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Hmm... I'm inclined to call this a "Batman cowl," though I'm not sure if this sort of cowl existed before Batman.

Indeed.

Also worth noting is that in Captain America Comics #16 (July, 1942), a drawing of Stan Lee’s face is shown:

Speed Comics. Would be cool to see the Harvey heroes team up more often.

I find it weird Joe and Jerry didn’t have Superman fly from the very beginning, because they had previously presented Doctor Occult flying with a cape in More Fun Comics #14 (October 1936):

Green Mask, Green Lantern, Green Hornet, Green Arrow, Green Lama, Green Turtle, Green Ghost, Green Giant, Green Knight, Green Arrowhead, Green Falcon, Green Light. Just a whole lot of green heroes from back in the day. Haha.

So cool it was worth posting twice. Hehe...

So, who would you guys say are the 10 most famous characters that appeared in comics (1897-1937) before Superman’s debut in 1938? After looking around, this is the list I came up with: Little Nemo (1905) Felix the Cat (1923) Buck Rogers (1929) Popeye (1929) Tarzan (1929) Tintin (1929) Mickey Mouse (1930) DickTracy (1931) Flash Gordon (1934) The Phantom (1936)

Classic cover art by Joe Doolin from Planet Comics #38 (September 1945):

Classic cover art by Joe Simon from Daring Mystery Comics #7 (April 1941):

Art of the Girl Commandos by Barbara Hall from Speed Comics #23 (October 1942):

The Dove from Suspense Comics #1 (December 1943):

One of the earliest Felix the Cat comics (August 29, 1923):

I tried to find out about the other characters based on the list too, though these are all the titles I could find: The Katzenjammer Kids (1897) Happy Hooligan (1900) And Her Name Was Maud (1904) Little Jimmy (1904) The Newlyweds (1904) Little Nemo (1905) Us Boys (1910) Polly and Her Pals (1912) Bringing Up Father (1913) Krazy Kat (1913) Abie the Agent (1914) Just Boy (1916) Boob McNutt (1918) Toots and Casper (1918) Barney Google and Snuffy Smith (1919) Thimble Theatre (1919) Tillie the Toiler (1921) Freddie the Sheik (1922) Helpful Henry (1922) Dumb Dora (1924)

Gem Comics #16 (1947), featuring the only appearance of the Vampire:

Classic art of Wildfire by Jim Mooney from Smash Comics #30 (January 1942):

Amazing Man Comics #8 (December 1939) particularly resonated with me, being one of the earliest comics I've seen show a concentration camp:

Not strictly a war comic, but I'd feel remiss if I didn't at least mention Neon the Unknown's concentration camp liberation story from Hit Comics #2 (August 1940):

Introduction ad for Flame Girl from Blue Beetle #10 (December 1941):

Yep, and based on my research, The Katzenjammer Kids seems to be the earliest series that was included in it:

Yeah, and can give an idea as to what comic characters were the most popular at the time too.

Came across a 1926 comic-related book titled All the Funny Folks, and while I don't recognize most of these characters, it seems to be the first epic crossover in the history of comics (art by Louis Biedermann):

I did, and it wasn't clear (as one of the links listed 1980 as the defunct date, but the other information makes it seems otherwise), but your explained it more clearly. Thanks.

Ah, so they didn't go defunct in 1980 then?

I'm told that, after their lawsuit and canceling its original comics line in 1953, they eventually continued publishing after 1960 (one of only a handful of Golden Age American comic book publishers to do so), and published Dennis the Menace comics up to 1980, but I'm not sure what happened to them after that. Are we to assume they went defunct in 1980?