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Posts posted by Electricmastro
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Speed Comics. Would be cool to see the Harvey heroes team up more often.
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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):
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- Point Five and gino2paulus2
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49 minutes ago, Howling Mad said:
Ha! You did notice that Spyder! posted this exact book within the same day? Crazy!
So cool it was worth posting twice. Hehe...
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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)
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Classic cover art by Joe Simon from Daring Mystery Comics #7 (April 1941):
- Frisco Larson, szucchini, Marty Mann and 1 other
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Art of the Girl Commandos by Barbara Hall from Speed Comics #23 (October 1942):
- szucchini and Marty Mann
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The Dove from Suspense Comics #1 (December 1943):
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One of the earliest Felix the Cat comics (August 29, 1923):
- Marty Mann, AJD and porcupine48
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9 hours ago, Montezuma said:
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)
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Gem Comics #16 (1947), featuring the only appearance of the Vampire:
- porcupine48 and AJD
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Classic art of Wildfire by Jim Mooney from Smash Comics #30 (January 1942):
- Marty Mann, szucchini, sacentaur and 6 others
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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):
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Introduction ad for Flame Girl from Blue Beetle #10 (December 1941):
- Point Five, sacentaur and adamstrange
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1 hour ago, Robot Man said:
Killer book! I had one once but gave it to a friend for his birthday. Has all the characters of the era in it.
Yep, and based on my research, The Katzenjammer Kids seems to be the earliest series that was included in it:
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4 minutes ago, sfcityduck said:
All the Funny Folks features King Features Syndicate characters. Cool publication.
Yeah, and can give an idea as to what comic characters were the most popular at the time too.
- Marty Mann and AJD
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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):
- Pat Calhoun, Sarg, Marty Mann and 3 others
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3 minutes ago, BitterOldMan said:
Please read the links that I provided. In 1980, Fawcett Comics quit printing comics and thus went out of business (defunct). Fawcett Publishing continued on, until being acquired by Hachette, which was acquired by media giant Hearst. Most of the Fawcett comic book characters were sold to DC or Charlton. Charlton later sold most of the characters to DC. A few Fawcett characters are in the public domain.
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.
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14 hours ago, BitterOldMan said:
Fawcett Comics was a subsidiary of Fawcett Publishing. As you mentioned, Dennis the Menace was their last comic book publication. They focused on paperbacks and magazines, which were more profitable. From the source below: "In 1987, Fawcett senior executive Peter G. Diamandis and a management team negotiated a $650 million leveraged buy out, then sold six titles to raise $250 million. Diamandis Communications, Inc. was then sold the next year to Hachette Publications for $712 million."
Ah, so they didn't go defunct in 1980 then?
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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?
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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.