A+ Comics

Years of Operation

1990 - 1991

A+ Comics (1991)

5578 Cypihot

Ville St-laurent, Quebec, Canada, H4S 1V7

Previous Address: (Sword In Stone Productions, 1990) 16130 West Site#5, St-Genevieve, Quebec, Canada H9H 1C8. (fax: 514-620-1114).
Previous Address: (Sword In Stone Productions, 1990) 338 St-Antoine St. East, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H9H 1C8.
Previous Address: (Sword In Stone Productions, 1987-1988) 16130 Gouin West, St-Genevieve, Quebec, Canada, H9H 1C8.

After publishing Corbo#1 in 1987, Sword In Stone Productions (in 1988) bought parts of the comic book division of Charlton Publications, which had effectivly ceased publishing in 1986. In 1989, Roger Broughton (publisher of Sword In Stone) then bought the rights to past American Comics Group material. Almost all the material published under this A-Plus imprint, which started in 1990, are reprints from those two companies. Starting in the mid-1990's Broughton began publishing from those same sources of material under the name America's Comic Group (ACG)/Avalon Communications.
"This company's [A-Plus] line consists of new and reprint material, including classic stories from Charlton and ACG archives, as well as having an exclusive licence to reproduce the classic paintings of Frank Frazetta as comic covers! This month sees the debut of a real cult favorite, Herbie, and also two series with Frazetta covers." from Diamond Comic Distributors' Previews #18, A-Plus Comics first listing.
Overall, A+ Comics published 28 comic books over a 2 year period.

A-Plus Comics (1990-1991).
Sword In Stone Productions (1987-1991).
ACG.
America's Comic Group. (1995-2000+)
Avalon Communications.(1995-2000+)

The Comic Book Guide For The Artist, Writer, and Letterer (1991), comic size how to guide. Did this ever come out?
Herbie T-shirt (cover of issue #2) (1990). See inside front cover to Atomic Mouse#1.
Fat Fury T-shirt (1990). See inside front cover to Atomic Mouse#1.

All the books with dates of 1990 are 10.5 inches tall, which is 1/2 an inch taller than the standard comic book. This means that they don't fit standard comic book bags, boards or boxes and tend to have the top of the book bent. It may be difficult to find unbent copies. All these books have the same Frazetta Museum ad on the back cover.
Issues with dates of 1991 are only 10 inches tall and are standard size which reduces the likelyhood of them geting bent tops. These issues all have the same "Thief of Sherwood" ad on the back cover.
Full page ad in Previews #18 on page 11. Also mentioned on page 3 as Sword In Stone Productions reprinting Herbie.

Amazing Heroes #145, July. 15, 1988 (Preview Special) lists four titles expected to come out from Sword In Stone: Atomic Mouse, Monster Hunters, Six Gun Heroes Special, and War. Pages 29, 150, 206, and 248.
Amazing Heroes #154, Dec. 1, 1988 lists 3 comic books schedualed to come out in Dec. 1988 from A-Plus Comics (page 16). [His Name is Rog...Rog 2000, Space : 1999, & This Magazine Is Haunted.] Note: Rog-2000 is listed as coming out from Fantagraphics in November in Amazing Heroes#145 (Jul. 1988). Same Byrne reprints. (Nothing in #156, #157 [The big Preview issue], #159, or #162, about A-Plus, Sword In Stone or the above titles.)

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