Hillman Periodicals Archives

Charles Biro and Bob Wood's exceedingly brief late 1942 stint at Hillman Periodicals is an interesting historical oddity.  The pair had been editors and contributors at publisher Lev Gleason for nearly a year by that time, and had three issues of Crime Does Not Pay under their belts.  Hillman, as the publisher of true crime magazines[...]

A space adventure saga influenced by both Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers, Rocket Riley was the cover feature of Rocket Comics, part of the first wave of comic book titles launched by Hillman Periodicals Both Rocket Comics and the publisher's science-fiction featuring Miracle Comics hit newsstands in the last week of 1939, sharing rack space[...]

The debut comic book effort from magazine and paperback publisher Hillman Periodicals, the Miracle Comics series ran for four issues from early 1940 to early 1941.  Hillman's comic book line and this title itself were developed under the auspices of Hillman editors Anatole Field and Lionel White, with White soon becoming the publisher's editor-in-chief for[...]

Compton would be editing two new titles for Hillman Periodicals (Victory Comics and Air Fighters Comics), they only got the details half right: "There are no super-men in these The emphasis is on story and character values."  While Air Fighters Comics, which introduced Airboy in its second issue, is certainly not a superhero comic book,[...]

Bill Everett's The Conqueror debuted in Victory Comics from Hillman Periodicals as a superhero transformed by cosmic rays.

In her first appearances in Air Fighters Comics, Valkyrie was persuaded by Airboy to switch sides and join the Allies during WWII.