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topps comics is a division of the american trading card publisher and gum / candy distributor the topps company, inc. that published comic books from 1993–1998 .
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( i’d actually like to see baseball scout guy and bombast’s adventures. re - open topps comics, please. )
topps company incorporated announced the formation of topps comics in march 1992. the company produced books until 1998 taking advantage of a short comics industry boom that attracted many investors and around 9 other new companies were formed in the same time period. the market experienced an increase in comic book market speculation that created inflated sales and the market eventually collapsed taking topps comics down with it in 1998 .
topps comics are back. the card maker has gotten back into printing them with the release of a weekly garbage pail kids comic .
that tradition stays true with the topps garbage pail kids comics. issues come with a pair of cards related to the featured issue .
topps comics is a division of the american trading card publisher and gum / candy distributor the topps company, inc. and were publishers of the x - files comics from january 1995 until september 1998. based in new york city, topps comics published its total output of comic books, the nature of which varied, from 1993 until 1998 but its best - selling title was the x - files .
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x files 1 / 2 wizard (9. 2) topps (b058 )
muldoon' s
death
( he is confirmed to have survived in the topps comics) is different than that of the film .
2011 topps marvel universe hero attax collectors card game box (capt. a poster )
web site: urltoken notes: topps company inc. was established in 1938 with the transformation of a brooklyn - based, family - owned tobacco - distribution business (american leaf tobacco) into the famous gum, confectionery and sports card company. from 1947 the interior of its gum wrappers often featured comics, including bazooka joe from 1953. the first topps cards were free with packs of gum in 1949, with baseball cards appearing from 1952, followed by pop culture and comics - related cards throughout the 1960s. in 1967, topps released a series of 16 eight - page, bubblegum card sized
krazy little comics
that parodied popular comics, including characters from marvel, dc and newspaper strips. from 1992 to 1998 topps published a range of comics, predominantly based on licensed properties. former marvel comics editor jim salicrup was editor - in - chief of topps comics. topps has a european division, formed from a takeover of merlin publishing prior to 1995 .
topps just released a jay lynch tribute set of trading cards this year, with classi clynch gags illustrated by contemporary artists. it’s only availabel onf the topps website until the 15th .
1994 topps jim lee' s wildc. a. t. s. box - factory sealed
topps x - files # 2 comic (6731 of 90, 000) cbcs 9. 8
apparently having not learned a lesson from the lack of success for the idw comic books, topps decided to release their own comics and sell them directly from their website .
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1993 topps * jim lee' s wildc. a. ts * covert action teams sealed box 36 packs
1964 mars attacks uk # 21 prize captive psa 1. 5 england a & bc 1962 topps abc rare
lucas, mark .
spotlight: duckman
. comics interview # 142, 1995, pp. 10 - 22. fictioneer books. interview with stefan petrucha on duckman (his other topps comics publication) with occasional mention of his x - files work .
rare sealed box of jim lee' s wildc. a. t. s trading cards by topps 1993 wildcats
series editor david waldeck added that this is the first card set of its type topps has released in 20 years .
stoker’s dracula # 1 nm marvel comic. horror comics lot of 5 modern issues all are # 1s. pinhead # 1 vf 1993 foil cover, marvel comics .
back in the early to mid 1990s, topps tried their hand at the comic business. topps comics covered many licensed properties, offering some synergy to their trading card lines. the x - files, jurassic park, xena: warrior princess and even bram stoker’s dracula had separate trading card and comic releases from the company .
star wars: tales of the jedi dark lords of the sith - topps ashcan! - (9. 2) 1994
topps comics is a division of the american trading card publisher and gum / candy distributor the topps company, inc. that published comic books from 1993–1998, beginning its existence during a short comics - industry boom that attracted many investors and new companies. it was based at 254 36th street, brooklyn, new york city, new york, and at one whitehall street, in new york city' s manhattan .
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topps takes aim at competitor fleer’s dubble bubble with bazooka, tagged as “the atom bubble gum. ” the chewy pink pads will be wrapped in jokey comics, starring eye patch - wearing bazooka joe and his motley crew, beginning in 1953. topps will become a leading candy maker, famous too for ring pops, push pops and other confections .
thompson, maggie .
comics guide
. comics buyer' s guide # 1116, 7 april 1995, p. 46. review of the x - files # 2 .
topps pushes the digital envelope by unleashing a trio of smartphone apps for its baseball and football devotees. topps pennant is for stats freaks, capturing the play - by - play and box scores from over 117, 000 mlb games, from last night’s results back to 1952. topps huddle and topps bunt lay down an interactive, fan vs. fan game that marries the science of fantasy sports with the art of card collecting, bringing the thrill of chasing your sports heroes to your iphone, ipod touch, and ipad .
