Famous first edition: new fun, Various Authors, Volume 1
Type
Label
Famous first edition: new fun, Various Authors, Volume 1
Language
eng
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Intended audience
Rated T
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Famous first edition: new fun
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Responsibility statement
Various Authors
Summary
In celebration of its 85th anniversary, DC Comics reprints for the very first time its first-ever published comic book, New Fun #1, the comic that transformed the fledgling industry by being the first ongoing title made up of new stories instead of reprints of newspaper comic strips. First published in 1935, this landmark comic book carried a diverse set of original content features cowboys, spies, detectives, funny animals, space explorers, soldiers of fortune and more, including features that were written by Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, the founder of the company that would become DC Comics. This tabloid-size, black-and-white comic is reprinted as a commemorative hardcover and will include essays by comics historian Roy Thomas and Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson, granddaughter of Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, and more
Target audience
adult
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Creator
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Incoming Resources
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