Millennium Publications
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Millennium Productions was an American
independent comic book
publishing company founded by Mark Ellis
, Melissa Martin and Paul Davis. Initially known as a publisher of licensed properties, Millennium adapted works by Arthur Conan Doyle
, Lester Dent
, Frank Frazetta
, Robert E. Howard
, Harlan Ellison
, H.P. Lovecraft, and Anne Rice
; and even TV series like The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
and The Wild Wild West
into comic book form. The company expanded its repertoire of horror comics into original titles in the mid-1990s, and further branched out in its later years to embrace the alternative comics
genre, starting a short-lived creator-owned imprint called Modern Comics.
Millennium was distinctive in that they mostly published one-shots and mini-series, with only a couple of their titles running for more than four issues. The company gave now-established comics artists such as Darryl Banks
, Dean Haspiel
, Josh Neufeld
and Mike Wieringo
their first steady exposure, while also working with comics legends Jim Mooney
and Don Heck
on a number of projects. Other notable comics creators who published with Millennium include Brian Michael Bendis
, John Bolton, Bob Eggleton
, Dærick Gröss Sr.
, Kelley Jones
, Rik Levins
, Terry Pavlet, and David W. Mack
.
The company's first offerings, in 1990, were Anne Rice
's The Mummy, adapting her novel, The Mummy, or, Ramses the Damned; and The Wild Wild West: The Night of the Iron Tyrants, a four-issue sequel to the TV series scripted by Mark Ellis
, who also served as Millennium's comics editor for three years.
In 1991, Millennium debuted a series of comics titles featuring Lester Dent
's Doc Savage
, including the four-part limited series Doc Savage: The Monarch of Armageddon. That series, which was also written by Mark Ellis (and drawn by Darryl Banks), was said by The Comics Buyer's Guide Catalog of Comic Books "to come closest to the original, capturing all the action, humanity and humor of the original novels." Also in 1991, Ellis conceived and scripted the critically acclaimed Nosferatu: Plague of Terror
, a four-part series which provided a complete story of the title character's origin quite apart from the Dracula legend. Finally, Ellis again turned to adapting and expanding another writer's concepts (H.P. Lovecraft), with the three-issue limited series Cthulhu: The Whisperer in Darkness
, which featured the first appearance of The Miskatonic Project.
In 1992-1993, Millennium introduced another Anne Rice-related project, Anne Rice's The Witching Hour, which ran for five issues; and another Doc Savage book, Manual of Bronze. In addition, again with Ellis as scripter, they adapted the cult-classic horror film It! The Terror from Beyond Space into comics form. Ellis and Banks teamed up again to produce two issues of Justice Machine
, a super-hero title which had previously been published by Comico Comics
and Innovation Comics, among others. During this period, Millennium also published its first nonfiction title, Don Hillsman and Ryan Monihan's By Any Means Necessary: The Life and Times of Malcolm X, an unauthorized biography in comic book form. Before leaving Millennium at the end of 1993, Ellis once again flexed his adaptation skills with The Man from U.N.C.L.E: The Birds of Prey Affair two-parter.
At the end of 1993, co-owners Ellis and Martin, who also functioned as the editorial and production staff, sold their shares in Millennium, but retained ownership of a number of comics properties, such as Nosferatu
, The Miskatonic Project
, and the new Justice Machine
. (When Ellis and Martin left Millennium, the company moved its headquarters from Tampa, Florida
, to Rhode Island, first to Narragansett
, and finally to Kingston
.)
The mid-1990s saw the company publishing more original material, still mostly in the horror vein, though they also adapted material created by Robert E. Howard (The Black Reaper) and Arthur Conan Doyle (The Lost World). (The Black Reaper was notable in that it featured Howard's poetry alongside illustrations by comic book artists; it was halfway between a book and a comic book.) During this period, Millennium also picked up the Night's Children series from the defunct Fantaco/Tundra
. In 1996, Millennium also debuted Dean Haspiel
and Josh Neufeld
's eclectic two-man anthology Keyhole, which ran for three issues in 1996-1997 until it moved over to the Modern Comics imprint for issue #4. (Keyhole then was picked up by Top Shelf Productions
for the remainder of its six-issue run.)
1997 was notable in that Millennium debuted its creator-owned line, Modern Comics, which featured creators from the minicomic
, self-publishing, and zine
scenes. This new direction for the company didn't help their fortunes, however, as in 1998 Millennium only published one title, with Modern putting out a paltry two books. Neither Millennium nor Modern released any books in 1999, and Modern's only title in 2000 was Yvonne Mojica's The Bathroom Girls Guide to Christmas Chaos. In 2000, Millennium/Modern closed its doors for good.
In late 2007, Ellis and Martin formed Millennial Concepts, reviving the stylized "M" that had served as Millennium's first company logo. In July 2008, Millennial Concepts joined forces with Caliber Comics
founder Gary Reed's Transfuzion Publications in a joint graphic novel-publishing venture.
Millennium Productions was an American
independent comic book
publishing company founded by Mark Ellis
, Melissa Martin and Paul Davis. Initially known as a publisher of licensed properties, Millennium adapted works by Arthur Conan Doyle
, Lester Dent
, Frank Frazetta
, Robert E. Howard
, Harlan Ellison
, H.P. Lovecraft, and Anne Rice
; and even TV series like The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
and The Wild Wild West
into comic book form. The company expanded its repertoire of horror comics into original titles in the mid-1990s, and further branched out in its later years to embrace the alternative comics
genre, starting a short-lived creator-owned imprint called Modern Comics.
Millennium was distinctive in that they mostly published one-shots and mini-series, with only a couple of their titles running for more than four issues. The company gave now-established comics artists such as Darryl Banks
, Dean Haspiel
, Josh Neufeld
and Mike Wieringo
their first steady exposure, while also working with comics legends Jim Mooney
and Don Heck
on a number of projects. Other notable comics creators who published with Millennium include Brian Michael Bendis
, John Bolton, Bob Eggleton
, Dærick Gröss Sr.
, Kelley Jones
, Rik Levins
, Terry Pavlet, and David W. Mack
.
The company's first offerings, in 1990, were Anne Rice
's The Mummy, adapting her novel, The Mummy, or, Ramses the Damned; and The Wild Wild West: The Night of the Iron Tyrants, a four-issue sequel to the TV series scripted by Mark Ellis
, who also served as Millennium's comics editor for three years.
In 1991, Millennium debuted a series of comics titles featuring Lester Dent
's Doc Savage
, including the four-part limited series Doc Savage: The Monarch of Armageddon. That series, which was also written by Mark Ellis (and drawn by Darryl Banks), was said by The Comics Buyer's Guide Catalog of Comic Books "to come closest to the original, capturing all the action, humanity and humor of the original novels." Also in 1991, Ellis conceived and scripted the critically acclaimed Nosferatu: Plague of Terror
, a four-part series which provided a complete story of the title character's origin quite apart from the Dracula legend. Finally, Ellis again turned to adapting and expanding another writer's concepts (H.P. Lovecraft), with the three-issue limited series Cthulhu: The Whisperer in Darkness
, which featured the first appearance of The Miskatonic Project.
In 1992-1993, Millennium introduced another Anne Rice-related project, Anne Rice's The Witching Hour, which ran for five issues; and another Doc Savage book, Manual of Bronze. In addition, again with Ellis as scripter, they adapted the cult-classic horror film It! The Terror from Beyond Space into comics form. Ellis and Banks teamed up again to produce two issues of Justice Machine
, a super-hero title which had previously been published by Comico Comics
and Innovation Comics, among others. During this period, Millennium also published its first nonfiction title, Don Hillsman and Ryan Monihan's By Any Means Necessary: The Life and Times of Malcolm X, an unauthorized biography in comic book form. Before leaving Millennium at the end of 1993, Ellis once again flexed his adaptation skills with The Man from U.N.C.L.E: The Birds of Prey Affair two-parter.
At the end of 1993, co-owners Ellis and Martin, who also functioned as the editorial and production staff, sold their shares in Millennium, but retained ownership of a number of comics properties, such as Nosferatu
, The Miskatonic Project
, and the new Justice Machine
. (When Ellis and Martin left Millennium, the company moved its headquarters from Tampa, Florida
, to Rhode Island, first to Narragansett
, and finally to Kingston
.)
The mid-1990s saw the company publishing more original material, still mostly in the horror vein, though they also adapted material created by Robert E. Howard (The Black Reaper) and Arthur Conan Doyle (The Lost World). (The Black Reaper was notable in that it featured Howard's poetry alongside illustrations by comic book artists; it was halfway between a book and a comic book.) During this period, Millennium also picked up the Night's Children series from the defunct Fantaco/Tundra
. In 1996, Millennium also debuted Dean Haspiel
and Josh Neufeld
's eclectic two-man anthology Keyhole, which ran for three issues in 1996-1997 until it moved over to the Modern Comics imprint for issue #4. (Keyhole then was picked up by Top Shelf Productions
for the remainder of its six-issue run.)
1997 was notable in that Millennium debuted its creator-owned line, Modern Comics, which featured creators from the minicomic
, self-publishing, and zine
scenes. This new direction for the company didn't help their fortunes, however, as in 1998 Millennium only published one title, with Modern putting out a paltry two books. Neither Millennium nor Modern released any books in 1999, and Modern's only title in 2000 was Yvonne Mojica's The Bathroom Girls Guide to Christmas Chaos. In 2000, Millennium/Modern closed its doors for good.
In late 2007, Ellis and Martin formed Millennial Concepts, reviving the stylized "M" that had served as Millennium's first company logo. In July 2008, Millennial Concepts joined forces with Caliber Comics
founder Gary Reed's Transfuzion Publications in a joint graphic novel-publishing venture.
