Alien Worlds
Alien Worlds | |
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The cover of Alien Worlds #6, art by Frank Brunner. | |
Publication information | |
Publisher | Pacific Comics 1982-1984 Eclipse Comics 1984-1988 |
Schedule | Bimonthly |
Format | Anthology |
Publication date | December 1982 – May 1988 |
No. of issues | 10 |
Creative team | |
Created by | Bruce Jones |
Written by | Bruce Jones |
Alien Worlds is an American science fiction anthology comic that was published by Pacific Comics and then Eclipse Comics between 1982 and 1985. It was edited by Bruce Jones and his partner April Campbell.[1] It was a sister title to Jones' horror anthology Twisted Tales.
Publication history
Alien Worlds was published on a bi-monthly schedule by Pacific Comics from December 1982 to April 1984 for eight issues, with a single issue of spin-off Three Dimensional Alien Worlds published in July 1984. After Pacific went bankrupt, two final issues were published by Eclipse Comics in November 1984 and January 1985.[2] Eclipse considered continuing the title but instead opted to create Alien Encounters with a variety of writers.[3] Instead Jones took Alien Worlds to Blackthorne Publishing, who produced a one-shot featuring reprints of stories taken from earlier issues. In 1987 Eclipse struck a deal with Jones & Campbell's new packaging operation Bruce Jones Associates for new prestige format bi-annual versions of Alien World, cancelling Alien Encounters to make room. However, only a single issue of the new format was produced.[4]
Following Eclipse's bankruptcy in 1995, the company's assets were purchased by Todd McFarlane. Believing that the deal included the names of the Jones/Campbell anthologies, he teased a series called Todd McFarlane's Alien Worlds in the 1998 one-shot Total Eclipse; however, the comic would never appear.
Content
Nearly all of the stories in Alien Worlds were written by Jones, with only a few exceptions (notably Jan Strnad's "Stoney End" in issue #8 and Frank Brunner's "The Reading!" in issue #9). For the most part Alien Worlds avoided the more intensely gruesome subject matter of Twisted Tales, which was being published at the same time.,[1] though part of Eclipse's reason for starting Alien Encounters was to cut down on the amount of sexual content.[2] Among the cover artists for the series were John Bolton, Dave Stevens, Frank Brunner, William Stout, and Joe Chiodo.
Features
1982 series
Issue | Date | Contents |
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1 | December 1982 |
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2 | May 1983 |
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3 | July 1983 |
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4 | September 1983 |
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5 | December 1983 |
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6 | February 1984 |
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7 | April 1984 |
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8 | November 1984 |
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9 | January 1985 |
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1987 series
Issue | Date | Contents |
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- | May 1988 |
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Revival series
In 2010, Jones and actor Thomas Jane announced they were writing a revival series slated for release sometime in the future.[5] As of 2024[update] no further news has emerged.
References
- ^ a b Johnston, Rich. "When Diamond Comic Distributors Flexed Its Censorial Muscles...," Bleeding Cool (December 29, 2018).
- ^ a b "Newsflashes". Amazing Heroes. No. 64. Redbeard, Inc. February 1, 1985.
- ^ "Newsflashes". Amazing Heroes. No. 66. Redbeard, Inc. March 1, 1985.
- ^ "Newsline". Amazing Heroes. No. 123. Fantagraphics Books. August 15, 1987.
- ^ CBR STAFF. "CCI: RAW Studios Panel: Actor Thomas Jane and artist Tim Bradstreet announced the relaunch of long defunct Pacific anthology 'Alien Worlds' and horror anthology 'Twisted Tales' in addition to other RAW Studios news," CBR (AUG 03, 2010).
External links
- Alien Worlds (Pacific Comics) at the Grand Comics Database
- Alien Worlds (Eclipse Comics, 1984 series) at the Grand Comics Database
- Alien Worlds (Blackthorne Publishing) at the Grand Comics Database
- Alien Worlds (Eclipse Comics, 1988 series) at the Grand Comics Database
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