History

Mike Richardson owned several comic book stores in Oregon. In 1986 created Dark Horse Comics, publishing the anthology series Dark Horse Presents.

Imprints

• From 1993-1996 Dark Horse began to publish superhero comics under their own Comics Greatest Heroes imprint, later renamed Dark Horse Heroes.
• Beginning in 1994 Frank Miller and John Byrne created another imprint called Legend, specifically for creator-owned projects. Other creators that joined them were Art Adams, Mike Mignola, Eric Powell, Mike Allred, Paul Chadwick, Dave Gibbons, and Geof Darrow. The Legend imprint ended in 1998.
• Dark Horse Manga, publishes many different manga publications, translated from the original Japanese.
• From 1999-2002 the Maverick imprint published creator-owned material.
• In 2013 Dark Horse formed an original superhero imprint called Project Black Sky.

Dark Horse Comics publishes, and is best known for, many licensed titles as well as creator-owned comics.

Licensed Series

• Aliens
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Predator
• Star Wars (Star Wars: Dark Empire was the first successful Dark Horse Star Wars title)
• Conan

Creator-Owned Series

• Concrete
• 300
• The Escapist
• The Goon
• Hellboy
• Sin City
• The Umbrella Academy
• Usagi Yojimbo