The forthcoming Savage Dragon Vault Edition will collect the early creative origins of one of Image Comics’ titular, best-loved characters and longest-running titles. This highly anticipated edition will reproduce Erik Larsen’s iconic, original Savage Dragon miniseries artwork from the ‘90s, plus additional pages from the expanded Dragon miniseries that was released in 1996. It is set to hit shelves this October from Image Comics.
This limited print run Savage Dragon Vault Edition oversized (12×17) hardcover will treat fans with special, archival quality reproductions of the art boards for every image that was used for the Savage Dragon #1-3, The Dragon #1-5, and the first Savage Dragon trade paperback, including all covers and pin-ups. It collects Savage Dragon #1-3, plus additional material from The Dragon #1-5, and makes for the perfect addition to any longtime Savage Dragon fan’s library collection.
“As an artist who strives to learn, grow and improve, I’m a little embarrassed by these early efforts,” said Larsen. “I can’t help but see every misstep and every mistake. But when fans say, ‘your old stuff was better’—this is the old stuff they’re talking about.”
Larsen’s Savage Dragon is the longest-running, full-color comic book series to feature a single artist/writer and first launched, alongside the company’s founding, in 1992. It continues to release in trade paperback and hardcover collected editions and regularly releases new single issues. It is swiftly approaching its next milestone issue, #300.
Savage Dragon Vault Edition hardcover (ISBN: 9781534329591, Lunar Code 0624IM270) will be available at local comic book shops on Wednesday, October 23 and independent bookstores, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Indigo, and Waterstones on Tuesday, November 5.
Savage Dragon is also available across many digital platforms, including Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, and Google Play.
Select praise for the Savage Dragon series:
“A lethal combination of talent, drive and discipline. I won’t see another run like this in my lifetime.” —Rob Liefeld
“F*cking inspiring!” —Skottie Young
“Energetic, inventive, surprising and most of all, fun. No matter what Erik does, he does it with the pedal to the metal.” —Kurt Busiek
“The greatest superhero epic ever published. If you enjoy comics and you haven’t read Dragon, you screwed up… but it’s never too late!” —Robert Kirkman
“The most consistently innovative and outrageous book in the history of our great medium. Erik Larsen is the boldest example of the spirit of Image comics.” —Chris Burnham