Peter Milligan bibliography


This article is a bibliography of the British comic book writer Peter Milligan.
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UK publishers

Titles published by various British publishers include:
  • Sounds: "The Electric Hoax"
  • * Milligan joined McCarthy as the writer after the first few episodes; both creators were credited under various pseudonyms for most of the strip's run.
  • * Six episodes were reprinted in The Best of Milligan and McCarthy
  • 2000 AD :
  • *Tharg's Future Shocks:
  • ** The Best of Tharg's Future Shocks includes:
  • *** "The Man Who Was Too Clever"
  • *** "The Subterraneans!"
  • *** "Bill Tompkins Meets... Bill Tompkins!"
  • *** "Bad Timing"
  • *** "The Castaway!"
  • *** "60 Hours that Shook the World!"
  • *** "Medusa!"
  • *** "The Search for Spot"
  • *** "Bad Maxwell!"
  • *** "Crazy War"
  • *** "Extra! Extra!"
  • *** "Nerves of Steel!"
  • *** "But is It Art?"
  • *** "Eggravation"
  • *** "Grainger in Paradise!"
  • *** "Car Wars" and "Speak No Evil"
  • *** "The Long Sleep"
  • *** "Project Salvation!"
  • *** "The War with the Slobb!"
  • *** "The Revenge of the Yallop Cringe!"
  • *** "Eric the Wild!"
  • *** "Prisoner of Conscience!"
  • *** "Doing Time!"
  • *** "It's the Thought That Counts!"
  • *** "The Armageddon Game"
  • *** "The Possessed"
  • ** "The Ghost Outside the Machine!"
  • ** "The Snikker Snack"
  • ** Sooner or Later includes:
  • *** "Breathless"
  • ** "Do You Copy?"
  • *Sooner or Later:
  • ** Sooner or Later collects:
  • *** "Sooner or Later"
  • *** "Swifty's Return"
  • *Rogue Trooper :
  • ** Rogue Trooper: Tales of Nu-Earth Volume 3 includes:
  • *** "The Fanatics"
  • *** "Nort by Nortwest"
  • *Bad Company:
  • ** The Complete Bad Company collects:
  • *** "Bad Company"
  • *** "Bad Company II: The Bewilderness"
  • *** "Bad Company II: The Krool Heart"
  • *** "Young Men Marching"
  • *** "Simply"
  • *** "Kano"
  • *** "Down Among the Dead Men"
  • *** "Bad Company 2002"
  • ** "Ararat"
  • ** "First Casualties" collected as Bad Company: First Casualties
  • ** "Terrorists"
  • *The Dead
  • *Freaks
  • *Judge Anderson: "Dear Diary" collected in Judge Anderson: The Psi Files Volume 3
  • *Tribal Memories collected in 2000 AD Presents: Sci-Fi Thrillers
  • *Bix Barton
  • *Shadows
  • *Hewligan's Haircut collected as Hewligan's Haircut
  • *Judge Dredd: "Judge Planet" collected in Judge Dredd: The Restricted Files Volume 3
  • *Counterfeit Girl collected as Counterfeit Girl
  • Intergalactic Quest :
  • *Cosmic Triangle
  • *Doomed World
  • *Kidnap in Space
  • *Slavers of Devron
  • Eagle #242–258: "Clovis and Chowdhary: The Hard Men"
  • News on Sunday Extra: "Summer of Love"
  • * Seven episodes were published between April and November 1987; according to McCarthy, four more episodes were produced.
  • * The seven published episodes were reprinted in The Best of Milligan and McCarthy
  • Deadline :
  • * "Johnny Nemo"
  • ** The Johnny Nemo feature in issue #5 is a four-page prose story with an illustration by Ewins.
  • ** The stories in issues #7–9 are reprints of the strips originally published in Strange Days #1–3
  • ** The stories in issues #10–11 are reprints of the strip originally published in The Johnny Nemo Magazine #3
  • ** The reprint in issue #11 omits the last page of the original strip, and the story in issue #12 presents an all-new 8-page ending for it.
  • ** The stories from issues #1–4, 6–9 and 50 are collected in The Complete Johnny Nemo
  • * "The Writer"
  • * "The Golem"
  • * "Nobody"
  • * "The Christmas My Great Uncle Spent with Hemingway and the Joyces"
  • A1 :
  • * "The Hollow Circus" collected in The Best of Milligan and McCarthy
  • * "Big Death"
  • * "The Temple of Sweat"
  • * "In the Penal Colony"
  • Fleetway:
  • *Judge Dredd Annual '90: "Radical Cheek"
  • *Revolver #1–6: "Rogan Gosh: Star of the East"
  • ** Collected as Rogan Gosh: Star of the East
  • ** The Vertigo collection was subsequently reprinted in The Best of Milligan and McCarthy
  • *The Comic Relief Comic
  • Skin
  • * The story was initially slated to appear as a serial in Fleetway's Crisis anthology series, but ended up shelved due to its controversial subject matter.
  • * The graphic novel was subsequently reprinted in The Best of Milligan and McCarthy
  • Titan:
  • *The Complete Johnny Nemo: "The Make Over"
  • *The Mummy: Palimpsest #1–5 collected as The Mummy: Palimpsest
  • *Dan Dare vol. 2 #1–4 collected as Dan Dare: He Who Dares
  • *The Prisoner vol. 2 #1–4 collected as The Prisoner: The Uncertainty Machine
  • Judge Dredd Megazine #378–379: "Judge Dredd: Psicho"
  • ''The Spirit Centenary Newspaper''

