List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer comics

While many comic books based on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer were published when the television show was on air they are not all considered canonical and often deal with characters who do not appear in the television series, most notably in the Tales of the Slayers and Tales of the Vampires mini-series.

The first series of books were published by Dark Horse Comics between 1998 and 2004, originally in comic format but then gathered into volumes of trade paperbacks. A small number of Buffy comics have not been included in trade paperbacks, such as the books entitled "Giles", "Jonathan", and "Reunion".

Following the television series finale, Dark Horse began releasing new books titled Season Eight, Nine, and Ten, and various spin-offs, which are written and/or supervised by creator Joss Whedon and officially recognized as canon to the show. In 2005, Dark Horse allowed the rights to produce the comics for Buffy's companion show Angel to lapse, and they were picked up for a short time by IDW Publishing, which released the canon series Angel: After the Fall among other non-canon titles. Dark Horse reacquired the rights in 2010 and went on to release the series Angel & Faith and Angel.

In 2018 it was announced after 20 years at Dark Horse Comics, the license for Buffy and all related material will transfer to Boom! Studios. The first issue of the reboot series was released in January 2019.

Buffy comics have a long history, with comics produced during the lifetime of the run of the show generally considered "non-canonical", with notable exceptions written by Joss Whedon himself. Buffy comic books published during the period 2007–2018 told the "official" continuation of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, with series creator Joss Whedon acting as the primary writer and working with other writers from the television series writers room to continue Buffy's story.

In common with most ancillary media for TV shows such as novels and video games, storylines for the original Dark Horse comic books that aired during the original run of the show were "approved" by both Fox and Joss Whedon as part of a wider wave of Buffy merchandise. Stories in the original issues 1–63 for example of the Buffy comics were published while the show was on air and purported to take place "between episode"s of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series, but remained difficult to place definitively other than the season they are set in. However, plot elements or character details introduced within these stories would not be followed by episodes of the TV show. Other later storylines in this era of the comics attempted to fill in the gaps following character exits in the show (as with the Oz comic) or during the time between seasons five and six (as with The Death of Buffy) without introducing information that could be contradicted by the show's official storyline.

Buffy creator Joss Whedon distanced himself from these ancillary media written by authors, on a number of occasions, saying:

Canon is key, as is continuity.. I believe there's a demarcation between the creation and ancillary creations by different people. I'm all for that stuff, just like fanfic, but I like to know what's there's an absolutely official story-so-far, especially when something changes mediums, which my stuff seems to do a lot.