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Millennium Productions was an American
independent comic book
publishing company founded by Mark Ellis
, Melissa Martin and Paul Davis. Initially known as a publisher of licensed properties, Millennium adapted works by Arthur Conan Doyle
, Lester Dent
, Frank Frazetta
, Robert E. Howard
, Harlan Ellison
, H.P. Lovecraft, and Anne Rice
; and even TV series like The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
and The Wild Wild West
into comic book form. The company expanded its repertoire of horror comics into original titles in the mid-1990s, and further branched out in its later years to embrace the alternative comics
genre, starting a short-lived creator-owned imprint called Modern Comics.
Millennium was distinctive in that they mostly published one-shots and mini-series, with only a couple of their titles running for more than four issues. The company gave now-established comics artists such as Darryl Banks
, Dean Haspiel
, Josh Neufeld
and Mike Wieringo
their first steady exposure, while also working with comics legends Jim Mooney
and Don Heck
on a number of projects. Other notable comics creators who published with Millennium include Brian Michael Bendis
, John Bolton, Bob Eggleton
, Dærick Gröss Sr.
, Kelley Jones
, Rik Levins
, Terry Pavlet, and David W. Mack
.
The company's first offerings, in 1990, were Anne Rice
's The Mummy, adapting her novel, The Mummy, or, Ramses the Damned; and The Wild Wild West: The Night of the Iron Tyrants, a four-issue sequel to the TV series scripted by Mark Ellis
, who also served as Millennium's comics editor for three years.
In 1991, Millennium debuted a series of comics titles featuring Lester Dent
's Doc Savage
, including the four-part limited series Doc Savage: The Monarch of Armageddon. That series, which was also written by Mark Ellis (and drawn by Darryl Banks), was said by The Comics Buyer's Guide Catalog of Comic Books "to come closest to the original, capturing all the action, humanity and humor of the original novels." Also in 1991, Ellis conceived and scripted the critically acclaimed Nosferatu: Plague of Terror
, a four-part series which provided a complete story of the title character's origin quite apart from the Dracula legend. Finally, Ellis again turned to adapting and expanding another writer's concepts (H.P. Lovecraft), with the three-issue limited series Cthulhu: The Whisperer in Darkness
, which featured the first appearance of The Miskatonic Project.
In 1992-1993, Millennium introduced another Anne Rice-related project, Anne Rice's The Witching Hour, which ran for five issues; and another Doc Savage book, Manual of Bronze. In addition, again with Ellis as scripter, they adapted the cult-classic horror film It! The Terror from Beyond Space into comics form. Ellis and Banks teamed up again to produce two issues of Justice Machine
, a super-hero title which had previously been published by Comico Comics
and Innovation Comics, among others. During this period, Millennium also published its first nonfiction title, Don Hillsman and Ryan Monihan's By Any Means Necessary: The Life and Times of Malcolm X, an unauthorized biography in comic book form. Before leaving Millennium at the end of 1993, Ellis once again flexed his adaptation skills with The Man from U.N.C.L.E: The Birds of Prey Affair two-parter.
At the end of 1993, co-owners Ellis and Martin, who also functioned as the editorial and production staff, sold their shares in Millennium, but retained ownership of a number of comics properties, such as Nosferatu
, The Miskatonic Project
, and the new Justice Machine
. (When Ellis and Martin left Millennium, the company moved its headquarters from Tampa, Florida
, to Rhode Island, first to Narragansett
, and finally to Kingston
.)
The mid-1990s saw the company publishing more original material, still mostly in the horror vein, though they also adapted material created by Robert E. Howard (The Black Reaper) and Arthur Conan Doyle (The Lost World). (The Black Reaper was notable in that it featured Howard's poetry alongside illustrations by comic book artists; it was halfway between a book and a comic book.) During this period, Millennium also picked up the Night's Children series from the defunct Fantaco/Tundra
. In 1996, Millennium also debuted Dean Haspiel
and Josh Neufeld
's eclectic two-man anthology Keyhole, which ran for three issues in 1996-1997 until it moved over to the Modern Comics imprint for issue #4. (Keyhole then was picked up by Top Shelf Productions
for the remainder of its six-issue run.)
1997 was notable in that Millennium debuted its creator-owned line, Modern Comics, which featured creators from the minicomic
, self-publishing, and zine
scenes. This new direction for the company didn't help their fortunes, however, as in 1998 Millennium only published one title, with Modern putting out a paltry two books. Neither Millennium nor Modern released any books in 1999, and Modern's only title in 2000 was Yvonne Mojica's The Bathroom Girls Guide to Christmas Chaos. In 2000, Millennium/Modern closed its doors for good.
In late 2007, Ellis and Martin formed Millennial Concepts, reviving the stylized "M" that had served as Millennium's first company logo. In July 2008, Millennial Concepts joined forces with Caliber Comics
founder Gary Reed's Transfuzion Publications in a joint graphic novel-publishing venture.
-->
Rafter, Dan. "Conquering Comics ... and Marriage Too" (interview with Mark Ellis and Melissa Martin-Ellis), Firefox News (Oct. 9, 2007). Retrieved August 4, 2008.
Press release announcing Millennial Concepts & Transfuzion were joining forces (July 9, 2008).
United States
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independent comic book
Comic book
A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...
publishing company founded by Mark Ellis
Mark Ellis (writer)
Mark Ellis is an American novelist and comic-book writer who under the pen name James Axler has written scores of books for the Outlanders paperback novel series and other books, as well as numerous independent comics series....
, Melissa Martin and Paul Davis. Initially known as a publisher of licensed properties, Millennium adapted works by Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle DL was a Scottish physician and writer, most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, generally considered a milestone in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger...
, Lester Dent
Lester Dent
Lester Dent was a prolific pulp fiction author, best known as the creator and main author of the series of novels about the superhuman scientist and adventurer, Doc Savage. The 159 novels written over 16 years were credited to the house name Kenneth Robeson.-Early years:Dent was born in 1904 in...
, Frank Frazetta
Frank Frazetta
Frank Frazetta was an American fantasy and science fiction artist, noted for work in comic books, paperback book covers, paintings, posters, LP record album covers and other media...
, Robert E. Howard
Robert E. Howard
Robert Ervin Howard was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. Best known for his character Conan the Barbarian, he is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre....
, Harlan Ellison
Harlan Ellison
Harlan Jay Ellison is an American writer. His principal genre is speculative fiction.His published works include over 1,700 short stories, novellas, screenplays, teleplays, essays, a wide range of criticism covering literature, film, television, and print media...
, H.P. Lovecraft, and Anne Rice
Anne Rice
Anne Rice is a best-selling Southern American author of metaphysical gothic fiction, Christian literature and erotica from New Orleans, Louisiana. Her books have sold nearly 100 million copies, making her one of the most widely read authors in modern history...
; and even TV series like The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is an American television series that was broadcast on NBC from September 22, 1964, to January 15, 1968. It follows the exploits of two secret agents, played by Robert Vaughn and David McCallum, who work for a fictitious secret international espionage and law-enforcement...
and The Wild Wild West
The Wild Wild West
The Wild Wild West is an American television series that ran on CBS for four seasons from September 17, 1965 to April 4, 1969....
into comic book form. The company expanded its repertoire of horror comics into original titles in the mid-1990s, and further branched out in its later years to embrace the alternative comics
Alternative comics
Alternative comics defines a range of American comics that have appeared since the 1980s, following the underground comix movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Alternative comics present an alternative to "mainstream" superhero comics which in the past have dominated the US comic book industry...
genre, starting a short-lived creator-owned imprint called Modern Comics.
Millennium was distinctive in that they mostly published one-shots and mini-series, with only a couple of their titles running for more than four issues. The company gave now-established comics artists such as Darryl Banks
Darryl Banks
Darryl Banks is a comic book artist. He worked on one of the first painted comic books, Cyberpunk, and teamed with the writer Mark Ellis to revamp the long-running The Justice Machine series for two publishers, Innovation and Millennium....
, Dean Haspiel
Dean Haspiel
Dean Edmund Haspiel is an American comic book artist. He is known for his collaborations with writer Harvey Pekar on his American Splendor series as well as the graphic novel The Quitter. He has been nominated for numerous Eisner Awards, and won a 2010 Emmy Award for TV design work.-Early...
, Josh Neufeld
Josh Neufeld
Josh Neufeld is an alternative cartoonist known for his nonfiction comics on subjects like Hurricane Katrina, international travel, and finance, as well as his collaborations with writers like Harvey Pekar and Brooke Gladstone...
and Mike Wieringo
Mike Wieringo
Michael Lance "Mike" Wieringo , who sometimes signed his work under the name Ringo, was an American comic book artist best known for his work on DC Comics' The Flash and Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four....
their first steady exposure, while also working with comics legends Jim Mooney
Jim Mooney
James Noel "Jim" Mooney was an American comic book artist best known as a Marvel Comics inker and Spider-Man artist, and as the signature artist of DC Comics' Supergirl, both during what comics historians and fans call the Silver Age of comic books...
and Don Heck
Don Heck
Don Heck was an American comic book artist best known for co-creating the Marvel Comics character Iron Man, and for his long run penciling the Marvel superhero-team series The Avengers during the 1960s Silver Age of comic books.-Early life and career:Born in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens, New...
on a number of projects. Other notable comics creators who published with Millennium include Brian Michael Bendis
Brian Michael Bendis
Brian Michael Bendis is an American comic book writer and erstwhile artist. He has won critical acclaim for his self-published, Image Comics and Marvel Comics work, and is one of the most successful writers working in mainstream comics, with his books selling consistently highly for over a...
