Chaos! Comics

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Chaos! Comics
Industry Comics
Genre Horror
Founded1993;33 years ago (1993)
Defunct2002;24 years ago (2002)
Headquarters Scottsdale, Arizona
Key people
 Brian Pulido
Owner Dynamite Entertainment
Website www.chaoscomics.com   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Chaos! Comics is a former comic book publisher and currently a brand from Dynamite Entertainment. The original incarnation of Chaos! operated from 1993 until 2002, mostly focusing on horror comics. Titles from the publisher include Lady Death , Purgatori , Evil Ernie , Chastity , Jade, Bad Kitty , and Lady Demon. Original Chaos! creators included Brian Pulido, Steven Hughes, Al Rio, Mike Flippin, Justiniano, and Hart D. Fisher. Chaos! also published licensed comics for the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) and several bands.

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Following bankruptcy, the properties changed hands several time, until landing at Dynamite Entertainment, where the name was revived as an imprint for the associated characters.

History

Chaos was founded in 1993 in Scottsdale, Arizona, and published its first title that same year. Writer Brian Pulido was the company's president.

The company dealt with a copyright infringement accusation in 1997, when horror writer Nancy A. Collins claimed that the character and storyline of Chastity were based on her character Sonja Blue. [1] [2]

Chaos Comics filed bankruptcy in late 2002, [3] with all characters (save Lady Death ) being sold off to comic retailer Tales of Wonder, who sold the rights to Devil's Due Publishing. After the demise of Devil's Due Publishing, the rights to the Chaos! Comics characters went to Dynamite Entertainment.

Prior to the bankruptcy, rights to Lady Death were sold to CrossGen Entertainment, [4] and prior to CrossGen's bankruptcy, those rights were sold to Brian Pulido and Avatar Press, who founded the imprint Boundless Comics solely for Lady Death-comics.

Due to Lady Death not being part of the sale, Dynamite created Lady Hel to replace her. Lady Hel received her own comic series in 2022. [5]

List of Chaos! Comics titles

A

B

C

D

E

H

I

J

L

M

N

O

P

R

S

T

U

V

Doomsday

Doomsday is a one-off thrash metal album released in 1995 by the company. The album features a trio, originally from Van Nuys, California but who, at some time between 1995 and 1997, moved to Phoenix, Arizona, playing energetic bass heavy thrash. The CD was released in limited quantity to help promote the Lady Death and Evil Ernie comic franchises. The album cover features Evil Ernie beneath the Doomsday logo. The trio played at Dragon Con '97, [6] but had little or no commercial success beyond this. Doomsday also played at ChillerCon, NJ in 1997 with Scream Queen Tiffany Shepis appearing on stage as a maiden victim.

Track listing

  1. "Inceptive Psychosis" 1:12
  2. "Beyond Death" 5:19
  3. "Cyborg Killing Machine" 3:38
  4. "Who Am I" 4:46
  5. "Black Sorrow" 4:21
  6. "Resurrection" 4:02
  7. "Chaos! Rules" 3:40
  8. "Lost Insanity" 5:15
  9. "I Dream" 3:54
  10. "I Am Dead" 1:52
  11. "Take a Shot" 1:58
  12. "No Pickles" 0:21

Members

Notes

  1. ↑ Stump, Greg. "News Watch: Chaos Under Fire for Copyright Infringement", The Comics Journal #194 (Mar. 1997), pp. 11-13.
  2. ↑ "News Watch: Collins Files Suit, Expands Scope of Case Against Chaos!: Diamond Among the Defendants Named in Copyright Infringement Case", The Comics Journal #196 (June 1997), pp. 19-20.
  3. ↑ Dean, Michael. "Newswatch: Chaos! Bankrupt!", The Comics Journal #247 (Oct. 2002), p. 33.
  4. ↑ Dean, Michael. "Newswatch: Chaos!, CrossGen Conspire to Pay Creators", The Comics Journal #248 (Nov. 2002), pp. 5-7.
  5. ↑
  6. ↑ Welcome to Dragon*Con! - Welcome to Dragon*Con! Archived June 17, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
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