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Gold Key Comics was an imprint of American company Western Publishing, created for comic books distributed to newsstands. Also known as Whitman Comics, Gold Key operated from 1962 to 1984. It was then
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Solar (comics)
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Solar is an American comic book superhero created by writer Paul S. Newman, editor Matt Murphy, and artist Bob Fujitani. The character first appeared in Doctor Solar, Man of the Atom #1 in 1962 by Gol
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…Richard A. Bernstein. Bernstein closed Western's comic-book publishing division in 1984. Three of Gold Key's original characters, Magnus, Robot Fighter, Doctor Solar, and Turok, Son of Stone, were used in the 1990s to launch Valiant Comics' fictional universe. Dark Horse Comics (and later, Dynamite Entertainment…
Michael Komarck's cover art for Doctor Solar, Man of the Atom #1 (July 2010) from Dark Horse Comics
Cover to Doctor Solar, Man of the Atom #14 (Sept. 1965). Cover art by George Wilson.
Valiant Comics' version of Solar by Barry Windsor-Smith
Writer Jim Shooter and artist Dennis Calero at a signing for Dark Horse Comics' Doctor Solar, Man of the Atom #1, at Midtown Comics Times Square, July 17, 2010