David Lapham

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  • Bibliography:
    74 Books
  • First Book:
    July 1999
  • Latest Book:
    December 2024
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DC Comics: Batman

Batman: City of Crime (Mar-2020)

Famous Characters: Batman

Batman: City of Crime (Mar-2020)

Marvel's Deadpool

Deadpool Max: Nutjob (Jan-2012)
Deadpool Max: Involuntary Armageddon (Jun-2012)
Deadpool Max: Second Cut (Jun-2012)
Deadpool Max (Dec-2012)

Book List in Order: 74 titles

  • Stray Bullets, Volume 2

  • Stray Bullets, Volume 3

  • Stray Bullets, Volume 4

  • Stray Bullets, Volume 5

  • Stray Bullets, Volume 6

  • Amy Racecar, Volume 1

  • Stray Bullets, Volume 7

  • Stray Bullets

    Runaway Virginia returns home to the very unloving arms of her widowed mother. An outcast at home and at school, no one can imagine just how far she’ll go to protect herself and her new friend, Leon. Collects STRAY BULLETS #31-41...

  • Stray Bullets, Volume 8



  • The Spectre: Tales of the Unexpected

  • Crisis Aftermath: The Spectre

  • The Darkness, Volume 6: Depths of Hell

  • Terror, Inc.

    Meet Mr. Terror - he's dapper, he's charming, he owns and operates his own very successful business... and, oh yeah, he's fifteen-and-a-half-centuries old and rotting fast! Doomed to decompose for all eternity, Terror forever replaces his festering l...

  • Silverfish

    Mia Fleming's dad and new stepmother are away for the weekend, when she discovers her stepmother's secret possessions, and now she will try to unravel her twisted double life without unleashing a box of horrors....

  • Young Liars: Vol. 1 Daydream Believer

    Twenty-something Danny Noonan's life left something to be desired before he met his wild girlfriend, Sadie, and moves to New York City, but a money-making scheme turns deadly and reveals secrets from Sadie's past. Contains adult content....

  • 30 Days of Night: 30 Days 'til Death

    • In 30 Days ‘til Death, the horrible events of the Barrow have rippled throughout the world. A war has started in the secret society of vampires. A reaping. A death squad of elders has come to America to "thin the heard" of the troublesome ...

  • Young Liars Vol. 2: Maestro

    YOUNG LIARS is a rip-roaring, hardcore urban adventure from indie comics auteur David Lapham, the creator of Stray Bullets. The story revolves around Sadie Dawkins, a young rich girl who turns into a fearless adrenaline junkie after getting shot and ...

  • Terror, Inc.: Apocalypse Soon

    Ol' Skullface sings again! Our charming Mr. Terror - the cursed, undead, rotting, immortal entrepreneur - is back in action! Brutally ripping off his own limbs and "borrowing" other people's body parts comes in so very handy for the lucrative purpose...

  • Young Liars Vol. 3: Rock Life

    YOUNG LIARS is a rip-roaring, hardcore urban adventure from indie comics auteur David Lapham, the creator of Stray Bullets. The story revolves around Sadie Dawkins, a young rich girl who turns into a fearless adrenaline junkie after getting shot and ...



  • Modern Warfare 2: Ghost

    In anticipation of the sequel to the groundbreaking Activision video game, WildStorm brings you a no-holds-barred, brutal tale of the mysterious Task Force 141 soldier known as "Ghost." Learning the motivation behind his mask and moniker is the tip o...

  • Crossed 3D, Volume 1

    • When one of the last surviving human doctors gets trapped in a New York skyscraper, SWAT veteran Lt. Hunt MacAvoy assembles a rag-tag group of handymen and embarks on a rescue mission of madness ― right into a city swarming with millions o...

  • Crossed, Volume 2: Family Values

    In one terrifying moment, civilization crumbled. An outbreak of insanity swept across the planet, turning millions of people into the homicidal maniacs known as “the Crossed.” But from their isolated horse ranch, the Pratt family of North Carolin...

  • G.I. Joe: Origins, Volume 5

    • In this final volume of G.I. Joe Origins, the true depths of COBRA's sinister machinations are revealed. Psychologist Dr. Lester Horvath is a rising star in COBRA: he has developed a numbers scheme to categorize recruits, and its implementat...

  • Crossed, Volume 2

    In one terrifying moment, civilization crumbled. An outbreak of insanity swept across the planet, turning millions of people into the homicidal maniacs known as ";the Crossed."; But from their isolated horse ranch, the Pratt family of North Carolina ...

