For 25 years, Image Comics has been the flagbearer for comics creators who want to own the rights to their own creations. Photos: Image Comics
Twenty-five years ago, I recall rushing to now-defunct comic book shop The Final Frontier in Petaling Jaya to get a copy of Youngblood #1 by ... Rob Liefeld(!). While both Youngblood and Liefeld are names to steer clear of these days, Youngblood #1 is a unique exception, as it is, after all, the first comic book published by Image Comics.
If you’re familiar with the comic book industry, you’ve probably heard about how Liefeld – together with fellow comic creators Jim Lee, Todd McFarlane, Marc Silvestri, Eric Larsen, Jim Valentino and (later) Whilce Portacio – left Marvel to establish Image. Frustrated that any new characters they created would never truly belong to them as long as they were with Marvel, they left the company and formed Image Comics in 1992.
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