( coming soon) this page provides a comprehensive look at garbage pail kids topps comics # 1, from advertising all the way to production. you can even flip through the entire comic book right here at geepeekay! enjoy !
copyright © 1996 - 2018 lone star comics inc. character images copyright © their respective owners .
however, the comics often came packaged with some exclusive promo cards as an additional selling point .
the rocketeer and other famous' 80s comics began right here in san diego... .
the kirbyverse is a reality based on character designs and story concepts that were unrealized projects and preliminary sketches from comic book legend jack kirby. topps comics accepted kirby' s ideas as they released them from obscurity in 1993 to 1994 .
bram stoker' s dracula # 1. or only bram stoker' s dracula comics. see all ourbram stoker' s dracula comics. view our101, 900 comics. near mint condition. in near mint condition. mint 8 yes. mint 7 no white yes no barely visible blunting yes .
got x - files comics? to find a comic shop near you, go to the comics shop locator service or call 1 - 888 - comicbook (1 - 888 - 266 - 4226) .
i shall be the hero who brings the brutes & babes - verse back to comics .
even though topps is synonymous with bubblegum cards printed on gray cardboard and sold in wax packs, the company has never rested on its laurels. collectors have long complained that the gum and wax stains cards, detracting from their value. so topps moves beyond all three traditions, dispensing altogether with the ubiquitous pink chew, switching to white card stock and sealing cards in plastic wrappers. keeping its finger on the pulse of the marketplace, topps makes other advancements in the early ’90s, such as the premium stadium club (1991) and super - premium topps finest (1993) brands .
another awesome estate find! 6 packs of unopened topps masters of the universe collector cards. sealed from 1984. you receive all shown in pics !
topps launches topps magazine, a fan - friendly quarterly that profiles superstars, tracks up - and - coming minor leaguers and red - hot rookies and generally celebrates the booming card - collecting hobby. top sportswriters sit down with perennial all - stars, from ken griffey to nolan ryan. readers look back at topps’ greatest hits, sneak peeks at new cards, enter dozens of contests to win valuable prizes and welcome expert advice on building their collections .
list of topps comics - literary adaptations / tie - ins... the frankenstein / dracula war # 1 - 3 mary shelley' s frankenstein ray bradbury comics # 1 - 5 (feb. - oct. 1993) ray bradbury' s the illustrated man # 1, a. k. a... prefixed a ray bradbury comics special ray bradbury' s martian chronicles # 1 (june 1994), a. k. a ...
article details ,
' what am i looking at, mulder?' licensed comics ...
van helsing vs. dracula # 1. cosmic comics exclusive. limited to 250. bagged and boarded .
( i feel like the blind guy is a beatnik, and i wish topps had done a series about his adventures. for mature readers only. )
the worst thing about the series is that it shows us how fun topps comics was, publishing everything from this to x - files to the kirbyverse (covered here and here, and we also look at another jason appearance here) with a large number of really good comics that drew from all sorts of source material. it’s a shame that topps didn’t survive to do sequels to this or to keep their other great titles going. alas, such is the fate of many a comic book company, especially during the 90’s .
in the early 1990s, kirby licensed his creator owned - characters to topps comics. existing characters and unused kirby - produced concepts from earlier decades were used for the so - called kirbyverse line of comic books. kirby himself did not contribute new work to topps. he attempted to make a comeback to the comic book medium with a comic book series called
phantom force
, but died in 1994 before its publication .
cover by mike mignola. 36 pgs. , full color. grade: fn. of comics, generally about 25 - 40 comics depending on page count. we buy tens of thousands of comics a month. we buy everything from large modern collections to individual high value golden age and silver age books and everything in between .
nintendo scratch off game packs cards stickers topps 1989 wax sealed case 12 / 24. please email us with any questions. good luck and thanks for looking .
wendy and richard pini' s elfquest and eclipse comics' first publication, sabre, both started in 1978 .
in 1987, the same legal loophole that allowed blackthorne to do star wars 3 - d comics landed them a license for the transformers, a popular tv cartoon that had been a big success as a marvel comics series .
but before this becomes longbox graveyard, let’s get back to the 90’s. two years deep into my heavy collecting days, topps comics launched the kirbyverse. i couldn’t believe it. topps was one of my older loves. i grew up a hardcore baseball fan, and i still deeply love baseball to this day. i used to buy baseball cards every summer and topps was one of the companies that made cards, so they and i were old pals. they had made some comics that i wasn’t interested in up until that time, including an adaptation of bram stoker’s dracula. i had the first issue of that, and i am unsure why i had such a boring adaptation of such a boring movie .
