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  • Bibliography:
    82 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1992
  • Latest Book:
    May 2022
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Multi-Author Series List

DC Comics: Superman

The Kents (Jan-2000)

Famous Characters: Superman

The Kents (Jan-2000)

Marvel's X-Men

Wolverine: Knight of Terra ()
X-Men VS. the Brood: Day of Wrath (Sep-1997)
X-Men: Prelude to Onslaught (Apr-2010)

Star Wars

Star Wars Clone Wars, Volume #4: Light and Dark (Jun-2004)
Star Wars Clone Wars, Volume #5: The Best Blades (Dec-2004)
Star Wars Clone Wars, Volume #6: On the Fields of Battle (Jul-2005)
Star Wars Legacy, Volume 1: Broken (May-2007)
Star Wars Legacy, Volume 2: Shards (Mar-2008)
Star Wars Legacy, Volume 3: Claws of the Dragon (Jun-2008)
Star Wars Legacy, Volume 4: Alliance (Dec-2008)
Star Wars Legacy, Volume 7: Storms (Jan-2009)
Star Wars Legacy, Volume 5: The Hidden Temple (Feb-2009)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars 3: The Wind Raiders of Taloraan (May-2009)
Star Wars Legacy, Volume 8: Tatooine (Feb-2010)
Star Wars Legacy, Volume 9: Monster (Jul-2010)
Star Wars Omnibus Quinlan Vos Jedi in Darkness (Dec-2010)
Star Wars Legacy, Volume 10: Extremes (Jan-2011)
Star Wars Legacy, Volume 11: War (Feb-2012)
Star Wars Omnibus: Clone Wars, Volume 1: The Republic Goes to War (Sep-2012)
Force Storm (Dec-2012)
Star Wars Omnibus: Clone Wars, Volume 3: The Republic Falls (Dec-2012)
Star Wars - Purge (Jul-2013)
Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi, Volume 2: Prisoner of Bogan (Aug-2013)
Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi, Volume 3: Force War (Jun-2014)
Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: The Empire Vol. 1 (May-2015)
Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: Legacy Vol. 1 (Oct-2016)
Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: The Clone Wars Vol. 1 (Jan-2017)
Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: Legacy Vol. 2 (Jan-2018)
Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: The Menace Revealed Vol. 2 (Oct-2019)
Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: Legacy Vol. 3 (Jul-2020)
Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: The Empire Vol. 6 (Oct-2020)
Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: Tales of the Jedi Vol. 1 (Dec-2020)

Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi

1 - Force Storm (Dec-2012)

Book List in Order: 82 titles




  • Collects Star Wars: Republic #78-80, Star Wars: Purge, Star Wars: Purge - Seconds to Die, Star Wars: Purge - The Hidden Blade, Star Wars: Purge - The Tyrant's Fist #1-2, Star Wars: Darth Vader and the Lost Command #1-5, Star Wars: Dark Times #1-5.Let...



  • Collects Legends (1986 DC) #1-6. Written by by John Ostrander and Len Wein. Art by John Byrne & Karl Kesel. The villainous Darkseid has a scheme. With his vast resources, he will cause the people of Earth to despise and rebel against their heroes. Th...









  • The Kents recounts Superman's adopted family's settlement in Kansas in the 1860s. Told against the backdrop of the Civil War and the western expansion movement, this book tells the epic tale of Nathaniel and Jebediah Kent, two brothers divided by per...










  • The Jedi are taught to use the Force for good; to avail themselves only to the light side. But the dark side can be a dangerous temptation to even the strongest Jedi. Set against the backdrop of the Clone Wars, this novel-length adventure is filled w...



  • The darkest days of the Clone Wars have arrived, when even victories are cause for abiding sorrow; when the hopes for a brighter future are lost in the turmoil of a divided galaxy; and when friendships are tools of convenience and the reason for betr...



    • Gathering all of the earliest GrimJack stories from the best-selling comic book series of the 1980s in one tome for the first time, The Legend of GrimJack, Volume One introduces the major characters and origin stories and also includes the c...



    • Continuing IDW's gathering all of the earliest GrimJack stories from the best-selling comic book series of the 1980s, The Legend of GrimJack Volume Two presents the first epic-length multi-part stories and introduces a major series villain. ...



  • Mace Windu leads an elite Jedi strikeforce against an army of trained killers in a demonstration of Jedi power and resolve... Aayla Secura must confront her former Master in an effort to retrieve the plans for a weapon that has already destroyed one ...




    • GrimJack returns to the ever-shifting city of Cynosure, and creators John Ostrander and Timothy Truman reunite to tell the tale! There’s a firefight in The Pit and GrimJack is in the middle of the conflagration. His friends at Cadre have h...



