founded 1969 founder bill black headquarters longwood florida usa key people 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 . 1 2 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 . contents 1 history 1.1 paragon publications 1.2 americomics 1.3 ac comics 2 licenses 3 titles 4 notes 5 references 6 external links history edit paragon publications edit 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 . 3 americomics edit 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 . 3 the first issues of americomics coincided with the independent comics boom and the publisher responded to this unexpected success by expanding its lineup of titles to include several creator owned series such as dragonfly . however most of these titles were produced and funded by the creators themselves with minimal creative oversight from americomics . 3 ac comics edit in 1985 ac debuted femforce which it still publishes today . other ac continuing series include best of the west and men of mystery comics . following the popularity of size changing femforce members garganta and tara ac made the giantess concept a recurring theme in their comics . tapping into this cult following ac has released stories and anthologies specifically catered to fans of giant women as well as dvd releases which embrace this theme in the tongue in cheek style of 1950s science fiction b movies . an ongoing giantess feature known as gargantarama has even been added to the company s femforce title . by 1986 ac comics had expanded to a staff of roughly 25 people . production was largely handled through the mail since only a handful of staff resided anywhere near ac s florida headquarters . 3 during the late 1980s ac was widely criticized for their portrayal of women . articles in both amazing heroes and comics buyer s guide contended that ac s female characters are hypersexualized 3 and an issue of the popular independent comic southern knights satirized both ac s fixation on cheesecake and bill black s contention that their comics are not sexist in nature . 4 ac has expanded into other dvd projects which collect classic movie serials and other material now in the public domain as well as low budget films based on their own characters . licenses edit ac comics had used charlton comics characters particularly the blue beetle and captain atom in the comic title sentinels of justice . when the rights for these characters were sold to dc comics ac comics created a second sentinels of justice team writing the first out of continuity composed of some of its original characters as well as ones from the public domain . many of these are homages to charlton and quality comics heroes such as the scarlet scorpion a stand in for blue beetle and the blue bulleteer later nightveil who is based on the fox comics version of phantom lady . still another phantom lady inspired character was the black mistress whose first episode was scripted by former vampirella writer t. casey brennan . 5 titles edit main article list of ac comics publications notes edit bill black paint it black archived april 26 2011 at the wayback machine . comics bulletin november 23 2003 rik offenberger may 20 2009 . bill black 40 years of ac comics . newsarama . archived from the original on 23 may 2009 . retrieved 2009 05 22 . a b c d e borax mark july 1986 . bill black . comics interview 36 . fictioneer books . pp. 52 65 . southern knights 30 december 1988 jpeg of first appearance of the black mistress showing the story and art credits . references edit ac comics at the grand comics database ac comics at the comic book db ac comics at the international catalogue of superheroes external links edit official website accomics.net v t e comic book publishers in north america active major boom studios dark horse comics dc comics dynamite entertainment idw publishing image comics marvel comics active minor aardvark vanaheim ac comics action lab comics ait planet lar alias enterprises alternative comics another rainbow publishing antarctic press arcade comics archaia entertainment archie comics aspen mlt avatar press azteca productions beyond comics black mask studios bluewater productions bongo comics group creative impulse entertainment conundrum press darby pop publishing devil s due publishing drawn and quarterly eureka productions fantagraphics books first second books hermes press kodansha usa last gasp legendary comics milestone media mirage studios nbm publishing oni press papercutz platinum studios radical comics radio comix rip off press seven seas entertainment shadowline sirius entertainment slave labor graphics tokyopop top cow productions top shelf productions udon entertainment valiant comics vertical viper comics viz media warp graphics zenescope entertainment former aircel comics all american publications american comics group atlas comics atlas seaboard comics awesome comics blackthorne publishing caliber comics catalan communications centaur publications chaos comics charlton comics harry a chesler comico comicsone continuity comics crossgen defiant comics dell comics del rey manga disney comics ec comics eclipse comics eternity comics fantaco enterprises fawcett comics fiction house first comics fox feature syndicate gladstone publishing gemstone publishing gilberton gold key comics harvey comics highwater books holyoke publishing hyperwerks innovation publishing kitchen sink press mainline publications malibu comics millennium publications nedor publishing now comics pacific comics print mint crestwood publications quality comics renegade press revolutionary comics skywald publications standard comics timely comics topps comics tundra publishing vortex comics warren publishing wildstorm retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ac comics & oldid 742002006 categories ac comicspublishing companies established in 1969comic book 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