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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 American....
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...
New Fun #1: The Major’s Modern Era of Comics Begins
Mini bios: Lloyd Jacquet, Rexford L. May, D. Henry Cushing, Richard Loederer, Sheldon Stark New Fun #1 published by Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson marks the beginning of DC Comics 85 years ago. Although there were other comics that featured original material, they...
Famous First Edition: New Fun #1-A True Adventure Story
New Fun #1 appeared on newsstands January 11, 1935. No one at the time had any notion that it was the Big Bang of the comics industry. New Fun #1 was the alchemical transformation of all the one-off original comics that came before, the comic book reprints from...
Happy 85th Anniversary DC Comics and New Fun #1
One of the myths repeated through the years is that Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson used original material for his first comic magazine—New Fun #1—because he could not obtain the rights to reprint newspaper strips. If anyone has any paper evidence to back this up, I’d...
Happy 130th to the Major
It’s a super heroic birthday for the Major—130 years ago January 7, 1890. And it’s only taken 20 plus years to get a semblance of recognition for the man. I say semblance because his name should be synonymous with comics and that hasn’t quite happened yet. As Uncle...
