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Malibu Comics was launched in 1986 as Malibu Graphics by Dave Olbrich and Tom Mason with the private financing of Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, who was operating a comic book distribution company (Sunrise Distribution) at the time.
Bravura Comics was launched by Malibu in Fall 1993 as an imprint for creator-owned comics. The imprint continued publishing issues into October 1995, well after Malibu was bought out by Marvel, thought a number of series were also left unfinished after they were cancelled in the buy-out.
Nov 12, 2019 · Published Nov 12, 2019. In the '90s, Marvel bought Malibu Comics and its Ultraverse, an up-and-coming superhero world, and merged it with its own iconic heroes. After Marvel and DC largely defined what superheroes were for decades, a new kind of superhero emerged in the 1990s. Fueled by a massive comic book collecting and speculating boom, a ...
- Tim Webber
Malibu got its start back in the late eighties by a couple of guys by the names of Dave Olbrich and Tom Mason . They started off by publishing mostly black and white creator owned comics but started to gain ground by also publishing comics for classic literary characters like Tarzan and Sherlock Holmes.
May 26, 2023 · Starting a mail-order comics company when he was thirteen, he ran comics distributor Sunrise Distribution, which saw Rosenberg publish and distribute his own comics as Eternity and Malibu Comics ...
- Rich Johnston
Jan 18, 2023 · Marvel Will Likely Never Restore Malibu's Ultraverse. With the company in financially dire straits due to the end of the comic book boom and the failure of its video game division, Malibu was bought out by a rival company, Marvel Comics.
Malibu Comics Entertainment, Inc. (also known as Malibu Graphics) was an American comic book publisher active in the late 1980s and early 1990s, best known for its Ultraverse line of superhero titles.
