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The popularity of ''The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'' film-series and of its main character, Leatherface, led to the publication of several comic books based on the franchise. In 1991, Northstar Comics released a miniseries titled ''Leatherface'' — a loose adaptation of ''Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III'' — that ran for four issues. In 1995, Topps Comics released ''Jason Vs. Leatherface'', a three-issue miniseries that had Jason Voorhees of ''Friday the 13th'' fame moving in with Leatherface and his cannibalistic family. After the success of the 2003 remake of ''The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'', New Line Cinema set up a "House of Horror" licensing division which licensed the ''Texas Chainsaw Massacre'' franchise to Avatar Press for use in new comic-book stories, the first of which appeared in 2005. In 2006, Avatar Press lost the license to the DC Comics imprint, Wildstorm, which subsequently published new stories based on the franchise. == Northstar Comics == Writer Mort Castle based the 1991 ''Leatherface'' miniseries loosely on the third ''Texas Chainsaw Massacre'' film. He stated: "The series was very loosely based on ''Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III''. I worked from the original script by David Schow and the heavily edited theatrical release of director Jeff Burr, but had more or less free rein to write the story the way it should have been told. The first issue sold 30,000 copies."〔(AUTHORS - MORT CASTLE - GLASS HOUSE GRAPHICS, INC www.glassghousegraphics.com ) 〕 Kirk Jarvinen drew the first issue, and Guy Burwell finished the rest of the series. The comics, not having the same restrictions from the MPAA, featured much more gore than the finished film. The ending, as well as the fates of several characters, also changed.〔 (Movie Maniac Comic Books )〕 The roles of the Sawyer family members and their personal backgrounds are also elaborated on, for instance Mama reveals that Grandpa was adopted into the family, Tinker is revealed to be a former hippy and Tex is seen to be the more sane family member, actually showing some signs of remorse. After completing ''Leatherface'', Northstar planned to publish other ''Texas Chainsaw Massacre'' miniseries and one-shots, which included an adaptation of the original 1974 film (previews of the first two covers of the miniseries were included in ''Leatherface'' #4) written by J. J. Birch, Tim Vigil and Val Mayerik; and two original one-shots entitled ''The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Portfolio'' (produced by Dave Dorman, J. J. Birch, Vince Locke and Guy Burwell) and ''Leatherface Special'', written by Mike Baron, which would have explored Leatherface's childhood. All of these comic projects went unpublished. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (comics)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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