Grant Morrison bibliography

Comics

UK publishers

• Near Myths :
• * "Time is a Four-Lettered Word"
• * "The Vatican Conspiracy"
• * "The Checkmate Man"
• Captain Clyde
• * Distributed via three local Scottish newspapers: Govan Press, Renfrew Press and Clydebank Press.
• * Composed of around 150 episodes published between 1 November 1979 to 5 November 1982.
• Starblazer :
• * "Algol the Terrible"
• * "Last Man on Earth"
• * "Operation Overkill"
• * "The Cosmic Outlaw"
• * "The Death Reaper"
• * "Gateway to Terror"
• * "Doom World!"
• * "Mind Bender"
• * "The Midas Mystery"
• * "The Ring of Gofannon"
• Warrior #26 + Spring Special: "The Liberators"
• Food for Thought: "Gideon Stargrave in... Famine"
• DC London Editions:
• *Superman: Official 1986 Annual: "Osgood Peabody's Big Green Dream Machine..."
• *Batman: Official 1986 Annual: "The Stalking"
• Sunrise #1–2: "Abraxas: Prologues I and II"
• Heartbreak Hotel #4: "Born Again Punk"
• The Adventures of Luther Arkwright #10
• Cut : "The New Adventures of Hitler"
• * Three black-and-white six-page installments of this controversial strip were published before the Cut magazine ceased publication.
• * The colored version of the published chapters as well as the continuation of the story were printed in Crisis #46–49
• Trident #1–4: "St. Swithin's Day"
• * A colorized version of the story was published as St. Swithin's Day
• * The black-and-white version was published in the US market as St. Swithin's Day
• A1 #3: "The House of Heart's Desire"
• Letterbox: "Juliet 4 Romeo"
• Così Fan Tutte Programme
• * First published in print as a feature in Heavy Metal #282

Marvel UK

• Captain Britain vol. 2 #13: "Captain Granbretan"
• * Collected in Captain Britain Omnibus
• * Collected in Captain Britain: End Game
• Spider-Man and Zoids :
• * "Old Soldiers Never Die"
• * "A Fine and Private Place"
• * "Deserts" and Geoff Senior
• * "Bits and Pieces"
• * "The Black Zoid"
• * "Orientation"
• * "Out of the Blue"
• * "Blue Moon, Red Dawn"
• * "Schumacher's Story"
• Doctor Who Magazine :
• *Doctor Who: The World Shapers includes:
• ** "Changes"
• ** "The World Shapers"
• *Doctor Who: A Cold Day in Hell includes:
• ** "Culture Shock"
• Action Force :
• *Action Force #17: "Meditations in Red"
• *Action Force Monthly #3: "Old Scores"

Fleetway

• 2000 AD :
• *Tharg's Future Shocks:
• ** All-Star Future Shocks includes:
• *** "Hotel Harry Felix!"
• *** "The Alteration"
• *** "Alien Aid"
• *** "Some People Never Listen!"
• *** "The Shop That Sold Everything"
• *** "Wheels of Fury"
• *** "Curse Your Lucky Star"
• *** "Ulysses Sweet: Maniac for Hire"
• *** "Ulysses Sweet in... Fruitcake and Veg"
• *** "Fair Exchange"
• *** "The Invisible Etchings of Salvador Dalí"
• *** "Big Trouble for Blast Barclay"
• *** "Return to Sender"
• ** The Best of Tharg's Future Shocks includes:
• *** "2000 BC!"
• ** 2000 AD Presents: Sci-Fi Thrillers includes:
• *** "Danger! Genius at Work!"
• *** "Candy and the Catchman"
• *Zenith:
• ** Zenith: Phase One collects:
• *** "Phase One: Tygers"
• *** "Interlude: Whitlock" and "Interlude: Peyne"
• ** Zenith: Phase Two collects:
• *** "Phase Two: The Hollow Land"
• *** "Interlude: Maximan"
• ** Zenith: Phase Three collects:
• *** "Mandala: Shadows and Reflections"
• *** "Phase Three: War in Heaven"
• ** Zenith: Phase Four collects:
• *** "Phase Four: Jerusalem"
• *** "zzzzenith.com"
• *Venus Bluegenes: "The Pleasures of the Flesh" collected in Rogue Trooper: Tales of Nu-Earth Volume 3
• *Really and Truly collected in Yesterday's Tomorrows
• *Judge Dredd:
• ** "Inferno" collected in Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files Volume 19
• ** "Book of the Dead" collected in Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files Volume 20
• ** "Crusade" collected in Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files Volume 22
• *Big Dave :
• ** "Target: Baghdad"
• ** "Monarchy in the UK"
• ** "Young Dave"
• ** "Costa del Chaos"
• ** "Wotta Lotta Balls"
• *Janus: Psi Division:
• ** "Will o' the Wisp"
• ** "House of Sighs"
• ** "Faustus"
• *Tharg the Mighty: "A Night 2 Remember"
• Revolver #1–7: "Dare" — with a short recap strip and the final installment published in Crisis #55–56
• * The entire serial was collected in Yesterday's Tomorrows
• * The serial was also reprinted in oversized format as Dare: The Controversial Memoir of Dan Dare
• Crisis #56–61: "Bible John-A Forensic Meditation"
• ''The Comic Relief Comic''

