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Mighty Man

Mighty Man

170 appearances Β· Bronze Age Β· 1982–2024 Β· 10 key issues
Who is Mighty Man?

Mighty Man is an Erik Larsen creation who debuted before Image Comics existed, originating in the early self-published Graphic Fantasy. The character later became part of Larsen's Savage Dragon universe, a super-powered figure with a legacy tied to the earliest days of that shared world.

Mighty Man is one of those rare characters who can genuinely claim to have been there at the very beginning β€” debuting in Graphic Fantasy #1 in 1982, Erik Larsen's creation predates Image Comics itself and carries that scrappy, visionary Bronze Age energy into everything they've touched since. With 164 catalogued appearances spanning an remarkable four-plus decades and ten key issues to their name, this is a character with serious staying power, woven deep into the fabric of the Image universe through Savage Dragon, Freak Force, and the landmark crossover Image United. Sharing pages with heavyweights like Dragon, SuperPatriot, and Dart, Mighty Man occupies a meaningful corner of one of comics' most beloved indie ecosystems β€” the kind of figure that rewards longtime readers and gives newer fans a compelling thread to pull on.

Graphic Fantasy
#1
β˜… First appearance
Graphic Fantasy #1
Jun 1982

Trivia

  • The mantle operates on a uniquely fluid inheritance model β€” power transfers from host to host at the precise moment of death, making it explicitly transferable across both sexes and ages rather than being locked to any fixed secret identity.en.wikipedia.org
  • Erik Larsen has written more of Mighty Man's comics than any other writer in our catalog β€” 66 issues.

Top series

Covers through the years β€” 1986–2024

Megaton #4 1986
Megaton #4
Trencher #2 β˜… 1993
Trencher #2
Savage Dragon #15 β˜… 1994
Savage Dragon #15
Mars Attacks Image #2 1997
Mars Attacks Image #2
Savage Dragon #93 β˜… 2001
Savage Dragon #93
Savage Dragon #115 β˜… 2004
Savage Dragon #115
Savage Dragon #132 β˜… 2007
Savage Dragon #132
Image United #0 2010
Image United #0
Savage Dragon #195 2014
Savage Dragon #195
Savage Dragon Archives #5 2015
Savage Dragon Archives #5
Savage Dragon #237 2018
Savage Dragon #237
Savage Dragon #272 2024
Savage Dragon #272

Appearances (1–150 of 170, oldest first)

Graphic Fantasy (1982)
#1
Megaton (1983)
#4
The Savage Dragon (1993)
Savage Dragon vs. Savage Megaton Man (1993)
#1
Trencher (1993)
Superpatriot (1993)
Vanguard (1993)
Phantom Force (1993)
#1
Images of Shadowhawk (1993)
#3
Bloodstrike (1993)
Youngblood (1992)
#9
WildC.A.T.s: Covert Action Teams (1992)
#14
Badrock & Company (1994)
#3
Badrock Annual (1995)
#1
The Deadly Duo (1995)
#2
Wildstar (1995)
The New Shadowhawk (1995)
#4
Glory (1995)
#8
Back-Up Stories (1996)
#1
Dart (1996)
#3
Shattered Image (1996)
Mars Attacks Image (1996)
Vanguard: Strange Visitors (1996)
#4
The Savage Dragon: Red Horizon (1997)
#3
Supreme: The New Adventures (1996)
Supreme (1997)
The Savage Dragon / Marshal Law (1997)
#1
Judgment Day Omega (1997)
#2
The Dragon Archives (1998)
Savage Dragon: Team-Ups (1998)
#1
Vanguard: Ethereal Warriors (2000)
#1
Savage Dragon Companion (2002)
#1
G.I. Joe (2001)
#19
Voltron: Defender of the Universe (2003)
#3
Noble Causes: Extended Family (2003)
#2
Mighty Man (2004)
#1
Noble Causes (2004)
#7
Savage Dragon Archives (2006)
#1
Capes (2007)
#1
Dynamo 5 Annual (2008)
#1
Image United (2009)