Talk:Epic Comics

Creator owned?

Was the imprint really 'creator owned'? I think that creators working under this imprint had more control over their creations, but how far did it really go? I doubt an artist that used Marvel-owned characters in his work was free to reprint this work on his own. ike9898 13:38, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Yes, the imprint was creator-owned. Remember that the Epic Illustrated magazine started as an attempt to emulate Heavy Metal/Metal Hurlant, and that in the early 1980s movie deals weren't still considerations when writing up contracts. Some of the people that worked for Epic wouldn't have done so were they not be able to keep the copyrights, such as Vaughn Bodé, Rick Veitch and Pepe Moreno. The proof that is was creator-owned was Jim Starlin taking Dreadstar to First Comics in 1986. Other series were also published in other publishers, such as Coyote (Eclipse), Alien Legion (currently reprinted by Checker), The Black Dragon (reprinted by Dark Horse), Moonshadow (reprinted by Vertigo), The One (reprinted by King Hell), et cetera. It wasn't until 1986 (four years after Dreadstar) that Epic published a story owned by Marvel, and that was mostly as a sales draw. --Pc13 09:08, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

The Epic imprint wasn't "creator-owned," but many of the books it produced were. Each project had its own contract and the terms varied according to what the company and the creators negotiated. In addition to the examples above of Epic series that moved to another publisher, there are a number of books previously published elsewhere that came to Epic (ElfQuest, Akira, the Moebius graphic novels, and Groo the Wanderer, for example). When Epic produced material that included Marvel characters, like Elektra: Assassin, of course it was under Marvel's copyright and not creator-owned, and so could not be printed elsewhere without permission. Miketsu (talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 19:38, 4 February 2009 (UTC).

Epic Editor-in-Chief

I know that Archie Goodwin was the sole Editor-in-Chief of Epic from at least 1987 until he left for DC Comics in 1989 and Carl Potts took over. So at what point did Al Milgrom leave the co-editing job mentioned in the article? It would be nice to clarify this. Miketsu (talk) 20:04, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

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