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One of my lesser-known favorites would have to be Nightmare’s costume from Clue Comics.

From Green Lama #2 (February 1945, Spark Publications). Art by Mac Raboy.

Jetta #5 (December, 1952).

Well in regards to showcasing comics by EC, there is Moon Girl, which is nice: https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3265

There are pre-June, 1938 issues of DC’s New Fun and New Comics on there, probably overlooked due to them focusing more on Action Comics #1 and later comics in their backlog. The only Marvel-related title on there seems to be Miss Fury Comics, though all Marvel did was reprint her stories and didn’t own the character in the first place. Otherwise, I think that just about every long-lasting Golden Age company is considerably showcased on the site, though David McKay (King Comics) and Street & Smith (Shadow Comics) are strangely absent.

Panther Woman from Science Comics #6 (July, 1940).

Interestingly, Dr. Occult and Batman also fought against vampires early on:

There’s a copy of Flight Comics #3 on https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=20474 that had a critter chew on it to the point that a lot of the top-corners are gone.

Not a comic book, but this “storybook crossover” from 1926 does feature many comic strip characters. Not sure where many of them are from though.

I think that just about any publisher who put out comic books on public stands has all their backlog discovered, unless they were put on so few stands or the comics failed so hard that only the most hardcore of comic seekers will eventually discover them like buried treasure. I imagine that the comic by publishers that lasted for a very short while are some of the most unknown though, like with Sun, Hyper, and Komos.

Bill Everett’s use of action for his Hydroman feature in Reg'lar Fellers Heroic Comics #8 (September 1941, Eastern Color Printing).

Pre-1938 heroes which you think likely served as the biggest inspirations for many later Golden Age heroes. They don’t have to have inspired solely superhero characters either, but could have also inspired jungle characters, cowboy characters, space ranger characters, detective characters, magician characters, etc. Examples can include: Sherlock Holmes (1887) John Carter (1912) Tarzan (1912) Zorro (1919) Buck Rogers (1928) Popeye (1929) Hugo Danner (1930) The Shadow (1930) Tracy (1931) Conan the Barbarian (1932) Doc Savage (1933) The Lone Ranger (1933) The Spider (1933) Flash Gordon (1934) Mandrake the Magician (1934) The Green Hornet (1936) The Phantom (1936)

The Funnies #34 (October 4, 1930): The Comics #8 (June, 1938):

Buck Rogers from Famous Funnies #3 (October, 1934).

Self-drawing of Malcolm Kildale’s face in Amazing Mystery Funnies v2 #12 (December, 1939).

Splash page from Famous Funnies #38 (September, 1937) of Buck Rogers, one of Eastern’s most published characters.

Hmm... well, assuming one starts with Funnies on Parade as the first comic book title, the list of titles would probably be something like this: 1933: Eastern Color Printing - Funnies on Parade, Famous Funnies: A Carnival of Comics, Century of Comics 1934: Eastern Color Printing - Skippy’s Own Book of Comics, Famous Funnies Series 1, Famous Funnies 1935: DC Comics - New Fun, Big Book of Fun Comics, New Comics 1936: Dell Comics - Popular Comics, The Funnies David McKay Publications - King Comics United Feature Syndicate - Tip Top Comics Centaur Comics - The Comics Magazine, Funny Picture Stories, Detective Picture Stories 1937: DC Comics - New Book of Comics, Detective Comics Centaur Comics - Star Comics, Star Ranger, Western Picture Stories Dell Comics - The Comics, 100 Pages of Comics, Western Action Thrillers David McKay Publications - DickTracy the Detective, Popeye and the Jeep, Ace Comics And then comes Detective Comics #3 (May, 1937).

An appreciation thread for Eastern Color Printing, who started off with Funnies on Parade in 1933 and stopped publishing comic books by 1955 in favor of printing comics for other companies before going defunct in 2002, their longest-running series having been Famous Funnies, New Heroic Comics, and Jingle Jangle Comics. Their comics include: Famous Funnies (1934) New Heroic Comics (1946) Jingle Jangle Comics (1943) Personal Love (1950) Heroic Comics (1943) Movie Love (1950) Reg'lar Fellers Heroic Comics (1940) Buster Crabbe (1951) Big Chief Wahoo (1942) Buck Rogers (1940) Juke Box Comics (1948) Steve Roper (1948) Sugar Bowl Comics (1948) Club 16 Comics (1948) Dickie Dare (1941) Tales from the Great Book (1955) Favorite Comics (1935) Mickey Finn (1942) The John Hix Scrapbook (1938) Strictly Private (1942) Vicks Comics (1938) The Amazing Willie Mays (1954) Century of Comics (1933) Conquest (1955) Daisy Comics (1936) Dover the Bird (1955) Famous Funnies: A Carnival of Comics (1933) Funnies on Parade (1933) Napoleon and Uncle Elby (1942) Oaky Doaks (1942) Pure Oil Comics (1939) Toy World Funnies (1933) Other appreciation threads: https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/topic/470215-publisher-appreciation-threads/

Superman #60 (September, 1949). World’s Finest Comics #44 (February, 1950). Blackhawk #102 (July, 1956).

