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Sabrina the Teenage Witch

Sabrina the Teenage Witch (Sabrina Spellman) is an Archie Comics half-witch created by George Gladir and Dan DeCarlo, debuting in Archie's Madhouse #22 (1962), later spanning animated series, the 1996 Melissa Joan Hart sitcom, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, and a 2026 Oni Press ongoing comic.

Saga (comics)

Saga is an epic space opera/fantasy comic by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples, published by Image Comics from March 2012, following lovers Alana and Marko fleeing a galactic war with their daughter Hazel, the narrator.

Saikano (最終兵器彼女)

Saikano (最終兵器彼女, Saishū Heiki Kanojo; She, the Ultimate Weapon) is Shin Takahashi's seinen war-romance manga serialized in Big Comic Spirits, 7 volumes, about high-schooler Chise weaponized by the JSDF, adapted as a 2002 GONZO anime and 2006 live-action film.

Sailor Moon

Sailor Moon (美少女戦士セーラームーン, Pretty Soldier/Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon) is Naoko Takeuchi's shōjo manga serialized in Nakayoshi from 1992 to 1997, adapted by Toei into an anime from March 1992, about Usagi Tsukino, guardian of love and justice.

Saint of Killers

The Saint of Killers is a fictional gunslinger in the comic book series Preacher, created by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon and first published by DC in 1995.

Salem Saberhagen

Salem Saberhagen is the talking black cat familiar of Sabrina Spellman in Archie Comics and Sabrina the Teenage Witch. A warlock sentenced to 100 years as a cat for world domination; created by George Gladir and Dan DeCarlo, voiced by Nick Bakay.

Savage Dragon

Savage Dragon is an ongoing Image Comics superhero series by Erik Larsen, featuring the green, fin-headed amnesiac Dragon, later his son Malcolm Dragon. Launched via a 1992 miniseries and ongoing since 1993, it runs in real time and is among the longest-running creator-owned comics.

Savita Bhabhi (सविता भाभी)

Savita Bhabhi (सविता भाभी) is India's first online pornographic comic strip, an Indian Porn Empire webcomic about a housewife, launched around 2008 and blocked by the government in July 2009.

Secret Avengers

Secret Avengers: three Marvel Comics series (2010–2015) about Steve Rogers' covert Avengers unit blending espionage and superhero action, written successively by Ed Brubaker, Warren Ellis, Rick Remender, Nick Spencer, and Ales Kot.

Secret Invasion

Secret Invasion: 2008 Marvel Comics crossover event by Brian Michael Bendis and Leinil Francis Yu, an eight-issue Skrull infiltration story between Civil War and Dark Reign, later adapted loosely as a 2023 Disney+ Nick Fury series.

Secret Six (comics)

Secret Six is a DC Comics team name: a 1968 group of blackmailed specialists led by Mockingbird, and Gail Simone's 2005 villain-mercenary team (Catman, Deadshot, Scandal Savage), revived by Nicole Maines in 2025.

Secret Society of Super Villains

Secret Society of Super Villains: DC Comics supervillain team created by Gerry Conway and Pablo Marcos, debuting 1976; secretly founded by Darkseid with Manhunter as front man; series ran 15 issues to 1978.

Secret Wars

Secret Wars names two Marvel Comics crossovers, the 1984 twelve-issue Beyonder Battleworld series by Jim Shooter and Mike Zeck, the 2015 Hickman/Ribic multiverse-destroying event with God Emperor Doom, and the Russo-directed MCU film set for December 17, 2027.

Secret Wars (2015 comic book)

Secret Wars (2015) is Marvel's Jonathan Hickman and Esad Ribić nine-issue crossover in which Earth-616 and the Ultimate Universe collide, leaving Battleworld ruled by God Emperor Doctor Doom; a basis for Avengers: Secret Wars.

Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos

Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos is a Marvel war comic launched May 1963 by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the debut of Nick Fury; 167 issues to 1981 with a racially integrated WWII squad.

