Deadly Class



Deadly Class is published by Image Comics. Current price per issue is $3.50.

Last Issue

 * Deadly Class #18: 27 Jan 2016

Current Issue

 * Deadly Class #19: 02 Mar 2016

Next Issue

 * Deadly Class #20: 06 Apr 2016

Status
Ongoing series.

Main Characters

 * Marcus Lopez

Trade Paperbacks

 * Deadly Class, vol. 1: Reagan Youth - Collects #1-6. "It’s 1987. Marcus Lopez hates school. His grades suck. The jocks are hassling his friends. He can’t focus in class. But the jocks are the children of Joseph Stalin’s top assassin, the teachers are members of an ancient league of assassins, the class he's failing is “Dismemberment 101,” and his crush has a double-digit body count. Welcome to the most brutal high school on earth, where the world’s top crime families send the next generation of assassins to be trained. Murder is an art. Killing is a craft. At Kings Dominion School for the Deadly Arts, the dagger in your back isn’t always metaphorical." -


 * Deadly Class, vol. 2: Kids of the Black Hole - Collects #7-11. "Marcus Lopez is settling into life at Kings Dominion for the Deadly Arts, a secret elite school, to train the next generation of assassins. He has a girl, a circle of friends, and he’s learning a trade: the craft of killing. But his murderous past is about to catch up with him, and there are a few things about Marcus that even his friends don’t know. Secrets that threaten the lives of everyone around him. Because there’s a reason Marcus was sought out by the school’s shadowy principal Master Lin, a man who’s long had an eye for Marcus’s unique talents. Continuing the story of a group of damaged, deranged, and struggling teenagers living through one of the country’s most vibrant and chilling eras." -


 * Deadly Class, vol. 3: The Snake Pit - Collects #12-16 "Marcus and his girlfriend Maria are thrown to the wolves when a Mexican Cartel, the family of a classmate they were forced to kill, comes gunning for revenge. The true costs of the life he’s chosen to live are only just dawning on Marcus. The troubled teen has never been more troubled." -

Creative Team
Writer/Creator: Rick Remender. Artist/Covers: Wesley Craig & Lee Loughridge.

Publishing History
First published in 2014.

Future Publication Dates

 * Deadly Class #20: 06 Apr 2016
 * Deadly Class #21: 18 May 2016

News & Features

 * 15 Oct 2015 - Wes Craig on Deadly Class – The Process and Perils of a Career with Assassins