Big Bang Comics

Big Bang Comics is an American comic-book series. It first appeared in 1994, with the five-issue miniseries (numbered 1–4 and 0), published by Caliber Comics. A second series was published by Image Comics.

Gary Carlson's first major independent comic occurred in the 1980s with a black and white title called Megaton. Erik Larsen's Savage Dragon and Rob Liefeld's Youngblood both debuted in Megaton. In the 1990s Carlson wrote Berzerker for Caliber Press; one of the first canonical appearances of a Big Bang Comics character was by the Knight Watchman in Berzerker #1. Gary co-created the Big Bang anthology series alongside artist and writer Chris Ecker.

Through 2005, Image Comics published 35 issues of Big Bang Comics, followed by seven one-shot comics.

As of the 2010s, Carlson self-publishes Big Bang Presents. Like its predecessor series Big Bang Comics, this is an anthology featuring a rotating cast of new and established characters in a self-contained fictional universe, written by Carlson and drawn by Ecker and various other artists. The company has also begun reprinting earlier comics in trade paperback form through Pulp 2.0 press.

Allen Berrebbi of KRB Media is the company's webmaster and director of digital marketing and business development. The company's website posts free webcomics every Monday, Wednesday and Friday A second website is devoted to its character the Knight Watchman.

The Big Bang Comics titles are designed to be homages to Golden Age and Silver Age comic books. Most stories in the anthologies take place in one of these two ages; Earth-A stories take place in the 1960s, and Earth-B stories take place in the 1940s with characters like Ultiman, Thunder Girl and Doctor Weird.

One of Dr. Weird's earliest collected appearances was in the 1977, Al Greim published Comic Crusader Storybook #1, in a story by Howard Keltner and Dennis Fujitake. The Comic Crusader Storybook was a trade paperback fanzine anthology which included short stories featuring the work of many independent artists and writers.

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