|
1940 In Comics
Notable events of 1940 in comics. Events and publications Year overall * Another boom year for the burgeoning American comic book industry, as Ace Comics, Columbia Comics, Farrell Publications, Holyoke Publishing, Novelty Press, and Street & Smith Comics all begin publishing. January * January 13: Charles Addams' classic cartoon ''Downhill Skier'' is published in ''The New Yorker'', showing a skier magically passing around a tree with each foot on one side. * ''Ace Comics'' (1937 series) #34 – David McKay Publications * ''Action Comics'' (1938 series) #20 – DC Comics * ''Adventure Comics'' (1938 series) #46 – DC Comics * '' All-American Comics'' (1939 series) #10 – DC Comics * '' Amazing Mystery Funnies'' (1938 series) #17 – Centaur Publications * ''Daring Mystery Comics'' (1940 series) #1 – Timely Comics * ''Detective Comics'' (1937 series) #35 – DC Comics * ''Double Action Comics'' (1939 series) #2 – National Periodical Publications, consisting entirely of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ace Comics (publishers)
Ace Magazines was a comic book and pulp-magazine publishing company headed by Aaron A. Wyn and his wife Rose Wyn. The Wyns had been publishing pulp fiction under the Periodical House and A. A. Wyn's Magazine Publishers names since 1928, and published comics between 1940 and the end of 1956. Overview Its most successful and longest-running superhero title was ''Super-Mystery Comics'' featuring Magno the Magnetic Man and his boy partner Davey,Magno and Davey at Archived from the original on March 21, 2015. who appeared i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timely Comics
Timely Comics was the common name for the group of corporations that was the earliest comic book arm of American publisher Martin Goodman (publisher), Martin Goodman, and the entity that would evolve by the 1960s to become Marvel Comics. "Timely Publications became the name under which Goodman first published a comic book line. He eventually created a number of companies to publish comics ... but Timely was the name by which Goodman's Golden Age comics were known." "Marvel wasn't always Marvel; in the early 1940s the company was known as Timely Comics, and some covers bore this shield." Founded in 1939, during the era called the Golden Age of Comic Books, "Timely" was the umbrella name for the comics division of pulp magazine publisher Goodman, whose business strategy involved having a multitude of corporation, corporate entities all producing the same product. The company's first publication in 1939 used Timely Publications,Postal indicia in issue, pe''Marvel Comics'' #1 [1st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hawkman
Hawkman is the name of several superheroes appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Dennis Neville, the original Hawkman first appeared in ''Flash Comics'' #1, published by All-American Publications in 1940. Although iterations of Hawkman appeared throughout the character's publication history, they are commonly characterized as hawk-themed warriors with a preference for archaic weaponry, large wings with a harness attached to it, and possessing Nth metal, which is a special metal with gravity-negating effects. Most iterations are also connected as being involved in a cycle of reincarnation, characterized as sometimes having reoccurring elements within their lifetimes. Among the reoccurring includes a romantic connection to reincarnated Hawkwoman or Hawkgirl and an affiliation with superhero teams such as the Justice Society of America and Justice League, often serving as the team leader in the former. The character is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Neville
Dennis Neville was an American comic book artist during the Golden Age of Comic Books, who co-created the DC Comics characters Hawkman, his lover Hawkgirl, and nemesis Hath-Set. Although not one of the big names in early comics, Neville did work on some important comics features from that era. Career Neville worked for National Comics Publications (later known as DC Comics) in the 1930s and 1940s. He was one of Joe Shuster's early assistants on the ''Superman'' daily comic strip during that time, as well as on the detective series '' Slam Bradley''. Neville was the artist for the original versions of Hawkman, Hawkgirl, and Hath-Set for DC Comics when they all first appeared in ''Flash Comics'' #1 in 1940. Hawkman's first three adventures were drawn by Neville, modeled after the ''Hawkmen'' characters from the ''Flash Gordon'' comic strip by Alex Raymond. Neville soon left ''Hawkman'', being replaced after three issues by Sheldon Moldoff and then later by Joe Kubert. (Kubert s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flash (Jay Garrick)
Jason Peter "Jay" Garrick is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. He is the first character known as the Flash. The character first appeared in ''Flash Comics'' #1 (January 1940), created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Harry Lampert. In the original Golden Age comics, Jay Garrick gained his speed-enhancing abilities by inhaling hard water vapor during a lab experiment. This accident granted him superhuman speed and agility, allowing him to become the Flash and fight crime. Jay Garrick has made numerous appearances in other media. For television series on The CW, John Wesley Shipp portrayed the character as a recurring character in ''The Flash (2014 TV series), The Flash'' and in a guest capacity in ''Stargirl (TV series), Stargirl''. Additionally, Billy Mitchell played the character's live-action debut as a cameo appearance, cameo in ''Smallville'', with a cameo appearance in ''The Flash (film), The Flash'' (2023) portrayed via CGI and modeled af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Lampert
Harry Lampert (November 3, 1916 – November 13, 2004) was an American cartoonist and bridge teacher and writer. Biography Born in New York City, Lampert began cartooning when he was sixteen years old, and worked for the legendary Max Fleischer, inking and helping produce ''Betty Boop'', ''Popeye'', and '' Koko the Clown'' cartoons. While stationed at Drew Field in Tampa, FL, he created ''Droopy the Drew Field Mosquito'' which ran in th''Drew Field Echoes''from 1942-1944. He began drawing comic books and he is best known in that field for being the artistic co-creator of the DC Comics superhero The Flash. Created in collaboration with writer Gardner Fox, the hero first appeared in ''Flash Comics'' #1 in 1940, but Lampert left ''The Flash'' after drawing only two stories, gravitating towards his preference for humorous work. (After he discovered his fame in the comics world 50 years later, Lampert observed that he did not own any " 'original' originals", not even a Flash comi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gardner Fox
