Savage Dragon #74
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeSavage Dragon #74 is the pivotal climax of Erik Larsen's long-burning Covenant of the Sword saga, paying off threads that stretch back to the Dragon's wedding-day trauma in issue #62 and his son's apparent death in issue #33. Most significantly, it delivers Dragon's first face-to-face encounter with his toddler son Malcolm — a reunion whose emotional weight would define the series' next phase and, years later, Malcolm's own run as the title character. The issue also delivers the first appearances of Janey (Widow's daughter, later 'Wall-Crawler') and Sharona Runningbear (Alternate), both of whom would become recurring fixtures of the Savage Dragon extended cast.
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The issue was written, penciled, and inked entirely by series creator Erik Larsen, with lettering by Chris Eliopoulos — the same creative unit that had steered the book since the mid-90s under Larsen's fully creator-owned, single-author model at Image Comics. It sits near the end of a multi-year Covenant of the Sword storyline that Larsen had been building across dozens of issues, and it was positioned as direct setup for the landmark revamp in issue #75. The backup strip 'Savage Dragonbert' by Swedish cartoonist Karl Hörnell, a recurring comedic feature running through issues #57–99, also appears here.
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- Published April 2000 (cover date) by Image Comics; the official Image Comics site gives a release date of May 31, 2000.
- Written, penciled, and inked by Erik Larsen; lettered by Chris Eliopoulos.
- First appearance of Janey ('Wall-Crawler'), the super-powered daughter of Widow and Radical, who would go on to become a long-running cast member and later a member of the West Coast division of the Special Operations Strikeforce.
- First appearance of Sharona Runningbear (Alternate), an alternate-reality version of the character.
- Dragon discovers his son Malcolm Dragon held in the Covenant of the Sword's nursery — the first in-universe meeting between father and son, resolving a storyline begun in issue #33 when Malcolm was stolen at birth.
- Multiple cloned 'Duplicate' characters — including Rapture Duplicates, Ricochet Duplicates, Rita Jonson Duplicates, and Widow Duplicates — are killed in this issue.
- Contains a 'Savage Dragonbert' backup strip by Karl Hörnell, part of a recurring comedic feature that ran from issue #57 through #99 and was later collected in the stand-alone volume Savage Dragonbert: Full Frontal Nerdity (Image, 2002).
- Reprinted in black-and-white in Savage Dragon Archives Volume 3, which collects issues #51–75.
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Reprinted in Savage Dragon Archives #3 (2013)
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