As long-time Fantagraphics co-publisher Kim Thompson put it: "If you want to look at it cynically, we set out to steal The Comic Reader's cheese.

His inability to meet deadlines led to his being replaced after issue #6[3][4] by Comics Journal editor Kim Thompson.

In February 1993, Fantagraphics announced that the publisher Personality Comics had bought the rights to Amazing Heroes, and planned to revive the magazine.

The Amazing Heroes Swimsuit Special, featuring pin-ups of characters in bikinis and similar beach apparel by various artists, debuted with a June 1990 edition.

Amazing Heroes won the U.K.'s Eagle Award for Favourite Specialist Comics Publication four years in a row, from 1985 to 1988: