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Moonstone Books

Moonstone Books is an American comic book

Comic book

A comic book is a magazine or book of narrative artwork and dialog and descriptive prose. The style was introduced in 1934. Despite the term, comic books do not necessarily feature humorous subject-matter; in fact, it is often serious and action-oriented....
, 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

Creator ownership is an arrangement in which the creator or creators of a work of fiction retain full ownership of the material, regardless of whether it is self-publishing or by a corporate publisher....
comics in 1995

1995 in comics

Events...
, and since 2001

2001 in comics

Events and publications...
has also published material based on a number of licensed properties, including Zorro
Zorro

Zorro is a fictional character created in 1919 by pulp magazine writer Johnston McCulley. He has been featured in several books, films, television series and other media....
, Doc Savage
Doc Savage

Doc Savage is a fictional character, one of the pulp heroes of the 1930s and 1940s. He was created by writer Lester Dent....
, The Avenger
The Avenger

The Avenger is a fictional character whose original adventures appeared between September 1939 and September 1942 in the pulp magazine The Avenger, published by Street and Smith Publications....
, Buckaroo Banzai
Buckaroo Banzai

Buckaroo Banzai is the lead character, played by Peter Weller, of the eponymous 1984 cult film, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension....
, Bulldog Drummond
Bulldog Drummond

Bulldog Drummond is a United Kingdom fictional character created by "Sapper," a pseudonym of Herman Cyril McNeile , in imitation of the hard boiled film noir-style detectives appearing in contemporary United States fiction....
, Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Kolchak: The Night Stalker

Kolchak: The Night Stalker is an American television series that aired on American Broadcasting Company in 1974. It featured a newspaper reporter — Carl Kolchak, played by Darren McGavin — who investigates crimes with mysterious and unlikely causes that the proper authorities won't accept or pursue....
, Mr. Moto
Mr. Moto

Mr. Moto is a fictional character Japanese people secret agent created by the American author John P. Marquand. He appeared in six novels by Marquand published between 1935 and 1957....
, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar was a radio drama about a "fabulous" freelance Insurance Investigations "with the action-packed expense account." The show aired on CBS Radio from January 14, 1949 to September 30, 1962....
, The Phantom
The Phantom

The Phantom is an American Adventure comic strip created by Lee Falk, also creator of Mandrake the Magician. A popular feature adapted into many forms of media, including television and film, it stars a costumed crimefighter operating from the African jungle....
, and several titles based in White Wolf

White Wolf, Inc.

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's World of Darkness

World of Darkness

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.

stone's editor-in-chief is Joe Gentile

Joe Gentile

Personal lifeGentile was born in Chicago Heights, Illinois. He is married to Kathy Gentile, an Information Technology Director.He is also the owner of a chain of comic book stores located in Illinois, Amazing Fantasy....
, who frequently writes his own stories for their comics.

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Moonstone's editor-in-chief is Joe Gentile

Joe Gentile

Mike Bullock

Chuck Dixon

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, Amin Amat, Ben Raab

Ben Raab

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, Rafael Nieves, Peter David

Peter David

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, Graham Nolan

Graham Nolan

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, David Gallaher

David Gallaher

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, Eric Theriault

Eric Theriault

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, EricJ, Tom Mandrake, Vatche Mavlian, Richard Dean Starr

Richard Dean Starr

Richard Dean Starr is an United States copywriter, editor, and author of fiction and graphic novels whose work has featured characters including Hellboy, Zorro, The Phantom, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, The Avenger, and Wyatt Earp, among others....
, Doug Klauba, Paul Storrie, Mike W. Barr

Mike W. Barr

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, Tom DeFalco

Tom DeFalco

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, Max Allan Collins

Max Allan Collins

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, Steve Ellis

Steve Ellis

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, Ron Goulart

Ron Goulart

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, Ken Wolak and Stefan Petrucha

Stefan Petrucha

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.

