PORTLAND, Ore. 09/04/2026 — At last, longtime fin-heads and new readers alike will have the opportunity to binge-read the legendary Savage Dragon series by Image Comics partner and CFO Erik Larsen from the beginning with the upcoming Savage Dragon Compendium, Vol. 1 paperback. This massive collection will include The Dragon #1-5 (comprising the expanded version of the original three-issue miniseries that launched the series in 1992) and Savage Dragon #1-44 and hit shelves from Image Comics just in time for holiday shopping.
There will also be a Direct Market exclusive variant cover available only at comic shops.
In this Savage Dragon Compendium, Vol. 1, the earliest adventures of Laren’s idiosyncratic superhero series are collected for the first time into one gigantic volume. Amongst these pages Savage Dragon defends Chicago from Overlord and the Vicious Circle, takes on an all-out gang war, and fights to prevent the destruction of the planet Earth itself!
Dragon goes from cop to corpse and to hell and back—literally! This compilation also features the birth of Dragon’s son, the death and rebirth of Darklord, and Dragon’s ascension to the head of Special Operations Strikeforce. It guest-stars WildC.A.T.s, Spawn, Hellboy, the Maxx, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and even God Himself.
Larsen’s Savage Dragon is the longest-running, full-color comic book series to feature a single artist/writer, with the character first appearing in a three-issue miniseries that launched with the company’s founding in 1992. It continues to release in trade paperback and hardcover collected editions and regularly releases new single issues. It is swiftly approaching its next milestone issue, #300, making this the perfect time to get caught up on the series with this shelf-busting compendium edition.
Savage Dragon Compendium, Vol. 1paperback (ISBN: 9781534361348) will be available at local comic book shopson Wednesday, November 18 and independent bookstores, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Indigo, and Waterstones on Tuesday, December 15.
The Savage Dragon Compendium, Vol. 1paperback Direct Market Exclusive (ISBN: 9781534364950) will be available at local comic book shops only on Wednesday, November 18.
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