Samurai Jack

American action-adventure animated television series

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August 21 2020 Released video game Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time for multiple platforms.
December 17 2019 Samurai Jack: Lost Worlds published, collecting Samurai Jack: Lost Worlds comic issues #1-4.
November 20 2019 Samurai Jack: Lost Worlds is compiled into a compendium of the four-part series, produced by Paul Allor and illustrated by Adam Bryce Thomas.
May 8 2019 IDW Publishing releases the first series of Samurai Jack: Lost Worlds comic series, exploring Jack's leadership and philosophical impact.
May 29 2018 Samurai Jack: Quantum Jack published, collecting Samurai Jack: Quantum Jack comic issues #1-5.
2017 IDW Publishing released the 'Quantum Jack' 5-issue miniseries, which takes place between the fourth and fifth seasons of Samurai Jack. The series depicts Jack hopping through different dimensions while searching for a way back to his original form.
October 17 2017 Samurai Jack: The Complete Series was released on Blu-ray and Digital HD.
October 25 2016 IDW releases a full omnibus compilation of all 20 issues, titled 'Samurai Jack: Tales of the Wandering Warrior'.
September 1 2015 Volume 4 of Samurai Jack comics, 'The Warrior King' (Issues 16-20), is released.
May 31 2015 In Issue 20, an older Jack leads a resistance army in a potential future, preparing for a final assault on Aku's tower, with a scribe named Mako documenting his exploits.
April 21 2015 Samurai Jack Vol. 3: Quest For The Broken Blade published, collecting Samurai Jack comic issues #11-15.
March 31 2015 Volume 3 of Samurai Jack comics, highlighting 'Quest for the Broken Blade' (Issues 11-15), is officially released.
January 2015 Jim Zub confirms that the Samurai Jack comic series will conclude with issue #20 in May 2015.
December 31 2014 In Issue 15, Jack faces Aku in a one-on-one combat, marking an epic confrontation in the 'Quest of the Broken Blade' storyline.
October 28 2014 Volume 2 of Samurai Jack comics, titled 'The Scotsman's Curse' (Issues 6-10), is released.
October 14 2014 Samurai Jack Vol. 2: The Scotsman's Curse published, collecting Samurai Jack comic issues #6-10.
June 17 2014 Samurai Jack Vol. 1: The Threads of Time published, collecting Samurai Jack comic issues #1-5.
May 2014 First volume of Samurai Jack comics (Issues 1-5) is released as hard copy and eBook, containing 120 pages.
May 6 2014 Samurai Jack Classics Vol. 2 published, collecting stories from Cartoon Network Action Pack #22-60.
April 22 2014 Official release of Volume 2 of the Samurai Jack Classic Volumes comic series.
March 19 2014 In Issue 6, Jack is magically transformed into a woman by leprechauns while helping the Scotsman break a gender-bending curse.
February 26 2014 In Issue 5, Jack fights Aku and obtains the last strand of the Rope of Eons. After being mortally wounded, Jack chooses to sacrifice the Rope's power to undo his fatal injury.
November 12 2013 Release of the 136-page Classic Volumes comic collection focusing on Samurai Jack's origin story, illustrated by Ricardo Garcia Fuentes (Micro).
November 12 2013 First collected edition, Samurai Jack Classics Vol. 1, published featuring stories from Cartoon Network Action Pack #1-21.
October 2013 Release of Cartoon Network: Super Sampler, which included a Samurai Jack comic, further expanding the character's comic book presence.
October 23 2013 First Samurai Jack comic book issue is released by IDW Publishing.
October 23 2013 First issue 'Samurai Jack and the Threads of Time' is released, depicting Jack stranded in a future ruled by Aku and seeking to return to the past using the Rope of Eons.
February 2013 IDW Publishing announces partnership with Cartoon Network to produce Samurai Jack comics, with the series officially announced at WonderCon.
July 2011 Final issue of Samurai Jack comics in Cartoon Network Action Pack, concluding the DC Comics run of the series spanning from July 2006 to July 2011.

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