
It was written by Rick Dakan, art was by Brandon McKinney and coloring was by Moose Bauman. The first normal run of the comic book was by Blue King Studios which covered twelve issues from May 2004 through April 2005. Art by Brandon McKinney City of Heroes Blue King Studios Comics Issue Number

Production of the City of Heroes comics concluded with the 20th issue of the 2nd volume, allowing game developers and NCsoft to focus their attention more on game content and player interaction.

It's believed Cryptic did this not only to compensate for the lack of additional monthly fees for playing both CoH and CoV, but also to solve the problem of comic books getting lost in the mail. At times, this rear section has also included comic strips by Scott Kurtz of the "PvP" webcomic and Tim Buckley of the "Ctrl Alt Del" webcomic.Īs of City of Villains launch, the free comic book deal switched from being an actual comic book being mailed to you to being able to access all existing CoH comic books on the company's website. The comics also tied into the game's plot development at times, as well as featuring a section devoted to fan art, fan fiction, and other miscellany in the back. Later, a monthly fee of $1.99 was charged for North American subscribers that wanted to receive the comic in the mail.

Originally, North American subscribers of the game would get the comic book monthly as part of the subscription rate. The series deals with various characters from the game. City of Heroes is a comic book series that takes place in the City of Heroes universe, mainly in Paragon City.
