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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