IDW Publishing
IDW Publishing | |
Founded | 1999 |
Founder(s) | Ted Adams Alex Garner Kris Oprisko Robbie Robbins |
Headquarters | San Diego, California |
Parent company | Idea and Design Works, LLC |
Key people | Ted Adams-CEO/Owner Robbie Robbins-Executive Vice-President/Owner Christopher Ryall-Publisher/Editor-in-Chief |
IDW Publishing is one of the largest companies in the realm of comic books. They were the company to create the current "Hasbro Universe".
History[edit | edit source]
Idea and Design Works (IDW) began in 1999, developing products related to video games, movies, television shows, collectible card games, comic books, and trading cards. By 2000, IDW formed its own publishing division, IDW Publishing.
After the collapse of Dreamwave Productions at the beginning of 2005, IDW obtained the license to publish Transformers comics. Three years later in 2008, IDW also gained the license to print G.I. Joe comics after Devil's Due Publishing lost their license. By 2016, IDW had also obtained the rights to Action Man, M.A.S.K., Micronauts, and ROM, printing the comics for these franchise the same year. In 2017, the company began to print Visionaries comics as well.
Published series[edit | edit source]
Ongoing series[edit | edit source]
- Transformers: Spotlight (September 2006-May 2013)
- G.I. Joe (October 2008-February 2011)
- G.I. Joe: Origins (October 2008-January 2011)
- Transformers (November 2009-December 2011)
- G.I. Joe: Cobra—Ongoing Volume 2 (January 2010-February 2011)
- G.I. Joe: Volume 2 (May 2011-January 2013)
- Snake Eyes & Storm Shadow (May 2011-February 2013)
- G.I. Joe: Cobra (May 2011-January 2013)
- Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye (January 2012-December 2016)
- Transformers (January 2012-October 2016)
- G.I. Joe (February 2013-April 2014)
- G.I. Joe: Special Missions (March 2013-April 2014)
- G.I. Joe: The Cobra Files (April 2013-December 2013)
- G.I. Joe (September 2014-April 2015)
- Transformers: Windblade (March 2015-September 2015)
- Micronauts (April 2016-April 2017)
- ROM (May 2016-November 2017)
- Transformers: Till All Are One (June 2016-December 2017)
- G.I. Joe (November 2016-September 2017)
- Revolutionaries (January 2017-September 2017)
Miniseries[edit | edit source]
- Transformers: Infiltration (October 2005-July 2006)
- Transformers: Evolutions—Hearts of Steel (July 2006-September 2006)
- Transformers: Stormbringer (July 2006-October 2006)
- Transformers: Escalation (November 2006-May 2007)
- Transformers: Megatron Origin (June 2007-October 2007)
- Transformers: Devastation (October 2007-February 2008)
- Transformers: All Hail Megatron (July 2008-October 2009)
- G.I. Joe: Cobra (October 2008-September 2009)
- Transformers: Maximum Dinobots (December 2008-April 2009)
- Transformers: Bumblebee (December 2009-March 2010)
- Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers (January 2010-May 2010)
- Transformers: Ironhide (May 2010-August 2010)
- G.I. Joe: Hearts & Minds (May 2010-September 2010)
- Transformers: Drift (September 2010-October 2010)
- Infestation (January 2011-April 2011)
- Transformers: Infestation (February 2011)
- G.I. Joe: Infestation (March 2011)
- Transformers: Heart of Darkness (March 2011-June 2011)
- Transformers: Autocracy (January 2012-June 2012)
- Infestation 2 (January 2012-April 2012)
- Infestation 2: Transformers (February 2012)
- Infestation 2: G.I. Joe (March 2012)
- Transformers: Monstrosity (March 2013-July 2013)
- Transformers: Windblade (April 2014-July 2014)
- Transformers: Punishment (June 2014)
- Transformers: Primacy (August 2014-November 2014)
- Transformers: Drift—Empire of Stone (November 2014-February 2015)
- G.I. Joe: Snake Eyes: Agent of Cobra (January 2015-May 2015)
- Transformers: Sins of the Wreckers (November 2015-June 2016)
- Action Man (May 2016-October 2016)
- Revolution (July 2016-December 2016)
