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For the United Kingdom comic book publisher formed in 1982, see Quality Communications. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Quality Communications is the company formed by Dez Skinn in 1982 to publish Warrior, an anthology Comic book title

Quality Comics was an American comic book publishing company that operated from 1939 to 1956 and was an influential creative force in what historians and fans call the Golden Age of comic books. An American comic book is a small Magazine originating in the United States and containing a Narrative in the Comics form Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of Literature or Information &ndash the activity of making information available for public view The Golden Age of Comic Books was a period in the history of American comic books generally thought as lasting from the 1930s until late 1940s during which Comic books

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History

Quality Comics was started by Everett M. "Busy" Arnold, a printer who saw the rapidly rising popularity of the comic book medium in the late 1930s. Everett M Arnold ( May 20 1899, Providence Rhode Island &ndash December 1974 also known as Busy Arnold, was an early Comic books "Popular press" redirects here note that the University of Wisconsin Press publishes under the imprint "The Popular Press" He entered the field by buying out the existing series Feature Funnies from Eastern Color Press. Feature Funnies was a Comic book anthology title published in the United States by Harry "A" Chesler for twenty issues from 1937 until 1939 Initially buying features from Eisner & Iger, a prominent "packager" that produced comics on demand for publishers entering the new medium, Quality introduced such superheroes as Plastic Man and Kid Eternity, and other such characters as the aviator hero Blackhawk. Eisner & Iger was a prominent Comic book " packager " that produced comics on demand for Publishers entering the new medium during its late-1930s Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of Literature or Information &ndash the activity of making information available for public view Plastic Man ( Patrick "Eel" O'Brian) is a fictional Comic-book Superhero originally published by Quality Comics and later Kid Eternity is a Comic book Superhero who first premiered in Hit Comics #25 published by Quality Comics in December 1942. Blackhawk, a long-running Comic book series was also a Film serial, a radio series and a Novel. Quality also published comic-book reprints of Will Eisner's "The Spirit", the seven-page lead feature in a weekly 16-page, tabloid-sized, newsprint comic book, known colloquially as "The Spirit Section", distributed through Sunday newspapers. William Erwin Eisner ( March 6, 1917 – January 3, 2005) was an acclaimed American Comics Writer, Artist and A tabloid is a Newspaper industry term which refers to a smaller newspaper format per spread to a weekly or semi-weekly alternative newspaper that focuses on local-interest Newsprint is low-cost non-archival Paper most commonly used to print Newspapers plus other publications and advertising material A newspaper is a written Publication containing News, information and Advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called Newsprint.

By the mid-1950s, with television and paperback books drawing readers away from comic books in general and superheroes in particular, interest in Quality's characters had declined considerably. Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic Paperback, softback, or softcover describe and refer to a Book by the nature of its binding. After a foray into other genres such as war, humor, romance and horror, the company ceased operations with comics cover-dated December 1956. War comics is a genre of Comic books that gained popularity in English-speaking countries following Humour or humor (see spelling differences) is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke Laughter and provide Amusement Romance comics are a Genre of US Comic books that were most popular during the Golden Age of Comics. Horror fiction is broadly Fiction in any medium intended to scare unsettle or horrify the audience Many of its properties were sold to National Periodical Publications (now DC Comics), which chose to keep only a few titles running, such as Blackhawk and GI Combat. DC Comics is an American comic book and related media company GI Combat is a long-running comic book series published first by Quality Comics and later by National Periodical Publications, which was the

Over the decades, DC revived other Quality characters, including Plastic Man as well as a group of other characters who formed the titular team of the 1970s series Freedom Fighters. Freedom Fighters is the name of a DC Comics Comic book Superhero team made up of characters acquired from the defunct company Quality Comics. Other than Plastic Man, who has been a member of the Justice League and has had his own ongoing series, most former Quality heroes are occasional supporting characters in the DC Universe. The Justice League sometimes called the Justice League of America or JLA for short is a Fictional DC Comics superhero team. The DC Universe ( DCU) is the fictional Shared universe where most of the comic stories published by DC Comics take place

