https://totaleclipse.blog/2018/02/14/1981-eclipse-the-magazine/A pretty cool blog that covers Eclipse comics from beginning to end by the titles published.
Without Eclipse, there might not ever have been creator royalties.
And without Eclipse, there might not have ever been Pacific Comics to follow the path and kick the door open to creator rights even wider.
And then came First Comics, Comico, Capital, Innovation, Fantagraphics, Graphitti, and all the rest. The 1980's was a tremendous period of creativity and innovation, arguably another golden age. Before the darkness set in. My favorite period is from about 1965-1985. But from 1981-1990, I think there was never more freedom to publish just about any idea a writer or artist could have.
And Eclipse was the genesis of that.