    • IDW continues their re-presentation of the entire First Comics GrimJack saga, in order. This fourth volume delves deeper into what it means to be GrimJack and survive -- hell, profit -- in the insane city of Cynosure.
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    • IDW continues their re-presentation of the entire First Comics GrimJack saga, in order. This fifth volume covers issues #22-30 written and drawn by creators John Ostrander, Tom Sutton, Shawn McManus, Doug Rice, and Timothy Truman.
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    • IDW continues their re-presentation of the entire First Comics GrimJack saga, in order. This sixth volume covers issues #31-37 written by creator John Ostrander and drawn by Tom Mandrake.
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  • The Jedi Temple is attacked, an Emperor is betrayed, and the Sith are born anew! A lot can happen in a hundred years, but that's just the beginning of the story! Not since Luke Skywalker first stepped aboard the Millennium Falcon has the galaxy seeme...




  • IDW continues their re-presentation of the entire First Comics GrimJack saga, in order. This eighth volume covers issues #47-54. Written by creator John Ostrander and drawn by Tom Mandrake.
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  • You won't believe who's back in Munden's Bar. Mike Baron! Hilary Barta! Steve Bissette! Brian Bolland! Rick Burchett! Del Close! Phil Foglio! William Messner-Loebs! Jerry Ordway! John Ostrander! Steve Rude! Joe Staton! Timothy Truman! Jim Valentino! ...



  • Cade Skywalker returns to the place of his father's last stand against the Sith and finds far more than ghosts in this volume filled with revelations about the future of Star Wars! Discover how the Empire joined forces with the Sith to defeat the Gal...



  • Collects Star Wars: Legacy (2006) #37-40, 42-50, Star Wars: Legacy - War #1-6. Last heir to the legacy of the Skywalkers, Cade Skywalker is ready to turn his back on the galaxy for good. But as the rumored death of Sith Emperor Darth Krayt sets into ...




  • The future of Star Wars continues here! The Sith again control the galaxy, but the remains of the Galactic Alliance fight on to restore justice . . . Admiral Gar Stazi leads the Galactic Alliance in a risky mission against the Sith. If he succeeds, h...






  • A shake-up in the Sith leadership has made the galaxy a worse place, not a better one. On the planet of Dac, the Mon Calamari are still feeling the wrath of Darth Krayt - their punishment for betraying the Sith Empire. Meanwhile, a victory has turned...



  • Cade Skywalker just wants to be left alone. But when you and your friends have just blown up half of the Sith Temple, cut down two of Emperor Darth Krayt's most trusted minions, and you happen to be the last known heir of the Skywalker legacy, people...



  • Jedi Knights Anakin and Obi-Wan, with Padawan Ahsoka, travel to the planet Taloraan in hopes of gaining some useful allies for the Republic. But the two ruling groups on the planet are not particularly interested in making a treaty - the Defrandi are...



  • One hundred and thirty-three years after the death of Darth Vader, the Skywalker line has reached another low point - in the person of the last living heir, Cade Skywalker. Cade has abandoned his Jedi heritage for plans of quick wealth and a pirate's...




  • GrimJack returns in an all-new, out-of-this-world adventure - but solidly in the multi-dimensional land of Cynosure. What starts as an easy enough snatch-and-grab job becomes a hunt for truly ugly answers - all over a piece of ancient and magical obj...



  • Wayland is a once-fertile world transformed by alien biotechnology into a monstrous living nightmare. The planet was the scene of Kol Skywalker's worst failure and his son Cade's first brush with death. Now Cade and his friends have been lured back t...



  • John Ostrander, the co-creator of the SUICIDE SQUAD, teams with fan-favorite writer Gail Simone for this epic team-up between the SECRET SIX and the SUICIDE SQUAD. Amanda Waller and her Suicide Squad capture Deadshot to try to force him to rejoin the...



  • Collects Star Wars: Republic (1998) #19-26, #32-45. From his first appearance as a mind-wiped amnesiac to his triumphant passage to the rank of Jedi Master, few Jedi had more brushes with the powers of the dark side and the evil of the underworld tha...



  • One hundred thirty-three years after Luke Skywalker made his final stand against the Emperor and Darth Vader, the Galactic Alliance, Emperor-in-exile Roan Fel's forces, and the reunited Jedi Order are finally ready to take on the Sith Empire. Everyon...






  • This collection is the definitive and explosive introduction to John Ostrander’s modern take on Task Force X, featuring characters from the hit movie Suicide Squad. It’s up to the government to keep the bad guys in captivity-but Amanda Waller, a...



  • The Legacy saga ends here! It''s an all-out war as the Sith emperor returns from the dead - stronger, more evil, more determined, and prepared to unleash a new secret weapon upon the galaxy! Roan Fel''s loyalist Imperials, the Galactic Alliance, an...



