Pacific Comics

Pacific Comics
IndustryComics
Founded1971 (as mail order retailer)
1981 (as comics publisher)
FounderBill Schanes, Steve Schanes
Defunct1984 (ceased publishing)
1985 (liquidated)
HeadquartersSan Diego, California
Key people
Steven E. Schanes, Christine Marra, Paul "Pablo" Schanes, Chris Schanes
ServicesMail order service, Retailer, Distributor, Publisher
Revenuec. $1 million (1980)
OwnerBlue Dolphin Enterprises

Pacific Comics was a comic book distributor and publisher active from 1971 to 1984. The company began as a San Diego, California, comic book shop owned by brothers Bill and Steve Schanes, later moving into comics distribution and then publishing.

As a publisher, starting in 1981, Pacific took early advantage of the growing direct market, attracting a number of writers and artists from DC Comics and Marvel Comics to produce creator-owned titles, which were not subject to the Comics Code, and thus were free to feature more mature content.