According to DC canon referred in the Official Crisis on Infinite Earths Cross-Over Index , the Quality characters, before the DC revamping event called "Crisis on Infinite Earths", existed on two separate realities in the DC Multiverse: Earth-Quality and Earth-X. Crisis on Infinite Earths is a twelve-issue American comic book Limited series (identified as a "12-part maxi-series" and crossover The multiverse (or meta-universe) is the hypothetical set of multiple possible Universes (including our universe that together comprise all of Reality. While Earth-Quality followed much the same history as the main Earths, Earth-X was radically different from most Earths, in that World War II continued there until the 1980s, enabling the Freedom Fighters to continue their fight against the Nazis. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including In issue #11 of Crisis on Infinite Earths it is stated that that Post-"Crisis" that Quality characters have instead always lived on the single, unified DC Earth. Crisis on Infinite Earths is a twelve-issue American comic book Limited series (identified as a "12-part maxi-series" and crossover

New, successor versions of the characters Black Condor and The Ray were introduced in 1992. For the Jetman character see Choujin Sentai Jetman. Black Condor is the name of three Fictional characters, DC Comics The Ray is the name of three Fictional characters, all Superheroes in the DC Comics universe. ; Both were recruited into the Justice League. The new Ray also had his own 1994-1996 series and occasionally appears as a reserve League member.

Some Quality Comics titles, including Blackhawk and Plastic Man, have been reprinted by DC, while lesser-known ones have been reprinted by AC Comics. AC Comics is a Comic book publishing company started by Bill Black.

Characters/features

List of titles published by Quality Comics

Talents associated with the company

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ As new periodical titles were subject to an expensive registration fee by the U.S. Postal Service to receive a second-class mail permit, Golden Age comic book publishers frequently continued the numbering of old titles on new ones, hence one comic book title "becoming" another with completely unrelated content. DC Comics is an American comic book and related media company Kid Eternity is a Comic book Superhero who first premiered in Hit Comics #25 published by Quality Comics in December 1942. Lady Luck is a fictional, American Comic-strip crime fighter and adventuress created and designed in 1940 by Will Eisner (who wrote the first National Comics was an anthology Comic book series published by Quality Comics, from July 1940 until November 1949 Plastic Man ( Patrick "Eel" O'Brian) is a fictional Comic-book Superhero originally published by Quality Comics and later Police Comics was a Comic book Anthology title published by Quality Comics (under its Imprint "Comic Magazines" from 1941 Robin Hood is an archetypal figure in English folklore, whose story originates from medieval times but who remains significant in popular culture where DC Comics is an American comic book and related media company Smash Comics is the title of an American Comic book Anthology series published by Quality Comics for 85 issues between 1939 and 1949 Uncle Sam is a Fictional character, a DC Comics Superhero based on National personification of the United States, Uncle Jack Ralph Cole ( December 14, 1914 - August 13, 1958) was an American Comic book Artist William Erwin Eisner ( March 6, 1917 – January 3, 2005) was an acclaimed American Comics Writer, Artist and Louis Kenneth Fine ( November 26, 1914 - July 24, 1971) was an American Comic book Artist known for his work Gilbert T "Gill" Fox ( November 29, 1915 - May 15, 2004) was an American political cartoonist, Comic book Paul Gustavson née Karl Paul Gustafson (born August 16, 1916, Åland, Finland; died 1977 was an American - Immigrant Bob Powell né Stanislav (Stanley Robert Pawlowski ( October 6, 1916, Buffalo New York, United States – October 1, Wallace Allan Wood ( June 17, 1927, Menahga Minnesota – November 2, 1981, Los Angeles California) was an American Everett M Arnold ( May 20 1899, Providence Rhode Island &ndash December 1974 also known as Busy Arnold, was an early Comic books Eisner & Iger was a prominent Comic book " packager " that produced comics on demand for Publishers entering the new medium during its late-1930s Infinite Crisis is a seven-issue Limited series of Comic books written by Geoff Johns and illustrated by Phil Jimenez, George
  2. ^ Such renumbering occurred when the U. S. Postal Service discovered a new title distributed under old numbering; the publisher was then forced to not only pay the registration fee, but also to list the correct issue number.

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