Shimazaki in the Land of Peace

Shimazaki in the Land of Peace (Heiwa no Kuni no Shimazaki e, 平和の国の島崎へ) is a Kodansha Morning manga by Gouten Hamada and Takeshi Seshimo about an ex-LEL terrorist operative returning to Japan; Manga Taisho 2024 4th-place and Saito Takao Award winner.

Shinobi Undercover

Shinobi Undercover (しのびごと, Shinobigoto) is a Weekly Shōnen Jump manga by Ippon Takegushi and Santa Mitarashi (the Candy Flurry duo), running since 2024 issue 42, about ninja Yodaka protecting high schooler Aoi Mukai undercover.

Shmoo

Shmoo (plural shmoon), fictional gourd-shaped creature created by Al Capp, introduced in Li'l Abner on August 31, 1948; provides all human needs, sparked the 1948–1952 Shmoo Craze, and became an economics allegory.

Shōjo manga (少女漫画)

Shōjo manga (少女漫画, girls' comics) is Japanese manga marketed to female readers through girls' magazines, from prewar titles like Shōjo Club and Ribon no kishi (1953) to the weekly 1963 era, the Year 24 Group, and international hits like Fruits Basket.

Shonan Bakusozoku (湘南爆走族)

Shonan Bakusozoku (湘南爆走族) is a Japanese manga series by Satoshi Yoshida about a high-school biker gang on the Shonan coast, serialized from 1983 and selling over 29 million copies.

Sin City

Sin City is Frank Miller's black-and-white noir comic series set in Basin City, first serialized in Dark Horse Presents in 1991, collected in seven volumes, and adapted into Robert Rodriguez's 2005 and 2014 films.

Smurfette

Smurfette (Schtroumpfette) is the principal female Smurf in Peyo's Belgian comic franchise, created by Gargamel and made a real Smurf by Papa Smurf; she names the Smurfette principle of media criticism.

Snoopy

Snoopy is the fictional beagle of Charles Schulz's Peanuts comic strip, first appearing October 4, 1950. Known for the World War I Flying Ace persona, the Red Baron rivalry, Joe Cool, NASA's Apollo 10 naming, and global merchandising.

Snotgirl

Snotgirl is an ongoing Image Comics series (since July 2016) by Bryan Lee O'Malley and Leslie Hung about Lottie Person, a fashion blogger whose glamorous online persona hides severe allergies and insecurity; 20 issues and four volumes exist.

Snow White with the Red Hair

Snow White with the Red Hair (Akagami no Shirayukihime) is Sorata Akiduki's Hakusensha shojo fantasy romance manga, serialized since 2007 in LaLa DX then LaLa, 27 volumes, 8 million copies, adapted by Bones into a 2015–2016 anime.

Snowpiercer (graphic novel series)

Snowpiercer (Le Transperceneige) is a French post-apocalyptic graphic novel series by Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette, serialized 1982–83, about a class-divided perpetual train on a frozen Earth, later adapted into Bong Joon-ho's 2013 film and a TV series.

So What's Wrong with Getting Reborn as a Goblin?

So What's Wrong with Getting Reborn as a Goblin? (Tensei Goblin dakedo Shitsumon Aru?) is a Japanese reincarnation-fantasy manga by Nazuna Miki and Tsukasa Araki, serialized since 2020.

Soldier Boy

Soldier Boy (Benjamin) is The Boys character: three legacy comic superheroes created by Garth Ennis, and the TV version played by Jensen Ackles, Homelander's father, a Russian-captive Supe with a radioactive depowering blast, returning in Vought Rising (2027).

Someone Hertz

Someone Hertz (さむわんへるつ, Samuwan Herutsu) is a romantic comedy manga by Ei Yamano serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump since September 16, 2025, about two students competing to get jokes read on late-night radio; 500,000 copies and Next Manga Award 2026 print winner.

Spawn (character)

Spawn (Al Simmons) is the Image Comics anti-hero created by Todd McFarlane, debuting May 1992; a Hellspawn soldier of Malebolgia powered by finite necroplasm, star of the best-selling (1.7 million copies) and longest-running independent comic series.