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1986 In Comics
Events and publications Year overall * '' Batman: The Dark Knight Returns'', a four-issue limited series written and drawn by Frank Miller and published by DC Comics, debuts. It reintroduces Batman to the general public as the psychologically dark character of his original 1930s conception, and helps to usher in an era of "grim and gritty" superheroes from the mid-1980s to mid-1990s. *''Watchmen'', a twelve-issue limited series written by Alan Moore, illustrated by Dave Gibbons and published by DC Comics, debuts. To date, ''Watchmen'' remains the only graphic novel to win a Hugo Award,"AwardWeb: Hugo Award Winners" - ''Watchmen'' listed as a winner of the Hugo Award (retrieved 20 April 2006) and is also the only graphic novel to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dark Knight Returns
''The Dark Knight Returns'' (alternatively titled ''Batman: The Dark Knight Returns'') is a 1986 four-issue comic book miniseries starring Batman, written by Frank Miller, illustrated by Miller, and Klaus Janson, with color by Lynn Varley, and published by DC Comics. It tells an alternative story of Bruce Wayne, who at 55 years old returns from retirement to fight crime and faces opposition from the Gotham City police force and the United States government. The story also features the return of classic foes such as Two-Face and the Joker, and culminates with a confrontation against Superman, who is now a pawn of the government. When originally published, the series was simply titled ''Batman: The Dark Knight'', with a different subtitle for each issue (''The Dark Knight Returns'', ''Dark Knight Triumphant'', ''Hunt the Dark Knight'', and ''The Dark Knight Falls''), but when the series was collected into a single volume later that year, the title of the first issue was applied to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adventure Publications
Adventure Publications was an American comic book publisher founded by Steve Milo in 1986, based in Fairfax, Virginia and active from 1986 to 1993. In 1989, it merged with American publisher Malibu Comics, becoming the Adventure Comics imprint. Company history Founded in May 1986 by Steve Milo, the company was named for its first book, ''The Adventurers'', initially published by Canadian comics publisher Aircel. After the first two issues, Adventure Publications began publishing independently with a second printing of the first two issues, now cover titled simply ''Adventurers'' (though the indicia would retain ''The Adventurers'' usage through issue five). By March 1988, the company had five titles (''Adventurers'', ''Elf Warrior'', ''Ninja Elite'', ''Star Rangers'', and ''Warriors'') and had grown to the seventh largest of the approximately one-hundred comic publishers in the US. In January of 1989, Adventure Publications was acquired by American publisher Malibu Comics, whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lodestone Comics
Deluxe Comics was a short-lived comic book publishing company which published one title, ''Wally Wood's T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents''. History Deluxe Comics was a division of Singer Publishing, founded by David M. Singer (11 February 1957–24 August 2013). It lasted from 1984 to 1986. ''T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents'' controversy In 1984, Deluxe began publishing ''Wally Wood's T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents'', featuring some of the best artists of the era, including George Pérez, Dave Cockrum, Keith Giffen, Murphy Anderson and Jerry Ordway. Singer claimed the group was in the public domain, a claim disputed by John Carbonaro of JC Comics. In 1981, JC Comics had acquired the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents rights from defunct publisher Tower Comics (which had gone out of business in 1969). JC Comics had published several issues of ''T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents'' in 1983, the last of which through Archie Comics' Red Circle Comics line. A lawsuit initiated by Carbonaro was eventually settled in US District Court in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spotlight Comics
Spotlight Comics was an American comic publisher based in western Connecticut. It is best known for a short run of comic books based on licensed characters such as Mighty Mouse and Heckle and Jeckle that contained contributions from several major US comic book creators. Company history After beginning his career in collectible magazines such as the ''Comics Collector'' and ''Toy Values Monthly'', Richard "Rich" Maurizio and his then-significant other Kelley Jarvis wrote, drew, and published two issues of a comic entitled ''Samurai Squirrel: Master of the Sword'', under the publisher name Spotlight Comics starting in 1983. They also produced a comic containing reprints of the daily ''Stern Wheeler'' comic strip from ''The Hartford Times'', illustrated by Jim Aparo, and another comic, ''L. T. Caper, Agent for H.E.R.O. (the Higher Espionage Reinforcement Organization)'', written and drawn by Maurizio. Spotlight expanded into licensed character comics and acquired the rights to Migh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solson Publications
Solson Publications was a New York-based black-and-white comic book publisher active in the 1980s. The company was founded by Gary Brodsky, son of long-time Marvel Comics executive Sol Brodsky; the name of the company was derived from Brodsky's name: "Sol's son" = Solson. Titles published * ''Amazing Wahzoo'' * ''Blackmoon'' * ''The Bushido Blade of Zatoichi Walrus'' * ''Christmas Comic'' * ''Codename: Ninja'' * ''Escape To The Stars'' * ''Iron Maidens'' * ''Ninjutsu'' * ''Reagan's Raiders'' — by Monroe Arnold and Rich Buckler * ''Rich Buckler's Secrets of Drawing Comics'' * ''Rock Heads'' * ''Samurai Funnies Featuring...'' * ''Santeria: The Religion'' * ''Scream'' * ''Solson Christmas Special: Samurai Santa'' (1986) — featured Jim Lee's professional debut as an inker * ''Solson's Comic Talent Starsearch'' * ''Sultry Teenage Super-Foxes'' * ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' is an American media franchise created by the comic book artist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slave Labor Graphics
