Although it's possible that they were so picky because they never wanted the comics out there in the first place. Hoever was approving the comics over in Chris Carter Land were the poster kids for anal retentiveness. Veteran comic-book scripter Tony Isabella, writing about difficulties with The X-Files creator Chris Carter over the Topps Comics' series, said in a 2000 interview, Novinskie) in the Xena trade paperbacks' credits. The company's design director, Brian Boerner, is listed as Reprint Editor (along with Charles S. Novinskie is listed as, additionally, a Topps Comics editor in his capsule biography at Non-Sport Update magazine. The company's sales and promotions manager Charles S. Editors included Len Brown (co-creator of Topps' 1962 Mars Attacks cards), Howard Zimmerman, and Dwight Jon Zimmerman. The editor-in-chief and associate publisher was Jim Salicrup. This coincided with an increase in comic-book market-speculation that created inflated sales and an eventual collapse of the market. Topps entered the comic book market as the number of publishers was increasing, with at least nine other companies joining the field from 1990 to 1992. In April 1993, Topps launched a superhero line, "The Kirbyverse", based on Jack Kirby drawings and concepts, with four one-shot titles. announced the formation of Topps Comics, to be headed by Jim Salicrup, with plans to start publishing in October 1992.
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