1982 in comics

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Notable events of 1982 in comics. See also List of years in comics.

Contents 1 Events 1.1 Year overall 1.2 January 1.3 February 1.4 March 1.5 April 1.6 May 1.7 June 1.8 July 1.9 August 1.10 September 1.11 October 1.12 November 1.13 December 2 Exhibitions and shows 3 Conventions 4 Awards 5 First issues by title 6 References

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Steve Gerber sues Marvel over rights to his character, Howard the Duck, and brings out his own Destroyer Duck from Eclipse Comics.

To stem the flow of creators defecting to such companies as Pacific, Eclipse and First, DC Comics begins offering royalties to artists and writers of regular newsstand comics that sell more than 100,000 copies; Marvel soon follows suit.^[1]

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• The Hernandez brothers (Jaime and Gilbert)'s Love & Rockets anthology begins publication from Fantagraphics.
• Marvel begins publishing the Hasbro-licenced series G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, which would sell over 200,000 copies, and out-sell Superman and the X-Men.

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• Marvel's Wolverine four-issue mini-series debuts by Chris Claremont and Frank Miller begins.

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• Jim Starlin's Dreadstar, the first title published by Marvel's creator-owned imprint Epic Comics begins.

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• DC publishes it's first tailored direct market offering: the first of 12 issues of Camelot 3000, Mike W. Barr & Brian Bolland's future-set tale of King Arthur. It is widely recognised as the first "maxi-series".[1]

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[edit] First issues by title

• Camelot 3000
• Destroyer Duck
• Dreadstar
• G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero
• Love & Rockets

[edit] References