Eclipse Comics
Eclipse Comics was an American comic book publisher . Eclipse was in business from 1978 to 1994 , longer than most other publishers in the early 1980s.
history
Eclipse was founded in 1978 by Jan and Dean Mullaney. Don MacGregors and Paul Gulacy's Saber was the first graphic novel published by Eclipse and the first comic to be sold exclusively through the Direct Market (specialized comic book shops). 1981 launched Eclipse Magazine , a black and white magazine, which among other works by Steve Englehart and Max Allan Collins contained. In 1982 , Eclipse published Destroyer Duck , a comic book whose net proceeds were used to support Steve Gerber's battle against Marvel Comics and which included the first appearance of Sergio Aragonés Groo .
Well-known Eclipse titles were Tim Truman's Scout , Scott McCloud's Zot! , Doug Moench's Aztec Ace , Chuck Dixons Airboy , Mark Evaniers DNAgents and David Boswell's Reid Fleming, World's toughest Milkman .
Eclipse was one of the first American publishers to publish translated versions of well-known manga , including Masamune Shirow's Appleseed and Dominion - Tank Police , Sanpei Shiratos Kamui and Masaomi Kanzaki's Xenon . Eclipse also reissued older English-language titles, for example Krazy Kat and Alan Moore's Marvelman , who appeared as Miracleman on Eclipse due to licensing problems . Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham were later to write new Miracleman stories, but Eclipse's end never finished them. In addition, the publisher published adaptations of a wide variety of works, for example comic adaptations of Tolkien's Hobbit and various James Bond stories.
Eclipse went bankrupt in 1994 . In 1998 Todd McFarlane bought the rights to the publisher's titles. A legal dispute with Neil Gaiman then developed over Miracleman's legal situation.
