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Nightrunner

Nightrunner

20 appearances · Bronze Age · 1978–2024 · 3 key issues
Who is Nightrunner?

Nightrunner is a wolf companion in the ElfQuest universe, serving as the loyal bond-wolf of the elf chief Cutter. In the world of Two Moons, wolves and Wolfriders share a deep, almost telepathic kinship, and Nightrunner embodies that sacred bond.

Few characters capture the magic of independent comics quite like Nightrunner, who bounded onto the scene in the legendary debut issue of Fantasy Quarterly in 1978 — the Bronze Age spark that ignited the beloved ElfQuest universe created by Richard Pini and Wendy Pini. Over an extraordinary 46-year span across titles like ElfQuest, ElfQuest: Blood of Ten Chiefs, and ElfQuest: Stargazer's Hunt, this WaRP Graphics stalwart has kept remarkable company, sharing pages with fan-favorites like Cutter, Skywise, Strongbow, Nightfall, and Moonshade. With three collector-recognized key issues to their name, Nightrunner is a testament to the enduring, fiercely independent spirit of a franchise that proved you didn't need the Big Two to build a world worth loving for generations.

Fantasy Quarterly
#1
★ First appearance
Fantasy Quarterly #1
Apr 1978

Top series

Covers through the years — 1978–2021

ElfQuest #2 1978
ElfQuest #2
ElfQuest #12 1982
ElfQuest #12
ElfQuest Reader's Collection #8b 2002
ElfQuest Reader's Collection #8b
ElfQuest: Stargazer's Hunt #1 2019
ElfQuest: Stargazer's Hunt #1
ElfQuest: Stargazer's Hunt #1 2021
ElfQuest: Stargazer's Hunt #1

Appearances

Fantasy Quarterly (1978)
#1
ElfQuest (1978)
ElfQuest: New Blood (1992)
#1
ElfQuest: Blood of Ten Chiefs (1993)
ElfQuest Reader's Collection (1998)
#8b
ElfQuest: Wolfrider (2003)
ElfQuest: Stargazer's Hunt (2019)
ElfQuest Covers (2024)
#1