This afternoon I was refered to your site documenting the comic book
character pins of planet studios.
The photos of your collection are truly extraordinary. I imagine this
took a good deal of time and effort.

I might be able to answer some of your questions since my late wife
started the company in 1986 as you noted.  She was Elizabeth Barry, aka
Libbey Saul.
After a time I got pulled into it as she had taken on a pretty good
financial commitment to make her plan work.  Together we ran the company
until 2003. I sold the company in 2007.   Planet Studios was never much
beyond a home based business, but we had met a lot of wonderful people
and it paid the bills.

While I haven't pursed your site in great depth yet, I would offer one
correction.  The Cerberus pins you show as ours were from Graphitti
Designs not us.

I can't believe you came up the Moebius stuff.  That's pretty obscure. 
We also did a few things for Kitchen Sink Press.

I think the rest of what I saw was our stuff.  Just for the record none
of our comic based products were bootlegs.  We held the licensing rights
to everything we did.
Interesting story about Saggay Pins, I had never heard of that.


You're correct in that we produced comic stuff from 1987 until around
1996 or so.  That was about the time when there was bankruptcy  and
consolidation among the product distributors to comic shops, our primary
customers.  Also the publishers were demanding more money than we felt
comfortable with.  After that we moved away from licensing and sold more
of Libbey's designs geared more to the general gift market.

I also want to thank you for  admiring and collecting our pins over the
years, if not for folks like you none of it could have ever happened.



John Barry
formerly of Planet Studios, Inc.