Leading Comics
| Leading Comics Leading Screen Comics | |
|---|---|
 Cover of Leading Comics #9 (Winter 1943), featuring the Seven Soldiers of Victory. | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| Schedule | Quarterly: #1-17 8 Times a Year: #65-76 Bi-monthly: #18-64, #77 |
| Format | Ongoing series |
| Publication date | (Leading) Winter 1941-1942 - Oct/Nov 1948 (Leading Screen) Dec/Jan 1948 - Aug/Sept 1955 |
| No. of issues | (Leading) 41 (Leading Screen) 36 |
Leading Comics is a 1942–1955 comic book published by what is now DC Comics during the 1940s and early 1950s, a period known to fans and historians as the Golden Age of Comic Books.[1]
At the title's inception, DC was actually two companies, National Comics (later
National Periodical Publications) and All-American Publications. National and All-American shared some ownership and advertised and co-branded their comics as if they were one company. They also collaborated on All Star Comics, an All-American publication which featured the Justice Society of America, a super hero team including characters from both companies' stables, e.g., The Spectre and Starman from National, The Flash and Green Lantern
from All-American.
Given the success of the JSA, National decided to develop a team title of its own—this became Leading Comics, #1 (Winter 1941–42) of which debuted the
Star-Spangled Comics
. Like its predecessor All Star Comics, each issue of Leading was taken up with a single adventure of the SSOV broken into multiple chapters, each featuring one or two heroes. However, the heroes of the SSOV were hardly the company's most popular characters—most of those already being members of the JSA—and the strip lasted through only the first fourteen issues of Leading.
Peter Porkchops
(left).When the superhero genre faded in popularity in the late 1940s, DC Comics decided to focus more on other genres, such as
Peter Porkchops, a pig
(created by Otto Feuer), in his first appearance. Peter appeared in Leading Comics (retitled Leading Screen Comics with #34 in 1948) regularly until issue #77 (August–September 1955).
Leading Screen Comics ended with issue #77 (August–September 1955).
References
- ISBN 0-87833-808-X. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
- ^ Markstein, Don. "Nero Fox, the Jive-Jumping Emperor of Ancient Rome". Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
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