one of the reasons i chose this comic from the secret city saga first (i do plan to do them all someday !) was this appearance. the savage dragon is still going strong today, but he started with image comics when the biggest names in comics broke off from marvel to found their own company where they would all own their own characters. little epitomizes the 1990’s in comic books, particularly superhero comics, more than the image comics logo .
the first topps all - star rookie team—rookies from the 1959 season—appears in the card series, designated with a gold trophy symbol of a batter on a top hat and the phrase “selected by the youth of america. ” in an interesting twist, topps does not actually poll kids, but instead works with network of loyal retailers to pick the winners .
topps comics also published a comic book adaptation of the x - files movie, a four - issue adaptation of the x - files novel ground zero and a series of adaptations of the x - files episodes (nine issues of episodes from season 1 were published when the series was cancelled) .
van helsing vs dracula # 1. grimm fairy tales. cosmic comics. exclusive variant cover g. cover by tyndall .
wrapped in plastic # 13, date? . win - mill productions. contains article on the x - files comics .
thompson, maggie .
comics guide
. comics buyer' s guide # 1138, 8 sep 1995, p. 24. review of the x - files special edition # 1 and issues # 6 and # 7 of the regular series .
topps has announced a new comic book published today. a garbage pail kids comic called the worst of 2016. but it seems more of a object aimed at garbage pail collectors .
x - files / bad girls super special flip book, jul 1996, fictioneer books. reprint of comics interview # 147 .
rock' n' roll comics: the inside story - in 1989, local revolutionary comics (
unauthorized and proud of it
) launched rock' n' roll comics, featuring unlicensed biographies of rock stars, most of which i wrote. some performers, like frank zappa and kiss, were supportive, while others like new kids on the block considered our comics akin to bootlegs and sued. in june 1992, publisher todd loren was found dead in his san diego condo, brutally murdered ...
reprints dracula vlad the impaler (1993) # 1. i am dracula - written by roy thomas. art by esteban maroto. 32 pages, full color. grade: fn. of comics, generally about 25 - 40 comics depending on page count .
ol’ dean compton is back, and i do apologize for having been away so long. life has separated me from the 90’s comics i dearly love and treasure, and it has also separated me from all of you, but that shall happen no more! we hope to be back on track around here in time for early summer, and my portion starts right here with the rather fun (and gory) jason vs. leatherface from topps comics !
those first six pages of kirby genesis are a laundry list of things i am most snide about in big two comics right now .
topps star wars galactic files: reborn will be available feb. 15, 2017. boxes will offer 24 packs with eight cards each. no price or pre - order details are available yet .
brooklyn entrepreneur morris shorin’s four sons—abram, ira, joseph and philip— revive the family’s struggling tobacco - distribution business by creating topps chewing gum, inc. they actually borrow the now - famous topps moniker from a small chattanooga candy company of the same name that they bought. the name neatly doubles as their goal to be “tops” in selling penny - apiece tabs of gum called “change - makers. ”
item: dracula vs king arthur # 4. publisher: silent devil. i want your comics to arrive in the advertised condition just as much as you do. on lots that include more than one comic, the condition listed is for a majority of the comics included .
the x - files confidential, aug 1996, little brown. an unofficial episode guide through three seasons, including the novels and comics .
similar materials related to football, basketball and hockey cards will also go on sale, as will paintings and illustrations for cards of united states presidents, celebrities (topps did a'' who - z - at - star'' series in 1953), cars, monsters, boats, planes and comics.' wacky pack' paintings
jack kirby’s captain victory was revived in the ‘90s, planned for a short - lived publisher called topps comics, owned by the baseball card company. comics legend steve englehart wrote the revival. “i wrote three double - sized issues, ” he says on his website, “but the artist they chose for the interiors - not paul gulacy, [ who did the covers for # 1 and # 2 below ] - turned out to be not ready for prime time. they chose not to publish the issues they had, and by the time they went to look for a new artist the company was abandoning comics. ”
the company' s president was jim salicrup (born: may 29, 1957) who started his career at marvel where he started out as a messenger. in twenty years he worked his way up to editor and in 1992 he became the editor - in - chief of the newly formed topps comics until it' s demise in 1998 .
there will be no cards for sale, but there will be paintings and photographs that were used as illustrations for cards, proof sheets of cards and contracts between topps and players like carl yastrzemski, steve carlton, orlando cepeda and whitey ford. a canceled $ 5 check that topps sent willie mays as a signing bonus in 1956 is to be auctioned. guernsey' s has given no presale estimate for the check .
i ended up working at diamond’s san diego warehouse, alongside shambles singer / guitarist bart mendoza, as well as working at a retail comic shop in mira mesa, comics etc, inside a newberry' s store. later, i began writing the series rock' n' roll comics in 1989, a title that became one of the best - selling comics of the' 90s. in 1994, i founded re - visionary press, whose carnal comics, cocreated with well - known adult film stars, remain the best - selling adults - only comic line in industry history .
