Elektra Lives Again is a 1990 graphic novel

Graphic novel

A graphic novel is a narrative work in which the story is conveyed to the reader using sequential art in either an experimental design or in a traditional comics format...

 by Frank Miller

Frank Miller (comics)

Frank Miller is an American comic book artist, writer and film director best known for his dark, film noir-style comic book stories and graphic novels Ronin, Daredevil: Born Again, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City and 300...

 and Lynn Varley

Lynn Varley

Lynn Varley is an award-winning colorist, notable for her collaborations with her former husband, comic book writer/artist Frank Miller, whom she divorced in 2005.-Biography:...

 that was published through the Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics

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 imprint

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 Epic Comics

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. It is a spin-off from Miller's run on Daredevil

Daredevil (Marvel Comics)

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 and tells the story of the return of Ninja

Ninja

A or was a covert agent or mercenary of feudal Japan specializing in unorthodox arts of war. The functions of the ninja included espionage, sabotage, infiltration, and assassination, as well as open combat in certain situations...

 warrior Elektra

Elektra (comics)

Elektra Natchios, usually referred to only by her first name Elektra, is a fictional character in publications from Marvel Comics.Elektra is a kunoichi – female ninja assassin – of Greek descent. She wields a pair of bladed sai as her trademark weapon. She is a love interest of the superhero...

 from death. (Over the years Miller has had a complex relationship with his creation Elektra, having killed her off once but brought her back to life several times since.)

Publication history

Elektra Lives Again was innovative in that it was originally only available in a hardback edition (ISBN 093621127X). (It was also a few centimetres taller and wider than the usual graphic novel.) Elektra Lives Again has been reprinted a number of times (1991 ISBN 0871357380, 1996 ISBN 0-7851-0279-5), most recently in 2002 (ISBN 0-7851-0890-4), and would get a paperback release in 1993 (ISBN 0871357984). Elektra Lives Again was also included in the 2008 hardcover Elektra by Frank Miller Omnibus (ISBN 0-7851-2777-1), along with the Elektra: Assassin

Elektra: Assassin

Elektra: Assassin is an eight-issue limited series published by Epic Comics, an imprint of Marvel Comics, between August 1986 and March 1987...

limited series

Limited series

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 and a number of shorter stories.

Elektra Lives Again was also the first time that Miller dispensed with the inks of Klaus Janson

Klaus Janson

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, instead pencilling and inking the work himself. In this Elektra Lives Again anticipates Miller's later work from Sin City

Sin City

Sin City is the title for a series of neo-noir comics by Frank Miller. The first story originally appeared in "Dark Horse Presents Fifth Anniversary Special" , and continued in Dark Horse Presents #51–62 from May 1991 to June 1992, under the title of Sin City, serialized in thirteen parts. Several...

onward.