The Historic Legacy of Columbia s Big Shot Comics, Up for Auction
The Historic Legacy of Columbia s Big Shot Comics, Up for Auction
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During the boom years of 1939 and the early 1940s of the Golden Age of American comic books, most new entrants in the field naturally had little or no experience in comics publishing. Such was not the case for Columbia Comics Corporation, which entered the field in April 1940 with
Big Shot Comics #1, a series debut that had an impressive array of creative talent behind it. Columbia had brought in foundational DC Comics editor/creator
Vin Sullivan as their editor. By some accounts, it was Sullivan who had acquired