The Dark Tower

is a 30-issue, five-arc series of comics based by Marvel Comics on Stephen King's novel series. It is plotted by Robin Furth, scripted by Peter David, and illustrated by Jae Lee and Richard Isanove. King serves as Creative and Executive Director of the project. is a one-issue comic book, which serves as a prequel and spin-off of both Stephen King's novels and as a spin-off story to Marvel's three previous comic book limited-series. Unlike previous Dark Tower comic book series, which follow Roland Deschain and his , follows the life and motives of The Dark Tower villain Marten Broadcloak. The comic was previously solicited for a March 11, 2009 release date but has since been pushed back and released April 15, 2009.

Roland's ka-tet remains intact, though scattered over wheres and whens. Susannah-Mia has been carried from the Dixie Pig (in the summer of 1999) to a birthing room – really a chamber of horrors – in Thunderclap's Fedic Station; Jake and Father Callahan, with Oy between them, have entered the restaurant on Lex and 61st with weapons drawn, little knowing how numerous and noxious are their foes. Roland and Eddie are with John Cullum in Maine, in 1977, looking for the site on Turtleback Lane where "walk-ins" have been often seen. They want desperately to get back to the others, to Susannah especially, and yet they have come to realize that the world they need to escape is the only one that matters.

Free Exploration programmed Dark Tower: Drive your chariot through the dark and dangerous towers, but don't get lost! Oh no, you must be lost, like those warriors trapped forever in the dark tower

Complete the Trials of Kornath to learn the location of The Dark Tower. Defeat the creature that lurks there, the one behind the events that transpired in The Curse of Feldar Vale and Mystery at Morgoth. An adventure for 4-6 characters of Level 6-15, loosely based on D&D Open Game License (1e/2e).

King's fantastical and allegorical "Dark Tower" series commenced in 1982 with the publication of The Gunslinger. Subsequent volumes have appeared about every five years thereafter. The Gunslinger introduces protagonist Roland as he pursues the Man in Black through bleak and tired landscapes in a world that has "moved on."

The Dark Tower is a series of seven books written by American author Stephen King between 1982 and 2004. The series incorporates themes from multiple genres, including fantasy fiction, science fantasy, horror and western elements. They describe a gunslinger's quest toward a tower whose nature the books call both physical and metaphorical. King has described the series as his magnum opus…