Wide-Vision Illustrated / Graphic Novels

Moonstone publisher Joe Gentile recently created an all-new, graphic/illustrated novel format called "Wide-Vision". This revolutionary new style utilizes expansive illustrations which stretch across two pages and is designed to mimic the feel of widescreen

Widescreen

A widescreen image is a film, computer or television image with a wider and shorter aspect ratio than the standard Academy frame developed during the classical Hollywood cinema era....
films. The format made its premiere in July, 2006 with a 72-page Phantom

Phantom

Phantom can refer to any of the following....
story titled "Law of the Jungle", written by Joe Gentile and including painted artwork by Paul Guinan. The next Wide-Vision project, to be published in the Summer of 2008, will be Wyatt Earp

Wyatt Earp

Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was an United States farmer, teamster, sometime American Bison hunter, officer of the law in various American Old West frontier towns, gambler, bar -keeper, miner and boxing referee....
: The Justice Riders by Richard Dean Starr

Richard Dean Starr

The Phantom

The Phantom is an American Adventure comic strip created by Lee Falk, also creator of Mandrake the Magician. A popular feature adapted into many forms of media, including television and film, it stars a costumed crimefighter operating from the African jungle....
, Kolchak: The Night Stalker

Kolchak: The Night Stalker

Kolchak: The Night Stalker is an American television series that aired on American Broadcasting Company in 1974. It featured a newspaper reporter — Carl Kolchak, played by Darren McGavin — who investigates crimes with mysterious and unlikely causes that the proper authorities won't accept or pursue....
, and other Moonstone licensed characters.

Publications

The Phantom

Moonstone's most successful title is The Phantom
The Phantom

The Phantom is an American Adventure comic strip created by Lee Falk, also creator of Mandrake the Magician. A popular feature adapted into many forms of media, including television and film, it stars a costumed crimefighter operating from the African jungle....
, which is based on Lee Falk

Lee Falk

Leon Harrison Gross, more known by the alias of Lee Falk , was an United States writer, director and producer, best known as the creator of the popular comic strip superheroes The Phantom and Mandrake the Magician, who at the height of their popularity secured him over a hundred million readers every day....
's superhero

Superhero

A superhero is a Character "of unprecedented physical prowess dedicated to act of derring-do in the public interest". Since the debut of the prototype superhero Superman in 1938, stories of superheroes?ranging from brief episodic adventures to continuing years-long sagas?have dominated American comic books and crossed over into other mass...
comic strip

Comic strip

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story.Currently in the Western world, most comic strips are written and drawn by a comics artist or cartoonist, and many such strips are published on a recurring basis in newspapers and on the Internet....
. Moonstone is the first US publisher to produce new Phantom stories for the comic book format since Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics

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cancelled their Phantom 2040
Phantom 2040

Phantom 2040 is an animated series science fiction television series loosely based on the comic strip hero The Phantom, created by Lee Falk....
comic in 1995.

Moonstone started publishing Phantom graphic novels in 2002. Only five books, written by Tom DeFalco

Tom DeFalco

Tom DeFalco is an United States comic book writer and editor, well-known for his association with Marvel Comics and Spider-Man.Biography...
, Ben Raab and Ron Goulart

Ron Goulart

Ben Raab

Chuck Dixon

Charles "Chuck" Dixon is an United States comic book writer, perhaps best-known for long runs on Batman titles in the 1990s....
, and drawn by the likes of Pat Quinn

Pat Quinn

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, Jerry DeCaire

Jerry DeCaire

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, Nick Derington, Rich Burchett and EricJ. After 11 issues, Mike Bullock

Mike Bullock

Mike Bullock is an award-winning writer of poetry and creative fiction, a published lyricist, and an accomplished non-fiction writer. He has been writing creatively for over 20 years and has nearly two decades of promotional experience in the music and comic industries....
took over the book, with Carlos Magno as the regular artist in 2006, leaving the series to finally come out on a more regular schedule.

