Titan Publishing Group
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Official website | titanbooks |
Titan Publishing Group is the publishing division of the British entertainment company
Titan Books
Titan Books is a publisher of film, video game and TV tie-in books. As of 2011, the company publishes on average 30 to 40 such titles per year, across a range of formats from "making of" books to screenplays to TV companions and novels, and has a backlist reprint program.
Titan Books' first title was a trade paperback collection of Brian Bolland's Judge Dredd stories from 2000 AD. Titan Books followed the first title with numerous other 2000 AD reprints. Subsequently, the publishing company expanded operations, putting out its first original title in 1987 (Pat Mills and Hunt Emerson's You Are Maggie Thatcher.) Around this time, Titan also began publishing Escape magazine (although the title was canceled in 1989).[3] Titan Books continues to publish both new and licensed graphic novels, as well as film and television tie-ins.
Titan Books’ range of fiction includes limited comic books tie-ins and novelizations for such films as .
Titan also publishes
Reprint comic collections
- Beetle Bailey: Daily & Sunday Strips
- The Complete Flash Gordon Library[4]
- Hägar the Horrible: The Epic Chronicles: The Dailies
- Mandrake the Magician
- The Simon & Kirby Library
- Tarzan - The Complete Burne HogarthSundays and Dailies Library
Titan Comics
Titan Books also publishes
In 2010, Titan acquired the American
Titan Magazines
Titan Magazines is the magazine-publishing division of Titan Publishing Group. Launched in 1995 with
Some of Titan's magazines are published in the US, although not all, some with an entirely separate magazine.
In April 2016, Bleeding Cool published a blog/vlog entry pertaining to concerns over Titan's UK reprints of DC titles, specifically cancellations and a lack of updates and communication with readers, as well as addressing the frequent inconsistencies regarding the publication dates of future issues.[9]
Titan ceased publication of all their DC Comics titles in December 2018, most notably ending a fifteen-year run for 'Batman Legends'.[10]
Titan Magazines currently publishes the following comics and magazines:
Comics'
- Adventure Time
- Blade Runner
- Doctor Who Comic
- Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDIS
- Rick and Morty
- Simpsons Comics[11]
- Man: Plus
- Minions Comic
- Tank Girl (digital only)
Magazines
- Star Trek Explorer (Nov 2021–)(relaunch of Star Trek Magazine)[12]
- Star Wars Insider
- Souvenir One Shots (different theme each issue, usually TV show tie-ins)
Titan Manga
In 2022, the Titan Publishing Group launched Titan Manga, an imprint focused solely on manga series, with their first release being a "director's cut" of Takashi Okazaki's Afro Samurai.[13]
- Afro Samurai
- Alpi the Soul Sender
- Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag - Awakening
- Atom: The Beginning
- Burst Angel
- Corpse Blade
- The Elegant Courtly Life of the Tea Witch
- Grace Rosa
- The Great Yokai War: Guardians
- Hen Kai Pan
- Kamen Rider Kuuga
- My Name Is Zero
- The Poetry of Ran
- Ryuko
- Shadows of Kyoto
- Somali and the Forest Spirit
- Speed Grapher
- Sword of the Titans
- Tengen Hero Wars
- Three Exorcist Brothers
- Villain Actor
- Welcome to Ghost Mansion
- Witch of Thistle Castle
- Working for God in a Godless World
References
- ^ How to Order Titan Books
- ^ "Titan Publishing Group Ltd - Company Profile and News". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
- ^ Plowright, Frank. Opening Shots: And As Ye Reap, So Shall Ye Sow," The Comics Journal #122 (June 1988), p. 11.
- ^ Cecchini, Mike. "The Complete Flash Gordon Library (Titan Books), Review," Den of Geek (4 January 2013). Retrieved 2 November 2018.
- ^ Reid, Calvin (9 January 2013). "Titan Books To Launch Titan Comics Imprint". Publishers Weekly.
- ^ Titan-comics.com
- ^ Lindenmuth, Brian (10 August 2010). "Hard Case Crime moves to Subterranean Press". Spinetingler. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
- ^ Kit, Borys (21 June 2022). "Titan Comics Nabs Conan the Barbarian License (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. PMRC.
- ^ "Concern over Titan's UK Reprints of DC Comics Titles". 29 April 2016.
- Johnston, Rich (26 December 2018). "Titan Cancels Its DC Comics Newsstand Range". Bleeding Cool. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
- ^ Magazines (Simpsons Comics) @ Titan Comics. Retrieved 14 July 2022.
- ^ Magazines (star-trek-magazine) @ Titan Comics. Retrieved 14 July 2022.
- ^ "Takashi Okazaki's Afro Samurai Kicks-Off Titan's New Manga Imprint". Anime News Network. 22 March 2022. Retrieved 14 October 2022.
External links
- Titan Books - official website
- Titan Comics - official website
- Titan Books at the Grand Comics Database
- Titan Books at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)