Malibu Comics Entertainment, Inc. (also known as Malibu Graphics) was an American comic book publisher active in the late 1980s and early 1990s, best known for its Ultraverse line of superhero titles. Notable titles published by Malibu included The Men in Black, Ultraforce, and Night Man. The company's headquarters was in Calabasas, California. Malibu was initially publisher of record for Image Comics from 1992 to 1993. The company's other imprints included Adventure, Aircel and Eternity. Malibu also owned a small software development company that designed video games in the early to mid-1990s called Malibu Interactive. History Origins Malibu Comics was launched in 1986 by Dave Olbrich and Tom Mason (joined by Chris Ulm in 1987) thanks to the financing of Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, who was operating a comic book distribution company (Sunrise Distributors) at the time. Olbrich had previously been managing editor of the trade publication Amazing Heroes, as well as the administrator of The Jack Kirby Awards. He was financing Malibu Comics, along with other comic companies like Eternity Comics, Amazing Comics, Wonder Comics, and Imperial Comics. After this fact was made public, Rosenberg discontinued most of these publishers (merging them with Malibu) but retained the Eternity label as a brand of Malibu Comics. Malibu began modestly with creator-owned black-and-white titles, but made a name for itself publishing a combination of new series and licensed properties such as the classic characters Tarzan and Sherlock Holmes, and popular television, film, and video game tie-ins. Malibu's first title was Ex-Mutants. Malibu later created a shared universe called Shattered Earth with these characters, after a legal battle with the creators. Publishers acquisitions and Genesis Malibu's 1987 financing arrangement with Rosenberg also led to it effectively acquiring the Canadian publisher Aircel Comics as an imprint. In 1989, Malibu acquired the publisher Adventure Publications. From that point forward, the Malibu brand was used for superhero titles, while Eternity was used for the magazine line and also for anime-inspired titles like Robotech, Adventure was used for Malibu's licensed titles, such as Planet of the Apes and Alien Nation, and Aircel was used for Barry Blair's comics and Malibu's adult line. The company also acquired the character Shuriken, from his creator Reggie Byers, in 1988 (a character that was self-published before in Victory Productions from 1985–1988). The character was published in three mini-series and two one-shots by Malibu (later the character was introduced in the Ultraverse