Acme published a number of licensed comics featuring the British espionage properties James Bond and The Avengers.

At this point, with the experience of having put out Speakeasy for close to seven years, the founders felt the time was ripe to branch out into monthly comics publishing.

In March 1987 Acme debuted Kiss of Death,[12] a horror comics anthology featuring the artwork of John Watkiss.

That year the company also published its first translation: Kogaratsu,[13] a popular Franco-Belgian samurai title by Bosse (Serge Bosmans) and Michetz (Marc Degroide).

[15] Acme sponsored The Basement Gallery below the shop, which held exhibitions by such artists as Dave McKean, John Watkiss, and Frank Bellamy.

[15] Acme effectively closed the Basement Gallery during the Frank Bellamy exhibition on September 3, 1989, due to flooding the previous night.

Productions, Acme Video produced and sold four comics-related videotapes, called Comic Profiles, on such topics as 2000 AD, Will Eisner, Watchmen, and Alan Moore.

Highlights from that era included Power Comics, a four-issue superhero title by writers Don Avenall and Norman Worker, with art by Dave Gibbons and Brian Bolland.

Another notable title from the Acme/Eclipse era was Aces, a five-issue black-and-white anthology of serialized Jazz Age genre stories which were originally published in Europe.

Among its features were "Hollywood Eye," by Francois Rivière, Jean-Louis Bouquet, and Philippe Berthet; "Air Mail" by Attilio Micheluzi; and "Morgan" by Antonio Segura and José Ortiz.

In 1989 Acme struck up a relationship with John Brown Publishing, co-publishing with JBP the two-issue anthology Point Blank, which promoted itself as "The Best of European Strip Art".

Acme licensed the British The Avengers television show characters for the three-issue limited series Steed and Mrs. Peel in 1990–1992.

The comics the two companies produced were strictly James Bond titles (edited by Hansom) and the nine-issue series Lux & Alby Sign on and Save the Universe, by Martin Millar and Simon Fraser.

(Another James Bond story, "Operation Miasma" by Doug Moench and Russ Heath, appeared in the Dark Horse Comics anthology, issue #25, published Sept.

Co-founder Dick Hansom, though not technically working for Acme at the time, edited Bryan Talbot's The Tale of One Bad Rat, published by Dark Horse in 1994–1995.