NORFOLK, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 23, 1999--Collecting Channel, the Internet's leading multimedia resource for the collecting community, is expanding its services to create the new Comics MicroChannel.
One of a dynamic group of new MicroChannels accessible from the very popular Collecting Channel MacroChannel, the Comics MicroChannel is the one-stop place on the Internet for collectors of comic books, comic strips and related memorabilia. Here the collector can find the latest news, features, interviews and previews -- along with links to comics sites of every sort, grouped with brief descriptions to aid the viewer. The new MicroChannel is "live" now. Visit it at: http://www.collectingchannel.com.
The Comics MicroChannel is edited by long-time comics collector Ted White. He was written up in the Washington Daily News in the mid-'50s as "The Boy With 10,000 Comics." By then he'd published the first issue of the EC Comics fanzine, Potrzebie, and had visited the offices of EC Comics in New York City, a not uncommon pilgrimage of the day. In the '60s he met and became friends with Marvel Comics' Stan Lee, and wrote the Bantam Captain America book, The Great Gold Steal, at Stan's suggestion.
After years of editing science fiction magazines, White became the editor of Heavy Metal in '79, producing what collectors deem to be the all-time best issues of that sophisticated comic book. White worked in retail comics distribution in the late eighties and early nineties, keeping his thumb on the buyers' pulses. He's also seen the publication of over a dozen of his own science fiction novels.
"Comics were one of the fixtures of my life from before I learned to read," Ted says. "I used to lie on the floor and stare at the daily newspaper strips -- and try to figure out what was going on in them. Once I could read there was no stopping me. And back in those days kids traded beat up, coverless and torn copies of virtually any comic book. It used to drive me crazy, trying to read all the installments of the Mickey Mouse serial in Walt Disney's Comics & Stories. I'd always miss one, and those were strange, fantastic stories for a kid, full of science fiction. So, from an early age, I became a Collector. And, as anyone who knows me can attest, I still am."
The Comics MicroChannel reflects White's life-long interest in comics and collecting, and has a broad focus, aimed at collectors of all ages. The Comics MicroChannel discusses and supports all facets of comics collecting -- from the nostalgia factors to the dollar amounts.
About ChannelSpace Entertainment, Inc. (CSEI)
ChannelSpace Entertainment, Inc. (www.channelspace.com), is a provider of affinity portals and original niche-based programming for Internet content aggregators. This groundbreaking model addresses the question: how do you reach more eyeballs?
CSEI's cable TV-like model creates opportunities to leverage and package its own high-level audio/video assets as well as that of existing content providers to increase overall market strength and visibility. The CSEI goal is to be a platform-independent source of enhanced, customized channels to content aggregators of all media forms. CSEI's distributed technology engine enables the Company to launch new channels at a rapid pace.
The CollectingChannel (www.collectingchannel.com), CSEI's first affinity portal, offers the most complete aggregation of collecting-related content ever available in the history of the Web. As it continues to add more content and programming, the CollectingChannel will deliver the Web's most complete, up-to-the-minute, original audio/video programming, chat, auctions, books, price guides, expert opinions, software, links, magazines, live video conferencing, news, articles and community catering to any and every conceivable collectible category.
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