Academy Comics was an independent comic book publisher based in Indiana and founded by Mark Paniccia (currently an editor at Marvel Comics as of 2011). It was originally founded as Pyramid Publishing in 1986, and transitioned to New Century Comics by 1990, which served primarily as a vehicle to publish Paniccia's own sword and sorcery comics. It later transitioned to the name Acid Rain Studios in order to publish a series of vampire and gothic comic books.