History
Originally, Holy Avenger was an adventure for a D&D game published in the RPG magazine Dragão Brasil, issues #44 to #46, in 1998. Positive feedback encouraged author Marcelo Cassaro to do something more with the characters, and gave him the general idea of the published adventure. In 1999, Cassaro made up his own RPG setting, called "Tormenta" (Storm, referencing an extraplanar storm that afflicted the campaign setting's world), which has been very successful with Brazilian RPG fans. He included the Holy Avenger characters in this new RPG setting. As he had already had modest success publishing his own comic books, in 1999 he teamed up with Erica Awano to start an ambitious project – a brand-new ongoing monthly comic series, an idea that had almost no chance of surviving in the Brazilian market.
Initially, sales were highly unsatisfactory, but after about 10 issues the magazines took off.
The series was sent back to the newsstands through the short-lived Holy Avenger VR, which lasted only seven editions, and through Holy Avenger Reloaded, which had more pages and extra material.
After 42 issues and a handful of spinoffs, an even more ambitious project is at a starting phase: a Holy Avenger animated series.
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