Pure Imagination (comics) explained
Pure Imagination is a comic book, magazine, and comics-related book publisher run by Greg Theakston since 1975.
While briefly doing some original comics in the 1990s, as well a publishing a few "girlie" magazines, Pure Imagination's main focus has been publishing books to preserve the great works of several comic artists. This includes the aborted Complete Jack Kirby series, and the several Reader volumes that continue to this day. Another series is Edge of Genius, which focuses on the period in which artists "come into their own." Pure Imagination has also produced some CDs that reprint multiple editions of the Reader books.
Titles
Comics
- Buried Treasure, three issues
- Doc Weird's Thrill Book, three issues, 1987–88
- Intense!, three issues, 1993
- Lone Ranger, one issue
- Pure Images, five issues
- Sky Masters, one issue, 1991
- Torchy, five issues and one Annual
Magazines
- Betty Pages, nine issues and two Annuals (1987–93)
- Buried Treasure, three issues (1986–87)
- Tease, nine issues, (1995-2003)
- The Neal Adams Treasury V1&2
- Lou Fine Comics Treasury, 1991
- The Frank Frazetta Treasury
- The Jack Kirby Treasury, V1&2 (1982)
- The Wallace Wood Treasury
- The Berni Wrightson Treasury
- Johnny Comet
- The Rare Frazetta
- White Indian
- The Comic Strip Frazetta
- Simon & Kirby Classics 1- Stuntman, 1987
Books
- Forrest Ackerman's Wonderama Annual, 1993
- Vaughn Bode: Rare and Well Done, 2006
- The Best of Jack Cole, 2006 (Quality work from 1938 to 1953)
- Steve Ditko: Edge of Genius, 2009
- Steve Ditko Reader, 2002 (Charlton work from 1954 to 1960, 63)
- Steve Ditko Reader v2, 2004 (Charlton work from 1957 to 1959, 62)
- Steve Ditko Reader v3, 2005 (Charlton work from 1954 to 1959, 66)
- Steve Ditko's The Thing, 2005 (all Ditko's work from The Thing!, plus Charlton 1957–60)
- Big Book o' Ditko, 2010
- Will Eisner: Edge of Genius 2007
- The Eisner Shop
- Lou Fine Reader, 2003 (Flame, Doll Man, Uncle Sam, Ray, Black Condor work)
- Lou Fine Reader v2
- The Comic Strip Jack Kirby, 2006 (Syndicated work 1936–39)
- Complete Sky Masters of the Space Force, 2000
- Complete Jack Kirby
- Volume 1: 1917–40, 1997
- Volume 2: September 1940 to March 1941, 1997
- Volume 3: March - May 1947, 1998
- Volume 4: June - August 1947, 2001 no ISBN
- Volume 5: September–October 1947, 2007
- Jack Kirby's Heroes & Villains, Black Magic Edition, 1994
- Jack Kirby Reader, 2003 (1937–53, 55, 60 work from Prize, Harvey, Charlton)
- Jack Kirby Reader v2, 2004 (1940, 47–49, 52, 56–57)
- Joe Kubert Reader, 2011
- Miss Fury, 2008
- Parade of Pleasure, 2010
- Thrill Book, 2004 (50s horror & SF comics)
- Torchy
- Torchy, v2, 2009
- Alex Toth in Hollywood
- Alex Toth in Hollywood, v2, 2010
- Alex Toth Reader, 2005
- Alex Toth Reader v2, 2005
- Alex Toth: Edge of Genius v1 2007 (1947–52, Famous Funnies, Standard Comics)
- Alex Toth: Edge of Genius v2, 2008
- Al Williamson Reader
- Al Williamson: Forbidden Worlds, 2009
- Basil Wolverton Reader, 2003 (Powerhouse Pepper stories)
- Basil Wolverton Reader v2, 2004 (work from 1942 to 1954)
- Basil Wolverton: Agony and Ecstasy, 2007 (reprints from "The Bible Story" v1-6)
- Wallace Wood Reader, 2004 (1951, 56, 64, including Captain Science)
- Wallace Wood's Wayout, 2005 (wash illos for Galaxy, 58–60, 65 and if 60, 68)
- Wild Wood, 2010
- Wallace Wood: Edge of Genius, 2009
