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Savage Dragon Compendium Vol. 1 Hits Shelves in Time for Holiday Shopping

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At last, longtime fin-heads and new readers alike will have the opportunity to binge-read the legendary Savage Dragon series by Image Comics partner and CFO Erik Larsen from the beginning with the upcoming Savage Dragon Compendium, Vol. 1 paperback. This massive collection will include The Dragon #1-5 (comprising the expanded version of the original three-issue miniseries that launched the series in 1992) and Savage Dragon #1-44 and hit shelves from Image Comics just in time for holiday shopping.

There will also be a Direct Market exclusive variant cover available only at comic shops.

In this Savage Dragon Compendium, Vol. 1, the earliest adventures of Laren’s idiosyncratic superhero series are collected for the first time into one gigantic volume. Amongst these pages Savage Dragon defends Chicago from Overlord and the Vicious Circle, takes on an all-out gang war, and fights to prevent the destruction of the planet Earth itself!

Dragon goes from cop to corpse and to hell and back—literally! This compilation also features the birth of Dragon’s son, the death and rebirth of Darklord, and Dragon’s ascension to the head of Special Operations Strikeforce. It guest-stars WildC.A.T.s, Spawn, Hellboy, the Maxx, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and even God Himself.

Larsen’s Savage Dragon is the longest-running, full-color comic book series to feature a single artist/writer, with the character first appearing in a three-issue miniseries that launched with the company’s founding in 1992. It continues to release in trade paperback and hardcover collected editions and regularly releases new single issues. It is swiftly approaching its next milestone issue, #300, making this the perfect time to get caught up on the series with this shelf-busting compendium edition.

Savage Dragon Compendium, Vol. 1 paperback (ISBN: 9781534361348) will be available at local comic book shops on Wednesday, November 18 and independent bookstores, Bookshop, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Indigo, and Waterstones on Tuesday, December 15.

The Savage Dragon Compendium, Vol. 1 paperback Direct Market Exclusive (ISBN: 9781534364950) will be available at local comic book shops only on Wednesday, November 18.

Savage Dragon #280 and #281 head back to Print

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The much buzzed about Savage Dragon #280 and Savage Dragon #281 by Image Comics partner and CFO Erik Larsen have sold out completely at the distributor level yet again. Image will rush these popular new issues back to print in order to keep up with rising demand.

In Savage Dragon #280, the surviving members of the rescue team that went into Russia fight their final battle in an effort to come home.

Larsen’s Savage Dragon is the longest-running, full-color comic book series to feature a single artist/writer and the character first appeared, as part of a three-issue miniseries, that launched with the company’s founding in 1992. It continues to release in trade paperback and hardcover collected editions and regularly releases new single issues. It is swiftly approaching its next milestone issue, #300.

Savage Dragon #280, third printing (UPC: 70985305211128013) and Savage Dragon #281, third printing (UPC: 70985305211128113) will both be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, September 23.

Savage Dragon #281 Sells Out at Distribution and Heads Back to Print

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This week’s eye-popping Savage Dragon #281 by Image Comics partner and CFO Erik Larsen has sold out instantly at the distributor level. Image will rush this thrilling new issue back to print in order to keep up with rampant reorder activity. Savage Dragon #280 also sold out and went back to press.

In Savage Dragon #281, Malcolm Dragon returns home from Russia to find that the world has changed and life has moved on without him. Now he has to try and put his life back together.

Larsen’s Savage Dragon is the longest-running, full-color comic book series to feature a single artist/writer and the character first appeared, as part of a three-issue miniseries, that launched with the company’s founding in 1992. It continues to release in trade paperback and hardcover collected editions and regularly releases new single issues. It is swiftly approaching its next milestone issue, #300.

Savage Dragon #281, second printing (UPC: 70985305211128112) will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, August 26.

