Tyrant | |
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Publication information | |
Publisher | Spiderbaby Grafix |
Schedule | Irregular |
Format | Ongoing series |
Publication date | September 1994 – January 1996 |
No. of issues | 4 |
Creative team | |
Created by | Steve Bissette |
Written by | Steve Bissette |
Artist(s) | Steve Bissette |
Letterer(s) | Steve Bissette |
Editor(s) | Steve Bissette |
Tyrant is a comic book series published by Spiderbaby Grafix about a Tyrannosaurus rex , written by Steve Bissette. [1]
There were four issues published in the mid 90s.
A new Tyrant page appeared in Sundays [2] and Bissette has discussed a proposal he prepared involving a Tyrant revival. [3]
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