Max Gaines
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Maxwell Charles Gaines was an American publisher and a pioneering figure in the creation of the modern comic book.
(L to R) William Moulton Marston, H. G. Peter, Sheldon Mayer, and Gaines in 1942
DC Comics
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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
Max Gaines
…All-American Publications". At the time, Liebowitz was the co-owner with Harry Donenfeld of National Allied Publications, the precursor company to DC Comics, and Donenfeld financed Gaines' creation of All-American. All-American published several superhero/adventure anthologies such as All-American Comics…
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