Visual Imagination Ltd. was a British company that produced genre

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s. It was founded in 1985 by Stephen Payne and originally only published the

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magazine ''Fantasy Image''. After Payne bought the magazine ''

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'' from

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, its list of titles expanded to include: * ''Cult Times'' * ''

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'' * ''Movie Idols'' * '' Shivers'' * ''Space Junkk'' * ''

TV Zone ''TV Zone'' is a British magazine that was published every four weeks by Visual Imagination that covered cult television. Initially, it mostly covered science fiction, but branched out to cover other drama and comedy series. History ''TV Zone'' ...

'' * ''Ultimate DVD'' * ''The Works'' * ''XPosé'' It also published translated editions of some of the above in

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and

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. The company was disestablished in early 2009.

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