, John Bolton, Bob Eggleton
Bob Eggleton
Bob Eggleton is a science fiction, fantasy, and horror artist. Eggleton has been honored with the Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist eight times, first winning in 1994. He also won the Hugo Award for Best Related Book in 2001 for his art book "Greetings From Earth"...
, Dærick Gröss Sr.
Dærick Gröss Sr.
Dærick Gröss Sr. is an illustrator of fantasy and comic book art.Gröss has worked for a number of comic book companies, including Marvel, DC, Image, Malibu, Heroic, Revolutionary, Chaos, and Innovation....
, Kelley Jones
Kelley Jones
Kelley Jones is an American comic book artist best known for his runs on Batman with writer Doug Moench and on Sandman with writer Neil Gaiman.-Biography:...
, Rik Levins
Rik Levins
Rik Levins was an American comic book artist and penciller, best known for his work on Marvel Comics' Captain America, where he worked with writer Mark Gruenwald for over three years ....
, Terry Pavlet, and David W. Mack
David W. Mack
David W. Mack is an American comic book artist and writer, best known for his creator-owned series Kabuki. Mack is known for his unique painted and collage-like work...
.
Publishing history
In many ways representative of the boom period of independent comic book publishing, Millennium thrived in the early years of the 90s and fell on lean times as the decade came to a close.The company's first offerings, in 1990, were Anne Rice
Anne Rice
Anne Rice is a best-selling Southern American author of metaphysical gothic fiction, Christian literature and erotica from New Orleans, Louisiana. Her books have sold nearly 100 million copies, making her one of the most widely read authors in modern history...
's The Mummy, adapting her novel, The Mummy, or, Ramses the Damned; and The Wild Wild West: The Night of the Iron Tyrants, a four-issue sequel to the TV series scripted by Mark Ellis
Mark Ellis (writer)
Mark Ellis is an American novelist and comic-book writer who under the pen name James Axler has written scores of books for the Outlanders paperback novel series and other books, as well as numerous independent comics series....
, who also served as Millennium's comics editor for three years.
In 1991, Millennium debuted a series of comics titles featuring Lester Dent
Lester Dent
Lester Dent was a prolific pulp fiction author, best known as the creator and main author of the series of novels about the superhuman scientist and adventurer, Doc Savage. The 159 novels written over 16 years were credited to the house name Kenneth Robeson.-Early years:Dent was born in 1904 in...
's Doc Savage
Doc Savage
Doc Savage is a fictional character originally published in American pulp magazines during the 1930s and 1940s. He was created by publisher Henry W. Ralston and editor John L...
, including the four-part limited series Doc Savage: The Monarch of Armageddon. That series, which was also written by Mark Ellis (and drawn by Darryl Banks), was said by The Comics Buyer's Guide Catalog of Comic Books "to come closest to the original, capturing all the action, humanity and humor of the original novels." Also in 1991, Ellis conceived and scripted the critically acclaimed Nosferatu: Plague of Terror
Nosferatu: Plague of Terror
Nosferatu: Plague of Terror was a four-part comic series put out by Millennium Publications in 1991-92. Conceived as both a prequel and sequel to F.W. Murnau’s silent film, Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horrors, it was written by Mark Ellis, designed by Melissa Martin, with art provided by Rik Levins,...
, a four-part series which provided a complete story of the title character's origin quite apart from the Dracula legend. Finally, Ellis again turned to adapting and expanding another writer's concepts (H.P. Lovecraft), with the three-issue limited series Cthulhu: The Whisperer in Darkness
H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu: The Whisperer in Darkness
H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu: The Whisperer in Darkness was a three-part comic book mini-series published by Millennium Publications that followed a group of investigators, the Miskatonic Project, as they confronted the Mi-go, the cunning Fungi from Yuggoth....
, which featured the first appearance of The Miskatonic Project.
In 1992-1993, Millennium introduced another Anne Rice-related project, Anne Rice's The Witching Hour, which ran for five issues; and another Doc Savage book, Manual of Bronze. In addition, again with Ellis as scripter, they adapted the cult-classic horror film It! The Terror from Beyond Space into comics form. Ellis and Banks teamed up again to produce two issues of Justice Machine
Justice Machine
The Justice Machine is a fictional team of superheroes originally created by Michael Gustovich and appearing in comic books from many small publishers in the 1980s and 1990s.-Publication history:...
, a super-hero title which had previously been published by Comico Comics
Comico Comics
Comico: The Comic Company was an American comic book publisher, headquartered in Norristown, Pennsylvania. Its best-known comics include the Robotech adaptations, the Jonny Quest continuation written by co-creator Doug Wildey, and Matt Wagner's Mage: The Hero Discovered and Grendel...
and Innovation Comics, among others. During this period, Millennium also published its first nonfiction title, Don Hillsman and Ryan Monihan's By Any Means Necessary: The Life and Times of Malcolm X, an unauthorized biography in comic book form. Before leaving Millennium at the end of 1993, Ellis once again flexed his adaptation skills with The Man from U.N.C.L.E: The Birds of Prey Affair two-parter.
At the end of 1993, co-owners Ellis and Martin, who also functioned as the editorial and production staff, sold their shares in Millennium, but retained ownership of a number of comics properties, such as Nosferatu
Nosferatu: Plague of Terror
Nosferatu: Plague of Terror was a four-part comic series put out by Millennium Publications in 1991-92. Conceived as both a prequel and sequel to F.W. Murnau’s silent film, Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horrors, it was written by Mark Ellis, designed by Melissa Martin, with art provided by Rik Levins,...
, The Miskatonic Project
H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu: The Whisperer in Darkness
H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu: The Whisperer in Darkness was a three-part comic book mini-series published by Millennium Publications that followed a group of investigators, the Miskatonic Project, as they confronted the Mi-go, the cunning Fungi from Yuggoth....
, and the new Justice Machine
Justice Machine
The Justice Machine is a fictional team of superheroes originally created by Michael Gustovich and appearing in comic books from many small publishers in the 1980s and 1990s.-Publication history:...
. (When Ellis and Martin left Millennium, the company moved its headquarters from Tampa, Florida
Tampa, Florida
Tampa is a city in the U.S. state of Florida. It serves as the county seat for Hillsborough County. Tampa is located on the west coast of Florida. The population of Tampa in 2010 was 335,709....
, to Rhode Island, first to Narragansett
Narragansett, Rhode Island
Narragansett is a town in Washington County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 15,868 at the 2010 census, but there is a greater population in the summer. The nickname for the town is "Gansett". The town of Narragansett occupies a narrow strip of land running along the eastern bank...
, and finally to Kingston
Kingston, Rhode Island
Kingston is a village and a census-designated place in the town of South Kingstown, Rhode Island, United States, and the site of the main campus of the University of Rhode Island. Much of the village center is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Kingston Village Historic...
.)
The mid-1990s saw the company publishing more original material, still mostly in the horror vein, though they also adapted material created by Robert E. Howard (The Black Reaper) and Arthur Conan Doyle (The Lost World). (The Black Reaper was notable in that it featured Howard's poetry alongside illustrations by comic book artists; it was halfway between a book and a comic book.) During this period, Millennium also picked up the Night's Children series from the defunct Fantaco/Tundra
FantaCo Enterprises
FantaCo Enterprises was an American comic book store and publishing company founded by Thomas Skulan and based in Albany, New York. As a publisher, FantaCo was known for its idiosyncratic line-up of mostly black-and-white titles, including the humorous Hembeck Series and the horror title Gore Shriek...
. In 1996, Millennium also debuted Dean Haspiel
Dean Haspiel
Dean Edmund Haspiel is an American comic book artist. He is known for his collaborations with writer Harvey Pekar on his American Splendor series as well as the graphic novel The Quitter. He has been nominated for numerous Eisner Awards, and won a 2010 Emmy Award for TV design work.-Early...
and Josh Neufeld
Josh Neufeld
Josh Neufeld is an alternative cartoonist known for his nonfiction comics on subjects like Hurricane Katrina, international travel, and finance, as well as his collaborations with writers like Harvey Pekar and Brooke Gladstone...
's eclectic two-man anthology Keyhole, which ran for three issues in 1996-1997 until it moved over to the Modern Comics imprint for issue #4. (Keyhole then was picked up by Top Shelf Productions
Top Shelf Productions
Top Shelf Productions is an American publishing company founded in 1997, owned and operated by Chris Staros and Brett Warnock and a small staff. The company is based in Marietta, Georgia, Portland, Oregon, and New York City, New York....
for the remainder of its six-issue run.)
1997 was notable in that Millennium debuted its creator-owned line, Modern Comics, which featured creators from the minicomic
Minicomic
A minicomic is a creator-published comic book, often photocopied and stapled or with a handmade binding. In the United Kingdom and Europe the term "small press comic" is equivalent with minicomic reserved for those publications measuring A6 or less...
, self-publishing, and zine
Zine
A zine is most commonly a small circulation publication of original or appropriated texts and images. More broadly, the term encompasses any self-published work of minority interest usually reproduced via photocopier....
scenes. This new direction for the company didn't help their fortunes, however, as in 1998 Millennium only published one title, with Modern putting out a paltry two books. Neither Millennium nor Modern released any books in 1999, and Modern's only title in 2000 was Yvonne Mojica's The Bathroom Girls Guide to Christmas Chaos. In 2000, Millennium/Modern closed its doors for good.
In late 2007, Ellis and Martin formed Millennial Concepts, reviving the stylized "M" that had served as Millennium's first company logo. In July 2008, Millennial Concepts joined forces with Caliber Comics
Caliber Comics
Caliber Comics or Caliber Press was an American comic book publisher founded in 1989 by Gary Reed. Featuring primarily creator-owned comics, in the next decade Caliber published over 1300 comics and ranked as one of the America's leading independent publishers...
founder Gary Reed's Transfuzion Publications in a joint graphic novel-publishing venture.
