The Early Days of Independent Comics: Nexus, Badger, and Whisper

By J.C. Vaughn: President of Gemstone Publishing and Amanda Sheriff: Gemstone’s Editor-Digital. PopCultureSquad.com’s Bob Harrison also contributed to this column. In the early 1980s, there was an explosion of independent—generally non-Marvel, non-DC—comic book titles. Some of them came and went,…