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Fox Features Syndicate founder Victor Fox was one of the most notorious publishers of the Golden Age of comic books — and that's saying something.  Through lawsuits over copying characters from other publishers, two bankruptcies, and tangling with the War Production Board over violating paper quotas, Fox was a man who wasn't afraid to get[...]

Like other Fox Feature Syndicate Superheroes such as Blue Beetle and Green Mask, the Flame powered up considerably over time.  In the character's debut in 1939's Wonderworld Comics #3, he was only able to materialize himself within fire in his initial appearances, as a means of teleportation, and used a flame gun that he invented. [...]

Given Victor Fox's reputation, it is often assumed that the Flame is little more than a Human Torch rip-off, but the answer is more complicated than it seems.  The founder of Fox Feature Syndicate was one of the most notorious publishers of the Golden Age of comic books, and navigated the Golden Age via lawsuits[...]

In a moment that triggered one of the most important sequences of events in American comic book publishing history, the Wonderworld Comics title was launched as Wonder Comics #1 on March 17, 1939.  Its publisher Victor Fox was sued by DC Comics virtually the instant his debut issue hit the newsstands, "for infringement of copyright[...]

(@mikedeodato) August 25, 2014 "The flame died". Broadcaster, journalist and radio dramatist, Borges was the creator of one of Brazil's earliest super-heroes in, The Adventures Of Flame, A fantastically successful radio show that he turned into a comic book that he wrote and drew – a publication that was famed for selling out in the offices of the[...]