Kingsman: The Secret Service (comics)

Kingsman
The current logo of the franchise.
Publication information
Publisher	Comic series Icon Comics Film series 20th Century Fox
Format	Limited series
Genre	Spy
Main character(s)	Comic series Gary "Eggsy" London Jack London Film series Gary "Eggsy" Unwin Harry Hart
Creative team
Written by	Mark Millar
Artist(s)	Dave Gibbons

Kingsman is a British-American media franchise focused on the fictional organisation "Kingsman", which originally appeared in a UK-made spy action-comedy comic book series written by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons, colored by Angus McKie, edited by Nicole Wiley Boose, published by Icon Comics, an imprint of American published Marvel Comics. Volume 1 of this series, released in 2012, deals with a super-spy recruiting his young nephew to the secret service, channeling the classic James Bond films, and other spy thrillers. The first volume of the series was originally known simply as The Secret Service and was rebranded to tie-in with the 2014 film of the same name The comic series is set in Mark Millar's shared universe, the "Millarverse"; with the celebrity kidnappings taking place in Kingsman Vol. 1 being referenced in Kick-Ass 3 #8. A stand-alone sequel set in both the continuity of the original comic and that of the film series, subtitled The Big Exit, was released in the September/October 2017 issue of Playboy Magazine, by Rob Williams with art from Ozgur Yildirim. The second volume of Kingsman, subtitled The Red Diamond, was released through Image Comics in September 2017. A feature film loosely based on The Secret Service, directed by Matthew Vaughn and co-written by Jane Goldman, was released in February 2015. The film stars Colin Firth, Taron Egerton, Michael Caine, Samuel L. Jackson, Mark Strong, Sophie Cookson, Sofia Boutella, Jack Davenport, and Mark Hamill. A sequel to this film, subtitled The Golden Circle, was released in September 2017.