Eagle Comics Explained

Eagle Comics
Foundation:	1983
Defunct:	1986
Location City:	London
Location Country:	United Kingdom
Key People:	Nick Landau
Industry:	Publishing
Products:	Comics

Eagle Comics was a short lived comic book publishing company that existed to reprint comic stories from the UK's 2000 A.D. magazine for distribution in North America. They existed from 1983 to 1986 and were based in London, England with product production and distribution located in Canada.

History

The company was formed by Nick Landau to republish stories from the comics anthology 2000 A.D., repackaged into American comic book format (in the same way his Titan Books had been reprinting them as trade paperbacks).^[1] In 1986 the license, from IPC, passed to Quality Communications.^[2]

Titles

The series they brought to American audiences included:

• Judge Dredd (33 issues – continued, starting with issue 34, by Quality Comics)^[3]
• Judge Dredd: The Judge Child Quest (5 issue mini-series)^[4]
• Judge Dredd's Crime File (6 issue mini-series)^[5]
• Judge Dredd: The Early Cases (6 issue mini-series)^[6]
• The Stainless Steel Rat (6 issue mini-series)^[7]
• Strontium Dog (4 issue mini-series, although originally advertised as 8 issues)^[8]
• Robo-Hunter (5 issue mini-series)^[9]
• Nemesis the Warlock (7 issue mini-series)^[10]
• 2000 A.D. Monthly (10 issues;^[11] title continued by Quality Communications)

References

• • • Bishop, David Thrill Power Overload (Rebellion Developments, 260 pages, hardcover, February 2007,)

External links

• Eagle Comics at Comicvine

Notes and References

1. Bishop (2007) page 79. Initially discussing the Titan trade paperbacks and IPC's non-payment of royalties to creators for reprints, Landau says "We decided to pay creators out of our own profits, which did not make IPC too happy. We did this again when we launched and ran Eagle Comics in the US for IPC [reprinting ''2000 AD'' material]."
2. Quality Comics . . 51 . January 1987 . Movieland Publishing . 39.
3. http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=reprint&page=usprofiles&choice=edredd1 Judge Dredd
4. http://2000ad.org/?zone=reprint&page=usprofiles&choice=early1 Judge Dredd: The Judge Child Quest
5. http://2000ad.org/?zone=reprint&page=usprofiles&choice=crime1 Judge Dredd's Crime File
6. http://2000ad.org/?zone=reprint&page=usprofiles&choice=child1 Judge Dredd: The Early Cases
7. http://2000ad.org/?zone=reprint&page=usprofiles&choice=ssrat1 The Stainless Steel Rat
8. http://2000ad.org/?zone=reprint&page=usprofiles&choice=alpha1 Strontium Dog
9. http://2000ad.org/?zone=reprint&page=usprofiles&choice=slade1 Robo-Hunter
10. http://2000ad.org/?zone=reprint&page=usprofiles&choice=warlock1 Nemesis the Warlock
11. http://2000ad.org/?zone=reprint&page=usprofiles&choice=2thou1 2000 A.D. Monthly