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New publisher Authentic Editions plans to capitalise with a new Kickstarter, printing facsimile editions of these classic pre-code horror comics: Suspense Comics #3, #8, #11, #12 Punch Comics #12, #9 Chamber of Chills #19, #23 Weird Mysteries #4, #5, #6, #12 Weird Chills #1, #2, #3 And it's coming from Adam Fortier, former VP of Dreamwave Productions on Transformers, owner of[...]

At the weekend, Bleeding Cool ran a post detailing the wishes of writer Ian Brill and editor Christopher Burns for their names to be taken off the upcoming Darkwing Duck Collection for Joe Books, as the solicitations stated that the work would be rewritten in accordance with. Joe Books publisher is ex-Boom! editor Adam Fortier[...]

But who are Joe's Books? There's very little on-line but I find one reference. The LinkedIn account of Adam Fortier where he is listed as Publisher of Joe's Books. Wow Fortier used to work for Dreamwave, where he negiotiated the Transformer license, before starting Speakeasy, a comics publisher with grand ideas that came to nothing (though they[...]