Mage (comics)
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Mage: The Hero Defined cover by Matt Wagner.
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| Created by | Matt Wagner |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher |
Comico Comics Image Comics |
| Title(s) |
Mage: The Hero Discovered Mage: The Hero Defined |
| Formats | Original material for the series has been published as a set of limited series. |
| Genre | |
| Publication date | February 1984 - December 1986 July 1997 - October 1999 |
| Number of issues | 15 15 |
| Main character(s) | Kevin Matchstick |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Matt Wagner |
| Penciller(s) | Matt Wagner |
| Inker(s) | Sam Kieth |
| Colorist(s) | Jeromy Cox |
| Creator(s) | Matt Wagner |
| Reprints | |
| Collected editions | |
| Hero Discovered Volume 1 | |
Mage is an American superhero comic book written and illustrated by Matt Wagner. Three volumes, each of 15 issues are planned; as of 2014[update], two have been published.
Volume one, The Hero Discovered, was published by Comico from February 1984 to December 1986. Despite advertisements saying that a sequel was "coming soon", The Hero Defined did not appear until 1997, published by Image Comics (Comico had gone bankrupt in 1990, and it had taken some time for Wagner to regain the rights to the series). The third and final volume, The Hero Denied, is planned for publication in July of 2017.
Wagner wrote and drew both series, with Sam Kieth as inker for part of the first, and Jeromy Cox as colourist for the second.
The Hero Discovered follows Kevin Matchstick, an alienated young man who meets a wizard called Mirth and discovers that he, among other things, possesses both a magic baseball bat and superhuman abilities. In the course of the comic, he defeats the nefarious plans of a being called the Umbra Sprite. He ultimately discovers that Mirth is Merlin, the baseball bat is Excalibur, and he is, in some ambiguous way, King Arthur. All the chapter titles are lines from Shakespeare's Hamlet.
A backup story, Devil by the Deed, appeared in issues #7–14 of The Hero Discovered. This was a Grendel story that led directly into the Grendel comic series penned by Wagner, and drawn by a series of different artists, changing as each arc of the story changed.
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