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Dark Horse Comics began publishing Aliens comics I in 1988 and Preda comics in 1989.

Some of the finest I

world provided adventures for fans of j these enormously popular creatures. Some of the |

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■ Major Dutch Schaefer w I matched with a worthy foe f the 1986 film, Predator. Tl

invisible hunter introduced the film captured the public' imagination.

Predator fans clamored fo more and got another treat ii 1990, with the release ol Predator 2.

BOOK: Dark Horse Comics N°1 -

DATE: August. 1992

ARTIST: Dave Dorman

SYNOPSIS: A Predator becomes part.of a young warrior’s initiation rite. 'Now. the big question is, who is the hunter and who is the hunted?

BOOK: Aliens: Earth War N?3

^ DATE: August, 1990

i\\ ARTIST:John Bolton

'’/•S'' SYNOPSIS: On Acheron, Ripley, N' Hicks, and a crew of Marines n

ff'- try the get the only thing that jU control the alien brood

; * Earth...another Alien Queen.

They just might have to destroy Ea in order to save it from the Aliens.

BOOK: Dark Horse Comics N?1(r

DATE: December, 3993

ARTIST: George Pratt

SYNOPSIS: It's 1947 and a Predator moves unseen amid a conHict between police and rival gangs in “The Hunted City."

^ BOOK: Aliens: Genocide TPB

^ DATE: December 1992

| ARTIST:Dave Dorman

SYNOPSIS: When the Grant Corp¬ oration ship Finally gets to the sur¬ face of the planet, they Find a war going on between rival colonies oF Aliens, each with their own Queen.

In order to obtain the royal jelly, they decide to destroy one hive, which they

BOOK: Aliens vs. Predator TPB -


ARTIST: Phi'll Norwood

SYNOPSIS: The settlement of Prosperity Wells on the planet Ryushi is an odt-of-the-way backwater. But, the arrival of a Predator hunting party and their: quarry — Aliens, including a Queen — is about to make life a lot more inter¬ esting for Machiko Noguchi and her friends.

BOOK: Aliens vs. Predator TPB

DATE: December. J991

ARTIST: Phill Norwood

SYNOPSIS: Machiko Noguchi is in charge of Prosperity Wells, a thriving settlement on the planet Ryushi. What Machiko and the colonists don't know is that they're not the first visi¬ tors to the desert planet..; .

BOOK: Dark Horse Comics N?4 -

BATE: November, 1992

ARTIST: Leo' Duranona

SYNOPSIS: In present-day Tokyo* a blind warrior relives events oF his' eighteenth century samurai ancestors. An invisible hunter-stalks both the past and the present.

BOOK: Dark Horse Presents N869


ARTIST: Ray Lago

SYNOPSIS: A Predator tracks a seria.1 killer to a maximum security prison. Tb be a killer of killers is the most sacred rite among the Predators.

Predator Finds his happy hunt¬ ing ground.

DATE: September. 1990

ARTIST: Denis Beauvais

SYNOPSIS: The General - suspicious of everyone, trusting only his Aliens - lands on Earth to make a last stand and lead mankind and Alien alike to glory.

Dut treachery is not only practiced by humans. The Alien Queen makes short

of the General's “new order."

BOOK: Aliens: Genocide N?3

DATE: January, 1992

ARTIST: Arthur Suydam

SYNOPSIS: The Grant Corp< men find their treasure in thi of the Alien hive, but not *

BOOK: Predator: Race War

DATE: February, 1993

ARTIST: Dave Dorman

SYNOPSIS: A Predator's attack

prison sets off a riot, as vari¬ ous'groups, confused and afraid, try to protect them¬ selves. Only by learning to trust each other and work together can these criminals protect themselves and stop the killing.

