Periods

See also Chronological Story List.

We can divide Mr. Corben's comic stories into clear periods. During certain time of periods he was doing comics mostly for certain publisher/genre. Here is listed all Mr. Corben comic stories according his periods. If periods are partly overlapping, comics are placed into period they belong to (according publication).

Pre-Fantagor Period contains comics after Warren (out of Heavy Metal and Fantagor) till around 1990. Post-Fantagor contains everything after that till around 2002 (excluding Super Hero comics). Underground Period suppoused to end around 1974, but I added also Hot Stuf' comics there (till year 1977), as well Fantagor #5 (1983), which suppoused to be around Fantagor or Pre-. In Super Hero Period I added "Pre-Super Hero" story X-Men: "Heroes for Hope" (1985), which is actually out of Period.

Mr. Corben's most latest period is called as Expanding Period. It includes everything after 2003, excluding Super Hero, and his Edgar Allan Poe / H.P. Lovecraft adaptations.

"Den [I]" (short story version) belongs clearly into Underground Period, but it is located here into Heavy Metal, because there the story was stretched as a full feature adventure.

"Bodyssey" was originally a short story, like vise. It was called as "Pilgor, Dreams of a Magic Planet" (5 pgs), but never published in English, though almost all around the Europe it is known (France, Germany, Italy and Spain)! In this case, both titles are inclued.

Periods | Underground | Warren | Heavy Meal | Pre | Fantagor | Post | Super Hero | Expanding | Edgar Allan Poe Perioid | H.P. Lovecraft Perioid |
Story Count | Page Count

Underground Period (1968-1977, 1983)

"Alice in Wonderlust" (1972) | "The Beast of Wolfton" (1972) | "Bug" (1974) | "Chard" (1977) | "Cidopey" (1971) | "Damsel in Dragon Dress" (1973) | "Dead Hill" (1971) | "Duel of the Titans" (1970) | "A Dumb Story" (1971) | "The Dweller In the Dark" (1976) | "[A Brief] Encounter at War" (1971, 1972) | Fantagor Epilogues #1: "Inna Pit" (1970), #3: "Flower Thing" (1972), #4: "We Sure Likes Worms" (1972), #5: "Gurgy Tate" aka "Sortrum" (1983) | Fantagor Intros, #1: "Fantagor and Uk" (1970), #2: "Fantagor and Uk Waiting Fer Ya" (1972), #3: "Me and UK Fishing" (1972), #4: "Luscious Lucious" (1972), #5: "The Light of Day" (1983) | "Flys" (1974) | "For the Love of a Daemon" (1972) | "Gastric Fortitude" (1972) | "Going Home" (1972) | "A Gothic Tale [Part 2]" (1972) | "Heirs of Earth" (1971) | "Horrible Harvey's House!" (1971) | Horrilor Afterwords, #1: "Horrilor at Her Desk" (1972), #2: "Horrilor's Fare Well" (1973) | Horrilor Intros, #1: "Harrowing Heights" (1972), #2: "Horrilor, Eager and Waitin" (1973) | "How Howie Made It in the Real World" (1970) | "Kitten for Christian" (1972) | "Lame Lem's Love" (1970) | "The Lure of the Tower" (1969) | "Mangle, Robot Mangler" (1972) | "Melton's Big Game" (1973) | "Monsters Rule" (1968) | "Necromancer" (1972) | "The Rats in the Walls" (1972) | "Razar the Unhero" (1970) | "Rowlf" (1970) | "The Secret of Zokma" (1972) | "Space Jacked" (1972) | "Star Beat" (1968) | "The Story of Oteg" (1971) |"Tales from the Plague" (1969) | Tarzan: "Chance Meeting!" (1971) | "The Temple" (1972) | "To Meet the Faces You Meet" (1972) | "To Spear a Fair Maiden" (1971) | "Twilight of the Dogs" (1970) | "Voluptas" (1975) | "When Dreams Collide" (1971)

Warren Period (1971-1979)

