In 1993, the industry at least made the pretense of reacting to fissures in the market. Wizard magazine, accused by suspicious retailers of artificially inflating the numbers in its industry-standard price guides, hired a new editor to manage the figures. Image cut loose several of the creators behind its late-appearing titles. And Marvel Comics promised a new, “back-to-basics” approach—even as its fourteen-part “Maximum Carnage” crossover ran through five different Spider-Man series, and “Fatal Attractions” ran through six different X-Men titles, and X-Force members Cable and Deadpool began starring in spin-off titles.
NEW YORK COMIC CON REMINDER!
I’ll be at the HarperCollins booth (#1005) on Saturday, October 13, from 11:00 to 11:30 am, next to a stack of copies of MARVEL COMICS: THE UNTOLD STORY. Stop by and say hello!