Aircel ? Warlock5 comic

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Aircel ? Warlock5 comic

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Is aircel a Dead U . . .???

I think they put out elfquest and this comic that had just amazing, amazing art for the first 13 issues . .

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B&W interior art was so beautiful . .if I remember right . .I will try to find these and maybe post a pic . . .
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Aircel was started then sold to Malibu and was an imprint for a long time.
Then of course Marvel bought out Malibu.

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Rocket2600 wrote:Aircel was started then sold to Malibu and was an imprint for a long time.
Then of course Marvel bought out Malibu.
Love those covers . . .

So technically Marvel owns these comics ?
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Was the whole company bought simply for Men In Black,
or is there more to the story than that?

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I know Barry Blair (who mostly created Aircel) kept the rights to Elflord and some other titles.

But Marvel got titles like Men In Black that started at Aircel.
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greg wrote:Was the whole company bought simply for Men In Black,
or is there more to the story than that?

:hm:
Story goes Aircel (Barry Blair & Co) ran into finacial troubles and Malibu bailed them out. Later on Blair just sold out the company to Malibu. Then Malibu ran Aircel as an imprint with the more racey titles like Debbie Does Dallas, Hooters, etc.

Later on Marvel bought Malibu (mostly for the Ultraverse) but gained titles like Men In Black, Shuriken, etc.
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Rocket2600 wrote:I know Barry Blair (who mostly created Aircel) kept the rights to Elflord and some other titles.

IIRC he kept Elflore and Elfheim which are companion titles to his Elflord series. He has printed these (mostly Elflord) back and forth between Aircel and his old NightWynd publishing company (even Warp) but nothing has come out in about 10 years or so.
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siren3-4 wrote:Is aircel a Dead U . . .???

I think they put out elfquest and this comic that had just amazing, amazing art for the first 13 issues . .

B&W interior art was so beautiful . .if I remember right . .I will try to find these and maybe post a pic . . .
Denis Beauvais :thumb:
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Didn't Dale Keown (sp?) have some early work at Aircel?
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siren3-4 wrote:Is aircel a Dead U . . .???
Yes, I think they would be (I need a list) and I also plan on possibly picking this DU up as well but man, I GOTTA space these out !!!! :lol:
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JohnnyRnR wrote:Didn't Dale Keown (sp?) have some early work at Aircel?
yes Dale McKeown did a lot of work for Blair and IIRC he did the art on the later Warlock 5 series.
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Knightt wrote:
siren3-4 wrote:Is aircel a Dead U . . .???
Yes, I think they would be (I need a list) and I also plan on possibly picking this DU up as well but man, I GOTTA space these out !!!! :lol:
Then you might want to consider grouping Aircel, Monkey Press, Nightwynd (Night Wynd) into one DU as all three were the known publishing companies of Barry Blair's characters (he also printed under the Warp label as well).
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to make matters worse...the 1986 Aircel ElfLord series (think it ran some 30 issues) is commonly identified as the "original" series incorrectly. In fact this series is predated by 2 Elflord series (VOL 1 x15 issues and Vol 2 x1 issue) published in the early 1980s (Night Wynd).

Now here's the kicker, both of the early Elflord series (Night Wynd) had a limited regional distribution (Ottawa Canada) and publishing 400-500 (Vol 1 #1 and #2 that I know of - the other 13 not sure).


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SnotDrip wrote:to make matters worse...the 1986 Aircel ElfLord series (think it ran some 30 issues) is commonly identified as the "original" series incorrectly. In fact this series is predated by 2 Elflord series (VOL 1 x15 issues and Vol 2 x1 issue) published in the early 1980s (Night Wynd).

Now here's the kicker, both of the early Elflord series (Night Wynd) had a limited regional distribution (Ottawa Canada) and publishing 400-500 (Vol 1 #1 and #2 that I know of - the other 13 not sure).


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SnotDrip wrote:to make matters worse...the 1986 Aircel ElfLord series (think it ran some 30 issues) is commonly identified as the "original" series incorrectly. In fact this series is predated by 2 Elflord series (VOL 1 x15 issues and Vol 2 x1 issue) published in the early 1980s (Night Wynd).

Now here's the kicker, both of the early Elflord series (Night Wynd) had a limited regional distribution (Ottawa Canada) and publishing 400-500 (Vol 1 #1 and #2 that I know of - the other 13 not sure).


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Rocket2600 wrote:Aircel was started then sold to Malibu and was an imprint for a long time.
Then of course Marvel bought out Malibu.

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Knightt wrote:Ya know something ?

You are an evil man. Pure evil.

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leonmallett wrote:
SnotDrip wrote:to make matters worse...the 1986 Aircel ElfLord series (think it ran some 30 issues) is commonly identified as the "original" series incorrectly. In fact this series is predated by 2 Elflord series (VOL 1 x15 issues and Vol 2 x1 issue) published in the early 1980s (Night Wynd).

Now here's the kicker, both of the early Elflord series (Night Wynd) had a limited regional distribution (Ottawa Canada) and publishing 400-500 (Vol 1 #1 and #2 that I know of - the other 13 not sure).


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Crap, I've got some of these too.
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I was checking out the Bound Books thread and was looking through some of the books people had done on the website and this was one of them:

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Man that looks nice . . .
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I agree...good presentation

thanks for the picks :thumb:
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siren3-4 wrote:I was checking out the Bound Books thread and was looking through some of the books people had done on the website and this was one of them:

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Man that looks nice . . .
cool as *SQUEE*! :bigeyes:
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siren3-4 wrote:I was checking out the Bound Books thread and was looking through some of the books people had done on the website and this was one of them:

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Man that looks nice . . .
Niiiiice! :thumb:
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