Titles (chronologically)
1990
- Anne Rice's The Mummy (12 issues)
- The Wild Wild West: The Night of the Iron Tyrants (4 issues)
1991
- Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze — Doom Dynasty (2 issues)
- Doc Savage: The Monarch of Armageddon (4 issues)
- H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu (3 issues)
- H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu: Whisperer in DarknessH. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu: The Whisperer in DarknessH.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu: The Whisperer in Darkness was a three-part comic book mini-series published by Millennium Publications that followed a group of investigators, the Miskatonic Project, as they confronted the Mi-go, the cunning Fungi from Yuggoth....
(3 issues) - Nosferatu: Plague of TerrorNosferatu: Plague of TerrorNosferatu: Plague of Terror was a four-part comic series put out by Millennium Publications in 1991-92. Conceived as both a prequel and sequel to F.W. Murnau’s silent film, Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horrors, it was written by Mark Ellis, designed by Melissa Martin, with art provided by Rik Levins,...
(4 issues) - Oz Squad
- Pat Savage: Woman of Bronze
1992
- Anne Rice's The Witching Hour (5 issues)
- Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze — Devil's Thoughts (3 issues)
- Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze — Repel (2 issues planned, only one published)
- Doc Savage: The Manual of Bronze
- It! The Terror from Beyond SpaceIt! The Terror from Beyond SpaceIt! The Terror from Beyond Space is a 1958 black and white science fiction film directed by Edward L. Cahn.-Plot:The film opens with a nuclear-powered spaceship perched on the cratered surface of an alien world. A voice-over tells us that the year is 1973 and that this is the planet, Mars. This...
- The Justice MachineJustice MachineThe Justice Machine is a fictional team of superheroes originally created by Michael Gustovich and appearing in comic books from many small publishers in the 1980s and 1990s.-Publication history:...
(2 issues) - Mummy Archives
- Weird Tales Illustrated (Jan., 2 issues)
1993
- Asylum (3 issues)
- By Any Means Necessary: The Life and Times of Malcolm X
- H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu: The Festival (3 issues)
- H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu: Whisperer in DarknessH. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu: The Whisperer in DarknessH.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu: The Whisperer in Darkness was a three-part comic book mini-series published by Millennium Publications that followed a group of investigators, the Miskatonic Project, as they confronted the Mi-go, the cunning Fungi from Yuggoth....
(collected the 1991 three-issue miniseries) - The Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Birds of Prey Affair (2 issues)
1994
- The Best of Asylum (collected the 1993 two-issues miniseries)
- Blood Childe: Portrait of a Surreal Killer (Oct., 4 issues)
- The Collector's Dracula (2 issues)
- Heartstopper: Sorrow About to Fall
- Night's Children: Liaisons (Oct.)
- Night's Children: Origins (Sept.)
- Night's Children: Red Trails West (Dec.)
- Oz SquadOz SquadOz Squad is a comic book updating of L. Frank Baum's Land of Oz series. Its premise is that Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion are now part of "Gale Force" , a Mission Impossible type organization working to protect Oz from all manner of bizarre threats...
Special - The Quest of the Tiger Woman: A Genetic Park Adventure (Apr., 2 issues)
- Vigil: Rebirth (2 issues)
- Wicked (4 issues)
1995
- Dark World
- Descending Angels
- Manik (3 issues)
- Night's Children: Ripper (2 issues)
- Power Plays (4 issues)
- Robert E. Howard's The Black Reaper
- Sex & Death (June)
1996
- Chassis (3 issues)
- Jigaboo Devil
- Keyhole (June, 3 issues before moving to Modern)
- The Lost World (2 issues)
- Shock the Monkey June, 2 issues)
1997
- Armageddon Rising: The Grand Equation
- Canton Kid
- Song of the Sirens : featuring Da'kota (2 issues)
- Da'kota (2 issues)
- Desiree: The Ultimate Experience
- Little Miss Strange
1997
- Billy Dogma by Dean Haspiel (3 issues)
- Keyhole by Dean Haspiel and Josh Neufeld (Apr., 1 issue)
- Lovely Prudence Christmas Bitterness Special by Maze
1998
- Bathroom Girls by Yvonne Mojica (4 issues, 1998–2000)
- Lovely Prudence Swimsuit Special by Maze
2000
- The Bathroom Girls Guide to Christmas Chaos by Yvonne Mojica
Millennium Productions was an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
independent comic book
Comic book
A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...
publishing company founded by Mark Ellis
Mark Ellis (writer)
Mark Ellis is an American novelist and comic-book writer who under the pen name James Axler has written scores of books for the Outlanders paperback novel series and other books, as well as numerous independent comics series....
, Melissa Martin and Paul Davis. Initially known as a publisher of licensed properties, Millennium adapted works by Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle DL was a Scottish physician and writer, most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, generally considered a milestone in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger...
, Lester Dent
Lester Dent
Lester Dent was a prolific pulp fiction author, best known as the creator and main author of the series of novels about the superhuman scientist and adventurer, Doc Savage. The 159 novels written over 16 years were credited to the house name Kenneth Robeson.-Early years:Dent was born in 1904 in...
, Frank Frazetta
Frank Frazetta
Frank Frazetta was an American fantasy and science fiction artist, noted for work in comic books, paperback book covers, paintings, posters, LP record album covers and other media...
, Robert E. Howard
Robert E. Howard
Robert Ervin Howard was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. Best known for his character Conan the Barbarian, he is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre....
, Harlan Ellison
Harlan Ellison
Harlan Jay Ellison is an American writer. His principal genre is speculative fiction.His published works include over 1,700 short stories, novellas, screenplays, teleplays, essays, a wide range of criticism covering literature, film, television, and print media...
, H.P. Lovecraft, and Anne Rice
Anne Rice
Anne Rice is a best-selling Southern American author of metaphysical gothic fiction, Christian literature and erotica from New Orleans, Louisiana. Her books have sold nearly 100 million copies, making her one of the most widely read authors in modern history...
; and even TV series like The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is an American television series that was broadcast on NBC from September 22, 1964, to January 15, 1968. It follows the exploits of two secret agents, played by Robert Vaughn and David McCallum, who work for a fictitious secret international espionage and law-enforcement...
and The Wild Wild West
The Wild Wild West
The Wild Wild West is an American television series that ran on CBS for four seasons from September 17, 1965 to April 4, 1969....
into comic book form. The company expanded its repertoire of horror comics into original titles in the mid-1990s, and further branched out in its later years to embrace the alternative comics
Alternative comics
Alternative comics defines a range of American comics that have appeared since the 1980s, following the underground comix movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Alternative comics present an alternative to "mainstream" superhero comics which in the past have dominated the US comic book industry...
genre, starting a short-lived creator-owned imprint called Modern Comics.
Millennium was distinctive in that they mostly published one-shots and mini-series, with only a couple of their titles running for more than four issues. The company gave now-established comics artists such as Darryl Banks
Darryl Banks
Darryl Banks is a comic book artist. He worked on one of the first painted comic books, Cyberpunk, and teamed with the writer Mark Ellis to revamp the long-running The Justice Machine series for two publishers, Innovation and Millennium....
, Dean Haspiel
Dean Haspiel
Dean Edmund Haspiel is an American comic book artist. He is known for his collaborations with writer Harvey Pekar on his American Splendor series as well as the graphic novel The Quitter. He has been nominated for numerous Eisner Awards, and won a 2010 Emmy Award for TV design work.-Early...
, Josh Neufeld
Josh Neufeld
Josh Neufeld is an alternative cartoonist known for his nonfiction comics on subjects like Hurricane Katrina, international travel, and finance, as well as his collaborations with writers like Harvey Pekar and Brooke Gladstone...
and Mike Wieringo
Mike Wieringo
Michael Lance "Mike" Wieringo , who sometimes signed his work under the name Ringo, was an American comic book artist best known for his work on DC Comics' The Flash and Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four....
their first steady exposure, while also working with comics legends Jim Mooney
Jim Mooney
James Noel "Jim" Mooney was an American comic book artist best known as a Marvel Comics inker and Spider-Man artist, and as the signature artist of DC Comics' Supergirl, both during what comics historians and fans call the Silver Age of comic books...
and Don Heck
Don Heck
Don Heck was an American comic book artist best known for co-creating the Marvel Comics character Iron Man, and for his long run penciling the Marvel superhero-team series The Avengers during the 1960s Silver Age of comic books.-Early life and career:Born in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens, New...
on a number of projects. Other notable comics creators who published with Millennium include Brian Michael Bendis
Brian Michael Bendis
Brian Michael Bendis is an American comic book writer and erstwhile artist. He has won critical acclaim for his self-published, Image Comics and Marvel Comics work, and is one of the most successful writers working in mainstream comics, with his books selling consistently highly for over a...
, John Bolton, Bob Eggleton
Bob Eggleton
Bob Eggleton is a science fiction, fantasy, and horror artist. Eggleton has been honored with the Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist eight times, first winning in 1994. He also won the Hugo Award for Best Related Book in 2001 for his art book "Greetings From Earth"...
, Dærick Gröss Sr.
Dærick Gröss Sr.
Dærick Gröss Sr. is an illustrator of fantasy and comic book art.Gröss has worked for a number of comic book companies, including Marvel, DC, Image, Malibu, Heroic, Revolutionary, Chaos, and Innovation....
, Kelley Jones
Kelley Jones
Kelley Jones is an American comic book artist best known for his runs on Batman with writer Doug Moench and on Sandman with writer Neil Gaiman.-Biography:...
