Mage (comics)

Mage
Mage: The Hero Defined cover by Matt Wagner.
Created byMatt Wagner
Publication information
PublisherComico
Image Comics
Title(s)
  • Mage: The Hero Discovered
  • Mage: The Hero Defined
  • Mage: The Hero Denied
FormatsOriginal material for the series has been published as a set of limited series.
Genre
Publication date
  • February 1984 – December 1986
  • July 1997 – October 1999
  • July 2017 – Feb 2019
Number of issues
  • Discovered: 15
  • Defined: 16, #0–15
  • Denied: 16, #0–15
Main character(s)Kevin Matchstick
Creative team
Writer(s)Matt Wagner
Penciller(s)Matt Wagner
Inker(s)Matt Wagner, Sam Kieth
Colorist(s)Matt Wagner, Jeromy Cox, Brennan Wagner
Editor(s)Diana Schutz
Reprints
Collected editions
Hero Discovered Volume 1ISBN 1-58240-388-0

Mage is an American superhero comic book written and illustrated by Matt Wagner, which he describes as an "allegorical autobiography" in which the hero, Kevin Matchstick, is a stand-in for the author, and "[a]ll the other characters he encounters and situations he endures are metaphors from my own life... told through the lens of a fantasy adventure".[1] Three volumes, each of 15 issues, have been published.

  1. ^ Rich Johnston, "Bleeding Cool Talks to Matt Wagner About Mage: The Hero Denied, The Final Chapter, Announced by Image Comics at ECCC 2017", Bleeding Cool, March 2, 2017