  • These are the stories that were published immediately after the release of Attack of the Clones, featuring Jedi heroes Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Mace Windu, and Quinlan Vos, now collected in this 400-page value package! The Clone Wars explode...



  • Here begins the tale of the dawn of the Jedi, the Star Wars of 25,000 years ago -- before lightsabers, before hyperspace travel, before the Jedi spread throughout the galaxy, when connections to the Force were new. On the planet Tython, a group of...



  • Collects Star Wars: Republic (1998) #69â€"#77 and #81â€"#83, Star Wars: Obsession #1â€"#5, and Free Comic Book Day 2005. Well played, Darth Sidious. Well played. The end of the Clone Wars is in sight, but so are the end of the Jedi and the fall of th...



  • The terror of the galaxy, Darth Vader, brings death to the Jedi who survived Order 66. His legend grows as he roots out Jedi, crushing their lives, their hopes, and all memory of their kind from the civilizations that now bow to the Emperor. A band o...



  • In the era before the Old Republic and the discovery of hyperspace travel, the Je'daii - the progenitors of the Jedi Order - were the protectors and peacekeepers of the Tython system. When Xesh, a mysterious warrior from outside the system, becomes e...



  • Deadshot, the assassin for hire who never misses, faces new and deadly challenges in this new collection. Spinning out of the hit 1980s series SUICIDE SQUAD, this bullet-ridden tale sends Deadshot on a solo missing to kill a crime boss known as El Je...



  • The Martian Manhunter, one of the key heroes in The New 52, stars in this new title collecting his popular 1998 series. Featuring moody art by writer John Ostrander's frequent collaborator, Tom Mandrake, the story begins as the Manhunter tells Superm...



  • In these never-before-collected tales from the 1990s, police detective Jim Corrigan tries to end his mission as The Spectre. But the grisly crimes of a serial killer pulls him back into the battle for justice--and sends him on a trip to hell itself. ...






  • The alien Rakata--powerful users of the dark side of the Force--invade the Tython system to enslave the Je'daii! With Forcesabers in hand, the Je'daii, teamed with mad Daegen Lok and the mysterious Force Hound Xesh, meet the Rakata and their fierce F...



  • The Martian Manhunter launches his solo series featuring the Justice League of America! After suffering colossal injuries at the hands of the evil Malefic, the Martian Manhunter has returned to Mars in an attempt to heal himself. But while he's away,...



  • In these never-before-collected tales from the 1990s, the Spectre witnesses genocide on a global scale, leading him to sit in judgement on humanity itself. And when he decides to wipe out the human race, it's up to DC's mystic heroes including John C...



  • Autopia: An all-American creative team tackles the celebrated Doctor in this special standalone tale. John Ostrander (Star Wars: Legacy) writes and Kelly Yates (Doctor Who: The Forgotten) illustrates an adventure where the Doctor and his companion Do...



  • Let the dark times begin! Marvel welcomes Star Wars to the Epic Collection program, with this first volume of a series focusing on the years that follow "Episode III: Revenge of the Sith"! After the end of the Clone Wars, the Republic has fallen and ...



  • This new edition collects the stories of the original grim and gritty hard-boiled barbarian from Starslayer issues #10-17 and GrimJack issues #1-13, as originally published by First Comics between 1983 and 1985 by John Ostrander (Suicide Squad, Star ...



  • Discover John Ostrander�s classic series and the origins of the criminal cadre starring in the feature film, Suicide Squad! Friends or foes? That is the question that must be answered when Batman and the Justice League learn of the team�s existe...



  • Creators John Ostrander, Luke McDonnell, Bob Lewis, and Karl Kesel continue their legendary run in SUICIDE SQUAD: ROGUES, collecting issues #17-25 and ANNUAL #1 of the celebrated 1980s series. The Squad will go on� Or will it? Forget the terrorist...



  • In the aftermath of the Crisis, experience the first major crossover after CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS with veteran writers John Ostrander (SUICIDE SQUAD) and Len Wein (SWAMP THING), along with superstar artists John Byrne (SUPERMAN) and Karl Kesel (HA...



  • The second volume of the complete GrimJack, the greatest creation by the legendary team of John Ostrander (Suicide Squad, Star Wars, Deadshot, Martian Manhunter) and Timothy Truman (Conan, Star Wars, Scout, Jonah Hex). Reprinting issues 14 through 30...



  • Heroic fantasy at its rip-roaring best, as created by the fabled team of John Ostrander and Timothy Truman! Return with us to the magical land of Xoo, where animals walk upright, humans are chattel and actor Josef Quist finds himself trapped in a wor...



  • Amanda �the Wall� Waller has fought tooth and nail to keep her Suicide Squad of metahuman black ops agents in operation. Together with Checkmate, a covert government spy agency, these two teams make up Waller�s Task Force X, taking on the missi...