, Rik Levins
Rik Levins
Rik Levins was an American comic book artist and penciller, best known for his work on Marvel Comics' Captain America, where he worked with writer Mark Gruenwald for over three years ....
, Terry Pavlet, and David W. Mack
David W. Mack
David W. Mack is an American comic book artist and writer, best known for his creator-owned series Kabuki. Mack is known for his unique painted and collage-like work...
.
Publishing history
In many ways representative of the boom period of independent comic book publishing, Millennium thrived in the early years of the 90s and fell on lean times as the decade came to a close.The company's first offerings, in 1990, were Anne Rice
Anne Rice
Anne Rice is a best-selling Southern American author of metaphysical gothic fiction, Christian literature and erotica from New Orleans, Louisiana. Her books have sold nearly 100 million copies, making her one of the most widely read authors in modern history...
's The Mummy, adapting her novel, The Mummy, or, Ramses the Damned; and The Wild Wild West: The Night of the Iron Tyrants, a four-issue sequel to the TV series scripted by Mark Ellis
Mark Ellis (writer)
Mark Ellis is an American novelist and comic-book writer who under the pen name James Axler has written scores of books for the Outlanders paperback novel series and other books, as well as numerous independent comics series....
, who also served as Millennium's comics editor for three years.
In 1991, Millennium debuted a series of comics titles featuring Lester Dent
Lester Dent
Lester Dent was a prolific pulp fiction author, best known as the creator and main author of the series of novels about the superhuman scientist and adventurer, Doc Savage. The 159 novels written over 16 years were credited to the house name Kenneth Robeson.-Early years:Dent was born in 1904 in...
's Doc Savage
Doc Savage
Doc Savage is a fictional character originally published in American pulp magazines during the 1930s and 1940s. He was created by publisher Henry W. Ralston and editor John L...
, including the four-part limited series Doc Savage: The Monarch of Armageddon. That series, which was also written by Mark Ellis (and drawn by Darryl Banks), was said by The Comics Buyer's Guide Catalog of Comic Books "to come closest to the original, capturing all the action, humanity and humor of the original novels." Also in 1991, Ellis conceived and scripted the critically acclaimed Nosferatu: Plague of Terror
Nosferatu: Plague of Terror
Nosferatu: Plague of Terror was a four-part comic series put out by Millennium Publications in 1991-92. Conceived as both a prequel and sequel to F.W. Murnau’s silent film, Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horrors, it was written by Mark Ellis, designed by Melissa Martin, with art provided by Rik Levins,...
, a four-part series which provided a complete story of the title character's origin quite apart from the Dracula legend. Finally, Ellis again turned to adapting and expanding another writer's concepts (H.P. Lovecraft), with the three-issue limited series Cthulhu: The Whisperer in Darkness
H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu: The Whisperer in Darkness
H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu: The Whisperer in Darkness was a three-part comic book mini-series published by Millennium Publications that followed a group of investigators, the Miskatonic Project, as they confronted the Mi-go, the cunning Fungi from Yuggoth....
, which featured the first appearance of The Miskatonic Project.
In 1992-1993, Millennium introduced another Anne Rice-related project, Anne Rice's The Witching Hour, which ran for five issues; and another Doc Savage book, Manual of Bronze. In addition, again with Ellis as scripter, they adapted the cult-classic horror film It! The Terror from Beyond Space into comics form. Ellis and Banks teamed up again to produce two issues of Justice Machine
Justice Machine
The Justice Machine is a fictional team of superheroes originally created by Michael Gustovich and appearing in comic books from many small publishers in the 1980s and 1990s.-Publication history:...
, a super-hero title which had previously been published by Comico Comics
Comico Comics
Comico: The Comic Company was an American comic book publisher, headquartered in Norristown, Pennsylvania. Its best-known comics include the Robotech adaptations, the Jonny Quest continuation written by co-creator Doug Wildey, and Matt Wagner's Mage: The Hero Discovered and Grendel...
and Innovation Comics, among others. During this period, Millennium also published its first nonfiction title, Don Hillsman and Ryan Monihan's By Any Means Necessary: The Life and Times of Malcolm X, an unauthorized biography in comic book form. Before leaving Millennium at the end of 1993, Ellis once again flexed his adaptation skills with The Man from U.N.C.L.E: The Birds of Prey Affair two-parter.
At the end of 1993, co-owners Ellis and Martin, who also functioned as the editorial and production staff, sold their shares in Millennium, but retained ownership of a number of comics properties, such as Nosferatu
Nosferatu: Plague of Terror
Nosferatu: Plague of Terror was a four-part comic series put out by Millennium Publications in 1991-92. Conceived as both a prequel and sequel to F.W. Murnau’s silent film, Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horrors, it was written by Mark Ellis, designed by Melissa Martin, with art provided by Rik Levins,...
, The Miskatonic Project
H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu: The Whisperer in Darkness
H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu: The Whisperer in Darkness was a three-part comic book mini-series published by Millennium Publications that followed a group of investigators, the Miskatonic Project, as they confronted the Mi-go, the cunning Fungi from Yuggoth....
, and the new Justice Machine
Justice Machine
The Justice Machine is a fictional team of superheroes originally created by Michael Gustovich and appearing in comic books from many small publishers in the 1980s and 1990s.-Publication history:...
. (When Ellis and Martin left Millennium, the company moved its headquarters from Tampa, Florida
Tampa, Florida
Tampa is a city in the U.S. state of Florida. It serves as the county seat for Hillsborough County. Tampa is located on the west coast of Florida. The population of Tampa in 2010 was 335,709....
, to Rhode Island, first to Narragansett
Narragansett, Rhode Island
Narragansett is a town in Washington County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 15,868 at the 2010 census, but there is a greater population in the summer. The nickname for the town is "Gansett". The town of Narragansett occupies a narrow strip of land running along the eastern bank...
, and finally to Kingston
Kingston, Rhode Island
Kingston is a village and a census-designated place in the town of South Kingstown, Rhode Island, United States, and the site of the main campus of the University of Rhode Island. Much of the village center is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Kingston Village Historic...
.)
The mid-1990s saw the company publishing more original material, still mostly in the horror vein, though they also adapted material created by Robert E. Howard (The Black Reaper) and Arthur Conan Doyle (The Lost World). (The Black Reaper was notable in that it featured Howard's poetry alongside illustrations by comic book artists; it was halfway between a book and a comic book.) During this period, Millennium also picked up the Night's Children series from the defunct Fantaco/Tundra
FantaCo Enterprises
FantaCo Enterprises was an American comic book store and publishing company founded by Thomas Skulan and based in Albany, New York. As a publisher, FantaCo was known for its idiosyncratic line-up of mostly black-and-white titles, including the humorous Hembeck Series and the horror title Gore Shriek...
. In 1996, Millennium also debuted Dean Haspiel
Dean Haspiel
Dean Edmund Haspiel is an American comic book artist. He is known for his collaborations with writer Harvey Pekar on his American Splendor series as well as the graphic novel The Quitter. He has been nominated for numerous Eisner Awards, and won a 2010 Emmy Award for TV design work.-Early...
and Josh Neufeld
Josh Neufeld
Josh Neufeld is an alternative cartoonist known for his nonfiction comics on subjects like Hurricane Katrina, international travel, and finance, as well as his collaborations with writers like Harvey Pekar and Brooke Gladstone...
's eclectic two-man anthology Keyhole, which ran for three issues in 1996-1997 until it moved over to the Modern Comics imprint for issue #4. (Keyhole then was picked up by Top Shelf Productions
Top Shelf Productions
Top Shelf Productions is an American publishing company founded in 1997, owned and operated by Chris Staros and Brett Warnock and a small staff. The company is based in Marietta, Georgia, Portland, Oregon, and New York City, New York....
for the remainder of its six-issue run.)
1997 was notable in that Millennium debuted its creator-owned line, Modern Comics, which featured creators from the minicomic
Minicomic
A minicomic is a creator-published comic book, often photocopied and stapled or with a handmade binding. In the United Kingdom and Europe the term "small press comic" is equivalent with minicomic reserved for those publications measuring A6 or less...
, self-publishing, and zine
Zine
A zine is most commonly a small circulation publication of original or appropriated texts and images. More broadly, the term encompasses any self-published work of minority interest usually reproduced via photocopier....
scenes. This new direction for the company didn't help their fortunes, however, as in 1998 Millennium only published one title, with Modern putting out a paltry two books. Neither Millennium nor Modern released any books in 1999, and Modern's only title in 2000 was Yvonne Mojica's The Bathroom Girls Guide to Christmas Chaos. In 2000, Millennium/Modern closed its doors for good.
In late 2007, Ellis and Martin formed Millennial Concepts, reviving the stylized "M" that had served as Millennium's first company logo. In July 2008, Millennial Concepts joined forces with Caliber Comics
Caliber Comics
Caliber Comics or Caliber Press was an American comic book publisher founded in 1989 by Gary Reed. Featuring primarily creator-owned comics, in the next decade Caliber published over 1300 comics and ranked as one of the America's leading independent publishers...
founder Gary Reed's Transfuzion Publications in a joint graphic novel-publishing venture.
Titles (chronologically)
1990
- Anne Rice's The Mummy (12 issues)
- The Wild Wild West: The Night of the Iron Tyrants (4 issues)
1991
- Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze — Doom Dynasty (2 issues)
- Doc Savage: The Monarch of Armageddon (4 issues)
- H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu (3 issues)
- H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu: Whisperer in DarknessH. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu: The Whisperer in DarknessH.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu: The Whisperer in Darkness was a three-part comic book mini-series published by Millennium Publications that followed a group of investigators, the Miskatonic Project, as they confronted the Mi-go, the cunning Fungi from Yuggoth....
