- ↳ Note: This article is about the meta-series. For other uses, see Buffy.
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (or Buffy for short) is a comic book meta-series. Initially, titles in this meta-series were an extension of the TV series, but later they became the official continuation of it.
Synopsis
The meta-series focused on the adventures of Buffy Summers and her closest friends and allies as they fought against vampires, demons, and other forces of darkness.
Stories
Main series
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer Classic (63 issues)
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight (40 issues)
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Nine (25 issues)
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Ten (30 issues)
Mini-series
Dark Horse Classic
- The Origin (3 issues)
- Spike & Dru (3 issues)
- Angel: The Hollower (3 issues)
- Oz (3 issues)
- Haunted (Buffy comic) (4 issues)
- Willow & Tara: Wilderness (2 issues)
Season 9
- Willow: Wonderland (5 issues)
- Spike: A Dark Place (5 issues)
One-shots
Dark Horse Classic
- "The Dust Waltz"
- "Ring of Fire"
- "Giles: Beyond the Pale"
- "Jonathan: Codename: Comrades"
- "Lover's Walk"
- "WannaBlessedBe"
- "Lost and Found"
- "Reunion"
- "Chaos Bleeds"
Season 8
- "Willow: Goddesses and Monsters" (Season 8)
- "The Thrill" (Tales of the Vampires crossover)
- "Riley: Commitment Through Distance, Virtue Through Sin" (Season 8)
Season 10
Shorts
Dark Horse Classic
- "MacGuffins"
- "Dance With Me"
- "Rogues Gallery" (published by 'Diamond Comics)
- "Hello Moon"
- "Cursed"
- "Dead Love"
- "Play with Fire"
- "Stinger"
- "The Latest Craze"
- "Bad Dog"
- "Killing Time"
- "Take Back the Night"
- "City of Despair"
- "One Small Promise"
- "Punish Me With Kisses"
- "Who Made Who?"
- "Haunted (Prologue)"
- "Demonology Menagerie" (Part 1 & Part 2)
- "Mall Rats"
- "Angel We Have Seen On High"
Season 8
- Always Darkest
- Carpe Noctem (part 1-2, under Tales of the Vampires meta-series but linked with Season 8)
- Harmony Bites
- Harmony Comes to the Nation
- Vampy Cat Play Friend
Season 9
- "Magical Mystery Tour, Featuring The Beetles"
- "In Space No One Can Hear You Slay"
- "Love vs. Life" (part 1-3, published in Dark Horse Presents #25-#27)
Collections
Trade Paperbacks
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Classic
Cover | Title | Issues | Release Date | ||
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The Remaining Sunlight | 1-3 + MacGuffins | March 24, 1999 | |||
Written by: Andi Watson | Artist: Joe Bennett | ||||
For 17-year-old Buffy Summers, slaying vampires is as common as doing homework -- except she has better luck fighting the undead than writing term papers! This volume collects the wildly popular first three issues of the comic-book series based on the hit television show. Included, at no extra charge, is the hard-to-find Dark Horse Presents 10-page adventure, presented in color for the first time. Hurry, while supplies last! | |||||
Uninvited Guests | 4-7 | November 10, 1999 | |||
Written by: Andi Watson; Dan Brereton | Artist: Hector Gomez | ||||
Everyone's favorite champion of goodness is back in a new trade-paperback edition, collecting issues four through seven of the hit ongoing series. Follow Buffy as she battles ice imps, Puritans, hellhounds, and even a demon for good measure! The fourth collection in the sell-out series, this one is a must-have for Buffy aficionados. Otherwise, you're just a loser! | |||||
Bad Blood | 9-11 | April 05, 2000 | |||
Written by: Andi Watson | Artist: Joe Bennett | ||||
Buffy the next runway supermodel? Believe it! Buffy pursues a potential modeling career only to learn that beauty isn't just skin deep. Selke, the vampire Buffy thought was killed in a mausoleum fire, returns with a vengeance, and convinces a plastic surgeon to find a solution to her "cosmetic" complaints. She's back, and she's out for blood literally! Expanding the mythos of television's hottest horror/adventure series, Bad Blood is high-stakes graphic-novel entertainment served up Buffy-style! |
- Volume 4: Crash Test Demons
- Volume 5: Pale Reflections
- Volume 6: The Blood of Carthage
- Volume 7: Food Chain
- Volume 8: Past Lives
- Volume 9: Autumnal
- Volume 10: Out of the Woodwork
- Volume 11: False Memories
- Volume 12: Ugly Little Monsters
- Volume 13: Haunted
- Volume 14: The Death of Buffy
- Volume 15: Note from the Underground
- Volume 16: Viva Las Buffy!
