(travelling from Eclipse on his way to Image)
Epic Comics
Epic Comics is a Marvel Comics imprint which specialises in publishing creator owned series, brought into existence in part as a response to the brain-drain Marvel began to suffer thanks to smaller companies offering writers and artists ownership of the characters they thought up. Epic was launched in 1982, and spent over a decade publishing a wide variety of titles, from superhero to science-fiction to horror. The line stopped the presses turning in the mid-ninties, but has recently started up again, with a new Crimson Dynamo comic (part of the main Marvel Universe, and hence not covered by this site) launched in late 2003.
By the very nature of creator-owned titles, some of the series published by Epic came from and travelled onwards to other publishers. I've tried to list these moves where I am aware of them. As well as the titles and characters covered below, other comics published by Epic whose characters don't quite fit the profile of this site (and hence don't have entries ... yet) include continuations of the Clive Barker films Hellraiser, Weaveworld and Nightbreed; plus series such as Timespirits, Sleeze Brothers, Six from Sirius, The Bozz Chronicles and Void Indigo. They also published the comics version of the Wild Cards novels.
Universes
Alien Legion (moved on to Checker Comics)
Captain Confederacy (previously published by Steeldragon Press)
Dreadstar (went on to First Comics)
ESPers (published under the title Interface - came from Eclipse, later moved to Halloween comics, then Image)
San Futuro, home of Marshal Law (later published by Dark Horse)
Shadowline
Xenozoic Tales (as Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, previously published by Kitchen Sink, subsequently by Topps)
Individuals
(travelling from Eclipse on his way to Image)
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