(3 issues) - Nosferatu: Plague of TerrorNosferatu: Plague of TerrorNosferatu: Plague of Terror was a four-part comic series put out by Millennium Publications in 1991-92. Conceived as both a prequel and sequel to F.W. Murnau’s silent film, Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horrors, it was written by Mark Ellis, designed by Melissa Martin, with art provided by Rik Levins,...
(4 issues) - Oz Squad
- Pat Savage: Woman of Bronze
1992
- Anne Rice's The Witching Hour (5 issues)
- Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze — Devil's Thoughts (3 issues)
- Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze — Repel (2 issues planned, only one published)
- Doc Savage: The Manual of Bronze
- It! The Terror from Beyond SpaceIt! The Terror from Beyond SpaceIt! The Terror from Beyond Space is a 1958 black and white science fiction film directed by Edward L. Cahn.-Plot:The film opens with a nuclear-powered spaceship perched on the cratered surface of an alien world. A voice-over tells us that the year is 1973 and that this is the planet, Mars. This...
- The Justice MachineJustice MachineThe Justice Machine is a fictional team of superheroes originally created by Michael Gustovich and appearing in comic books from many small publishers in the 1980s and 1990s.-Publication history:...
(2 issues) - Mummy Archives
- Weird Tales Illustrated (Jan., 2 issues)
1993
- Asylum (3 issues)
- By Any Means Necessary: The Life and Times of Malcolm X
- H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu: The Festival (3 issues)
- H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu: Whisperer in DarknessH. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu: The Whisperer in DarknessH.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu: The Whisperer in Darkness was a three-part comic book mini-series published by Millennium Publications that followed a group of investigators, the Miskatonic Project, as they confronted the Mi-go, the cunning Fungi from Yuggoth....
(collected the 1991 three-issue miniseries) - The Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Birds of Prey Affair (2 issues)
1994
- The Best of Asylum (collected the 1993 two-issues miniseries)
- Blood Childe: Portrait of a Surreal Killer (Oct., 4 issues)
- The Collector's Dracula (2 issues)
- Heartstopper: Sorrow About to Fall
- Night's Children: Liaisons (Oct.)
- Night's Children: Origins (Sept.)
- Night's Children: Red Trails West (Dec.)
- Oz SquadOz SquadOz Squad is a comic book updating of L. Frank Baum's Land of Oz series. Its premise is that Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion are now part of "Gale Force" , a Mission Impossible type organization working to protect Oz from all manner of bizarre threats...
Special - The Quest of the Tiger Woman: A Genetic Park Adventure (Apr., 2 issues)
- Vigil: Rebirth (2 issues)
- Wicked (4 issues)
1995
- Dark World
- Descending Angels
- Manik (3 issues)
- Night's Children: Ripper (2 issues)
- Power Plays (4 issues)
- Robert E. Howard's The Black Reaper
- Sex & Death (June)
1996
- Chassis (3 issues)
- Jigaboo Devil
- Keyhole (June, 3 issues before moving to Modern)
- The Lost World (2 issues)
- Shock the Monkey June, 2 issues)
1997
- Armageddon Rising: The Grand Equation
- Canton Kid
- Song of the Sirens : featuring Da'kota (2 issues)
- Da'kota (2 issues)
- Desiree: The Ultimate Experience
- Little Miss Strange
1997
- Billy Dogma by Dean Haspiel (3 issues)
- Keyhole by Dean Haspiel and Josh Neufeld (Apr., 1 issue)
- Lovely Prudence Christmas Bitterness Special by Maze
1998
- Bathroom Girls by Yvonne Mojica (4 issues, 1998–2000)
- Lovely Prudence Swimsuit Special by Maze
Titles
- Anne Rice's The Mummy a.k.a. The Mummy, or, Ramses the Damned (1990)
- Anne Rice's the Witching Hour (1992)
- Armageddon Rising: The Grand Equation (1997)
- Asylum (1993, 3 issues)
- Blood Childe: Portrait of a Surreal Killer (Oct. 1994-1995, 4 issues)
- By Any Means Necessary: The Life and Times of Malcolm X (an Unauthorized Biography in Comic Book Form) (1993)
- Canton Kid (1997)
- Chassis (1996, 3 issues)
- The Collector's Dracula (1994, 2 issues)
- Da'Kota (1997, 2 issues)
- Descending Angels (1995)
- Doc Savage: Doom Dynasty (1991)
- Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze (1991, 9 issues)
- Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze — Devil's Thoughts (1991)
- Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze — Doom Dynasty (1991)
- Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze — Repel (1991)
- Doc Savage: The Manual of Bronze (1992)
- Doc Savage: The Monarch of Armageddon (1991)
- H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu (1991)
- H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu: The Festival (1993-1994, 3 issues)
- H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu: Whisperer in DarknessH. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu: The Whisperer in DarknessH.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu: The Whisperer in Darkness was a three-part comic book mini-series published by Millennium Publications that followed a group of investigators, the Miskatonic Project, as they confronted the Mi-go, the cunning Fungi from Yuggoth....
(1991-1992, 3 issues) - It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1992)
- Jigaboo Devil (1996)
- The Justice Machine (1992)
- Keyhole (June 1996-1997, 3 issues — before moving to Modernsee below)
- Little Miss Strange (1997)
- The Lost World (1996)
- Mummy Archives (1992)
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E.: the Birds of Prey Affair (1993, 2 issues)
- Night's Children: Liaisons(Oct. 1994)
- Night's Children: Origins (Sept. 1994)
- Night's Children: Red Trails West (Dec. 1994)
- Nosferatu: Plague of TerrorNosferatu: Plague of TerrorNosferatu: Plague of Terror was a four-part comic series put out by Millennium Publications in 1991-92. Conceived as both a prequel and sequel to F.W. Murnau’s silent film, Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horrors, it was written by Mark Ellis, designed by Melissa Martin, with art provided by Rik Levins,...
(1991, 4 issues) - Oz Squad (1991)
- Pat Savage: Woman of Bronze (1991)
- Quest of the Tiger Woman (1994)
- Robert E. Howard's The Black Reaper (1995)
- Sex & Death (1995)
- Shock the Monkey (1996)
- "Song of the Sirens : featuring Da'Kota" (1997, 2 issues)
- The Tiger Woman (Sept. 1994)
- Vigil: Rebirth (1994, 2 issues)
- Weird Tales Illustrated (1992)
- Wicked a.k.a. Sean Shaw's Wicked (1994, 4 issues)
- The Wild Wild West: The Night of the Iron Tyrants (1990, 4 issues)
Modern Comics imprint
- Bathroom Girls by Yvonne Mojica (1998, 1 issue)
- Billy Dogma by Dean Haspiel (1997, 3 issues)
- Keyhole by Dean Haspiel and Josh Neufeld (1997, 1 issue)
- Lovely Prudence by Maze (1997–1998, 3 issues)
Graphic novels/trade paperbacks
- The Best of Asylum (1994)
- H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu: Whisperer in Darkness (1993, collected the three-issue miniseries)
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Millennium Productions was an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
independent comic book
Comic book
A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...
publishing company founded by Mark Ellis
Mark Ellis (writer)
Mark Ellis is an American novelist and comic-book writer who under the pen name James Axler has written scores of books for the Outlanders paperback novel series and other books, as well as numerous independent comics series....
, Melissa Martin and Paul Davis. Initially known as a publisher of licensed properties, Millennium adapted works by Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle DL was a Scottish physician and writer, most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, generally considered a milestone in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger...
, Lester Dent
Lester Dent
Lester Dent was a prolific pulp fiction author, best known as the creator and main author of the series of novels about the superhuman scientist and adventurer, Doc Savage. The 159 novels written over 16 years were credited to the house name Kenneth Robeson.-Early years:Dent was born in 1904 in...
, Frank Frazetta
Frank Frazetta
Frank Frazetta was an American fantasy and science fiction artist, noted for work in comic books, paperback book covers, paintings, posters, LP record album covers and other media...
, Robert E. Howard
Robert E. Howard
Robert Ervin Howard was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. Best known for his character Conan the Barbarian, he is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre....
, Harlan Ellison
Harlan Ellison
Harlan Jay Ellison is an American writer. His principal genre is speculative fiction.His published works include over 1,700 short stories, novellas, screenplays, teleplays, essays, a wide range of criticism covering literature, film, television, and print media...
, H.P. Lovecraft, and Anne Rice
Anne Rice
Anne Rice is a best-selling Southern American author of metaphysical gothic fiction, Christian literature and erotica from New Orleans, Louisiana. Her books have sold nearly 100 million copies, making her one of the most widely read authors in modern history...
; and even TV series like The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is an American television series that was broadcast on NBC from September 22, 1964, to January 15, 1968. It follows the exploits of two secret agents, played by Robert Vaughn and David McCallum, who work for a fictitious secret international espionage and law-enforcement...
and The Wild Wild West
The Wild Wild West
The Wild Wild West is an American television series that ran on CBS for four seasons from September 17, 1965 to April 4, 1969....
into comic book form. The company expanded its repertoire of horror comics into original titles in the mid-1990s, and further branched out in its later years to embrace the alternative comics
Alternative comics
Alternative comics defines a range of American comics that have appeared since the 1980s, following the underground comix movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Alternative comics present an alternative to "mainstream" superhero comics which in the past have dominated the US comic book industry...
genre, starting a short-lived creator-owned imprint called Modern Comics.
