![]() ![]() Skywald was something of a bottom-feeder publisher for a few short years around the turn of that decade. One outfit that did attempt it was Skywald, though their offering only lasted a single issue. Not too many people tried to pursue super heroes in the B & W magazine format, particularly after the short-lived SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN magazine. In practice, you wound up with the first two a whole lot more than the third. (This is how MAD Magazine was able to flourish for all of those years.) So in theory, a black and white magazine could be more graphic and more violent and more adult than what was being published on the four color racks. The great value in producing a black and white magazine was that the difference in format put the work outside of the oversight of the Comics Code Authority. ![]() That was the niche of the black and white magazine, a format primarily pioneered by Warren Publications but one that almost every publisher and would-be publisher would experiment with. By the late 1960s, a whole new niche market had opened up on the newsstand for comics. ![]()
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