Savage Dragon #281, second printing

Savage Dragon #280 has Sold Out and Gets a New Printing

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Last week’s jaw-dropping Savage Dragon #280 by Image Comics partner and CFO Erik Larsen turned readers’ heads and has sold out completely at the distributor level. Image will rush this exciting new issue back to print in order to keep up with escalating demand.

In Savage Dragon #280, the surviving members of the rescue team that went into Russia fight their final battle in an effort to come home.

Larsen’s Savage Dragon is the longest-running, full-color comic book series to feature a single artist/writer and first launched, alongside the company’s founding, in 1992. It continues to release in trade paperback and hardcover collected editions and regularly releases new single issues. It is swiftly approaching its next milestone issue, #300.

Savage Dragon #280, second printing (UPC: 70985305211128012) will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, August 5.

Savage Dragon #280, second printing

Baltimore Comic-Con’s Yearbook Returns in 2026 with Savage Dragon!

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Come to the Baltimore Comic-Con on September 25-27, 2026 at the Baltimore Convention Center in the Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. Tickets to the show are now available.

An annual tradition, the Baltimore Comic-Con Yearbook, returns in 2026 for the fourteenth year, celebrating creators and friends of the show. This year’s book of art features interpretations of characters from 2026 guest Erik Larsen‘s Savage Dragon!

Beautifully designed by returning guest and Cupid’s Arrows, Warning Label, Time and Vine, and Love and Capes creator Thom Zahler, the book comes in a standard and, for VIP ticketholders, a limited VIP cover edition.

Savage Dragon, published by Image Comics, features the adventures of “Dragon” and, more recently, the exploits of his son, Malcolm Eugene Dragon.

Erik created the Dragon as a kid, but the character finally saw his first public appearance in the self-published Graphic Fantasy #1 in June 1982. In 1986, the slightly revised character returned as “Savage Dragon” in the pages of Gary Carlson’s Megaton #3.

When Erik left Marvel Comics in 1992 to become co-founder of Image Comics, he published a three-issue mini-series featuring his redesigned childhood creation, the Dragon. Based on the huge success, Larsen released the ongoing title in 1993 and has worked on it as writer, penciller, and inker ever since (sometimes also coloring and lettering!). The book is largely considered the longest running full-color comic book that has featured a single writer and artist.

The Baltimore Comic-Con scavenger hunt, which has become a must-do activity for many of our fans, will be back in 2026! When you buy the book, you’ll get a list of Yearbook contributors and their table numbers. Participants succeeding in acquiring the appropriate quota of autographs from contributors can then get their choice of bonus prints — and it’s a great way to meet our guests!

Art created for the 2026 Baltimore Comic-Con Yearbook Featuring Savage Dragon will be auctioned off at the Baltimore Comic-Con Art Auction on Saturday, September 26th. Fans and art collectors alike won’t want to miss this opportunity to win these one-of-a-kind items, only available at the Baltimore Comic-Con!

The book will be sold in the Exclusives Booth in the lobby. The book will be available at the Baltimore Comic-Con for $29.99. The art auction featuring original art from the book will be held during the show weekend of September 25-27, 2026.

This year’s confirmed guests for the show include: Jason Aaron (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), Marty Baumann (Pixar artist), Josh Blaylock (Mercy Sparx, courtesy of Hero Initiative), Russ Braun (The Boys), Jeffrey Brown (Hulk Teach, courtesy of Hero Initiative), Mark Buckingham (Fables), Jim Calafiore (NED, Lord of the Pit), Richard Case (Doom Patrol), Keith Champagne (Stranger Things), Howard Chaykin (Time Squared), Jo Chen (Runaways), Cliff Chiang (Paper Girls), Frank Cho (Harley Quinn), Becky Cloonan (War), Michael W. Conrad (In Bloom), Steve Conley (The Middle Age), Amanda Conner (Harley Quinn), Olivia Cuartero-Briggs (The College Try), Paris Cullins (Blue Devil), Todd Dezago (The Perhapanauts), Colleen Doran (The Sandman), Scott Dunbier (DC Silver Age Covers and Stories Artist’s Edition), Garth Ennis (The Boys), Trish Forstner (Feral), Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez (DC Nation), Chris Giarrusso (Mini Marvels), Randy Green (Witchblade), Torunn Grønbekk (Catwoman), Gene Ha (Mae), Bob Hall (West Coast Avengers), Larry Hama (GI Joe: A Real American Hero), Tony Harris (The Whistling Skull), Dean Haspiel (Chest Face), Glenn Hauman (They Keep Killing Glenn), Mike Hawthorne (Deadpool), Marc Hempel (Sandman), Jamal Igle (Superman), Phillip Kennedy Johnson (Infernal Hulk), Dan Jurgens (Action Comics), Chris Kemple (Red Vengeance), Peter Krause (The Power of Shazam, courtesy of Hero Initiative), Mike Kunkel (Herobear and the Kid), Erik Larsen (Savage Dragon), Jae Lee (Inhumans), Nate Lovett (Commander Tomorrow), Kevin Maguire (Justice League), Laura Martin (Nubia: Queen of the Amazons, courtesy of Hero Initiative), Shawn Martinbrough (Red Hood: The Hill), Ron Marz (Green Lantern), Jose Marzen Jr. (Y: The Last Man), Mike McKone (Teen Titans), Bob McLeod (New Mutants), Carla Speed McNeil (Finder), Adriana Melo (Fantastic Four), Pop Mhan (He-Man and the Masters of the Universe), Al Milgrom (Spectacular Spider-Man), Terry Moore (Strangers in Paradise), Mark Morales (Thor), Bill Morrison (The Simpsons), Trevor Mueller (Bat Pat), Sarah Myer (TMNT Saturday Morning Adventures), Phil Noto (Fantastic Four: First Foes), Kevin Nowlan (Batman: Sword of Azrael), Patrick Olliffe (Untold Tales of Spider-Man), Ryan Ottley (Invincible), Jimmy Palmiotti (The Punisher), Dan Parent (Sabrina the Teenage Witch), Margeaux Pepoy (Simone & Ajax), David Petersen (Mouse Guard), Khoi Pham (Star Wars: Darth Vader), Tom Raney (Incredible Hulk), Afua Richardson (Kahhori: Reshaper of Worlds), Tone Rodriguez (Feral, courtesy of Hero Initiative), Don Rosa (Uncle Scrooge), Craig Rousseau (The Perhapanauts), Joe Schmalke (We Don’t Kill Spiders), Erica Schultz (Rogue), Mark Schultz (Xenozoic Tales, courtesy of Flesk Publishing), Louise Simonson (The Death of Superman 30th Anniversary Special), Walter Simonson (Thor), Matthew Dow Smith (DC’s Misfits of Magic), Scott Snyder (Friday and Sunday only, DC K.O.), John K. Snyder III (Suicide Squad), Mark Sparacio (Liberty Girl Deluxe), Joe Staton (Dick Tracy), Brian Stelfreeze (Black Panther), Martha Thomases (Dakota North), Billy Tucci (Shi), Gus Vazquez (Sunfire and the Big Hero Six), Mark Waid (Action Comics), Mark Wheatley (Breathtaker), Bob Wiacek (All-New Wolverine, courtesy of Hero Initiative), Matt Wieringo (Stargate Atlantis: Gateways), Chuck Wojtkiewicz (Justice League, courtesy of Hero Initiative), Rich Woodall (Sgt. Werewolf), Kelly Yates (Doctor Who), and Thom Zahler (Long Distance).

Savage Dragon gets an eye-popping Vault Edition Hardcover

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The forthcoming Savage Dragon Vault Edition will collect the early creative origins of one of Image Comics’ titular, best-loved characters and longest-running titles. This highly anticipated edition will reproduce Erik Larsen’s iconic, original Savage Dragon miniseries artwork from the ‘90s, plus additional pages from the expanded Dragon miniseries that was released in 1996. It is set to hit shelves this October from Image Comics.

