JC Comics

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JC Comics (also known as JC Productions), was a very short-lived comic book company owned by John Carbonaro that published a few titles in the early 1980s. John had purchased the rights to the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents from the now defunct Tower Comics, and tried to relaunch them with his own comic book company. He was also associated at the time with Archie Comics and their attempted relaunch of their superhero titles under their Red Circle Comics line of the time. This resulted in JC Comics reprinting some of the Archie materials just before the Red Circle Comics came out, cross advertisement between JC and Red Circle, and the wrap up of the JC Comic's THUNDER Agents in Red Circle's Blue Ribbon Comics title. Some have misinterpreted this to mean that Archie owned the Thunder Agents characters or that JC Comics was another Archie imprint. This is incorrect.

There was a brief issue when David Singer, who had been working for John at the time, attempted to publish his own THUNDER Agents comics under his Deluxe Comics line which lasted 5 issues, forcing John to sue him and stop it.

Since then, Jc has tried to launch new THUNDER Agents material. In 1995, he tried getting them in Penthouse Comics's Omni Comix, but that line ended after the first story came out. Another attempt was planned with DC Comics, but only the THUNDER Agents Archive and some statutes came of it.

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JCP Features #1 (1981) (magazine sized, new THUNDER Agents material, reprint of Archie's Black Hood)
THUNDER Agents (2 issues, 1983/84)
Hall of Fame (3 issues, 1983) (reprints from Tower THUNDER Agents)

Published by Archie Comics/Red Circle Comics