- Volume 17: Slayer, Interrupted
- Volume 18: A Stake to the Heart
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Classic (Mini-Series)
Cover | Title | Issues | Release Date | ||
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The Origin | 1-3 | September 15, 1999 | |||
Written by: Christopher Golden; Dan Brereton | Artist: Joe Bennett | ||||
Bear witness to teenager Buffy Summers's transformation from simple high school student to super Vampire Slayer! Follow Buffy's trials and tribulations as she comes to accept her destined role to thwart the legions of the undead from spreading their veil of evil across Los Angeles. Adapted from creator Joss Whedon's original screenplay from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer feature film, The Origin updates the material to match the tone and characters of the hit television series, making this the officialBuffy launching pad! | |||||
Angel: The Hollower | 1-3 | May 10, 2000 | |||
Written by: Christopher Golden | Artist: Hector Gomez | ||||
Buffy the Vampire Slayer has taken television audiences by storm and has brought its rabid audience to the world of comics. And now on the white-hot heels of Buffy's spin-off companion series comes Angel: vampire hero, hunky heartthrob, and new comics icon. Following an encounter with a figure from his past, Angel must now face a horror that he had thought long destroyed: the Hollower, the only natural predator of the vampire. This hideous abomination, however, could hold the key to Angel's salvation . . . or his destruction! And you can bet that if Angel's in danger, a certain Slayer named Buffy's not about to sit on the sidelines! Collecting the three-issue Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Angel series. | |||||
Spike & Dru | 1-3 + Who Made Who? | June 27, 2001 | |||
Written by: Christopher Golden; James Masters | Artist: Ryan Sook; Eric Powell | ||||
Four tales of the most vile, murderous, and destructive -- not to mention codependent -- couple ever to visit Sunnydale are presented in one volume, covering an entire century of bloodshed, from China in 1900 to Rio in 1999. This 96-page book collects the original Spike and Dru one-shot by TV star James "Spike" Marsters, Christopher Golden, and Ryan Sook, which was heralded by Buffy creator Joss Whedon as the model for future Buffy comics. Also included are the two follow-ups by Golden and artists Sook and Eric Powell, plus the final word on the duo, the 10-page epilogue "Who Made Who?" telling the story of their final farewell in Brazil, refered to but never delved into on the show. | |||||
Oz | 1-3 | May 15, 2002 | |||
Written by: Christopher Golden | Artist: Logan Lubera; Valentine De Landro; Herb Apon | ||||
When Oz left Sunnydale to search for a way to control his werewolf nature, he found what he needed in the Far East. Now that untold story is revealed in comics, as it could never be told on the small screen! Christopher Golden, fan-fave writer of Buffynovels and comics, takes Oz across the world to a secret monastery to find inner peace. But when he gets there, he finds that many of the monks have been kidnapped by a race of demons. Now, if Oz is ever going to master the beast within, he has to rescue the monks and defeat a terrible demon. This collection includes the entire three-issue miniseries plus new pages, and a sketchbook section featuring the work of cover artist John Totleben and series artist Logan Lubera. | |||||
Haunted | 1-4 + Prologue | September 11, 2002 | |||
Written by: Jane Espenson | Artist: Cliff Richards | ||||
A sinister presence stirs among the charred rubble of what used to be Sunnydale High. It seems that the ghost of Sunnydale's former Mayor has a bone to pick with Buffy. Now, on top of dealing with her nightmares about a certain raven-haired, trash-talking former Slayer, she's got a body-snatching, blood-sucking, poltergeist stalking her every moment she's awake. Buffy's left to face the thing without knowing whose hand guides it, armed only with an enigmatic message from Faith: "You're already dead." Fans of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer television show should not pass up the most Faithful collection of Buffy comics ever! Jane Espenson, long-time writer for the Buffy TV series, brings you the first and only appearance of Faith in comics, picking up directly from the Season Three finale! | |||||
Willow & Tara | 1-4 + Prologue | April 23, 2003 | |||
Written by: Amber Benson; Christopher Golden; Andi Watson | Artist: Terry Moore; Andi Watson; Eric Powell | ||||
Buffy the Vampire Slayer's own Amber "Tara" Benson takes up scripting duties on these collected stories of everyone's favorite Wiccan couple with the help of writer Christopher Golden (Angel, Buffy TVS: The Watcher's Guide, BPRD). This volume will collect the Willow and Tara one-shot "WannaBlessedBe" drawn by Terry Moore, the two-part Willow and Tara: "Wilderness" story and Andi Watson's two- part Willow and Tara comic strip featured in Dark Horse Extra! |
Buffy Season Eight - Trade Paperbacks
- The Long Way Home
- No Future for You
- Wolves at the Gate
- Time of Your Life
- Predators and Prey
- Retreat
- Twilight
- Last Gleaming
Buffy Season Nine - Trade Paperbacks
Buffy Season Ten - Trade Paperbacks
Omnibus
- Omnibus: Volume 1
- Omnibus: Volume 2
- Omnibus: Volume 3
- Omnibus: Volume 4
- Omnibus: Volume 5
- Omnibus: Volume 6
- Omnibus: Volume 7
Buffy Deluxe Hardcover Library Edition
- Season 8 Library Edition volume 1
- Season 8 Library Edition volume 2
- Season 8 Library Edition volume 3
- Season 8 Library Edition volume 4
- Season 9 Library Edition volume 1
- Season 9 Library Edition volume 2
- Season 9 Library Edition volume 3
Other
- Creatures of Habit
- The First Time
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Panel to Panel
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Panel to Panel - Seasons 8 & 9
Behind the scenes
Dark Horse Comics published its first Buffy graphic in 1998 ("Dust Waltz"). The initial stories a non-canon extension of the television series with little to no input from its writers (this series was later retitled Classic). In 2003 production on the Buffy meta-series halted and Dark Horse started producing canonical works in other meta-series (Tales of the Slayers, Tales of the Vampires, and Fray). In 2007, after a four year publishing hiatus, the first issue of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, the canonical continuation of the TV series was published. In 2011 Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Nine followed. In 2014 Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Ten followed.
Also check:
- Tales of the Slayers
- Broken Bottle of Djinn
- Tales of the Vampires
- Fray
- Angel Comics
- Spike Comics
- Willow Comics
Publication Order
- Publication Order
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