10 Facts About Moonstone Books

1.

Moonstone Books is an American comic book, graphic novel, and prose fiction publisher based in Chicago focused on pulp fiction comic books and prose anthologies as well as horror and western tales.

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2.

Moonstone Books's editor-in-chief is Joe Gentile, who frequently writes his own stories for their comics.

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3.

Moonstone Books is the first US publisher to produce new Phantom stories for the comic book format since Marvel Comics cancelled their Phantom 2040 comic in 1995.

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4.

Only five books, written by Tom DeFalco, Ben Raab and Ron Goulart, were published, but in 2003, Moonstone started a regular comic book series with the character, written by Ben Raab, Rafael Nieves, and Chuck Dixon, and drawn by the likes of Pat Quinn, Jerry DeCaire, Nick Derington, Rich Burchett and EricJ.

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5.

Moonstone Books have made and is in the process of making several special projects with the character.

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6.

Moonstone Books have announced a Phantom Annual, and two prose collections featuring Phantom short stories.

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7.

In January 2002, Moonstone Books announced their plans to develop the radio drama Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar as a quarterly book in their Noir Fiction line.

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8.

Moonstone Books is publishing new stories based on the TV-series Kolchak: The Night Stalker.

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9.

Since 2006, Moonstone Books have been publishing comics with Buckaroo Banzai, the main character from the 1984 film The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, which continues plotlines left unexplored in the movie.

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10.

Moonstone Books recently published a Stoker Award-nominated prose anthology with Kolchak, which sold out fast.

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