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All Comics' Greatest World titles took place in a , Golden City , Steel Harbor , and the Cinnibar Flats area.

The series started off with stories in ''Dark Horse Presents'' before kicking off in four weekly Limited Series , introducing the cities and characters. These were followed by several short-lived series, one-shots, and mini-series. Only a few titles lasted very long.

Around April of 1995, titles were done under the "Dark Horse Heroes" line, rather then "Comic's Greatest World". They also dropped the use of the unique city logos.


ENVIRONS



Arcadia

Main Article: Arcadia (Comics Greatest World)

First appearance: ''Dark Horse Comics'' #8 (intro of X)

Arcadia is an orderly, smoothly run machine of a city.
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This is a world of shadow, danger, and bloody retribution.


It is a city of corrupt officials and organized crime.
The policemen who are not on the take are criminals in their own right.

Issues:
# X
# Ghost
# Pitbulls
# Monster

Major Characters


Golden City

Main Article: Golden City

Issues:
# Rebel
# Mecha
# Titan
# Catalyst: Agents of Change

Major Characters


Steel Harbor

Main Article: Steel Harbor

Issues
# Barb Wire
# The Machine
# Wolf Gang
# Motorhead

Major Characters


Cinnibar Flats

Main Article: Cinnibar Flats

Issues
# Division 13
# Hero Zero
# King Tiger
# Out of the Vortex

Major Characters


STORYLINES



The Original Mini-Series


The original Comics' Greatest World mini-series was comprised of 16 weekly issues divided into four environments, each with four issues. The story followed a group of Searchers from the Reavor Swarm coming to Earth to track down the Heretic. Each issue also featured a one page prologue detailing the Heretic’s experiments on Earth during 1947 which resulted in the metahuman activity on the planet.


Major Characters



Will To Power

Main article: Will To Power (Comics Greatest World)


Hunting the Heroes


A group of Yautja (the aliens from the Predator movies) arrive on earth and begin hunting various CGW heroes.

"Hunting the Heroes" was just a theme thru various titles. This included ''Agents of Law'' #6, ''Ghost'' #5, ''X'' #18.


Major Characters

  • X

  • Ghost

  • Motorhead

  • Law



TITLES

  • Agents of Law (6 issues)

  • Barb Wire (9 issues, 2 magazine specials)

  • Barb Wire: Ace of Spades (mini)

  • (7 issues)

  • Comics' Greatest World (16 issues, 1 special)

  • Division 13 (4 issues)

  • Ghost (2 series, 36 & 22 issues, 3 specials, 3 crossover minis)

  • Godzilla vs. Hero Zero

  • Hero Zero one-shot

  • King Tiger & Motorhead (2 issues)

  • The Machine (4 issues)

  • Mecha Special

  • Motorhead (6 issues, special)

  • Out of the Vortex (12 issues)

  • Revelations

  • Titan Special

  • Will To Power (Comics Greatest World) (crossover limited series)

  • X (25 issues, 2 specials, One Shot Thru the Head)



Special Cases

  • 9 issues of ''Dark Horse Comics'' featured CGW stories, including the very first CGW story, the 3-part "Who is X?" story (#8-10). #19,20 (X), #21,22 (Mecha), #23,24 (The Machine)

  • At least 4 issues and 1 annual of ''Dark Horse Presents'' #144 (Out of the Vortex), #145-147 (Ghost),

  • A Ghost story was featured in ''A Decade of Dark Horse'' #2.

  • Also, the Nexus story in ''A Decade of Dark Horse'' #3 featured theme park rides of Ghost and Barb Wire, and Hero Zero made a cameo appearance in a The Mask story in the same issue.



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EXTERNAL LINKS

  • [http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/g/greatest.htm Comics Greatest World at International Superheroes directory.]



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