Alan Moore Books in Order

Moore's landmark run starts with The Anatomy Lesson, which completely reshapes what Swamp Thing is. Horror, philosophy, and strange beauty all take root at once.

Moore's early Swamp Thing work begins turning a monster comic into something weirder and more thoughtful. Horror, identity, and the natural world start to take over the page.

This collection digs further into the transformation of Swamp Thing from bog monster to something far stranger. The result is rich horror with emotion, philosophy, and a steadily widening myth.

As Swamp Thing's world widens, new supernatural threats pull him toward a much larger occult landscape. This volume deepens the mythology and brings a sly magician named John Constantine into the frame.

Swamp Thing accepts that he is plant, not man, and the series grows stranger from there. Abby, aliens, desire, and body horror all feed into this fearless second volume.

Moore's famous Superman farewell imagines one last, devastating battle for the Man of Steel and everyone around him. It works as both tribute and hard-edged ending.

The American Gothic storyline expands here, sending Swamp Thing across a haunted America in search of Abby and harder truths. It is a road story, horror epic, and myth-maker all at once.

Moore pushes the series toward elemental mythology, invasion-scale danger, and increasingly strange forms of life. The book stays eerie and emotional even as its ideas become huge.

The final Moore volume closes his run with apocalypse, intimacy, and a sense that Swamp Thing's world will keep growing after the last page. It is a strong, strange farewell.

After a masked hero is murdered, Rorschach pulls his former allies into an investigation that opens onto a much larger conspiracy. It is a murder mystery, a Cold War thriller, and a deep rethink of superheroes.

The Joker launches a brutal attack meant to prove that anyone can be broken by one bad day. It is short, sharp, and one of the darkest Batman stories of the era.

Mike Moran is a middle-aged reporter plagued by migraines and dreams of flight, until one forgotten word changes everything. This opening arc turns an old-fashioned superhero premise into something eerie, modern, and unstable.

This collection reintroduces Mike Moran and the terrifying adult logic of Miracleman's return. What begins like a lost superhero revival quickly becomes something far stranger and more modern.

Now fully awake to his past, Miracleman digs into the truth behind his origin and the forces that made him. The story grows darker, stranger, and much more dangerous.

In a fascist future England, a masked anarchist begins a campaign against the state while a young woman is pulled into his orbit. Moore and David Lloyd build a bleak, political story about power and resistance.

A successful ad man is haunted by a younger version of himself as he walks through a city filled with regret and memory. It is quiet, bitter, and more psychological than superheroic.

The final Moore collection pushes the series from superhero revision to near-divine upheaval. After catastrophe, Mike Moran and Miracleman face the terrifying question of what a god-built world would really look like.

The Bojeffries are a loving, chaotic monster family living in a very ordinary Northampton house. Moore mixes domestic comedy, horror tropes, and working-class absurdity to lovely effect.

A string of killings and hallucinations pulls Spawn into a grim side story about obsession and the living hellsuit he wears. Moore treats the book as horror first, superhero comic second.

Moore's Captain Britain stories push the hero into stranger, darker science fiction territory. Alternate worlds, escalating threats, and big ideas give the material real momentum.

Twelve linked stories move across six thousand years of Northampton history. Moore turns one patch of ground into a wild, intimate novel about memory, violence, myth, and place.

This vast black-and-white epic revisits the Jack the Ripper murders through conspiracy, architecture, class, and paranoia. It is methodical, grim, and one of Moore's most demanding works.

The WildC.A.T.s head for their ancestral world of Khera, hoping for answers and finding political intrigue instead. Moore turns the team book toward identity, history, and divided loyalties.

College student Sophie Bangs researches the legend of Promethea and ends up becoming its latest incarnation. The opening book mixes superhero action with myth, magic, and stunning visual invention.

In 1898, Mina Murray assembles Allan Quatermain, Captain Nemo, Hyde, and the Invisible Man for a secret mission. Moore and Kevin O'Neill turn Victorian fiction into a witty, grimy team adventure.

Imagine a police precinct in a city where everyone is superhuman. Moore and Gene Ha turn that idea into a busy, funny, humane ensemble book packed with cases and background jokes.

Tom Strong's first trade introduces the science hero's world, from Millennium City to hidden realms and old enemies. It is bright, brisk pulp adventure powered by brains as much as fists.

