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Newbury Comics began as a comic book vendor on Newbury Street in Boston. The company was founded in 1978 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology students John Brusger and Mike Dreese. Dreese also published Boston Rock , a music tabloid which was active from 1980 to 1987 that focused on punk , new wave and indie bands.
The first issue was promoted on the cover of the May 2018 Previews catalog from Diamond Distribution, [13] then released on July 11, 2018. [3] Comic specialty stores ordered around 27,000 copies of the first issue. [14] Initial sales were strong, and the second issue received a second printing. [15]
The series was a commercial success upon release, with a second printing being ordered two days after the first issue's debut. It also received positive reviews from critics. [ 2 ] [ 6 ] ComicBook.com gave the series' first issue a positive review, praising the series' distinctiveness, characters and handling of complex themes related to hatred ...
Eclipse Comics was an American comic book publisher, one of several independent publishers during the 1980s and early 1990s. In 1978, it published the first graphic novel intended for the newly created comic book specialty store market. It was one of the first to offer royalties and creator ownership of rights.
John Lindley Byrne (/ b ɜːr n /; born July 6, 1950) is a British-born American [1] comic book writer and artist of superhero comics.Since the mid-1970s, Byrne has worked on many major superheroes; with noted work on Marvel Comics's X-Men and Fantastic Four.
Caliber Comics or Caliber Press is an American comic book publisher founded in 1989 by Gary Reed.Featuring primarily creator-owned comics, Caliber published over 1,300 comics in the decade following its inception and is ranked as one of America's leading independent publishers.
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Going on sale in December 1940, a year before the bombing of Pearl Harbor and already showing the hero punching Hitler, that first issue sold nearly one million copies. [ 8 ] With the hit characters Human Torch and Sub-Mariner now joined by Simon and Kirby's seminal patriotic hero Captain America , Timely had its "big three" stars of the era ...