Bill Black (comics)
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| Industry | Media |
| Founded | 1969 |
| Founder | Bill Black |
| Headquarters | Longwood, Florida, USA |
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Bill Black |
| Products | Comic Books |
| Owner | Bill Black |
| Website | http://www.accomics.com |
AC Comics (formerly known as Paragon Publications and Americomics) is a comic book publishing company started by Bill Black.
AC Comics specializes in reprints of Golden Age comics from now-defunct companies whose properties lapsed into public domain and were not reprinted elsewhere. It also publishes a number of Modern Age adventures starring the Golden Age superheroes that appeared in those stories. The most famous of those titles is Femforce, which features the adventures of an all-female superhero team, one of the first teams of this nature in the comics industry.
Based on its focus on Golden Age reprints and stories inspired by that style, AC has developed a reputation for straightforward, fun, and action-packed superhero tales which often avoid the darker themes of many modern comics. AC artists often make use of a style known as "good girl art", made popular in the Golden Age era, which combines attractive, clean linework with elements of cheesecake and humor. In addition to superheroes, AC has attempted to preserve other comic book genres inspired by the series of the past, such as Westerns and jungle adventure.
AC Comics was founded as Paragon Publications in 1969, though its first recorded titles—Paragon Presents and White Savage—were not released until 1970. Other titles from Paragon's beginnings included Fem Fantastique and Paragon Golden Age Greats (1971), Macabre Western and Captain Paragon (1972), Paragon Magazine and Paragon Super Heroes (1973), Tara on the Dark Continent (1974), and Paragon Illustrated and Paragon Western Stars (1975). The company's early titles were cheaply published black-and-white comics. Though the company published several titles simultaneously, they were only able to produce a total of three issues a year, since nearly all writing, inking, and editing on the comics was done by Bill Black himself during this period.
In 1982, the company changed its name to Americomics before settling on AC Comics in 1984. The original plan behind the reintroduction as Americomics was to narrow the lineup to a single full-color anthology series, Americomics, which the publisher could put out on a consistent basis, rather than the earlier model of several black-and-white titles published sporadically.
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