History Creator / ImageComics

** ''Universal Monsters: The Creature from the Black Lagoon Lives''

* ''ComicBook/Plush''

** ''Universal Monsters: The Creature from the Black Lagoon Lives

* ''ComicBook/{{Fell}}''

Image Comics eventually became famous for publishing NinetiesAntiHero books, very far towards the cynical end of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism, and for a bad case of non-webcomic ScheduleSlip, sometimes delivering issues as much as nine months late and still constantly happening today (though in several cases, this is done intentionally and called the "''Saga'' model", where a series will release all the issues of an arc on time, but then take a two or three month hiatus before releasing the next arc). The absence of ExecutiveMeddling they prided themselves on also turned out to have [[ProtectionFromEditors certain drawbacks]], and none of the partners had any business experience. Still, while the NinetiesAntiHero fad lasted, the Image titles were a massive success, but now they mostly look like [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks Dark Age]] disasters with an excess of sex and violence and somewhat... questionable art.

* UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks: Early 90s Image comics were the ''ne plus ultra'' of Dark Age comics. ''ComicBook/{{Spawn}}'' in particular had (appropriately enough) spawned [[FollowTheLeader many imitators]].
* DarkerAndEdgier: The '90s were especially notable in that they embodied UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks - "dark, edgy" and often completely immature! Nowadays they publish books in a wide variety of tones, from properly mature storytelling like ''Comicbook/{{Saga}}'' or ''Comicbook/Criminal2006'', to superhero stories BloodierAndGorier than the Big Two would allow on their mainstream lines (including popular revivals of those early series), to books for kids and young adults.

* [[invoked]] ScheduleSlip: The early Image comics became notorious for this, and it's one of the few commonalities between Image's early and modern incarnations. Image's constant lateness with their half of the ''Deathmate'' crossover with Creator/ValiantComics is often held responsible for UsefulNotes/TheGreatComicsCrashOf1996. ''Image United'', intended as a tenth anniversary project between the original founders, didn't release a first issue until 2009. They managed to release two more over the next year... and then it dropped off the face of the Earth. Over a decade later, it still hasn't been finished!

* ''ComicBook/{{Fatale}}''

* ''ComicBook/TheHumans''

* ''ComicBook/{{Proof}}''

* ''ComicBook/{{Flight}}''

* Creator/RobLiefeld's ''ComicBook/{{Youngblood}}'' and ''ComicBook/{{Brigade}}'' (produced through Extreme Studios, note that Youngblood was the first book published under the Image banner, though the first issue was completed pre-Image)

* ''ComicBook/{{Youngblood}}''

* TheArtifact: {{Superhero}} LongRunners from the Dark Age like ''ComicBook/{{Spawn}}'', ''ComicBook/{{Youngblood}}'' and ''ComicBook/SavageDragon'' look rather out of place today in their diverse current lineup consisting primarily of both lighter and more serious non-superhero material.

** ''ComicBook/{{Youngblood}}'' was the very first title, and while no particular run was very long (the longest being ''Team Youngblood'' at 22 issues), it's been relaunched many times by different creators with Liefeld determined to keep the series alive.

* ''ComicBook/ThePassageway''

* ''ComicBook/{{Stillwater}}''

* SharedUniverse: Their early superhero material was based in a shared universe to compete with Marvel and DC. Various crisis crossovers later fractured the universe so that each founder's characters were largely confined to their own [[TheVerse independent universe]], which is usually still the case today for the "first generation" Image superhero titles, even after they've been [[{{Retool}} drastically retooled]], like ''Comicbook/{{Prophet}}''. Notably, in more recent years ''Comicbook/{{Invincible}}'' has done a lot of the heavy lifting for the "Image Universe", featuring crossovers with many of other founders' characters.