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).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]." In 1986 the license, from IPC, passed to Quality Communications.
Titles The series they brought to American audiences included: Judge Dredd (33 issues – continued, starting with issue 34, by Quality Comics)Judge Dredd at Barney Judge Dredd: The Judge Child Quest (5 issue mini-series)Judge Dredd: The Judge Child Quest at Barney Judge Dredd's Crime File (6 issue mini-series)Judge Dredd's Crime File at Barney Judge Dredd: The Early Cases (6 issue mini-series)Judge Dredd: The Early Cases at Barney The Stainless Steel Rat (6 issue mini-series)The Stainless Steel Rat at Barney Strontium Dog (4 issue mini-series, although originally advertised as 8 issues)Strontium Dog at Barney Robo-Hunter (5 issue mini-series)Robo-Hunter at Barney Nemesis the Warlock (7 issue mini-series)Nemesis the Warlock at Barney 2000 A.D. Monthly (10 issues;2000 A.D. Monthly at Barney title continued by Quality Communications)
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Bishop, David Thrill Power Overload (Rebellion Developments, 260 pages, hardcover, February 2007, )
External links Eagle Comics at Comicvine