Law's job is to take down other superheroes who have gone rogue, which he does with maximum force and great pleasure. The title character, Marshal Law, is the government-sanctioned 'super hero hunter' (aka law enforcement officer, or “cape killer”) with superpowers in the city of San Futuro, the near-future metropolis built from the ruins of San Francisco following a massive earthquake. PlotĬover of issue 4 of the original Epic Comic series.

The stories here were illustrated novellas, rather than actual comic strips, titled The Day Of The Dead (which was published in a paperback edition) and Cloak Of Evil, they were popular but problems with the site led to its closure in 2002. In the year 2000 Mills and O'Neill took the character to Cool Beans World, which was a website which also featured the works of Simon Bisley. The next few years saw Marshal Law appear in various crossovers with other characters, including The Savage Dragon and The Mask. That year also saw the character return to Epic Comics for a two issue series pitting the Marshal against Clive Barker's Pinhead character. Mills and O'Neill then took Marshal Law to Dark Horse Comics where the story in Toxic! was completed in late 1992. Toxic! proved to be short lived and the Marshal Law strip suffered from missing issues and eventually Apocalypse Comics went bankrupt in 1992, leaving the character in publishing limbo and the story in Toxic! incomplete. In 1991, Mills and O'Neill took the character to the fledgling Apocalypse Comics for a one-off special & then as the flagship story in Toxic!, a weekly comic started in 1991 to compete with 2000AD. The series proved popular, although it did suffer from shipping delays, and was followed by the Marshal Law Takes Manhattan one-shot, in which most of Marvel Comics major characters were ruthlessly parodied. Marshal Law started life at Epic Comics on October 1987 in a six-issue limited series.

Pinhead vs. Marshal Law by Pat Mills