Topps, usually known for baseball cards, expanded into the new world (at least to them) of comic books from 1993 to 1998.





One of its biggest properties besides X-Files, Mars Attacks, Dracula, Xena and Zorro was the licensed adaptations of Jurassic Park (and it's sequel, The Lost World: Jurassic Park) and a few original series based on this world of Michael Crichton's!

Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park: Raptor

Jurassic Park: Raptors Attack

Jurassic Park: Raptors Hijack

Jurassic Park Annual





...and, at this time, the writing was beginning to show up on the cave walls....

Return To Jurassic Park

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

IDW To The Rescue

The first series ofcomics with 4 issues that came out in June, 1993 to August, 1993, and was an adaptation of the movie written byand drawn byand, and covers for the first two issues byand(and a variant on issue #2), and the last two covers were byTopps also provided "collector's editions".......that came polybagged, and had 3 collector's cards with them (hey, it was Topps after all, cards were how they made their living for decades)......and they even polybagged a tradepaperback collection of these 4 issues (with a zero issue, and more cards as well!).Well, it was the 1990s, and bagging and selling comics as collectibles was the rage!First up in their original comics were two issues ofas the "Official Continuation of the Hit Movie" byand(with covers by) in November and December, 1993 (just the two issues)......and of course, bagged with 3trading cards!The next original series up wasfrom March to June, 1994 with stories by, and art by, and covers byfor 4 issues as "the biggest Blockbuster ever continues!".Still more adventures of Dr. Alan Grant and Dr. Ellie Sattler facing off against dinosaurs!Really neat, and reprinted in Topps', whileandhadandAfter the dinosaurs attacked, then they'd hijack, and that was the following mini-series of 4 issues byand...tofrom July to November, 1994.Hmm...it does seem like they are just cloning these books as they go along (but, go with it, as cloning dinosaurs was the theme of the movie....), and these tales were reprinted intoJurassic Park had it's one and only annual (with) in May of 1995, with 2 all-new stories and art byand......but, never count a Velociraptor or a Tyrannosaurus Rex out at any time, as they return more than Jason did in(also a property used by Topps Comics!).A slightly new title was made to the new series ofthat started in April of 1995 and ran nine issues until February of 1996.Issuestoofwere done byandthroughwere byandwith the storyline of "Heirs To Thunder"......then, the final issue of this run of the series, which came out in February, 1996, was a "Jurassic Jam" issue, featuring work by writersandand a dinosaur-sized set of talented artists including, andand a cover byhad a sequel in 1997 called, set four years after the original movie, and it dealt with more dinosaurs (as well as the return of Ian Malcolm) to deal with the mistakes made when John Hammond unleashed these cloned dinosaurs on the world as the Bowman family dealt with new threats off the coast of Central America (and Peter Ludlow, the nephew of John Hammond), tried to take over InGen (the parent company that started this mess) and the dinosaurs.This time around, for the comic series of(May to August, 1997),provided the covers,did the comic writing, and the art was provided byforand, and byforandAlso added this time around were photo cover variants for the issues....but, soon after this, Topps Comics was as dead as the dinosaurs.Still, IDW Publishing got the rights to, and it made tradepaperback collecting these series...hastohasand, andtohas, andtohasto, andhastoIDW has even made its own adaptations as well, continuing on the work started by Topps, and continuing the hard work to resurrect dinosaurs, with its own 5 issueseries from June to October, 2010 (byand), 5 issues offrom September, 2011 to January, 2012 (byand), and 4 issues offrom January to April, 2011 (by) ....when will they ever learn not to clone things from left behind DNA?