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In the spring of 1940, as the New York World's Fair prepared to open for its second and final season in Flushing Meadows, Queens, by all appearances, it had become a towering success.  Exhibits centered around its theme "The World of Tomorrow" inspired numerous pulps and comic books, as we have discussed here extensively.  While Amazing Adventure[...]

Newspapers were full of talk about both German and American super-soldiers before Captain America Comics #1 hit the newsstands.  The dreaded German V-1 influenced several comic book robot planes.  A number of efforts and rumors surrounding stealth technology influenced Wonder Woman's invisible plane.  In the context of the times, it should come as no surprise that one of Nikola Tesla's most[...]

Widely considered the first costumed comic book hero to appear after Superman and comics' first archer superhero, The Arrow was the creation of Paul Gustavson, whose other early Golden Age credits include Fantom of the Fair and Man of War for Centaur, The Angel beginning in Marvel Comics #1, and humor strips for DC Comics in Action[...]

The earliest issues of Amazing Man Comics from Centaur are an obscure but important part of the early Golden Age.   The series features work from Human Torch creator Carl Burgos and Submariner creator Bill Everett, and was on newsstands at the same time as Marvel Comics #1.    Amazing-Man Comics #5 had introduced Burgos's The[...]

According to a letter that surfaced on eBay in 2009, Bill Everett's mom Grace Everett is likely the co-creator of Centaur superhero Amazing Man.  In a letter dated March 1, 1939, she wrote, "Bill has a lot of work to do on his present three comic strips, and Centaur Publications wants him to do a[...]

Subsequent events would also seem to imply that Ultem had access to at least art or stats of the Comics Magazine Company titles, as when Ultem quickly threw in the towel and sold its titles to Centaur, The Clock made two appearances from that publisher in Keen Detective Funnies #v1#8 and v1 #9 (1938) which[...]

As Wikipedia puts it, the company that published The Eye, the… um, character? … which is my subject today from Craig Yoe's Super Weird Heroes Volume 2, (in stores today!) has a genesis which history remembers like so: Centaur developed primarily from the Comics Magazine Company, Inc In 1936, comic-book entrepreneur Everett M "Busy" Arnold gave[...]

If you’ve ever visited this site to stare in amazement at a nice high grade copy of Wonder Woman #1 or Superman #2 and wondered how they became known as