Jonny Quest #1

History

The series grew out of a licensing agreement announced on October 12, 2023, when Dynamite Entertainment and Warner Bros. Discovery publicly revealed plans to develop comic adaptations of multiple Hanna-Barbera properties simultaneously. Writer Joe Casey, whose mainstream credits include Adventures of Superman and Uncanny X-Men (and co-creation of Ben 10), was approached by Dynamite and agreed to take on Jonny Quest once he revisited the show's appeal. Casey sought an artist who could evoke the clean, deliberate character work of original series designers Doug Wildey and Alex Toth without simply replicating it; after consulting with his editor, the team landed on Sebastián Piriz, known for We Ride Titans and work for Heavy Metal. The creative team debuted a 10-page prelude story in Dynamite's Free Comic Book Day 2024 anthology (May 4, 2024), with the first full issue originally targeted for July 2024 ahead of San Diego Comic-Con before being pushed back to August 14, 2024.

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• Written by Joe Casey (Adventures of Superman, Ben 10 co-creator) with interior art by Sebastián Piriz and coloring by Lorenzo Scaramella.
• Released August 14, 2024 by Dynamite Entertainment — the first issue of a five-issue limited series (the run concluded December 18, 2024) under the story arc title 'Time Flies.'
• A 10-page prelude story (Issue #0) was published as part of Dynamite's Free Comic Book Day 2024 anthology on May 4, 2024; Issue #1 picks up immediately after those events.
• The series is set in 1964–65, directly continuing where the original Hanna-Barbera animated series left off, and follows Jonny, Dr. Benton Quest, Race Bannon, Hadji, and Bandit returning from a sea experiment to find their home base at Palm Key strangely altered.
• Jonny Quest is presented as the first dramatic animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera, originally airing one season (1964–65) and kept alive through decades of reruns; the property was originally created by comics artist Doug Wildey.
• Issue #1 shipped with at least 30 distinct cover variants, with cover art by Chad Hardin, Jae Lee, Tom Raney, Bob Layton, Richard Pace, and a foil virgin variant of Chris Samnee's Free Comic Book Day art.
• The five-issue run was collected in trade paperback and hardcover as Jonny Quest: Time Flies, with the collection available in both formats in early 2025.
• The Jonny Quest series directly led to the four-issue crossover miniseries Space Ghost/Jonny Quest: Space Quest (first issue May 7, 2025), also by Casey and Piriz, in which the Quest family and Space Ghost meet for the first time in comics history.
• Space Ghost does NOT appear in Jonny Quest #1; his first shared-narrative appearance with the Quest characters occurs in the later Space Quest crossover miniseries.

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