Richard Starkings

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  • Bibliography:
    42 Books
  • First Book:
    April 2004
  • Latest Book:
    August 2024
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Marvel's Spider-Man

Best of Spider-Man, Volume 1 (Apr-2004)

Book List in Order: 42 titles

  • Best of Spider-Man, Volume 1

    Marvel's Spider-Man

    Peter Parker, a.k.a. Spider-Man, struggles to cope with the damage caused to his beloved city on September 11, 2001; eludes capture; deals with Rhino; and finds himself in the middle of a clash between Daredevil and the Punisher....

  • Hip Flask: Concrete Jungle

    • 2162: They are the survivors of genetic engineering experiments and indoctrination by Doctor Kazushi Nikken and MAPPO, a sinister organization which sought to create superhuman weapons of mass destruction. Now, freed and rehabilitated by the...

  • Unhuman: The Elephantmen: The Art of Ladronn

    • Designed by Comicraft's Secret Weapon, John JG Roshell, and the perfect companion to Hip Flask: Concrete Jungle, this comprehensive collection of unpublished art, sketches, and drawings by Ladronn offered in a beautiful hardcover tome.
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  • Tim Sale: Black And White

    • Tim Sale discusses his life and work in this comprehensive and lavishly illustrated volume.
    • This new, revised, and expanded edition of the original sold-out and out-of-print Tim Sale: Black and White previously published by Active I...

  • Elephantmen Vol. 1: Wounded Animals

    320 Pages! Collects ELEPHANTMEN #1-7They were genetically engineered to be supra-human weapons of mass destruction, but ultimately dismissed collectively as Elephantmen. Hip Flask, Ebony Hide and Obadiah Horn count amongst their number; wounded anima...

  • Elephantmen: War Toys, Volume 1: No Surrender

    • The story of the war to end all wars now in one volume! The prequel to Image's hit series, Elephantmen finds Africa and China at war. The battlefield: Europe, recently devastated by a lethal virus. Enter: MAPPO's soldiers, The Elephantmen. ...

  • Elephantmen Vol. 2: Fatal Diseases

    Collects ELEPHANTMEN #8-15 plus Bonus Material!A meteor falls in Santa Monica Bay, and the lives of Hip Flask, Ebony Hide, Obadiah Horn, Sahara and her father, Joshua Serengheti converge once again with far-reaching consequences for all....

  • Elephantmen, Volume 2: Fatal Diseases

    It contains issue #8 through #15 and the Elephantmen Pilot Issue. of Image Comics' hit Pulp Science Fiction series, Elephantmen: Fatal Diseases details the lives of Hip Flask, Ebony Hide, Obadiah Horn, and the rest of the survivors of MAPPO's genetic...

  • Elephantmen: Damaged Goods

    • Featuring a new cover and short story written and illustrated by Image Comics' rising star Martin Churchland, this full-color trade collects the sold-out issues of Elephantmen focusing on the mademoiselles of Mystery City ― Miki, Sahara an...



  • Elephantmen, Volume 3: Dangerous Liaisons

    • The Elephantmen were soldiers ― weapons of mass destruction ― but now they must live out their lives amongst us. Even so, as three of their number, Hip Flask, Ebony Hide, and Obadiah Horn go about their business in Los Angeles, 2259, a M...

  • Elephantmen, Volume 1: Wounded Animals

    • The sold-out first volume of Elephantmen is back in print ― and now includes the sold-out ZERO issue with art by Ladron, as well as an all-new sketchbook section, and the English & Media Studies backmatter from the single issues.
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  • Elephantmen, Volume 3: Dangerous Liasons

    • The Elephantmen were soldiers ― weapons of mass destruction ― but now they must live out their lives amongst us. Even so, as three of their number ― Hip Flask, Ebony Hide, and Obadiah Horn ― go about their business in Los Angeles 225...

  • Elephantmen, Volume 4: Questionable Things

    • A MAPPO sleeper cell has been reactivating Elephantmen, affecting not only the lives of Hip Flask and Ebony Hide, but Vanity Case, Miki, Sahara, and LAPD Lieutenant Blackthorne as well.
    ...

  • Elephantmen, Volume 00

    • Collecting the sold out War Toys trade paperback ― now in full-color for the first time ― and the sequel, Enemy Species, this highly anticipated Elephantmen Volume 0 is packed with extras, including Moritat and Boo Cook sketchbooks and u...

  • Armed Forces

    • Collecting the sold-out War Toys trade paperback, now in full-color for the first time, and the sequel, Enemy Species, this highly anticipated Elephantmen Volume 00 is packed with extras, including Moritat and Boo Cook sketchbooks and work b...

  • Elephantmen: War Toys, Volume 2: Enemy Species

    ALL-NEW ELEPHANTMEN ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL! In this sequel to the sold-out War Toys Volume 1: No Surrender TP, Yvette is alive, and artist Boo Cook (Judge Dredd, X-Factor) pits her against a new foe... with Hip Flask, Ebony Hide, and Obadiah Horn cau...

  • Devilish Functions

    • Collecting Man and Elephantman (including the sold-out one-shot and the highly sought after issue by Bulletproof Coffin's Shaky Kane) and The Killing Season, Elephantmen Volume 5 is packed with extras, including art by J. Scott Campbell and ...

  • Earthly Desires

    • Collecting issues #40-49 of Image's longest-running Pulp Science Fiction series, Elephantmen, Volume 6 is packed with extras, including the Hip Flask/Strontium Dog crossover by Starkings and Boo Cook, and the Hip Flask/Marineman crossover by...

