Black Hammer



Black Hammer is published by Dark Horse Comics. The cover price is $3.99.

Last Issue

 * Black Hammer: The End #1: 30 Aug 2023

Current Issues

 * Black Hammer: The End #2: 27 Sep 2023

Next Issue

 * Black Hammer: The End #3: 25 Oct 2023

Status
Series of limited series and one-shots.

Main Characters

 * Abraham Slam


 * Barbalien/Mark Markz


 * Golden Gail


 * Colonel Weird


 * Madame Dragonfly

Trade Paperbacks

 * Black Hammer, vol. 1: Secret Origins - Collects #1–6. "Once they were heroes. Now, banished from existence by a multiversal crisis, the old champions of Spiral City lead simple lives in a timeless farming town. But as they attempt to free themselves from this strange purgatory, a mysterious stranger works to bring them back into action for one last adventure!" -


 * Black Hammer, vol. 2: The Event - Collects #7-11 & 13. "When a visitor from the outside world arrives on the Farm, looking for the Black Hammer and bringing news of Spiral City to its Golden Age heroes, everything changes. Her arrival stirs up old memories and awakens new hope in the marooned heroes and they make a new attempt to escape their strange prison." -


 * Black Hammer, vol. 3: Age of Doom Part I - Collects Age of Doom #1-5. "Lucy Weber has become the new Black Hammer and right as she’s about to reveal to our heroes how they got stuck on the farm and can escape, she vanishes. Now our new Black Hammer finds herself trapped in a gritty world filled with punk rock detectives, emo gods, anthropomorphic humans, absurdist heroes, and many more weirdos, in mad world in which there is no escape!" - -


 * Black Hammer, vol. 4: Age of Doom Part II - Collects Age of Doom #6-12. "After learning how they got trapped on the farmworld, our heroes find themselves with everything they thought they wanted. But not everything is right just yet, and it takes the strong resolve of the new Black Hammer to get the team back together as shocking revelations change their world at every turn!" - -


 * Black Hammer: Streets of Spiral - Collects Giant Sized Annual, Cthu-Louise, The World of Black Hammer Encyclopedia, and material from Free Comic Book Day 2019. - -  -


 * Black Hammer, vol. 5: Reborn Part 1 - Collects Reborn #1-4. - -


 * Black Hammer, vol. 6: Reborn Part 2 - Collects Reborn #5-8. - -  -


 * Black Hammer, vol. 7: Reborn Part 3 - Collects Reborn #9-12. - -  -


 * The Last Days of Black Hammer - Collects installments #1-20 of the Substack series The Last Days of Black Hammer - -


 * Black Hammer Omnibus, vol. 1 - Collects #1-13 & Giant Sized Annual. -

Hardcovers

 * Black Hammer Library Edition, vol. 1 - Collects #1-11, 13 & Giant Sized Annual. -


 * Black Hammer Library Edition, vol. 2 - Collects Age of Doom #1-12, Black Hammer: Cthu-Louise & The World of Black Hammer Encyclopedia. -


 * Black Hammer: Visions, vol. 1 - Collects Visions #1-4. -


 * Black Hammer: Visions, vol. 2 - Collects Visions #5-8. -

Creative Team
Writer/Creator/Covers: Jeff Lemire. Artist/Covers: Dean Ormston.

Publishing History
First published in 2016.

Future Publication Dates

 * Black Hammer: The End #3: 25 Oct 2023
 * Black Hammer: The End #4: 22 Nov 2023
 * Black Hammer: The End #5: 27 Dec 2023
 * Black Hammer: The End #6: 31 Jan 2024

News & Features

 * 07 Apr 2021 - Interview: Jeff Lemire & Caitlin Yarsky talk Black Hammer: Reborn

Links

 * Black Hammer Wiki
 * Dark Horse Comics - Publisher's Website