Liebowitz and Donenfeld would later force Wheeler-Nicholson out a year later.ĭetective Comics #1 featured stories using the hard-boiled detective genre, which was popular around that time. were Wheeler-Nicholson and Harry Donenfeld's accountant, Larry Liebowitz. The first owners of Detective Comics, Inc.

This forced Wheeler-Nicholson to take Donenfeld on as a partner so that he could publish Detective Comics #1, through a new publishing company, called Detective Comics, Inc. During that year, he became indebted to Harry Donenfeld, who was a printing-plant and magazine publisher. It was scheduled and advertised to be published on December 1936, however, it premiered on March 1937. Wheeler-Nicholson published a third and final title, named Detective Comics. Adventure Comics was revived in 2009, by Geoff Johns, using Conner Kent's Superboy incarnation as the main story, and the Legion of Super-Heroes as the back story.

New Comics #1, also published in 1935, was retitled twice to become Adventure Comics. It became the first comic to contain all-original material, instead of combining newspaper comic strips and the comic-strip style material. New Fun, often referred as New Fun Comics #1, was published in February 1935. His first two titles were called New Fun: The Big Comic Magazine #1 and New Comics #1. The title has also featured the debuts of Dick Grayson, James Gordon and many of Batman's villains and supporting cast, as well as other DC characters.ĭetective Comics was the brainchild of National Allied Publication's owner, Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson.

As of issue #27, the title became best known for the introduction of the Superhero Detective, The Batman, who eventually became the main feature. Detective characters, such as Slam Bradley and the Crimson Avenger, were featured monthly in its early days.

One of DC's signature titles the title featured early talents such as Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, Bob Kane, Sheldon Moldoff, Jerry Robinson and Bill Finger. Continued in Volume 2 (The New 52) and Volume 3 (Rebirth).ĭetective Comics is a DC Comics monthly comic book published since 1937, focusing on detective stories.

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