Slave Labor Graphics (SLG) is an independent American comic book publisher, well known for publishing darkly humorous, offbeat comics. Creators associated with SLG over the years include Evan Dorkin, Roman Dirge, Sarah Dyer, Woodrow Phoenix, Jhonen Vasquez, and Andi Watson. Company history Slave Labor Graphics was started in 1986 by Dan Vado,"Newspeak: Slave Labor in California," ''Speakeasy'' #65 (Aug. 1986), p. 4. who remains the company's president and publisher. The first book Slave Labor Graphics published was ''ShadowStar'' #3, a female superhero character previously published independently by some of Vado's friends. The company's first wave of titles — ''Samurai Penguin'', ''Barrabas'', ''Lee Flea'', and ''The Light'' — were all written by Vado, with art by a variety of creators. Other early titles, such as ''Hero Sandwich'' and ''It's Science With Dr. Radium'', were all created by friends of Vado's from high school. Slave Labor Graphics's first major success was ''S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pied Piper Comics
Pied Piper Comics was a short-lived American comic book publishing company that ran from 1986 to 1988. Most of the company's titles were picked up from other publishers, and then most later moved to David Campiti's Innovation Publishing. Pied Piper's black-and-white titles were published under its "Amazing Comics" imprint. Pied Piper's headquarters shifted frequently during its existence, from Grand Rapids, Michigan, to Wyoming, Michigan, and finally to Wheeling, West Virginia. David Campiti, before founding Innovation Publishing, packaged comics for Pied Piper Press through his studio Campiti and Associates, as well as personally editing the publisher's comics and writing titles like ''Hero Alliance'', ''Erin'', ''Ex-Mutants'', and ''Victor''. ''Who's Who of American Comic Books, 1928–1999''. Retrieved Dec. 25, 2021. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malibu Comics
Malibu Comics Entertainment, Inc. (also known as Malibu Graphics) was an American comic book publisher active in the late 1980s and early 1990s, best known for its Ultraverse line of superhero titles. Notable titles published by Malibu included '' The Men in Black'', ''Ultraforce'', and ''Night Man''. The company's headquarters was in Calabasas, California. Malibu was initially publisher of record for Image Comics from 1992 to 1993. The company's other imprints included Adventure, Aircel and Eternity. Malibu also owned a small software development company that designed video games in the early to mid-1990s called Malibu Interactive. History Origins Malibu Comics was launched in 1986 by Dave Olbrich and Tom Mason (joined by Chris Ulm in 1987) thanks to the financing of Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, who was operating a comic book distribution company (Sunrise Distributors) at the time. Olbrich had previously been managing editor of the trade publication ''Amazing Heroes'', as well as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gladstone Comics
Gladstone Publishing was an American company that published Disney comics from 1986 to 1990 and from 1993 to 1998. The company had its origins as a subsidiary of Another Rainbow Publishing, a company formed by Bruce Hamilton and Russ Cochran (publisher), Russ Cochran to publish the Carl Barks Library and produce limited edition lithographs of Carl Barks oil paintings of the Disney ducks. The name references Gladstone Gander. Reprints of classic Donald Duck stories by Carl Barks and Mickey Mouse stories by Floyd Gottfredson were the foundation of their output. Don Rosa, William Van Horn, and Pat Block are among the modern Disney comics artists who got their start at Gladstone. Some of the Van Horn stories had scripts by frequent collaborator John Lustig. The company also published translations of European Disney comic book stories produced by Egmont (media group), Egmont, Oberon and Mondadori. These included stories by such famed creators as Romano Scarpa, Marco Rota, Daan Jippes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fantagor Press
Richard Corben (October 1, 1940December 2, 2020) was an American illustrator and comic book artist best known for his comics featured in '' Heavy Metal'' magazine, especially the ''Den'' series which was featured in the magazine's first film adaptation in 1981. He was the winner of the 2009 Spectrum Grand Master Award2009 Spectrum Grand Master Announced from '''' and the 2018 Grand Prix at Angoulême. In 2012 he was elected to . ...
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Eternity Comics
Eternity Comics was a California-based comic book publisher active from 1986 to 1994, first as an independent publisher, then as an imprint of Malibu Comics. Eternity published creator-owned comics of an offbeat, independent flavor, as well as some licensed properties. One of its most notable titles was ''Ex-Mutants''. Eternity was also notable for reprinting foreign titles, and introducing '' Cat Claw'', '' The Jackaroo'', and the '' Southern Squadron'' to the U.S. market. Such well-known creators as Brian Pulido, Evan Dorkin, Dale Berry, Ben Dunn, Dean Haspiel, and Ron Lim got their starts with Eternity. History Origins Eternity began publishing in 1986, debuting with such titles as ''Earthlore'', ''Gonad the Barbarian'', ''The Mighty Mites'', ''Ninja'', and ''Reign of the Dragonlord'' (with only ''Ninja'' lasting more than a couple of issues). Scott Mitchell Rosenberg In April 1987, ''The Comics Journal'' revealed that Eternity had been financed, along with Amazing Com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
