Founded by Steve Schanes and Ann Fera. Known for reprinting of daily newspaper strips and 3-D comics. Also attempted a short-lived company owned shared universe concept in the Blackthorne Timeline.

Blackthorne Timeline

Following the black & white comics bust of the mid '80s, several young publishers attempted to pivot to color, including Blackthorne Publishing Incorporated with its Timeline Color Series. Boasting numerous name talents that it never delivered upon, including Neal Adams, Mark Beachum, Norm Breyfogle, Frank Cirocco, Jan Duursema, Mike Gustovich, Tom Mandrake, Lee Marrs, & Louis Williams, the initial attempt at publishing was aborted after just two color comic issues were released. More of the material was reconfigured into graphic novels and prestige format editions, but of the ten announced titles, only material from seven ever made it into print in some fashion.

The premise was a shared universe of titles generated in-house by editorial to be owned by the company. The principle architect of the line was writer Mark Wayne Harris. Starting in pre-history and spanning until the relatively near future, the Timeline aspect of the premise was taken seriously.

The Darkling Chronicles seemingly predated life on Earth. It concerned a demigod imbued with enormous amounts of chaos energy by an alien cult. In childhood, Darkling destroyed his home world and the cult, before wandering the galaxy and wrestling with his guilt. He was eventually guided to use his power to destroy evil gods, but his strip in the anthology Outposts never made it that far.

On Pangea-period Earth lived a race with various clans wielding separate elemental powers called The Bringers. Their powers required a focal point derived from a mineral called Darkling's Tears, which was obtained via an enslaved race known as The Miners. After a revolt, the Bringers mostly left Earth to seed life in the known universe, and are the primary hereditary source of super-powered beings across the line. The Bringers own title was never released. The final creative team was said to be Bob Ingersoll and Dante Fuget.

In modern times, the furthest known inhabited space sector is protected by the Omega Elite, led by the high flying Solark, solar-powered scientist Blaze, the matter-manifesting but chaos infested Power, telekinetic/telepathic earthling Psi-Storm, and the electricity-controlling android Ion. Together, they must battle the alien despot Raxas, but they will not be enough.

Locke! was to be a present-day set book with final advertised credits of Bruce Jones and Dennis Francis. Tomeron worked with the Council of Death to insure that beings who could disrupt the natural order would be taken out of existence, but he decided to go rogue. His assistant, Locke, would be forced to stop his evil scheme, but rather than being rewarded, the council would punish him. Essentially an angel of death wielding a Darkling's Tears sword and only a tiny sliver of his former power, Locke would have to work with Earth's heroes to stop Tomeron ongoing plans. Despite being offered in the second month of Timeline releases, none of this material ever materialized.

Omni Men were the premiere super-team of modern America. Sponsored by the U.S. Government intelligence agency, the National Security Bureau, their primary concern was the criminal syndicate known as Terror Incorporated. Members included the super-strong Thunderer, wind-controlling youth Zephyr, reformed robot Adam 1, the light-powered Bringers-descended Warstar, centuries old martial artist Genesis Lee, Lady Darkon, and the assassin Ravenlock, the latter two half-alien siblings with ties to the Omegan Star System. Their father is Raxas, and the Omnis will need to team up with the Omega Elite to stop him, except neither series made it that far.

Operative: Scorpio was actually three guys working under the same guise to use their specialized skills in seeking revenge against Blackleague, an offshoot of Terror Incorporated.

Xavier Lawrence was an athletic prodigy until being disabled as the victim of a drunk driver. Given experimental enhancements, Xavier was mistaken for a super-hero when he rescued a reporter from a gang while wearing a monogrammed track suit. In XL, the Graphic Novel, he decided to embrace an heroic identity, and had the series continued, there were plans for him to interact with and perhaps join the Omni Men.

Jack Hunter was a war veteran and former top agent of the C.I.A. and N.S.B. before suffering a mental breakdown that apparently saw him commit a massacre against a mob family before losing most of his memory and wandering the streets. The National Security Bureau decides to finally deal with the situation, igniting a bizarre multi-state manhunt where Hunter and his lady friend are involved in the deaths of numerous agents of the N.S.B. and other enemy organizations.

Wind-Rage was another renowned agent of the N.S.B., while his son was a lowly courier, at least until the day that they needed a new Wind-Rage. After Doug Nakajima had his right arm chopped off by the sorcerous criminal mastermind Simon Cassadine, the N.S.B. lure the martial artist into their service with the promise of a bionic arm. Wind-Rage would have battled supernatural threats as well as spies, and was set to take on Jack Hunter, plus rescue the scientist responsible for creating the Omni Men's Thunderer, had his projected series by Mark Wayne Harris and Greg Shoemaker with Terry Shoemaker ever surfaced.

Sonik was the last of the unreleased titles, intended to be written by Bobbi Weiss and drawn by Louis Williams, but it was abandoned very early and likely never completed to a degree that was printable. Two exiles from the alien Omega Foundation landed on Earth with a plot to use a messianic tale of The Miners to regain their power. They adopt a mute orphaned Earth girl named Mikki Ryan, and give her an artificial voice box containing Darkling's Tears, with the intent to sell her as this messiah. To their surprise, she grows up to develop powers involving sound, including mimicry, sonic blasts, and solid sound constructs. Eventually rejecting her false Omegan heritage, she gets caught in a power struggle between The Miners, The Bringers, and more... or so we were told in interviews and articles, at least.

In the mid-to-late 21st Century, North and South America were to be controlled by two different supercomputers wired with "organic circuitry." This was designed by renowned scientist Robert Kirk, the son of Hanson Kirk, who worked with the N.S.B. to create Thunderer. When the computers have the equivalent of a nervous breakdown and engage in a sort of cold war, EarthNorth enhanced and rendered amnesiac a human agent with the same organic circuitry, and sent MAD VII on a mission against EarthSouth to liberate their creator. Despite repeatedly announcing collections, only one strip was ever released in Outposts #1.