Years in Operation:
1986 - 1988
Detail
Country:
United States
Web Site:
Brands:
1
Indicia Publishers:
3
Series:
11
Printings:
17
Notes:
Founded by Mark L. Hamlin and comics writer Roger McKenzie, with writer/editor David Campiti playing a major role. Editorial editorial offices in Wheeling, WV, with business office in Wyoming, MI. Hamlin was formerly sales and marketing representative for Comico; Pied Piper Comics was a play on Hamlin's name and the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin.
Pied Piper was tied to two other Campiti-associated publishers: Amazing and Wonder Color, both of which were financed by comics distributor Scott Mitchell Rosenberg and a small group of investors. Campiti packaged comics for all three publishers through Campiti and Associates, with Pied Piper publishing graphic novels, Amazing publishing black-and-white comics, and Wonder Color publishing color comics.
Pied Piper temporarily acquired David Lawrence & Ron Lim's EX-MUTANTS after the title began with two publishers associated with Campiti and financial backer Rosenberg: Eternity Comics and Amazing. Campiti left Rosenberg's various ventures in 1987, taking Lawrence & Lim's EX-MUTANTS with him to Pied Piper. (The company also published Lawrence & Lim's THE NEW HUMANS.)
Pied Piper collapsed in 1988, with a number of titles, such as HERO ALLIANCE and POWER FACTOR, being continued by Campiti's own Innovation Publishing; EX-MUTANTS and THE NEW HUMANS both returned to Eternity (which at that point was an imprint of another Rosenberg operation, Malibu Comics).
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