Bill Parker Archives

Nickel Comics #3 (Fawcett, 1940) featured cover detail by Jack Binder. Bulletman carries a woman beside a broken railway bridge as a red train falls toward the water.

Jack Binder Covers Bulletman, Nickel Comics #3 at Auction

Created by Fawcett Publications editor/writer Bill Parker and artist Ed Smalle, Bulletman debuted in the launch of the series Nickel Comics (cover-dated May 1940) The character Jim Barr was the son of a police officer killed on the job, who wanted nothing more than to follow in his father's footsteps But he found he was[...]
Whiz Comics #3 (#2) (Fawcett, 1940) C. C. Beck cover crop showing Captain Marvel hurling soldiers beside an artillery piece.

Sivana Invades America in Whiz Comics #3 (#2), at Auction

In his 1948 trial testimony, as published in Alter Ego #199, editor and writer Bill Parker recalled the moment Ralph Daigh handed him the assignment: "Mr Daigh then told me he wanted to put out a comic magazine and he asked me if I would be interested in doing it." Parker went on to connect[...]