BOOK: Aliens II TPB

DATE: September, 1990


SYNOPSIS: General Spe, stood that the Queen was with the Alien Drones. He to use the lives of the Que

With the Queen under his dominati the General feels he would be able


DATE: November, 1992

ARTIST: Ra/Laqo

SYNOPSIS: The Predator is a hunter, but not merely for food. Its hunt isritual, its prey sacred. The prey must be able to Fight back. Only in this way is the hunter able to take a trophy.

Some humans hunt, too... a convicted serial killer takes credit For a Predator's kiltsT

BOOK: Aliens/Predator: Deadliest of the Species N91

DATE: July, 1993

ARTIST: John Bolton

SYNOPSIS: In an orbitinq skyliner hiqh above the Alien- contaminated Earth, Caryn Delacroix is pTaqued by niqhtmares. But are they mere¬ ly dreams qone bad? Car.yn discovers that niqhtmares do

fates worse than death„as a Predator comes to call.

BOOK: Aliens: Earth War N°2

DATE: June, 1990

ARTIST:John Bolton

SYNOPSIS: Ripley returns, just in time ^to help Newt and Hicks and a military ifft ''' expedition travel back to where it all r. w started, the planet Acheron.

1 * There, they hope to Find something to stem the tide of the Alien menace

PREDATOR


v DATE: January. 1991

ARTIST: Dave Dorman

SYNOPSIS: Two prisoners escape into the Florida Everglades, whbre they find something much deadlier

DATE: May, 1992

SYNOPSIS: Rebecca “Newt” Jorden lived with her Family on the planet Acheron. They were terraformers on a long-term mission to chanqe the environment and make the desolate planet livable.

The trouble started when the company them to examine an alien space¬

craft crashed on the planet.

.*£> BOOK: Aliens: Genocide H?2

'“V DATE: December. 1991

. ARTIST: Arthur Suydam

SYNOPSIS: In order to corner 'J~ trade in royal jelly, the Gr it1* Corporation sends a ship to u Alien-inFested world to obi

i samples oF the illegal substance.

BOOK: Predator: Cold War TPB-

0ATE: May, 1993 .

ARTIST: Ray Lago

SYNOPSIS: Lieutenant Ligachev assumes command at an oil station in Siberia. Her men are slaughtered by an invisible foe.-She escapes.^arely.

Detective Schaefer has met a Predator on the streets of , New York City. .He survived. Barely.

Ligachev and Schaefer are sent to Siberia to eliminate the Predators — if they don't kill each other first...

BOOK: Aliens 11 TPB

^ DATE: September. 1990

I ARTIST: Denis Beauvais

SYNOPSIS: On board a ship, escaping From the Alien-wrought devastation on Earth, Newt begins to have the nightmares again...

They’re not alone on the ship, and the creatures don't kill only in dreams.

BOOK: Aliens vs Predator N?1 -

DATE: July, T990 .

ARTIST: Phi'll Norwood

SYNOPSIS: In preparation lor a cyclical “cominq of age" rite, the star-spanning rdce known as Predator has “seeded" the planet Ryushi with the eggs of its most dangerous prey: Aliens.

v % BOOK; Aliens: Coloni

DATE: June, 1993

, .'.V\ ARTIST: Joe Phillips

L X 'H?r SYNOPSIS: A showdov

BOOK: Aliens vs Predator N92-

DATE: August, 199.0

ARTIST: Phi)i Norwood

SYNOPSIS: On the planet Ryushi, a predator hunting party encounters a colony oF settlers From Earth. The encounter destroys the Predator landing vehicle and leaves the party lead¬ erless and thirsty For revenge.

BOOK: Aliens vs Predator N?3 -

DATE: December. J990

ARTIST: Phiil Norwood

SYNOPSIS: Machiko Noguchi and the Earth colonists on the planet Byuchi FiAd themselves caught between two opposing Forces: Predator and Aliens.

