Savage Dragon #1
Savage Dragon #1 (2024, Planeta Cómic / Grupo Planeta) marks the most complete and handsomely produced Spanish-language presentation of Erik Larsen's seminal Image Comics creation to date, gathering under one hardcover spine the entire foundational arc — the five-issue Dragon miniseries and the first eight issues of the ongoing Savage Dragon series — that introduced Spanish-speaking readers to one of the few surviving creator-owned titles born at Image Comics' founding in 1992. The volume carries genuine historical weight because Savage Dragon is, alongside Spawn, one of only two titles that debuted at Image's 1992 launch and continued publishing into the 2020s, and the only one still written and drawn entirely by its original creator throughout its entire run — a distinction that makes any comprehensive collection of its earliest chapters a document of comics history as much as entertainment. For the Spanish market specifically, this 2024 omnibus represents the third distinct attempt by Planeta-affiliated imprints to bring Larsen's work to local readers — following the 1994 staple-bound series and a 2009 Dolmen archival edition — cementing the character's long relationship with Spanish comics publishing.
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Savage Dragon was conceived by Erik Larsen during his childhood, with early versions of the character appearing in the self-published fanzine Graphic Fantasy #1 (1982) and then in Gary Carlson's Megaton #3 (1986) before Larsen reworked the character wholesale when he co-founded Image Comics in 1992. The Image incarnation — a massively muscled, green-skinned amnesiac who joins the Chicago Police Department after being found in a burning field — debuted in a three-issue miniseries in 1992, and the success of that run led directly to a monthly ongoing series launched in June 1993. Planeta DeAgostini introduced the character to Spain via its World Comics imprint beginning in June 1994, publishing a 26-issue staple-bound run through July 1996; the 2024 Planeta Cómic omnibus is therefore the latest chapter in a thirty-year Spanish publishing relationship with the title, now repackaged in a sewn hardcover format with a new Spanish translation by Ignacio Bentz.
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- Published by Planeta Cómic (Grupo Planeta, Barcelona) and distributed on April 10, 2024, as the first volume of an ongoing omnibus series.
- Format: sewn hardcover (cartoné), 440 pages in full color, 17 × 26 cm; ISBN 978-84-1140-497-6.
- Content: collects the complete five-issue Dragon miniseries (#1–5, originally cover-dated 1992–1993 as a three-issue series; Tebeosfera's catalog lists issues #1–5 of the miniseries strand labeled 'The Dragon') and Savage Dragon ongoing #1–8 (June 1993 – March 1994).
- Spanish translation by Ignacio Bentz; all story content written, penciled, and inked by Erik Larsen (with colors by Gregory Wright and Steve Oliff on the original US printings).
- This is at least the third Planeta-affiliated Spanish edition of the material, following the 1994–1996 Planeta DeAgostini / World Comics staple-bound series (26 issues) and a 2009 Dolmen archival edition.
- The 1994 Planeta DeAgostini #1 (June 1994) was the first Spanish-language publication of Savage Dragon, translated by Francisco Pérez Navarro with lettering by Pep Rimbau and production by Antoni Guiral.
- Savage Dragon is one of only two original 1992 Image Comics launch titles still in publication into the 2020s (the other being Spawn), and the only one written and drawn entirely by its creator for its full run.
- An animated adaptation of Savage Dragon ran for two seasons (26 episodes) on the USA Network beginning in 1995, broadening the character's cultural footprint beyond the printed page.
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