Jax and the Hellhound

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Jax and the Hellhound
Publication information
PublisherBlackthorne Publishing
ScheduleErratic
FormatLimited series
Genre
Publication dateNovember 1986 – 1987
No. of issues3
Creative team
Created by
Dennis Morales Francis

Jax and the Hellhound is a

Dennis Morales Francis and published by Blackthorne Publishing
.

The series was about a young man who traveled around the world helping the U.S. Government fight the bad guys and helping a canine demon keep the really bad creatures from entering our dimension. The combination of 1980's futility of the war on drugs mirrored the fantasy aspects of the policing of inter-dimensional space.

Plot

Jacob (Jax) Marosco is mentored by Mulu a Dimensional Occult Guardian. The three issue storyline centered on the

demi-god
Jareda who wished to attempt a resurrection in our dimension. Jax and Mulu are committed to stopping him at any cost; including their lives.

The début of Jax and Mulu online. Cover art by Dennis Francis. The story covered the

indie publishers
went out of business. The black and white comic book market never returned to the level of popularity seen in the mid-1980s.

Dennis Morales Francis also co created the critically acclaimed Street Wolf along with Mark-Wayne Harris. He also penciled XL, Locke, Major Lancer and the Starlight Squadron and other books for DC Comics, Blackthorne Publishing, Eclipse Comics
and other publishers.

The Jax and the Hellhound series has been resurrected by

Dennis Morales Francis as a full color graphic novel series and can be previewed online at www.graphic-novels.com
as well as [www.drunkduck.com].