in 1969, topps released a set of trading cards based on the classic 1968 science - fiction film planet of the apes. the original set of trading cards proved so successful that topps released a set based on the 1975 television series and the 2001 reboot film by tim burton. this deluxe collection includes the fronts and backs of all 44 cards from the original 1969 topps set based on the original film; all 66 cards based on the 1975 television series; and all 90 base cards, 10 sticker cards, and 44 chase cards from the 2001 film. also included are four exclusive bonus trading cards, rare promotional images, and an introduction and commentary by gary gerani, editor of hundreds of trading card series for topps—all packaged in time for the release of the latest installment in the franchise, war for the planet of the apes .
a year after purchasing its main competitor, bowman gum co. , topps satisfies an even wider base of collectors and fans by producing cards for all four major sports. kids can covet cards featuring 1956 mvps in mlb (mickey mantle and don newcombe), the nba (bob pettit) and the nfl (frank gifford); alas, the canadiens’ jean beliveau wasn’t in the u. s. - team - only topps set. forever seeking innovations, topps reduces the size of its sports cards to the now - standard 2 ½” x 3 ½” dimensions, from the earlier 2 5 / 8” x 3 5 / 8” .
i noticed a lot of the new series rounding up topps episodes. the new ones, by wildstorm, are good, but they missed the first 13 issues. others collect the first ones, but are expensive. this is a better alternative. wildstorm 1 starts with issue 14, so you have to go back. this collection is the first 6 issues of the topps series, started in 1995, plus trick of the light, which is collected in one of the wildstorm collections (volumen 3, i think). topps 1, not to be opened until x - mas topps 2, the dismemberance of things past topps 3, a little dream of me topps 4 - 6 firebird parts 1 - 3 i really enjoyed the firebird series, but all of them have a nice flair. they also remind me of the thing i enjoyed in the past and miss, and only get little helpings of. the 30 days of night / x - files crossover was good too, and there have been 6 novels added to the series over the years and a bunch of teen readers. still, it isn' t much. the topps stuff is written by fans, you can see that, and are not going to be really insightful and are mostly done over monsters of killers, aliens, etc. still, its all good and x - files great. for fans of the series more than just readers of comics, for sure. 5 / 5 (to note, the x - files by brian denham, listed contains the same stuff minus one really short story. thought it was worth noting )
topps produced its first football cards in 1951 (college all - stars appeared in the magic set) and has been in the nfl game continuously since 1956. nonetheless, 1982 is the first year the league allows topps to show actual team logos on player photos and card designs. aware of collectors’ love of rarities, topps releases sets for other gridiron leagues, too, including the american football league and the short - lived united states football league, with usfl cards in 1984 and ’85. while jim kelly, steve young, reggie white and herschel walker would achieve superstardom in nfl uniforms, their usfl cards remain desirable objects of nostalgic desire .
the cost of each eight - page comic (and two cards) is $ 19. 99. bulk lots of five are $ 89. 99. issues are available for just one week through the topps website .
they specialized in licensed titles, particularly movie and tv series tie - ins. in 1993 they launched their first superhero line called' the kirbyverse', but they are mostly known for their bestselling comic books' the x - files'. they were hard to produce because, according to topps comics scripter tony isabella there were a lot of difficulties writing for chris carter, stating in an interview in 2000:' whoever was approving the comics over in chris carter land were the poster kids for anal retentiveness.'
comic shop news # 394, 11 jan 1995. contains
x - files becomes x - ceptional topps comic
, an interview with stefan petrucha by cliff biggers. cover reproduces the cover of x - files # 1 .
tjkc: so you actually got exposed to lots of comics stuff as a kid. little nemo is a pretty refined taste for someone who isn' t a comics fanatic. tracy: oh yeah. i had my favorites; i read a few and loved looking at the pictures. i vividly remember little nemo .
1988 - - the year in comics: bud plant distribution, which in 1984 had purchased pacific' s wholesale accounts in southern california, is up to seven warehouses with 80 employees. plant sells the business to diamond comics distributors, which has hired several pacific mainstays. ms mystic is published on a semi - occasional basis by neal adams' s own publishing company, continuity. sales on all comic books are dropping precipitously after a glut of self - published black - and - white comics. retailers who overordered titles, hoping for another teenage mutant ninja turtle¬like sales boom, are stuck with piles of unsold comics and going bankrupt .
stevens first rose to prominence illustrating a comic book series called pacific presents, published by miramar - based pacific comics in the early - to - mid ‘80s .
