Collection: Hero Illustrated | Video Game History Foundation Library

Scope and Contents

This collection includes the first five issues of Hero Illustrated, published in 1993. We do not plan to accure additional issues.

Each of these first five issues of Hero Illustrated also came with a collectible card and supplementary pamphlet; these are missing for issues 2 and 4.

Dates

1993–1996

Creator

Sendai Publishing (Publisher, Organization)

Extent

5 Magazines

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Hero Illustrated was a comics magazine by Sendai Publishing, the publishers of Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM), under the name Warrior Publications. The magazine's staff overlapped with EGM, including editor Steve Harris. Although Hero Illustrated was not focused on video games, the magazine included ads for video games and occasionally covered games based on comics.

Appraisal

This magazine is included in the library primarily because of its connection to Electronic Gaming Monthly's staff and parent company Sendai Publishing rather than its content. While we will maintain this small collection of Hero Illustrated for its connection to a major video game magazine publisher, we do not plan to accure additional issues.