DC Comics

• Animal Man and Paris Cullins collected as:
• *Volume 1
• *Origin of the Species
• ** Includes "The Myth of the Creation" short story from Secret Origins vol. 2 #39
• *Deus Ex Machina
• *Omnibus
• Doom Patrol, Kelley Jones, Mike Dringenberg, Steve Yeowell, Vince Giarrano, Ken Steacy, Sean Phillips and Stan Woch collected as:
• *Book One
• *Book Two
• *Book Three
• ** Includes Doom Force Special
• *Omnibus
• Batman:
• *Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth
• ** A 15th Anniversary Edition of the graphic novel featuring Morrison's original script and story annotations was published as Batman: Arkham Asylum
• ** A 30th Anniversary Edition of the graphic novel with "remastered" artwork was published as Batman: Arkham Asylum
• *Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #6–10: "Gothic" collected as Batman: Gothic
• *Batman, Tony Daniel, J. H. Williams III, Ryan Benjamin and Lee Garbett collected as:
• ** The Black Glove
• ** The Resurrection of Ra's al Ghul
• ** Batman R.I.P.
• ** Batman by Grant Morrison Omnibus Volume 1
• *Batman and Robin, Philip Tan, Cameron Stewart, Andy Clarke, Dustin Nguyen, Frazer Irving and Chris Burnham collected as:
• ** Batman Reborn
• ** Batman vs. Robin
• ** Batman and Robin Must Die!
• *** Includes the Batman: The Return one-shot
• ** Absolute Batman and Robin: Batman Reborn
• ** Batman by Grant Morrison Omnibus Volume 2
• *Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne #1–6, Frazer Irving, Yanick Paquette, Georges Jeanty, Ryan Sook + Pere Pérez and Lee Garbett
• ** Collected as Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne
• ** Collected in Batman by Grant Morrison Omnibus Volume 2
• *Batman #700–702
• ** Collected as Batman: Time and the Batman
• ** Collected in Batman by Grant Morrison Omnibus Volume 2
• *Batman Incorporated, Pere Pérez, Chris Burnham, Scott Clark, Frazer Irving, Andres Guinaldo, Jason Masters and Andrei Bressan collected as:
• ** Volume 1
• *** Includes the Batman Incorporated: Leviathan Strikes! one-shot
• ** Demon Star
• ** Gotham's Most Wanted
• *** Also collects Batman Incorporated vol. 2 #11
• ** Absolute Batman Incorporated
• ** Batman by Grant Morrison Omnibus Volume 3
• *Batman: Black and White
• *Arkham Asylum 2
• *Detective Comics #1027: "Detective #26"
• Secret Origins vol. 2 #46: "Ghosts of Stone"
• Hellblazer #25–26 collected in John Constantine, Hellblazer Volume 4
• Kid Eternity #1–3 collected as Kid Eternity
• Fast Forward #1: "A Glass of Water"
• Aztek, the Ultimate Man #1–10 collected as Aztek, the Ultimate Man
• JLA collected as:
• *The Deluxe Edition Volume 1
• ** Includes the "Star-Seed" short story from JLA Secret Files & Origins #1
• *The Deluxe Edition Volume 2
• ** Includes the JLA/WildC.A.T.s one-shot
• ** Includes the New Year's Evil: Prometheus one-shot
• *The Deluxe Edition Volume 3
• ** The hardcover collection also includes JLA #1,000,000, while the paperback version omits both this issue and the two lead-in pages from JLA #23.
• *The Deluxe Edition Volume 4
• ** The paperback collection also includes fill-in issues penned by other writers, while the hardcover version includes two other related works by Morrison:
• *** JLA: Earth 2
• *** JLA: Classified #1–3 also collected as JLA: Ultramarine Corps
• The Flash vol. 2 collected as:
• *Emergency Stop
• *The Human Race
• ** Includes the "Flash of Two Worlds" short story from Secret Origins vol. 2 #50
• *The Flash by Grant Morrison and Mark Millar
• New Gods Secret Files & Origins: "Lost Pages: Orion and Big Barda Join the JLA"
• DC One Million Omnibus includes:
• *DC One Million #1–4 also collected as DC One Million
• *DC One Million 80-Page Giant: "The Divided Self" and "Crisis One Million"
• DC Comics Presents: Mystery in Space: "Two Worlds"
• Seven Soldiers #0–1
• * These two issues served as bookends for a number of interrelated limited series:
• ** Seven Soldiers: Manhattan Guardian #1–4
• ** Seven Soldiers: Shining Knight #1–4
