Columbia Comics Corporation was a comic book publisher active in the 1940s whose best-known title was Big Shot Comics . Comics creators who worked for Columbia included Fred Guardineer , on Marvelo, the Monarch of Magicians ; and Ogden Whitney and Gardner Fox on Skyman.
6-646: Columbia Comics was formed in 1940 as a partnership between artist/editor Vin Sullivan , the McNaught Syndicate , and the Frank Jay Markey Syndicate to publish comic books featuring reprints of such McNaught and Markey comic strips as Joe Palooka , Charlie Chan , and Sparky Watts , as well as original features. Other properties published by Eastern Color Printing are also transferred to Columbia Comics. Eastern appears to have subsequently retained
12-509: A close relationship with Columbia, running advertisements for Columbia books in their own comic book titles. Columbia Comics' first published title was the anthology title Big Shot Comics , the premiere of which introduced Skyman and The Face . Big Shot Comics would run for 104 issues until 1949, when Columbia went out of business. Other titles published by Columbia included spinoff series from Big Shot Comics featuring Skyman (four issues) and The Face . Charles V. McAdam, president of
18-539: The McNaught Syndicate, was also publisher of Columbia Comics. This article about a comics publishing company is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Vin Sullivan Vincent Sullivan (June 5, 1911 – February 3, 1999 ) was a pioneering American comic book editor , creator and publisher . As an editor for National Allied Publications , the future DC Comics , he
24-602: The hit character Batman . After leaving National in 1940, Sullivan was hired by the McNaught Newspaper Syndicate to form a new comic book publishing house. This became the Columbia Comic Corporation ( Columbia Comics ), where Sullivan launched the superhero omnibus Big Shot Comics , publishing early work by Gardner Fox , Creig Flessel , and Ogden Whitney , among others. Columbia Comics' several superhero features included Skyman . Unhappy with
30-564: The reluctance of the owners to develop more original series. Sullivan left Columbia in 1943 and formed Magazine Enterprises . This company lasted until 1958, after which Sullivan left comics. Sullivan was a guest at the August 1998 Comic-Con International in San Diego, California , where he was reunited with some of his former colleagues. He died six months later due to cancer . This profile of an American comics creator, writer, or artist
36-465: Was the first editor on stories featuring Superman from creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster , beginning with that archetypal superhero 's first appearance , in Action Comics #1 (1938), and in the following year's Superman , the first American comic book devoted to a single character. In addition, Sullivan drew the premiere cover of Detective Comics , the series that in issue #27 launched
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