US publishers

Early work

Titles published by various American publishers in the earlier part of Milligan's career include:
  • Vanguard Illustrated :
  • * "Freakwave!"
  • ** The concept was initially developed by Milligan and McCarthy as a film pitch; further three episodes were published in Milligan/McCarthy/Brett Ewins' anthology series Strange Days.
  • ** First episode of the Vanguard Illustrated strip and the entire Strange Days serial are collected in The Best of Milligan and McCarthy
  • * "The God Run"
  • Strange Days #1–3 featuring:
  • * "Freakwave"
  • * "Johnny Nemo: The Orb of Harmony"
  • ** A spin-off 3-issue limited series, written by Milligan and drawn by Ewins, was published as The Johnny Nemo Magazine featuring:
  • *** "Johnny Nemo: The Spice of Death"
  • *** "Johnny Nemo: New London Pride"
  • *** "Sindi Shade"
  • ** In 1989, a reprint of "The Orb of Harmony" and an expanded version of "New London Pride" were published in black-and-white in the UK magazine Deadline.
  • ** The Johnny Nemo stories from The Johnny Nemo Magazine and the black-and-white version of "The Orb of Harmony" are collected in The Complete Johnny Nemo
  • * "Paradax!"
  • ** An untitled 1-page Paradax strip, written by Milligan and drawn by McCarthy, was published in the UK anthology volume Strip AIDS
  • ** A spin-off 2-issue limited series, consisting of an issue featuring three new short stories and an issue reprinting the Strange Days serial with new colouring by McCarthy, was published as Paradax!
  • ** The Strip AIDS strip, issue #1 of the Paradax! series and the Strange Days serial with the original colouring are collected in The Best of Milligan and McCarthy
  • * "Tales from the 4th Dimension"
  • * "Krazy Foam"
  • * "3 Wise Men"
  • * "Tales from Eutopia"
  • * "Einstein's Blue Baby of the Month"
  • Mister X Special: "Mister Insect X" collected in ''Mister X: The Brides of Mister X and Other Stories''

DC Comics

Titles published by DC Comics and its various imprints include:

Vertigo

Titles published by DC Comics' Vertigo imprint include:

Marvel Comics

Titles published by Marvel and its various imprints include:

Valiant Comics

Titles published by Valiant include:
  • Shadowman: The Deluxe Edition Book Two collects:
  • *Shadowman vol. 4 #13X, 13–16 also collected as Shadowman: Fear, Blood and Shadows
  • *Shadowman: End Times #1–3 also collected as Shadowman: End Times
  • *Punk Mambo: "Mayhem and Revenge" also collected in Punk Mambo
  • Bloodshot vol. 3 #25: "The Glitch" collected in Bloodshot: The Glitch and Other Tales
  • Eternal Warrior: Days of Steel #1–3 collected as Eternal Warrior: Days of Steel
  • Britannia:
  • *Britannia: The Deluxe Edition collects:
  • ** Britannia #1–4 also collected as Britannia
  • ** Britannia: We Who are About to Die #1–4 also collected as Britannia: We Who are About to Die
  • ** Britannia: Lost Eagles of Rome #1–4 also collected as Britannia: Lost Eagles of Rome
  • *''Britannia: The Great Fire of Rome''

Other

Titles published by various American publishers after Milligan became an established Big Two writer:
  • Dark Horse:
  • *Aliens vol. 2 #9–12: "Aliens: Sacrifice"
  • ** Collected by Dark Horse in Aliens Omnibus Volume 3
  • ** Collected by Marvel in Aliens: The Original Years Omnibus Volume 2
  • *Tomorrow #1–2
  • ** The last three issues of the series were cancelled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • ** The entire story was eventually published as a single volume titled Tomorrow
  • The Dark Gate: "The Hunger Artists"
  • IDW Publishing:
  • *Army of Two #1–6: "Across the Border" collected as Army of Two
  • *Kid Lobotomy #1–6 collected as Kid Lobotomy: A Lad Insane
  • *Black Crown Quarterly #3: "Tales from the Raygun" collected in Black Crown Omnibus
  • After Dark #0–3
  • * A collected edition was solicited for a 2011 release but subsequently cancelled: After Dark
  • Image:
  • *Madman 20th Anniversary Monster: "Tuning Up"
  • *The Discipline #1–6 collected as The Discipline
  • *Hit-Girl: Season Two #9–12: "India" collected as Hit-Girl in India
  • Terminal Hero #1–6 collected as Terminal Hero: The Death and Life of Rory Fletcher
  • Ahoy Comics:
  • *Edgar Allan Poe's Snifter of Terror Volume 1 includes:
  • ** Edgar Allan Poe's Snifter of Terror :
  • *** "The Fall of the White House of President Usher"
  • *** "William Wilson, Inc."
  • *Happy Hour #1–6 collected as Happy Hour
  • AWA Studios:
  • *American Ronin #1–5 collected as American Ronin
  • *Absolution #1–5 collected as Absolution
  • *Sacrament #1–5 collected as Sacrament
  • Aftershock:
  • *Out of Body #1–5 collected as Out of Body
  • *God of Tremors collected in Shock Treatment
  • *Dogs of London #1–5 collected as Dogs of London
  • Bad Idea:
  • *Pyrate Queen #1–4
  • *The Lot #3: "Monsters in My Life"
  • *Werewolf
  • Human Remains #1–8 collected as Human Remains: The Complete Series
  • The Most Important Comic Book on Earth: "Humanity: Annual Report"