Alien Encounters


Alien Encounters is an American science fiction anthology comic book published by FantaCo Enterprises and then Eclipse Comics. The comic debuted with FantaCo in 1981, and in 1985 was revived by Eclipse, where it ran for fourteen issues until 1987.
Eclipse began publishing the title soon after the cancellation of Alien Worlds, a similar science-fiction themed anthology.

Publication history

Creators who worked on the series include Ray Bradbury Stephen R. Bissette, John Bolton, Joe Chiodo, Richard Corben, Howard Cruse, Chuck Dixon, Rick Geary, Bruce Jones, Peter Ledger, David Lloyd, David Mazzucchelli, Gray Morrow, Ray Nelson, Timothy Truman, Thomas Yeates, and Mike Zeck.
Catherine Yronwode edited the series. Alien Encounters featured pulp magazine-inspired covers, and was sometimes criticized for featuring gratuitous nude scenes.

Other media

The story "Nada" by Ray Nelson and Bill Wray, from Alien Encounters #6, was an adaptation of the story "Eight O'Clock in the Morning" by Nelson that was the inspiration for the 1988 John Carpenter film They Live.