Dark Horse Comics
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Dark Horse Comics is the largest independent American comic book and Manga publisher.
Mike Richardson, the owner of several comic book shops in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area, began to publish in 1986 with an anthology series called Dark Horse Presents, investing profits from his stores into Dark Horse Comics. The publisher is based in Milwaukie, Oregon. Richardson opened his first comic book store, Pegasus Books, in Bend, Oregon in 1980.
Films
Dark Horse Comics has acquired the rights to make comic book adaptations of many popular film series. Some of these include Aliens, Army of Darkness (before Dynamite Entertainment acquired the license), Indiana Jones, Predator, RoboCop, Star Wars, The Terminator, Timecop, and Planet of the Apes. Following are the feature films based on series from Dark Horse:
- Dr. Giggles (1992)<
- The Mask (1994)
- Barb Wire (1996)
- Mystery Men (1999)
- Virus (1999)
- Alien vs. Predator (2004)
- Hellboy (2004)
- Sin City (2005)
- Son of the Mask (2005)
- 300 (2007)
- Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007)
- Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)
- My Name is Bruce (2008)
- El Zombo Fantasma (2010)
- Conan (2011)
- The Umbrella Academy (2012)
- Sin City 2 (2012)
- Hellboy 3 (2012)
- Sin City 3 (2012)