  • Deadpool Max: Nutjob

    Marvel's Deadpool

    It's Deadpool uncensored! Government agent Wade Wilson is too valuable an assassin for the brass not to take advantage of, but the unstable killer needs the guidance of a steady hand to be effective. It's Bob's job to make sure Deadpool completes his...

  • Crossed, Volume 3: Psyhcopath

    In one terrifying moment, civilization crumbled. An outbreak of insanity swept across the planet, turning millions of people into the scarred homicidal maniacs known as “the Crossed.” For one small band of survivors, the discovery of a starving, ...

  • Crossed Volume 3

    In one terrifying moment, civilization crumbled. An outbreak of insanity swept across the planet, turning millions of people into the scarred homicidal maniacs known as ";the Crossed."; For one small band of survivors, the discovery of a starving, in...

  • Caligula Volume 1

    In an age of depravity, one man's appetites horrified the entire Roman Empire... the mad emperor, Caligula. When his family was brutally slaughtered by Caligula and his court, Junius travels to Rome to avenge their deaths, but discovers that the empe...

  • Deadpool Max: Involuntary Armageddon

    Marvel's Deadpool

    Deadpool never thought it would happen to him. He never thought his new life as a non-killing dad would start out so blissfully and end up like this - with his wife having all the espionage-themed fun and him at home taking care of a screaming baby, ...



  • Deadpool Max: Second Cut

    Marvel's Deadpool

    Because YOU demanded it, Deadpool MAX returns for another round of anarchy, insanity and involuntary Armageddon. After rooting out a shadowy government conspiracy, Deadpool and Bob set out to stop it ... and totally futz it up. Now they stand accused...

  • The Strain, Volume 1

    When a Boeing 777 lands at JFK International Airport and goes dark on the runway, the Center for Disease Control, fearing a terrorist attack, calls in Dr. Ephraim Goodweather and his team of expert biological-threat first responders. Only an elderly ...

  • Deadpool Max

    Marvel's Deadpool

    Deadpool uncensored! Government agent Wade Wilson is a valuable assassin, but the unstable killer needs the guidance of a steady hand. It's Bob's job to make sure Deadpool completes his missions - by any means necessary. Unfortunately, Deadpool consi...

  • Ferals

    Officer Dale Chesnutt is a lawman with a big, bloody problem. Slaughtered civilians are turning up in the sleepy town of Cypress, and the burden falls on him to end the carnage. But no sooner does he begin his investigation than he finds himself viol...

  • Dan the Unharmable Volume 1

    Whether you’re looking for a detective, hired muscle, a blackmailer, or bedroom entertainment for the ladies, Dan's your man. He’s not afraid of anything, and why should he be? He’s completely invincible. You can beat him with a lead pipe, stic...

  • Crossed Volume 5

    "Journey back to the earliest days of the Crossed outbreak, when an outbreak of viral insanity first plunged an unsuspecting world into darkness, in two tales scribed by the masters of modern horror, David Lapham and David Hine! In high school, Edmun...

  • Ghosts of St. Augustine

    Ghosts. Unearthly presences. Things that go bump in the night. St. Augustine, America’s oldest city, has them all. The unique and often turbulent history of the Ancient City has spawned more than four hundred years’ worth of shadowy figures of th...

  • Exile to Babylon

    2040. The world’s precious resources are in high demand and security is found on the streets. A private military operative of reeducated gang members -- the Blackshield Angels -- are the only hope of liberating a vital fuel supply from a crimin...

  • The Strain Volume 2

    A vast conspiracy has made it nearly impossible for the CDC's Dr. Ephraim Goodweather to convince the world that there's a vampiric epidemic spreading across Manhattan. His only hope is to go head to head with the ancient evil responsible for the wav...

  • The Strain, Volume 2

    A vast conspiracy has made it nearly impossible for the CDC's Dr. Ephraim Goodweather to convince the world that there's a vampiric epidemic spreading across Manhattan. His only hope is to go head to head with the ancient evil responsible for the wav...



  • Ferals Volume 2

    David Lapham has re-defined the modern werewolf tale in a gripping human drama full of violence, sex, and horror with Ferals! Dale Chesnutt’s troubles didn’t end in Cypress. Having survived the FBI massacre of the Feral community, he finds himsel...

  • Dan the Unharmable Volume 2

    Dan is the man. He’s a self-made slacker who some might call a bum, but he calls perfect. After all, he doesn’t need much, some good tunes, a couple of bucks, and a warm spot to take a nap in. Of course, his sort-of-maybe-wannabe kids keep gettin...

