Name: AC Comics Type: private
Industry: Media
Founded: 1969
Founder(s): Bill Black
Headquarters: Longwood, Florida, USA
Key people: Bill Black
Products: Comic Books
Owner(s): Bill Black
Website: http://www.accomics.com
Aliases: Americomics AC
Paragon Publications:
AC Comics was founded as Paragon Publications in 1969, though its first recorded titles — Paragon Presents and White Savage — weren't released until 1970. Other titles from Paragon's beginnings included Fem Fantastique and Paragon Golden Age Greats (1971), Macabre Western and Captain Paragon (1972), Paragon Magazine and Paragon Super Heroes (1973), Tara on the Dark Continent (1974), and Paragon Illustrated and Paragon Western Stars (1975). The company's early titles were cheaply published black-and-white comics.
Americomics:
In 1982, the company changed its name to Americomics before settling on AC Comics in 1984.
AC Comics:
Now a color publisher, AC was one of the initial quartet of independent color comics companies who pioneered the direct sales phenomenon in the early 1980s, targeting specialty comic book shops rather than newsstands or other venues.
In 1985, AC debuted Femforce, which it still publishes today. Other AC continuing series include Best of the West and Men of Mystery Comics. Following the popularity of size-changing Femforce members Garganta and Tara, AC made the giantess concept a recurring theme in their comics. Tapping into this cult following, AC has released stories and anthologies specifically catered to fans of giant women, as well as DVD releases which embrace this theme in the tongue-in-cheek style of 1950s science fiction B-movies. An ongoing giantess feature known as Gargantarama has even been added to the company's Femforce title.
Additionally, AC has expanded into other DVD projects which collect classic movie serials and other material now in the public domain, as well as low-budget films based on their own characters
it publishes Femforce, one of the first all-female teams in the comic book world.
LicensesEdit
AC Comics had used Charlton Comics characters, particularly the Blue Beetle and Captain Atom, in the comic title Sentinels of Justice. When the rights for these characters were sold to DC Comics, AC Comics created a second Sentinels of Justice team (writing the first out of continuity), composed of some of its original characters as well as ones from the public domain. Many of these are homages to Charlton and Quality Comics heroes, such as the Scarlet Scorpion (a stand-in for Blue Beetle) and the Blue Bulleteer (later Nightveil) who is based on the Fox Comics version of Phantom Lady. Still another Phantom Lady-inspired character was The Black Mistress, whose first episode was scripted by former Vampirella writer T. Casey Brennan.[3]
Titles Edit
Main article: List of AC Comics publications
NotesEdit
↑ Bill Black: Paint It Black!, Comics Bulletin, November 23, 2003
↑ Rik Offenberger (May 20, 2009). "Bill Black: 40 Years of AC Comics". Newsarama. Archived from the original on 23 May 2009. http://www.newsarama.com/comics/050920-ACComics.html. Retrieved 2009-05-22.
Jpeg of first appearance of the Black Mistress, showing the story and art credits.
A:
Actor
Airmale
Airman
American Crusader
American Eagle (Nedor)
Annie Oakley
Arrow
Atomic Mouse
Avenger (Magazine Enterprises)
B:
Black Cat
Black Knight (Sterling)
Black Phantom
Black Terror (Nedor)
Black Venus
Blonde Bomber
Blue Beetle (Fox)
Bulletgirl
Bulletman
Burma Boy
C:
Camilla (1)
Captain 3D
Captain Atom (Charlton)
Captain Flash
Captain Freedom
Captain Marvel (MF Enterprises)
Captain Midnight
Captain Triumph
Captain Video & his Video Rangers
Captain Wings
Cat-Man (Holyoke)
Cave Girl
Claw (Sterling)
Commando Yank
Congo King
Crime Crusaders Club
Crimebuster
D:
Daredevil
Dixon Hawke
Dolly O'Dare
Domino
Don Winslow of the Navy
Dr. Drew
Dr. Macabre
Dynamic Boy (2)
Dynamic Man (Chesler)
E:
Eagle (Fox)
Enchanted Dagger
F:
Fargo Kid
Father Time
Fighting Yank
F cont.
Firehair
Flame Girl
Flame Goddess
Flamingo
Frankenstein's Monster
G:
Gale Allen
Ghost Rider
Golden Arrow
Golden Lad
Green Lama
Green Mask I
Green Mask II
Green Turtle
H:
Heap
Henry Knight
Hood (Holyoke)
Hopalong Cassidy
I:
Ibis the Invincible
Imagions
Iron Mask (Sterling)
J:
Jack of Spades
Jack Rhodes
Jane Porter
Jesse James
Jet Powers
Jo-Jo the Congo King
Joan Farwell
Judy of the Jungle
Jungle Jo
Jungle Lil
K:
Ki-Gor
King of the Living Dead
Kitten
Käanga
L:
Lady Fairplay
Lady Luck
Lance Hale
Lance O'Casey
Lash Lightning
M:
Man O' Mars
Mars (God)
Masked Marvel (1)
Medusa
Mercury Man
Midge
Minimidget
Mirror Man (Sterling)
Mirror Man (United Features )
Miss Masque
Miss Victory
M cont.
Mr. Scarlet
Muscle Man
Mysta of the Moon
Mysta's Robot
Mystico
N:
Nature Boy
Nightshade (Charlton)
Nyoka the Jungle Girl
O:
Owl (Dell)
P:
Panther Woman
Phantom Detective
Phantom Eagle
Phantom Lady
Pinky
Presto Kid
Princess Pantha
Purple Claw
R:
Reckoner and Chipper
Red Mask (Magazine Enterprises)
Red Rocket
Ricky
Robin Hood
Rocketgirl
Rocketman (Chesler)
Rulah
S:
Satan (demon)
Sharkmen
Sheena
Shock Gibson (Hero)
Sky Girl
Skyman
South Seas Girl
Spy Smasher
Stampy
Stuntman
T:
Tabu
Target
Targeteers
Thun'Da
Tiger Girl
Tomboy
Two Sight Gallager
Tygra
U:
Undercover Girl
V:
Vooda
W:
White Princess of the Jungle
Wild Bill Hickok
Y:
Yankee Girl (2)
Z:
Zegra
Zippo
AC Comic Books list:
Action Hero Retro
Airman (comics)
Arrow (comics)
Bad Girl Backlash
The Best of the West
Big 'Uns
Bill Black's Fun Comics
Black Diamond
Captain Paragon
Cave Girl (comics)
Dragonfly (AC Comics)
Femforce
Faze 1 Fazers
Femforce
Femzine
Fighting Yank
Green Lama: Man of Strength
Golden Age Men of Mystery
Golden Age Treasury (a.k.a. Golden Age Spotlight)
Good Girl Art Quarterly
Garganta's Thrilling Science
Jungle Girls
List of Sentinels of Justice members
Men of Mystery Comics
Ms. Victory Special
Nightveil
Paragon: Dark Apocalypse
Sentinels of Justice
Sheena, Queen of the Jungle
She-Cat
Space Ark
Sentinels of Justice
Venture
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