Academy Comics was an independent comic book

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 publisher based in Indiana

Indiana

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 and founded by Mark Paniccia (currently an editor at Marvel Comics

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 as of 2011). It was originally founded as Pyramid Publishing in 1986, and transitioned to New Century Comics by 1990, which served primarily as a vehicle to publish Paniccia's own sword and sorcery

Sword and sorcery

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 comics. It later transitioned to the name Acid Rain Studios in order to publish a series of vampire

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 and gothic

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 comic book

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s. The name was changed to Academy after it acquired the Robotech

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 license in 1994. Its last title was Noble A.R.M.O.U.R. Halberder by the Waltrip brothers

Waltrip brothers

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after the license ended in 1996.