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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 black and white reprints from early i ... [...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. 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 in 28 iss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timely Comics
Timely Comics is the common name for the group of corporations that was the earliest comic book arm of American 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 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 printing] (October 1939)at the Grand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marvel Mystery Comics
''Marvel Mystery Comics'' (first issue titled simply ''Marvel Comics'') is an American comic book series published during the 1930s–1940s period known to fans and historians as the Golden Age of Comic Books. It was the first publication of Marvel Comics' predecessor, Timely Comics, a division of Timely Publications. In 1949, with the popularity of superheroes having waned, the book was converted into the horror anthology ''Marvel Tales'' from issue #93–159 (Aug. 1949 – Aug. 1957), when it ceased publication. Marvel published a different series of the same name in the 1960s, primarily reprinting Spider-Man stories. Publication history Premiere issue: ''Marvel Comics'' #1 In 1939, pulp magazine publisher Martin Goodman expanded into the newly emerging comic book field by buying content from comics packager Funnies, Inc. On August 31, 1939, his first effort, ''Marvel Comics'' #1 (cover-dated Oct. 1939), from his company Timely Publications, was published. This featured ... [...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. Several incarnations of Hawkman have appeared in DC Comics, all of them characterized by the use of archaic weaponry and by large, artificial wings, attached to a harness made from the special Nth metal that allows flight. Most incarnations of Hawkman work closely with a partner/romantic interest named Hawkgirl or Hawkwoman. Hawkman is most often depicted as human archaeologist Hawkman (Carter Hall), Carter Hall—the modern-day reincarnation of an ancient Egyptian prince named Khufu—or as Thanagarian police officer Hawkman (Katar Hol), Katar Hol from the planet Thanagar. The character is generally regarded as having one of the most confusing backstories of any in DC Comics, due to a series of reinventions over the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |