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| Founded | 1990 |
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| Founder | Mark Ellis, Melissa Martin, Paul Davis |
| Defunct | 2000 |
| Country of origin | U.S. |
| Headquarters location | Tampa, Florida, then Narragansett, Rhode Island |
| Distribution | U.S. |
| Publication types | Comics |
| Imprints | Borderland American Bios Modern Comics |
Millennium Publications was an American independent comic book publishing company active in the 1990s.
Initially known as a publisher of licensed properties, Millennium adapted works by Arthur Conan Doyle, Lester Dent, Robert E. Howard, Harlan Ellison, H.P. Lovecraft, and Anne Rice; and even adapted television series like The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and The Wild Wild West into comic book form. The company expanded its repertoire of horror comics into original titles in the mid-1990s, and further branched out in its later years to embrace the alternative comics genre, starting a short-lived creator-owned imprint called Modern Comics.
Millennium gave early exposure to comics artists such as Darryl Banks,[1] Brian Michael Bendis, Dean Haspiel, Adam Hughes, Michel Lacombe, David W. Mack, Josh Neufeld, Rik Levins, and Mike Wieringo; and utilized industry veterans like John Bolton, Mark Buckingham, Don Heck, Kelley Jones, Jim Mooney, Rudy Nebres, Steve Stiles, and Roy Thomas. Covers were occasionally provided by such notable creators as Brian Stelfreeze, Timothy Truman, and Doug Wildey.
The company was distinctive in that it mostly published one-shots and limited series, with only a couple of their titles running for more than four issues. In many ways representative of the boom period of independent comic book publishing, Millennium thrived in the early years of the 1990s and fell on lean times as the decade came to a close.
- ^ Banks entry, Who's Who of American Comic Books, 1928–1999. Retrieved Jan. 16, 2023.