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What publishers have been incorporated into DC over the years?
josemas:
Back in the 1970s DC also published several issues of Tor which contained both some new material and material previously published by St. John. By then Joe Kubert had acquired rights to those stories from St. John's son so the deal with DC to publish the character must have been either a licensing set up or for a limited time only because Kubert still owns the rights to the character and all his stories.
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Joe
bchat:
The Clock first appeared in books cover dated "November 1936" (more than likely Copyrighted and released in September of '36), in Comics Magazine Company's "Funny Pages 6" and "Funny Picture Stories # 1".
From http://terrororstralis.com/sheena/comics/FH-prehistory.htm: "The first issue (of Wags) went on sale in England on 1 January 1937, ... Later issues of Wags also contained a masked detective strip by George Brenner called The Clock Strikes.
Based on info from http://thecomicsdetective.blogspot.com/2010/04/return-to-wonderful-wags-of-oz.html, The Clock seems to have first appeared inside "WAGS" issue 38 (September 1937, a guess based on the weekly schedule the book had).
From http://dccomicsartists.com/DCHISTORY/qualityHISTORY-1.htm:
"(Dec 1937) The first Eisner/Iger material appears in Arnold's books: Hawks of the Sea by Eisner and George Brenner's The Clock. Feature Funnies #3. Both are reprints from Wags."
RJBowman:
Then something there doesn't add up, because the Clock appeared in Funny Pages months before the first issue of Wags. His original Centaur character status is preserved.
OtherEric:
In a situation similar to "The Clock", Sheldon Mayer brought Scribbly over from Dell to All-American and hence to DC. Several reprint strips also made the move from The Funnies to All-American, but as far as I know Scribbly was the only original material in the lot.
Bob Hughes:
The Clock could have appeared in Funny Pages first. I was under the impression the Australian Wags predated the British one- but they're all undated just to drive us crazy. It is true, however, that The Clock was an Eisner/Iger production- which is how it got from "centaur" to Quality. After wards Eisner probably sold it to Iger who took it with him when Busy Arnold fired him. (Although I'm not sure whether all the Iger strips departed at the same time or if the dribbled away over time. More research to be done.)
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