HardJohn, Part 1: "An Angel Shy of Hell" (1974) | "Anti-Christmas" (1975) | "As Though They Were Living!" (1974) | Creepy's Loathsome Lore! #35: "Astrology" (1972) | "The Awakening" (1972) | "The Believer" (1976) | "Bless Us, Father..." (1974) | "Bookworm" (1971) | "Bowser" (1976) | "Bright Eyes!" (1972) | The Butcher, Part 2(2): "Bye, Bye, Miss American Pie" (1975) | "Change...Into Something Comfortable" (1973) | Child, Part 1(3): "Child" (1974), Part 2(3): "Mind of the Mass!" (1974), Part 3(3): "Childhood's End" (1974) | "Demon in the Cockpit" (1974) | The Butcher, Part 1(2): "Forgive Us Our Tresspasses" (1975) | "Friedhelm the Magnificent" (1972) | "Frozen Beauty" (1970) | Creepy's Loathsome Lore! #34: "The Golden Sun Disk of the Incas" (1972) | "The Hero Within" (1974) | "In Deep" (1976) | "Instinct" (1976) | "Judas" (1975) | "The Low Spark of High Heeled Noise!" (1973) | "Lycanklutz" (1973) | Vampi's Feary Tales: "Metifa!" (1972) | "The Mummy's Victory" (1976) | "Mutant World" (1978) | "Ogre [I]" (1978) | "The Oval Portrait!" (1975) | "The Pest!" (1971) | "Pinball Wizard!" (1974) | "The Raven" (1974) | "Shadow" (1975) | "The Slipped Mickey Click-Flip" (1973) | "A Tangible Hatred" (1971) | "Terror Tomb" (1974) | "Time and Time Again" [Part 2/3] (1976) | "Top to Bottom" (1974) | "Unprovoked Attack on a Hilton Hotel" (1975) | "Within You Without You" [Part 1/3] (1976) | "Wizard Wagstaff" (1974) | "A Woman Scorned" (1978) | "The Woodlik Inheritance!" (1978) | "Years & Mind Forever" [Part 3/3] (1978) | "You're a Big Girl Now" (1977)

Heavy Meal Period (1976-1985)

"Bloodstar" (1976) | "The Bodyssey" (1985) | "Den [I]" (1973, 1976, 1977) | "Den II" (1981) | "Doomscult" (1983) | "New Tales of the Arabian Nights" aka "The Last Voyage of Sindbad" (1978) | "Planetoid" (1992) | "Roda and the Wolf" (1984) | "The Spirit of the Beast" (1980)

Pre-Fantagor Period (1981-1990)

"El Comic Vivo" (1982) | "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1984) | "Fur Trade" (1984) | "Infected" (1982) | "Jeremy Brood" (1982, 1983) | "Me an' Ol' Rex" (1983) | "Night of the Monkey" (1986) | "Ogre II" (1983) | "Pilgor, Dreams of a Magic Planet" (1982) | "Slash and Burn" (1989) | "The Small World of Lewis Stillman" (1984) | "Spirit Jam" (1981) | "Terminated" (1983) | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: "Turtles Take Time" (1990) | "Vic and Blood" (1987) | "You Had to Be There" (1986?)

Fantagor Period (1986-1994)

DenSaga Epilogue #2: "Bog's Deal" (1992) | "Bull Digger" (1991) | "The Cave of Ancient Fear" (1987) | "Den 3: Children of Fire" (1987) | "Den 4: Dreams" (1988) | "Den 5: Elements" (1988) | "DenSaga" (1992) | "Different" (1990) | "Dome Battle" (1989) | "Donneman's Bluff" (1989) | "Dreaming" (1991) | "Fireworks" (1990) | "Forgotten Tomb" (1991) | "From the Pit", Parts 1&2 (1994, 2009) | "Incantation" (1989) | "The Inducemet" (1989) | DenSaga Epilogue #4: "The Light at the End of the Tunnel" (1994) | DenSaga Epilogue #3: "Mola the Mole" (1993) | "The Mounds" (1991) | "The Return of the Sorcerer" (1993) | "Rip in Time" (1986) | "The Seed from the Sepulcher" (1992) | "Silver, Emeralds and Rubies" (1990) | "Son of Mutant World" (1990) | "Such Pretty Little Toes" (1989) | Tales of the Black Diamond, Prologue: "Starstone of Blood" (1993), Part 1(5): "Birth of Blood" aka "Blood Birth" (1991), Part 2(5): "Bath of Blood" (1991), Part 3(5): "Crypt of Blood" (1991), Part 4(5): "Cold Blood" (1991), Part 5(5): "Cartoon of Blood" (1991) | "The Vaults of Yoh Vombis" (1993) | "The Wreck of the Katerra-Dan" (1989)

Post-Fantagor Period (1993-2002, 2011-)

