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The Best Fantasy and High Magic Comics

mike mike 5 Series Jun 6, 2026

Sweeping stories exploring magical realms, sword and sorcery, and mythic quests. The finest fantasy comics ever published.

Fables (2002)

DC Comics

161 issues

1

Fables transplants fairy tale characters into modern New York in a long-running Vertigo epic full of politics and war.

Berserk (2003)

Dark Horse Comics

42 issues

2

Berserk is Kentaro Miura's dark fantasy masterwork, a brutal medieval epic that influenced an entire generation of storytellers.

Conan the Barbarian (1997)

Marvel Comics

Limited Series

3 issues

3

Conan the Barbarian brought Robert E. Howard's sword-and-sorcery hero to comics in a run that defined the genre for decades.

Monstress (2015)

Image Comics

63 issues

4

Monstress is a lush, devastating fantasy epic set in a matriarchal world at war, with some of the most beautiful art in modern comics.

ElfQuest (1985)

Marvel Comics

32 issues

5

ElfQuest is Wendy and Richard Pini's pioneering independent fantasy epic, running since 1978 and still beloved worldwide.

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