While the world mourns over the passing of one of the titans of the music industry, we here at Double Viking are remembering the time DC immortalized His Royal Badness as a superhero. Well, not a superhero exactly, but Prince once headlined his own comic in Great Britain, released here in the States by the now defunct Piranha Music and DC Comics, and it featured Prince doing, well, Prince type stuff...

Last year, Dangerous Minds (link below) did a nice piece about the comic featuring a number of screen caps you can check out for yourself in the gallery below. They describe the 1991 three issue limited series originally titled Alter Egos as "the Prince origin story, a la Purple Rain, but with a big superhero-style archenemy plot thrown in."

The 1st to come out is the one with Prince on the motorcycle. It’s basically a comic book history of Prince’s musical career. Best part is at the end where the book says there is a huge rivalry going on between P and MJ, and that they hate each other. Even says that at the end of the Batdance song, Prince is screaming “MICHAEL JACKSON”....when we all know he is saying “DON’T STOP DANCIN’!” 2nd book, with the yellow cloud guitar, has P as a muscian/superhero saving the world from a rival musician called “Spooky Electric” and his mind controlling beats. Best scene here is when Prince steps up to a group of thugs and basically threatens to beat their ass, to which the cowar like dogs. Gotta admit, Jet Lee wishes he had some of the kung fu moves P displays in this book. Last book is semi-based off of the song “7”. Prince is on tour and must save Princess Mayte from evil-doers that wish to cause her harm. Wish I could remember a scene from this one, but I know P is more James Bond/Jason Bourne than the androgonist rock star we know in this title. All three are great, and as a side note, I believe the Cloud Guitar cover won an award for the best comic cover for that year. Brian Boland is the artist and really did a great job.

Check out the pages below and leave your favorite Prince memory in the comments section below, even if it's a story about you getting down to The Batdance in your underwear when you were ten years old and your Mom walked in and the two of you never spoke of the incident ever again. Even if it's that story.

Via Dangerous Minds