Big Bang Comics

Big Bang Comics 	Big Bang Comics
 	
Parent company 	Eclipse View Comics
Status 	Active
Founded 	May 14th, 1999
Founder 	Felisha Hines
Country of origin	United States
Fiction genres 	SuperheroScience FictionFantasyActionAdventure
Big Bang Comics is an American comic book publisher, founded by Felisha Hines of Eclipse View Comics in May of 1999, four years after Eclipse View's foundation. The company is a subsidiary of Eclipse View Comics and is primarily known for publishing superhero works, taking place in a shared universe much like that of and .
== History ==
=== Development ===
Felisha Hines, co-founder of the wider Eclipse View Comics brand, was the founder of Big Bang Comics. She had noticed that the comics of the 1990s had become increasingly darker and were straying further and further from their roots. Because of this, she pitched Big Bang Comics to other Eclipse View co-founder Whitney Hines, marketing it as the company's comptetator to , the primary dominator of the comic book industry at the time. However, Whitney was hesitant, as a series of other companies had created their own superhero universes that had ended in failure, which eventually resulted in the comic book crash a few years prior. Because of this, the idea was initially rejected, though around a year later in 1999, Whitney changed her mind after she confirmed that Eclipse View's own income had stabilized. With the extra money they were making, she thought that she could stand to print a few extra comics within this potential universe.
Four comics were published initially, each of which was originally marketed still under the Eclipse View Comics brand to test whether or not people would be interested still in a shared universe like this. When those four became some of Eclipse View's best sellers for that month, it was agreed to create an imprint based on this new universe, dubbed initially the Eclipseverse but later renamed the Big Bang Universe. However, as the sales grew and more help was needed to keep the imprint running, it was decided for expense reasons that it would be better to split it off into its own company, with Big Bang Comics being founded in May of 1999, only a month after the initial imprint was founded.
=== Big Bang Universe ===
The first characters created as part of Big Bang Comics' line were Exo-Man, Astro, Nobody, and the team Paradigm Shift, all of whom were around back when the company was still being published by Eclipse View itself. The plot of these comics was set in a heavily fictionalized version of the United States, wherein people were living in the aftermath of a mysterious incident known as the Whiteout, which saw a flash of bright light engulf half of the world and seemingly do no damage but resulted in a small portion of the population being mutated. These mutants (dubbed Freaks) serve as the superpowered individuals of Big Bang's world, and the first few years of the company's existences saw characters attempting to uncover the truth behind the Whiteout.
== Other media ==
=== Television ===
* In 2005, the animated series Exo-Man was created and aired on , which was based on the Big Bang Comics character of the same name. The series is notable for being the first other media venture in Big Bang's existence.
== Publications ==
=== Monthly series ===
* The Amazing Exo-Man
* Astro, The Human Star
* Nobody
* Paradigm Shift
* The Unkillable Monkey King
* The Night Surgeon
* Gargantuan Max
* The Raging Storm
=== Miniseries ===
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