Conan the Barbarian
In 1970 Marvel took a gamble on Robert E. Howard's barbarian, and the gamble paid off.
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Fantasy and myth
Sword and sorcery, gods reborn as pop stars, fairy-tale characters in exile and a samurai rabbit. Fantasy comics range from the brutally muscular to the gently all-ages, and this section covers both ends, with a few family-friendly picks for readers who want to hand a comic to someone under twelve without explaining anything afterwards.
Den
A skinny young man from Earth is transported to a strange world called Neverwhere and arrives in the body of a huge, heavily muscled hero, wearing nothing but a surprised expression.
Start with Den, Volume 1: Neverwhere
Elfquest
When humans burn down their forest home, a tribe of elves who ride wolves sets out under their young chief, Cutter, to find others of their kind, and discovers that their people's history…
Start with The Complete Elfquest, Volume 1
Usagi Yojimbo
Miyamoto Usagi is a ronin, a masterless samurai, wandering through a version of Edo-period Japan where everyone is an animal.
Start with Usagi Yojimbo Saga, Volume 1
The Sandman
Dream of the Endless, the lord of dreams and stories, is captured by an occultist in 1916 and held prisoner for seventy years.
Start with The Sandman, Volume 1: Preludes & Nocturnes
The Books of Magic
Timothy Hunter is a bespectacled twelve-year-old London boy who may become the greatest magician of his age, and he has an owl.
Start with The Books of Magic
Bone
Three cousins from Boneville, small white cartoon creatures who look as though they have escaped from a Sunday newspaper, are run out of town and get lost in a valley full of dragons, rat…
Start with Bone: The Complete Cartoon Epic in One Volume
Promethea
Sophie Bangs is a college student writing a paper on a mythical warrior woman called Promethea, when she finds out that Promethea is real, and she is about to become her.
Start with Promethea: The 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition, Book One
Lucifer
In The Sandman, Lucifer Morningstar resigned from ruling Hell and moved to Los Angeles to run a piano bar.
Start with Lucifer, Book One
Fables
The characters from fairy tales and folklore have been driven out of their homelands by a mysterious Adversary, and now live in secret in New York.
Start with Fables, Volume 1: Legends in Exile
Mouse Guard
In a medieval world of mice, the Mouse Guard protects the paths between settlements from snakes, weasels, weather and any other threat to a very small society.
Start with Mouse Guard: Fall 1152
The Sixth Gun
After the American Civil War, six supernatural pistols, each with its own terrible power, are loose in the Wild West.
Start with The Sixth Gun, Volume 1: Cold Dead Fingers
Hilda
Hilda is a blue-haired girl who lives with her mother in the wilderness of a vaguely Scandinavian land full of trolls, giants, elves and weather spirits.
Start with Hilda and the Troll
Rat Queens
The Rat Queens are a band of adventurers for hire, and they are exactly what happens when a party of tabletop roleplayers is left to its own devices: an elven mage, a dwarf fighter, a…
Start with Rat Queens, Volume 1: Sass & Sorcery
The Wicked + The Divine
Every ninety years, twelve gods are reincarnated as young people. They are loved, they are hated, they perform to screaming crowds, and within two years they are all dead.
Start with The Wicked + The Divine, Volume 1: The Faust Act
Nimona
Nimona is a shapeshifter who has decided to become the sidekick of Lord Ballister Blackheart, the kingdom's most famous villain.
Start with Nimona
Monstress
Maika Halfwolf is a teenage survivor of a war between humans and the Arcanics, magical beings who can look human.
Start with Monstress, Volume One: Awakening
Die
In 1991 six teenagers sat down to play a roleplaying game and vanished.
Start with Die, Volume 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker
Coda
The war is over, the magic has almost all gone and the fantasy world is a wasteland.
Start with Coda, Volume 1
Once & Future
Duncan McGuire is a mild-mannered museum curator.
Start with Once & Future, Volume 1: The King Is Undead