Scarlet (Icon Comics)

Scarlet is a creator-owned comic book series written by Brian Michael Bendis and illustrated by Alex Maleev. It was initially published by Marvel Comics under the company's Icon imprint and later published by DC Comics under the company's Jinxworld imprint.^[1]

Scarlet
The cover for Scarlet #1.
Publication information
Publisher	Icon Comics Jinxworld
Schedule	Bimonthly (irregular)
Format	Ongoing series
Publication date	July 2010 – March 2019
No. of issues	(vol. 1): 10 (vol. 2): 5
Creative team
Created by	Brian Michael Bendis Alex Maleev
Written by	Brian Michael Bendis
Artist(s)	Alex Maleev
Letterer(s)	Chris Eliopoulos (vol. 1) Joshua Reed (vol. 2)
Colorist(s)	Alex Maleev
Editor(s)	C. B. Cebulski (vol. 1) Michael McCalister (vol. 2)

The series is about a young woman named Scarlet Rue from Portland who rebels against a corrupt society and ends up starting a new American revolution in the process. The series often breaks the fourth wall in that the protagonist talks to the reader of the comic.

Bendis and Maleev previously collaborated on Daredevil, Spider-Woman, and Halo: Uprising. Scarlet was published on an irregular schedule.

Collected editions

Title	Release Date	Publisher	Format	Pages
Book 1	July 20, 2011	Icon Comics	Hardcover	184
Book 2	September 13, 2016			176
Volume One	April 30, 2019	Jinxworld	Trade paperback	144

Television series

In 2016, Cinemax began developing a television series based on the comic.^[2]