The Dark Tower (comics)
| The Dark Tower | |
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Cover of The Gunslinger Born #1
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| Genre | Fantasy, science fiction, horror, western |
| Main character(s) | Roland Deschain, Alain Johns, Cuthbert Allgood, Jake Chambers, Eddie Dean, Susannah Dean |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) |
Robin Furth (adaptation) Peter David (script) |
| Artist(s) | Jae Lee, Richard Isanove, Dean White, Sean Phillips, Luke Ross, Michael Lark, Stefano Gaudiano, Laurence Campbell, Alex Maleev, Piotr Kowalski, Nick Filardi, Julian Totino Tedesco, Jonathan Marks, Lee Loughridge, Nimit Malavia, Juanan Ramirez, Jay Anacleto |
| Creator(s) | Stephen King |
The Dark Tower, first published in 2007, is a series of comic books by Marvel Comics based on Stephen King's The Dark Tower series of novels. Overall, it is plotted by Robin Furth and scripted by Peter David. Stephen King serves as Creative and Executive Director of the project.
The first chapter run of the series, entitled simply The Dark Tower, consists of thirty issues that make up five volumes illustrated primarily by Jae Lee and Richard Isanove. The first volume, The Gunslinger Born, is based mostly on flashbacks from The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger and The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass; the remaining volumes (The Long Road Home, Treachery, Fall of Gilead, and Battle of Jericho Hill) contain mostly new content which expands upon details and events more briefly referenced throughout the novels. In addition to the five primary story arcs, the chapter run also includes one limited series, The Sorcerer. As stated by Peter David's afterword to The Long Road Home, the chapter run details Roland Deschain's "progress from callow youth to gunslinger," starting with his adventures in Mejis from Wizard and Glass and ending with the Battle of Jericho Hill (as detailed in The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla and The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower).
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