The second Tom Strong collection widens the series with strange relatives, cosmic detours, and more family-scaled heroics. It keeps the book's affectionate pulp energy while making the world bigger.

Sophie goes deeper into the history of earlier Prometheas and the strange logic of the Immateria. The book is part coming-of-age story, part guided tour through Moore's magical imagination.

As Sophie's powers grow, so does the scale of the series' ideas. Myth, identity, and imagination start taking center stage without losing the book's adventurous pull.

Moore rebuilds Supreme from a generic strongman into a bright, self-aware meditation on superhero history. It is affectionate, clever, and openly interested in what old comics can still do.

FBI profiler Aldo Sax follows ritual murders through language, pattern, and occult logic. The story is brief, nasty, and an important opening move in Moore's Lovecraft cycle.

Part essay, part craft guide, this short book lays out how Moore thinks about structure, pacing, panels, and the reader's eye. It is practical, sharp, and still useful for comics writers.

In a fantasy city built on trade and illusion, a young woman in a specialized brothel falls into a dangerous love story. The book is intimate, melancholy, and sharper than its setting first suggests.

Moore uses a superhero crossover to ask blunt questions about corruption, punishment, and what heroism should mean. It is messy on purpose, with big fights wrapped around a moral argument.

This illustrated poem traces same-sex love and queer history across centuries in the form of a passionate address. It is direct, angry, tender, and openly political.

This volume leans into visionary travel through magic, symbolism, and layered realities. It is one of the most formally adventurous stretches of a series already overflowing with ideas.

This companion anthology fills in the edges of Tom Strong's world with Young Tom, Tesla, King Solomon, and Jonni Future. It feels like a pulp magazine opened up and modernized.

The second Terrific Tales volume keeps roaming through side adventures, future exploits, and backstory. It is a fun expansion pack for readers who want more of the Strong family universe.

The League barely has time to recover before England faces invasion from Mars. Volume 2 widens the scale, mixing literary mash-up fun with war, panic, and end-of-era dread.

This volume brings back old allies and fresh complications as Tesla is kidnapped and Tom is pulled into new mysteries. The series keeps balancing family adventure with slippery science fiction.

The fourth collection opens up more of Tom Strong's family history while keeping the series quick on its feet. Hidden relatives, old friends, and new threats keep Millennium City lively.

Tom Strong tackles paranormal trouble in the upper atmosphere and stranger problems still closer to home. These issues lean into dream logic, one-off concepts, and the book's generous sense of invention.

Promethea moves toward its endgame, with Sophie facing larger cosmic stakes and deeper truths about her role. The book feels both apocalyptic and oddly serene.

Forgotten heroes and villains of British comics return in a mystery about secrecy, imprisonment, and national memory. It is a clever revival project with plenty of adventure and an affectionate eye for old characters.

The final collection closes the series on apocalyptic stakes, odd detours, and a welcome return from Moore and Chris Sprouse. It is a busy, affectionate farewell to one of Moore's brightest creations.

These early short comics show Moore honing his twist endings, high concepts, and dark humor in compact bursts. They are quick, clever, and a good look at the start of his voice.

Alice, Dorothy, and Wendy meet as adults at an Austrian hotel and retell their lives through erotic memory and fantasy. Moore and Melinda Gebbie use familiar heroines to explore sex, storytelling, and innocence.

A concise critical guide built around interviews and commentary on Moore's life and bibliography. It offers a readable overview of the themes, methods, and disputes that shaped his career.

Moore and Melinda Gebbie survey the long history of erotic art, desire, censorship, and pornography. It is part cultural history, part argument about how societies imagine sex.

Early Spawn stories build out Al Simmons' grim world, with guest turns by Alan Moore and Frank Miller. The volume mixes street violence, infernal lore, and some key early myth-making.

Moore's take on Will Eisner's masked detective leans into pulp crime, odd humor, and formal play. It is a lively reminder of how well he can work inside another creator's sandbox.

This opening collection introduces Tom Strong, his family, and Millennium City in a run of clever science-adventure tales. It is superhero comics filtered through pulp magazines, optimism, and big, playful ideas.

FBI agents Brears and Lamper follow a case from The Courtyard into cults, hidden languages, and very physical cosmic horror. It is confrontational, explicit, and central to the path toward Providence.

