Predator: The Essential Comics Volume 1 is a trade paperback comic book published by Dark Horse Books on December 12, 2018. It was also published simultaneously in the digital format via Dark Horse Digital. It was part of the company's Essential Comics reissue program, which sought to collect and re-release the key comics from all of Dark Horse's Aliens, Predator and Aliens vs. Predator lines as easily-accessible trade paperbacks. The book's cover art was an amalgamation of the covers from Predator: Big Game #4 and the Predator: Cold War trade paperback, by Chris Warner and Ray Lago, respectively.
Publisher's Summary[]
The essential introduction to Predator in the comics!
Brutal, invisible, nearly unstoppable. He is the hunter from the stars... the Predator.
They seek the strongest, the most dangerous game — good or evil. They come in the hottest years (unless they crash land in the middle of a Siberian winter), and they don't leave until they've taken their quota of trophies (usually human skulls). But if NYPD detectives Schaefer and Rasche have anything to say about it, the hunt if over! From the Big Apple to the Russian steppes to the jungles of Central America, the detectives and their allies pursue their quarries. And they always get their... alien.