Mark Beachum

Mark Beachum
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Nationality	American
Area(s)	Artist

Mark Beachum is an American comic book and multi-media artist known for his highly eroticized renditions of female super heroines such as Flare and Samuree.

Career

He first entered the comic field in the early 1980s working on such titles as Wonder Woman and New Talent Showcase for DC Comics. In the mid 1980s he started working for Marvel Comics on various Spider-Man titles, both as a cover and interior artist. In 1990 he started Aja Blu Comix together with Sandra Chang, self-publishing the four issue split book Achilles Storm/Razmataz. Opposed to and frustrated with his mainstream work for companies like Marvel and DC, Beachum aimed Razmataz towards an adult audience only. Razmataz was collected by Eros Comix in 2001 with additional and revisited content.

From 1994 through 1996 the fully painted serialised story Backlash appeared in Penthouse Comix, running from issue #4 to #11. In the following years he contributed painted stories to Hustler Comix, Vampirella, Forbidden Zone and again Penthouse Comix.

In 1999 the graphic novel Alienzkin appeared in the black and white anthology title Sizzle from NBM Publishing, for which he designed a masthead logo. Beachum combined traditional painting with computer generated 3D elements and photography for the realization of this story. After coming to a settlement for NBM's loss of half of the original art for Alienzkin he moved on looking for a publisher to repackage the recreated material in full color graphic novel format. It was republished in full color by Eros Comix.

Comics bibliography

1983

• Black Diamond #1 (AC)
• Wonder Woman #310 (DC)

1984

• New Talent Showcase #8-10 (DC)
• Wonder Woman #314-318 [Back-up Penciler] (DC)

1985

• Moon Knight Fist of Konshu vol.2 #6 [credited as Beacham](Marvel)
• Spectacular Spider-Man Annual #5 (Marvel)

1986

• The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #20 (Marvel)
• Spectacular Spider-Man #112, 115 (Marvel)
• (Peter Parker, the) Spectacular Spider-Man Annual #6 (Marvel)
• The Outsiders [Back-up Story](DC)

1987

• Mark Hazzard: Merc #5 (Marvel)
• Samuree #1-4 (Continuity Publishing)
• Elvira's House of Mystery #7 (DC)
• Samuree #9 [inks only](Continuity Publishing)

1988

• Flare #1, 2 [interior art] (Hero)

1989

• Flare #3 (Hero)

1990

• Achilles Storm #1-4 [Razmataz] (Aja Blu)
• Achilles Storm #1 Limited [Razmataz] (Aja Blu)

1991

• Flare #2 [Vol.2] (Hero)

1992

• Rose #1 [Dark Passion Pt. 1](Hero)
• Spider-Man, Dr. Strange : The Way to Dusty Death GN [Inks only] (Marvel)

1993

• Rose #2, 3 [Dark Passion Pt. 2, 3] (Hero)
• Flare First Edition #4, 5 [Reprint] (Hero)
• Flare Adventures #8, 9 [Reprint] (Hero)
• Green Lantern: Mosaic #9 [interior] (DC)
• Black Dominion #1 (Anubis Press)

1994

• Syphons Preview Edition (Now)
• Syphons #1-3 (Now)
• Penthouse Comix #4 [Backlash pt.1] (Penthouse)

1995

• Penthouse Comix #5-10 [Backlash pt.2-7] (Penthouse)

1996

• Penthouse Comix #11 [Backlash pt.8] (Penthouse)
• Penthouse Comix #12 [Nightclaw] (Penthouse)
• Vampirella: Sad Wings of Destiny (Harris)

1997

• Vampirella/Dracula: The Centennial (Harris)

1998

• Penthouse Comix #32 [Latex Diva] (Penthouse)
• Hustler Comix vol.2 #1 Spring'98 [Black Tarantula] (L.F.P. inc)

1999

• Forbidden Zone (Galaxy Publishing)
• Sizzle #3-5 [Alienzkin]

2000

• Faust: Singha's Talons #1/2 [previously unpublished](Avatar)

2001

• Razmataz GN (Eros)

2003

• Alienzkin GN (Eros)

2004

• Syphons GN [Reprint](Image)

2007

• Liberty Comics #2 (heroic)
• Flare: The Shining Star [Reprint] (heroic)
• Champions #41 (heroic)

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