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michael catron

michael catron -lrb- born october 9 , 1954 -rrb- is former publisher of apple comics and co-founder of fantagraphics .
catron met gary groth while they were both enrolled at the university of maryland .
in 1974 , catron and groth put on a washington , dc-area rock and roll convention that ended in financial failure .
nonetheless , he and groth dabbled in music publishing with the short-lived magazine `` sounds fine '' , which they co-published until 1979 .
during this period , catron also worked as a public relations assistant for mike gold , at the time employed by dc comics .
in 1976 catron and groth co-founded fantagraphics books , at that point located in college park , maryland .
they took over an adzine named `` the nostalgia journal '' , quickly renaming it `` the comics journal '' .
catron acted as fantagraphics ' co-publisher until 1985 , also handling advertising and circulation for `` the comics journal '' from 1982 to 1985 , when he left the company .
in 1986 , catron established apple comics , which began as a packager for wendy & richard pini 's warp graphics but with its own financing structure .
soon , apple branched out to publishing original titles , and became known for publishing war comics , particularly the long-running title `` vietnam journal '' -lrb- as well as many spin-offs and one-shots -rrb- .
apple comics went defunct in 1994 .
from 2000 to 2008 he served as a board member for the grand comics database .
catron has been the agent for the estate of superman co-creator joe shuster .
in early 2012 , catron relocated to seattle and returned to fantagraphics as editor with the publishing company he co-founded 36 years earlier .
