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Sunrise Distribution
Sunrise Distribution (a.k.a. Sunrise Comics and Games) was a Commerce, California-based comic book distributor which operated in the early-to-mid 1980s. Owned by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, the company was intimately connected to a number of small comic book publishers from that era, including Eternity Comics and Malibu Comics, as well as three extremely short-lived publishers: Amazing, Imperial Comics, and Wonder Color.
Sunrise Distribution evolved from Rosenberg's mail order comics business, Direct Comics, which he had founded when he was 13 years old.
In early 1986, income from Rosenberg's comics distribution business allowed him to privately finance Eternity Comics, originally based in New York City and helmed by Brian David-Marshall. Writer/editor David Campiti worked as a packager to supply content for Eternity.
Beginning in the summer of 1986, after disputes arose between Marshall and Campiti, Rosenberg (along with fellow investors Paula Brown, Mitch Everitt, and Jules Zimmerman) provided capital for Campiti to form two new small publishers: Amazing and Wonder Color, with business offices for both publishers based in the same location in Long Beach, California. Marshall, meanwhile, retained control of Eternity.
Amazing and Wonder Color were affiliated with another publisher with which Campiti was involved: Pied Piper Comics. The plan was that Campiti would package comics for all three publishers through his studio Campiti and Associates, with Pied Piper handling projects in the form of posters and graphic novels. Amazing published black-and-white comics, while Wonder Color published comics in color.
Wonder Color's staff included investor Paula Brown as publisher, editor-in-chief Campiti, and consulting editor Roger McKenzie. Writer David Lawrence edited a few titles.
Near the end of 1986, Rosenberg and his investors financed two new publishers: Imperial Comics, based in Brooklyn, New York, and helmed by Marshall; and Malibu Comics, based in Calabasas, California, headed by Dave Olbrich (previously an employee of Sunrise Distribution) and cartoonist Tom Mason. John Arcudi served as an editor for Imperial Comics.
In the spring of 1987, Sunrise announced that due to cash flow issues, it would not be able to pay its client publishers until July.
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Sunrise Distribution
Sunrise Distribution (a.k.a. Sunrise Comics and Games) was a Commerce, California-based comic book distributor which operated in the early-to-mid 1980s. Owned by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, the company was intimately connected to a number of small comic book publishers from that era, including Eternity Comics and Malibu Comics, as well as three extremely short-lived publishers: Amazing, Imperial Comics, and Wonder Color.
Sunrise Distribution evolved from Rosenberg's mail order comics business, Direct Comics, which he had founded when he was 13 years old.
In early 1986, income from Rosenberg's comics distribution business allowed him to privately finance Eternity Comics, originally based in New York City and helmed by Brian David-Marshall. Writer/editor David Campiti worked as a packager to supply content for Eternity.
Beginning in the summer of 1986, after disputes arose between Marshall and Campiti, Rosenberg (along with fellow investors Paula Brown, Mitch Everitt, and Jules Zimmerman) provided capital for Campiti to form two new small publishers: Amazing and Wonder Color, with business offices for both publishers based in the same location in Long Beach, California. Marshall, meanwhile, retained control of Eternity.
Amazing and Wonder Color were affiliated with another publisher with which Campiti was involved: Pied Piper Comics. The plan was that Campiti would package comics for all three publishers through his studio Campiti and Associates, with Pied Piper handling projects in the form of posters and graphic novels. Amazing published black-and-white comics, while Wonder Color published comics in color.
Wonder Color's staff included investor Paula Brown as publisher, editor-in-chief Campiti, and consulting editor Roger McKenzie. Writer David Lawrence edited a few titles.
Near the end of 1986, Rosenberg and his investors financed two new publishers: Imperial Comics, based in Brooklyn, New York, and helmed by Marshall; and Malibu Comics, based in Calabasas, California, headed by Dave Olbrich (previously an employee of Sunrise Distribution) and cartoonist Tom Mason. John Arcudi served as an editor for Imperial Comics.
In the spring of 1987, Sunrise announced that due to cash flow issues, it would not be able to pay its client publishers until July.