Enigma is a
comic bookA comic book is a magazine made up of narrative artwork, often accompanied by dialog and often including brief descriptive prose...
by
Peter MilliganPeter Milligan is a British writer, best known for his comic book, film and television work.-Early career:Milligan started his comic career with short stories for 2000 AD in the early 1980s. By 1986, Milligan had his first ongoing strip in 2000AD called Bad Company, with artists Brett Ewins and...
, with artwork done by
Duncan Fegredo-Biography:Fegredo first managed to get into comics after showing his portfolio around UKCAC in 1987 and meeting Dave Thorpe. Together they worked on a strip for a short lived British magazine called Heartbreak Hotel. After this, Fegredo worked for Crisis for Fleetway before working on Kid Eternity...
, featuring a
superheroA superhero is "a fictional character of unprecedented powers dedicated to acts of derring-do in the public interest"...
called "The Enigma". It was published as an eight-issue
limited seriesA limited series is a series with a set number of installments. A limited series differs from an ongoing series in that the number of issues is determined before production and it differs from a one shot in that it is composed of multiple issues....
by Vertigo, an imprint of
DC ComicsDC Comics is one of the largest and most popular American comic book and related media companies, along with Marvel Comics. It is the publishing division of DC Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary company of Warner Bros. Entertainment...
, in
1993-April:* Adventures of Superman #500 is released and the Reign of the Supermen begins with four Supermen.-June:* Malibu Comics launches the Ultraverse line of comics in which it states that writers are the true enhancements in comics...
.
- Michael Smith - A compulsive, late-20’s, heterosexual telephone repairman living a highly-structured life in Pacific City, California. His father was killed in an earthquake, and he was abandoned by his mother around age nine.
- Titus Bird - The writer of the superhero comic book series “The Enigma”.
- The Enigma - A man born with seemingly omnipotent powers who adopts the identity of The Enigma, a comic book superhero.
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Enigma is a
comic bookA comic book is a magazine made up of narrative artwork, often accompanied by dialog and often including brief descriptive prose...
by
Peter MilliganPeter Milligan is a British writer, best known for his comic book, film and television work.-Early career:Milligan started his comic career with short stories for 2000 AD in the early 1980s. By 1986, Milligan had his first ongoing strip in 2000AD called Bad Company, with artists Brett Ewins and...
, with artwork done by
Duncan Fegredo-Biography:Fegredo first managed to get into comics after showing his portfolio around UKCAC in 1987 and meeting Dave Thorpe. Together they worked on a strip for a short lived British magazine called Heartbreak Hotel. After this, Fegredo worked for Crisis for Fleetway before working on Kid Eternity...
, featuring a
superheroA superhero is "a fictional character of unprecedented powers dedicated to acts of derring-do in the public interest"...
called "The Enigma". It was published as an eight-issue
limited seriesA limited series is a series with a set number of installments. A limited series differs from an ongoing series in that the number of issues is determined before production and it differs from a one shot in that it is composed of multiple issues....
by Vertigo, an imprint of
DC ComicsDC Comics is one of the largest and most popular American comic book and related media companies, along with Marvel Comics. It is the publishing division of DC Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary company of Warner Bros. Entertainment...
, in
1993-April:* Adventures of Superman #500 is released and the Reign of the Supermen begins with four Supermen.-June:* Malibu Comics launches the Ultraverse line of comics in which it states that writers are the true enhancements in comics...
.
Characters
- Michael Smith - A compulsive, late-20’s, heterosexual telephone repairman living a highly-structured life in Pacific City, California. His father was killed in an earthquake, and he was abandoned by his mother around age nine.
- Titus Bird - The writer of the superhero comic book series “The Enigma”.
- The Enigma - A man born with seemingly omnipotent powers who adopts the identity of The Enigma, a comic book superhero. He is an essentially emotionless being and unfamiliar with the concepts of right and wrong.
Additional notes
- This story takes place outside of the main DC Universe
The DC Universe is the shared universe where most of the comic stories published by DC Comics take place. The fictional characters Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman are well-known superheroes from this universe. Note that in context, "DC Universe" is usually used to refer to the main DC continuity...
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- This was one of the first mini-series released when DC launched Vertigo, their "suggested for mature readers" line of comics in March 1993 and the first not to be connected to an existing book.
- All eight issues of Enigma have special metallic inks on the cover.
- One of the minor characters in Enigma, named Envelope Girl, made an appearance in Peter Milligan's run of Animal Man
Animal Man is a fictional DC Comics superhero. As a result of being in proximity to an exploding extraterrestrial spaceship, Buddy Baker acquires the ability to temporarily “borrow” the abilities of animals...
.
Collected editions
The series has been collected into a
trade paperbackIn comics, a trade paperback is a collection of stories originally published in comic books, reprinted in book format, usually capturing one story arc from a single title or a series of stories with a connected story arc or common theme from one or more titles...
, although it is now out of print.
- Enigma (208 pages, DC Comics
DC Comics is one of the largest and most popular American comic book and related media companies, along with Marvel Comics. It is the publishing division of DC Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary company of Warner Bros. Entertainment...
, August 1995, ISBN 1852866152, DC Comics, December 1993, ISBN 1-56389-192-1)