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DC Comics is an American comic book publisher owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. DC is an initialism for Detective Comics, a comic book series first published in 1937. DC Comics is one of the largest an
Cover art of the first comic book by National Allied Publications, New Fun: The Big Comic Magazine #1 (cover date: February 1935). Unlike earlier comic book magazines series, characters in this book (such as the Western character Jack Wood) were original creations that were not taken from existing comic strips.
Action Comics #1 (June 1938) introduced Superman and helped birth the superhero genre.
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Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson
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Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson was an American pulp magazine writer, entrepreneur and military officer who pioneered the American comic book, publishing the first such periodical consisting solely of origi
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…third. In the bookstore market, DC is the second largest publisher of comic books, after Viz Media, and Marvel is third. In 1935, entrepreneur Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson founded National Allied Publications, intended as an American comic book publishing company. Its debut publication was the tabloid-sized New Fun: The…
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Detective Comics #1 (March 1937). Cover art by Vin Sullivan.