A Marvel Comics Super Special: Blade Runner
Marvel's 1982 comic adaptation of the film, with a Jim Steranko cover and a widely ridiculed script.
A Marvel Comics Super Special: Blade Runner, often just called Blade Runner, is Marvel Comics' 1982 comic book adaptation of the film. Archie Goodwin wrote it; the art came from Al Williamson and Carlos Garzon, with Dan Green and Ralph Reese.
Quick Facts
- Publisher
- Marvel Comics
- Date
- 1982
- Writers
- Archie Goodwin
- Artists
- Al Williamson; Ralph Reese
- Editors
- Jim Salicrup
Facts from the source article.
Background
Jim Steranko drew the cover. Across 45 pages the adaptation also suggests what the title might mean, through the narrative line "Blade runner. You're always movin' on the edge." As issue 22 of the Marvel Comics Super Special line, by then devoted solely to Marvel's movie adaptations, it later came out again as a two-issue mini series that dropped the special's feature content. The story tracks the film while attempting to fill in gaps in the script.
Grandreams reprinted it in the United Kingdom as the Blade Runner Annual, once more minus the feature material, and Junior Press issued a Dutch-language edition in the Netherlands. A black-and-white mass market paperback with images from the film ranks among the rarest Marvel paperbacks. Author Lawrence Raw records that the adaptation was poorly received and widely ridiculed for bad writing and misquoted lines from the script, while Julian Darius of Sequart judged it "something of a mixed bag" that one likes more the longer one spends with it.
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