Pacific Comics
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Pacific Comics was one of the independent comic book publishers that flourished in the early 1980s.
Pacific Comics (PC) began out of a San Diego, California comic book shop owned by Bill and Steve Schanes. They, along with First Comics and Eclipse Comics, moved to take advantage of the growing direct market. PC managed to attract a number of writers and artists from DC and Marvel with creator-owned titles. And as they were not subject to the Comics Code they were able to use more mature content.
Notable titles by PC included the six-part adaptation of Elric of Melniboné by Roy Thomas, P. Craig Russell and Michael T. Gilbert, Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers and Silver Star by Jack Kirby; The Rocketeer by Dave Stevens; Groo the Wanderer by Sergio Aragones, Mark Evanier, and Stan Sakai; and Twisted Tales and Alien Worlds, two anthology titles edited, and chiefly written, by Bruce Jones.
Pacific Comics ceased operations in 1984, with some of the surviving titles going to First Comics and Eclipse Comics.
[edit] Titles
- Alien Worlds (moved to Eclipse)
- Berni Wrightson Master of the Macabre (moved to Eclipse)
- Bold Adventure
- Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers
- Edge of Chaos
- Elric of Melniboné (further series at First)
- Groo the Wanderer (moved to Eclipse)
- Mars
- Ms. Mystic (next appears at Continuity Comics)
- Pacific Presents (first appearance of The Rocketeer)
- Rog-2000
- Silver Star (later appeared at Topps Comics)
- Silverheels (moved to Eclipse)
- Skateman
- Somerset Holmes (moved to Eclipse)
- Starslayer (moved to First)
- Sun Runners (moved to Eclipse, later Sirius and Amazing Comics)
- Twisted Tales (moved to Eclipse)
- Vanguard Illustrated (first appearance of Mr. Monster)
- Vanity
[edit] External links
- Pacific Comics page at International Superheroes
- San Diego Reader: Two Men and their Comic Books Jay Allen Sanford's long profile (over 11 000 words) of Pacific Comics
