 During the mid-1980s run, Staton acquired rights to the character from First, although First Comics retained ownership of their publications.As Staton described,
In 1989, published an E-Man one-shot (Sept. 1989) by Cuti and Staton followed by a three-issue miniseries (Jan.-March 1990).After Comico's demise, Alpha Productions issued two one-shot publications, "E-Man" (Sept. 1993) and "E-Man Returns" (1994).