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Columbia Comics
Columbia Comics Corporation was a comic book publisher active in the 1940s whose best-known title was ''Big Shot Comics''. Comics creators who worked for Columbia included Fred Guardineer, on ''Marvelo, the Monarch of Magicians''; and Ogden Whitney and Gardner Fox on Skyman. History Columbia Comics was formed in 1940 as a partnership between artist/editor Vin Sullivan, the McNaught Syndicate, and the Frank Jay Markey Syndicate to publish comic books featuring reprints of such McNaught and Markey comic strips as '' Joe Palooka'', ''Charlie Chan'', and ''Sparky Watts'', as well as original features. Other properties published by Eastern Color Printing are also transferred to Columbia Comics. Eastern appears to have subsequently retained a close relationship with Columbia, running advertisements for Columbia books in their own comic book titles. Columbia Comics' first published title was the anthology title ''Big Shot Comics'', the premiere of which introduced Skyman and The F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Boody Rogers
Gordon G. Rogers (September 8, 1904, Hobart, Oklahoma – February 6, 1996), better known as Boody Rogers, was an American comic strip and comic book cartoonist who created the superhero parody ''Sparky Watts''. Born in Hobart, Oklahoma, Rogers attended the University of Arizona, the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and the Chicago Art Institute. His artistic influences included Walter Berndt. Comic strips In the late 1920s and through the 1930s, Rogers illustrated newspaper strips for such syndicates as the Newspaper Feature Service and the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate. Rogers was Zack Mosley's assistant on ''The Adventures of Smilin' Jack'' when he sold his own strip, ''Sparky Watts'', to the Frank Jay Markey Syndicate, which distributed such strips as Ed Wheelan's ''Big Top'' and Rube Goldberg's ''Lala Palooza''. ''Sparky Watts'' debuted Monday, April 29, 1940 in some 40 newspapers. The strip ended when Rogers was drafted. During World War II he gave chalk talks to se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mickey Finn (comic Strip)
''Mickey Finn'' was an American comic strip created by cartoonist Lank Leonard, which was Print syndication, syndicated to newspapers from April 6, 1936 to September 10, 1977. The successful lighthearted strip struck a balance between comedy and drama. It was adapted to a 400-page Big Little Book series, Little Big Book and was reprinted in several comic book series throughout the 1930s and 1940s. Publication history Distributed by the McNaught Syndicate, cartoonist Lank Leonard's ''Mickey Finn'' debuted as a daily strip on Monday, April 6, 1936. The Sunday strip, which eventually focused on the supporting character of Uncle Phil, began on May 17 of that same year. Leonard was assisted by Tony DiPreta (from 1945–50) and by Mart Bailey from 1950 in New York. In 1952, Bailey moved to Miami to help Leonard with the strip until July 1959. Morris Weiss, Leonard's assistant from 1936 to 1943 and again from 1960 on, took over following Leonard's illness in 1968, though under Leonard's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
