1980s Marvel Comics Epic Illustrated Full Run 34 Issues

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WOW! You are bidding on a VF to NM Complete 34 Issue run of the Bronze Age adult comic magazine from 1980-1986! This is the Rare set of Epic Illustrated comics from Marvel Comics. A few issues have some minor cover ware on them. the bindings are all in great shape very few rips or tears that I can find. Epic Illustrated was a comics anthology in magazine format published in the United States by Marvel Comics . The series lasted for 34 issues, from Spring 1980 to February 1986 . Similar to the US-licensed graphic-story magazine Heavy Metal , it featured mature content oriented at an older audience than traditional American comic books , as well as offering its writers and artists ownership rights and royalties in place of the industry-standard work for hire contracts. The magazine was initiated under editor Rick Marschall in 1979 under the title Odyssey , and originally set to launch as an issue of Marvel Super Special , Marvel's early graphic novel line. [1 ] After Marschall learned of at least seven other magazines titled Odyssey , the project was renamed Epic Illustrated and launched as a standalone series. [2 ] Marschall was replaced by editor Archie Goodwin in the autumn of 1979, several months before the first issue was published. [3 ] The anthology featured heroic fiction and genre stories, primarily fantasy and science fiction read more

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