- ↳ 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 the Scooby Gang as they fought against vampires, demons, and other forces of darkness.
Stories
Main series
Canon
- Buffy: The High School Years (3 graphic novels)
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight (40 issues)
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Nine (25 issues)
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Ten (30 issues)
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eleven (12 issues)
Non-Canon
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer Classic (63 issues)
Mini-series
Canon
- "The Origin" (3 issues)
- "Willow: Wonderland" (5 issues) (under Season Nine series)
- "Spike: A Dark Place" (5 issues) (under Season Nine series)
- "Giles" (4 issues) (under Season Eleven series)
Non-Canon
- "Spike & Dru" (3 issues)
- "Angel: The Hollower" (3 issues)
- "Oz" (3 issues)
- "Haunted" (4 issues)
- "Willow & Tara: Wilderness" (2 issues)
One-shot
Canon
- Willow: Goddesses and Monsters
- The Thrill (Crossover between Season Eight and Tales meta-series)
- Riley: Commitment Through Distance, Virtue Through Sin
Non-Canon
- The Dust Waltz
- "Ring of Fire"
- Giles: Beyond the Pale
- Jonathan: Codename: Comrades
- "Lover's Walk"
- WannaBlessedBe
- Lost and Found
- Reunion
- Chaos Bleeds
Shorts
Canon
- Always Darkest
- Carpe Noctem, Part One (under both Tales meta-series and Season Eight)
- Carpe Noctem, Part Two (under both Tales meta-series and Season Eight)
- Harmony Bites
- Harmony Comes to the Nation
- Vampy Cat Play Friend
- Magical Mystery Tour, Featuring The Beetles
- In Space No One Can Hear You Slay
- Love vs. Life
- Where Are They Now?
- No Need to Fear, the Slayer is Here (under the Buffy: The High School Years series)
Non-Canon
- MacGuffins
- Dance With Me
- Rogues Gallery"
- 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 & 2)
- Mall Rats
- Angel We Have Seen On High
Collections
Trade Paperbacks
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Classic
- Volume 1: "The Remaining Sunlight"
- Volume 2: "Uninvited Guests"
- Volume 3: "Bad Blood"
- 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)
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
- "Freefall"
- "On Your Own"
- "Guarded"
- "Welcome to the Team"
- "The Core"
- "Spike: A Dark Place"
- "Willow: Wonderland"
Buffy Season Ten - Trade Paperbacks
- "New Rules"
- "I Wish"
- "Love Dares You"
- "Old Demons"
- "In Pieces on the Ground"
- "Own It"
Buffy Season Eleven - Trade Paperbacks
Omnibus
- Omnibus: Volume 1
- Omnibus: Volume 2
- Omnibus: Volume 3
- Omnibus: Volume 4
- Omnibus: Volume 5
- Omnibus: Volume 6
- Omnibus: Volume 7
- Omnibus: Season 8, Volume 1
- Omnibus: Season 8, Volume 2
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"
- "Buffy the Vampire Slayer Adult Coloring Book"
- "Buffy the Vampire Slayer Adult Coloring Book: Big Bads & Monsters"
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 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.
- In 2016 Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eleven followed, with only 12 issues, and it began the Buffy: The High School Years, set during season 1 and 2 of the television series.