This limited print run Savage Dragon Vault Edition oversized (12×17) hardcover will treat fans with special, archival quality reproductions of the art boards for every image that was used for the Savage Dragon #1-3, The Dragon #1-5, and the first Savage Dragon trade paperback, including all covers and pin-ups. It collects Savage Dragon #1-3, plus additional material from The Dragon #1-5, and makes for the perfect addition to any longtime Savage Dragon fan’s library collection.

Larsen’s Savage Dragon is the longest-running, full-color comic book series to feature a single artist/writer and first launched, alongside the company’s founding, in 1992. It continues to release in trade paperback and hardcover collected editions and regularly releases new single issues. It is swiftly approaching its next milestone issue, #300.

Savage Dragon Vault Edition hardcover (ISBN: 9781534329591, Lunar Code 0624IM270) will be available at local comic book shops on Wednesday, October 23 and independent bookstores, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Indigo, and Waterstones on Tuesday, November 5.

Savage Dragon makes a guest appearance in Blood Squad Seven #2

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The iconic Savage Dragon—from the long running series of the same name by Image Comics co-founder and partner Erik Larsen—will make an appearance in the upcoming, action-packed Blood Squad Seven #2 by Joe Casey and Paul Fry. This highly collectible issue will hit shelves on June 26 from Image Comics.

A 1:20 copy incentive variant by Jim Rugg will feature the Savage Dragon character prominently as well.

Rebuilding a brand—even one as ubiquitous as Blood Squad Seven—has its challenges. For one thing, even superheroes aren’t perfect. What happens when that imperfection slips through the cracks? What sacrifices is this new team willing to make? Readers will find out when they read Blood Squad Seven #2 next month.

Spinning out of the recent Dutch miniseries, Blood Squad Seven explores ’90s superteam dynamics through a contemporary lens and feature surprise cameo appearances from some recognizable fan-favorite Image characters.

Thirty years ago, Blood Squad Seven was America’s most popular superhero team. Its members were seen on television, on magazine covers, scoring million-dollar endorsement deals…. They were celebrities and they were everywhere.

But that was then… this is now. And so, a new generation of modern-day heroes takes up the mantle—or perhaps, the poisoned chalice—fulfilling a promise made decades ago: to be the heroes that a fractured America needs.

While deconstructions of superhero nostalgia typically center around the classic characters of the Silver Age, Blood Squad Seven will delve deep into ’90s comic book themes with this reimagining of what would happen if heroes from that decade returned to action after a 30-year absence.

Blood Squad Seven #2

Blood Squad Seven #2 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, June 26:

  • Cover A by Fry – Lunar Code 0424IM255
  • Cover B Chris Cross – Lunar Code 0424IM256
  • Cover C (1:10 copy incentive) by Elizabeth Torque – Lunar Code 0424IM257
  • Cover D (1:20 copy incentive) by Rugg – Lunar Code 0424IM258

Around the Tubes

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Cobra Commander #1

It was new comic book day yesterday! What’d you all get? What’d you like? Dislike? Sound off in the comments below! While you think about that, here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web to start the day.

CBLDF – Victory in Texas: Appeals Court Upholds Book Ratings Injunction – This is a good thing. Congrats to those fighting the good fight.

The Guardian – Rare copy of The Amazing Spider-Man No 1 sells for more than £1m – Wow.

The Beat – Beckett announces controversial new grading service for manga – Well ok then.

Reviews

Comicbook – Avengers: Twilight #1
Comicbook – Cobra Commander #1
The Beat – Enfield Gang Massacre #6
Comicbook – Savage Dragon #267
The Beat – We Can’t Do Plain Love

Spawn, Savage Dragon, and Blacula are all coming to Killadelphia

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The Eisner Award nominated ongoing series Killadelphia from writer Rodney Barnes and Jason Shawn Alexander have more surprises in store for fans with a fleet of iconic characters ready to join in on the action. The new story arc begins with issue #31 in November from Image Comics.