  • Head far into the future of long ago, in a series that explores the state of the galaxy more than 100 years after Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi. A new evil has arisen, shattering a resurgent Empire and seeking to put an end to the Jedi onc...



  • THE WALL HAS FALLEN Amanda Waller has lost her iron grip on the Suicide Squad, pushed aside in favor of a new commander. While she lays plans to take back Task Force X, a supernatural secret society is quietly moving in for the kill. But an even ...



  • Collects Heroes For Hire (1997) #10-19, Quicksilver #11-12, Heroes For Hire/Quicksilver Annual 1998. Hey heroes, are you hiring? If so, Deadpool is available! And he could come in handy as Luke Cage and Iron Fistís team takes on Silver Sable and her...



  • The Republic is rocked by war! As the galaxy descends into confl ict, Separatists target the Republic's crucial cloning facility - and only a squadron of Starfi ghters and a battalion of Jedi-led clone troopers stand in the way! Meanwhile, Naboo, hom...



  • Amanda Waller has been imprisoned for a year, and her Task Force X disbanded after they fled her custody while taking down LOA. But the U.S. government isn�t finished with the Suicide Squad. Political unrest in the Eastern European country of Vla...



  • The third volume of the complete GrimJack, by the legendary team of John Ostrander (Suicide Squad, Star Wars, Deadshot, Martian Manhunter, Spectre) and Tom Mandrake (Batman, Martian Manhunter, Spectre, Firestorm). Reprinting issues 31 through 56 a...



  • Amanda Waller contracts out the Suicide Squad to the Japanese government for what should be a simple mission�track down a hoard of stolen Soviet weapons and destroy them before they�re sold to the Yakuza. But nothing is simple for the Squad. Ra...



  • Collects Star Wars: Legacy (2006) #20-36, 41, 0-1/2. Feel the full fury of the Sith! Continue to explore the legacy of Star Wars, a century in the future! With the Sith Empire and the Galactic Alliance locked in war, Admiral Gar Stazi steers his flag...



  • John Gaunt has been dead for two centuries... but Jim Twilley is laying claim to being the reincarnation of GrimJack. Is he crazy and looking to die... or has Cynosure brought its champion back from the grave? Find out in the fourth volume of the ...



  • Batman, Superman and Aquaman suspect that Amanda Waller had a hand in the death of Ray Palmer, but when they seek to question the Squad, they find resistance from the Jihad and Hayoth. Can the world�s most dangerous criminals take on a trio of the ...



  • Collects Star Wars (1998) 19-35, material from Dark Horse Extra 35-37, Star Wars Tales 13, Dark Horse Presents Annual 2000. Lost memories, lost Padawan! Jedi Knight Quinlan Vos has lost his memory! Now he must rediscover his past while searching for ...



  • Sweet, cynical Cynosure...where the dimensions meet. Magic works here, science works over there, swords and a bad attitude work everywhere, and you call GrimJack when you need someone nasty.

    Now in one volume, see what made him the man he is...



  • Collects Star Wars: Legacy (2006) #37-40, 42-50; Star Wars: Legacy - War (2010) #1-6. In the far future of Star Wars, nothing is what it seems! Cade Skywalker and his crew are back to their old pirating ways, but they soon find themselves stranded on...



  • Collects Star Wars: Agent of the Empire â€" Iron Eclipse (2011) #1-5; Star Wars: Agent of the Empire â€" Hard Targets (2012) #1-5; Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (2008) GN; Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II (2010) GN; material from Star Wars Tales (1...



  • Collects Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi - Force Storm (2012) #1-5, Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi - Prisoner of Bogan (2012) #1-5, Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi - Force War (2013) #1-5, Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi (2012) #0. The origins of the Jedi order are...



  • James Gunn�s The Suicide Squad film gathers the weirdest and wildest cast of characters in superhero movie history-from Squad veterans like Harley Quinn and Captain Boomerang to the downright peculiar Savant and the Javelin, and more. Discover the ...



  • The classic story that inspired the feature film! Offered again with a new cover! Faced with a rising tide of meta-human crime and terror, Amanda Waller, the hard-headed director of a secret government program designed to neutralize super-powered thr...




  • Offered again! Rediscover the history of the Batman and the Penguin�s greatest clashes before they return to the big screen in The Batman. Featuring stories from industry legends from throughout comics history, Batman: The Penguin collects Detectiv...



  • Uncover the mysteries of which perpetrators are claiming to be Batman, bizarre disasters, persuasive killers, the Golem of Gotham story arc, and much more. Featuring classic Gotham characters, iconic Bat-gadgets, and new versions of �The Case of th...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Ostrander has published 82 books.

John Ostrander does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Batman: The Dark Knight Detective Vol. 6, was published in May 2022.

The first book by John Ostrander, Penguin Triumphant, was published in June 1992.

No. John Ostrander does not write books in series.