• ** Seven Soldiers: Klarion the Witch Boy #1–4
• ** Seven Soldiers: Zatanna #1–4
• ** Seven Soldiers: Mister Miracle #1–4
• ** Seven Soldiers: Bulleteer #1–4
• ** Seven Soldiers: Frankenstein #1–4
• * In collected editions, all 30 issues are presented in the original publication order:
• ** Seven Soldiers of Victory Volume 1
• ** Seven Soldiers of Victory Volume 2
• ** Seven Soldiers by Grant Morrison Omnibus
• Superman:
• *All-Star Superman #1–12 collected as All-Star Superman
• *Action Comics vol. 2, Gene Ha, Andy Kubert, Brad Walker, CAFU, Ben Oliver and Travel Foreman collected as:
• **Superman: Action Comics — Superman and the Men of Steel
• **Superman: Action Comics — Bulletproof
• **Superman: Action Comics — At the End of Days
• **Superman by Grant Morrison Omnibus
• 52, Chris Batista, Ken Lashley, Eddy Barrows, Shawn Moll, Todd Nauck, Dale Eaglesham, Pat Olliffe, Drew Johnson, Phil Jimenez, Tom Derenick + Joe Prado, Dan Jurgens, Jamal Igle, Andy Smith, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Darick Robertson, Justiniano and Mike McKone collected as:
• *Volume 1
• *Volume 2
• *Volume 3
• *Volume 4
• *Omnibus
• DCU: Brave New World featured two segments credited as "based on ideas and concepts developed by Grant Morrison":
• * "Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters"
• ** Continued by the same creative team as Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters #1–8
• * "The All-New Atom"
• ** Continued as The All-New Atom #1–25
• Wildstorm:
• *Wildcats vol. 4 #1: "A Halo 'Round the World"
• ** Issue #2 was solicited but never released; Wildstorm editor Ben Abernathy indicated that Morrison and Lee's stint was planned to run for 6 issues.
• ** Issue #1, along with Morrison's script for issue #2, was reprinted in Wildstorm: A Celebration of 25 Years
• *The Authority vol. 3 #1–2: "Utopian"
• ** Three years after issue #2, Wildstorm published a continuation of the series, written by Keith Giffen from a plotline by Morrison and Giffen:
• *** The Authority: The Lost Year #3–12
• ** Issues #1–2 and The Lost Year #3–7 are collected as The Authority: The Lost Year Book One
• * The company-wide crossover storyline "World's End", which launched in 2008, was based on Morrison's original outline for Wildcats and The Authority.
• Metal Men vol. 3 #1–8
• DC Universe #0
• Final Crisis and Absolute Final Crisis collect:
• *Final Crisis #1–7, Marco Rudy and Doug Mahnke
• *Final Crisis: Superman Beyond #1–2
• *Final Crisis: Submit
• The Multiversity #1–2
• * These two issues served as bookends for a number of interrelated one-shots:
• ** The Multiversity: The Society of Super-Heroes
• ** The Multiversity: The Just
• ** The Multiversity: Pax Americana
• ** The Multiversity: Thunderworld Adventures
• ** The Multiversity Guidebook
• ** The Multiversity: Mastermen
• ** The Multiversity: Ultra Comics
• * All nine issues were subsequently collected as The Multiversity
• * In 2015, Morrison announced Multiversity Too, a series of graphic novels that would explore various parallel worlds in the DC Multiverse.
• * The first in this line of graphic novels, tentatively titled Multiversity Too: The Flash, was announced for late 2016 but never materialized.
• Wonder Woman: Earth One :
• *Volume 1
• *Volume 2
• *Volume 3
• *The Complete Collection
• Dark Knights Rising: The Wild Hunt
• * Collected in Dark Nights: Metal — Dark Knights Rising
• * Collected in Dark Nights: Metal Omnibus
• Sideways Annual #1: "Just Rifting Here" collected in Sideways: Rifts and Revelations
• The Green Lantern:
• *The Green Lantern collected as:
• ** Intergalactic Lawman
• ** The Day the Stars Fell
• *The Green Lantern Season Two collected as:
• ** Volume 1
• *** Includes the 3-issue spin-off limited series Green Lantern: Blackstars
• ** Ultrawar
• Superman and the Authority #1–4 collected as Superman and the Authority
• DC Pride: "Love's Lightning Heart" collected in ''DC Pride: Better Together''

[|Vertigo]

• Sebastian O #1–3 collected as Sebastian O
• Swamp Thing vol. 2 #140–143 collected in Swamp Thing: The Root of All Evil
• The Mystery Play
• The Invisibles, Jill Thompson, Chris Weston, John Ridgway, Steve Parkhouse, Paul Johnson, Phil Jimenez, Tommy Lee Edwards, Mark Buckingham, Michael Lark, Ivan Reis, Philip Bond, Warren Pleece, Sean Phillips, Ashley Wood, Rian Hughes, Cameron Stewart + Pander Brothers + Dean Ormston and Frank Quitely collected as:
• *Book One
• ** Includes the "Hexy" short story from the Absolute Vertigo one-shot
• *Book Two
• ** Includes the "And We're All Police Men" short story from Vertigo: Winter's Edge #1
• *Book Three
• *Book Four
• *Omnibus
• Vertigo Voices :
• *Kill Your Boyfriend
• *Bizarre Boys
• Flex Mentallo #1–4 collected as Flex Mentallo: Man of Muscle Mystery
• Weird War Tales vol. 2 #3: "New Toys" collected in Graphic Ink: DC Comics Art of Frank Quitely
• The Filth #1–13 collected as The Filth
• LeSexy
• Indestructible Man
• * In 2004, Morrison stated this project was put on the back burner as "Flex Mentallo, The Invisibles and The Filth already formed the cohesive "hypersigil" trilogy".
• Seaguy :
• *Seaguy #1–3 collected as Seaguy
• *Seaguy: The Slaves of Mickey Eye #1–3
• *Seaguy: Eternal
• We3 #1–3 collected as We3
• Vimanarama #1–3 collected as Vimanarama
• Warcop
• The New Bible
• Joe the Barbarian #1–8 collected as ''Joe the Barbarian''

Marvel Comics

• Skrull Kill Krew #1–5 collected as Skrull Kill Krew
• Marvel Boy vol. 2 #1–6 collected as Marvel Boy
• New X-Men, Ethan Van Sciver, Igor Kordey, John Paul Leon, Phil Jimenez, Keron Grant, Chris Bachalo and Marc Silvestri collected as:
• *Ultimate Collection: New X-Men Volume 1
• *Ultimate Collection: New X-Men Volume 2
• *Ultimate Collection: New X-Men Volume 3
• *New X-Men Omnibus
• Fantastic Four: 1 2 3 4 collects:
• *Fantastic Four: 1 2 3 4 #1–4 also collected as Fantastic Four: 1 2 3 4
• *Marvel Knights Double Shot #2: "Nick's World"
• All-New Miracleman Annual: "October Incident: 1966" collected in Miracleman: Olympus
• * Morrison originally penned this short story in the mid-80s for Quality Communications' ongoing Miracleman feature in the Warrior magazine, then-written by Alan Moore.
• * The script was rejected at the insistence of Moore and remained unused until Marvel acquired the rights to the character and began publishing Miracleman stories.

