Note: A character having a "secret identity" is not enough to
qualify the comic as a transformation work (mostly because if it were, half the comics in
creation would be listed, and what's the point of that?) In general, transformation
should be a significant theme of the comic in order to list it here.
Comics
[Ripoff Press]
- A werewolf on a sailing ship. Pretty bad, which may be why I never saw any issues for
sale after the first. -Ph
[Marvel]
- The origin issue of the new version of the Beast, one of the X-Men who was transformed
as a result of his experiments into the cause of mutation. -Ph
[Marvel]
- These issues include the Man-Wolf, J. Johan Jameson's werewolf son, transformed by an
mysterious stone. His first appearance and origin are in #124 and #125; it looks like he's
cured in #125, but it is not so, for reasons that become clear in Giant-Size Super-Heroes #1. He
makes an extremely brief and bad appearance in #170. In #190, he's back again, apparently
a continuation from #189 (which I haven't seen). He appears to plummet to his death, but
you know how it is in the comics... Man-Wolf is also seen in Creatures on the Loose. -Ph
[DC/Vertigo]
- It begins as the story of a man who can absorb abilities from animals around him. It
rapidly gets weirder than that. An extremely good comic; it's gone through several art and
writing teams over its 80+-issue run, with very different feels as a result. The first
nine issues are collected as a graphic novel. -Ph
[Impact]
- A man transforms himself into a humanoid fox using a gene-scrambling drug, to bring
himself closer to nature. It doesn't work quite the way he planned. A fascinating
character who had the misfortune to be born at the wrong time--the Fox was swept out of
the picture after this single appearance, when Impact rearranged their line and cancelled
many titles. -Ph
[Marvel]
- Captain America is transformed into Capwolf during this seven-issue run. A pity they
changed him back... -Ph
- "Captain America" is from Marvel, not DC. -166
(98/02/14)
[Conquest]
- A werewolf falls in with the homeless. I never saw anything past the first issue. -Ph
[Dark Horse]
- Aliens transform a man and his friend into a rocky monster. The comic is a gritty look
at how someone might try to actually put a life together after something like that. -Ph
[DC]
- Four-issue miniseries. A ring allows a man's consciousness to be exchanged with that of
a gorilla. -Ph
[Marvel]
[Antarctic Press]
- Three fan-drawn Ranma 1/2 stories. In
Japanese, with "subtitles". -Ph
[Claypool Comics]
- A werewolf (named Talbot Lawrence III, of course) shows up in these two issues. -Ph
[Express Press]
- An enchanter can assume the form of a great cat to terrorize the populace. Planned as an
eight-issue series; around here it stopped showing up after #4. -Ph
[Dark Horse]
- Three-issue miniseries. You know it's going to be a bad day when your father dies just
after telling you that you're a demon... and there's another demon out there trying to
kill you... -Ph
[Fantagraphics]
- Seven-issue series. Our hero is having a bad day. His treasure map has been stolen, and
assorted people are trying to kill him. On top of that, he's been turned into a duck. -Ph
[Marvel]
[Marvel]
- WareWolf, a sort of cyberpunk lycanthrope, makes a two-issue appearance. -Ph
[Marvel]
[Marvel]
[Marvel]
[Antarctic Press]
- A funny adventure series, involving a were-cheetah as a main character and werewolves
showing up in a major plotline. -Ph
[?]
- It's a fine comic done by Mike Mignola. One of very few comics I can read. -153 (98/02/12)
[Eternity]
- Anthology of werewolf stories. Only two issues published, as far as I know. -Ph
[Marvel]
- Werewolf by Night is the guest
antagonist this episode, though he's more of a sideline to the Hulk's internal and
romantic problems. -Ph
[DC]
- The Martian Manhunter is forced to shapechange to that of a woman. A small problem,
until the ruler of the Daals (the 3 part series is called "Valley of the Daals")
finds him attractive. -118
- The story actually happened in a companion comic book called "Justice League Task
Force," issues 7-8. -166 (98/02/14)
[?]
- ... a GREAT shapeshifter manga (comic) in Japan ... Personally, it's my
favorite comic of all time. Great art, characters, plot, and it's not a cutesey story.
Lots of death and violence (of course, blood)...I'm also working on translating it at the
moment. -98
[DC]
- Marvel's bad boy is killed and re-incarnated as a woman. He doesn't quite show his
feminine side. -118
- Lobo was and is published by DC Comics. -138, -166 (98/02/14)
[Viz]
- English manga translation. A student finds that he's one of a race of werebeasts, and
that there are hunters out to kill his kind. -Ph
[Marvel]
- Werewolf by Night stories. #54-59
are a key story, well worth seeking out; Jack Russell finally learns to accept and control
his condition, as he deals with a gang of biker werewolves (who he created) and another
gang of monster- slayers. #107-112 are a more conventional punch-em-up, with Jack and
Ghost Rider against another gang of werewolves. (This is the problem with lycanthropy...
