Eclipse Comics
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Search complete. 17 mentions across 10 episodes found for "Eclipse Comics".
Oct 26, 2026
Don MooreHOST
I never read Swamp Thing, even though everybody kept telling me.
Don MooreHOST
And then in 1985, Eclipse Comics started putting out Miracle Man.
Don MooreHOST
Big deal.
Don MooreHOST
Alan Moore did it.
John SiuntresHOST
He is returning to Night Music.
John SiuntresHOST
Night Music was a series that he started at Eclipse Comics back in 1978, and it gave him the opportunity to adapt some of his favorite stories, from operas to classic literature like Rudyard Kipling, so many other things.
John SiuntresHOST
Night Music is a Kickstarter campaign.
John SiuntresHOST
He now gets to do it on his own terms and is just excited as hell to get back to this area.
John SiuntresHOST
So tell everyone what night music was and what it is now and will be.
P. Craig RussellGUEST
All right.
P. Craig RussellGUEST
At the very beginning of Eclipse Comics, which they started in the very late 70s, Dean Mulaney, they asked me if I would just do something.
P. Craig RussellGUEST
I was friends with Don McGregor.
Matthew VasquezGUEST
... started.
Matthew VasquezGUEST
My dad, um, was getting a lot of the things that are coming from, like, Eclipse Comics, uh, so, like, some of the original r- uh, volumes of Appleseed-
AngelHOST
Mm-hmm
Matthew VasquezGUEST
... and Black Magic.
Phil PerichHOST
Well, I looked, James Brock had a link here, so I looked.
Phil PerichHOST
It says he's a writer, penciler, cover artist, and his employers, Marvel, Valiant, and Eclipse.
Phil PerichHOST
Oh,
Justin OsgoodPANELIST
okay.
Phil PerichHOST
So maybe he moved to Valiant and Eclipse before he did a ton of Marvel stuff, yeah.
Justin OsgoodPANELIST
Eclipse is the 80s.
Phil PerichHOST
Yeah.
Justin OsgoodPANELIST
Cool.
JB AndertonHOST
He eventually moved to New York City in 1976 and joined the staff of Warren Publishing a year later.
JB AndertonHOST
In the early 80s, he penciled the Star Wars newspaper strip and worked with Jack Kirby on the book Destroyer Duck for Eclipse Comics.
JB AndertonHOST
Around that time, he was also inking for John Pushima on Conan the Barbarian and for Don Newton on Batman.
JB AndertonHOST
In the 90s, he moved on to animation in California.
JohnHOST
My first piece of viewer mail is from John Kastorf.
JohnHOST
Miracle Man, formerly Marvel Man from the Golden Age and later UK's Warrior Comics, is a far better name when you think of all the religious overtones and connotations made throughout the very excellent Eclipse series.
JohnHOST
I've yet to see how the newly branded incarnation is very different from the Century.
JohnHOST
Both were supremely powerful and powerfully angsty entities with potentially devastating dark sides.
JohnHOST
Well, call that trademark preservation.
JohnHOST
What do you think, Richard? Marvel Man or Miracle Man?
RichardHOST
You know, he brings up a very good point about if you read the original Eclipse series at the end, he becomes something that people
JohnHOST
worship.
JoseHOST
...
JoseHOST
Eclipse Comics, and it-
David BlairGUEST
Yeah
JoseHOST
... was adapted by Steve Niles-
speaker_2HOST
Oh, this is fascinating.
speaker_1HOST
Because in the source material, there's a great comment from a user named Ben, who praised the use of scans from the Eclipse Comics version of the manga, noting its beautiful coloring and how it elevated the experience.
speaker_2HOST
That is a crucial piece of publishing history.
speaker_2HOST
The original manga in Japan was published in black and white, printed on cheaper paper, designed to be read quickly, as is standard for the industry.
speaker_1HOST
Right.
speaker_2HOST
But when it was brought to the West by Eclipse Comics in 1988 under the guidance of Marvel's Steve Oliff, it was meticulously colored.
speaker_1HOST
And it wasn't just someone slapping watercolors on the pages.
speaker_1HOST
Oliff used revolutionary early computer coloring techniques.
Peter RiosHOST
Now, that particular retailer had it broken up by various publishers, which that was cool.
Peter RiosHOST
If I go check out Eclipse Comics, there's a small section.
Peter RiosHOST
Even if it's out of order, it doesn't matter.
Peter RiosHOST
It's a small section.
RyanHOST
So regardless of that, then, uh, Todd McFarlane of Spawn fame tried to buy Warrior Comics.
RyanHOST
I think at this point they were called Eclipse Comics.
JamieHOST
This bit of the story makes me the happiest.
RyanHOST
Yeah.