Little-remembered artist Dan Zolnerowich contributed over 100 spectacular covers to a variety of Fiction House comic book titles.
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The female heroes fighting World War II in Fight Comics from Fiction House share a historical legacy with Wonder Woman.
The 1942 debut of the Sheena series from Fiction House features a cover by underappreciated Golden Age artist Dan Zolnerowich.
Jungle Comics, published by Fiction House from 1940 to 1954, has one of the best cover runs of the Golden Age of comic books.
The saga of Fiction House's Tiger Man in Rangers Comics took a strange turn with issue #31 of the title in 1946.
Matt Baker would draw 60 Sky Girl stories for Jumbo Comics 1944-1948, and the feature is essential to understanding his artistic evolution.
Kazanda the Wild Girl of the Lost Continent is a little-remembered comic book saga that ran in the U.S. in Rangers Comics #23-28.
Kaänga was a Tarzan-alike character who starred in the Golden Age anthology comic series Jungle Comics, published by Fiction House from 1941.
Señorita Rio was both one of the first female and one of the first Latina characters in American comics, published by Fiction House in 1942.
Fiction House's Fight Comics #49 from 1947 saw the character Tiger Girl take over the covers of the series.
Jungle Comics is one of the most fun golden age books to collect, with Kaänga facing the King Serpent in this issue from Fiction House.
The St. John titles Nightmare and Amazing Ghost Stories feature rare examples of Matt Baker comic book horror covers.
Jungle Comics #2 features the first appearance of Fantomah, a significant early female superhero from the Golden Age of comic books.
Sheena didn't always wear her now-iconic plunging neckline leopard skin outfit, and the story of Jumbo Comics #10 explains how she got it.
Fiction House's 1947 release Jumbo Comics #102 features Sheena by Bob Webb, ZX-5 by Jack Kamen and a Sky Girl story by Matt Baker.
Fiction House publication Rangers Comics is yet another great example of a golden age gem, issue #39 with a cover by Joe Doolin.
Is Rangers Comics #2 the toughest-to-get Fiction House comic book? The data suggests that it just might be.
The Fiction House story can't be told without distribution pioneer, anti-Prohibition activist, and champion swimmer John W. Glenister.
The feature Spy Fighter in 1940's Fight Comics #1 from Fiction House divided the world of 1997 into three warring superpowers.
Identified as the publication containing Matt Baker's first published comic work, Jumbo Comics #69 features his art on jungle girl Sheena.
George Tuska was a comic artist best known for Golden Age work, who returned to comics in the sixties to co-create Luke Cage and Moondragon.
Fiction House's Ranger Comics launched featuring the Rangers of Freedom, a costumed hero-centric group who faced the villain SuperBrain.
Fight Comics #15 introduces its fictional patriotic superhero Super-American with a cover blurb explaining his arrival from the future.
The tough-to-get Kaanga Comics series features some spectacular art and covers from the likes of Maurice Whitman and Jack Kamen.
Kaanga Comics #8 appears to be one of the toughest Fiction House comics in high grade, and features a spectacular cover by Maurice Whitman.
The early Golden Age era of Fox Feature Syndicate includes a large number of surprisingly rare comic books.
Shortly after the Jack Kamen era of Blue Beetle began in 1947, the title showed up on comic book ban lists in cities around the country.
Fox Feature Syndicate's Green Mask was in reality rebooted into three vastly different characters from 1939-1946.
After his debut in Mystery Men Comics #1, Blue Beetle finally gets his origin moment in his series debut in Blue Beetle #1.
Blue Beetle #18 published by Fox in 1943 features the Golden Age version, who gained a little more attention due to the recent movie.