{"id":229,"date":"2011-08-28T23:12:05","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T23:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/"},"modified":"2018-06-17T20:24:50","modified_gmt":"2018-06-17T20:24:50","slug":"comic-books","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/beyond-the-films\/comic-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>A Nightmare on Elm Street&#8217;s<\/em> imaginative premise translates easily to the comic book medium. Several of the industry&#8217;s leading publishers recognized <em>Nightmare&#8217;s<\/em> adaptability and developed several series based on the mythos and villain Freddy Krueger. This section spotlights the various comic books associated with the <em>Nightmare<\/em> series and its organization is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><a title=\"Marvel Comics\" href=\"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/beyond-the-films\/comic-books\/marvel-comics\/\">Marvel Comics<\/a><br \/>\nPublishing giant Marvel Comics released a magazine-styled series in 1989 titled <em>Freddy Krueger&#8217;s A Nightmare on Elm Street<\/em>. This short-lived, black and white series followed Dr. Juliann Quinn as she explores Freddy&#8217;s past and tries to help targeted teen Allison overcome the infamous dream-stalker. You can read it in full here. Steve Gerber wrote <em>Freddy Krueger&#8217;s A Nightmare on Elm Street<\/em> with art by Rich Buckler, Tony DeZuniga, and Alfredo Alcala. Covers were by Joe Jusko. Marvel Comics canceled this series after its second issue, fearing pressure from anti-violence advocate groups.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><a title=\"Innovation Publishing\" href=\"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/beyond-the-films\/comic-books\/innovation-publishing\/\">Innovation Publishing<\/a><br \/>\nIndependent publisher Innovation Publishing acquired the <em>Nightmare on Elm Street<\/em> license in 1991. Working very closely with New Line Cinema, they released three series total before claiming bankruptcy:<\/li>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><em>Freddy&#8217;s Dead: The Final Nightmare<\/em> (1991)<br \/>\nFour issue series and trade paperback adaptation of the feature film. Andy Mangels wrote the adaptation with art by Mike Witherby and Robb Phipps.<\/li>\n<li><em>Nightmares on Elm Street<\/em> (1991\u201392)<br \/>\nSix issue original series serving as the official lead-in story to <em>Freddy&#8217;s Dead: The Final Nightmare<\/em>. Written by Andy Mangels with art by Tonny Harris, Patrick Rolo, and Ray Kryssing. Read the full series here.<\/li>\n<li><em>A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Beginning<\/em> (1992)<br \/>\nPlanned four issue series focusing on Freddy Krueger&#8217;s past and serving as a direct sequel to <em>Freddy&#8217;s Dead: The Final Nightmare<\/em>. Innovation declared bankruptcy before it could publish the third issue and finish the series. Written by Andy Mangels with art by David Day and Dan Day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><a title=\"Trident Comics\" href=\"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/beyond-the-films\/comic-books\/trident-comics\/\">Trident Comics<\/a><br \/>\nTrident Comics collected and reprinted <em>Freddy&#8217;s Dead: The Final Nightmare<\/em>, <em>Freddy Krueger&#8217;s A Nightmare on Elm Street<\/em>, and <em>Nightmares on Elm Street<\/em> issues 1\u20132 in a four issue magazine-styled format in 1992.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><a title=\"Avatar Press\" href=\"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/beyond-the-films\/comic-books\/avatar-press\/\">Avatar Press<\/a><br \/>\nIndependent publisher Avatar Press acquired New Line Cinema&#8217;s &#8220;House of Horror&#8221; license in 2005. This license allowed Avatar access to New Line&#8217;s famous horror properties: <em>A Nightmare on Elm Street<\/em>, <em>Friday the 13th<\/em>, and <em>The Texas Chainsaw Massacre<\/em>. Avatar launched a series of specials and a mini-series for all three horror series in 2005\u201306. <em>A Nightmare on Elm Street (Special)<\/em> introduced Freddy Krueger to readers and was followed by mini-series <em>A Nightmare on Elm Street: Paranoid<\/em> and one-shot <em>A Nightmare on Elm Street: Fearbook<\/em>. Brian Pulido wrote all three entries with art by Juan Jose Ryp, Greg Waller, and Dheeraj Verma.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><a title=\"WildStorm\" href=\"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/beyond-the-films\/comic-books\/wildstorm\/\">WildStorm<\/a><br \/>\nWildStorm, an offshoot of publisher DC Comics, picked up New Line Cinema&#8217;s House of Horror license in October 2006. WildStorm published an eight issue series for <em>A Nightmare on Elm Street<\/em> and followed with a one-shot, <em>New Line Cinema&#8217;s Tales of Horror<\/em>. Popular comics writer Chuck Dixon wrote the main series with art by Kevin West, Tony Harris, Jim Clark, Joel Gomez, Don Ho, and Ben Oliver. <\/p>\n<p>In 2007, WildStorm teamed with Dynamite Entertainment to publish a direct sequel to the hit film <em>Freddy vs. Jason<\/em>:  <em>Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash<\/em>. The sequel&#8217;s premise teamed villains Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees against <em>Evil Dead<\/em>\/<em>Army of Darkness<\/em> hero Ash Williams and was based on the film treatment by Jeff Katz. WildStorm released <em>Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash<\/em> as a six-issue mini-series. It was written by James Kuhoric with art by Jason Craig and J. Scott Campbell. The creative team followed with another sequel in 2009 titled <em>Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash: The Nightmare Warriors<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Nightmare on Elm Street&#8217;s imaginative premise translates easily to the comic book medium. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/beyond-the-films\/comic-books\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":222,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-229","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8295,"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/229\/revisions\/8295"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}