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Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons

television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ123250200 ↗
Source-derived summary

Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons (also stylized as Rick and Morty vs. D&D) is a crossover American comic book series, published by IDW Publishing and Oni Press, based on the adult animated science fiction sitcom Rick and Morty and the tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons which follows the characters from the former series in the setting of the latter.

The series was written by Jim Zub, co-written by Patrick Rothfuss (volume 1) and Sarah Stern (volume 2), illustrated by Troy Little with colors by Leonardo Ito. In 2022, Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons and Dragons Deluxe Edition (2021) was nominated for the "Best Graphic Album—Reprint" Eisner Award.

Publishing history

IDW Publishing and Oni Press jointly published the original limited series across fours issues from August 29, 2018 to January 30, 2019. In April 2019, they released a collected hardcover edition of the Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons (2018) series, titled Rick and Morty + Dungeons & Dragons Comic Book and Campaign, which also included character sheets, extra art and the adventure module "The Temple Of Glorb". The module, designed by Adam Lee, is a 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons adventure aimed at four to six Level 1 player characters.

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“Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons” enters the record as television series. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Rick, Morty and Dungeons can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2022, 2021, 2018, 2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Rick, Morty and Dungeons.
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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q123250200. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2022, 2021, 2018 and 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.