on a winding journey through the early history of the direct sales

market, specific to the initial competitive independent publishers

Pacific, Capitol, and First Comics. All this is specifically with regard to how that relates to the Organic Theater Company stage play Warp by Stuart Gordon and Lenny Kleinfeld (as "Bury St. Edmund,") and its comics adaptation by Peter B. Gillis, Frank Brunner, Jerry Bingham, Mike Gustovich, Howard Chaykin, George Freeman, Marc Silvestri, and others; Mike Grell's Starslayer: The Log of the Jolly Roger, as continued by Lenin Delsol and others; and the early Grimjack back-up strips by John Ostrander & Timothy Truman.

The Under Guides Graphic Novel Podcast, 1970s, 1980s, Capital Comics,

Comic Books, DC Implosion, Dreadstar, Howard Chaykin, Jim Starlin, Mike

Gustovich, Neal Adams, Pacific Comics, The Warlord