Comic Cavalcade
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H.G. Peter Martin Nodell |
Comic Cavalcade was an anthology comic book published by DC Comics from 1942 to 1954.
Most American comic book publishers in the 1930s and 1940s
At 96 pages initially, Comic Cavalcade was about one-and-one-half-times the length of the average comic book of the time. It was priced at 15 cents, when the average comic cost a dime.
Many stories in Comic Cavalcade were scripted by other than the characters' regular writers, for deadline reasons. Batman writer Bill Finger, for example, would occasionally write Flash stories for Comic Cavalcade when regular Flash writer Gardner Fox was preoccupied with other projects.
One non-superhero ongoing character introduced in Comic Cavalcade was newspaperman Johnny Peril. His roots, prior to his first appearance, came in the one-off story "Just a Story" in issue #15 (July 1946), by writer-artist
Initially published quarterly, the title went bi-monthly beginning with #14 (April–May
The title would later be referenced with DC's 1970s
References
- ^ Johnny Peril at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on March 22, 2015.
- ISBN 0-87833-808-X. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
- ISBN 0-13-275561-0. Retrieved 8 April 2020.