^ BOOK: Aliens: Tribes

DATE: November, 199

> ^ jj ARTIST: Dave Dorman

^ SYNOPSIS: An orbii facility is infested >

BOOK: Dark Horse Comics N912-

DATE: August, 199.3

ARTIST: Derek Thompson

SYNOPSIS: A psychotic Predator murders a group of his own kind and makes his way tp Earth. The carnage continues as the hunter finds new prey m the New Jersey Pine Barrens.

BOOK: Aliens: Roque N°2

'V- DATE: May. 1993

JV> ARTIST: Will Simpson

SYNOPSIS: A mysterious cor| ''p spy is sent to Charon Base to

fff' about a researcher s attemi !Vl / domesticate Aliens. But work*

» Charon begin disappearing o one. and the researcher knows about it than he's letting on.

BOOK: Predator TPB

BATE: September, 1990


SYNOPSIS: Police Detective Schaefer Follows a bloody trail that leads to the jungles o.f South America and back for a confrontation with a Predator hunting party on the streets of New York City.

BOOK: Aliens 11 TPB

DATE: September, 1990

ARTIST:Denis Beauvais

SYNOPSIS: Newt and Hie from an Earth overrun w only to find something e frightening: a distant outpost where a Marine Ge orged a nightmarish allic

BOOK: Aliens/Predator: Deadliest of the Species N?3 -

DATE: November, 1993

ARTIST: John Bolton

SYNOPSIS: Saved from an Alien brood by a fearsome Predator, Caryn Delacroix is plaqued .

Cartoonist/illustrator GARY FIELDS offers this whimsical

interpretation of ALIENS VS PREDATOR including, perhaps, a rare glimpse

of an Alien “king.”

Art by Gary Fields olor. colored pencil, ink

Artist REBECCA GUAY provides a moody and evocative

silent trophies oF past hunts.

Art by Rebecca Guay watercolor

1 JiHif.il [jit

flDftm HllGHHS considers a scenario wherein an embattled Colonial Marine qoes from the frying pan into the fire as she prepares to face a wounded but formidable Predator.

r't lfo» I MM Jr W ■

Illustrator ESTEBAN flflAJ ines the outcome of a conte the greatest tusked hunter i and the greatest fanged hon PREDATOR: 1. DRACULA: 0

Art by Esteban Maroto Color by Brimstone

This powerful image From painter/illustrator DimiTRlOS PfiTtLlS m, and Predator as powerful. in a hellish nightmare arer

Art by Dimitrios Patelis acrylic, watercolor

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: Illustrator JOHN POUND

s a hidden aspect of Alien life in this enigmatic scene set

i shadowy tunnel within a hive.

Painter/colorist REUBEN RUDE contemplates

the dread and terror of a helpless I host entombed in the chambered

depths of an Alien hive.

Art by Reuben Rude acrylic

2WA SAUHDHRS demonstrates that the parasitic Alien species

does not limit itself to human prey in this scene inspired by Topps' MARS ATTACKS trading cards.

Comics creator Jim Uf supplies a graphic and si visceral vision of a Preda by an enemy From within,

Pencils by Jim Valentino Inks by Randy Queen ‘Color by Brimstone

Artist NtlL UOKtS examines a Predator m that suggests a literal

Art by Neil Vokes Color by Brimstone

flL UnLUflmSOH combines outer space adventure-old and new-

in a tense confrontation between an Alien stowaway and a seemingly

familiar pair of rocket travellers.

rituals, binding culture together dition and blood.

To the Hunters,

The young Hunters of a ruling caste were expected to engage in a ritual hunt of the Black Death. Only those strong

According to the folk¬ lore of the Hunter ruling caste, the Black Death

'

The Hunters arrived on a world. Finding the Black Death.

Their mission is to

continue their work oF

PREDATOR Machiko Noguchi i human. Her liFe Ryushi was destroy after a party of you Hunters came to hu the Black Death. S saved the liFe oF t Hunter leader. BeFo dying, he marked her ,

Now, she finds hersi with the Hunters aga Out of the Frying pan...