Millennium was distinctive in that they mostly published one-shots and mini-series, with only a couple of their titles running for more than four issues. The company gave now-established comics artists such as Darryl Banks
Darryl Banks
Darryl Banks is a comic book artist. He worked on one of the first painted comic books, Cyberpunk, and teamed with the writer Mark Ellis to revamp the long-running The Justice Machine series for two publishers, Innovation and Millennium....
, Dean Haspiel
Dean Haspiel
Dean Edmund Haspiel is an American comic book artist. He is known for his collaborations with writer Harvey Pekar on his American Splendor series as well as the graphic novel The Quitter. He has been nominated for numerous Eisner Awards, and won a 2010 Emmy Award for TV design work.-Early...
, Josh Neufeld
Josh Neufeld
Josh Neufeld is an alternative cartoonist known for his nonfiction comics on subjects like Hurricane Katrina, international travel, and finance, as well as his collaborations with writers like Harvey Pekar and Brooke Gladstone...
and Mike Wieringo
Mike Wieringo
Michael Lance "Mike" Wieringo , who sometimes signed his work under the name Ringo, was an American comic book artist best known for his work on DC Comics' The Flash and Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four....
their first steady exposure, while also working with comics legends Jim Mooney
Jim Mooney
James Noel "Jim" Mooney was an American comic book artist best known as a Marvel Comics inker and Spider-Man artist, and as the signature artist of DC Comics' Supergirl, both during what comics historians and fans call the Silver Age of comic books...
and Don Heck
Don Heck
Don Heck was an American comic book artist best known for co-creating the Marvel Comics character Iron Man, and for his long run penciling the Marvel superhero-team series The Avengers during the 1960s Silver Age of comic books.-Early life and career:Born in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens, New...
on a number of projects. Other notable comics creators who published with Millennium include Brian Michael Bendis
Brian Michael Bendis
Brian Michael Bendis is an American comic book writer and erstwhile artist. He has won critical acclaim for his self-published, Image Comics and Marvel Comics work, and is one of the most successful writers working in mainstream comics, with his books selling consistently highly for over a...
, John Bolton, Bob Eggleton
Bob Eggleton
Bob Eggleton is a science fiction, fantasy, and horror artist. Eggleton has been honored with the Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist eight times, first winning in 1994. He also won the Hugo Award for Best Related Book in 2001 for his art book "Greetings From Earth"...
, Dærick Gröss Sr.
Dærick Gröss Sr.
Dærick Gröss Sr. is an illustrator of fantasy and comic book art.Gröss has worked for a number of comic book companies, including Marvel, DC, Image, Malibu, Heroic, Revolutionary, Chaos, and Innovation....
, Kelley Jones
Kelley Jones
Kelley Jones is an American comic book artist best known for his runs on Batman with writer Doug Moench and on Sandman with writer Neil Gaiman.-Biography:...
, Rik Levins
Rik Levins
Rik Levins was an American comic book artist and penciller, best known for his work on Marvel Comics' Captain America, where he worked with writer Mark Gruenwald for over three years ....
, Terry Pavlet, and David W. Mack
David W. Mack
David W. Mack is an American comic book artist and writer, best known for his creator-owned series Kabuki. Mack is known for his unique painted and collage-like work...
.
Publishing history
In many ways representative of the boom period of independent comic book publishing, Millennium thrived in the early years of the 90s and fell on lean times as the decade came to a close.The company's first offerings, in 1990, were Anne Rice
Anne Rice
Anne Rice is a best-selling Southern American author of metaphysical gothic fiction, Christian literature and erotica from New Orleans, Louisiana. Her books have sold nearly 100 million copies, making her one of the most widely read authors in modern history...
's The Mummy, adapting her novel, The Mummy, or, Ramses the Damned; and The Wild Wild West: The Night of the Iron Tyrants, a four-issue sequel to the TV series scripted by Mark Ellis
Mark Ellis (writer)
Mark Ellis is an American novelist and comic-book writer who under the pen name James Axler has written scores of books for the Outlanders paperback novel series and other books, as well as numerous independent comics series....
, who also served as Millennium's comics editor for three years.
In 1991, Millennium debuted a series of comics titles featuring Lester Dent
Lester Dent
Lester Dent was a prolific pulp fiction author, best known as the creator and main author of the series of novels about the superhuman scientist and adventurer, Doc Savage. The 159 novels written over 16 years were credited to the house name Kenneth Robeson.-Early years:Dent was born in 1904 in...
's Doc Savage
Doc Savage
Doc Savage is a fictional character originally published in American pulp magazines during the 1930s and 1940s. He was created by publisher Henry W. Ralston and editor John L...
, including the four-part limited series Doc Savage: The Monarch of Armageddon. That series, which was also written by Mark Ellis (and drawn by Darryl Banks), was said by The Comics Buyer's Guide Catalog of Comic Books "to come closest to the original, capturing all the action, humanity and humor of the original novels." Also in 1991, Ellis conceived and scripted the critically acclaimed Nosferatu: Plague of Terror
Nosferatu: Plague of Terror
Nosferatu: Plague of Terror was a four-part comic series put out by Millennium Publications in 1991-92. Conceived as both a prequel and sequel to F.W. Murnau’s silent film, Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horrors, it was written by Mark Ellis, designed by Melissa Martin, with art provided by Rik Levins,...
, a four-part series which provided a complete story of the title character's origin quite apart from the Dracula legend. Finally, Ellis again turned to adapting and expanding another writer's concepts (H.P. Lovecraft), with the three-issue limited series Cthulhu: The Whisperer in Darkness
H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu: The Whisperer in Darkness
H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu: The Whisperer in Darkness was a three-part comic book mini-series published by Millennium Publications that followed a group of investigators, the Miskatonic Project, as they confronted the Mi-go, the cunning Fungi from Yuggoth....
, which featured the first appearance of The Miskatonic Project.
In 1992-1993, Millennium introduced another Anne Rice-related project, Anne Rice's The Witching Hour, which ran for five issues; and another Doc Savage book, Manual of Bronze. In addition, again with Ellis as scripter, they adapted the cult-classic horror film It! The Terror from Beyond Space into comics form. Ellis and Banks teamed up again to produce two issues of Justice Machine
Justice Machine
The Justice Machine is a fictional team of superheroes originally created by Michael Gustovich and appearing in comic books from many small publishers in the 1980s and 1990s.-Publication history:...
, a super-hero title which had previously been published by Comico Comics
Comico Comics
Comico: The Comic Company was an American comic book publisher, headquartered in Norristown, Pennsylvania. Its best-known comics include the Robotech adaptations, the Jonny Quest continuation written by co-creator Doug Wildey, and Matt Wagner's Mage: The Hero Discovered and Grendel...
and Innovation Comics, among others. During this period, Millennium also published its first nonfiction title, Don Hillsman and Ryan Monihan's By Any Means Necessary: The Life and Times of Malcolm X, an unauthorized biography in comic book form. Before leaving Millennium at the end of 1993, Ellis once again flexed his adaptation skills with The Man from U.N.C.L.E: The Birds of Prey Affair two-parter.
At the end of 1993, co-owners Ellis and Martin, who also functioned as the editorial and production staff, sold their shares in Millennium, but retained ownership of a number of comics properties, such as Nosferatu
Nosferatu: Plague of Terror
Nosferatu: Plague of Terror was a four-part comic series put out by Millennium Publications in 1991-92. Conceived as both a prequel and sequel to F.W. Murnau’s silent film, Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horrors, it was written by Mark Ellis, designed by Melissa Martin, with art provided by Rik Levins,...
, The Miskatonic Project
H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu: The Whisperer in Darkness
H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu: The Whisperer in Darkness was a three-part comic book mini-series published by Millennium Publications that followed a group of investigators, the Miskatonic Project, as they confronted the Mi-go, the cunning Fungi from Yuggoth....
, and the new Justice Machine
Justice Machine
The Justice Machine is a fictional team of superheroes originally created by Michael Gustovich and appearing in comic books from many small publishers in the 1980s and 1990s.-Publication history:...
. (When Ellis and Martin left Millennium, the company moved its headquarters from Tampa, Florida
Tampa, Florida
Tampa is a city in the U.S. state of Florida. It serves as the county seat for Hillsborough County. Tampa is located on the west coast of Florida. The population of Tampa in 2010 was 335,709....
, to Rhode Island, first to Narragansett
Narragansett, Rhode Island
Narragansett is a town in Washington County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 15,868 at the 2010 census, but there is a greater population in the summer. The nickname for the town is "Gansett". The town of Narragansett occupies a narrow strip of land running along the eastern bank...
, and finally to Kingston
Kingston, Rhode Island
Kingston is a village and a census-designated place in the town of South Kingstown, Rhode Island, United States, and the site of the main campus of the University of Rhode Island. Much of the village center is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Kingston Village Historic...
.)
The mid-1990s saw the company publishing more original material, still mostly in the horror vein, though they also adapted material created by Robert E. Howard (The Black Reaper) and Arthur Conan Doyle (The Lost World). (The Black Reaper was notable in that it featured Howard's poetry alongside illustrations by comic book artists; it was halfway between a book and a comic book.) During this period, Millennium also picked up the Night's Children series from the defunct Fantaco/Tundra
FantaCo Enterprises
FantaCo Enterprises was an American comic book store and publishing company founded by Thomas Skulan and based in Albany, New York. As a publisher, FantaCo was known for its idiosyncratic line-up of mostly black-and-white titles, including the humorous Hembeck Series and the horror title Gore Shriek...
. In 1996, Millennium also debuted Dean Haspiel
Dean Haspiel
Dean Edmund Haspiel is an American comic book artist. He is known for his collaborations with writer Harvey Pekar on his American Splendor series as well as the graphic novel The Quitter. He has been nominated for numerous Eisner Awards, and won a 2010 Emmy Award for TV design work.-Early...
and Josh Neufeld
Josh Neufeld
Josh Neufeld is an alternative cartoonist known for his nonfiction comics on subjects like Hurricane Katrina, international travel, and finance, as well as his collaborations with writers like Harvey Pekar and Brooke Gladstone...
