1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1993rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 993rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 93rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1990s decade.
Real World Events
January
- Issue #1 of the comic series Aliens: Colonial Marines is released.
- Issue #1 of Previews, containing part one of the story Aliens: Earth Angel, is released.
February
- Issue #1 of the comic series Predator: Race War is released.
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- Actor Tip Tipping is killed in a parachuting accident.
March
- Issue #9 of Aliens magazine, containing part one of the story Aliens: Sacrifice, is released.
April
- Issue #1 of the comic series Aliens: Rogue is released.
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- The novel Aliens: Nightmare Asylum, written by Steve Perry, is published.
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- Alien Convention '93 is held at Queensway Hall, Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England.[1][2]
May
- Issue #10 of Dark Horse Comics, containing part one of the short story Predator: The Pride at Nghasa, is released.
June
- Issue #12 of Aliens magazine, containing the story Alien3: Terminal Addiction, is released.
July
- Issue #1 of the comic series Aliens vs. Predator: Deadliest of the Species is released.
- Issue #11 of Dark Horse Comics, containing the short story Aliens: Taste, is released.
- Issue #13 of Aliens magazine, containing part one of the story Aliens: Crusade, is released.
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- The novel Aliens: The Female War, written by Steve Perry and Stephani Perry, is published.
August
- Issue #12 of Dark Horse Comics, containing part one of the short story Aliens: Backsplash, is released.
September
- Issue #1 of the comic series Aliens: Labyrinth is released.
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- The Compleat Aliens is released.
October
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- The Alien War attraction opens at its permanent home in the London Trocadero.
November
- The comic Aliens: Salvation is released.
- Issue #15 of Dark Horse Comics, containing part one of the short story Aliens: Cargo, is released.
December
- Issue #1 of the comic series Predator: Bad Blood is released.
- Issue #16 of Dark Horse Comics, containing part one of the short story Predator: The Hunted City, is released.
- Issue #1 of the comic series Batman versus Predator II: Bloodmatch is released.
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- The novel Aliens: Genocide, written by David Bischoff, is published.