The Protectors was a very decent hero-team comic formed from characters created for Centaur Comics in the Golden Age. In an attempt to increase sales across Malibu's 3 main titles, Protectors, Ex-Mutants and Dinosaurs for Hire, Malibu introduced the Genesis crossover which merged the 3 universes together. When Malibu decided to junk the title and its spinoffs in favor of the Ultraverse, writer R. A. Jones blew up the Protectors' world real.
All issues where released with a Direct Edition with an inset poster and a Newsstand Edition with lower price and no inset poster.