Jan 11, 2025 | Comics History, DC Comics, New Fun
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...
Feb 23, 2021 | More Fun Comics, Comics History, DC Comics
DC Comics 85 Years Ago More Fun #7 DC Comics dates its history from January 1935 with New Fun #1. Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson’s foray into comic book publishing in the midst of the Depression continued into 1936 with More Fun #7 arriving on newsstands...
Jan 24, 2021 | Comics History
The Major's Comics Evolve: DC's First Annual-The Big Book of Fun Comics A number of changes occurred between the appearance of New Fun #4 on newsstands, April 12, 1935 and the appearance of New Comics #1 on November 12, 1935. Although in hindsight there is a...
Jan 7, 2021 | New Fun, Comics History, DC Comics
New Fun #6--Siegel and Shuster's First Appearance in DC Comics New Fun #6 arrived on newsstands September 13, 1935 a little over 85 years ago. It was the October issue and 24-year-old Vincent Sullivan’s comic “Charley Fish” was on the cover with a red...
Jul 28, 2020 | New Fun, Comics History, DC Comics
Famous First Edition: New Fun #1-A True Adventure StoryNew 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...
Jan 11, 2020 | New Fun, Comics History, DC Comics
Happy 85th Anniversary DC Comics and New Fun #1One 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...
