Frank Miller's 300
Publisher: Dark Horse
Original Format: Monthly five issue mini-series
First Appearance: 300#1 (Dark Horse, May 1998)
Appearance checklist (not including reprints): 300#1-5; Xerxes: The Fall of the House of Darius and the Rise of Alexander#1-5
Publication Dates: May-September 1998
Summary: A deliberately mythologized retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae, where a force of 300 Spartans faced a Persian army numbering in the tens of thousands and held the pass (the "Hot Gates") for three days, delaying their invasion of Greece.
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Leonidas |
Stelios |
Dilios |
Xerxes |
Ephialtes |
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Themistokles |
Aeskylos |
Miltiades |
Alexander |
Darius |
Comments: Created by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley.
In 2006 the comic was adapted into film by Zack Snyder, with Gerard Butler playing the lead role of Leonidas. In 2014 a second movie, 300: Rise of an Empire, was released; based on plans for a sequel comic that had not yet been published, it was not strictly a sequel nor a prequel, as it depicted events that happened before the first movie as well as ones that happened simultaneous to the first but elsewhere in the conflict with the Persians. In 2018 the second comic miniseries, Xerxes: The Fall of the House of Darius and the Rise of Alexander, was released by Dark Horse.
First Posted: Circa 14/03/2010
Last updated: 12/10/2022
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