In what year was the comic book publishing company, that Simpsons Illustrated led to the establishment of, founded?
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Simpsons Illustrated Simpsons Illustrated was a companion magazine to the American animated television show "The Simpsons". It featured, among many other things, articles and interviews about the show and comics based on the "Simpsons" universe. "Simpsons Illustrated" was published between 1991 and 1993 and led to the establishment of the Bongo Comics Group.
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Bongo Comics Group Bongo Comics Group is a comic book publishing company founded in 1993 by Matt Groening along with Steve & Cindy Vance and Bill Morrison. It publishes comics related to the animated television series "The Simpsons" and "Futurama", as well as the "SpongeBob SquarePants" comic; along with original material. It was named after Bongo, a rabbit character in Groening's comic strip "Life in Hell".
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Earth Star Entertainment Earth Star Entertainment (Japanese: 株式会社アース・スター エンターテイメント , Hepburn: Kabushiki Gaisha Āsu Sutā Entāteimento ) is a Japanese publisher based on Shibuya, Tokyo. Accounted by the equity method of Culture Convenience Club, it was founded on June 5, 2006. In addition to publishing magazines and photobooks, the company also produces and sells home videos and music. It also deals with management of "tarento" and publishes the monthly manga magazine "Comic Earth Star", and releases the manga under the Earth Star Comics line.
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ComicBase ComicBase is a computer program for tracking comic book collections. It was created in 1992 by Peter Bickford as an Apple Macintosh program. A Windows version was introduced in 1996. As of February 2015, it is on its nineteenth version (dubbed ComicBase 2017) and is available for computers running Microsoft Windows Windows 7, and later. Its database includes pricing and notes on over 800,000 individual comic book issues, and allows users to sell their comics online at a website marketplace called Atomic Avenue.
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Cracked (magazine) Cracked was an American humor magazine. Founded in 1958, "Cracked" proved to be the most durable of the many publications to be launched in the wake of "Mad" magazine.
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Netcomics NETCOMICS is a publisher of manhwa and manga in the United States, based in Los Angeles, CA. South Korean publisher Ecomix Media Company created NETCOMICS, with the first titles appearing in the first quarter of 2006.
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Gladstone Publishing Gladstone Publishing was an American company that published Disney comics from 1986 to 1990 and from 1993 to 1998. The company had its origins as a subsidiary of "Another Rainbow", a company formed by Bruce Hamilton and Russ Cochran to publish the Carl Barks Library and produce limited edition lithographs of Carl Barks oil paintings of the Disney ducks. The name references Gladstone Gander.
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Hermes Press Hermes Press is an American publisher of art books, comic books, and comic book reprints. The company was founded in 2001 and in the past published the re-imagining of the comic book Buck Rogers, drawn by Howard Chaykin. Over the last 10 years Hermes Press has published over 100 titles.
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Midtown Comics Midtown Comics is a New York City comic book retailer with three shops in Manhattan and an e-commerce website. The largest comic book store in the United States, the company opened its first store in the Times Square area in 1997. Its second was opened on Lexington Avenue in 2004, and is known as the Grand Central store for its proximity to Grand Central Terminal. Its Downtown store was opened on Fulton Street in the Financial District in November 2010. It also used to operate a boutique inside Manhattan's Times Square Toys R Us.
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Dark Horse Comics Dark Horse Comics is an American comic book and manga publisher. It was founded in 1986 by Mike Richardson in Milwaukie, Oregon, with the concept of establishing an ideal atmosphere for creative professionals.
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Mad (magazine) Mad (very often stylized as MAD) is an American humor magazine founded in 1952 by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines, launched as a comic book before it became a magazine. It was widely imitated and influential, affecting satirical media, as well as the cultural landscape of the 20th century, with editor Al Feldstein increasing readership to more than two million during its 1974 circulation peak. As of January 2017, "Mad" has published 544 regular issues, as well as hundreds of reprint "Specials", original material paperbacks, compilation books and other print projects.
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Valiant Comics Valiant Comics is an American publisher of comic books and related media. The company was founded in 1989 by former Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Jim Shooter and lawyer and businessman Steven Massarsky. In 1994, the company was sold to Acclaim Entertainment. After Acclaim declared bankruptcy in 2004, the company was restarted as part of Valiant Entertainment by entrepreneurs Dinesh Shamdasani and Jason Kothari in 2005.
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First Comics First Comics was an American comic-book publisher that was active from 1983 to 1991, known for titles like "American Flagg!", "Grimjack", "Nexus", "Badger", "Dreadstar", and "Jon Sable". Along with competitors like Pacific Comics and Eclipse Comics, First took early advantage of the growing direct market, attracting a number of writers and artists from DC and Marvel to produce creator-owned titles, which, as they were not subject to the Comics Code, were free to feature more mature content.
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Innovation Publishing Innovation Publishing (also known as Innovation Books) was an American comic book company based in Wheeling, West Virginia. It was co-founded by David Campiti in 1988 after writing a business proposal and raising US$400,000 to finance its launch. Innovation became #4 in market share, below Marvel Comics, DC Comics, and Dark Horse Comics.
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Applewood Books Applewood Books is a book publishing company founded by Phil Zuckerman in 1976. They specialize in publishing exacting recreations of historic books, including complex reprints of children's art and pop-up books and other books published by methods which duplicate antique publishing techniques. They have more than 2000 titles in print. In recent years, the company has been working to increase the number of reprints it publishes. In 2007, the company published over 300 titles.
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Shocker Toys Shocker Toys was a company that manufactured limited release toys and collectible products based on comic book and cartoon characters, as well as original creations. Founded in 1998, the company was run by Geoff Beckett Jr., Lance Buttiglieri, and Bill Roshia and was based in Ridgewood, New Jersey.
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Beckett Comics Beckett Comics started as a comic book-publishing imprint of Beckett Publications. It was founded in 2002. Originally, all of its titles were sold at a lower price than their competition ($1.99 as opposed to $2.25). Yet, despite that, the production values were higher than what their competition offered for their usual products.
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Funk-O-Tron Funk-O-Tron LLC was a publisher of independent American comic books written by its founder Robert Kirkman. Titles which the company published include Battle Pope (2000) and "Battle Pope Presents: Saint Michael" (2001).
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Key Publications Key Publications was an American comic-book company founded by Stanley P. Morse that published under the imprints Aragon Magazines, Gillmor Magazines, Medal Comics, Media Publications, S. P. M. Publications, Stanmor Publications, and Timor Publications.
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Legendary Comics Legendary Comics is an American comic book publisher founded in 2010. The company is owned by Legendary Entertainment, a media company located in Burbank, California. The company publishes both original works and licenses ones based on films produced by Legendary Pictures.
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The Simpsons The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom, aimed at adolescents and adults, created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical depiction of working-class life, epitomized by the Simpson family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. The show is set in the fictional town of Springfield and parodies American culture and society, television, and the human condition.
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Hogan's Alley (magazine) Hogan's Alley, a publication devoted to comic art, is subtitled the magazine of the cartoon arts. It has been published on an irregular schedule since 1994 by Bull Moose Publishing in Atlanta. Covering comic strips, comic books, cartoons and animation, each hefty issue contains at least 144 pages with a square-backed spine. Originally planned as a quarterly, the frequency is closer to that of an annual, with 20 issues published in 22 years.