Marshal Law
| Marshal Law | |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher |
Epic Comics (Marvel Comics) Dark Horse Comics |
| Format | Monthly |
| Genre | |
| Publication date(s) | 1987 - present |
| Creative team | |
| Created by |
Pat Mills Kevin O'Neill |
| Written by | Pat Mills |
| Artist(s) | Kevin O'Neill |
| Collected editions | |
| Fear and Loathing | ISBN |
| Blood Sweat and Tears | ISBN |
| Fear Asylum | ISBN |
Marshal Law is an English-language superhero comic book series created by Pat Mills and Kevin O'Neill.
Marshal Law was first published by Epic Comics in 1987. The series is a satire on the superhero genre as well as a deconstruction of Golden and Silver Age superheroes.
The series is characterized by its extreme graphic violence and nudity, and Mills' skewering of superhero conventions and US government policy and society.
Epic Comics launched Marshal Law in October 1987 as a six-issue limited series. It was followed by the Marshal Law Takes Manhattan one-shot, in which most of Marvel Comics' major characters were parodied.
In 1991, Mills and O'Neill took the character to the fledgling Apocalypse Comics for another one-shot. The character then starred in the lead feature of Toxic!, a weekly comic started in 1991.Toxic! proved to be short-lived and Apocalypse Comics went bankrupt in 1992. Mills and O'Neill then took Marshal Law to Dark Horse Comics, where the story in Toxic! was completed in late 1992. That year also saw the character return to Epic Comics for a two-issue series pitting the Marshal against Clive Barker's Pinhead character.
Over the next few years Marshal Law appeared in various Intercompany crossovers with other characters, including the Savage Dragon and the Mask. In 2000, Mills and O'Neill took the character to the Cool Beans World website. The stories here were illustrated novellas, rather than actual comic strips, titled The Day Of The Dead (which was published in a paperback edition) and Cloak Of Evil. The website closed in 2002.
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