Wasteland (DC Comics)

Wasteland
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
Schedule	monthly
Publication date	December 1987 – May 1989
No. of issues	18
Creative team
Written by	John Ostrander, Del Close
Artist(s)	Don Simpson, David Lloyd, William Messner-Loebs, Timothy Truman, George Freeman
Editor(s)	Mike Gold

Wasteland was an American anthology-style horror comic book published by DC Comics in 1987–1989 and intended for adult readers. The series lasted 18 issues.

Each issue (with the exception of the book-length final issue) consisted of three unrelated stories written by John Ostrander and/or Del Close. For the most part each issue featured a team of four artists, one of whom would illustrate each of the three stories, the fourth supplying that month's cover (which would bear no, or at most only a thematic, connection to the interior contents). Initially, these duties were meant to rotate among Don Simpson, David Lloyd, Bill Loebs (credited under his full name William Messner-Loebs), and George Freeman, but by issue 13 Freeman, Lloyd and Loebs had all left the series (though Loebs returned for the last two issues). Later issues featured Bill Wray as a regular and such guest artists as Timothy Truman, Joe Orlando and Ty Templeton.

For the most part, the series avoided the sort of gory shock associated with the twist ending horror comics typified by Tales from the Crypt and The Twilight Zone television series in favor of more unpredictable and ambivalent stories. The themes of alienation and psychological dread often occurred, mixed with grotesque black humor, absurdism and social and political commentary in the form of satire. A text page in the first issue mentioned a desire to improve upon what the creators felt didn't work in DC's own House of Mystery, which had twice folded at the time.

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