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Hi Gang,
DCM is Super thrilled to be able to share this very rare, expensive and historically important comic with everyone out there.
I like to consider myself somewhat informed on comics history and I admit I'd never heard of this comic before Rangerhouse alerted me we had been allowed to scan it by RUPPS COMICS of Fremont, OH.
A quick look on Google and I got very excited!
A quick history lesson was needed so I added that at the end of the scan in a 2pg introduction I made.
Here is the bullet form of it -
- Published in 1933, this rare, historical issue was the very first comic book to appear on newsstands that contained all new, original artwork centred on a single theme.
- Detective Dan was created, written and drawn by Norman Marsh, and the 10x13" comic book was a one-shot single issue.
- This comic would inspire the creation of the first non-costumed version of a Superman comic - never published and destroyed by Joe Shuster when eventually rejected by the same publisher as Det Dan. Five years later a redesigned Superman would pop up in a little comic called Action Comics #1.
- Det Dan would last the one issue before returning as Dan Dunn in a newspaper strip which was also used in Dell's Famous Funnies #10,13,16-26; The Funnies #1-5,7,9,11,17 and Crackajack Funnies #1-25,29-35.
A HUGE thank-you to RUPPS COMICS for allowing Rangerhouse and DCM to preserve such a rare and expensive comic for posterity.
Truly this is why DCM was started to save books such as these and provide them to as wide an audience as possible before they were lost for all time. We hope this might be the first of many such collaborations in the future!
You can read more about Det Dan at the following links -
Don Markstein's Toonopedia (http://www.toonopedia.com/dandunn.htm)
Comic Books History - Part III - By Michael Russell (http://ezinearticles.com/?Comic-Books-History---Part-III&id=115027)
More on the creation of Superman from Oh Danny Boy blog (http://ohdannyboy.blogspot.ca/2012/06/1933s-reign-of-superman-first-superman.html)
Dan Dunn's radio show - OTRCat's entry (http://www.otrcat.com/dan-dunn-p-49288.html)
Two FREE episodes of the radio show on Archive.org (https://archive.org/details/DanDunn)
Marsh would do Danny Hale in the late 40s (http://www.comicsinfo.dk/dannyhale.htm)