EC COMICS
DC COMICS
DC Comics (1938-present)
What is known today as DC Comics was founded in 1934 by publishing entrepreneur Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson under the name of “National Allied Publications”. DC was formed by the merging of “National Allied Publications” and “Detective Comics Inc”, as well as the affiliated “All-American Publications”. Despite being officially known as “National Comics”, the comic covers carried a “DC” logo and were referred to as a result of its nickname: “DC Comics”. People had nicknamed it “DC” in reference to Distinct of Columbia in Washington, due to the extreme patriotism during a time of war. Thus was born one of the world’s most recognizable comic book brandings along with rivals Marvel publishing. The company did not officially change its name to DC Comics however, until 1977 during the presidency of Jenette Kahn. DC Comics has its current official headquarters at 1700 Broadway, 7th, New York, New York. Random House distributes DC Comics’ books to the bookstore market, while Diamond Comics Distributors supplies the comics shop specialty market.
That’s the official boilerplate. We don’t usually feature mainstream comics publishers or their titles, but we make exceptions for special cases. In these cases, Metal Men is a charming title with characters who showed real emotion and development before it was cool. Plus it was a comic we particularely loved as a kid.
Plop was conceived a competitor to MAD of various underground comics and featured covers by Basil Wolverton, that’s enough for us.
We are still biting our knuckles before we take on G.I. Combat, featuring Sgt. Rock and The Haunted Tank and Gen. John Ewelll Brown (Jeb) Stuart, because it has a LOT of issues. We may concentrate on the era featuring Sgt. Rock and the H. Tank to begin with, those were alos particular favs as a kid. Time will tell.
