{"id":5326,"date":"2010-12-10T19:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-08-01T17:38:19","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T22:38:19","slug":"flashback-friday-xander-in-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/10\/flashback-friday-xander-in-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback Friday: Xander in Lost Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A brief flashback today on a title that had a brief run: Gene Roddenberry’s Xander in Lost Universe<\/b><\/i>, a part of the Tekno-Comix<\/b> line from 1995. A part of Big Entertainment<\/b>, Tekno-Comix was a short-lived attempt to build series around the names and concepts of celebrities ranging from Leonard Nimoy <\/b>to John Jakes<\/b>.<\/p>\n

It was the largest major new publisher launch to come in the downturn of the mid-1990s, and involved a million-dollar advertising and promotional blitz. The first issues of its flagship titles, appearing in November 1994, actually placed 24th and 25th at Diamond Comic Distributors<\/b> \u2014 but the curiosity factor soon faded, and by March 1995<\/b><\/a>, those titles were out of the Top 60.<\/p>\n

The concepts of Star Trek<\/i> creator Gene Roddenberry<\/b>, who had died in 1991, appeared at Tekno early in 1995 in the seven-issue series, Gene Roddenberry’s Lost Universe<\/b><\/i>. The follow-up series, Xander in Lost Universe<\/i><\/b> ran longer, with nine issues (including a zero issue).<\/p>\n

As part of the overall effort to walk the major-publisher walk, Tekno gave its titles newsstand distribution and sold subscriptions during its brief run. That resulted in a single Statement of Ownership for Xander<\/i>, appearing here<\/b><\/a>. But the filing, appearing in #4, came much too soon in its run for the numbers to mean much of anything: unless Xander<\/i> was considered the same series as the preceding Lost Universe<\/i> title for subscription and accounting purposes (a definite possibility), the publisher would not have had a complete picture of returns from the newsstand. In any event, the higher sales on the first issue (or, rather, the zero issue) of Xander<\/i> would have greatly distorted average sales.<\/p>\n

The title did not survive to a second filing, so what we see here is what we get. Click to see more Title Spotlights<\/b><\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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