London Editions Magazines

London Editions Magazines was the comics publishing division of Egmont UK during the 1980s. LEM primarily reprinted American material from DC Comics and Disney under licence (Egmont had previously (Egmont had previously published both Superman Pocketbook's and Batman Pocketbook's under the Egmont/Methuen name in the late 1970s). When Egmont purchased Fleetway from IPC in 1991, LEM was merged with it, becoming Fleetway Editions, and later Egmont Fleetway in 1996. From 2000, the company became simply Egmont Publishing. The company's first real success with DC Comics reprints came with The Super Heroes Monthly edited by Vanessa Morgan, which also spawned a spin-off Superman Spectacular. later, the late 1980s London Editions DC Comics reprint line, initially edited by Brian M. Clarke, included Superman, Batman Monthly, Zones, DC Action, Heroes and Shockwave as well as various associated Specials.