Dynamite Entertainment


Dynamite Entertainment is an American comic book publisher founded in 2004 by Nick Barrucci in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, known for publishing comic book adaptations of licensed feature film properties, such as Army of Darkness, Terminator, and RoboCop; licensed or public domain literary properties such as Zorro, Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, Alice in Wonderland, Red Sonja, Tarzan, and John Carter of Mars; and superhero books including Project Superpowers, which revived classic public domain characters, and original creator-owned comics like The Boys.
Creators who have produced Dynamite's books include Alex Ross, John Cassaday, Matt Wagner, Garth Ennis, Howard Chaykin and Frank Miller. Dynamic Forces, a distribution of Dynamite's comics and books, announced a partnership with Diamond Distribution in 2008, when Diamond had the rights to publishing the international versions of books made by Dynamite Entertainment.Dynamite would later leave Diamond after the Diamond bankruptcy and go to Lunar Distribution.Dynamite would also sign a deal with Simon & Schuster which distribution their graphic novels and other items to wider market.

History

Dynamite Entertainment was founded by Nick Barrucci in 2004, initially publishing one comic: Army of Darkness, a miniseries it published through Devil's Due Publishing until it began self-publishing its own titles later that year. After devoting itself to publishing only Army of Darkness, which included a second miniseries, Dynamite published Red Sonja, starting with a 25-cent issue #0. It sold 240,000 copies. Issue #1 of Red Sonja, the first to sell at the full cover price of $2.99, sold 100,000 in initial orders, securing a stable position in the American comic book industry. By 2009, Dynamite was publishing 14–20 comic books and 2–10 collections per month.
Dynamite focuses primarily on comic book adaptations of licensed properties, such as Sherlock Holmes, The Lone Ranger, and Red Sonja. The company also publishes original titles like Project Superpowers, and creator-owned comics like The Boys.
Among its adaptations are those based on classic literature such as Alice in Wonderland, Dracula, and Zorro; television series such as Xena: Warrior Princess ''Battlestar Galactica, and Buck Rogers, and films such as Darkman, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, RoboCop, Highlander, and the Terminator franchise.
Its film adaptations also include those of classic monsters such as Dracula, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Frankenstein's Monster, and the Wolfman.
The company gradually built its graphic novel program with titles like Howard Chaykin's American Flagg!, reprints of Marvel Comics' Red Sonja series, and material by creators like Jim Starlin and Jae Lee.
In addition to publishing crossover storylines in which characters from these various properties meet, such as Terminator/RoboCop, and Vampirella/Dracula: Unholy!, Dynamite has also produced intercompany crossover books with other publishers. One, titled "Monster War", was released through Image Comics in 2005, and consisted of several titles that pitted the classic monsters against Top Cow published characters Witchblade, the Darkness, Magdalena, and Tomb Raider. The other was a 2006 crossover with DC Comics' Red Sonja/Claw The Unconquered: Devil's Hands.
In February 2007, Dynamite Entertainment acquired the publishing rights to Garth Ennis' creator-owned series The Boys after the book was cancelled six months into its run by DC Comics' WildStorm imprint.
In 2009 Dynamite announced it would publish new comics featuring Lee Falk's The Phantom.
In 2010, Dynamite began publishing comic books based on The Green Hornet, beginning with a miniseries written by Kevin Smith and followed by Green Hornet: Year One, which was written by Matt Wagner, and another written by Brett Matthews.
In May 2010, Dynamite Entertainment acquired Chaos! Comics' library, which included almost all of that publisher's associated assets, with the exception of Lady Death. Among these properties were the publishing labels Black Label Graphics, Infinity Comics, and the properties Evil Ernie, Smiley The Psychotic Button, Chastity, Purgatori, Jade, Omen, Bad Kitty, Cremator, Lady Demon.
In October 2013, Dynamite announced it would launch a line of comics based on titles originally published by Gold Key Comics, the first of which would be Magnus: Robot Fighter, The Occult Files of Doctor Spektor, Solar: Man of the Atom, and Turok.
In July 2016, author Andy Mangels stated in a New York Times interview that he was writing a new intercompany crossover mini-series for the company, in conjunction with DC Comics, Wonder Woman '77 Meets the Bionic Woman, which brought together the Lynda Carter television version of the Amazon superhero with Jaime Sommers, the cyborg super-heroine played by Lindsay Wagner in the 1970s TV series, The Bionic Woman. The series was released that December.
In July 2019, Sony Pictures Television and Amazon Studios premiered an adapted television series of The Boys for Amazon Prime Video after a brand licensing agreement was granted by Dynamite.
In 2022, Dynamite announced a deal with Disney to create a new line of comics based on various properties, including Gargoyles with spin-offs including a Halloween Special, Dark Ages mini series, and Quest mini series, and Darkwing Duck with spin-offs including Negaduck and Justice Ducks, as well as Disney Villains characters including Maleficent, Scar, Hades and Cruella De Vil. They also have the first comic book series on Lilo & Stitch and will be the first American publisher of The Nightmare Before Christmas comics
In October 2023, Dynamite announced a deal with Warner Bros. Discovery to create a new line of comics based on various properties, including Thundercats, Space Ghost, Jonny Quest, The Powerpuff Girls, The Wizard of Oz, The Flintstones, and We Bare Bears.
Thundercats'' #1 sold over 170,000 copies.