  • Unnatural Selection

    • Featuring the art of Eisner award winner Ladronn, the long-out-of-print Hip Flask: Unnatural Selection Hardcover collects the remastered and expanded "widescreen'" art and story from Hip Flask: Unnatural Selection as well as pages and covers...



  • Doctor Who Classics, Volume 9

  • Elephantmen, Volume 6: Earthly Desires

  • Elephantmen: 2260 Book One

    Collects ELEPHANTMEN #51-55 A new arc, a new slim trade paperback format for ELEPHANTMEN, and, at $9.99, a great opportunity for new readers to start reading the book they've heard so much about! Jack Farrell is a private detective who never gave a s...

  • Elephantmen 2260

    • A new arc, a new slim trade paperback format for Elephantmen, and, at $9.99, a great opportunity for new readers to start reading the book they've heard so much about! Jack Farrell is a private detective who never gave a second thought to th...

  • Elephantmen: Mammoth, Book 1

  • Elephantmen 2260, Book 2: The Red Queen

    • Sahara is in hiding, ready to give birth to Obadiah Horn's baby. Her father, Joshua Serengheti, is intent on hunting her down to prevent a hybrid child from coming into the world. Hip Flask, Jack Farrell, and Hiromi Kiyoko are perhaps the on...

  • Elephantmen 2260 Vol. 3: Learning To Be Human

  • Elephantmen 2260, Book 3: Learning to Be Human

  • J. Scott Campbell: Time Capsule

    • In 2004, Richard Starkings spent Election Day with fan-favorite artist J. Scott Campbell talking about his first ten years in comics. Richly illustrated with black and white art from Campbell's files, the conversation covers Gen 13, Danger G...

  • ELEPHANTMEN 2260 BOOK FOUR



  • Elephantmen 2260, Book Four: All Coming Evil

  • Elephantmen Mammoth, Volume 2

    This second compendium collecting one of Image’s longest running series -- set in Los Angeles, 2259 --details the lives of Hip Flask, Ebony Hide, Obadiah Horn, and the rest of MAPPO's surviving human/animal hybrids. Collects ELEPHANTMEN #12-30
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  • Elephantmen 2260 Book Five: Up Close and Personal

  • Elephantmen 2260 Book 6

    Fallen Soldiers in downtown Los Angeles take Hip Flask and Jack Farrell to a mass grave in the desert, which ultimately leads Hip into a confrontation with his creator, Nikken. Collects ELEPHANTMEN #72, #77-80...

  • Elephantmen 2260, Book 6

    Fallen soldiers in downtown Los Angeles take Hip Flask and Jack Farrell to a mass grave in the desert and ultimately lead Hip into a confrontation with his creator, Nikken.

    Col...

  • The Beef

    Chuck Carter is a mild mannered slaughterer of cows at The Beef meat processing plant. When the object of his affections is pursued across a strawberry patch by a mad cow, Chuck takes on the mantle of The Beef and vegetarians break loose; ketchup eve...

  • The Beef Vol. 1

    Chuck Carter is a mild-mannered slaughterer of cows at The Beef meat processing plant. But when the object of his affections is pursued across a strawberry patch by a mad cow, Chuck takes on the mantle of THE BEEF. Collects THE BEEF #1-5...

  • Elephantmen Mammoth Vol. 3

    This third compendium collecting one of Image's longest running series-set in Los Angeles, 2259-details the lives of Hip Flask, Ebony Hide, Obadiah Horn, and the rest of MAPPO's surviving human/animal hybrids. Collects ELEPHANTMEN: MAN AND ELEPHANTMA...

  • Elephantmen: Mammoth, Volume 3

    This third compendium collecting one of Image's longest running series -- set in Los Angeles, 2259 ― details the lives of Hip Flask, Ebony Hide, Obadiah Horn, and the rest of MAPPO's surviving human/animal hybrids.

    Collects ELEPHANTMEN; MA...

  • Ask for Mercy Volume 1

    An action-packed and artistically stunning dark fantasy story from Elephantmen creator, Richard Starkings, and breakout talent, Abigail Jill Harding.Ask for Mercy is a World War II fantasy horror story in the tradition of John Carpenter's The Thing a...



  • Elephantmen 2261 Volume 1

    It’s Blade Runner meets Planet of the Apes in the next adventure of the pulp science fiction series Elephantmen, which debuted nearly fifteen years and eighty issues ago from Image Comics.Elephantmen are human/animal hybrids designed to fight a...

  • Ask for Mercy Volume 2

    ASK FOR MERCY!An exciting, ACTION-PACKED and ARTISTICALLY STUNNING horror story from award-winning ELEPHANTMEN and THE BEEF writer and creator RICHARD STARKINGS alongside PARLIAMENT OF ROOKS creator ABIGAIL JILL HARDING!This volume collects Seasons T...

  • Elephantmen 2261 Volume 2

    The anthropomorphic pulp science-fiction thriller reaches a boiling point in this new collection of two complete graphic novels.In “Theo Laroux Meets The Elephantmen!”, British documentarian, Theo Laroux, is in Los Angeles to interview th...

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Richard Starkings has published 42 books.

The next book by Richard Starkings, Elephantmen 2261 Volume 2, will be published in August 2024.

The first book by Richard Starkings, Best of Spider-Man, Volume 1, was published in April 2004.

No. Richard Starkings does not write books in series.
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