The Killadelphia series follows a small-town beat cop who returns home to bury his murdered father, revered Philadelphia detective James Sangster Sr. What he doesn’t anticipate is digging up a mystery that will lead him down a path of horrors and shake his beliefs to their core. The city that was once the symbol of liberty and freedom has fallen prey to corruption, poverty, unemployment, brutality… and vampires. Now, it’s up to Jimmy and an unexpected companion to stop long-thought-dead president of the United States John Adams from building an undead army and staging a bloody new American revolution.

The forces of Heaven and Hell clash on the battleground that is Philly and weave into the tapestry of a larger universe when Todd McFarlane’s greatest creation crosses over into the pages of Killadelphia! All the power SeeSaw has gained and all the magic he’s learned will be put to the test when he faces off against comics’ greatest anti-hero! Anything can happen in this bold jumping-on point for new readers that will redefine the Killadelphia universe as we know it. The sold-out, Eisner Award-nominated series continues in a landmark story arc that will also feature canon surprise appearances by recognizable characters from outside Philadelphia’s city limits.

This next arc also contains a backup stories featuring Hell’s Baddest Badass: Johnny Gatlin.

Killadelphia #31 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, November 15:

  • Cover A by Alexander – Lunar Code 0923IM415
  • Cover B by Francesco Mattina – Lunar Code 0923IM416
  • Cover C by Jae Lee – Lunar Code 0923IM417
  • Cover D by Alexander B&W noir edition – Lunar Code 0923IM418

From Savage FINcast to Super Freaks

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Celebrate a decade of the Savage FINcast podcast with an official fan tribute to everyone’s favorite Fin-Head in the upcoming Super Freaks. This special, off-the-wall one-shot story will hit shelves this June from Image Comics. 

Savage Dragon fans unite to produce one of the wildest comics ever created! In 2021, hosts of the Savage FINcast—a podcast that celebrates Savage Dragon and the work of creator and Image Comics co-founder, Erik Larsen—began planning a way to celebrate their ten-year anniversary. After brainstorming and gauging the interests of their friends, the hosts decided to attempt a self-published Savage Dragon Fanzine featuring the talents of their fellow Savage Dragon enthusiasts. With approval from Larsen himself, the hosts began work on the fanzine with the goal of producing something that could be awarded as a prize to their podcast listeners. The project—now titled Super Freaks—brought in the talents of twenty Savage Dragon super-fans, contributing four-to-five-page stories, one-page gag strips, pinups, and more. 

As the project finished up in late 2021, a digital copy of the comic was submitted to Larsen, and he was so taken by it that he insisted it be released to the world as an official publication through Image Comics.

This one-shot comic is a fan love letter to 30 years of Savage Dragon and includes stories covering many characters and various eras of the Savage Dragon series. In fact, the title Super Freaks is a nod to the term established in the Savage Dragon comic for super-powered beings, many of which are showcased in the one-shots stories and pin-ups.  

This 56-page extravaganza delivers action-packed superhero romps including: a multiverse of Dragons, a tie-in to the 1990s Savage Dragon cartoon, features focusing on Dragon’s son Malcolm and his wife Maxine, and stories spotlighting other fan-favorite characters.

The mix of indie creators and relative newcomers that contributed to the book are sure to create new fans of their work. Some of the more established contributors include Mark Welser, Rich Woodall, Raven Perez, Connor Tierney, Scott James, and Nick Justus.

Additionally, Super Freaks sports a dynamic brand-new cover by Erik Larsen and Mark Welser. Whether you are a long-time fan, someone who is curious about the Savage Dragon universe, or just enjoy fun comic anthologies with great art and stories—Super Freaks has something for everyone.

It’s crude! It’s rude! It’s hilarious! It’s one of the most offbeat comic books ever committed to paper!

Super Freaks one-shot (Diamond Code APR220123) will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, June 1.

Super Freaks
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