List of Dynamite Entertainment titles

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  • 007 #1–6
  • 007: For King and Country #1–6

    A

  • Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters #1–4
  • After Earth: Innocence
  • Agent 47: Birth of the Hitman #1–6
  • Alice Cooper #1–6
  • Alice Cooper vs. Chaos #1–6
  • Aliens/Vampirella #1–6
  • Alpha and Omega: Cry Wolf #1–8
  • Altered Carbon: Download Blues
  • Altered Carbon: One Life One Death
  • Altered States: Doc Savage
  • Altered States: Red Sonja
  • Altered States: The Shadow
  • Altered States: Vampirella
  • Animal Jam #1–3
  • Ani-Max
  • Army of Darkness #5–13
  • * Army of Darkness vol. 2, #1–27
  • * Army of Darkness vol. 3, #1–13, #1992.1
  • * Army of Darkness vol. 4, #1–5
  • Army of Darkness: Ash for President
  • Army of Darkness: Ash Gets Hitched #1–4
  • Army of Darkness: Ash Saves Obama #1–4
  • Army of Darkness: Ash's Christmas Horror
  • Army of Darkness: Ashes 2 Ashes #1–4
  • Army of Darkness: Convention Invasion
  • Army of Darkness: Furious Road #1–6
  • Army of Darkness: Shop Till You Drop Dead #1–5
  • Army of Darkness/Bubba Ho-Tep #1–4
  • Army of Darkness/Xena: Why Not? #1–4
  • Army of Darkness/Xena: Forever... and a Day #1–6
  • The Army of Darkness 1979 #1–5
  • Army of Darkness Forever #1–13
  • The Army of Darkness versus Reanimator: Necronomicon Rising #1–5
  • Army of Darkness vs. Hack/Slash #1–6
  • Army of Darkness vs. Re-Animator #1–4
  • Ash and the Army of Darkness #1–8, Annual
  • Ash vs. the Army of Darkness #0–5
  • Army of Darkness/Reanimator
  • Athena #1–4
  • The Avenger #1–6
  • The Avenger: Faces of Justice #1–4
  • ''The Avenger: The Television Killers''

    B

  • Bad Ass #1–4
  • Bad Kitty
  • Barbarella #1–12
  • * Barbarella vol. 2, #1–10
  • Barbarella: The Center Cannot Hold #1–6
  • Barbarella/Dejah Thoris #1–4
  • Batman/The Shadow #1–7
  • Batman '66 Meets the Green Hornet #1–6
  • Battlefields #1–9
  • * Battlefields vol. 2, #1–6
  • Battlefields: Dear Billy #1–3
  • Battlefields: Night Witches #1–3
  • Battlefields: The Tankies #1–3
  • Battlestar Galactica #0–12
  • * Battlestar Galactica vol. 2, #1–12, Annual
  • * Battlestar Galactica vol. 3, #1–5
  • Battlestar Galactica: Cylon Apocalypse #1–4
  • Battlestar Galactica: Cylon War #1–4
  • Battlestar Galactica: Death of Apollo #1–6
  • Battlestar Galactica: Ghosts #1–4
  • Battlestar Galactica: Gods and Monsters #1–5
  • Battlestar Galactica: Origins #1–11
  • Battlestar Galactica: Pegasus
  • Battlestar Galactica: Season Zero #1–12
  • Battlestar Galactica: Six #1–5
  • Battlestar Galactica: Starbuck #1–4
  • Battlestar Galactica: The Final Five #1–4
  • Battlestar Galactica: Zarek #1–4
  • Battlestar Galactica Classic #1–5
  • * Battlestar Galactica Classic vol. 2, #0–5
  • Battlestar Galactica vs. Battlestar Galactica #1–6
  • Bettie Page #1–8, Halloween Special
  • * Bettie Page vol. 2, #1–5, Halloween Special
  • * Bettie Page vol. 3, #1–5
  • * Bettie Page vol. 4, #1–4
  • Bettie Page: The Alien Agenda #1–5
  • Bettie Page: The Curse of the Banshee #1–5
  • Bettie Page Unbound #1–10
  • Betty Boop #1–4
  • The Bionic Man #1–26, Annual #1
  • The Bionic Man vs. the Bionic Woman #1–5
  • The Bionic Woman Season Four #1–4
  • The Black Bat #1–12
  • The Black Terror #1–14
  • * The Black Terror vol. 2, #1–5
  • Blackbeard: Legend of the Pyrate King #1–6
  • Blackcross #1–6
  • Blood Brothers #1–4
  • The Blood Queen #1–6, Annual
  • Blood Queen vs. Dracula #1–4
  • Blood Trail: Trailing
  • Bob's Burgers #1–5
  • * Bob's Burgers vol. 2, #1–16
  • Boo: The World's Cutest Dog #1–3
  • The Boys: Dear Becky #1–8
  • Brickleberry: Armoogeddon #1–4
  • Bring the Thunder #1–4
  • Brothers in Arms #1–4
  • Buck Rogers #1–12, Annual #1
  • Buddha A Story of Enlightenment
  • Bullet to the Head #1–6
  • Butcher, Baker, Candlestickmaker #1–6