AMP Comics has secured the rights to publish comics based on the 1981-83 television show The Greatest American Hero, and William Katt, who played the title role, will be part of the creative team, serving as Executive Producer. Katt will also reprise his role as Ralph Hinkley, a high school teacher who gets super powers when aliens gift him a special suit. The comics will feature new stories in the same vein as the show.
In addition to Katt, the creative team will include Tawnia McKiernan, daughter of the late Stephen J. Cannell, who created the series. AMP Comics CEO Don Handfield will write the initial arc, and other writers, including Editor-in-Chief Joshua Malkin, will handle the later issues. No artist was announced.
AMP plans to launch the series in 2026, and planned promotion includes signings and a fan celebration, with Katt and other members of the cast, at San Diego Comic-Con in 2026.
Katt wrote his own three-issue miniseries, based on the pilot episode for the show, in 2008, self-publishing it under his Catastrophic Comics label in conjunction with Arcana Studios (see “Confessions of a Comic Book Guy—Next Year in San Diego”).
AMP launched in 2024 and has strategic partnerships with Kodansha Comics and game publisher The OP (see “Two Publishers and a Universe to Launch at Comics-Con”).
Source: ICv2
