Dark Horse Comics

Dark Horse Comics is a prominent American comic book publisher and manga translator. It was founded in 1986 by Mike Richardson in Milwaukie, Oregon. They translated the Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia on October 23, 2018, in partnership with Nintendo, after success with translating several The Legend of Zelda books. They also translated The Art of Super Mario Odyssey on October 22, 2019.

History
Dark Horse publishes many different comics and manga, including Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Predator, RoboCop, Planet of the Apes, Astro Boy, Ghost in the Shell and Akira. Before publishing Mario books, Dark Horse translated The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia, The Legend of Zelda: Arts & Artifacts, The Legend of Zelda Encyclopedia, and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Creating a Champion for the Legend of Zelda series.

Criticisms
With the English translation of the Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia, criticisms against Dark Horse Comics happened for taking fan names for enemies and characters lacking official English names. They also took transliterated Japanese names for some enemies, leading to inconsistent names for the Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins enemies. The book also contained several translation errors, such as conflating different enemy species as the same thing, including Spoing and Scuttlebug.