jack kirby agreed to let pacific publish a second creation, silver star, and the schaneses began to envision a line of comics representing a variety of genres. not esoteric black - and - white low - print - run underground comics like those being self - published by robert crumb and other west coast contemporaries in san francisco and l. a. , but full - color titles that emulated - - maybe even competed with - - the mainstream superhero comics from marvel and dc .
jurassic park iv is the final issue in topps comic adaptation of jurassic park and depicts the rest of the events in the film after dr. alan grant and lex murphy try not to be noticed by park' s tyrannosaurus rex .
over a million carnal comics are in print - here' s how and why we made some of the top - selling erotic comics of all time, right here in san diego, including what gene simmons has to do with it all, backstage tales of porn stars, and more confessions of a comic pornographer ...
vigoda, arlene .
comic x - stacy
. usa today, jan 18, 1995, one paragraph on x - files comics, with an illustration .
bruce jones was a fairly established comics scribe who' d written conan and red sonja comics for marvel, as well as short horror tales for creepy and eerie .
i got a call from steve schanes at pacific comics offering me just about carte blanche on my own line of books and the opportunity to move to sunny california ,
he says .
it was too much to resist .
jones moved to coronado and brainstormed and wrote two titles for pacific: twisted tales and alien worlds, anthology comics designed in the old tales from the crypt / weird science vein, with three or more self - contained
mature readers
stories in each issue .
movie hit theaters that may. no one expected the movie to become an instant classic, but as licensors scrambled to satisfy the huge demand for kids of all ages looking to own images of their favorite characters and scenes, topps was the first
unfortunately, sales on alien worlds 3 - d were disappointing, and there were mountains of unsold, expensively printed 3 - d comics taking up half a warehouse row .
this is a checklist of comics based on the x - files, a twentieth century fox television series created by chris carter. the list was last modified sep 2011 .
a lot of 4 vampirella comics, bagged and boarded and never read! included are vampirella # 1, # 2, dracula wars graphic novel, and vampirella flip book .
now obviously we are going to go deep into image comics during the unspoken decade, but for now the important thing to focus on is the fact that erik larsen owned savage dragon, not image comics. that made is easy for savage dragon to appear here, as there was little red tape to clear; they just had to ask erik .
combo # 16, may 1996. century publishing. interview with charles adlard by alex amado, pp. 34 - 35. contains artwork from the x - files comics .
unfortunately, most of blackthorne' s nonlicensed comics were poorly drawn imitations of other publishers' successful comics, like mirage' s teenage mutant ninja turtles. low - quality rip - offs pre - teen dirty jean kung fu kangaroos and cold - blooded chameleon commandos did nothing to offset blackthorne' s growing reputation for exploitative, low - budget, lowest - common - denominator publishing. mildly interesting blackthorne titles like nervous rex (by future disney comics mainstay william van horn) were usually overlooked and failed after only a few issues .
perenson, melissa j .
x - rated
. sci - fi universe # 6, apr 1995, p. 86. hg publications. interviews with stefan petrucha and jim salicrup, topps associate publisher and editor in chief for the x - files .
pacific was releasing more than just monthly four - color comics. the company also published a magazine - sized black - and - white reprint of rog 2000 stories that superstar marvel artist john byrne had done in the' 70s for long - gone charlton comics. under its parent company name, blue dolphin enterprises, pacific comics published a 108 - page sword - and - sorcery graphic novel called ghita of alizarr (1983) by red sonja artist frank thorne and a comic - strip reprint booklet famous movie stars of the' 30s (1984) .
we’ve been selling comics since 1961 (our first sale: fantastic four # 1 at $ 0. 25, see one of our first ads) and on the web since 1996 .
of course, pacific' s pipeline from the publishers direct to comic shops cut out the distribution firms that had long been supplying comics to retailers, under long - standing union contracts .
the sword of dracula # 2 3 4 5 6. the path # prequel 1 3 4 5 6. scion # 24 25 26 27. nice set of 15 different comics .
from 1956 to 1958, kirby was producing freelance work for dc comics and atlas comics (marvel comics), mostly as a writer and penciller, and occasionally as an inker. he contributed stories for characters such as the green arrow and the yellow claw, though he did not create any major characters of his own. his take on green arrow was considered controversial, as kirby included more science - fiction themes in the stories and was trying to revamp the character. green arrow co - creator mort weisinger reportedly hated kirby' s concept for the character .
by the late 1980s, the baseball card hobby is booming and topps is at the forefront. at the same time, collectors’ interest in sports nostalgia and memorabilia is rampant, another trend topps is nurturing. the company had shelved the bowman brand after purchasing its early rival in 1956, then in ’89 releases a set of bowman baseball cards. while harking back to the 1953 bowman design—right down to the larger 2 ½” x 3 ¾” size and up - close player photos—innovative stats on the back make the set a modern - day hit .