"Angel [of Andromeda]" (1999) | "Apposites Attract" (1999) | "Bigfoot" (2005) | "Denz" (1996) | "Gone Fishin'" (1996) | "Herbert West: Reanimator" (2002) | "The House On the Borderland" (2000) | "Juice Wagon" (1990, 2007) | "Killer Smile" (1998) | "King's Crown" (2003) | "M-80" (1999) | The Wild Satanika Jam: "Mirror Into Black" (1998) | "Pollution" (1996) | "The Ringworld Throne Comic" (1995) |"Shadows in the Mist" (1998) | "A Sound of Thunder" (1993) | "Spear and Fang" (1999) | "The Split" (2000) | "The Survivor" (1997) | "Wolf Girl Eats" (1999) | "Murky World" (2011) |

Super Hero Period (1985, 1996-)

"Aliens: Alchemy" (1997) | "Banner" (2001) | "Bigfoot" (2005) | Hellboy: "The Bride of Hell" (2009) | "Cage" (2002) | "Conan the Cimmerian" (2008) | Hellboy: "The Crooked Man" (2008) | Hellboy: "Double Feature of Evil" ("Sullivan's Reward" & "The House of Sebek") (2010)| The Punisher: "The End" (2004) | John Constantine, Hellblazer: "Hard Time" (2000) | Hellboy: "Hellboy in Mexico" (2010) | X-Men: "Heroes for Hope" (1985) | Swamp Thing: "Little Runaway" (2005) | Hellboy: "Makoma" (2006) | Hellboy: "Hellboy in Mexico" (2010) | Swamp Thing: "Missing Links" (2004) | Batman: "Monster Maker" (1996) | The Spirit: "Moon Wolf" (2010) | "On the Street" (2002) | Masks: Too Hot for TV! Uncensored: "Redhawk - Costumed Hero" (2004) | "[The Origin of] Starr the Slayer" (2009) | Hellboy: "The Bride of Hell" (2009) | Hellboy: "Double Feature of Evil" ("Sullivan's Reward" & "The House of Sebek") (2010) | Hellboy: "Hellboy in Mexico" (2010) | The Spirit: "Moon Wolf" (2010) | Hellboy: "Being Human" (2011) | Hellboy: "House of the Living Dead" (2011) | Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2014) |

Expanding Period (2002-)

"Cyclops!" (2002) | "The Plague" (2002) |"Belzon's Treasure" (2003) | "Homecoming" (2003) | The Spectre: "A Missing Life" (2003) | "The Hounds of Titus Roan" (2009) | "The Illuminations of Charity Wallis" (2012) | "Ragemoor" (2012) | "Dun's Return" (2013) | "Uncle Mangus" (2013) |

Edgar Allan Poe Perioid (2006–2014)

A push for this perioid was a collaboration with Jan Strnad with a story, "Ragemoor" (2012). Mr. Corben asked "a Poesque series". The story did not go enough to that direction, so he decided to start his own geniue 8 page Poe adaptations. The first story was "The Sleeper [II]" (2012) and he started to make it before he did know who would publish it.

"Berenice" (2006) | "The Conqueror Worm" (2006) | "Eulalie" (2006) | "The Happiest Day" (2006) | "Izrafel" (2006) | "The Lake" (2006) | "The Raven [II]" (2006) | "The Sleeper" (2006) | "Spirits of the Dead" (2006) | "The Tell-Tale Heart" (2006) | "Berenice [II]" (2012) | "The City in the Sea" (2012) | "Edgar Allan Poe's The Conqueror Worm [II]" (2012) | "Shadow [II]" (2012) | "The Sleeper [II]" (2012) | "Alone" (2013) | "The Assignation" (2013) | "Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher [II]" (2013) | "The Masque of the Red Death" (2013) | "The Raven [III]" (2013) | "The Cask of Amontillado" (2014) | "Edgar Allan Poe's Morella" (2014) | "Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (2014) | "Edgar Allan Poe's The Premature Burial" (2014) |

And here's a list of stories left out from the project but which Mr. Corben would like to make an adaptation some day, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell Tale Heart, The Black Cat, and The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar. And a few others like Ligeia, The Man of the Crowd, The Imp of the Perverse, The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether, Eldorado, and Annabel Lee.

H.P. Lovecraft Perioid (2008)

"Arthur Jermyn" (2008) | "The Canal" (2008) | "Dagon" (2008) | "The Lamp" (2008) | "A Memory" (2008) | "The Music of Erich Zann" (2008) | "The Scar" (2008) | "The Well" (2008) | "The Window" (2008) |

Periods | Underground | Warren | Heavy Meal | Pre | Fantagor | Post | Super Hero | Expanding | Edgar Allan Poe Perioid | H.P. Lovecraft Perioid |
Story Count | Page Count

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