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during its short run (including nine Eagles in 1983 alone). Quality was also involved in the U.S. completion of
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In 2008, Quality Communications published the 15th-anniversary issue (numbered #15) of
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In 1990, Quality shifted focus to magazines, launched the comics trade journal
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struggled along for another couple of years before folding in 2010.)
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For the American Golden Age comic book publisher formed in 1939, see
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Quality's main period as a comics publisher was from 1982 to 1988.
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Quality published a few sporadic titles in the 2000s, including
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2008. The company's most notable publications were the monthly
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content repackaged for the U.S. market included the titles
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Comic book publishing companies of the United Kingdom
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students of Skinn's; it was distributed for free in
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Index

Quality Comics
1982
Dez Skinn
United Kingdom
London
Comic magazines
Fiction genres
publishing company
Dez Skinn
comics
Warrior
Alan Moore
trade magazine
Comics International
UK
U.S.
2000 AD
Warrior
Alan Moore
V for Vendetta
Marvelman
Eagle Awards
Halls of Horror
Thorpe & Porter
Warner Communications
Comics International
City College Brighton & Hove
East Sussex
Jack Kirby
2000 AD

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