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The corporation was originally two companies: National Allied Publications Inc. (also known as National Allied Newspaper Syndicate Inc. [3] and later Nicholson Publishing Co., Inc. [4]) which was founded by Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson in 1935 [5] [6] [7] to publish New Fun, [note 1] the first American comic book with all-original material rather than comic strip reprints, and Detective Comics ...
All-American Publications. All-American Publications, Inc.[note 1] was one of two American comic book companies that merged to form the modern-day DC Comics, one of the two largest publishers of comic books in the United States. Superheroes created for All-American include the original Atom, Flash, Green Lantern, Hawkman, and Wonder Woman, all ...
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M.C. Gaines formed All-American Publications in 1938 after successfully seeking funding from Harry Donenfeld, co-owner of National Allied Publications (publisher of Action Comics) and its sister company Detective Comics (publisher of their namesakecomic book). Donenfeld requested that Jack Leibowitz, National and Detective Comics' other co-owner, a...
All-American, along with National, created the first-ever intercompany crossoverwith their creation of the Justice Society.
The size and length New Comics #1 became the archetype for many comics afterwards, and it became the longest running comic series of all time. In 1938, National launched Action Comics, which ...
All-American Publications. The history of All-American Publications is inextricably linked to the company it eventually merged with, National Periodical Publications.In 1938 Max Gaines had been working for McClure Syndicate, but had ambitions to produce his own line of comics; he approached Harry Donenfeld, one of National's owners, for funding.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 October 2024. American comic book publisher This article is about the US publisher of comics. For the Scottish publisher of comics and newspapers, see DC Thomson. DC Comics, Inc. Parent company Kinney National Company (1967–1972) Warner Communications (1972–1990) Time Warner (1990 ...
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All-American Comics began publication in 1939 and was originally published by All-American Publications. Starting with All-American Comics #16 it was published under the DC Comics banner. With National Comics' acquisition of All-American Publications in 1944, All-American Comics would be published by the unified National Comics (later National Periodical Publications, the direct ancestor of ...
