Editing AC Comics (section)

==History==

=== Paragon Publications ===
AC Comics was founded as "Paragon Publications" in 1969, and released the first issue of ''Paragon Illustrated'' magazine in Fall of that year, followed by its first comic titles—''Paragon Presents'' and ''White Savage''—in 1970. Other titles from Paragon's beginnings included ''Fem Fantastique'' and ''Paragon Golden Age Greats'' (1971), ''Macabre Western'' and ''[[Captain Paragon]]'' (1972), ''Paragon Magazine'' and ''Paragon Super Heroes'' (1973), ''[[Tara Fremont|Tara]] on the Dark Continent'' (1974), and ''Paragon Western Stars'' (1975). The company's early titles were cheaply published black-and-white comics. Though the company published several titles simultaneously, they were only able to produce a total of three issues a year, since nearly all writing, inking, and editing on the comics was done by Bill Black himself during this period.<ref name="DAK36">{{cite news | author = Borax, Mark | date = July 1986 | title = Bill Black | work = [[Comics Interview]] | issue = 36 | pages = 52–65 | publisher = [[Fictioneer Books]]}}</ref>

=== Americomics ===
In 1982, the company changed its name to "Americomics" before settling on "AC Comics" in 1984. The original plan behind the reintroduction as Americomics was to narrow the lineup to a single full-color anthology series, ''Americomics'', which the publisher could put out on a consistent basis, rather than the earlier model of several black-and-white titles published sporadically.<ref name="DAK36"/>

The first issues of ''Americomics'' coincided with the independent comics boom, and the publisher responded to this unexpected success by expanding its lineup of titles to include several creator-owned series, such as ''[[Dragonfly (AC Comics)|Dragonfly]]''. However, most of these titles were produced and funded by the creators themselves, with minimal creative oversight from Americomics.<ref name="DAK36"/>

=== AC Comics ===
In 1985, AC debuted ''[[Femforce]]'', which it still publishes today. Other AC series include ''Best of the West'' (1998–2009) and the ongoing ''Men of Mystery Comics''. Following the popularity of size-changing Femforce members [[Garganta]] and [[Tara Fremont|Tara]], AC made the [[giantess]] concept a recurring theme in their comics. Tapping into this cult following, AC has released stories and anthologies specifically catered to fans of giant women, as well as DVD releases which embrace this theme in the tongue-in-cheek style of 1950s [[science fiction]] B-movies. An ongoing giantess feature known as ''Gargantarama'' has even been added to the company's ''Femforce'' title.

By 1986, AC Comics had expanded to a staff of roughly 25 people. Production was largely handled through the mail, since only a handful of staff resided anywhere near AC's Florida headquarters.<ref name="DAK36"/>

AC has expanded into other DVD projects which collect classic [[movie serial]]s and other material now in the public domain, as well as low-budget films based on their own characters.