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Notable events of 1982 in comics. See also List of years in comics.
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Events and publications
Year overall
- San Diego-based independent publisher Pacific Comics makes a strong push in the marketplace, following Jack Kirby's Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers with four new ongoing titles, Starslayer, Ms. Mystic, Twisted Tales, and Alien Worlds, featuring such established talents as Neal Adams and Mike Grell.
- To stem the flow of creators defecting to companies such as First Comics, Pacific Comics, and Eclipse Comics, DC Comics begins offering royalties to artists and writers of regular newsstand comics that sell more than 100,000 copies;[1] Marvel soon follows suit with its creator-owned imprint Epic Comics. Launched by editor-in-chief Jim Shooter as a spin-off of the successful Epic Illustrated magazine, the Epic imprint allowed creators to retain control and ownership of their properties. Co-edited by Al Milgrom and Archie Goodwin, the imprint also allowed Marvel to publish a more mature line of comics oriented toward an older audience. Epic titles were printed on higher quality paper than typical Marvel comics, and were only available via the direct market.[2]
- Attempting to create synthesis for two Warner Communications subsidiaries, DC Comics teams up with Atari Inc. to publish Atari Force, storylines for Atari home console games. The comics are packed in with the games Defender, Berzerk, Star Raiders, Phoenix, and Galaxian.
- Steve Geppi founds Diamond Comic Distributors; 14 years later the company would become the sole major comics distributor
January
- "Apocalypse War" Judge Dredd storyline begins in 2000 A.D. (continues through July)
- Warren Publishing suspends publication.
February
- DC's horror-suspense anthology Secrets of Haunted House ceases publication with issue #46
March
- The debut of Alan Moore's new, darker Marvelman in Warrior #1.
- The debut of Alan Moore and
David Lloyd 's V for Vendetta in Warrior #1. - Secrets of Haunted House, with issue #46, is cancelled by DC.
- Underground cartoonist Dave Sheridan dies at age 39.
- March 27: Britain's weekly Eagle comic relaunched by IPC Media in a mostly photonovel format
April
- The long-running British series The Trigan Empire ceases publication with the cancellation of Look and Learn with issue #1042.
May
- To help raise money for his lawsuit against Marvel Comics for ownership of Howard the Duck, Steve Gerber brings out his own Destroyer Duck from Eclipse Comics.
June
- Fantagraphics makes its first foray into comic book publishing with the the Hernandez brothers (Jaime and Gilbert)'s Love & Rockets anthology.
- Marvel begins publishing the Hasbro-licenced series G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, which would sell over 200,000 copies, and out-sell Superman and the X-Men.
- The two-issue "Nothing Can Stop the Juggernaut!" storyline begins in Amazing Spider-Man #229
- DC's long-running weird/horror anthology The Unexpected ceases publication with issue #117.
- June 7: Warren Tufts dies at age 56.
July
- The Penguin Books imprint Plume releases Creepshow, a graphic novella based on the 1982 horror movie Creepshow.
- The Marvel UK storyline "Jaspers' Warp" (also known as "Crooked World") begins in Marvel Superheroes #387 (continues through June 1984)
August
- The Legion of Super-Heroes storyline "The Great Darkness Saga" begins with issue #290 (runs through December)
September
- Marvel's Wolverine four-issue mini-series, by Chris Claremont and Frank Miller, begins.
- The Marvel/DC intercompany crossover The Uncanny X-Men and The New Teen Titans, by Chris Claremont, Walt Simonson, and Terry Austin
- September 13: Reed Crandall, Blackhawk and EC artist, dies at age 65.
- September 23: Gene Day dies at circa age 31.
October
- Norristown, Pennsylvania-based Comico begins publishing with the release of the black-and-white anthology title Primer #1
November
- Jim Starlin's Dreadstar, the first title published by Marvel's creator-owned imprint Epic Comics, begins.
- Canadian publisher Vortex Comics makes its entrée into the comics world with its anthology Vortex
December
- DC publishes its first tailored direct market offering: the first of 12 issues of Camelot 3000, Mike W. Barr & Brian Bolland's future-set tale of King Arthur. It is widely recognized as the first "maxi-series".[3]
- DC publishes the first issue of its three-issue Masters of the Universe mini-series
- December 20: Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira debuts in Young Magazine
Exhibitions and shows
Conventions
Awards
First issues by title
DC Comics
- Writers: Gerry Conway and Roy Thomas. Artists: Ross Andru, Mike DeCarlo, and Dick Giordano
Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew!