's eclectic two-man anthology Keyhole, which ran for three issues in 1996-1997 until it moved over to the Modern Comics imprint for issue #4. (Keyhole then was picked up by Top Shelf Productions
Top Shelf Productions
Top Shelf Productions is an American publishing company founded in 1997, owned and operated by Chris Staros and Brett Warnock and a small staff. The company is based in Marietta, Georgia, Portland, Oregon, and New York City, New York....
for the remainder of its six-issue run.)
1997 was notable in that Millennium debuted its creator-owned line, Modern Comics, which featured creators from the minicomic
Minicomic
A minicomic is a creator-published comic book, often photocopied and stapled or with a handmade binding. In the United Kingdom and Europe the term "small press comic" is equivalent with minicomic reserved for those publications measuring A6 or less...
, self-publishing, and zine
Zine
A zine is most commonly a small circulation publication of original or appropriated texts and images. More broadly, the term encompasses any self-published work of minority interest usually reproduced via photocopier....
scenes. This new direction for the company didn't help their fortunes, however, as in 1998 Millennium only published one title, with Modern putting out a paltry two books. Neither Millennium nor Modern released any books in 1999, and Modern's only title in 2000 was Yvonne Mojica's The Bathroom Girls Guide to Christmas Chaos. In 2000, Millennium/Modern closed its doors for good.
In late 2007, Ellis and Martin formed Millennial Concepts, reviving the stylized "M" that had served as Millennium's first company logo. In July 2008, Millennial Concepts joined forces with Caliber Comics
Caliber Comics
Caliber Comics or Caliber Press was an American comic book publisher founded in 1989 by Gary Reed. Featuring primarily creator-owned comics, in the next decade Caliber published over 1300 comics and ranked as one of the America's leading independent publishers...
founder Gary Reed's Transfuzion Publications in a joint graphic novel-publishing venture.
Titles (chronologically)
1990
- Anne Rice's The Mummy (12 issues)
- The Wild Wild West: The Night of the Iron Tyrants (4 issues)
1991
- Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze — Doom Dynasty (2 issues)
- Doc Savage: The Monarch of Armageddon (4 issues)
- H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu (3 issues)
- H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu: Whisperer in DarknessH. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu: The Whisperer in DarknessH.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu: The Whisperer in Darkness was a three-part comic book mini-series published by Millennium Publications that followed a group of investigators, the Miskatonic Project, as they confronted the Mi-go, the cunning Fungi from Yuggoth....
(3 issues) - Nosferatu: Plague of TerrorNosferatu: Plague of TerrorNosferatu: Plague of Terror was a four-part comic series put out by Millennium Publications in 1991-92. Conceived as both a prequel and sequel to F.W. Murnau’s silent film, Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horrors, it was written by Mark Ellis, designed by Melissa Martin, with art provided by Rik Levins,...
(4 issues) - Oz Squad
- Pat Savage: Woman of Bronze
1992
- Anne Rice's The Witching Hour (5 issues)
- Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze — Devil's Thoughts (3 issues)
- Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze — Repel (2 issues planned, only one published)
- Doc Savage: The Manual of Bronze
- It! The Terror from Beyond SpaceIt! The Terror from Beyond SpaceIt! The Terror from Beyond Space is a 1958 black and white science fiction film directed by Edward L. Cahn.-Plot:The film opens with a nuclear-powered spaceship perched on the cratered surface of an alien world. A voice-over tells us that the year is 1973 and that this is the planet, Mars. This...
- The Justice MachineJustice MachineThe Justice Machine is a fictional team of superheroes originally created by Michael Gustovich and appearing in comic books from many small publishers in the 1980s and 1990s.-Publication history:...
(2 issues) - Mummy Archives
- Weird Tales Illustrated (Jan., 2 issues)
1993
- Asylum (3 issues)
- By Any Means Necessary: The Life and Times of Malcolm X
- H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu: The Festival (3 issues)
- H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu: Whisperer in DarknessH. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu: The Whisperer in DarknessH.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu: The Whisperer in Darkness was a three-part comic book mini-series published by Millennium Publications that followed a group of investigators, the Miskatonic Project, as they confronted the Mi-go, the cunning Fungi from Yuggoth....
(collected the 1991 three-issue miniseries) - The Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Birds of Prey Affair (2 issues)
1994
- The Best of Asylum (collected the 1993 two-issues miniseries)
- Blood Childe: Portrait of a Surreal Killer (Oct., 4 issues)
- The Collector's Dracula (2 issues)
- Heartstopper: Sorrow About to Fall
- Night's Children: Liaisons (Oct.)
- Night's Children: Origins (Sept.)
- Night's Children: Red Trails West (Dec.)
- Oz SquadOz SquadOz Squad is a comic book updating of L. Frank Baum's Land of Oz series. Its premise is that Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion are now part of "Gale Force" , a Mission Impossible type organization working to protect Oz from all manner of bizarre threats...
Special - The Quest of the Tiger Woman: A Genetic Park Adventure (Apr., 2 issues)
- Vigil: Rebirth (2 issues)
- Wicked (4 issues)
1995
- Dark World
- Descending Angels
- Manik (3 issues)
- Night's Children: Ripper (2 issues)
- Power Plays (4 issues)
- Robert E. Howard's The Black Reaper
- Sex & Death (June)
1996
- Chassis (3 issues)
- Jigaboo Devil
- Keyhole (June, 3 issues before moving to Modern)
- The Lost World (2 issues)
- Shock the Monkey June, 2 issues)
1997
- Armageddon Rising: The Grand Equation
- Canton Kid
- Song of the Sirens : featuring Da'kota (2 issues)
- Da'kota (2 issues)
- Desiree: The Ultimate Experience
- Little Miss Strange
1997
- Billy Dogma by Dean Haspiel (3 issues)
- Keyhole by Dean Haspiel and Josh Neufeld (Apr., 1 issue)
- Lovely Prudence Christmas Bitterness Special by Maze
1998
- Bathroom Girls by Yvonne Mojica (4 issues, 1998–2000)
- Lovely Prudence Swimsuit Special by Maze
Titles
- Anne Rice's The Mummy a.k.a. The Mummy, or, Ramses the Damned (1990)
- Anne Rice's the Witching Hour (1992)
- Armageddon Rising: The Grand Equation (1997)
- Asylum (1993, 3 issues)
- Blood Childe: Portrait of a Surreal Killer (Oct. 1994-1995, 4 issues)
- By Any Means Necessary: The Life and Times of Malcolm X (an Unauthorized Biography in Comic Book Form) (1993)
- Canton Kid (1997)
- Chassis (1996, 3 issues)
- The Collector's Dracula (1994, 2 issues)
- Da'Kota (1997, 2 issues)
- Descending Angels (1995)
- Doc Savage: Doom Dynasty (1991)
- Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze (1991, 9 issues)
- Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze — Devil's Thoughts (1991)
- Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze — Doom Dynasty (1991)
- Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze — Repel (1991)
- Doc Savage: The Manual of Bronze (1992)
- Doc Savage: The Monarch of Armageddon (1991)
- H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu (1991)
- H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu: The Festival (1993-1994, 3 issues)
- H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu: Whisperer in DarknessH. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu: The Whisperer in DarknessH.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu: The Whisperer in Darkness was a three-part comic book mini-series published by Millennium Publications that followed a group of investigators, the Miskatonic Project, as they confronted the Mi-go, the cunning Fungi from Yuggoth....
(1991-1992, 3 issues) - It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1992)
- Jigaboo Devil (1996)
- The Justice Machine (1992)
- Keyhole (June 1996-1997, 3 issues — before moving to Modernsee below)
- Little Miss Strange (1997)
- The Lost World (1996)
- Mummy Archives (1992)
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E.: the Birds of Prey Affair (1993, 2 issues)
- Night's Children: Liaisons(Oct. 1994)
- Night's Children: Origins (Sept. 1994)
- Night's Children: Red Trails West (Dec. 1994)
- Nosferatu: Plague of TerrorNosferatu: Plague of TerrorNosferatu: Plague of Terror was a four-part comic series put out by Millennium Publications in 1991-92. Conceived as both a prequel and sequel to F.W. Murnau’s silent film, Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horrors, it was written by Mark Ellis, designed by Melissa Martin, with art provided by Rik Levins,...
(1991, 4 issues) - Oz Squad (1991)
- Pat Savage: Woman of Bronze (1991)
- Quest of the Tiger Woman (1994)
- Robert E. Howard's The Black Reaper (1995)
- Sex & Death (1995)
- Shock the Monkey (1996)
- "Song of the Sirens : featuring Da'Kota" (1997, 2 issues)
- The Tiger Woman (Sept. 1994)
- Vigil: Rebirth (1994, 2 issues)
- Weird Tales Illustrated (1992)
- Wicked a.k.a. Sean Shaw's Wicked (1994, 4 issues)
- The Wild Wild West: The Night of the Iron Tyrants (1990, 4 issues)
Modern Comics imprint
- Bathroom Girls by Yvonne Mojica (1998, 1 issue)
- Billy Dogma by Dean Haspiel (1997, 3 issues)
- Keyhole by Dean Haspiel and Josh Neufeld (1997, 1 issue)
- Lovely Prudence by Maze (1997–1998, 3 issues)
Graphic novels/trade paperbacks
- The Best of Asylum (1994)
- H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu: Whisperer in Darkness (1993, collected the three-issue miniseries)
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