Lightning Comics

Lightning Comics was a short-lived 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...

 publisher in 1967. It published two titles:

• Fatman the Human Flying Saucer
  Fatman the Human Flying Saucer
  Fatman the Human Flying Saucer is a fictional character, a comic book superhero created by artist C. C. Beck and writer Otto Binder in the 1960s....
  
  , created by writer Otto Binder
  Otto Binder
  Otto Oscar Binder was an American author of science fiction and non-fiction books and stories, and comic books...
  
   and artist C. C. Beck
  C. C. Beck
  Charles Clarence Beck was an American cartoonist and comic book artist, best known for his work on Captain Marvel at Fawcett Comics and DC Comics....
  
  , and lasting three issues.
• Tod Holton, Super Green Beret (as per cover trademark), a.k.a. Super Green Beret (as per copyright in postal indicia), created by writer Binder and artist Carl Pfeufer
  Carl Pfeufer
  Carl T. Pfeufer was an American comic-book artist, magazine illustrator, painter and sculptor best known as one of the earliest contributors to American comic books; one of the primary early artists of the Marvel Comics superhero the Sub-Mariner; and the longtime artist of Western hero Tom Mix's...
  
  , which lasted two issues.

Lightning Comics (1990s)

Lightning Comics in the mid 90s was an independent comic publisher founded by Joseph and Steve Zyskowski. They wanted to make comic books unlike the ones they had read before. They believed the newest comics "seemed to lack 'substance'." Their first artists were Julius Jackson, Terral Lawrence, Karl Kerscl, and Eric Pence. The first comic published by Lightning Comics, Bloodfire #1, sold 50,000 comics. The company's idea was to make each issue a limited printing to enhance collectability. Also, after that first book, Greg Weed was hired to move the company from marker to airbrush.

Lightning Comics later became the first of several publishers to capitalize on the "Bad Girl" trend in comics by offering limited "nude cover" variations of their comics featuring Hellina, Catfight and their other female heroines.

Comic Series

• Bloodfire
• Judgement Day
• Perg
• Curse of the Dreadwolf
• Creed (It was originally published by Hall Of Heroes, then Avatar after Lightning, and a last stop most recently in the beginning of the 2000s with Image Comics
  Image Comics
  Image Comics is a United States comic book publisher. It was founded in 1992 by high-profile illustrators as a venue where creators could publish their material without giving up the copyrights to the characters they created, as creator-owned properties. It was immediately successful, and remains...
  
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• Hellina
• Deathangel
• Sinthia
• Catfight (under the Insomnia imprint)

External links

• Lightning Comics Checklist and Cover Gallery