1992 / 1993 - - the year in comics: creator - owned comics are a hot topic once again, after the formation of image comics, cofounded by spawn creator todd mcfarlane and several other defectors from marvel' s top series. initially solicited and distributed by malibu comics, the titles are eventually taken over by the creators. dc ships between 2. 5 and 3 million copies of superman # 75, featuring the (obviously temporary )
death of superman .
they instantly vanish from shelves - - in detroit alone, an estimated 175, 000 copies sell in a single day. many buyers think they' re getting a surefire collector' s item, unaware that the availability of so many copies guarantees them to be worth little .
n night glider (1993) r ray bradbury comics (1993) ray bradbury comics special edition (1994) ray bradbury comics: trilogy of terror vol. 3 (1994) return to jurassic park (1995) the road to success (1965) s satan' s six (1993) satan' s six: hellspawn (1993) space: above and beyond (1996) space: above and beyond: gauntlet (1996) star wars galaxy collector (1998) star wars galaxy magazine (1994) t topps comics presents (1993) topps comics preview (1994) v victory (1994) w wizard ace edition (1996) wizard presents: lady rawhide (1996) wizard presents: mars attacks (1996) x the x - files afterflight (1997) the x - files collection (1995) the x - files comics digest (1995) the x - files ground zero (1997) the x - files magazine (1996) the x - files (1995) the x - files: fight the future (1998) the x - files: season one (1997) the x - files / hero illustrated special (1995) xena: warrior princess (1997) xena: warrior princess - bloodlines (1998) xena: warrior princess - the dragon' s teeth (1997) xena: warrior princess - the wrath of hera (1998) xena: warrior princess vs callisto (1998) xena: warrior princess: and the original olympics (1998) xena: warrior princess: the orpheus trilogy (1998) xena: warrior princess: year one (1997) xena: warrior princess / joxer: warrior prince (1997) z zorro (1993 )
ever since topps achieved success with their online exclusive offerings, their promotional efforts leave a little to be desired. aside from an email sent out to subscribers, and a facebook post advertising the comic, there wasn' t really anything else out there to promote the product .
1984 - - the year in comics: kevin eastman and peter laird self - publish 3000 copies of a new humor comic called teenage mutant ninja turtles. the supergirl film fails to set any box office records. most newsstand comics from marvel and dc cost 60 cents - - pacific' s direct - market titles, printed on upgraded baxter bond paper, cost $ 1. 00 .
new kids on the block vs revolutionary comics - the inside story of how a hugely successful boy band tried to sue local - based rock' n' roll comics over an unauthorized biography of the group, sparking a court case that established, for the very first time, first amendment rights for comic books. illustrated by comic superstar stuart immonen (superman, etc .) ...
the x - files special edition # 3 mar 1996 notes: collection of issues # 7 - 9. this issue also reprints a story from ray bradbury comics. ($ 4. 95 )
everyone who works in comics now is hellbent on bringing the 90' s back - - crossovers, title gluts, gimmick character deaths, gimmick costume changes. but who will stand up and say
pacific was also the first company to offer kirby royalty payments according to a comic' s sales figures: 8 cents on the dollar and 10 cents for comics selling over 100, 000 copies. if marvel comics, selling around 150, 000 copies on average, had offered royalties akin to pacific' s, this would have worked out to $ 13, 000 in payments to the artist .
published by marvel comics from 1991 to 1992 this mini - series ran for 4 issues. this copy has the normal cover and edge wear for a comic this age and grade other than as noted .
( 2) i spent a long time staring at page 3 of kirby: genesis which featured a lift from the scott pilgrim comics. i love scott pilgrim but seeing anything reminiscent of scott pilgrim in anyone else' s comics, especially anyone older than bryan o' malley is... not a good feeling that i want to describe to you using words instead of drawings of frowny faces .
this is a listing for (1) pack of 1984 topps - supergirl movie sticker cards - unopened wax pack as pictured. we will ship for free via usps first class mail. it will be well packaged in a bubble mailer. thanks for looking! please check out my other items !
expected to fetch equally high prices at the sale are tiny paintings of mr. mays and of jackie robinson, also done for 1953 cards - the only ones by topps to use paintings instead of photographs. their presale estimates are $ 10, 000 to $ 15, 000. in 1955 topps acquired the bowman company, a competitor in the sports cards industry. a number of the 4 - by - 6 - inch paintings used for a 1952 bowman series of football cards will be auctioned. they feature players like frank gifford and kyle rote, and coaches like george halas. there are four paintings in each lot. estimates for the lots range from $ 300 to $ 400. drawings and trivia from the back of topps baseball cards ('' on his days off ossie enjoys going to the movies'') are expected to sell for $ 15 to $ 20 each .
