Super Mario Bros.

From 1990, Acclaim and Valiant brought the Mushroom Kingdom to comics, with writers Bill Vallely, Mark McClellan, and John Walker and artists George Wildman and John Costanza leading a six-issue run. The series follows Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool, Toad, and Bowser in adventures that captured the playful, platform-hopping spirit of the video games, even introducing the original character Wooster. A compact but fondly remembered piece of the early '90s licensed-comic boom, it stands as a snapshot of how beloved game characters were translated to the page before the modern era.