List of comics based on television programs

This is a list of comics based on television programs. Often a television program

Television program

A television program , also called television show, is a segment of content which is intended to be broadcast on television. It may be a one-time production or part of a periodically recurring series...

becomes successful, popular or attains cult status and the franchise

Media franchise

A media franchise is an intellectual property involving the characters, setting and trademarks of an original work of media , such as a film, a work of literature, a television program or a video game. Generally, a whole series is made in a particular medium, along with merchandising and endorsements...

produces spin-off

Spin-off (media)

In media, a spin-off is a radio program, television program, video game, or any narrative work, derived from one or more already existing works, that focuses, in particular, in more detail on one aspect of that original work...

s that often include comics.

There are a number of companies that specialise in licensed properties, including Gold Key Comics

Gold Key Comics

Gold Key Comics was an imprint of Western Publishing created for comic books distributed to newsstands. Also known as Whitman Comics, Gold Key operated from 1962 to 1984.-History:...

, Dark Horse Comics, Titan Books

Titan Books

Titan Publishing Group is an independently owned publishing company, established in 1981. It is based at offices in London, England's Bankside area. The Books Division has two main areas of publishing: film & TV tie-ins/cinema reference books; and graphic novels and comics reference/art titles. The...

and Dynamite Entertainment

Dynamite Entertainment

Dynamite Entertainment is an American comic book company that primarily publishes licensed franchises of adaptations of other media. These include adaptations of film properties such as Army of Darkness, Terminator and RoboCop, literary properties such as Zorro, Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, Alice in...

. With the bigger series the license can often pass to a number of companies over the history of the title.

Comics

Comics based on TV programs include:

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Angel
Angel comics
Angel comic book refers to one of two series published by Dark Horse Comics during 2000–2002. Both of these series are based on the television series Angel, and were published while the television series was on air. The first volume was an ongoing series halted after seventeen issues. The second...
Animaniacs
Æon Flux
The Avengers
Astro Boy
Astro Boy (NOW Comics)
The Original Astro Boy is a twenty-issue 1980s comic book series by NOW Comics, based on the original Japanese Astro Boy series by Osamu Tezuka. The series was based mostly on the 1960s Astro Boy anime series, but begun to include elements from the 1980s series in later issues...
The A-Team
Babylon 5
The Batman Adventures
The Batman Adventures
The Batman Adventures was a DC Comics comic book series featuring Batman. It is different from other Batman titles in that it is set in the continuity of Batman: The Animated Series as opposed to the regular DC Universe.-Overview:...

(and followups The Batman and Robin Adventures, The Lost Years, Gotham Adventures, and volume 2 of Batman Adventures)
Batman Beyond
The Batman Strikes!
Batman: The Brave and the Bold
Batman: The Brave and the Bold (comics)
Batman: The Brave and the Bold is an American comic book series published by DC Comics. It is based on the TV series of the same name.-UK Title:The UK version is published by Titan Magazines and the first issue was released on 11 March 2010...
Battle of The Planets
Battle of the Planets (comics)
The Battle of the Planets comic book series was based on a television series of the same name. It was originally published by Gold Key Comics, with Top Cow releasing a number of comics more recently.-Publication history:...
Battlestar Galactica
Battlestar Galactica (comic book)
Battlestar Galactica has been adapted to the comic book format since its inception, with no less than six publishers to date taking on the project of relating the story of the Colonial Fleet and their adversaries, the Cylons at different points....
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Beavis and Butthead
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Buffy comics
Buffy the Vampire Slayer comics refer to comic books based on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. While many of these comics were published when the television show was on air they are not all considered canonical and often deal with characters who do not appear on in the television...
Captain N: The Game Master
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
Captain Planet is the title character of the series. In the beginning of the series, Gaia assembles a modern-day team of "Planeteers" from several nations...
Cartoon Network
Cartoon Network
Cartoon Network is a name of television channels worldwide created by Turner Broadcasting which used to primarily show animated programming. The channel began broadcasting on October 1, 1992 in the United States....

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- Cartoon Cartoons
  Cartoon Cartoons
  Cartoon Cartoons is a collective name for Cartoon Network original series. These cartoons were originally produced by Hanna-Barbera and Cartoon Network Studios, but over the years, studios like a.k.a. Cartoon, Kino Films, Stretch Films, Blanky Blook and Curious Pictures produced these series for...
- Cartoon Network Action Pack!
- Cartoon Network Block Party
- Cartoon Network Presents
- Cartoon Network Starring
Charmed
Charmed
Charmed is an American television series that originally aired from October 7, 1998, until May 21, 2006, on the now defunct The WB Television Network. The series was created in 1998 by writer Constance M...
Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers
Chuck
Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos
Countdown
Cowboy Bebop
Cowboy Bebop: Shooting Star
CSI
CSI (comic book)
The CSI comics are comic book tie-ins with the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami and CSI: NY television shows. They have been published from 2003 to 2009....
Danger Man
Dark Shadows
Dinosaurs
Dinosaurs (TV series)
Dinosaurs is an American family sitcom that was originally broadcast on ABC from April 26, 1991 to July 20, 1994. The show, about a family of anthropomorphic dinosaurs, was produced by Michael Jacobs Productions and Jim Henson Television in association with Walt Disney Television and Buena Vista...
The Disney Afternoon
The Disney Afternoon
The Disney Afternoon was a created-for-syndication two-hour television programming block which aired from September 10, 1990, until Fall 1999. At that time, it was taken out of syndication, and a new Disney weekday afternoon block was started on UPN. The Disney Afternoon was produced by The Walt...
Doctor Who:
- Doctor Who Magazine
  Doctor Who Magazine
  Doctor Who Magazine is a magazine devoted to the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
- Doctor Who Adventures
DuckTales
DuckTales
DuckTales is an American animated television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation. Based on Carl Barks' Uncle Scrooge comic book series, it premiered on September 18, 1987 and ended on November 28, 1990 with a total of four seasons and 100 episodes...
Eureka
Farscape
- Farscape: D'argo
- Farscape: Scorpius
- Filmation's Ghostbusters
  Ghostbusters
  Ghostbusters is a 1984 American science fiction comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. The film stars Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, and Rick Moranis and follows three eccentric parapsychologists in New York City, who start a...
- Filmation's Isis
  Isis
  Isis or in original more likely Aset is a goddess in Ancient Egyptian religious beliefs, whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. She was worshipped as the ideal mother and wife as well as the matron of nature and magic...
Firefly
Firefly (TV series)
Firefly is an American space western television series created by writer and director Joss Whedon, under his Mutant Enemy Productions label. Whedon served as executive producer, along with Tim Minear....

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- Serenity: Those Left Behind
  Serenity: Those Left Behind
  Serenity: Those Left Behind is a 2005 three-issue comic book limited series published by Dark Horse Comics. It was written by Brett Matthews with Joss Whedon credited for story, illustrated by Will Conrad, and colored by Laura Martin....
- Serenity: Better Days
  Serenity: Better Days
  Serenity: Better Days is a 2008 three-issue comic book miniseries published by Dark Horse Comics, based on the 2002 science fiction television series Firefly, and the 2005 feature film into which it was adapted, Serenity....
The Flintstones
Fringe
Futurama Comics
Futurama Comics
Futurama Comics is a comic book series published by Bongo Comics and based on the television series Futurama. It has been published bi-monthly in the United States since November 2000 . It has been published in the United Kingdom and Australia since 2002 and four trade paperbacks have been released...
Gargoyles
Gargoyles (SLG comic)
Gargoyles is a comic book produced by Slave Labor Graphics and Creature Comics. It was written by series creator Greg Weisman starting in 2006, and continued the storyline of the animated television series Gargoyles from the first two seasons, supplanting the ABC Network third season, The Goliath...
Ghost Whisperer
Ghost Whisperer
Ghost Whisperer is an American television supernatural drama, which ran on CBS from September 23, 2005 to May 21, 2010.The series follows the life of Melinda Gordon , who has the ability to see and communicate with ghosts...
Hanna-Barbera All-Stars
Hanna-Barbera Presents
Highlander:
- Highlander
  Highlander (comics)
  Highlander was a thirteen-issue comic book limited series that was first released in 2006 and ran for one year ending in 2007. It is written by Brandon Jerwa and Michael Avon Oeming in close collaboration with David Abramowitz, who was Creative Consultant in charge of the writing on Highlander:...
- Highlander: Way of the Sword
  Highlander: Way of the Sword
  Highlander: Way of the Sword was a four-issue, monthly comic book limited series published by Dynamite Entertainment from 2007 to 2008. It was Dynamite's second Highlander comic, which followed the publisher's previous 13-issue miniseries, which was published from 2006 to 2007.-Plot:It is inspired...
The Jetsons
Justice League Unlimited
Lady Penelope
Lady Penelope (comic)
Lady Penelope was a British weekly comic for girls which ran from 1966 to 1969.-Publishing History:Marketed as the comic for girls who love television, it was the sister publication to TV Century 21. It ran for 204 issues with the first dated 22 January 1966...
Laff-a-Lympics
Legion of Superheroes in the 31st Century
Lost in Space
Lost in Space (comic)
Lost in Space was a comic book published by Innovation Comics, based upon the television series Lost in Space. It utilized the settings and characters from the series, but was set years after the end of the series, and featured older characters coming to terms with being cut off from Earth for so...
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Masters of the Universe
Masters of the Universe (comics)
The Masters of the Universe media franchise has been featured in several comic book series. Most were small publications known as "minicomics" that were included as bonuses in action figure packages...

(1986-1988)
The Muppet Show
The Muppet Show (comics)
The Muppet Show is comic book based on the Variety TV series The Muppet Show and featuring Jim Henson's The Muppets. The series is written and drawn by Roger Langridge and published by Boom! Studios.-Reception:...
Pinky and the Brain
The Powerpuff Girls
The Powerpuff Girls
The Powerpuff Girls is an American animated television series created by animator Craig McCracken and produced by Hanna-Barbera for Cartoon Network...
The Prisoner
The Prisoner
The Prisoner is a 17-episode British television series first broadcast in the UK from 29 September 1967 to 1 February 1968. Starring and co-created by Patrick McGoohan, it combined spy fiction with elements of science fiction, allegory and psychological drama.The series follows a British former...

: Shattered Visage
Quantum Leap
The Real Ghostbusters
The Real Ghostbusters (comics)
The Real Ghostbusters is a comic series spun off from the animated series of the same name. Versions were published by Marvel UK and NOW Comics. Publication of the series began on March 28, 1988.-NOW Comics:...
The Ren & Stimpy Show
Robotech
Robotech (comics)
Robotech comics first officially appeared in print in 1985, though Comico published the first issue of its license from Harmony Gold USA under the Macross name....
Rocko's Modern Life
Rugrats
Rugrats
Rugrats is an American animated television series created by Arlene Klasky, Gábor Csupó, and Paul Germain for Nickelodeon. The series premiered on August 11, 1991, and aired its last episode on June 8, 2004....

Comic Adventures
Scooby-Doo
The Shield: Spotlight
Simpsons Comics
Sliders
Smallville
Sonic X
Space Battleship Yamato
Great Yamato
is a graphic novel comic created by the animator Leiji Matsumoto. It now can be streamed online.-External links:** *...
Speed Racer
Speed Racer
Speed Racer is an English adaptation name of the Japanese manga and anime, which centered on automobile racing. Mach GoGoGo was originally serialized in print form in Shueisha's 1958 Shōnen Book, and was released in tankōbon book form by Sun Wide Comics, re-released in Japan by Fusosha...
Star Blazers
Star Trek:
- Starfleet Corps of Engineers
  Starfleet Corps of Engineers
  Starfleet Corps of Engineers is a series of novellas set in the Star Trek universe, initially under the title S.C.E. , now under the new title Corps of Engineers . Like other Star Trek books, the books are officially licensed, but not considered canon.The S.C.E...
- Star Trek DC comics
  Star Trek DC comics
  From February 1984 through February 1996, DC Comics held the license to publish comic books based upon the Star Trek franchise, namely Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: The Next Generation ....
- Star Trek: Early Voyages
  Star Trek: Early Voyages
  Star Trek: Early Voyages was a comic book series published by Marvel Comics in the United States, running for 17 issues from February 1997 until June 1998...
- Starfleet Academy
  Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (comic books)
  Star Trek: Starfleet Academy was a comic book series published by Marvel Comics in the United States, running for 19 issues from December 1996 until June 1998. Along with Star Trek: Early Voyages, the two were the most popular of Marvel's brief stint of Star Trek publishing...
- Star Trek: The Manga
  Star Trek: The Manga
  Star Trek: the Manga is an original English-language manga from Tokyopop based on Star Trek: The Original Series that was released in September 2006. There is an upcoming version based on Star Trek: The Next Generation.-Volumes:...
- Star Trek: The Next Generation DC comics
  Star Trek: the Next Generation DC comics
  This is a list of comic books published by DC Comics and their imprint, Wildstorm, based on Star Trek: The Next Generation.For more information, see Star Trek spin-off fiction.-Volume 1:...
Stargate
Stargate Comics
Stargate comics are a series of comic books based on the science-fiction film of the same name, and the TV series Stargate SG-1 and the spin-off Stargate Atlantis...
Superboy
Superboy: The Comic Book
Superboy is the name of several comic book series published by DC Comics, featuring characters of the same name. The first three titles feature the original Superboy, the legendary hero Superman as a boy...
Super Friends
Super Hero Squad
Superman Adventures
Superman Adventures
Superman Adventures is a DC Comics comic book series featuring Superman. It is different from other Superman titles in that it is set in the continuity of Superman: The Animated Series as opposed to the regular DC Universe. It ran for 66 issues between 1996 and 2002...
Supernatural
Supernatural (TV series)
Supernatural is an American supernatural and horror television series created by Eric Kripke, which debuted on September 13, 2005 on The WB, and is now part of The CW's lineup. Starring Jared Padalecki as Sam Winchester and Jensen Ackles as Dean Winchester, the series follows the brothers as they...

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- Supernatural: Origins
- Supernatural: Rising Son
TaleSpin
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures was a comic book series published from August 1988 to October 1995 by Archie Comics. It is mainly based on the stories of the mutant turtles Donatello, Leonardo, Michaelangelo, Raphael, and their rat sensei Splinter...
Teen Titans Go!
Teen Titans Go!
Teen Titans Go! is a comic book series that was published by DC Comics. It is based on the 2003 animated TV series Teen Titans which is itself loosely based on the team that starred in the popular 1980s comic The New Teen Titans. The series was written by J...
ThunderCats
ThunderCats (comics)
The ThunderCats comic book series was based on the original television series of the same name. It was originally published by Marvel Comics through its Star Comics imprint in 1985, lasting for 3 years and 24 issues...
TV Century 21
TV Century 21
TV Century 21, also known as TV 21, was a weekly British children's comic of the 1960s and early 1970s. It promoted the many television science-fiction puppet series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's Century 21 Productions...
TV Comic
TV Comic
TV Comic was a British comic book published weekly between November 9, 1951 and June 29, 1984 for 1,697 issues. With its bright, eye-catching covers, it featured stories based on television shows running at the time of publication. The first issue had 8 pages and had Muffin the Mule on the cover....
True Blood
True Blood
True Blood is an American television series created and produced by Alan Ball. It is based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries series of novels by Charlaine Harris, detailing the co-existence of vampires and humans in Bon Temps, a fictional, small town in the state of Louisiana...
The Twilight Zone
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Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa
Winx Club http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001HJKEFO
The Wild Wild West
Xena: Warrior Princess
Xena: Warrior Princess (comics)
Xena: Warrior Princess comics, are spin-offs from the series of the same name, itself a spin-off series of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.Topps Comics and Dark Horse Comics created a series of comics tying in to the property...
The X-Files
Voltron
Yogi Bear
Yu-Gi-Oh! GX

Comics

See also