Gardner Francis Cooper Fox (May 20, 1911 – December 24, 1986) was an American writer known best for creating numerous comic book characters for DC Comics. He is estimated to have written more than 4,000 comics stories, including 1,500 for DC Comics. Fox was also a science fiction author and wrote many novels and short stories. Fox is known as the co-creator of DC Comics heroes Barbara Gordon, the original Flash, Hawkman, Hawkgirl, Doctor Fate, Zatanna and the original Sandman, and was the writer who first teamed several of those and other heroes as the Justice Society of America, and later recreated the team as the Justice League of America. Fox introduced the concept of the Multiverse to DC Comics in the 1961 story " Flash of Two Worlds!". Early life and career Gardner Cooper Fox was born in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of Julia Veronica (Gardner) and Leon Francis Fox, an engineer. Unlike many of his contemporaries in the comic book field, such as Jack Kirby and Je ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flash Comics
''Flash Comics'' is a comics anthology published by All-American Publications and later by National Periodical Publications (DC Comics). The title had 104 issues published from January 1940 to February 1949. Despite the title, the anthology featured the adventures of multiple superheroes in addition to Jay Garrick, the original Flash. Characters introduced in the series include the Flash, Hawkman (Carter Hall), Hawkgirl and Black Canary. Publication history The series debuted with a January 1940 cover date, while initially published on November 20, 1939., The first issue featured the first appearances of the Golden Age versions of the Flash, Hawkman, and Johnny Thunder. The Flash was later given a solo comic book series, '' All-Flash'' which ran for 32 issues between Summer 1941 to January 1948. Artist Joe Kubert's long association with the Hawkman character began with the story "The Painter and the $100,000" in ''Flash Comics'' #62 (Feb. 1945). The Monocle was introduced in # ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quality Comics
Quality Comics was an American comic book publishing Publishing is the activities of making information, literature, music, software, and other content, physical or digital, available to the public for sale or free of charge. Traditionally, the term publishing refers to the creation and distribu ... company which operated from 1937 to 1956 and was a creative, influential force in what historians and fans call the Golden Age of Comic Books. Notable, long-running titles published by Quality include '' Blackhawk'', '' Feature Comics'', '' G.I. Combat'', '' Heart Throbs'', '' Military Comics''/'' Modern Comics'', '' Plastic Man'', '' Police Comics'', '' Smash Comics'', and '' The Spirit''. While most of their titles were published by a company named Comic Magazines, from 1940 onwards all publications bore a logo that included the word "Quality". Notable creators associated with the company included Jack Cole, Reed Crandall, Will Eisner, Lou Fine, Gill Fox, Paul Gustavson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feature Comics
''Feature Comics'', originally ''Feature Funnies'', was an American comic book anthology series published by Quality Comics from 1939 until 1950, that featured short stories in the humor genre and later the superhero genre. Publication history The series started out as a reprint collection of newspaper comic strips that was published by Harry "A" Chesler between 1937 and 1939, for twenty issues entitled ''Feature Funnies''. It featured cannily mixed color reprints of popular newspaper comic strips like ''Joe Palooka'', '' Mickey Finn'' and ''Dixie Dugan'' with a smattering of new features. Publisher Everett M. "Busy" Arnold, deducing that Depression-era audiences wanted established quality and familiar comic strips for their hard-earned dimes, formed the suitably titled Comic Favorites, Inc. in collaboration with three newspaper syndicates: the McNaught Syndicate, the Frank J. Markey Syndicate and Iowa's Register and Tribune Syndicate (Comic Favorites later became an imprint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fox Feature Syndicate
Fox Feature Syndicate (also known as Fox Comics, Fox Publications, and Bruns Publications, Inc.) was a comic book publisher from early in the period known to fans and historians as the Golden Age of Comic Books. Founded by entrepreneur Victor S. Fox, it produced such titles as '' Blue Beetle'', ''Fantastic Comics'' and '' Mystery Men Comics''. It is not related to the company Fox Publications (a Colorado publisher of railroad photography books), nor 20th Century Fox (formed from Fox Studios and later renamed 20th Century Studios in 2020) and its associated companies. Background Victor S. Fox and business associate Bob Farrell launched Fox Feature Syndicate at 480 Lexington Avenue in New York City in the late 1930s. For content, Fox contracted with comics packager Eisner & Iger, one of a handful of companies creating comic books on demand for publishers entering the field. Writer-artist Will Eisner, at Victor Fox's request for a hero to mimic the newly created hit Superman, cre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fantastic Comics
''Fantastic Comics'' was an American comic book superhero anthology title published by Fox Feature Syndicate during the Golden Age of Comic Books. The title introduced the characters Banshee, Black Fury (John Perry), Nagana, Queen of Evil, Samson, and Stardust the Super Wizard. Publication history The first issue is cover-dated December 1939. Fantastic Comics continued to run until issue #23 in November 1941. Most of the characters appearing in ''Fantastic Comics'' eventually fell into the public domain. In 2008, as part of the Next Issue Project, Image Comics revived the title with a single issue, "#24". This issue features the following characters: * Samson, written and illustrated by Alex Boon * Flip Falcon * Golden Knight, co-written and illustrated by Thomas Yeates and Bryan Rutherford * Yank Wilson, written and illustrated by Andy Kuhn * Space Smith, written and illustrated by Tom Scioli * Captain Kidd, written and illustrated by Jim Rugg * Professor Fiend, written an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