This later Spawn Origins volume collects high-energy stories from the series' early middle stretch, pushing Al Simmons through bigger fights and darker turns. It is lean, brutal, and very much built for momentum.

This anthology gathers classic cosmic stories from across the Corps, including Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons material. Short, inventive tales make the universe feel far stranger and larger.

Tom Strong's second collection sends the science hero from volcanoes to outer space, with family, alternate worlds, and old pulp thrills close behind. It keeps the series' bright sense of wonder while widening the canvas.

In a nightmare alternate world, Tom Strong must team up with another version of himself to fight robot tyranny and rewrite disaster. It is a darker spin on the series' usual bright pulp energy.

A century after the Crossed outbreak, archivist Future Taylor helps a fragile new society piece together the past. Alan Moore turns splatter horror into a tense, strange study of survival, language, and civilization.

Tom Strong heads into another retro-styled science adventure full of danger, impossible landscapes, and classic cliffhanger energy. It is a straight-ahead pulp romp built on the world Moore created.

In 1919, journalist Robert Black leaves New York to research occult outsiders for a novel. His first interviews open the door to hidden books, coded lives, and quiet cosmic dread.

Robert's trip into New England continues, and the local color quickly turns uncanny. Polite surfaces hide old beliefs, private obsessions, and a sense that someone is guiding his path.

As Robert gathers stories from strangers, the gaps between rumor and reality start to narrow. The series deepens its mood of travel writing, repression, and creeping horror.

A new stop on Robert's journey reveals a community shaped by old secrets and uneasy bloodlines. The horror stays patient, intimate, and increasingly hard to dismiss.

Curiosity keeps Robert moving even as the people around him grow more troubling. Shame, desire, and manipulation become part of the terror in this quietly vicious chapter.

Robert's research brings him to another corner of hidden New England, where the sea, the past, and forbidden knowledge all press closer. The mood is claustrophobic and deeply wrong.

This collection gathers ten short Moore pieces, from sharp satire to occult biography, alongside critical essays. It is a compact look at how flexible his shorter comics work can be.

Set in and around Northampton's Boroughs, this huge novel moves across centuries, ghosts, working lives, visions, and everyday streets. It is dense, strange, and deeply rooted in place.

Robert returns to New York, but home offers no safety. The investigation tightens around him as desire, secrecy, and hidden history start collapsing into one nightmare.

As Robert keeps following the trail, the pattern behind his trip begins to emerge. Everyday rooms, casual conversations, and old documents all point toward something vast and inhuman.

Old books, coded histories, and mounting dread push Robert closer to the truth. What seemed like separate encounters now feels like part of one terrible design.

Robert finally sees how his travels echo older stories and darker forces. The closer he gets to understanding the pattern, the less stable reality becomes.

Time and memory begin to fold in on themselves as Robert nears the heart of the mystery. This chapter is eerie, disorienting, and full of approaching doom.

This companion art book showcases Jacen Burrows' work for Providence through covers, sketches, designs, and process material. It is a strong visual appendix for readers who want to linger in that world a little longer.

The final issue pulls Robert Black's journey into a full cosmic reckoning. Moore and Burrows tie together the series' scattered clues and leave the reader with a bleak, unsettling new view of the whole story.

This companion gathers rare background material, game supplements, sourcebook pages, and other odds and ends built around Watchmen. It expands the setting without replacing the original story.

Moore's first short story collection ranges from ghost stories and strange encounters to a long, bitter fantasia on the comics industry. The pieces are varied, ambitious, and full of unsettling imagination.

In postwar London, Dennis Knuckleyard comes across a book that belongs to the Great When, a shadow city where concepts walk and reality bends. It is crime story, urban fantasy, and occult adventure all at once.

Created with Steve Moore, this oversized nonfiction work is a playful, serious guide to magic, occult history, symbols, and practice. It reads like a handbook, a joke book, and a manifesto at once.

A sharp-edged WildStorm superhero story full of alien conflict, hard choices, and team tension. If you like the WildC.A.T.s at their most fast-moving and combative, this scratches that itch.

Nine years after his first brush with Long London, Dennis Knuckleyard is dragged back when a hidden key wakes up dangerous forces. Riots, magic, and murder drive this bigger, stranger second novel.