ThunderCats (1985 TV series) company, announced in March 2010 that he had acquired his "dream license". The company went on to produce premium format ThunderCats statues (1:4 scale, over 30 inches) of Lion-O and Mumm-Ra. Prototypes of Cheetara and Tygra were developed and displayed online and at San Diego Comic Con respectively, but didn't reach minimum pre-order thresholds. The prototypes were donated to the ThunderCats Museum in 2014. There were also several comic book series produced. A "ThunderCats" comic book series based on the animated series was originally published by Marvel Comics through its Star Comics imprint in 1985, lasting for 3 years and
Lion (comics) titles of the time. It began to feature an increasing number of anti-hero characters such as The Spider and The Sludge (who would later battle Robot Archie in his own strip). "Lion" merged with several other comics during its life, including "Eagle" in 1969 and "Thunder" in 1971. But by the early 1970s sales were slipping, and in 1974 it was merged with "Valiant". Several strips continued in "Valiant", but that title merged with "Battle Picture Weekly" in 1976. In 2005 many of IPC's characters, including several from "Lion", were featured in a mini-series called "Albion" published by the WildStorm