Megaton Explosion

Published: June, 1987

Front Cover:

pencils: Angel Medina
inks: Mike Matthew

Editor:
Gary Carlson

Characters featured:
The High-Flying Acro-Jester
Berzerker
Crusader and Sparky
Dr. Weird
Feral
Ethrian
Youngblood
Megaton
Ramm
Ultraman and Ultragirl
Vanguard
Wildman

MEGATON COMICS GOES BOOM!

In 1987, the comic book market was glutted by hundreds of independent comic books, many of them inspired by Megaton and other b&w pioneers like Cerebus, Elfquest and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

To compete in the changing market, a decision was made to expand from the one black & white book to a full line of 4-color comic books, including the title's most popular characters: Vanguard, Ethrian, Megaton and Wildman, along with newcomers Ramm and Youngblood.

Megaton Explosion was a free sixteen page 4-color promotional comic book, a Who's Who guide to Megaton's characters. Close to 100,000 copies were distributed to comic book stores but it wasn't enough to catch the public's attention. Two issues each of Ramm and Wildman were published before low sales doomed the whole venture and the plug was pulled on the entire line.

Just a few years later, a number of the characters such as Vanguard, Youngblood and Savage Dragon resurfaced at a brand new publishing company named Image Comics, co-founded by Megaton alumni Erik Larsen and Rob Liefeld.