History
Platinum Studios was founded in 1997 by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg following his role as founder and head of Malibu Comics. At Malibu Comics, Rosenberg published comics lines including the Men In Black comic book, which he later brought to Columbia/Sony Pictures. Other notable titles under the Malibu label include Ultraforce, The Night Man, Exiles, and Black September.
Shortly after Platinum Studios began work on its Macroverse in 1997, the company acquired the film and television rights to Dylan Dog. Created by Tiziano Sclavi and published by Sergio Bonelli Editore, Dylan Dog has sold over 65 millions copies and is the source material for the upcoming Platinum Studios produced film, Dead of Night. Also in that same year, Platinum Studios acquired the rights to the long-running European graphic novel series Jeremiah.
Over the next ten years, Platinum Studios continued to increase the size and of their portfolio through licensing, publishing, film, and television contracts with comic book creators. Platinum Studios' publishing partners include Awesome Comics (in spite of repeated criticism of Platinum from Awesome's primary creator, Rob Liefeld), Crisis Comics (created by Platinum Studios, no comic has ever been published under the Crisis banner), UFO Magazine, and Top Cow Productions, Inc.
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