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G A C P 28
Golden Age Chronology Project
Fiction House comics chronology 1949-50




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Publisher Thurman T. Scott, whose Fiction House group included the pulp imprints Glen-Kel and Real Adventures Publishing

Co., expanded into comic books in the late 1930s when that emerging medium began to seem a viable adjunct to the fading

pulps. Receptive to a sales call by Eisner & Iger, one of the prominent "packagers" of that time who produced complete comic

books on demand for publishers looking to enter the field, Scott released Jumbo Comics #1 (Sept. 193.

Fiction House star Sheena appeared in that initial issue. Will Eisner and S.M. "Jerry" Iger had created the leggy, leopard-wearing

jungle goddess for the British magazine Wags, under the joint pseudonym "W. Morgan Thomas". But their much-imitated

"female Tarzan" only became famous when writer "William Thomas" and artist Mort Meskin took over her exploits in Jumbo #1.

Fiction House's other features in that initial foray included the period adventure "Hawks of the Seas" (continuing a story from

Quality Comics' Feature Funnies #12, after Eisner-Iger and Quality had had a falling out), and several now-obscure strips ("Peter

Pupp"; "ZX-5 Spies in Action"; "Spencer Steel"; "Inspector Dayton" that nonetheless include future industry legend Jack Kirby's

first comic-book work following his debut in Wild Boy Magazine:[1] the science fiction feature The Diary of Dr. Hayward (under

the pseudonym "Curt Davis", the modern-West crimefighter strip Wilton of the West (as "Fred Sande", and Part One of the

swashbuckling serialization of Alexandre Dumas, père's The Count of Monte Cristo (as "Jack Curtiss", each four pages long.
House ad for "The Big 6 of the Comics!" advises, "Look for the Bull's-Eye..... Fiction House Magazines".
House ad for "The Big 6 of the Comics!" advises, "Look for the Bull's-Eye..... Fiction House Magazines".

"The big 6 of the comics"

Jumbo proved a hit, and Fiction House would go on to publish Jungle Comics; the aviation-themed Wings Comics; the science

fiction title Planet Comics; Rangers Comics; and Fight Comics during the early 1940s — most of these series taking their titles and

themes from the Fiction House pulps. Fiction House referred to these titles in its regular house ads as "The Big Six," but the

company also published several other titles, among them the Western-themed Indians and Firehair, jungle titles Sheena, Queen

of the Jungle and Wambi, and five issues of Eisner's The Spirit.

Quickly developing its own staff, Fiction House employed either in-house or on a freelance basis such talented artists as Meskin,

Matt Baker (the first prominent African-American artist in comics), Nick Cardy, George Evans, Bob Powell, and the British Lee

Elias, as well as such rare female comics artists as Ruth Atkinson, Fran Hopper, Lilly Renée, and Marcia Snyder.

Trina Robbins, in The Great Women Superheroes (Kitchen Sink Press, 1996, ISBN 0-87816-481-2), wrote:
“ [M]ost of [Fiction House's] pulp-style action stories either starred or featured strong, beautiful, competent heroines.

They were war nurses, aviatrixes, girl detectives, counterspies, and animal skin-clad jungle queens, and they were in command.

Guns blazing, daggers unsheathed, sword in hand, they leaped across the pages, ready to take on any villain. And they did not

need rescuing. ”

Despite such pre-feminist pedigree, Fiction House found itself targeted in psychiatrist Dr. Fredric Wertham's famous book

Seduction of the Innocent (1954), which in part blamed comic books for an increase in juvenile delinquency. Aside from the

ostensible effects of gory horror in comic books, Wertham cast blame on the sexy, pneumatic heroines of Fiction House, Fox

Comics and other companies. A subsequent, wide-ranging investigation by the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency,

coupled with outcry by parents, a downturn in comics sales, the demise of the pulps, and the rise of television and paperback

novels competing for readers and leisure time, Fiction House faced an increasingly difficult business environment, and soon

closed shop.

(From wikipedia)



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