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Funnies Inc.
Funnies, Inc. was an American comic book packager of the late 1930s to 1940s period collectors and historians call the Golden Age of comic books, Golden Age of Comic Books. Founded by Lloyd Jacquet, it supplied the contents of early comics, including that of ''Marvel Mystery Comics, Marvel Comics'' #1 (cover-dated Oct. 1939), the first publication of what would become the multimedia corporation Marvel Comics. Company history Founding American comic books originated as oversized magazines that reprinted newspaper comic strips in color. These strips, coming from "the funny pages", were colloquially called "the funnies". Gradually, new material began to be created for the emerging Mass media, medium of comic books. In the late 1930s, with the huge sales success of Superman, many magazine publishers and entrepreneurs jumped on the trend. One of the many comics companies founded during this time was Centaur Publications, where Lloyd Jacquet was art director and where comic creators inc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lloyd Jacquet
Lloyd Victor Jacquet (; March 7, 1899 – March 1970) Jacquet was living in the borough of Queens, New York when he died in March 1970 at c. age 71. His wife was named Grace. References Further reading * Hill, Roger. "A Report on the Discovery of the Lloyd V. Jacquet Estate 'Pay Copies' of ''Marvel Comics'' #1 and ''Motion Picture Funnies Weekly'' #1", ''Comic Book Marketplace'' #2 (June 1993), p. 158-159 * Lupoff, Dick & Don Thompson, eds. ''All in Color for a Dime'' (Krause Publications, Iola, Wisconsin, 1997 reissue), Index entry (p. 238). * ''The Comic Book Makers'' by Joe Simon Joseph Henry Simon (October 11, 1913 – December 14, 2011) was an American comic book writer, artist, editor, and publisher. Simon created or co-created many important characters in the 1930s–1940s Golden Age of Comic Books and served as the ... with Jim Simon * Goulart, Ron. ''Ron Goulart's Great History of Comic Books'' (Contemporary Books, Chicago, 1986), Index entry (p.& ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comic Books
A comic book, also called comicbook, comic magazine or (in the United Kingdom and Ireland) simply comic, is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are often accompanied by descriptive prose and written narrative, usually, dialogue contained in word balloons emblematic of the comics art form. "Comic Cuts" was a British comic published from 1890 to 1953. It was preceded by "Ally Sloper's Half Holiday" (1884) which is notable for its use of sequential cartoons to unfold narrative. These British comics existed alongside of the popular lurid "Penny dreadfuls" (such as "Spring-heeled Jack"), boys' " Story papers" and the humorous Punch (magazine) which was the first to use the term "cartoon" in its modern sense of a humorous drawing. The interweaving of drawings and the written word had been pioneered by, among others, William Blake (1757 - 1857) in works such as Blake's "The Descent Of Christ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reading, Pennsylvania
Reading ( ; Pennsylvania Dutch: ''Reddin'') is a city in and the county seat of Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The city had a population of 95,112 as of the 2020 census and is the fourth-largest city in Pennsylvania after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Allentown. Reading is located in the southeastern part of the state and is the principal city of the Greater Reading Area, which had 420,152 residents as of 2020. Reading is part of the Delaware Valley, also known as the Philadelphia metropolitan area, a region that also includes Philadelphia, Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania, Camden, and other suburban Philadelphia cities and regions. With a 2020 population of 6,228,601, the Delaware Valley is the seventh largest metropolitan region in the nation. Reading's name was drawn from the now-defunct Reading Company, widely known as the Reading Railroad and since acquired by Conrail, that played a vital role in transporting anthracite coal from the Pennsylvania's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry "A" Chesler
Harry Chesler (January 12, 1897, or January 12, 1898 (sources differ) – December 1981),Harry Chesler at the United States Archived from the original on January 18, 2012. often credited as Harry "A" Chesler, with the "A" an affectation rather than a true initial, was the behind the first |
