Jenette Kahn is an American comic book editor and executive. She joined DC Comics in 1976 as publisher, and five years later was promoted to president. In 1989, she stepped down as publisher and assum
Portrait of Jenette Kahn by Michael Netzer
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
Jenette Kahn
…Jenette Kahn (; born May 16, 1947) is an American comic book editor and executive. She joined DC Comics in 1976 as publisher, and five years later was promoted to president. In 1989, she stepped down as publisher and assumed the title of editor-in-chief…
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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Jerry Siegel in Uniform ca 1943 cropped