Pieces about Frank Miller in high profile culture magazines like Rolling Stone and SPIN were seen as evidence that comics had “grown up.”

In the early 1980s, indy publisher Fantagraphics made a stab at doing mainstream color comics, with Dalgoda as their flagship title.

It cannot be denied that by the mid-1980s, John Byrne was a superstar in the comics field. He made a name for himself on X-Men before taking over as the sole writer and artist on Fantastic Four.

The original Apple Macintosh couldn’t emulate traditional comic book art, but what it produced had a distinctive style of its own that seems to fit an ’80s future dystopia.

Epic Illustrated stands as a symbol of two critical developments in Marvel’s evolving publishing strategy that had a profound effect on the entire comics industry.