Dark Horse Comics will be celebrating 30 years of comics publishing on “Dark Horse Day,” Saturday, June 4, the company announced.  The celebration will include a commemorative 40-page Dark Horse Day Sampler comic, which will feature classic stories from the company’s past and some new material:

“Aliens vs. Predator: Blood Time” (1994), by Randy Stradley and Phill Norwood

“Sin City: Daddy’s Little Girl” (1996), by Frank Miller

“The Umbrella Academy: Anywhere but Here” (2008), by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá!

Plus a new Buffy the Vampire Slayer tale by Christos Gage

The company also plans exclusive promo materials and ordering discounts on Dark Horse backlist titles. 

Dark Horse founder and CEO Mike Richardson reminisced about the company’s beginnings.  “Just over thirty years ago, I gathered a group of would-be collaborators in the restaurant I owned and told them I was going to start a comics company,” he said. “I’m not sure whether their smiles were a result of excitement over the possibilities or amusement at the thought of it, but here we are all these years later making comic books. It’s been an amazing journey and we’ve witnessed extraordinary changes both in the comics market and in our pop culture over three decades. We’re excited to still be spending our lives in the career we love, and we hope that you all will help us celebrate thirty years of comics.”