Topps Comics 1992-1998
The company specialized in licensed titles, particularly movie and television series tie-ins, though it also published a smattering of such original series as Cadillacs and Dinosaurs and several based on concepts by then-retired industry legend Jack Kirby. Its best-selling title was The X-Files, based on the Fox TV show.
Creative Personnel
The company's sales and promotions manager Charles S. Novinskie is listed as, additionally, a Topps Comics editor in his mini-bio at Non-Sport Update magazine.The company's design director Brian Boerner is listed as Reprint Editor (along with Charles S. Novinskie) in the Xena trade paperbacks' credits.
Some covers and frontispieces were drawn or painted by Tim Bradstreet, Kelley Jones, Michael William Kaluta, and Jim Steranko.
The Kirbyverse
Kirby himself wrote and drew eight several pages (which may have been drawn in the 1970s) of the Satan's Six premiere, interlaced with story pages by writer Tony Isabella, penciler John Cleary and inker Armando Gil. As well, the covers of the Bombast, Captain Glory, and NightGlider one-shots noted below were built around preexisting Kirby character-design art.
Kurt Busiek, in an undated Slush Factory interviewed archived June 28, 2002, gave some background on the comics line: "Silver Star is a Jack Kirby character, originally done as a miniseries for Pacific Comics. Back when I was writing for the Topps Kirbyverse, I started two miniseries that were never completed, Victory and Silver Star, both of which got one issue published before the line collapsed. Victory was a crossover, bringing together all the established Kirbyverse characters and reintroducing Captain Victory of the 1981-84 Pacific Comics series Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers... but Silver Star was a standalone project, one that was completely plotted and mostly scripted".
In 1999 and 2000, The Hollywood Reporter and Cinescape reported Dark Horse Entertainment had acquired Satan's Six for possible movie development.
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Issues scanned to date = 235
Full Issue Collection = 377
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