- Release: March. Writer: Roy Thomas. Artists: Ross Andru, Scott Shaw, and Bob Smith
- Release: December. Writer: Mike W. Barr. Artist: Brian Bolland
Daring New Adventures of Supergirl
- Release: November. Writer: Paul Kupperberg. Artists: Carmine Infantino and Bob Oksner
- Release: June. Writer: Gerry Conway. Artists: Pat Broderick and Rodin Rodriguez.
- Release: May. Writer: Martin Pasko. Artist: Thomas Yeates.
Marvel Comics
- Release: November by Epic Comics. Writer/Artist: Jim Starlin
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero
- Release: June. Writer: Larry Hama. Artists: Herb Trimpe and Bob McLeod
- Release: March. Editor: Al Milgrom
Pacific Comics
- Release: December. Editor: Bruce Jones
- Release: October. Writer/Artist: Neal Adams
Starslayer: The Log of the Jolly Roger
- Release: February. Writer/Artist: Mike Grell
- Release: November. Editor: Bruce Jones
Independent titles
- Release: May by Eclipse Comics. Writer: Steve Gerber. Artist: Jack Kirby
- Release: June by Fantagraphics. Writers/Artists: Los Bros Hernandez
Primer
- Release: October by Comico.
Vortex
- Release: November by Vortex Comics. Editor: William P. Marks
- Release: March by Quality Communications. Writer: Alan Moore. Artists: Garry Leach and Alan Davis
Initial appearances by character name
- The Acanti in Uncanny X-Men #156, published by Marvel Comics
- Ambush Bug in DC Comics Presents #52, published by DC Comics
- Arion in Warlord #55, published by DC Comics
- Blackfire in New Teen Titans #22, published by DC Comics
- Brother Blood in New Teen Titans #21, published by DC Comics
- The Brood in Uncanny X-Men #155, published by Marvel Comics
- Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew! in New Teen Titans #16, published by DC Comics
- Ch'p in Green Lantern #148, published by DC Comics
- Cloak and Dagger in Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #64, published by Marvel Comics
- Firehawk in The Fury of Firestorm #1, published by DC Comics
- Grendel in Primer #2, published by Comico
- Groo the Wanderer in Destroyer Duck #1, published by Eclipse Comics
- Frances Kane in New Teen Titans #17, published by DC Comics
- Ms. Mystic in Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers #3, published by Pacific Comics
- New Mutants, in Marvel Graphic Novel #4: The New Mutants, published by Marvel Comics
- Cannonball in Marvel Graphic Novel #4: The New Mutants, published by Marvel Comics
- Danielle Moonstar in Marvel Graphic Novel #4: The New Mutants, published by Marvel Comics
- Sunspot in Marvel Graphic Novel #4: The New Mutants, published by Marvel Comics
- Wolfsbane in Marvel Graphic Novel #4: The New Mutants, published by Marvel Comics
- Plastique in The Fury of Firestorm #7, published by DC Comics
- The Psions in New Teen Titans #4, published by DC Comics
- Monica Rambeau in Amazing Spider-Man Annual #16, published by Marvel Comics
- Rocketeer in Starslayer #2, published by Pacific Comics
- William Stryker in X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills, published by Marvel Comics
- Terra in New Teen Titans #26, published by DC Comics
- Varnae in Bizarre Adventures #33, published by Marvel Comics
- Vermin in Captain America #272, published by Marvel Comics
- The Warpsmiths in Warrior Summer Special #4, published by Quality Communications
- Yukio in Wolverine #2, published by Marvel Comics
References
- ^ "Two Men and their Comic Books," in San Diego Reader, by Jay Allen Sanford, August 19, 2004. Accessed via Web (Archive.org) March 31, 2008.
- ^ Shooter, Jim. "Bullpen Bulletins: The Truth About the Epic Comics Group!" Marvel comics cover-dated November 1982.
- ^ Higgins, Steve. "A+ Graphic Novels: Camelot 3000, GrayHaven Magazine (July 1, 2003).
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