  • CALIGULA VOLUME 2: HEART OF ROME

    They thought the mad emperor, Caligula was destroyed. But his evil lives on, hiding in plain sight in the body of lucky “Felix.” Now good Laurentius must track down the demon to stop the slaughter in the streets and to avenge his wife’s death. ...

  • The Strain, Volume 3: The Fall

    Unable to kill the Master -- the powerful vampire behind the epidemic infesting New York City, Dr. Ephraim Goodweather begins to self-destruct as battle lines are drawn. It's now up to a handful of humans, an ailing pawnbroker, an exterminator, a sci...

  • Stray Bullets Uber Alles Edition

    • The original five story arcs of one of the all-time greatest crime comic series are collected in this GIANT 1,200 page volume. "The Innocence of Nihilism," "Somewhere Out West," "Other People," "Dark Days," and "HiJinks and Derring-Do" appea...

  • The Strain Volume 1

    When a Boeing 777 lands at JFK International Airport and goes dark on the runway, the Center for Disease Control, fearing a terrorist attack, calls in Dr. Ephraim Goodweather and his team of expert biological-threat first responders. Only an elderly ...

  • The Strain Volume 4: The Fall

    As the CDC's Dr. Ephraim Goodweather makes one last attempt to stop the swiftly moving vampire plague, he sends those dearest to him (his son and his partner) away from the city--a decision the doctor will soon regret. Meanwhile, a ragtag gang of str...

  • Juice Squeezers

    Tunnels made by a legion of giant bugs crisscross the fields below Weeville, and only one thing can stop them from overrunning this quaint California town: the Juice Squeezers. A covert group of scrawny tweens, the Squeezers are the only ones who can...

  • Murder Me Dead

    “Lapham, an Eisner Award winner (for Stray Bullets), has expertly crafted a tale with great dialog. His well-paced panels of stark black-and-white illustration convey the story's movement through the dark recesses of his n...

  • Stray Bullets, Volume 1: Innocence of Nihilism

    • With the return of Stray Bullets, it's time to roll out the “by story arc” trades of David Lapham’s influential crime masterpiece! These are their stories. Follow the lost lives of people who are savagely torn apart by events beyond th...



  • Stray Bullets, Volume 6: Killers

    A little boy learns too late that running your mouth can get you run over. A young babysitter gets in way over her head when when she's hired to sit by a dangerous man to with a strange request. A young couple's hopeful visit to the city turns anythi...

  • G.I. JOE: The IDW Collection, Volume 5

    • G.I. JOE: The IDW Collection presents all of the G.I. JOE stories in recommended reading order.
    • Includes G.I. JOE: Origins #20"23, G.I. JOE Special: Helix, G.I. JOE: Infestation, G.I. JOE #23"27, and G.I. JOE: Cobra #10"13.
  • Crossed, Volume 12

    • Garth Ennis' world of Crossed has become the pinnacle of survival horror in the comics world. David Lapham (Stray Bullets) returns to Crossed with a crime story told both before and after the Crossed outbreak!
    • A father is pushed to...

  • Strain, The Volume 5 The Night Eternal

    Two years after the Master's plan succeeded and near apocalypse coated the world in eternal darkness. Now able to roam freely, the Master's legion of vampires rule the world--a horrifying police state where humans are harvested for blood. As humanity...

  • The Strain Book Two - The Fall

    A vast conspiracy prevents the truth about the vampire epidemic from coming to light. A small force is humanity’s only chance: an alcoholic, a doctor, a pawnbroker, an exterminator, and a criminal. Can they prevent the Master from covering the worl...

  • The Strain Book Two: The Fall

    A vast conspiracy prevents the truth about the vampire epidemic from coming to light. A small force is humanity's only chance: an alcoholic, a doctor, a pawnbroker, an exterminator, and a criminal. Can they prevent the Master from covering the world ...

  • Stray Bullets, Volume 2: Somewhere Out West

    Somewhere out West is a town no one knows about-a desert town-whose inhabitants wait for the day a great earthquake will bring them beachfront property. Here, three desperate friends on the run from the Mob and a young runaway Virginia Applejack will...

  • Stray Bullets, Volume 3: Other People

    Beth and Virginia have relocated to Los Angeles where things only appear more normal... Take a ringside seat for these brutal tales of twisted emotion that will knock you to the mat and have you seeing stars...

    Collects STRAY BULLETS #15-22

  • The Strain Volume 6: The Night Eternal

    The rebels' victory at Camp Liberty has emboldened their efforts against the Master's vampire army, but a traitor in their ranks leaves an opening for the Master to strike back even harder. The fate of humanity ultimately resides with one man. Will D...

