Titan Publishing Group

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Titan Publishing Group
Parent companyTitan Entertainment Group
Founded1981
Country of originGreat Britain
Headquarters locationBankside, London, England, United Kingdom
DistributionLittlehampton Book Services (UK)
Penguin Random House Publisher Services (US)[1]
Key peopleNick Landau (MD)
Vivian Cheung Landau
Laura Price
Publication typesBooks, graphic novels
Nonfiction topicsFilm, television
Fiction genresReference, fiction
ImprintsTitan Comics
Official websitetitanbooks.com

Titan Publishing Group is an independently owned British publishing company, established in 1981. It is based at offices in London's Bankside area. The books division has two main areas of publishing: film and television tie-ins and cinema reference books; and graphic novels and comics references and art titles. The company is a division of Titan Entertainment Group, which also owns Titan Magazines. As of 2016, Titan Books' editorial director is Laura Price.

Titan Books[edit]

Film, TV & video games tie ins[edit]

Titan Books is a publisher of film, video game and TV tie-in books. As of 2011, the company publishes on average 30 to 40 such titles per year, across a range of formats from "making of" books to screenplays to TV companions and novels, and has a backlist reprint program.

Comic, art and fiction[edit]

Titan Books’ range of fiction includes novelisations of such films as Terminator Salvation, Iron Man, The X-Files: I Want to Believe, and The Dark Knight Rises.

Titan also publishes coffee table books on animation, popular culture, collectibles and comic and fantasy art.

Reprint comic collections[edit]

  • Beetle Bailey: Daily & Sunday Strips
  • The Complete Flash Gordon Library[2]
  • Hägar the Horrible: The Epic Chronicles: The Dailies
  • Mandrake The Magician
  • The Simon & Kirby Library
  • Tarzan - The Complete Burne Hogarth Sundays and Dailies Library

Titan Comics[edit]

Titan Books also publishes trade paperbacks and graphic novels in the UK and United States under the imprint Titan Comics. The company has a backlist of over 1,000 graphic novels. Its titles include such licensed characters and properties as Batman, Doctor Who, Family Guy, Heroes, Nemi, Superman, Judge Dredd and other 2000 AD characters, the Vertigo comic-book title Sandman, The Simpsons, Star Wars, Tank Girl, The Real Ghostbusters, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Transformers, The Walking Dead, Life Is Strange, Roy of the Rovers, WWE Heroes and World of Warcraft. In addition to licensed titles, Titan Comics also publishes creator-owned series, such as Bloodthirsty: One Nation Under Water (2015–2016) and Man Plus (2015–2016).[3]

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