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Republic of the Skull

Alternate name:Republic of the Skull 2022

Genres:Action, Adventure, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2022

The dashing Captain Sylla plies the Caribbean with his close-knit crew: The Marquis, a former slave who sports a powdered periwig; the clever, craggy-faced Dutch; the burly, bearded Lenoir; and first mate Olivier, given...

The Jewish Brigade

Alternate name:The Jewish Brigade (2016)

Genres:Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2016

For this first installment of “The Jewish Brigade” we find ourselves in 1945 Poland. Leslie and Ari, two British soldiers, carry out an ambush near a church. They’re looking for a priest… that Leslie then kills. He was a...

Chapterhouse Archives: Captain Canuck

Alternate name:Chapterhouse Archives Captain Canuck 2016

Genres:Action, Adventure, Historical, Superhero

Status: Completed

Released:2016

Introducing Chapterhouse Archives, an ongoing monthly series that reprints all of the essentials in the Chapterhouse Comics catalogue. All Archive issues feature an all new cover and five page back-story by some of comic...

Fruit of Knowledge: The Vulva Vs. The Patriarchy

Alternate name:Fruit of Knowledge: The Vulva Vs. The Patriarchy 2018

Genres:Historical, Leading Ladies

Status: Completed

Released:2018

From Adam and Eve to pussy hats, people have punished, praised, pathologized, and politicized vulvas, vaginas, clitorises, and menstruation. In this feminist graphic novel, Swedish cartoonist Liv Strömquist calls out how...

The Book of God: How We Got the Bible (

Alternate name:The Book of God: How We Got the Bible (2012)

Genres:Graphic Novels, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2012

The historical process of how we got the Bible.

The Life Eaters

Alternate name:The Life Eaters 2004

Genres:DC Comics, Fantasy, Historical, Military, Mythology

Status: Completed

Released:2004

Imagine a world in which the Axis forces of World War II suddenly were propelled to victory over the Allies... prompted by aid from the ancient gods of Norse mythology! Welcome to the alternate reality of The Life Eaters...

Red Baron

Alternate name:Red Baron 2014

Genres:Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2014

In the skies of France during the Great War, a red-painted fighter is chasing a British SPAD. The relentless German pilot eventually wounds his opponent mortally, and lands near the downed Briton to watch him die, confes...

Paul Is Dead

Alternate name:Paul Is Dead 2020

Genres:Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2020

November 1966. London. John Lennon can’t speak. He can’t take his eyes off the photo of a car in flames with Paul McCartney’s body inside. His friend is no longer here, and that means the Beatles are no longer here eithe...

Sanction

Alternate name:Sanction (2024-)

Genres:Action, Crime, Historical, Mystery

Status: Ongoing

Released:2024

Leningrad, 1987. When a woman's corpse is discovered on New Year's Day, a hungover Detective Pavel Smirnoff hands off the case to his partner, Detective Boris Dimitrovich, hoping he'll close it without fuss. Instead, Dim...

Cossacks: The Winged Hussar

Alternate name:Cossacks: The Winged Hussar 2022

Genres:Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2022

The fierce Cossacks have long lived as a free people, but in the 17th century, the king of Poland-Lithuania wants to end that freedom. A young deserter from the hussars is caught in the nascent conflict. The first volume...

Notes from a Defeatist

Alternate name:Notes from a Defeatist 2021

Genres:Historical, Political

Status: Completed

Released:2021

Before Joe Sacco crafted his two major works of "cartoon journalism," Palestine and Safe Area Gorazde, he created a number of shorter pieces, ranging from one-page gags to 30-page "graphic novelettes." This massive book...

The Five Fists of Science

Alternate name:Five Fists of Science

Genres:Action, Adventure, Historical, Sci-Fi

Status: Completed

Released:2006

116 pages! True story: in 1899, Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla decided to end war forever. With Twains connections and Teslas inventions, they went into business, selling world peace. So what happened? Only now can the tale...

History Comics: The Challenger Disaster: Tragedy in the Skies

Alternate name:History Comics: The Challenger Disaster: Tragedy in the Skies 2020

Genres:Graphic Novels, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2020

Let this graphic novel be your time machine! In History Comics, the new nonfiction graphic novel series from First Second, the past comes alive!<br/>In History Comics: The Challenger Disaster, we turn the clock back to J...

Runes

Alternate name:Runes (2021)

Genres:Action, Adventure, Historical

Status: Ongoing

Released:2021

In 850 CE Alba (present-day Scotland), it is night. A storm rages on the Great Sea and a Viking drakkar is shipwrecked against the cliffs. The only prisoner on the ship, a Northman, miraculously manages to escape. Fleein...

Frank: The Incredible Story of A Forgotten Dictatorship

Alternate name:Frank - The Story of a Forgotten Dictatorship

Genres:Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2019

In order to see the future, one must remember the past. Frank is a biographical retelling of Spanish dictator Francisco Francos rise to power, brought to life across the books beautifully designed pages. Here, author Xim...

Seen: The True Stories of Marginalized Trailblazers

Alternate name:Seen: Edmonia Lewis

Genres:Biography, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2020

It's about being seen. Both for who you are, and who you hope you can become. History is a mirror, and all too often, the history we're told in school reflects only a small subset of the population. In the new ongoing gr...

