Comics Scene #1
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeComics Scene #1 represents the launch of the first nationally distributed newsstand title devoted to covering comic books, comic strips, and animation as serious editorial subjects — a distinction that placed it in drug stores and grocery outlets alongside its siblings Starlog and Fangoria, not in specialty shops. By corralling simultaneous interviews with Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and Jim Shooter into a single premiere issue, the magazine signaled that comics journalism had earned a seat at the mainstream media table. Its focus on the intersection of comics and screen adaptations also made it an early chronicler of the media-franchise era that would define popular culture for decades.
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Comics Scene was launched by Starlog Group Inc. — the publishing house founded by Kerry O'Quinn and Norman Jacobs, the same team behind Starlog and Fangoria — with Howard Zimmerman serving as editor-in-chief of the premiere issue. The first volume ran for 11 issues from January 1982 through September 1983, after which the title lay dormant until a second volume appeared in 1987; a third volume, Comics Scene 2000, followed briefly in 2000. The magazine was conceived as a natural spin-off of Starlog's media-coverage model, applied specifically to the world of comics and their growing presence in film and television.
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- Publisher: Starlog Group Inc. (Kerry O'Quinn and Norman Jacobs, publishers; Howard Zimmerman, editor-in-chief)
- Cover date: January 1982; premiere (Vol. 1, #1) of an 11-issue first run that concluded September 1983
- Recognized as the first nationally distributed newsstand magazine dedicated to covering comic books, comic strips, and animation
- Cover features photos of Marvel Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter and Marvel founder Stan Lee, with cover artwork by Billy Graham
- Interior content includes interviews with Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and Jim Shooter — three of the most consequential figures in American comics at the time — in a single issue
- Also contains a character profile on the Swamp Thing, a feature on British weekly comics (including Judge Dredd), an examination of Heavy Metal magazine, Sy Barry reflecting on 40 years of The Phantom, and a survey of superheroes in Saturday morning animation
- Distributed via newsstand (drug stores, grocery outlets), not through the direct/specialty-shop market, giving it broad general-audience reach unusual for comics-focused journalism
- The title was revived twice: a 56-issue second volume ran 1987–1996, and a three-issue third volume (Comics Scene 2000) appeared in 2000
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