Moonstone Books is an American 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...

, graphic novel, and prose fiction publisher based in Chicago focused on pulp fiction comic books and prose anthologies as well as horror and western tales.

The company began publishing creator-owned

Creator ownership

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 comics in 1995

1995 in comics

-January:*After Xavier: The Age of Apocalypse is launched. All X-titles change to different names for the next four months.* Thor marks his 400th appearance in Marvel Comics with issue #482....

, and since 2001

2001 in comics

-Year overall:* Marvel Comics withdraws from the Comics Code Authority and established its own rating system for its publications.- January :* January 23: Fred Ray, Superman's primary cover artist of the 1940s, passes away at age 80.- September :...

 has also published material based on a number of licensed properties, including Zorro

Zorro

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, Doc Savage

Doc Savage

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, The Avenger, Buckaroo Banzai

Buckaroo Banzai

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, Bulldog Drummond

Bulldog Drummond

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, Kolchak: The Night Stalker

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, Mr. Moto

Mr. Moto

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, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar

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, The Phantom

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, Honey West and several titles based in White Wolf

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's World of Darkness

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Moonstone's editor-in-chief is Joe Gentile

Joe Gentile

Joe Gentile is an American author, editor and the founder of Moonstone Books, a Chicago publishing house. He is also known as a comic book writer and author.-Personal life:Gentile was born in Chicago Heights, Illinois...

, who frequently writes his own stories for their comics.