Pure Imagination (comics)

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Pure Imagination is a comic book, magazine, and comics-related book publisher run by Greg Theakston since 1975.

While briefly doing some original comics in the 1990s, as well a publishing a few "girlie" magazines, its main focus has been in publishing books to preserve the great works of several comic arts. This has included the aborted "Complete Jack Kirby" series (only 4 produced), and the several "Reader" volumes that continue to this day.

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[edit] Comics

Buried Treasure, three issues
Doc Weird's Thrill Book, three issues
Intense, three issues
Lone Ranger, one issue
Sky Masters, one issue
Torchy, five issues and one Annual

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Betty Pages, nine issues and two Annuals (1987-93)
Buried Treasure, three issues (1988-91)
Tease, seven issues, (1995-97)

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Forrest Ackerman's Wonderama Annual, 1993
Basil Wolverton Reader, 2003 ISBN 1-56685-017-7 (Powerhouse Pepper stories)
Basil Wolverton Reader v2, 2004 ISBN 1-56685-027-4
The Comic Strip Jack Kirby, 2006 (Syndicated work 1936-39)
Complete Sky Masters of the Space Force, 2000
Complete Jack Kirby
- Volume 1: 1917-40, 1997 ISBN 978-1-56685-006-3
- Volume 2: September 1940 to March 1941 , 1997 ISBN 978-156685-007-0
- Volume 3: March 1941 -May 1947, 1998 ISBN 1-56685-008-8
- Volume 4: June - August 1947 2001
Jack Kirby's Heroes & Villains, Black Magic Edition, 1994
Jack Kirby Reader, 2003 (1937-53, 55, 60 work from Prize, Harvey, Charlton)
Jack Kirby Reader v2, 2004 (1940, 47-49, 52, 56-57)
Lou Fine Reader, 2003 (Flame, Doll Man, Uncle Sam, Ray, Black Condor work)
Lou Fine Treasury
Steve Ditko Reader, 2002 (Charlton work from 1954-60, 63)
Steve Ditko Reader v2, 2004 (Charlton work from 1957-59, 62)
Steve Ditko Reader v3, 2005 (Charlton work from 1954-59, 66)
Steve Ditko's The Thing, 2005 (all Ditko's work from The Thing!, plus Charlton 1957-60)
Thrill Book, 2004 (50s horror & SF comics)
Toth Reader, 2005
Alex Toth Reader v2, 2005
Wallace Wood Treasury
Wallace Wood Reader, 2004 (1951, 56, 64, including Captain Science)
Wallace Wood's Wayout, 2005 (wash illos for Galaxy, 58-60, 65 and if 60, 68)