History ComicBook / MenInBlack

This comic book was eventually adapted into the ''Film/MenInBlack'' film series and [[WesternAnimation/MenInBlack cartoon]].

* EvilIsNotAToy: One of the stories was about a group of kids playing a ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' clone, who found an ancient mystical artifact and used it as their 20-sider. (They didn't know it was magic, they just thought it was cool-looking.) When one of them casts a "summon demon" spell, an actual demon appeared and destroyed half their house, and most of the town they lived in.

* MundaneMadeAwesome: The neuralyzer (here called as [[SpellMyNameWithAnS neurolyzer]]) has the shape of a flashlight instead of the tiny devices of the movies.

* EliteAgentsAboveTheLaw: Being loyal to the [[TheMenInBlack original urban myth]], MiB is an obscure organization that goes beyond any laws to control the world and stop any abnormal activity like extraterrestials, demons and even sects. Different from [[Film/MenInBlack their]] [[WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries adaptations]], the original source doesn't work as the "world police" but closest as it gets to the MiB myth, shaping the world as they like and having no compassion to any witnesses (unless they decide to recruit them).

* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Rogue Agent Ecks became a werewolf who commited various murders in a city. It is hinted his lycanthropy has to do with MiB and the reason why he went rogue.

A six-issue comic book series, getting two volumes of three issues each, one in 1990 and the other in 1991. The comics follow the Men In Black, a secret organization that polices supernatural and extraterrestrial beings on Earth. The story centers on new agent Jay, whose partner Kay indoctrinates into the Agency and slowly works on getting him into the proper mindset. Other characters include Zed (who is never seen, and may or may not be a computer), and Ecks, who goes rogue.

The series was published by Aircel Comics, an imprint of Malibu Comics, which was eventually bought out by Creator/MarvelComics, which went on to publish three of its own one-shot ''Men in Black'' comic books (they were based on the live-action films, rather than the original comics, however; the company did bring creator Lowell Cunningham back to write them and also reprinted the very first issue of ''[=MiB=]'', though).

* ContinuityNod: The one-shot ''Far Cry'' published by Marvel was made to retell the story mixing both the comics and the first movie. Here, Agent Jay is the one seen in the comics and his "recruitment" was made in the same way (even he was undercover for the new drug Bezerk), but the technology is more like the one seen in the first movie.
* CultDefector: The first mission of Agent Jay revolved around a new kind of drug, the Bezerk, and a cult that developed around around it. Jay has the mission of going undercover in this cult, being used by K as a Guinea Pig, rescuing Jay before he died and annihilating all the cult.

* EliteAgentsAboveTheLaw: Being loyal to the [[TheMenInBlack original urban myth]], MIB is an obscure organization that goes beyond any laws to controls the world and stops any abnormal activity like extraterrestials, demons and even sects. Different from [[Film/MenInBlack their]] [[WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries adaptations]], the original source doesn't work as the "world police" but closest as it gets to the MIB myth, shaping the world as they like and having no compassion to any witnesses (or maybe yes by recruiting them).

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The drug in the first issue is called "Bezerk," and being in contact with it becomes the user into TheBerserker.
* TheFaceless: Agent Zed, he has his first appearance physically in the movies, in the comics he was just a voice.

* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Rogue Agent Ecks became a werewolf who commited various murders in a city. It is hinted his lycanthropy has to do with MIB and the reason why he went rogue.

* TheRemake: The ''Far Cry'' one-issue comic book, made by one of the original creators, Lowell Cunningham, and the only color comic based on the original series than the movies.

* WhiteSheep: Jay. He mantains his own principles even after being recruited as a MIB (or at least he tries to).

* CultDefector: The first mission of Agent Jay revolved around a new kind of drug, the Bezerk, and a cult that developed around around it. Jay has the mission of going undercover in this cult, being used by K as a Guinea Pig, rescuing Jay before he died and [[KillEmAll annihilating all the cult]].

* {{Jerkass}}: Kay, which might surprise people who are only familiar with the films, making the acting of Creator/TommyLeeJones as a smoothing of the version seen in the comics.
* KnightTemplar

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* ShortRunners: The original run was two volumes of three issues each volume. When TheMovie came out, three more MIB comics were made - one a [[ComicBookAdaptation straight retelling of the film]], one taking place between movies 1 and 2, and only ''one'' a continuation of Lowell Cunningham's original miniseries (''Far Cry'', more as TheRemake).