Wonderworld Comics is a historically important title of the early Golden Age featuring work from Lou Fine, Will Eisner, Jack Cole and more.
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We've mentioned his Fox work on Dagar, Desert Hawk, and Rulah, Jungle Goddess recently, and his Blue Beetle work is also highly sought after by collectors. This era of the Blue Beetle series is well known to have garnered a couple of mentions in Fredric Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent, but that's only part of[...]
An early rival of sorts to Superman, possibly created by Will Eisner with artist Alex Blum, there are copies of five of the six-issue Samson series up for auction in the 2022 May 29-30 Sunday & Monday Comic Books Select Auction #122222 at Heritage Auctions.
#1 (Fox Features Syndicate, 1940)
Samson was one of Fox Feature's most[...]
With names like the Eagle, featuring a scientist with anti-gravity wings; Dynamo, master of electricity; and Marga the Panther Woman, the product of a "mad physio-biologist"; the characters of Science Comics were true to the title of their original series. But all three of these characters hit the Weird Comics series after the demise of[...]
Like a lot of superheroes, especially in the Golden Age, his origin evolved over time, and the character's backstory was fleshed out considerably during the course of the new series. While much of the focus for collectors has remained on the character's early Mystery Men appearances, the Blue Beetle title itself contains important material by[...]
With covers and art by Lou Fine, Joe Simon, Bob Powell and many others, Mystery Men Comics is one of the stand-out series of its era.
After his debut in Wonderworld Comics #3, Fox Feature Syndicate's The Flame evolved dramatically during the course of his own series.
We discussed some early Blue Beetle origin revisions recently, and a similar situation developed with another Fox Features Syndicate hero named Green Mask. Both characters had debuted in Mystery Men Comics #1 in 1939 and got a soft reboot with added superpowers when they both received their own series early the next year. In Green[...]
Ace Magazines' Baffling Mysteries series during the Pre-Code Horror comic book era of the early 1950s had a spectacular run of covers.
With the Flame seemingly near death, Linda Dale vows to continue his legacy, becoming Flame Girl in Wonderworld Comics #30.
An obscure Fox Feature Syndicate character who got his own title and fan club, U.S. Jones debuted in Wonderworld Comics #28.
Murder Incorporated would've been an obvious title for a hard-hitting true-crime comic book in 1948. The real-life Murder Incorporated, the infamous hit squad of New York City organized crime had been shut down by the early 1940s, but their legend lived on in other media. This Fox Feature Syndicate series was true to its title[...]
Hamilburg Agency to get Fox properties into film, radio, merchandise, and syndicated newspaper strips. While most of that didn't happen for Rex or most of the rest of the Fox Feature line for that matter, he did briefly get a newspaper daily and Sunday by Briefer as well. Briefer's approach to this solar system-spanning saga[...]
This is not unusual, as much of that short lived 1955 Blue Beetle #18-21 series is composed of reprints of original Golden Age series material. But the 1948 issue #55 is still not the first time this story has appeared — most of it, anyway. Interestingly, this story started life as the cover feature of[...]
Beginning with that issue, Blue Beetle slowly began to develop near Superman-level power, and his adventures expanded to include science fiction and fantasy elements. Generally speaking, this period of the character covers Blue Beetle #31-45, and there are several issues from this part of the series up for auction in the 2022 June 19-20 Sunday[...]
At the height of the late 1940s crime comic and good girl art boom, Victor Fox covered all of the bases. Not only did he publish comic books featuring a combination of those things, like Crimes by Women and Famous Crimes, but he even had a title that also combined them with another popular genre[...]
Best remembered for his work at EC Comics across a range of genres including science fiction, horror, and crime, Jack Kamen also made noteworthy contributions to publishers like Fiction House and Fox Feature Syndicate, where his good girl artwork on titles like Phantom Lady among others is also highly sought after by collectors. We've mentioned[...]
After successfully suing Victor Fox over Superman similarities, DC Comics did it again over copying Batman & Robin in Mystery Men Comics.
But one of the earliest and most interesting of these was Thor, God of Thunder who debuted in Weird Comics #1 from artist Pierce Rice. This Thor's adventures ran in Weird Comics #1-5, and while every issue of this Fox Feature series is a tough get, there's a Weird Comics #2 Incomplete (Fox Features Syndicate,[...]
Best remembered for his work at EC Comics across a range of genres including science fiction, horror, and crime, Jack Kamen also made noteworthy contributions to publishers like Fiction House and Fox Feature Syndicate, where his good girl artwork on titles like Phantom Lady among others is also highly sought after by collectors. But the[...]
Despite Victor Fox's ongoing legal and financial dramas, Fox Feature Syndicate put out some fascinating titles, and Big 3 is one of them.
Al Feldstein is best known for his legendary association with EC Comics, as a writer, artist, and editor on a wide variety of material, and as the editor of Mad from 1956 to 1985. But before then, he made his mark on a tried and true comics genre staple of a different kind. In 1947,[...]
The Eagle first appeared in the venerable Fox Features Syndicate early 1940 release Science Comics #1. As the series name implies, the origin of his powers was based in science: "Bill Powers, young scientist, discovers an anti-gravitation fluid which, when placed on his specially designed wings, enables him to fly like a bird." But the[...]
Despite his legal conflicts with DC Comics, Victor Fox's Wonderworld Comics title became a historically important title of the Golden Age.
Al Feldstein is best known for his legendary association with EC Comics, as a writer, artist, and editor on a wide variety of material, and as the editor of Mad from 1956 to 1985. But before then, he made his mark on a tried and true comics genre staple of a different kind. In 1947,[...]
After a seven-issue start as a funny animal title, Victor Fox company Fox Features Syndicate transformed its All Top Comics series into the kind of content it has become best known for to collectors in the decades since. The title is best remembered today for its jungle girl-centric content featuring the likes of Rulah and[...]
We discussed some early Blue Beetle origin revisions recently, and a similar situation developed with another Fox Features Syndicate hero named Green Mask. Both characters had debuted in Mystery Men Comics #1 in 1939 and got a soft reboot with added superpowers when they both received their own series early the next year. In Green[...]
Science Comics #1's Dr Doom and his Molecular Kingdom draws from the same science fiction influence as the MCU's Quantum Realm.
They probably mean #5.
It's worth wondering if the introduction of Vitamin 2X was a crafty way of promoting Victor Fox's notorious and legendary attempt at launching a soft drink, Kooba Cola. He began advertising Kooba the month after Vitamin 2X's introduction, and marketing promoted the cola's "invigorating" inclusion of Vitamin B-1. Fox briefly introduced the[...]
Mystery Men Comics #1 hit the newsstand in the same month as Action Comics #14, Detective Comics #29 (two issues after the debut of Batman in Detective Comics #27), and Adventure Comics #40 (the debut of the golden age Sandman). There's a Mystery Men Comics #1 CGC Apparent GD+ 2.5 Moderate (C-3) Off-white to white[...]