Other US publishers

• Eclipse:
• *Steed and Mrs. Peel #1–3: "The Golden Game" collected in Steed and Mrs. Peel: The Golden Game
• *Born to be Wild: "Dominion"
• Image:
• *Spawn #16–18: "Reflections"
• ** Collected in Spawn: Origins Collection Volume 3
• ** Collected in Spawn: Origins Collection Book Two
• *Happy! #1–4 collected as Happy!
• *Nameless #1–6 collected as Nameless
• Vampirella Monthly :
• *Vampirella: The Morrison/Millar Collection collects:
• ** Vampirella 25th Anniversary Special: "Blood Red Game"
• ** "Ascending Evil"
• ** "Holy War"
• * "The Queen's Gambit"
• Dynamite:
• *18 Days
• ** After the dissolution of Virgin, its owners started a new company, Graphic India, and published an ongoing series based on Morrison's story bible and completed scripts:
• *** Grant Morrison's 18 Days #1–21
• ** Graphic India also published a Morrison-written limited series that was partially serialized as a digital comic via Humble Bundle before its print release: Avatarex #1–4
• *Dinosaurs vs. Aliens
• *Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers vol. 3 #6 collected in Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers
• Annihilator #1–6 collected as Annihilator
• Sinatoro
• Prometheus Eternal: "Prometheus is Here!"
• Boom! Studios:
• *Klaus :
• ** Klaus #1–7 collected as Klaus: How Santa Claus Began
• ** Klaus: The New Adventures of Santa Claus collects:
• *** Klaus and the Witch of Winter
• *** Klaus and the Crisis in Xmasville
• ** Klaus: The Life and Times of Santa Claus collects:
• *** Klaus and the Crying Snowman
• *** Klaus and the Life and Times of Joe Christmas
• *Proctor Valley Road #1–6 collected as Proctor Valley Road
• Love is Love
• Heavy Metal #280–292 — #293–294 — #295
• * In addition to the editorial duties, Morrison also penned a number of short stories and serials for the magazine:
• ** "Beachhead"
• ** "Option 3"
• ** "Industria and the Toilet That Traveled Through Time" and "The Key"
• ** "The Smile of the Absent Cat"
• *** The sixth and final chapter, although completed, was not published for undisclosed legal reasons.
• *** A collected edition was solicited for a 2021 release but subsequently cancelled: The Smile of the Absent Cat
• ** "The Savage Sword of Jesus Christ"
• *** The story was originally developed by Morrison in the mid-00s as a sequel to The New Adventures of Hitler; only two out of six planned episodes were published.
• *** A collected edition was solicited for a 2019 release but subsequently cancelled: The Savage Sword of Jesus Christ
• ** "Mythopia"
• ** "New Madonna"
• *** Issue #288 also featured a reprint of the short story "The House of Heart's Desire" with art by Dom Regan.
• *** The story, originally published in A1 #3, was reprinted with new coloring and lettering.
• ** "Ten Sounds That Represent a Kind of Person: A Historical Parody"
• ** "Nihilophilia"
• ** "The Rise and Fall of Empires"
• Ahoy Comics:
• *The Wrong Earth #1: ""Hud" Hornet's Holiday in Hell!"
• *High Heaven #1: "Festive Funtimes at the New World's Fair!"
• *Captain Ginger #1: "The Electric Sky Bear That Inspired Ben Franklin!"
• *Project Cryptid #1: "Partially Naked Came the Corpse! "
• Anthrax: Among the Living: "Indians"

Prose fiction and playwriting

• Skin Two #26: "The Story of Zero"
• Songs of the Black Wurm Gism: "Luvkraft v. Kthulhu"
• * The short story is based on a transcript of the spoken word performance staged for the Lovecraft Lives event
• ''Luda: A Novel''

Nonfiction and other work

• ARK #25–26, 28–29
• Speakeasy #101–119: "Drivel"
• * A one-off installment titled "Son of Drivel: From My Pulpit" was published in Tripwire #3
• Rapid Eye Volume 3: "In Search of Maya Deren"
• Sleazenation: "The Smell of Reason"
• Malaparte: A House Like Me: "Unbuilding Malaparte"
• Fortune Hotel: "It was the 90s"
• Book of Lies: The Disinformation Guide to Magick and the Occult: "Pop Magic!"
• * A revised and expanded version of this essay was published under the title "Beyond the World and the Fool" in Heavy Metal #286
• Supergods published under two different subtitles:
• * Published in the UK, EU and Commonwealth countries by Jonathan Cape as Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero
• * Published in the US by Spiegel & Grau as Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human
• Heavy Metal #280–285, 287–292
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Works about Morrison

• Neighly, Patrick and Cowe-Spigai, Kereth. '. Disinfo, 2003.
• Rauch, Stephen. "" International Journal of Comic Art vol. 6 #2, 2004.
• Niederhausen, Michael. "" International Journal of Comic Art vol. 8 #1, 2006.
• Verano, Frank. "" International Journal of Comic Art vol. 8 #2, 2006.
• Callahan, Timothy. '. Sequart, 2007.
• Meaney, Patrick. '. Sequart, 2009.
• Meaney, Patrick. Grant Morrison: Talking with Gods. Respect! Films and Sequart, 2010. Documentary film.
• Singer, Marc. '. University Press of Mississippi, 2011.
• Shapira, Tom. '. Sequart, 2013.
• Walker, Cody. '. Sequart, 2014.