Splash pages by W. M. Allison from The Comics Magazine (1936).

There’s a super-computer in Comic Cavalcade #29 (October, 1948), though it’s referred to as a “thinking machine.”

Artist highlights from Marvel Mystery Comics (1940-1944): Steve Dahlman (Marvel Mystery Comics #13): Ed Robbins (Marvel Mystery Comics #30): Jimmy Thompson (Marvel Mystery Comics #52):

Yeah, it was recently reprinted in DC Comics Before Superman: Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson's Pulp Comics. After O'Mealia drew what was apparently the first Sherlock Holmes comic strip in 1930, he also contributed quite a few dynamic pages to DC throughout his career on More Fun Comics.

Some of the most frequently appearing features in Famous Funnies: Napoleon Oaky Doaks Buck Rogers Dickie Dare Hairbreadth Harry Scorchy Smith Connie High Lights of History Mescal Ike Big Chief Wahoo Somebody's Stenog Olly of the Movies Famous Funnies Patterns Jitter High-Gear Homer Funland The Frog Pond Ferry Magic Made Easy Joe Palooka Butty and Fatty Above the Crowd The Wet Blanket Life's Like That The Back-Seat Driver Seaweed Sam Nipper Goofie Gags Babe Bunting Strange As It Seems Dixie Dugan The Bungle Family Roy Powers Invisible Scarlet O'Neil Homer Hoopee The Gay Thirties Little Brother Skyroads Queenie Good Deed Dotty The Nebbs Let's Get Into a Huddle! Simp O'Dill Footprints on the Sands of Time Fisher's History of Boxing Bobby Sox Adventures of Patsy Dumb-Bells Bobby Screen Oddities Keeping Up With the Joneses Holly of Hollywood War On Crime S'matter Pop? Ned Brant of Carter Honeybunch's Hubby The Pen Pal Page Lena Pry Jane Arden Alec and Itchy Punky Such Is Life

General list of frequently appearing features for Eastern Color, Dell, and United Features at this time: Famous Funnies (Eastern Color) - Napoleon, Joe Palooka, The Bungle Family, Hairbreadth Harry, Little Brother, Dixie Dugan, Nipper, Magic Made Easy, High Lights of History, Somebody's Stenog, Good Deed Dotty, The Nebbs, Strange As It Seems, Connie, High-Gear Homer, The Wet Blanket, The Back-Seat Driver, Simp O'Dill, The Frog Pond Ferry, Footprints on the Sands of Time, Butty and Fatty, Buck Rogers, Funland, Fisher's History of Boxing, Olly of the Movies, Lena Pry, Jane Arden, Honeybunch's Hubby, Goofie Gags, S'matter Pop?, Vignettes of Life, Screen Oddities, Mescal Ike, Keeping Up With the Joneses, Holly of Hollywood Popular Comics (Dell) - Skippy, Always Belittlin', Believe It Or Not, Moon Mullins, Kitty Higgins, Harold Teen, Smitty, Jinglet, Herby, Gasoline Alley, On the Range, DickTracy, Bronc Peeler and Coyote, Pete, Reg'lar Fellers, Nugent's Originals, Daisybelle, Terry and the Pirates, Smilin' Jack, Little Orphan Annie, The Gumps, Real Magic, Mutt and Jeff, Little Joe, Ben Webster's Page, Tippie, Mort Green & Wife, Maw Green, Little Folks, Zipper, Sweeney & Son, Smokey (Stover), Lovey Dovey, Let's Draw Cartoons, A Strain on the Family Tie Tip Top Comics (United Features) - Tarzan, Li'l Abner, Ella Cinders, Freddie and Fritz, Chris Crusty, How It Began, Danny Dingle, The Captain and the Kids, Of All Things, Joe Jinks, Hawkshaw the Detective, Grin and Bear It, Dub Dabs, Washable Jones, Phil Fumble, Peter Pat, Percy Penguin, Opportunity Knox, Mr. and Mrs. Beans, Little Mary Mixup, How to Make It, Colonel Wowser, Bumps, Bucky and His Pals, Benny, The Young Idear, Stamp Tips, Looy Dot Dope, Knurl the Gnome, How to Draw Comics, Frankie Doodle, Cynical Susie, Broncho Bill, Billy Make Believe, Back Home Again, All in the Family, Alice in Wonderland, Tippety-Top, The Boomers, Make Your Own Movies, Join the Tip Top Cartoonist Club, Home Towners, Fussy Foursome, Fritzi Ritz, For Junior Readers