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Scroggy, Editorial Director of Pacific Comics, gives a wide-ranging account of the company's origins (growing out of a retail and distribution operation), its editorial philosophy ("Excellence"), and the realities of the direct-sales marketplace. He discusses Pacific's best-selling titles (Alien Worlds consistently tops the list; MS. Mystic #1 was their all-time single-issue peak), the challenge of maintaining schedules as an undercapitalized publisher, and their plans to add advertising pages to reach break-even. He addresses the adult content debate — arguing Pacific doesn't go beyond an "R rating" and that real-world censorship concern has been minimal — and discusses Groo moving to Marvel's newsstand distribution, which he diplomatically accepts as better for Aragones' reach even as he regrets losing the title. He also previews Pacific's forthcoming reprint deal for Warrior material from Quality Comics UK (potentially including Marvelman under a different name) and the new anthology Pathways to Fantasy, featuring a Barry Windsor-Smith story.