  • Stray Bullets, Volume 4: Dark Days

    The EISNER AWARD-WINNING team of DAVID and MARIA LAPHAM bring you the next volume in the STRAY BULLETS TRADE PAPERBACK COLLECTION. STRAY BULLETS: DARK DAYS tells the story of Beth and Virginias time in Los Angeles, fourteen-year-old Virginia's growin...

  • Eerie Volume 1

    THE BEST IN ILLUSTRATED SCIENCE-HORROR!Here comes Cousin Eerie to nudge Uncle Creepy out of the scary spotlight! The terrifying treasury of sinister sci-fi and fearsome fantasy is finally collected in this handsome paperback volume, amassing the inim...

  • Stray Bullets, Volume 5: Hi-Jinks and Derring-Do

    Runaway Virginia returns home to the very unloving arms of her widowed mother. An outcast at home and at school, no one can imagine just how far she'll go to protect herself and her new friend, Leon. Collects STRAY BULLETS #31-41 ...

  • The Strain: Mister Quinlan--Vampire Hunter

    Mr. Quinlan, a product of a hellish vampiric ritual gone wrong, seeks to destroy the Master, the powerful vampire who sired him. After he is forced into hiding in the ancient Roman hillsides, he is captured and raised in the arenas as a gladiator. Wi...

  • Stray Bullets: Sunshine & Roses, Volume 1

    Dark and twisted, funny and heartbreaking, intimate and epic―SUNSHINE & ROSES tells the story of a boy and a girl, how they fell in love and hatched a scheme to blow up the Baltimore underworld. There is no crime book ...

  • Stray Bullets: Sunshine & Roses, Part 1

    Dark and twisted, funny and heartbreaking, intimate and epic SUNSHINE and ROSES tells the story of a boy and a girl, how they fell in love and hatched a scheme to blow up the Baltimore underworld. There is no crime book remotely like STRAY BULLETS, a...

  • Stray Bullets: Sunshine & Roses, Volume 3

    What would you do for love? How far would you go for revenge? “SUNSHINE & ROSES” tells the story of a boy and a girl: how they fell in love and hatched a scheme to blow up the Baltimore underworld. There is no crime book remo...

  • Stray Bullets: Sunshine & Roses, Part 3

    The getaway is always the trickiest part of any heist. It gets even trickier when the one place you go to hide and the one person you're counting on hiding you is just about the worst place and worst person you could have ever picked. Is it self-sabo...

  • Strength is Born in Pain: A Cancer Story

    The getaway is always trickiest part of any heist. It gets even trickier when the one place you go to hide and the one person you're counting on hiding you is just about the worst place and worst person you could have ever pick...

  • Stray Bullets: Sunshine & Roses Vol. 4

    Steal the money and drugs -- check. Get gone -- check. It was supposed to be all over. These were supposed to be the good times -- the days of sunshine and roses. So why don’t they feel that way?  Collects STRAY BULLETS: SUNSHINE and ROSES #25...

  • Lodger

    Guns and revenge. As American as the wicked west. Ricky Toledo is going to find the man that killed her mother, and revenge is going to be sweet.

    Ricky Toledo was fifteen when she fell hard for a handsome drifter who rented a room in her famil...

  • Batman: City of Crime

    DC Comics: Batman
    Famous Characters: Batman

    Collecting the epic tale from Detective Comics #800-808 and #811-814 written by David Lapham (Stray Bullets)! As the Dark Knight tries to shut down a drug ring turned deadly, Bruce Wayne must contend with a wayward 14-year-old who is dangerously clos...

  • Underheist #1

    After his gambling addiction brings David to the lowest point in his life and decimates his personal life, he’d do anything for one last chance at setting things right but the road to hell is paved with good intentions. He may just be in luck"if...

  • Underheist #2

    After the heist, David receives miraculous news from his wife Gabriella, but he’s desperate to not darken her unassuming demeanor by revealing his recent deeds. But back at the site of the crime, David discovers something horrific when followi...

  • Underheist #3

    David's long night is far from over, as a terrible discovery forces him into a new level of desperation. Pentagrams, melted candles, and blood… so much blood… What does it all mean? As David & Maria Lapham's dark crime thriller heats up...

  • Underheist

    Eisner-winning creators David & Maria Lapham bring supernatural twists to the world of crime! David’s gambling addiction brings him to rock bottom–the lowest point he’s ever hit in life, and it’s made him desperate. But the f...

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David Lapham has published 74 books.

The next book by David Lapham, Underheist, will be published in December 2024.

The first book by David Lapham, Stray Bullets, Volume 2, was published in July 1999.

No. David Lapham does not write books in series.
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