20 Things You Didn't Know About The Predator

After the success of Predator in 1987, Dark Horse Comics, then a fledgling company striving to compete with DC and Marvel, took a huge gamble and struck a licencing deal with Fox that would allow them to start creating comics based on the Predator concept. They did so in 1989 with a comic simply called "Predator" (later renamed Predator : Concrete Jungle.)

A year later, Dark Horse struck gold when they matched the Predator up against one of their other licenced properties, Aliens. What started out as a three-part story in their anthology Dark Horse Presents turned into a four-issue comic run of Predators fighting Xenomorphs in 1990 and they were off and running. (The well-known easter egg of a Xenomorph skull on the trophy wall in Predator 2 was the film's nod to the then-new comic.)

The Dark Horse Predator comics and crossovers have laid out stories that put Predators on Earth and interacting with humans for thousands of years : pre-Colombian Central and South America, during the Renaissance, during the pirate era, in pre-colonized North America, at Iwo Jima, in Cambodia during Vietnam, and in the American Old West.

Dark Horse has continued writing not only Predator stories, but Predator crossovers up to the present. While Aliens vs Predator has been their most successful crossover, it hasn't by any means been the only one...