Companies
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Marvel
Formerly known by names including "Atlas" and "Timely", Marvel Entertainment is the publisher of comic books featuring iconic characters and teams such as the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, the Avengers, the X-Men, Iron Man, the Hulk, Thor, Captain America and Daredevil. Currently owned by the Walt Disney Company, Marvel is one of the "Big Two" comic publishers along with DC Comics.
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Shogakukan-Shueisha Production
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Eastern Color
Eastern Color Printing are given credit for the birth of the comic book. Funnies on Parade and Famous Funnies were the two comics that gave birth to the medium. Eastern Color published comics from 1933 through the mid 1950's. In 1973 it ceased printing comics for other companies.
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Harvey
Harvey is a long standing publishing company that presents such lovable characters as Casper, the Friendly Ghost, Richie Rich, and Lil' Hot Stuff.
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Fox Comics (US)
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Quality Comics
American publisher, started in part by Will Eisner, and famous as the home of Plastic Man, Blackhawks, The Spirit and others.
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David McKay
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DC Comics
Originally known as "National Publications", DC is a publisher of comic books featuring iconic characters and teams such as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, the Justice League of America, and the Teen Titans, and is considered the originator of the American superhero genre. DC, along with rival Marvel Comics, is one of the "big two" American comic book publishers. DC Entertainment is a subsidiary of Warner Brothers and its parent company Warner Media.
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Fiction House
A pulp magazine and comic book publisher in the Golden Age of Comics.
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United Feature Syndicate
One of the most famous newspaper comic strip syndicates, for a time in the Golden Age they published work in the standard comic format.
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Dell
Dell Publishing was an American publisher of books and comic books, founded in 1921. They would partner with Western Publishing as their printer from 1938 to 1962 and many of their titles would later continue with Western as a result. Dell almost entirely ceased its comic publishing by the early 70's and became a smaller company bought and divvied up by larger book publishers.
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