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| Parent company | McNaught Newspaper Syndicate |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1940; 85 years ago (1940) |
| Founder | Vin Sullivan |
| Defunct | 1949; 76 years ago (1949) |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | New York City |
| Key people | Charles V. McAdam |
| Publication types | Comic books |
| Nonfiction topics | McNaught Syndicate andFrank Jay Markey Syndicate characters |
| Fiction genres | Superhero, adventure, humor |
Columbia Comics Corporation was acomic bookpublisher active in the 1940s whose best-known title wasBig Shot Comics. Comics creators who worked for Columbia includedFred Guardineer, onMarvelo, the Monarch of Magicians; andOgden Whitney andGardner Fox on Skyman.[1]
Columbia Comics was formed in 1940 as a partnership between artist/editorVin Sullivan, theMcNaught Syndicate, and theFrank Jay Markey Syndicate[2] to publish comic books featuring reprints of such McNaught and Markeycomic strips asJoe Palooka,Charlie Chan, andSparky Watts, as well as original features. Other properties published byEastern Color Printing are also transferred to Columbia Comics. Eastern appears to have subsequently retained a close relationship with Columbia,[citation needed] running advertisements for Columbia books in their own comic book titles.
Columbia Comics' first published title was the anthology titleBig Shot Comics, the premiere of which introducedSkyman andThe Face.Big Shot Comics would run for 104 issues until 1949, when Columbia went out of business. Other titles published by Columbia included spinoff series fromBig Shot Comics featuringSkyman (four issues) andThe Face.[3]
Charles V. McAdam, president of the McNaught Syndicate, was also publisher of Columbia Comics.[4]