you wind up doing a lot of clean-up work afterwards.) #113 is a truly forgettable
one-shot, with Jack tracking down a wendigo. -Ph
[Marvel]
- #28 concerns the Legion of Monsters--Man-Wolf, Morbius, Man-Thing and Ghost
Rider--fighting each other and an alien visitor for assorted reasons. #45-46 has an
I've-read-it-and-I-still-can't-believe it plot--in two few pages to make sense, Man-Wolf
winds up as a god in a swords-and-sorcery plot on the moon, topped off with a
deus-ex-machina climax. -Ph
[Marvel]
- #2 is the first appearance and origin issue of Jack Russell, aka Werewolf by Night. He
finds that he has a hereditary curse of lycanthropy, which transforms him into a
near-mindless beast for three nights a month. A very pricey issue. In #3 he learns that
the cure may be in a magical book called the Darkhold; in #4 he finds it, only to be
turned to stone. This leads to the Werewolf by
Night series. [Note that there were two runs of Marvel Spotlight,
with overlapping numbers; these books are in the earlier run.] -Ph
[Marvel]
- In #12, Jack Russell (Werewolf by Night)
falls under the spell of an evil magician, and winds up battling Spidey on his behalf. #37
puts the Man-Wolf against Spidey. #93 has Werewolf by Night, now in control of himself and
his powers, teaming up with Spidey to fight Tatterdemalion. -Ph
[Continuity]
- Megalith becomes a werewolf through demonic possession. -Ph
[DC]
- The main character has been altered by a meteor's rays; he can transform into any
element or compound. His infant son has this ability in reverse: he cannot change himself,
but can change other objects at a touch. -Ph
[by Mike Kelly; see publication history below] (96/10/15)
- Rating: 5 Cause: MA? Result: BM Significance: + Description:
+ Saturation: +. Across the world, several thousand people were mysteriously changed
at the same instant. Some looked the same afterwards, but many were physically altered,
and others were able to change their appearance to varying degrees. The Power Players were
formed to investigate the powers and their cause.
The first issue of this series was originally published in 1983 by the author. This story,
plus an additional one, was reprinted in a new #1 by AC Comics in 1985, with a second
issue following later. Issue #3 was published by the author in 1990 to renew the
copyright. A new #1, picking up after #3, was published by Millennium Publications in
1995. -128
[Innovation]
- First Sam jumps into a beautiful high school teacher (#1) and later into 1/2 of teenage
twins. -118
[Viz]
- The title character was cursed by falling into a magical pool; he transforms into a girl
when splashed with cold water, and back again when splashed with hot water. Assorted other
characters have also fallen into such pools, and turn into assorted animal forms. English
translation of an anime series; videotapes and OAVs are also available. -Ph
[by Dwight Decker; MU Press, 1990, $2.00] (96/10/15)
- Rating: 4 Cause: MA Result: ST Significance: 0 Description: +
Saturation: 0. Warren Shafer was a lonely old man whose only companion in his last
years was his cat, Delilah. Shortly after Delilah died, Warren passed away as well. After
death he was met by a spirit who offered to take Warren to join the rest of humanity.
Warren asked if Delilah would be there. When told that humans and cats had separate
destinies, Warren decided he didn't want to go to a place that didn't allow cats. At this
point another spirit arrived, naming herself Bast. She offered to rejoin Warren with
Delilah, if he would help her subjects, the humanoid cats of another world, where the cats
of Earth go after death to continue their development in subsequent lives. Warren agreed,
and found himself in the body of young Prince Rhudiprrt, who had just been killed by an
enemy assassin... an assassin who was still in the room.
This series went on hiatus after issue #8. However, MU reprinted the first three issues as
a special package in early 1995, a trade paperback containing the first 6 issues came out
in late 1995 (with a cover by Kelly Freas), and the series is due to resume sometime in
1996. -128
[DC/Vertigo]
- Shade's body is killed and he's forced to take over that of a woman. Problem is, he
doesn't quite know how to react to his new figure and the reaction of those around him. -118
[Marvel]
- Man-Wolf is finally cured. -Ph
[Marvel]
- Werewolf by Night appearances. In #6, an evil sorceress tries to extract knowledge about
the Darkhold from his mind. In #19, he runs into Spider-Woman again, as they both fight
the Enforcer. In #32, a doctor "treating" him actually fits him with a
mind-control device, and sends him (and Hornet) against the Spider-Woman once again. -Ph
[Marvel]
[Marvel]
- Prime is a little boy that becomes a Superman and has a lot of interesting people in it.
Mantra is an other one, she's started as a man, become a woman and then a man and is now
back to being a woman. Prime shows up from time to time. -124
- "Ultraverse" is a comics universe owned first by Malibu Comics, which later
merged with Marvel. So, Prime, Mantra and related characters are Marvel, not DC. -166 (98/02/14)
[Marvel]
- Warlock is half-transformed into a woman (the right side) as he confronts his own
feminine side. -118
[Marvel]
- These five issues feature the Lobo Brothers, a pair of werewolf gangsters. -Ph
[Blackthorne]
- Comic adaptation of the Fox TV series; Eric Cord
inherits the werewolf curse from a now-dead friend, and tries to find a cure before it
consumes him. Does anyone know if more than five issues were published? -Ph
[Eternity]
- A werewolf and his precognitive grandmother fight satanists and assorted nutcases. I've
only seen three issues; I don't know if more were published. -Ph
[Marvel]
- 43 issues were printed in all. The story begin in Marvel Spotlight #2-4 continues here. Jack
Russell, victim of an old family curse of lycanthropy, tries to find a remedy for his
condition. -Ph
[by Phil Foglio; Palliard Press, continuing, $2.95] (96/10/15)
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