![]() ![]() At the time, Full Moon was still in its infancy. This was a huge sign of faith in both the movies and the Full Moon brand itself. In 1990, Band made a deal with the comic publisher Eternity (a division of Malibu, itself a division of Marvel) to turn these straight-to-video franchises into actual comic book series. Yet it wasn’t long after Band made that comparison that it became even more literal than it had probably been at the time. The Full Moon universe often feels like Marvel or DC, albeit on a much smaller budget. Demonic Toys-or simply one character casually stepping into another franchise. Evil Bong or the Sci-Fi Channel original Puppet Master vs. Many of those series continue to this day, many of them have had crossovers-whether it be title fights like Dollman vs. Yet it proved to be more true than any fan at the time could have imagined. ![]() The comparison was made very early on in Full Moon’s run this was barely over a year after the release of Puppet Master, which had been the company’s debut feature. He said that he hoped to create franchises out of many if not all of them, to follow along with the various adventures from movie-to-movie, to even pair up and cross over certain characters. In the very first Video Zone (the behind-the-scenes featurette attached to most of Full Moon’s films throughout the ‘90s) that played after the end credits rolled on Puppet Master II, Charles Band likened the independent studio’s movies to comic books. ![]()
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