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{{Short description|Italian horror comics series}}
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|image               = Dylan Dog.jpg
|caption             = ''Dylan Dog'' No. 62 cover by Angelo Stano
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|publisher=[[Sergio Bonelli Editore]]
|startmo             = October
|startyr             = 1986
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|endyr               = present
|issues              = 445
|main_char_team      = Dylan Dog
|writers             = [[Tiziano Sclavi]]<br>[[Paola Barbato]]<br>[[Claudio Chiaverotti]]<br>[[Pasquale Ruju]]<br>[[Michele Medda]]<br>[[Alessandro Bilotta]]<br>[[Barbara Baraldi]]<br>[[Mauro Aragoni]]
|artists             = [[Angelo Stano]]<br>[[Bruno Brindisi]]<br>[[Corrado Roi]]<br>[[Claudio Castellini]]
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|TPB                 = Dylan Dog Casefiles
|ISBN                = 1-59582-206-2
|subcat              = Italian comics
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'''''Dylan Dog''''' is an Italian [[horror comics]] series created by [[Tiziano Sclavi]] and published by [[Sergio Bonelli Editore]] since 1986.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.guidafumettoitaliano.com/guida/testate/testata/2450 |title=Dylan Dog |website=Guida fumetto italiano |year=2017 |language=Italian}}</ref>

The series features the eponymous character, a [[occult detective|paranormal investigator]] who takes on cases involving supernatural elements such as ghosts, demons, vampires, undeads, werewolves and other creatures, but also horrifying sociopathic criminals and serial killers. It defies the whole preceding horror tradition with a vein of surrealism and an anti-bourgeois rhetoric. Dylan is supported mainly by his trusty sidekick Groucho (a [[Groucho Marx]] lookalike) who adds humour to this grisly genre and Dylan's sombre temperament. The series is mainly set in [[London]], where the protagonist lives, though he occasionally travels elsewhere.<ref name=fumettologica>{{Cite news|url=http://www.fumettologica.it/speciale/30-anni-dylan-dog-citazioni-primi-12-numeri/|title=Verso DylanDog30. Fonti e citazioni del DyD delle "origini"|website=[[Fumettologica]]|language=Italian|access-date=9 November 2023|archive-date=23 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170223214047/http://www.fumettologica.it/speciale/30-anni-dylan-dog-citazioni-primi-12-numeri/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[Dark Horse Comics]] has published the English version of ''Dylan Dog'' in the United States in 1999, 2002 and 2009; a new edition was published by Epicenter Comics as of 2017. Sergio Bonelli Editore also released a limited English variant edition in 2018. The series has sold over 60 million copies worldwide,<ref name=Senn>{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=AScSDgAAQBAJ |title= The Werewolf Filmography: 300+ Movies |author=Bryan Senn |date= 6 February 2017 |page=82|publisher= McFarland |isbn= 9780786479108 }}</ref> and is the second best-selling comic book in Italy after the ''[[Tex Willer|Tex]]'' series, another publication by Sergio Bonelli Editore, with over 120,000 copies sold each month.<ref name="Sales">{{cite news|url=http://www.fumettologica.it/2014/06/quanto-vendono-i-fumetti-bonelli-i-dati-2014/|title=Quanto vendono i fumetti Bonelli|language=it|publisher=Fumettologica|date=16 June 2014|access-date=9 January 2017}}</ref>

The film ''[[Cemetery Man]]'' (original title: ''Dellamorte Dellamore'', 1994) starring [[Rupert Everett]], was loosely based on the comics, but its main reference was Tiziano Sclavi's novel ''Dellamorte Dellamore''. A direct American film adaptation, ''[[Dylan Dog: Dead of Night]]'', starring [[Brandon Routh]], was instead released in 2011, although it was significantly different from the source material. A television series based on the comics is also in development.<ref name="Television">{{Cite web|url=https://www.staynerd.com/dylan-dog-serie-tv/|title = James Wan produrrà una serie TV di Dylan Dog!|date = 7 October 2019}}</ref>