Avatar Press
| RoboCop | |
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Cover of first issue. Cover art by Frank Miller |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Avatar Press |
| Schedule | Irregular |
| Format | Limited series |
| Genre | Crime Science fiction Thriller |
| Publication date | August 2003 – February 2006 |
| Number of issues | 9 |
| Main character(s) | Alex J. Murphy/RoboCop |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Steven Grant |
| Artist(s) | Juan Jose Ryp |
| Creator(s) | Frank Miller (original screenplay, concept supervisor) Steven Grant (writer) Juan Jose Ryp (illustrator) |
Almost a decade later, the comic rights to RoboCop were acquired by Avatar Press. Upon announcing the acquisition, the company's publisher, William Christensen, received several offers from artists and writers hoping to contribute to the project (which eventually led to the Avatar one-shot RoboCop: Killing Machine). Christensen himself was interested in producing a comic adaptation of Miller’s “lost” screenplay, of which he possessed a copy. Christensen soon got in contact with Miller, who was enthusiastic to the idea of his story finally being told uncensored.
The series was personally overseen by Miller, based on his own unused screenplay for the film RoboCop 2 and notes of unused ideas for RoboCop 3, however scheduling prohibited him from personally writing the comic adaptation or illustrating it. It was written by Steven Grant, a long-time acquaintance of Miller’s who had written the comic adaptation of RoboCop 3 for Dark Horse Comics. Juan Jose Ryp, best known for illustrating the Avatar comic Another Suburban Romance (written by Alan Moore), became the title’s illustrator while Miller drew covers.
The series was composed of nine issues that were published from August 2003 through February 2004 under Avatar’s Pulsar Press line, which specializes in licensed comic properties from movies. Issues featured covers by Miller and alternative covers by Ryp.
Avatar also released two one-shots Killing Machine and Wild Child.
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