Originally an independent company established by Jim Lee and further expanded upon in subsequent years by other creators, WildStorm became a publishing imprint of DC Comics in 1999.

Image itself became the successor to WildStorm Productions and published other imprints ( such as Top Cow ) where creators could work with their content as they wished.

1999 became a hallmark year for WildStorm.

After leaving Marvel, Harras joined WildStorm as contributing editor on November 15, 2001.

WildStorm began in 1992 after a number of artists and creators working in the comic-book industry came together to form Image Comics.

1996's DC vs. Marvel event saw the DCU and MU brought together ( and ultimately, briefly, merged ), while the DC Universe has also featured in events / crossovers with, for example, the WildStorm and Milestone universes.

** Cliffhanger ( 1999 – 2004 ; merged to form WildStorm Signature )

** Homage Comics ( 1999 – 2004 ; merged to form WildStorm Signature )

WildStorm published under the Image imprint.

Apart from McFarlane's Spawn, WildStorm produced the most consistently commercially-successful comics from Image, including Lee's own titles WildC. A. T. s and the teen-hero title Gen¹³, illustrated by J. Scott Campbell.

Like many other Image titles, some of the WildStorm titles suffered from inconsistent completion and shipping, resulting in " monthly " comics coming out every few months.

For Image Comics he worked on the crossover event " Wildstorm Rising ", drawing and coloring the first issue, WildStorm Rising # 1 ( May 1995 ), and all eleven of the covers for the interlinked series.

He also participated in the Marvel Comics and Image Comics ( from Jim Lee's WildStorm ) crossover mini-series WildC. A. T. s / X-Men.

He also appears in several Resident Evil comic books by WildStorm, Image Comics and Marvel Comics.

While writing multiple Punisher and Batman comics ( and October 1994's Punisher / Batman crossover ), he also found time to launch Team 7 for Jim Lee's WildStorm / Image and Prophet for Rob Liefeld's Extreme Studios.

The WildStorm Universe, which was initially published by Image Comics, is now largely accepted as part of the wider DC Multiverse, but not part of the DCU-proper.

* Spartan WildStorm Comics

Since the duo were still working on The Black Dossier at the time, it was agreed that it would become the last League project published by DC / WildStorm, with subsequent projects published jointly by Top Shelf Productions and Knockabout Comics in the US and UK respectively.

Promethea is a comic book series created by Alan Moore, J. H. Williams III and Mick Gray, published by America's Best Comics / WildStorm.

Until it was shut down, the WildStorm imprint remained editorially separate from DC Comics, with its main studio located on the West Coast.

In 1995, WildStorm created an imprint named Homage Comics, centered around more writer-driven books.

The result was the 1998 acquisition of WildStorm by DC Comics ( effective January 1999 ).

Around this time, WildStorm also launched a new imprint titled America's Best Comics.

* The popularity of the film series also led to the creation of several comic book series published by companies such as Marvel Comics, Innovation Comics, Trident Comics, Avatar Press and, most recently, WildStorm Comics.

After the first series cancellation, WildStorm, now an imprint of DC Comics, resurrected the Wildcats under a whole different premise-Wildcats dealt with the lives of the original members after the team's breakup following a botched mission during which team member Zealot apparently died.

New printings of the trade paperbacks WildC. A. T. s: Homecoming and WildC. A. T. s: Gang War were published in 1999 after the late 1998 acquisition of WildStorm Productions by DC Comics ; as of 2009, both volumes have now sold out and are currently out of print.

* Dane ( Wildstorm ), a fictional character from WildStorm Productions, now owned by DC Comics

* Divided We Fall ( John Ordover and David Mack, September – October 2001 ): 4-part comic book miniseries published by WildStorm Comics featuring the characters of both Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: The Next Generation dealing with a crisis on Trill.

All DC and / or WildStorm characters and the distinctive likeness ( es ) thereof are trademarks of and copyright DC Comics and / or WildStorm Productions, an imprint of DC Comics.

Moore's initial agreement was with WildStorm owner Jim Lee, who sold his studio to DC after dealing with Moore, but before any of the ABC projects were published.

Originally previewed as a " Vertigo X " title, Brett Lewis and John Paul Leon's The Winter Men was ultimately put back to September 2005, when it was released-under the WildStorm Signature Series label.

Brubaker subsequently took his Vertigo / crime sensibility to work from WildStorm, Icon and the mainstream DC and Marvel universes.

A number of scenes from the film were recreated in Friday the 13th: Pamela's Tale, a two-issue comic book prequel released by WildStorm in 2007.

WildStorm Productions, or simply WildStorm, ( often rendered Wildstorm ) published American comic books.

WildStorm published common American comics, as well as creator-owned material and licensed properties from other companies, covering a wide variety of genres.

The publishing activities of WildStorm have varied, with changes in ownership affecting the ongoing publication of some of its titles.

Peaking during the 1990s, WildStorm maintained a number of its core titles from its early period ( such as WildC. A. T. S.

WildStorm published a number of comics based on creator-owned material and licensed properties such as Astro City, Danger Girl, Red Menace, Ex Machina, Friday the 13th, A God Somewhere, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, World of Warcraft, StarCraft, the Dante's Inferno game and The X-Files.

In September 2010, DC announced plans to shut down the WildStorm imprint in December 2010 and relaunch its characters sometime in the future.

Following a few years as a mature-readers-only superhero imprint Eye of the Storm, in September 2006 WildStorm rebooted its Universe in the WorldStorm event.

WildStorm grew out of the roots of Homage Studios and of the range of characters that had originated there.