Issue Description

A blockbuster 100-page spectacular is afoot in Dark Horse Presents #3! Featuring continuing stories by industry greats, this issue also packs a new 12-page story by Watchmen's Dave Gibbons! And to top all that, this issue additionally spotlights an exclusive, 13-page preview of the new edition of Red Tide, written and illustrated by comics legend Jim Steranko! Add to that an exclusive interview with Steranko himself and you've got a super-sized installment of Dark Horse's legendary tradition that's not to be missed!

List of covers and their creators:CoverNameCreator(s)Sidebar LocationRegRegular CoverDave Gibbons1VarVariant CoverPaul Chadwick3RIUltra Variant Cover (1:20)Jim Steranko2

Note: Retailers had to order 20 copies total of the regular and variant issue and they could order one signed Steranko variant.

Story & Chapter TitlesTreatmentNumber 13 - Chapter 2Finder: Third World - Chapter 3Concrete: Everything Looks Like a Nail - (Chapter 3)Marked Man - Chapter 3Red Tide - Chapter 1Steranko Speaks (Interview)Indecisive ManMurky World: The Sleepers - (Chapter 3)Rotten Apple - Chapter 2Snow Angel - Chapter 3Blood - Chapter 3Mr. Monster vs. Oooak! - Chapter 3

Dark Horse Presents (2011)

Publisher

Dark Horse Comics

Volume Description

Dark Horse Presents (DHP) is an eighty-page, monthly anthology comic published by Dark Horse Comics. It is the first comic book ever printed and published by Dark Horse Comics, however this is the third incarnation and second print volume of DHP.

Dark Horse Presents Volume 1 (1986-2000; 157 issues plus annuals and specials)MySpace Dark Horse Presents or MDHP (free online anthology that ran from July 2007 - August 2010; 63 issues collected in 6 trade volumes)Dark Horse Presents Volume 2 (2011-present)

This volume of DHP usually features all-new mini-stories, many of which have many chapters that are published in consecutive issues of DHP, and occasional interviews with artists and sneak previews of upcoming series.

List of characters who are featured in DHP:B.P.R.D. (#8)Black Beetle (#11-13)Captain Midnight (#18-20)Concrete (#1-3)Ghost (#13-15)Hellboy (#7, 14, 31-32)Jaeger (#1-7, 10-18, 20-21)Lobster Johnson (#9)Matt Kindt's Mind MGMT (#19, 31)Michael Avon Oeming's The Victories (#20-22)Mister X (#12-14, 33-34)Mr. Monster (#2-3, 17, 27-30, 33-34)Nexus (#12-15, 23-26, 29-34)Resident Alien (#4-6, 18-20)Trekker (#24-29)X (#19-21)

As of issue #34 the character with the most appearances is Jaeger who the main protagonist of "Finder: Third World" that also is the longest running story in DHP with 18 chapters followed by Nexus with 13 appearances and chapters.

List of ongoing titles that debuted in DHP:The Massive (#8-10)X (appeared in #19-21)List of mini-series that debuted in DHP:Alabaster: Wolves (five-part mini-series; Alabaster debuted with "Boxcar Tales" in DHP #18-22)Amala's Blade (four-part mini-series)Ghost (four-part mini-series and 3rd volume starring Ghost; later followed by a 4th volume)Mister X: Eviction (three-part mini-series)Number 13 (three-part mini-series)Resident Alien: Welcome to Earth! (three-part mini-series)Resident Alien: The Suicide Blonde (three-part mini-series)The Black Beetle: No Way Out (four-part mini-series)The Creep (four-part mini-series)

Most of these mini-series may have been kicked off with collected zero issues; see list below.

List of collected editions:Amala's Blade #0 (#9-11)Criminal Macabre: Die, Die, My Darling! (#4-6)Criminal Macabre: They Fight by Night (#10-13)Ghost #0 (#13-15)Mister X: Hard Candy (#12-14)Nosferatu Wars #1 (#26, 28-29)Number 13 #0 (#2-6)Resident Alien: Welcome to Earth! #0 (#4-6)Resident Alien: The Suicide Blonde #0 (#18-20)Rotten Apple (#2-5)The Black Beetle #0: "Nightshift" (#11-13)The Creep #0 (#11-13)X #0: The Pigs (#19-21)

In brackets: Issue number/s of appearances in DHP plus additional information if any.

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