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Tom Simonton has worked on several comic books, and is best known as the creator of 'Amazon Woman' for Fantaco. He has worked for companies like Claypool ('Elvira'), AC Comics ('Fem Force'), Eclipse Comics, Hustler Comix and Science Fiction Magazine. He has also done numerous book covers.

FantaCo Enterprises was an American comic book publishing company known for its idiosyncratic line-up of mostly black-and-white titles, including the humorous Hembeck Series and the horror title Gore Shriek. FantaCo also published a "Chronicles Series," which catalogued top-selling Marvel Comics titles. In its later years, FantaCo published mostly horror comics "good girl art" comics.

FantaCo began as a comic book store before branching out into publishing books, magazines, and comics. They also hosted FantaCon, a popular Albany-area comics and horror convention. FantaCo was founded by Thomas Skulan and was based in Albany, New York.

With the mid-90s bursting of the speculation bubble, combined with the decline in demand for horror comics, FantaCo started losing money.^[5] From about 1995, their titles shifted to the good girl art of Tom Simonton's Amazon Woman comics, and titillating titles like Babes & Biomechanics, Lady Dracula, and Dead Chicks in Lace: Bloodletting Lingerie Special. As a publisher, their last couple of years were exclusively limited to Simonton projects, and in 1998 FantaCo — publisher and retailer — closed its doors for good.^[1]