Dollman #3
Dollman #3 (February 1992, Eternity/Malibu) is the third chapter of a four-issue movie tie-in mini-series adapting Full Moon Entertainment's 1991 sci-fi film, but its deeper historical resonance comes from the Youngblood preview content it contains. Because it shares a February 1992 cover date — two full months before Youngblood #1 (April 1992) hit stands as Image Comics' debut publication — appearances of Rob Liefeld's Youngblood characters in Malibu/Eternity publications of this period represent some of the earliest in-print encounters readers had with those characters. The issue sits at the precise intersection of two publishing stories: Malibu's licensed B-movie comics line and its pivotal role as distributor and publisher of record for the nascent Image Comics, which used Malibu's infrastructure to reach the direct market.
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The Dollman mini-series was published under Malibu's Eternity Comics imprint as a direct tie-in to Full Moon Entertainment's 1991 film of the same name, starring Tim Thomerson as the alien space cop Brick Bardo — a diminutive lawman stranded on Earth. Eternity was one of several imprints Malibu had absorbed, and by early 1992 Malibu was simultaneously distributing and publishing Image Comics' first titles, making its periodicals natural vehicles for early Youngblood promotional content. The Malibu Sun preview publication (also dated February 1992) carried a dedicated Youngblood preview, confirming that Malibu was actively seeding the market with Liefeld's characters across its line that same month.
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- Dollman #3 is the penultimate issue of a four-issue limited series published by Eternity Comics (a Malibu imprint), cover-dated February 1992.
- The series is a comic book adaptation of the 1991 Full Moon Entertainment film Dollman, in which Tim Thomerson plays alien space cop Brick Bardo, who stands 13 inches tall on Earth.
- The characters indexed — including Shaft (Jeff Terrell), Chapel (Bruce Stinson), Bedrock (Thomas John McCall), Die Hard (Calvin Raines), Vogue (Nikola Voganova), and Combat — are all members of Rob Liefeld's Youngblood, whose premiere issue as the flagship Image Comics publication did not arrive until April 1992.
- Youngblood #1 (April 1992) was published as an Image Comics title through Malibu's publishing and distribution infrastructure; Malibu's own periodicals of the same period, including the Malibu Sun preview book (February 1992), carried early Youngblood content.
- Youngblood's Home Team consisted of Shaft, Bedrock (later renamed Badrock), Chapel, Die Hard, Photon, and Vogue; the Away Team included Combat, Sentinel, Brahma, Cougar, Psi-Fire, and Riptide.
- The Dollman film, directed by Albert Pyun, spawned both this four-issue Eternity mini-series and, later, a separate six-issue crossover comic titled Dollman Kills the Full Moon Universe published by Full Moon Comix.
- Malibu's Eternity imprint had been acquired as part of Scott Mitchell Rosenberg's financing arrangements in the late 1980s, and by 1992 Malibu served as publisher of record for early Image titles, temporarily pushing it to nearly ten percent of the American comics market.