The Hobbit #1 was published by Random House on June 1, 2001, as part of a series that began in 2001. Chuck Dixon and J. R. R. Tolkien write, and art comes from David Wenzel, Donato Giancola and Min Choi. It features Gandalf, Gollum, Bilbo Baggins, Smaug and Elrond, among 22 characters cataloged on VerseDB.