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Essential Image Comics Series

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The most important and acclaimed series from Image Comics, the publisher that changed the industry by giving creators ownership of their work and their characters.

Saga (2013)

Cross Cult

12 issues

1

Saga is the flagship Image Comics series of its era, a creator-owned space opera that proved the publisher could produce genuine pop culture phenomena without corporate IP.

Invincible (2003)

Image Comics, Skybound

145 issues

2

Invincible ran for 144 issues at Image and remains one of the publisher's most celebrated creator-owned superhero comics, influencing an entire generation of writers.

The Walking Dead (2004)

Image Comics

32 issues

3

The Walking Dead ran for 193 issues at Image and single-handedly proved that ongoing horror comics could sustain a massive mainstream audience over more than a decade.

Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft (2008)

IDW Publishing

6 issues

4

Locke and Key is an Image horror masterwork and one of the best-crafted limited series in the publisher's history, with every arc building toward a genuinely satisfying conclusion.

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