We’re getting a start on filling out the earlier portions of the Avatar back-issue store database with cover graphics and issue information, and as we do so we’ll ocassionally make note of updates here with some behind-the-scenes commentary on the books in question.
The book we’re starting with here is nothing less than the very first comic that Avatar Press published, Pandora #1 from December 1996. Avatar editor-in-chief William Christensen and creative director Mark Seifert began developing the foundations of company earlier that year after having worked on projects for a variety of other companies including London Night Studios and Chaos! Comics — their first published work was a writing gig in Chaos! Quarterly #1. The company made its first public announcements at Heroes Con in Charlotte, NC that summer. (…continued in the Behind the Scenes section)