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Happy 90th Anniversary DC Comics
January 11 marks the 90th anniversary of what became DC Comics. In the fall of 1934 Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson established National Allied Publications, Inc, with the intention of publishing comics magazines with original material rather than reprints from...
The Major Returns to Paris
Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson was stationed in Paris in 1919 following WWI. There he met Elsa Karolina Bjorkbom, a young Swedish woman studying fashion and they fell in love. One of the Major’s pulp adventure stories “The Monastery of Blue Death,” (The Popular...
New Adventure Comics #21
New Adventure Comics #21, with a November date most likely appeared sometime in late October, 1937. Another great cover by Creig Flessel shows a group of boys filming a jungle hero. It’s a bit of an anomaly since the vanquished person appears to be Native...
Sandra/Sondra of the Secret Service: What’s in a name?
A heroine of 1930’s comics returns! “Sondra of the Secret Service and The Cuban Affair,” story by Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson and art by Lee Marrs is currently appearing as a serial in David Lloyd’s online magazine Aces Weekly. David Lloyd, artist for V for Vendetta is...
More Fun #9: Standard Comic Book Size, Creig Flessel Appears and Who’s In Charge?
More Fun #9 appeared on newsstands on March 5, 1936, 85 years ago with a March/April cover. The cover in dark blue featured a 4-panel comic by Vin Sullivan and was the last time a full panel comic was featured on the cover of More Fun. Sullivan’s character...
New Comics #3–Part 1. The Cook and Mahon Kerfuffle and A Mystery Solved.
New Comics #3 is noteworthy for several reasons. The Major’s comics magazines are beginning to encourage a nascent comics industry with a new comic magazine appearing—The Comics Magazine and Harry Chesler forming his comics shop sometime in 1935 or 36. Samuel...
