Dark Horse Comics

American publishing company
Organization publishing_house Q373933
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Dark Horse Comics was founded on January 1, 1986. The organization operates as a publishing house and is headquartered in Milwaukie.

It functions within the publishing and comics industry.

Dark Horse Comics

Summary

Dark Horse Comics is a publishing house[1]. It ranks in the top 0.3% of publishing_house entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,737 views/month, #3 of 994).[2]

Key Facts

  • Dark Horse Comics is in the country of United States[3].
  • Dark Horse Comics's image is recorded as DarkHorseHQMilwaukieOR.jpg[4].
  • Dark Horse Comics's instance of is recorded as publishing house[5].
  • Dark Horse Comics's instance of is recorded as book publisher[6].
  • Dark Horse Comics's instance of is recorded as comics publishing company[7].
  • Dark Horse Comics's founder is recorded as Mike Richardson[8].
  • Dark Horse Comics's logo image is recorded as Dark Horse Comics wordmark.svg[9].
  • Dark Horse Comics's headquarters location is recorded as Milwaukie[10].
  • Dark Horse Comics's headquarters location is recorded as Oregon[11].
  • Dark Horse Comics's child organization or unit is recorded as Berger Books[12].
  • Dark Horse Comics's child organization or unit is recorded as Dark Horse Manga[13].
  • Dark Horse Comics's Commons category is recorded as Dark Horse Comics[14].
  • Dark Horse Comics's industry is recorded as publishing[15].
  • Dark Horse Comics's industry is recorded as comics industry[16].
  • +1986-01-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Dark Horse Comics[17].
  • Dark Horse Comics's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01950l[18].
  • Dark Horse Comics's official website is recorded as https://www.darkhorse.com[19].
  • Dark Horse Comics's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Dark Horse Comics[20].
  • Dark Horse Comics's ISFDB publisher ID is recorded as 4130[21].
  • Dark Horse Comics's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Dark-Horse-Comics[22].
  • Dark Horse Comics's legal form is recorded as publishing house[23].
  • Dark Horse Comics's main Wikidata property is recorded as P9319[24].
  • Dark Horse Comics's owner of is recorded as Comics' Greatest World[25].
  • Dark Horse Comics's Anime News Network company ID is recorded as 26[26].
  • Dark Horse Comics's X is recorded as DarkHorseComics[27].

Body

Founding

Dark Horse Comics's founder is recorded as Mike Richardson[8]. +1986-01-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of it[17].

Operations

Headquarters locations include Milwaukie[10], a city of Oregon[28], in United States[29], founded in 1848[30] and Oregon[11], an U.S. state[31], in United States[32], founded in 1859[33], headquartered in Salem[34]. Subsidiaries include Berger Books[12], a comics publishing company[35], in United States[36], founded in 2017[37] and Dark Horse Manga[13], a manga imprint[38], in United States[39], founded in 1994[40].

Industry

Industries include publishing[15] and comics industry[16].

Why It Matters

Dark Horse Comics ranks in the top 0.3% of publishing_house entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,737 views/month, #3 of 994).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[41]

References

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Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
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  10. [37] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  11. [38] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  12. [39] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  13. [40] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [41] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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