- M.A.S.K.: Mobile Armored Strike Kommand (September 2016-November 2017)
- Micronauts: Wrath of Karza (April 2017-September 2017)
- Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook (June 2017-August 2017)
- First Strike (June 2017-November 2017)
- Rom vs. Transformers: Shining Armor (July 2017-November 2017)
- Scarlett's Strike Force (December 2017-March 2018)
One-shots[edit | edit source]
- Transformers Continuum (November 2009)
- Transformers: The Death of Optimus Prime (December 2011)
- Transformers: Dark Cybertron 1, Part 1 (of 12) (November 2013)
- Transformers: Dark Cybertron Finale—Part 12 (of 12) (March 2014)
- Transformers: Combiner Hunters Special (July 2015)
- Transformers: Redemption (October 2015)
- Transformers Holiday Special (December 2015)
- Transformers: Titans Return (July 2016)
- Transformers: Salvation (June 2017)
Published collections[edit | edit source]
- Transformers: Infiltration Cover Gallery (August 2006)
- Transformers: Infiltration (September 2006)
- Transformers: Infiltration Manga (December 2006)
- Transformers: Evolutions—Hearts of Steel (December 2006)
- Transformers: Stormbringer (February 2007)
- Transformers: Stormbringer Manga (April 2007)
- Transformers: Escalation (May 2007)
- Transformers: Spotlight Volume 1 (May 2007)
- Transformers: The Premiere Collection Volume 1 (December 2007)
- Transformers: Megatron Origin (December 2007)
- Transformers: Spotlight Volume 2 (February 2008)
- Transformers: Devastation (May 2008)
- Transformers: Spotlight Volume 3 (September 2008)
- Transformers: Spotlight Volume 4: Revelation (February 2009)
- Transformers: All Hail Megatron Volume 1 (February 2009)
- Transformers: The Premiere Collection Volume 2 (June 2009)
- G.I. Joe Volume 1 (July 2009)
- Transformers: Maximum Dinobots (July 2009)
- G.I. Joe: Origins Volume 1 (September 2009)
- Transformers: All Hail Megatron Volume 2 (September 2009)
- Transformers: All Hail Megatron Volume 3 (October 2009)
- G.I. Joe: Cobra (November 2009)
- Transformers: All Hail Megatron Volume 4 (January 2010)
- G.I. Joe Volume 2 (March 2010)
- G.I. Joe: Origins Volume 2 (March 2010)
- Transformers: The IDW Collection Volume 1 (May 2010)
- Transformers Volume 1: For All Mankind (June 2010)
- Transformers: Bumblebee (July 2010)
- Transformers: All Hail Megatron: Earth War (July 2010)
- G.I. Joe Volume 3 (July 2010)
- G.I. Joe: Origins Volume 3 (August 2010)
- Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers (September 2010)
- Transformers: The IDW Collection Volume 2 (October 2010)
- G.I. Joe: Hearts & Minds (November 2010)
- G.I. Joe: Cobra Volume 2 (November 2010)
- Transformers: Ironhide (December 2010)
- Transformers Volume 2: International Incident (December 2010)
- G.I. Joe Volume 4 (December 2010)
- Transformers: Drift (January 2011)
- G.I. Joe: Origins Volume 4 (January 2011)
- Transformers: The IDW Collection Volume 3 (March 2011)
- G.I. Joe: Cobra Volume 3—Serpent's Coil (March 2011)
- Transformers: The IDW Collection Volume 4 (May 2011)
- G.I. Joe: Cobra Volume 4—The Death of Cobra Commander (June 2011)
- Transformers: The Complete All Hail Megatron (July 2011)
- Transformers Volume 3: Revenge of the Decepticons (July 2011)
- Infestation Volume 1 (August 2011)
- G.I. Joe Volume 5 (August 2011)
- Infestation Volume 2 (August 2011)
- G.I. Joe: Origins Volume 5 (September 2011)
- Transformers Volume 4: Heart of Darkness (September 2011)
- G.I. Joe: Cobra Civil War Volume 1 (October 2011)
- Transformers Volume 5: Chaos Theory (November 2011)
- G.I. Joe Omnibus Volume 1 (November 2011)
- G.I. Joe: Snake Eyes—Cobra Civil War Volume 1 (November 2011)
- Transformers: The IDW Collection Volume 5 (December 2011)
- G.I. Joe: Cobra—Cobra Civil War Volume 1 (December 2011)
- Infestation (January 2012)
- G.I. Joe: Cobra Civil War Volume 2 (February 2012)
- Transformers Volume 6: Police Action (February 2012)
- Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers (February 2012)
- Transformers Volume 7: Chaos (March 2012)
- G.I. Joe: Snake Eyes—Cobra Civil War Volume 2 (March 2012)
- G.I. Joe: Cobra—Cobra Civil War Volume 2 (April 2012)
- Transformers: The IDW Collection Volume 6 (May 2012)
- Infestation 2 Volume 1 (June 2012)
- Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye Volume 1 (June 2012)
- G.I. Joe: Cobra Command Volume 1 (June 2012)
- Infestation 2 Volume 2 (July 2012)
- G.I. Joe: Cobra Command Volume 2 (July 2012)
- Transformers: Autocracy (July 2012)
- Transformers: Robots in Disguise Volume 1 (July 2012)
- G.I. Joe: Cobra Command—Aftermath (August 2012)
- Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye Volume 2 (October 2012)
- Transformers: The IDW Collection Volume 7 (October 2012)
- G.I. Joe—Deep Terror (November 2012)
- Infestation 2: The Complete Series (November 2012)
- G.I. Joe: Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow Volume 1 (December 2012)
- G.I. Joe: Cobra: The Last Laugh (December 2012)
- Transformers: Robots in Disguise Volume 2 (January 2013)
- G.I. Joe: Cobra—Son of the Snake (January 2013)
- Transformers: Complete Drift (January 2013)
- G.I. Joe: The IDW Collection Volume 1 (March 2013)
- Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye Volume 3 (March 2013)
- G.I. Joe—Target: Snake Eyes (April 2013)
- Transformers: Robots in Disguise Volume 3 (April 2013)
- G.I. Joe: Cobra—Oktober Guard (April 2013)
- Transformers: The IDW Collection Volume 8 (May 2013)
- G.I. Joe: Complete Cobra Command (June 2013)
- G.I. Joe: Hearts & Minds (June 2013)
- G.I. Joe: The IDW Collection Volume 2 (June 2013)
- Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye Volume 4 (July 2013)
- G.I. Joe Volume 1: Homefront (August 2013)
- Transformers: Dark Prelude (August 2013)
- Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers—Red Label Edition (August 2013)
- Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers—Black Label Edition (August 2013)
- Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers—Blue Label Edition (August 2013)
- G.I. Joe: The Cobra Files Volume 1 (September 2013)
- Transformers: Robots in Disguise Volume 4 (September 2013)
- G.I. Joe: Special Mission Volume 1 (October 2013)
- Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye Volume 5 (November 2013)
- Transformers: Robots in Disguise Volume 5 (December 2013)
- Transformers: Monstrosity (December 2013)
- G.I. Joe: The IDW Collection Volume 3 (December 2013)
- G.I. Joe: Special Missions Volume 2 (January 2014)
- G.I. Joe Volume 2: Threat Matrix (February 2014)
- G.I. Joe: The Cobra Files Volume 2 (March 2014)
- Transformers: Dark Cybertron Volume 1 (April 2014)
- G.I. Joe: The IDW Collection Volume 4 (May 2014)
- Transformers: Dark Cybertron Volume 2 (June 2014)
- G.I. Joe: Origins Omnibus Volume 1 (June 2014)
- G.I. Joe Volume 3: Siren's Song (July 2014)
- G.I. Joe: Special Missions Volume 3 (July 2014)
- Infestation Omnibus (August 2014)
- Transformers: The IDW Collection Phase Two Volume 1 (September 2014)
- Transformers: Phase One Omnibus (September 2014)
- G.I. Joe: Origins Omnibus Volume 2 (September 2014)
- Transformers: Windblade (October 2014)
- Transformers: Robots in Disguise Volume 6 (November 2014)
- Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye Volume 6 (December 2014)
- G.I. Joe: The IDW Collection Volume 5 (February 2015)
- Transformers: Dark Cybertron (February 2015)
- Transformers: Primacy (March 2015)
- G.I. Joe Volume 1: The Fall of G.I. Joe, Part One (March 2015)
- Transformers: All Hail Megatron—Red Label Edition (March 2015)
- Transformers Volume 7 (April 2015)
- Transformers: Spotlight Omnibus Volume 1 (April 2015)
- Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye Volume 7 (May 2015)
- Transformers: Drift—Empire of Stone (July 2015)
- G.I. Joe Volume 2: The Fall of G.I. Joe, Part Two (August 2015)
