al'Lan Mandragoran
Few characters arrive in comics carrying the weight of an entire fantasy epic the way al'Lan Mandragoran does. Debuting in 2005's The Wheel of Time: New Spring #5 — brought to the page by the creative team of Chuck Dixon, Robert Jordan, Mike Miller, and Carlos Rafael for Dynamite Entertainment — Lan is a Modern Age figure whose roots run deep in one of fantasy literature's most beloved sagas. Across nearly two decades and 30 catalog appearances, he strides through adaptations of New Spring, The Eye of the World, and The Great Hunt, keeping extraordinary company alongside Moiraine Damodred, Rand al'Thor, and the whole unforgettable cast of Jordan's world. For fans of the novels hungry to see the Wheel of Time universe rendered in ink and color, Lan is an essential presence — a figure of brooding gravity at the heart of some of Dynamite's most ambitious fantasy comics work.
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