It was written by Archie Goodwin with art by Al Williamson, Carlos Garzon with Dan Green and Ralph Reese.

[2][3] With a cover by Jim Steranko, the 45-page adaptation includes one possible explanation of the title's significance in story context: the narrative line, "Blade runner.

In the United Kingdom, it was reprinted as the Blade Runner Annual published by Grandreams.

[5] In the Netherlands, a Dutch language version of this comic was printed by Junior Press.

According to author Lawrence Raw, the Marvel adaptation was poorly received and widely ridiculed as having bad writing and misquoted lines of dialogue from the film script.