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Savage Dragon
The Savage Dragon, often called simply “the Dragon,” is an Image Comics superhero. Created by Erik Larsen, he first appeared in The Savage Dragon #1 (July 1992).
The Dragon is a large, super-strong, finned, green-skinned humanoid. He is an amnesiac; his earliest memory is awakening in a burning field in Chicago. Thus, for most of the series, his powers and appearance were a mystery to readers. At the beginning of the series, he became a police officer and battled the mutant criminal "superfreaks"—principally the Vicious Circle—that were terrorizing Chicago.
Along with Spawn, The Savage Dragon is one of two original Image titles still published and the only one still written and drawn by its creator. It is the longest tenure of a writer/artist on a single comic book series in the history of American comic books. Larsen's run is consecutive and intact.
The character was also adapted into a short-lived (26 total episodes) USA network animated series during the 1994 and 1995 seasons.
Like many of Erik Larsen's characters, the Savage Dragon was created by Larsen while he was a child in elementary school. In his youth, Larsen would draw the Dragon in home-made comic books. The original Dragon, inspired by elements from Captain Marvel, Batman, Speed Racer, and later, The Incredible Hulk, differed greatly from the modern incarnation. After launching the Savage Dragon as a genuine comic-book, Larsen would later hark back to the original Dragon and rework his designs into the characters, William Jonson (a police-officer ally of the Dragon), and Flash Mercury, the Spectacular Dragon.
Much later, a greatly redesigned Savage Dragon was featured in two issues of Graphic Fantasy, a self-published title of low-print run published by Larsen and two friends. In this incarnation, the Dragon was a widower and retired member of a government-sponsored super-hero team. Subsequently, the Dragon made his break-out appearance in the third issue of Gary Carlson's Megaton anthology in its Vanguard strip, which Larsen had been drawing. In these appearances, the character of the Dragon remained basically the same as it had been in Graphic Fantasy, with a few details modified (such as the inclusion of his wife, who was dead in his previous incarnation). Both the Graphic Fantasy and Megaton issues containing the Dragon have since been reprinted in high-quality editions.
Then in 1992, when Larsen, and his other Image Comics co-founders left Marvel, Larsen re-worked the character yet again. This time the Dragon was a massively-muscled green amnesiac, who upon being discovered in a blazing field, joined the Chicago police department. Initially debuting in a three issue mini-series, The Savage Dragon comic book met with enough success to justify a monthly series, launched in 1993. To this day, Larsen continues to write and illustrate the series entirely by himself, and has maintained a reasonably consistent monthly schedule—save for occasional lapses—in comparison with the other original Image Comics titles. Larsen has occasionally produced ancillary mini-series, and sometimes allowed other creators to produce Savage Dragon mini-series as well.
Links:
Image Comics Database
Comic Vine
Copyright Owner/Official Site
Image Comics
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The Dragon is a large, super-strong, finned, green-skinned humanoid. He is an amnesiac; his earliest memory is awakening in a burning field in Chicago. Thus, for most of the series, his powers and appearance were a mystery to readers. At the beginning of the series, he became a police officer and battled the mutant criminal "superfreaks"—principally the Vicious Circle—that were terrorizing Chicago.
Along with Spawn, The Savage Dragon is one of two original Image titles still published and the only one still written and drawn by its creator. It is the longest tenure of a writer/artist on a single comic book series in the history of American comic books. Larsen's run is consecutive and intact.
The character was also adapted into a short-lived (26 total episodes) USA network animated series during the 1994 and 1995 seasons.
Like many of Erik Larsen's characters, the Savage Dragon was created by Larsen while he was a child in elementary school. In his youth, Larsen would draw the Dragon in home-made comic books. The original Dragon, inspired by elements from Captain Marvel, Batman, Speed Racer, and later, The Incredible Hulk, differed greatly from the modern incarnation. After launching the Savage Dragon as a genuine comic-book, Larsen would later hark back to the original Dragon and rework his designs into the characters, William Jonson (a police-officer ally of the Dragon), and Flash Mercury, the Spectacular Dragon.
Much later, a greatly redesigned Savage Dragon was featured in two issues of Graphic Fantasy, a self-published title of low-print run published by Larsen and two friends. In this incarnation, the Dragon was a widower and retired member of a government-sponsored super-hero team. Subsequently, the Dragon made his break-out appearance in the third issue of Gary Carlson's Megaton anthology in its Vanguard strip, which Larsen had been drawing. In these appearances, the character of the Dragon remained basically the same as it had been in Graphic Fantasy, with a few details modified (such as the inclusion of his wife, who was dead in his previous incarnation). Both the Graphic Fantasy and Megaton issues containing the Dragon have since been reprinted in high-quality editions.
Then in 1992, when Larsen, and his other Image Comics co-founders left Marvel, Larsen re-worked the character yet again. This time the Dragon was a massively-muscled green amnesiac, who upon being discovered in a blazing field, joined the Chicago police department. Initially debuting in a three issue mini-series, The Savage Dragon comic book met with enough success to justify a monthly series, launched in 1993. To this day, Larsen continues to write and illustrate the series entirely by himself, and has maintained a reasonably consistent monthly schedule—save for occasional lapses—in comparison with the other original Image Comics titles. Larsen has occasionally produced ancillary mini-series, and sometimes allowed other creators to produce Savage Dragon mini-series as well.
Links:
Image Comics Database
Comic Vine
Copyright Owner/Official Site
Image Comics
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W:
L: