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Savage Dragon is an ongoing American comic book series created by Erik Larsen and published by Image Comics. The comic features the adventures of a superheroic police officer named the Dragon. The character first appeared in Megaton #3 (July 1986).

Creation and publication history

Like many of Erik Larsen’s characters, the Savage Dragon was created by Larsen while he was a child in elementary school. It is loosely based on The Creature from the Black Lagoon, a movie series by Universal Studios. In his youth, Larsen drew the Dragon in homemade comic books. The original Dragon, inspired by elements from Captain Marvel, Batman, Speed Racer and later The Incredible Hulk, differs greatly from the modern incarnation. After launching Savage Dragon in a professionally published comic book, Larsen returned to the original and reworked his designs into the characters William Jonson, a police officer ally of the Dragon, and Flash Mercury, the “Spectacular Dragon”.

Much later, a greatly redesigned Savage Dragon was featured in two issues of Graphic Fantasy, a self-published title with a small print run, published by Larsen and two friends. In this incarnation, the Dragon was a widower and a retired member of a government-sponsored superhero team.

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Subsequently, the Dragon made another appearance in the third issue of Gary Carlson’s Megaton anthology in its Vanguard strip, which Larsen had been drawing. In these appearances, the character of the Dragon remained basically the same as it had been in Graphic Fantasy, with a few details modified (such as the inclusion of his wife, who was dead in his previous incarnation). Both the Graphic Fantasy and Megaton issues containing the Dragon have since been reprinted in high-quality editions. Read more …