Machiko enters the chamber. She’s rem

She puts those thoughts behind her. In the

The Hunters have Found

For slack.

One oF the

The Queen is loose inside the Hunters’ ship. The leader closes all

help. She wonders if this may not be what they've wanted all alonq. a chance to rid them¬ selves of a pesky human

All Machiko knows

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achiko manages through the emi

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'jZM* Uideo uplink. Emergency channel. Priority Blue. Code: OT H PROfTlETHEliS. Transmission contents as follows: ITly God they're loose! This is Grant Corporation Station 13. There — aren't many of us left...suruiuors ^ $oin<} into radiation shelters deep |P““ under station. Vou’ue <Jot to help Djl-^, i^_ j. S us! UJhat have ure... JmmV fl End Transmission. H

'juM*lieutenant Benite? cleared her throat, still dry and chalkyl ■ from an extended hypersleep. “There you haue it. folks, last! message ure’ue receiued from Station 13. Control hasn’t moni- „..., .. tored any transmissions since this 1^^ one. But, Control wants inspection TREKS"'""',"' and possible sterilisation. Any RI # n j questions'" I Tjj* fftetii'RK

Corporal Simmons asked, I ■■ "4; j “What are the chances we'll find r any suruiuors'"'

Ufith a practiced but tenuous calm. Lieutenant Benite? said. "Slim, A u/hile back I uras on a suruey mission

u/ith a $roup of corporate techs. People started disappearing. One i ___ or tuio a ni<?ht Silently After a week. only four of us urere left. Then they came. I uras the only '*®k! suruiuor. ” Jr '*I

Grant Corporation Station 13 urns on a moon in a mostly | unsurueyed sector. The atmosphere u/as breathable, but tasted of copper and lemons.

“Cuerybody maintain per- _ sonat locator and radio contact. 1 don't urant anybody <}ettin$ sep- N>a*’ " " -tf1"

dust off as soon as ure're clear. 6e || H j| g ^Sr K| here ready for pickup.” a Ik V ■P' jHtfl

"looks like o real war ?one,“ Sin Benite? felt an old fear prick scarred face. “Some kind of

molecular acid. The creatures use ^ it for blood. Don't $et any on I you. Belieue me."

lasu/ell spoke up. "Can the I chatter, marines. Vm picking up I mouement on mp tracker."

Benite? only sou; a hint of shadour out of the corner of her ■ eye, blacker than black, before the creatures fell on the squad u/ith a silent, primal ferocity. The marines' pulse rifles broke the silence and the dark, but the creatures kept coming.

Benite? sour lasuiell and Simmons fall, but they bought the squad time to escape. As Bonitnr ran ctoopnr into

SJjr Benite? understood. Had Grant Corporation attempted 1 ■ alter the genetic structure of the xenomorphs? Domestica them? These scientists urould neuer understand that pure hunger could |MnjjM«j«|||M»i — neuer be controlled or impru- oned. It urould aluraps find a urap ^ to escape. i| ^ • -3, |

Rs if to proue her correct. Benite? spun as she heard the sound of shattering $lass... Hff) j'i jff rrfWl

Percy was the last to reach the dropship. “I set fire to the whole works," he said. “How do you like your e^s cooked,

Commander?” Benite? doubted that she'd (3Sg£'S

euer eat an e$$ a$ain. “Anderson, tiling <?et on the horn to Control. I want I permission to nuke the site from I

Benite? didn't have lon$ to u/onder about the military's ■ connection to Station 13. Control quickly granted permis¬ sion for “sterilisation" It wouldn’t look <jood to the folks back home >t word $ot out about genetic experiments with Aliens. «P\t ■JJ"7T“— *VTK;

As Anderson armed the mis- | sites, a shadow fell ouer the ship. A I B flying Queen! n * wty )f- |j

mission lo<J. lieutenant Roberta Benites. Tuio <Jood dead. Sterilisation complete.

UJhen u/ill ure leai Hnd transmission.

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