Topps Company Incorporated announced the formation of Topps Comics in March 1992. The company produced books until 1998 taking advantage of a short comics industry boom that attracted many investors and around 9 other new companies were formed in the same time period. The market experienced an increase in comic book market speculation that created inflated sales and the market eventually collapsed taking Topps Comics down with it in 1998.
The company's president was Jim Salicrup (born: May 29, 1957) who started his career at Marvel where he started out as a messenger. In twenty years he worked his way up to editor and in 1992 he became the editor-in-chief of the newly formed Topps Comics until it's demise in 1998.
They specialized in licensed titles, particularly movie and TV series tie-ins. In 1993 they launched their first superhero line called 'The Kirbyverse', but they are mostly known for their bestselling comic books 'The X-Files'. They were hard to produce because, according to Topps Comics scripter Tony Isabella there were a lot of difficulties writing for Chris Carter, stating in an interview in 2000: 'Whoever was approving the comics over in Chris Carter Land were the poster kids for anal retentiveness.'
Comics produced by Topps Comics (possibly not complete):
- Barbi Twins Adventures (1995), 1 issue
- Batman and Robin Official Souvenir Magazine (1997), 1 issue
- Batman Forever Official Movie Magazine (1995), 1 issue
- Bill The Galactic Hero (1994), 3 issues
- Bombast (1993), 1 issue
- Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), 4 issues
- Cadillacs and Dinosaurs (1994), 9 issues
- Captain Glory (1993), 1 issue
- Dracula Chronicles (1995), 3 issues
- Dracula Versus Zorro (1993), 2 issues
- Dracula: Vlad the Impaler (1993), 3 issues
- Dragonheart (1996), 2 issues
- Duckman (1994), 6 issues (including #0)
- Duckman : The Mob Frog Saga (1994), 3 issues
- Elric: One Life (1996), 1 issue (#0)
- Elric: Stormbringer, 7 issues
- Exo Squad (1994), 2 issues (including #0)
- The Frankenstein Dracula War (1995), 3 issues
- Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1996), 5 issues
- Jack Kirby's Secret City Saga (1993), 5 issues (including #0)
- Jack Kirby's Silver Star (1993), 1 issue (out of the planned 4)
- Jack Kirby's TeenAgents (1993), 4 issues
- Jackie Chan's Spartan X: The Armour of Heaven (1997), 3 issues
- James Bond 007 Goldeneye (1996), 2 issues (including #0)
- Jason Goes to Hell the Final Friday (1993), 3 issues
- Jason vs. Leatherface (1995), 3 issues
- Jurassic Park (1993), 5 issues (including #0)
- Jurassic Park Adventures (1994), 10 issues
- Jurassic Park Annual (1995)
- Jurassic Park: Raptor (1993), 2 issues
- Jurassic Park: Raptors Attack (1994), 4 issues
- Jurassic Park: Raptors Hijack (1994), 4 issues
- Return To Jurassic Park (1995), 9 issues
- Lady Rawhide (1995), 5 issues
- Lady Rawhide: Special Edition (1995), 1 issue (preview ashcan comic inserted in Wizard)
- The Lone Ranger and Tonto (1994), 4 issues
- The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), 4 issues
- Marriage of Hercules and Xena (1998), 1 issue
- Mars Attacks (1994), 7 issues
- Mars Attacks Baseball Special (1996), 1 issue
- Mars Attacks Graphic Album (1994), 1 issue
- Mars Attacks High School (1997), 2 issues
- Mars Attacks The Savage Dragon (1996), 4 issues
- Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), 4 issues
- Night Glider (1993), 1 issue
- The Official Xena: Warrior Princess Magazine (1997)
- Ray Bradbury Comics (1993), 5 issues
- Ray Bradbury Comics: The Illustrated Man (1994), 1 issue
- Ray Bradbury Comics: Martian Chronicles (1994), 1 issue
- Ray Bradbury Comics: Tales of Terror (1994), 1 issue
- Satan's Six (1993), 4 issues
- Satan's Six: Hellspawn (1994), 3 issues
- Space: Above And Beyond (1996), 3 issues
- Space: Above And Beyond - The Gauntlet (1996), 2 issues
- Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi: Dark Lords of the Sith (Ashcan) (1994), 1 issue (out of 12 planned)
- Topps Comics Presents (1993)
- Victory (1994), 1 issue (of the planned 5)
- The X-Files (1993), 42 issues (including #0)
- The X-Files (1995) 2nd printing, 4 issues
- Hero Illustrated Special: The X-Files (1995), 1 issue
- The X-Files AfterFlight (1997), 1 issue
- The X-Files Annual (1995 and 1996)
- The X-Files Ashcan (1995), 1 issue
- The X-Files British Edition (1995), 19 issues
- The X-Files Collection (1995)
- The X-Files Comics Digest (1995), 3 issues
- The X-Files Dynamic Forces Edition (1995), 18 (including #0)
- The X-Files Special Edition (1995), 5 issues
- The X-Files: Ground Zero (1997), 4 issues
- The X-Files: Official Movie Adaption (1998), 1 issue
- The X-Files: Season One (1997), 10 issues
- Xena: Warrior Princess (1997), 3 issues (including #0)
- Xena: Warrior Princess vs Callisto (1998), 3 issues
- Xena: Warrior Princess/Joxer: Warrior Prince (1997), 3 issues
- Xena: Warrior Princess/The Dragon's Teeth (1997), 3 issues
- Xena: Warrior Princess: And the Original Olympics (1998), 3 issues
- Xena: Warrior Princess: Bloodlines (1998), 2 issues
- Xena: Warrior Princess: The Orpheus Trilogy (1998), 3 issues
- Xena: Warrior Princess: The Wrath of Hera (1998), 2 issues
- Xena: Warrior Princess - Year One (1997), 1 issue
- Zorro (1993), 12 issues (including #0)
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