Rick Priestley and Andy Jones of Warhammer, and author Marc Gascoigne, developed the idea for the Black Library which produced the magazine Inferno!
Issue 1 of the actual magazine was launched shortly afterwards under the editorship of Games Workshop staffer Andy Jones.
The magazine also published stories by established science fiction authors such as Barrington J. Bayley and Brian Stableford.
The success of Inferno!, along with the lessons learned and the contacts made during its early days, led to a spin-off comic, Warhammer Monthly.
runs 300-400 pages and features serial and one-off short stories from both veteran Black Library authors and new writers.