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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.

#HELL RIDER NO1 CODE#

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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