RoboCop (comics) RoboCop (comics) RoboCop refers to a number of comic book series spun off from the feature film of the same name. The main character is a cybernetic police officer from Detroit who begins as a human police officer before his murder ultimately transformed him into the cyborg entity by the megacorporation Omni Consumer Products (OCP). Since his 1987 film debut, the RoboCop character and franchise have been exercised through numerous entertainment media, including multiple comic book mini-series and ongoing series. In March 1990, Marvel Comics released the first issue of an ongoing "RoboCop" superhero comic book series based on the
RoboCop (comics) to contribute to the project (which eventually led to the Avatar one-shot "RoboCop: Killing Machine"). William Christensen was interested in producing a comic adaptation of Miller's "lost" screenplay, of which he possessed a copy. Christensen soon got in contact with Miller, who was enthusiastic about the idea of his story finally being told uncensored. The series was personally overseen by Miller, based on his own unused screenplay for the film "RoboCop 2" and notes of unused ideas for "RoboCop 3"; however, scheduling prohibited him from personally writing the comic adaptation or illustrating it. It was written by Steven Grant, a