Eagle Comics

Eagle Comics
Industry	Publishing
Founded	1983
Defunct	1986
Headquarters	London, United Kingdom
Key people	Nick Landau
Products	Comics

Eagle Comics was a short lived comic book publishing company that existed to reprint comic stories from the UK's 2000 A.D. magazine for distribution in North America. They existed from 1983 to 1986 and were based in London, England with product production and distribution located in Canada.

History

The company was formed by Nick Landau to republish stories from the comics anthology 2000 A.D., repackaged into American comic book format (in the same way his Titan Books had been reprinting them as trade paperbacks).^[1] In 1986 the license, from IPC, passed to Quality Communications.^[2]

Titles

The series they brought to American audiences included:

Judge Dredd (33 issues – continued, starting with issue 34, by Quality Comics)^[3]
Judge Dredd: The Judge Child Quest (5 issue mini-series)^[4]
Judge Dredd's Crime File (6 issue mini-series)^[5]
Judge Dredd: The Early Cases (6 issue mini-series)^[6]
The Stainless Steel Rat (6 issue mini-series)^[7]
Strontium Dog (4 issue mini-series, although originally advertised as 8 issues)^[8]
Robo-Hunter (5 issue mini-series)^[9]
Nemesis the Warlock (7 issue mini-series)^[10]
2000 A.D. Monthly (10 issues;^[11] title continued by Quality Communications)

Notes

^ Bishop (2007) page 79. Initially discussing the Titan trade paperbacks and IPC's non-payment of royalties to creators for reprints, Landau says "We decided to pay creators out of our own profits, which did not make IPC too happy. We did this again when we launched and ran Eagle Comics in the US for IPC [reprinting 2000 AD material]."
^ "Quality Comics". Comics Feature. No. 51. Movieland Publishing. January 1987. p. 39.
^ Judge Dredd at Barney
^ Judge Dredd: The Judge Child Quest at Barney
^ Judge Dredd's Crime File at Barney
^ Judge Dredd: The Early Cases at Barney
^ The Stainless Steel Rat at Barney
^ Strontium Dog at Barney
^ Robo-Hunter at Barney
^ Nemesis the Warlock at Barney
^ 2000 A.D. Monthly at Barney

References

Eagle Comics at the Grand Comics Database
Eagle Comics at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
Bishop, David Thrill Power Overload (Rebellion Developments, 260 pages, hardcover, February 2007, ISBN 1-905437-22-6)

External links

Eagle Comics at Comicvine

[1] Bishop (2007) page 79. Initially discussing the Titan trade paperbacks and IPC's non-payment of royalties to creators for reprints, Landau says "We decided to pay creators out of our own profits, which did not make IPC too happy. We did this again when we launched and ran Eagle Comics in the US for IPC [reprinting 2000 AD material]."

[2] "Quality Comics". Comics Feature. No. 51. Movieland Publishing. January 1987. p. 39.

[3] Judge Dredd at Barney

[4] Judge Dredd: The Judge Child Quest at Barney

[5] Judge Dredd's Crime File at Barney

[6] Judge Dredd: The Early Cases at Barney

[7] The Stainless Steel Rat at Barney

[8] Strontium Dog at Barney

[9] Robo-Hunter at Barney

[10] Nemesis the Warlock at Barney

[11] 2000 A.D. Monthly at Barney

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