Marvel is making a League of Legends comic book.
Marvel is making a League of Legends comic book.
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Marvel and Riot Games will make League of Legends graphic novels

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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How’s this for a Marvel team-up? Marvel Entertainment and Riot Games said they will collaborate on bringing League of Legends stories to comics and graphic novels.

For League of Legends, that’s important as it’s a step in cementing the lore behind the characters of the PC online game, which has been out for nine years and is now a popular esport. This means League of Legends is on its way to being a “transmedia property” spread across a lot of media.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.