National Comics Publications: Difference between revisions

| type = [[Subsidiary]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gelder |first1=Lawrence Van |title=A Comics Magazine Defies Code Ban on Drug Stories |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/02/04/archives/a-comics-magazine-defies-code-ban-on-drug-stories-comics-magazine.html |access-date=September 18, 2018 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=February 4, 1971}}</ref> (1967–1977)

* National Allied Publications<br />(1934–19461934–1936)

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'''National PeriodicalComics Publications''' Inc.('''<ref>{{citeNCP'''; book|last1=Bridwell|first1=E. Nelson|author-link=E. Nelson Bridwell|title=Batman: From the 30s to the 70s|date=1972|publisher=Spring Books|location=Feltham|isbn=0600313034|page=4}}</ref> (alsolater known as '''NCPNational Periodical Publications Inc.''' or simply '''National''') was an American comic book publishing company. It was the direct predecessor of modern-day [[DC Comics]].

The corporation was originally two companies: '''National Allied Publications Inc.''' (also known as '''National Allied Newspaper Syndicate Inc.''')<ref>{{cite book|last1=Booker|first1=M. Keith|title=Comics Through Time: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas|date=2014|publisher=Greenwood Press|location=Santa Barbara|isbn=978-0313397509|page=7}}</ref> and later '''Nicholson Publishing Co., Inc.'''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Fertig |first=Mark |title=Take That, Adolf!: The Fighting Comic Books of the Second World War |date=2017 |publisher=[[Fantagraphics Books]] |year=2017 |isbn=9781606999875}}</ref>) which was founded by [[Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson]] in 19341935<ref name="Fifty">Marx, Barry, [[Joey Cavalieri|Cavalieri, Joey]] and Hill, Thomas (w), Petruccio, Steven (a), Marx, Barry (ed). "Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson: DC Founded" ''[[Fifty Who Made DC Great]]'': 5 (1985), DC Comics</ref><ref name="Goulart55">{{cite book |title=Ron Goulart's Great History of Comics Books |first=Ron |last=Goulart |author-link=Ron Goulart |publisher=Contemporary Press |year=1986 |page=55 |isbn=0-8092-5045-4}}</ref><ref name="Benton17">{{cite book |last=Benton |first=Mike |title=The Comic Book in America: An Illustrated History |location=Dallas, Texas |publisher=Taylor Publishing |year=1989 |isbn=978-0-87833-659-3 |pages=17–18}}</ref> to publish ''[[New Fun Comics|New Fun]]'',<ref group=note>The company debuted in 1935 with the [[Tabloid (paper size)|tabloid]]-sized ''[[New Fun: The Big Comic Magazine]]'' #1 with a [[cover date]] of February 1935; [http://www.comics.org/details.lasso?id=85 ''New Fun'' #1 (Feb. 1935)] at the [[Grand Comics Database]]. The entry notes that while the logo appears to be simply ''Fun'', the [[Indicia (publishing)|indicia]] reads, "New FUN is published monthly at 49 West 45th Street, New York, N.Y., by National Allied Publications, Inc.; Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, President ... Inquiries concerning advertising should be addressed to the Advertising Manager, New FUN,...."</ref> the first [[American comic book]] with all-original material rather than [[comic strip]] reprints, and '''Detective Comics Inc.''',<ref name="Goulart55"/> which was founded on December 31, 19371936<ref>[https://twitter.com/WBHomeEnt/status/1741512039355256841?t=XfoT3JbYx6sQBhIo5B4rGA&s=19 Twitter.com]</ref> by Wheeler-Nicholson with [[Harry Donenfeld]] and [[Jack Liebowitz]] to publish ''[[Detective Comics]]''.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Wallace|first1= Daniel|last2=Dolan|first2=Hannah|chapter= 1930s|title = DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle|publisher=[[Dorling Kindersley]]|date= 2010|location= London, United Kingdom|isbn= 978-0-7566-6742-9 |page= 17 |quote = The launch of ''Detective Comics'' defined [Malcolm] Wheeler-Nicholson's young comics company and set it on an ascendant path within the industry...His smart business decision to partner with businessmen Harry Donenfeld and Jack Liebowitz on ''Detective Comics'' guaranteed that his company's third title would at least be solvent.}}</ref> Wheeler-Nicholson fell into deep debt to Donenfeld and Liebowitz, and in early January 1938, Donenfeld and Liebowitz petitioned Wheeler-Nicholson's National Allied into bankruptcy and seized it, and as a result, Liebowitz took over and folded National Allied into Detective Comics.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Thomas|first1=Roy|title=All-Star Companion: An Historical and Speculative Overview of the Justice Society of America|date=2000|publisher=TwoMorrows Publishing|location=Raleigh, North Carolina|isbn=1893905055|page=13|quote="By 1938 Major had faded into history..."}}</ref><ref name="Cowsill">{{cite book|last1=Cowsill|first1=Alan|title=DC Comics Year by Year: Updated Edition|date=2014|publisher=[[Dorling Kindersley]]|location=London|isbn=9780241015858}}</ref>{{rp|20}}<ref>{{Cite web |last=Klein |first=Todd |date=2013-07-08 |title=The DC Comics Offices 1930s-1950s Part 1 |url=https://kleinletters.com/Blog/the-dc-comics-offices-1930s-1950s-part-1/ |access-date=2024-07-01 |website=Todd's Blog |language=en-US}}</ref>

NationalMax AlliedGaines' [[All-American Publications]] and Detective Comics Inc. merged to become National Comics Publications Inc.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bridwell|first1=E. Nelson|author-link=E. Nelson Bridwell|title=Batman: From the 30s to the 70s|date=1972|publisher=Spring Books|location=Feltham|isbn=0600313034|page=4}}</ref> on September 30, 1946,.<ref>{{cite web|title=Young April 12, 1948 Findings of Facts|url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/298839638/Young-April-12-1948-Findings-of-Facts|website=Scribd|access-date=11 December 2016|quote=DETECTIVE COMICS, INC. was a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of New York, and was one of the constituent corporations consolidated on September 30, 1946, into defendant NATIONAL COMICS PUBLICATIONS, INC.}}</ref> absorbing [[Max Gaines]]' [[All-American Publications]] as well.<ref name="Cowsill"/>{{rp|50}}<ref>{{cite book|last1=Jones|first1=Gerard|author-link=Gerard Jones|title=Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters and the Birth of the Comic Book|date=2004|publisher=Basic Books|location=New York|isbn=0465036562|page=223}}</ref> National Comics was renamed '''"National Periodical Publications Inc.'''" in 1961.<ref name="Cowsill"/>{{rp|102}}<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bart |first1=Peter |title=Advertising: Superman Faces New Hurdles; Publishers of Comic Books Showing a Decline Television Termed Chief Reason for Revenue Drop |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1962/09/23/archives/advertising-superman-faces-new-hurdles-publishers-of-comic-books.html |access-date=September 11, 2018 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=September 23, 1962 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Thompson |first1=Maggie |last2=Dean |first2=Michael |last3=Frankenhoff |first3=Brent |last4=Greenholdt |first4=Joyce |last5=Miller |first5=John Jackson |title=Comics Buyer's Guide 1996 Annual |date=1995 |publisher=[[Krause Publications]] |isbn=0873414063 |page=81 |quote=Beginning as National Allied Publications in 1935 {{sic}} and becoming National Allied Newspaper Syndicate the next year, it changed to National Comic {{sic}} Publications in 1946 and National Periodical Publications in 1961...}}</ref>

[[Category:Publishing companies established in 19371936]]

[[Category:American companies established in 19371936]]