JC Comics

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. Carbonaro had purchased the rights to the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents from the defunct Tower Comics, and tried to relaunch them with his own comic book company.

Carbonaro was also associated at the time with Archie Comics and their attempted relaunch of their superhero titles under their Red Circle Comics. This resulted in JC Comics reprinting some of the Archie materials just before the Red Circle Comics came out, cross advertisements between JC and Red Circle, and the wrap-up of the JC Comics' T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents in Red Circle's Blue Ribbon Comics title. Some have mistakenly interpreted this to mean that Archie owned the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents characters or that JC Comics was an Archie imprint.

There was a brief issue when David M. Singer, who had been working for Carbonaro at the time, attempted to publish his own T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents comics under his Deluxe Comics line, forcing Carbonaro to sue him and stop publication after five issues.

Since then, JC has tried to launch new T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents material. In 1995, Carbonaro tried getting them in Penthouse Comics' Omni Comix, but that line ended after the first story came out. Another attempt was planned with DC Comics, but the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents Archive and some statutes are all that came of it.

Titles

• JCP Features #1 (1981) — magazine-sized, new T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents material; reprint of Archie's Black Hood
• Hall of Fame (3 issues, 1983) — reprints from Tower's T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents
• T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents (2 issues, 1983–1984) Published by Archie Comics/Red Circle Comics:
• Blue Ribbon Comics #12 (1983) Published by Penthouse Comics:
• Omni Comix #3 (1995) Published by DC Comics:
• T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents Archive, vol. 1 (2002) ISBN 978-1563899034

References

• Coogan, Pete. "Blood and T.H.U.N.D.E.R." The Comics Journal #97 (Apr. 1985), p. 7-11.
• "Deluxe suspends T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents," The Comics Journal #100 (July 1985), p. 20-22.

External links

• Official T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents site