden*

**Gantz*
**Ghost in the Shell*
**Gunsmith Cats*
**Gunsmith Cats BURST*
**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*
**Oh My Goddess!*
**Oldboy*

**Orion*
**Outlanders*
**Octopus Girl*
**Path of the Assassin*
**Reiko the Zombie Shop*
**Satsuma Gishiden*
**Katsuya Terada's The Monkey King*
**The Ring*
**Samurai Executioner*
**Seraphic Feather*
**Masakuzu Katsura's Shadow Lady: Sudden Death*
**Shadow Star* (*Narutaru*)
**Spirit of Wonder*
**Tomie (Museum of Terror)*
**Trigun*
**Translucent*
**Venus Wars*
**What's Michael?*
**You're Under Arrest*

## References
**Dark Horse Comics: The First Twenty Years'' (by Mike Richardson, Frank Miller and others, 384 pages, Dark Horse, March 2008, )

## Other websites 
* Dark Horse Comics  -  Official Site
* Things From Another World  - Online retailer of comics and collectibles, sister company of Dark Horse Comics