Moonstone have also made and is in the process of making several special projects with the character. In 2006, a retcon of the Phantom's origin called "Legacy" was published, written by Ben Raab and drawn by Pat Quinn, which aimed to look like one of the Phantom's chronicle

Chronicle

Generally a chronicle is a historical account of facts and events ranged in chronology order. Typically, equal weight is given for historically important events and local events, the purpose being the recording of events that occurred, seen from the perspective of the chronicler....
books. 2006 also marked the year when Moonstone invented the wide-vision format, introducing it to the world with the Phantom story "Law of the Jungle". Moonstone have also announced a Phantom Annual, and two prose collections featuring Phantom short stories.

The Phantom is Moonstone's best selling title.

Moonstone Noir

Moonstone Monsters

Kolchak the Night Stalker

Moonstone is publishing new stories based on the TV-series Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Kolchak: The Night Stalker

Kolchak: The Night Stalker is an American television series that aired on American Broadcasting Company in 1974. It featured a newspaper reporter — Carl Kolchak, played by Darren McGavin — who investigates crimes with mysterious and unlikely causes that the proper authorities won't accept or pursue....
.

Several graphic novels featuring the character have been published, as well as a regular, on-going comic book series. A "wide vision" graphic novel has been announced.

Buckaroo Banzai

Since 2006, Moonstone have been publishing comics with Buckaroo Banzai

Buckaroo Banzai

Buckaroo Banzai is the lead character, played by Peter Weller, of the eponymous 1984 cult film, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension....
, the main character from the 1984 cult film The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension! is an Cinema of the United States science fiction film that has reached cult film status....
, which continues plotlines left unexplored in the movie.

Prose anthologies

Moonstone recently published a Stoker Award-nominated prose anthology with Kolchak, which sold out fast. Due to the success of the Kolchak collection, Moonstone released two new prose anthologies with The Phantom and The Spider

The Spider

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, and announced others featuring The Avenger

The Avenger

The Avenger is a fictional character whose original adventures appeared between September 1939 and September 1942 in the pulp magazine The Avenger, published by Street and Smith Publications....
and one with Doc Savage

Doc Savage

Doc Savage is a fictional character, one of the pulp heroes of the 1930s and 1940s. He was created by writer Lester Dent....
.

Titles

Comics

Moonstone comics titles include:

Buckaroo Banzai
The Hat Squad
Bulldog Drummond
Bulldog Drummond

Bulldog Drummond is a United Kingdom fictional character created by "Sapper," a pseudonym of Herman Cyril McNeile , in imitation of the hard boiled film noir-style detectives appearing in contemporary United States fiction....
Boston Blackie
Boston Blackie

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Mr. Nightmare's Wonderful World
Pat Novak for Hire
Pat Novak for Hire

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The Cisco Kid
The Cisco Kid

The Cisco Kid is a film, radio, television and comic book series based on the fictional Western character created by O. Henry in his short story "The Caballero's Way", published in 1907 in the collection Heart of the West....
C.L.A.S.H.
C.L.A.S.H.

C.L.A.S.H. is a comic book series published in France but realized by Italian Comics artists Franco Frescura and Giorgio Trevisan for Editions Lug in 1969....
Mr. Keen
Kolchak the Night Stalker
The Phantom
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar was a radio drama about a "fabulous" freelance Insurance Investigations "with the action-packed expense account." The show aired on CBS Radio from January 14, 1949 to September 30, 1962....
The Silencers
The Silencers (comic)

The Silencers is a comic book series created by Fred Van Lente and Steve Ellis , copyright 2003. The series is published by Moonstone Books....
Moonstone Monsters
Captain Action
Captain Action

Captain Action was an action figure, from 1966, equipped with a wardrobe of costumes allowing him to become Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, Captain America, Aquaman, the Phantom, The Lone Ranger , Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Nick Fury, Steve Canyon, and the Green Hornet....
The WhiteWolf Gaming
Evilman
Wyatt Earp: Dodge City
Psychotic Reation

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graphic novel illustrated by Eric Theriault
Eric Theriault

Eric Theriault is a Canadian comic book artist and writer. Among his works are the creator owned comic Veena , published on and off from 1991 first as a mini-comic, then as an indy comic book and now as a webcomic....
, written by David Gallaher