the new card set, titled mars attacks invasion, is set to hit stores in october. the 63 - card set will include art from earl norem, who worked on the original cards, along with joe jusko, ed repka, glen orbik and gregory staples, a topps press release stated .
but this was not done in comics previous to pacific. in the' 70s, superman creators jerry siegel and joe shuster had to sue dc comics just to get meager financial compensation and byline credit for their billion - dollar creation (each settled for $ 30, 000 annual lifetime payments - - siegel and shuster were both 17 years old in 1939, when dc paid them $ 200 for the rights to superman) .
comics and censorship - don' t be afraid, it' s only a comic book - a local - centric history of comic book censorship, and the fight for the rights of comic creators ...
photos of the bagged comics are how i found them. the condition of the front cover looks good. the grade as opinion only. i will list visible flaws but. (ask for combined invoice) .
florence, bill .
the x - comics
. starlog # 212, mar 1995, pp. 58 - 60. starlog group. interview with stefan petrucha and artwork from x - files # 1 .
( tangent - - the topps kirbyverse was one of a dozen
superhero universes
launched a week after the success of image and valiant, and a week before the entire market went completely to shit. the topps kirbyverse, the milestone universe, dark horse' s comics greatest world, the malibu ultraverse, bart sears' s brutes & babes - verse, the quesada - palmiotti ash - verse, the second (and better !) fabian nicieza - edited valiant universe i. e. the birthquake - verse; there was one
universe
that i always wonder if i made up, that i can' t find any hint of on google, where all the superheros got their powers from a lottery... ? there were more superhero universes launched in the 90' s than human memory can hold .
this is a listing for (1) pack of 1978 topps - superman: the movie - series 2 - unopened wax pack as pictured. we will ship for free via usps first class mail. it will be well packaged in a bubble mailer. thanks for looking! please check out my other items !
blackthorne' s g. i. joe license, also swiped from marvel thanks to 3 - d, produced three interesting installments that weren' t tied to the continuity of the tv show or the earlier comics .
each topps comic comes with two exclusive sticker cards. the stickers can' t be purchased separately and are only available with the purchase of the comic ($ 19. 99 + s & h ;). for # 1 the two sticker cards were numbered 1a and 1b, and were drawn by joe simko :
1982 - - the year in comics: camelot 3000, a 12 - issue maxi - series, is the first comic dc produces exclusively for the direct market. marvel caters to comic collectors with wolverine, a four - issue x - men spin - off. g. i. joe comics outsell x - men and superman (whose sales hover around 200, 000 per issue). former marvel creator steve gerber is suing the publisher over rights to a character he created, howard the duck. slice - of - life series love and rockets (fantagraphics) by the hernandez brothers debuts. new indie publisher first comics lures famed dr. strange artist frank brunner to do a new fantasy series, warp. to stop the flood of defecting creators, dc comics begins offering royalties to artists and writers of regular newsstand comics that sell more than 100, 000 copies - - about 5 percent of the 60 - cent cover price - - with marvel soon following suit. epic magazine is marvel' s sanitized version of heavy metal, with the anthology' s creators receiving royalty payments based on sales .
topps becomes a permanent fixture in america’s most popular sport of the day by releasing its first series of baseball cards. the so - called blue backs and red backs, with 52 cards in separate sets, or decks, are designed to let kids play a game of card - baseball. along with a photo and bio of a player, each 2” x 2 5 / 8” card has an at - bat result, such as “single, ” “double, ” “fly out” and so on. although unique among subsequent topps sets—and packed with taffy, not bubblegum—these historic cards establish the company as the leader in the upstart baseball card game .
after years of toiling away for everyone else, jack made his move. topps comics was the new guy on the scene, during the height of the comics boom, and they wanted to see what designs and characters the king had squirreled away during the years that came after he realized marvel and dc were never going to cut him in on the real action. you may remember this tactic as exactly what is happening right now, more than two decades later. every time you read avengers or x - men and realize that it has been a while since you have seen anything truly new, jot down the date and look at what that same creator had coming out from a company where they took home the rights to the books. i imagine the headspace was the same .
yronwode, cat .
fit to print # 529
. comics buyer' s guide # 1122, 19 may 1995, p. 56. editorial on x - files # 1 and gender transgression in the television series .
the explosion of comic shops from the late' 70s onward was essentially made possible by los bros schanes, along with rivals such as phil seuling and his east coast seagate distribution (begun in 1974). direct - market distributors serviced comic shops almost exclusively, offering comics at a much cheaper nonreturnable rate than did newsstand distributors. retailers had the luxury of pre - ordering comics and keeping their extra copies to sell later as backstock, thus enabling collectors to purchase older issues of their favorite titles. retailers could make a 40 percent profit on new comics instead of the usual 20 percent, then earn even more by marking up the older (and ostensibly rarer) leftover
back issues .
published in the waning days of topps comics, jason vs. leatherface had a very low print run, making it highly desirable these days. from what i can tell from my research (which is done on little sleep and a shoestring budget, so please correct me if i am wrong), this is the only time in any medium that jason and leatherface squared off in an “official” manner. that sort of makes it sound like they had some sort of government sanctioned duel. that is decidedly not the case; this is much, much more fun .