- Transformers: The IDW Collection Phase Two Volume 2 {August 2015)
- Transformers: Combiner Wars (August 2015)
- G.I. Joe: Snake Eyes, Agent of Cobra (August 2015)
- Transformers: Spotlight Omnibus Volume 2 (September 2015)
- Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye Volume 8 (October 2015)
- Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye Box Set (December 2015)
- Transformers: The IDW Collection Phase Two Volume 3 {February 2016)
- G.I. Joe: The IDW Collection Volume 6 (March 2016)
- Transformers Volume 8 (March 2016)
- Transformers: Distant Stars (April 2016)
- Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye Volume 9 (May 2016)
- Transformers Volume 9 (June 2016)
- Transformers: The IDW Collection Compendium Volume 1 (July 2016)
- Transformers: Sins of the Wreckers (August 2016)
- Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye Volume 10 (October 2016)
- Transformers Volume 10 (October 2016)
- Transformers: The IDW Collection Phase Two Volume 4 (October 2016)
- Transformers: Till All Are One Volume 1 (December 2016)
- G.I. Joe: The IDW Collection Volume 7 (December 2016)
- Micronauts Volume 1: Entropy (December 2016)
- Transformers: Titans Return (January 2017)
- Action Man Volume 1 (January 2017)
- Revolution (February 2017)
- ROM Volume 1: Earthfall (February 2017)
- Transformers: The IDW Collection Phase Two Volume 5 (February 2017)
- Transformers: Autocracy Trilogy (March 2017)
- Revolution: Heroes (March 2017)
- Revolution: Transformers (March 2017)
- Revolution (March 2017)
- Micronauts Volume 2: Earthbound (May 2017)
- ROM Volume 2: Reinforcements (June 2017)
- Optimus Prime Volume 1 (June 2017)
- Transformers: Rise of the Autobots (June 2017)
- G.I. Joe Volume 1 (July 2017)
- Transformers: Till All Are One Volume 2 (July 2017)
- M.A.S.K.: Mobile Armored Strike Kommand Volume 1: Mobilize (July 2017)
- Revolutionaries Volume 1: Crisis Intervention (August 2017)
- Transformers: The IDW Collection Phase Two Volume 6 (September 2017)
- Transformers: Lost Light Volume 1 (October 2017)
- Revolutionaries Volume 2: Power and Glory (November 2017)
- Transformers: The Complete All Hail Megatron (November 2017)
- G.I. Joe Volume 2 (November 2017)
- Micronauts: Wrath of Karza (December 2017)
- Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook (December 2017)
- M.A.S.K.: Mobile Armored Strike Kommand Volume 2: Rise of V.E.N.O.M. (December 2017)
- Transformers: Autocracy Trilogy (January 2018)
- Transformers: The Wreckers Saga (January 2018)
- ROM Volume 3: Long Roads to Ruin (January 2018)
- Transformers: Drift: Origins & Empires (January 2018)
- Transformers Windblade: The Last City (February 2018)
- Optimus Prime Volume 2 (February 2018)
- Transformers/G.I. Joe: First Strike (February 2018)
- Transformers/G.I. Joe: First Strike: Champions (February 2018)
- Rom vs. Transformers: Shining Armor (March 2018)
- Transformers: Lost Light Volume 2 (March 2018)
- ROM: Tales of the Solstar Order 1 Special Edition (March 2018)
- Transformers: The IDW Collection Phase Two Volume 7 (March 2018)
- Transformers: Redemption of the Dinobots (April 2018)
- Transformers: Till All Are Volume 3 (May 2018)
Current series[edit | edit source]
Ongoing series[edit | edit source]
- Optimus Prime (December 2016-present)
- Transformers: Lost Light (December 2016-present)
Miniseries[edit | edit source]
- Rom & The Micronauts (December 2017)
- Transformers vs. Visionaries (January 2018)
Forthcoming series[edit | edit source]
Miniseries[edit | edit source]
- Transformers: Unicron: The Darkest Hour (May 2018)
Forthcoming collections[edit | edit source]
- Optimus Prime Volume 3 (July 2018)
- Transformers: The Wreckers Saga (July 2018)
- Transformers: Lost Light Volume 3 (September 2018)
Notes and references[edit | edit source]
External links[edit | edit source]
- IDW Publishing's website
- IDW Publishing on Wikipedia