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- Cameoa familiar face shows up
- Setupplanted now, pays off later
- Behind the scenesproduction trivia
- Behind the scenesTwo publishers, one miniseries
The 6 issues ran from 2003 to 2004: Image published the first three and Devil's Due the last three. Issue #1 has a foreword by Robert Silverberg, editor of the Legends anthology where the novella debuted.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesCovers by fantasy legends
Variant covers came from the Brothers Hildebrandt, Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell, and Ted Nasmith, famous for his Tolkien art.
source ↗ - ReferenceThe roll of arms
The Marvel edition includes a roll of arms showing the tourney entrants' sigils. Some knights listed never appear in Martin's novella.
source ↗ - ReferenceThe same story as the show
It's the same novella HBO adapted for season 1 of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, so you can compare the drawn tourney with the filmed one.
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- Behind the scenesAnnounced by Martin himself
In October 2006 Martin announced on his blog that Marvel would publish the Dunk and Egg comics and that the second novella, from the Legends II anthology, would become a six-issue miniseries.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesAn oversized issue
Issue #3 runs 28 pages: besides the story, it adds a two-page tale about the first Blackfyre Rebellion and an interview with Martin.
source ↗ - Behind the scenes“Hedge Knight II” in the catalog
Marvel's catalog listed the series as HEDGE KNIGHT II: SWORN SWORD, which is why the collection carries the “II.”
source ↗ - SetupThe next season
HBO renewed A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms in November 2025, and season 2, expected in 2027, adapts this very story.
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- Behind the scenesStraight to bookstores
Unlike the first two, this one came out directly as a hardcover in August 2017, with no monthly issues and no extras.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesThe same team
Ben Avery and Mike S. Miller returned to finish the trilogy, nearly 15 years after starting with The Hedge Knight.
source ↗ - ReferenceThe Blackfyre shadow
Like Sworn Sword, it's set during the reign of Aerys I and explores the aftermath of the Blackfyre Rebellion, the Targaryen civil war that still divides the lords.
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- Behind the scenesMartin kept an eye on the script
George R. R. Martin advised writer Daniel Abraham, already a longtime collaborator, on the adaptation. The plan was to follow the novel closely, at roughly one page of art for every page of text.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesA New York Times No. 1
The first collection debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times graphic books best-seller list right after its March 2012 release.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesOver 50 pages of extras
Besides issues #1–6, the volume adds more than 50 pages of extras: a new preface by Martin, early artwork and behind-the-scenes commentary.
source ↗ - ReferenceThe only volume released in Brazil
In Brazil, only this first volume came out, in 2012, from LeYa's Barba Negra imprint. The imprint shut down and the other three never followed.
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- Behind the scenesMade alongside the show
Daniel Abraham said one challenge was producing the comic while HBO was making the show, without knowing which details might matter in the books Martin hadn't written yet.
source ↗ - ReferenceThree fronts at once
The volume cuts between Jon among the Night's Watch outcasts at the Wall, Ned as Hand of the King in King's Landing and Daenerys among the Dothraki, plus Tyrion held prisoner in the Eyrie.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesTwo Spanish editions
In Spain, Planeta Cómic released the series in four volumes and later reissued it in hardcover; this second volume came out in that edition in October 2019.
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- Behind the scenesBook faces, not TV faces
AIPT's review noted that Tommy Patterson draws the characters as the novel describes them, not with the faces of the HBO cast.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesStraight from the novel
Much of the dialogue comes word for word from the novel. AIPT felt the Varys and Ned cell scene that closes the volume hits even harder than on the show.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesQuick to Spanish
In Spain, this volume came out in September 2014, just two months after the final US issue of the series.
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- Behind the scenesThree years of issues
Dynamite's series ran from September 2011 to July 2014 across 24 issues. This final volume, collecting #19–24, reached bookstores in May 2015.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesMixed reception
On Comic Book Roundup the series averages 6.4 out of 10. Early reviews were mixed: IGN called the first issue “passable,” and others complained about its bright colors.
source ↗ - SetupThe story continues
The adaptation didn't stop here: in 2017 Dynamite launched A Clash of Kings, with a new writer and artist, picking up where this volume ends.
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- Behind the scenesA new creative team
The second book got a new team: Landry Q. Walker writing, Mel Rubi on art, and covers by Rubi and Mike S. Miller, the artist of the Dunk and Egg comics.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesCloser to the book
The goal was to follow the novel even more closely than the first comic. Each volume includes a making-of section.
source ↗ - ReferenceThe red comet
The volume opens with the red comet crossing the sky, read as an omen by the rival claimants to the Iron Throne, with Robb already proclaimed King in the North.
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- Behind the scenesA mid-series break
After issue #16, which ends this volume, the series went on hiatus in March 2019. It returned in January 2020, relaunched as “Part II.”
source ↗ - ReferenceFive settings
The volume splits time between Arya at Harrenhal, Tyrion as Hand of the King, Jon beyond the Wall, Bran at Winterfell and Daenerys in Qarth.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesChoque de Reyes in Spanish
Planeta Cómic released this second Spanish volume in June 2020, at 200 pages, right in the middle of the US series' hiatus.
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- Behind the scenesPart II begins
This volume collects Part II #1–8, which are issues #17–24 in the series' overall count.
source ↗ - ReferenceThe House of the Undying
A highlight is Daenerys's visit to the House of the Undying in Qarth, full of visions and a showcase for Mel Rubi's art.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesBetter scores than the first
On Comic Book Roundup, A Clash of Kings averages 7 out of 10, above the 6.4 of the first book's adaptation.
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- Behind the scenesDone after four and a half years
The final issue came out in November 2021, closing 32 issues that began in June 2017. The collection reached bookstores in October 2022.
source ↗ - ReferenceThe big battle
The volume builds to Tyrion and Stannis clashing at the gates of King's Landing, the same battle the show staged in the episode “Blackwater.”
source ↗ - Behind the scenesThe last Spanish volume
Planeta Cómic wrapped up Choque de Reyes in July 2023, almost a year after the US volume, at 200 pages.
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