1983 - - the year in comics: with the success of the direct market, new publishers emerge. canadian artist dave sim, creator of cerebus the aardvark, begins his own publishing imprint, aardvark - vanaheim, to present comics by indie artists, such as neil the horse by arn saba and flaming carrot by bob burden. the motion picture superman iii, featuring richard pryor, marks the rapid descent of dc / warners film franchise into camp and mediocrity .
after jack kirby' s death in 1994, his grandson jeremy kirby wrote new captain victory stories around the king' s old artwork, releasing them through a new (short - lived) imprint called kirby comics (1999) .
comics buyer' s guide # 1006, 27 jan 1995, pp. 26, 28 - 29. krause publications. announcement of the x - files comic series from topps with four pages of art .
leaves in a circle: a welcome to the x - files comic book
, a version of the introduction to x - files # 1, by stefan petrucha. contains interviews with artists charles adlard and miran kim, and an abbreviated version of the x - files episode guide by cliff chen. cover reproduces the cover of x - files # 2 .
fictional cowboy hopalong cassidy—popularized in books, radio, tv and movies—is the lone star of topps’ first in a pantheon of popular culture card sets, giving kids cardboard collectibles of elvis presley, the beatles, mars attacks! , star wars, pokémon, garbage pail kids and desert storm, as well as wacky packages and other sticker products .
i just remember liking a comic with that same
busiek writes unused kirby
premise that he and keith giffen had done for topps' s kirbyverse, called victory. do you remember the kirbyverse crossover victory? it' s understandable if you don' t. only one issue came out, with a cover date of june 1994 .
wizard # 54, feb 1996, wizard press. this issue features the
amaze the agents
x - files contest, pp. 70 - 71. prizes include a jacket, autographed comics and other stuff. deadline for entries is 28 feb 1996. also contains
risque business
by marc shapiro, pp. 40 - 42, an article on penthouse comics with some discussion of the recent x - files parody in penthouse men' s adventure comix # 4 .
many of the new books were actually reprints of older comics, from other publishers (charlton’s rog2000, old comics by jerry “famous features” iger, berni wrightson and wally wood, etc .), though it wasn’t always clear from the zingy repackaging that a pacific comic with a brand - new dave stevens t & a cover may actually contain half - century old comic strip reprints. the comic market was already being glutted by reprints, from marvel and dc on down the line .
1985 - - the year in comics: dc celebrates its 50th anniversary. half of all comic - book sales in north america are made in direct - market comic shops. jack kirby returns to dc for a graphic novel, hunger dogs. kirby never revives captain victory or silver star; though, after his death in 1994, grandson jeremy kirby writes new captain stories around the king' s old artwork, releasing them through a new imprint called kirby comics (1999).
topps comics was a division of topps company , inc. that published comic books from 1993 to 1998 , beginning its existence during a short comics-industry boom that attracted many investors and new companies . it was based in new york city , at 254 36th street , brooklyn , and at one whitehall street , in manhattan . the company specialized in licensed titles , particularly movie and television series tie-ins , such the x-files , based on the fox tv show , and the films bram stoker 's dracula and jurassic park . it also licensed such literary properties as zorro , and published a smattering of original series , including cadillacs and dinosaurs and several based on concepts by then-retired industry legend jack kirby . 
topps comics was a division of topps company, inc. that published comic books from 1993 to 1998, beginning its existence during a short comics-industry boom that attracted many investors and new companies. it was based in new york city, at 254 36th street, brooklyn, and at one whitehall street, in manhattan. the company specialized in licensed titles, particularly movie and television series tie-ins, such the x-files, based on the fox tv show, and the films bram stoker's dracula and jurassic park. it also licensed such literary properties as zorro, and published a smattering of original series, including cadillacs and dinosaurs and several based on concepts by then-retired industry legend jack kirby.
topps comics was a division of topps company, inc. that published comic books from 1993 to 1998, beginning its existence during a short comics-industry boom that attracted many investors and new companies. it was based in new york city, at 254 36th street, brooklyn, and at one whitehall street, in manhattan. the company specialized in licensed titles, particularly movie and television series tie-ins, such the x-files, based on the fox tv show, and the films bram stoker's dracula and jurassic park. it also licensed such literary properties as zorro, and published a smattering of original series, including cadillacs and dinosaurs and several based on concepts by then-retired industry legend jack kirby.