Titan Publishing Group
Titan Publishing Group is the publishing division of the British entertainment company Titan Entertainment, which was established as Titan Books in 1981.[2] The books division has two main areas of publishing: film and television tie-ins and cinema reference books; and graphic novels and comics references and art titles. Its imprints are Titan Books, Titan Comics and Titan Magazines.
Parent company
1981
United Kingdom
Littlehampton Book Services (UK)
Penguin Random House Publisher Services (US)[1]
Books, graphic novels, magazines
Reference books, tie-in media
- Titan Books
- Titan Magazines
- Titan Comics
- Titan Manga
Titan Comics[edit]
Titan Books also publishes trade paperbacks and graphic novels in the UK and United States under the imprint Titan Comics.[5] The company has a backlist of over 1,000 graphic novels. Its titles include such licensed characters and properties as Batman, Doctor Who, Family Guy, Heroes, Nemi, Superman, Judge Dredd and other 2000 AD characters, the Vertigo comic-book title Sandman, The Simpsons, Star Wars, Tank Girl, The Real Ghostbusters, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Transformers, The Walking Dead, Life Is Strange, Roy of the Rovers, Dan Dare, WWE Heroes, World of Warcraft and Bloodborne. In addition to licensed titles, Titan Comics also publishes creator-owned series, such as Bloodthirsty: One Nation Under Water (2015–2016) and Man Plus (2015–2016).[6]
In 2010, Titan acquired the American hardboiled fiction imprint Hard Case Crime, and since that time has released a number of comics and graphic novels under the Hard Case Crime brand.[7] Heroic Signatures gave Titan the license to publish new titles featuring Conan the Barbarian in 2022.[8] As of 2021, Titan Comics' publishing directors are Ricky Claydon and John Dziewiatkowski.
Titan Magazines is the magazine-publishing division of Titan Publishing Group. Launched in 1995 with Star Trek Magazine, Titan had previously published several one shot film tie-in titles. Since then it has published many film, TV and comics titles, including poster magazines for Tim Burton's Batman.
Some of Titan's magazines are published in the US, although not all, some with an entirely separate magazine.
In April 2016, Bleeding Cool published a blog/vlog entry pertaining to concerns over Titan's UK reprints of DC titles, specifically cancellations and a lack of updates and communication with readers, as well as addressing the frequent inconsistencies regarding the publication dates of future issues.[9]
Titan ceased publication of all their DC Comics titles in December 2018, most notably ending a fifteen-year run for 'Batman Legends'.[10]
Titan Magazines currently publishes the following comics and magazines:
Comics'
Magazines