Airboy/Eclipse Comics

I dug out my old issues of the comic from the late '80s Airboy. It ran fifty issues from 1986 to 1989 and is kind of lost in the shuffle of comicdom. Too bad. It doesn't deserve to be. Airboy wasn't Marvel or DC, it was a smaller comic company called Eclipse. I used to like Eclipse, they put out a lot of quality comics, they were small but they got talented writers and artists. Airboy was written by Chuck Dixon who was one of my favorite Batman writers. I used to read quite a few of their comics back in the day. I lost touch with their comics by the time I went to Emerson and I just recently looked them up to see what happened to them. They had a bad flood that ruined a lot of inventory (unlike Marvel or DC, they added to their income by selling back issues of all of their comics). That, coupled with Image coming out in the early '90s, with Spawn to compete directly against Marvel and DC, squeezed them out of the market and they faded away. Too bad. I still have a lot of their stuff.