Savage Dragon #2

Name: Savage Dragon #2
Brand: Image
Availability: InStock

Jul 1993 · Image · 2.95 USD; 3.70 CAD

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About this Issue

Savage Dragon #2 (July 1993) packs an outsized number of first appearances into a single package: Dart — the precision-throwing super-cop who would become one of the series' most enduring supporting characters and later headline her own spin-off — makes her debut here, as do the alien warrior Vanguard and his robotic partner Wally, both of whom would anchor their own Image miniseries within months. The issue also documents the early Image Universe's genuine cross-publisher ambition: Larsen invited the Mirage-published Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles into the Dragon's world for a team-up that carried across into a dedicated one-shot, one of the most unexpected inter-company collaborations of the 1990s boom. As only the second issue of what would become one of the longest-running creator-owned superhero comics in American history, it already established the series' hallmark of cramming multiple anthology-style stories into a single physical package — a format that rewarded readers and planted seeds for a sprawling shared mythology.

Contains 3 stories

The Savage Dragon vs. the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

20 pp · Superhero

Living Gargoyle (villainintroductiondeath)Chicago Police Department [Officer Dick Hertz (introduction)Officer Bea O'Problem (introduction)Officer Gus Turpin (introduction)Officer Mike Litoris (introduction)]Meggan Hill (corpse)Virago (villainintroduction)

Fire Fight

8 pp · Superhero

The Outpost

11 pp · Superhero

Training Morphlings (disguised as) [Savage DragonPittSentinelBedrockChapelVogueShadowHawkSpawnWolverine (unofficial)Dracula (unofficial)Creature from the Black Lagoon (unofficial)Frankenstein's Monster (unofficial)Quasimodo (unofficial)] (introduction)

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CGC 9.2 · 4 in census $20*

CGC 9.0 · 1 in census $20*

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History

Erik Larsen launched the ongoing Savage Dragon series in June 1993, just months after the three-issue 1992 miniseries had proven the character viable; the ongoing was itself one of only two Image launch titles that have remained continuously in publication. Larsen served as sole writer, penciller, and inker on the main Dragon story and is also credited as editor on the Vanguard flip-book, with lettering by Chris Eliopoulos and coloring by Reuben Rude and Steve Oliff — a small, tight-knit creative unit that set the template for the series' long run. The issue's double-sided flip-book format — with the Vanguard #0 story printed on the reverse, its cover designed to appear as if Vanguard is bursting through the Dragon cover — was a deliberate production choice by Larsen and Image to launch the Vanguard spin-off with maximum in-series exposure.

Trivia · 10 facts

First appearance of Dart, a dart-throwing vigilante-turned-super-cop recruited from Detroit who joins the Chicago Police Department; she would go on to be a founding member of Freak Force and later star in her own Image miniseries.
First appearance of Vanguard (an alien soldier monitoring Earth from orbit) and his robotic partner Wally, published as a flip-book 'Vanguard #0' bound into the reverse of the issue; that story continues directly into Vanguard Vol. 1 #1.
First appearances of minor Chicago PD officers Bea O'Problem, Dick Hertz, and Gus Turpin, and of the villains Virago (the mystical puppeteer behind the issue's threat) and the Living Gargoyle (who dies in this issue).
The main story features Dragon teaming up with the Mirage Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo — to destroy a magically animated gargoyle in New York City; the story continues in the dedicated one-shot The Savage Dragon / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
A backup story, 'Fire Fight!', written and drawn by Larsen with pencils by Rob Haynes and inks by Tony Harris, features Star battling Vicious Circle member Inferno; it is set immediately before the WildStar: Sky Zero miniseries.
The issue contains pin-ups of Dragon by Michael Dooney, Rick Leonardi, and Rob Haynes, plus Haynes-drawn pin-ups of SuperPatriot, Mighty Man, Overlord, and Star — serving as early character-profile art for the series' growing cast.
Supreme (Ethan Crane) appears at the end of the Vanguard flip-book story, encountered after Vanguard accidentally strikes him while hunting a shape-changing Morphling.
The cover to this issue — minus the Dragon figure — was later reproduced in the 2009 animated film Turtles Forever during the scene in which the Utrom Shredder discovers the Teenage Mutant Ninja Multiverse.
The main story in this issue was reprinted in Savage Dragon: A Force to Be Reckoned With (February 1996) and again in Savage Dragon Archives #1 (December 2006).
Full creative credits: Erik Larsen (writer/penciller/inker, main story); Rob Haynes (penciller, backup); Tony Harris (inker, backup); Chris Eliopoulos (letterer); Reuben Rude and Steve Oliff (colorists); Jannie Wong (editor).