Jim Lives: The Mystery of the Lead Singer of The Doors and the 27 Club OGN

Alternate name:Jim Lives: The Mystery of the Lead Singer of The Doors and the 27 Club

Genres:Fantasy, Graphic Novels, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2021

Amid the intense colors of a foreign land, JIM LIVES is the story of a man searching for his son—a correspondent for a popular American newspaper—who vanished into thin air after sending one last, enigmatic message: “Jim...

His Name Was Ptirou

Alternate name:His Name Was Ptirou 2018

Genres:Action, Adventure, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2018

.The best part of Christmas is getting to hear one of Uncle Paul’s stories. This year, Uncle Paul treats the kids—and us—to the story of the real-life boy who inspired the beloved Spirou.<br/>It’s 1929. Ptirou is a circu...

Vikings

Alternate name:Vikings 2014

Genres:Drama, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2014

The Saga of HISTORY®'S Vikings begins with this thrilling prequel. Join Ragnar and Rollo as they bravely fight for their father in his final battle. This battle will plant the seeds of their epic rivalry, and introduce a...

Hakim's Odyssey

Alternate name:Hakim's Odyssey 2021

Genres:Drama, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2021

In Hakim's Odyssey, we see firsthand how war can make anyone a refugee. Hakim, a successful young Syrian who had his whole life ahead of him, tells his story: how war forced him to leave everything behind, including his...

Contrapaso

Alternate name:Contrapaso (2021)

Genres:Drama, Historical, Suspense

Status: Ongoing

Released:2021

Madrid, winter of 1956. Franco's fascist dictatorship controls the press and maintains the fiction of an idyllic nation. Faced with the Regime's attempts to cover up the country's most sordid crimes, two journalists from...

Mutiny

Alternate name:Mutiny 1954

Genres:Adventure, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:1954

N/a

The Search For Smilin' Ed!

Alternate name:The Search For Smilin' Ed! 2010

Genres:Comedy, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2010

Launched on his latest investigation by a remark from his brother about a shared childhood favorite ("Y'know, I heard that when Smilin' Ed died... his body was never found!"), Deitch begins to uncover some truly amazing...

Dull Margaret

Alternate name:Dull Margaret 2018

Genres:Drama, Historical, Literature

Status: Completed

Released:2018

Inspired by Dulle Griet (aka “Mad Meg"), Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s 16th-century painting of a “strong, intense woman striding determinedly across a violent landscape," Dull Margaret is the first graphic novel by Academy...

The ABC of Typography

Alternate name:ABC of Typography

Genres:Historical, Political

Status: Completed

Released:2019

Typography confronts us everywhere: in books and newspapers, on road signs, product packaging and political leaflets. It is ubiquitous to the point of mundanity. But while the typeface might be secondary to the message,...

Wild Frontier

Alternate name:Wild Frontier 1955

Genres:Historical, Western

Status: Completed

Released:1955

Wild Frontier was originally a western anthology featuring real-life "characters" like Davy Crockett, Dan'l Boone and Jim Bowie but the seventh issue was dedicated to Cheyenne Kid (who's logo dwarfed the Wild Frontier lo...

The Shadow of a Terrible Thing

Alternate name:The Shadow of a Terrible Thing 2016

Genres:Historical, Sci-Fi

Status: Completed

Released:2016

The Second World War had ended. Humanity was at its lowest, recovering from the death and destruction of millions of people and their homelands. We were weak and vulnerable. It was at this time that the Aliens decided to...

Indian Lover: Sam Houston & the Cherokees

Alternate name:Indian Lover: Sam Houston & the Cherokees 1998

Genres:Historical

Status: Completed

Released:1998

N/a

Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story

Alternate name:Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story 2013

Genres:Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2013

Nearly sixty years after its creation, a little-known landmark of comic book history returns! This 16-page comic is a simple but revolutionary account of the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, in which Rosa Parks, Dr. King, an...

Albedo: Anthropomorphics

Alternate name:Albedo: Anthropomorphics 2004

Genres:Fantasy, Historical, Sci-Fi

Status: Completed

Released:2004

N/a

The Photographer of Mauthausen

Alternate name:The Photographer of Mauthausen 2018

Genres:Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2018

This is a dramatic retelling of true events in the life of Francisco—or François—Boix, a Spanish press photographer and communist who fled to France at the beginning of World War II. But there, he found himself handed ov...

Mankind

Genres:Historical

Status: Completed

Released:1999

N/a

The Three Stooges: The Boys Are Back

Alternate name:The Three Stooges

Genres:Comedy, Historical, Movies & TV

Status: Completed

Released:2016

America's favorite funnymen are back in all new original stories featuring the classic likenesses and personalities of The Three Stooges! 70 years after the last film featuring Moe, Larry, and Curly we are proud to prese...

Little Red Hot: Bound

Alternate name:Little Red Hot Bound 2001

Genres:Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2001

Chane races through the foggy streets of London, desperate to escape a persistent bounty hunter. She is in quite a different place than when we last left her. She lives her life restrained, afraid, bound. There is a heft...

Northwest Passage

Alternate name:Northwest Passage 2005

Genres:Adventure, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2005

Two-Fisted Historical Adventure.<br/>Rupert's Land, 1755. Follow famed adventurer, Charles Lord as he and a small band of survivors flee into the wilderness after a band of French mercenaries ambush England's Fort Newcas...

Muchacho

Alternate name:Muchacho 2015

Genres:Crime, Historical, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Status: Completed

Released:2015

Whether it be artistic, amorous or revolutionary, passion resonates through this stunning work, tracing the complex and turbulent destiny of a young seminarian painter. This is Emmanuel Lepage’s first work as a complete...

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