The history behind Victor Fox's Wonder Comics gives us a fascinating glimpse behind the scenes of the comic book industry of 1939.
began around March 15 or March 16 and that distribution was completed on March 22., also a partner in DC's connected distribution company Independent News Co., testified that Victor Fox had served notice that he was ending his distribution relationship with Independent News on February 11, after having been seen in the offices near-daily to monitor his magazine sales up to that time .
Of course, given that those four words are the keywords from each of the four titles that Detective Comics, Inc. published at that time, if Liebowitz didn't see where that was going in combination with Fox's termination of his distribution arrangement with Independent News, perhaps he should have. DC Comics owners Liebowitz and Harry Donenfeld were well acquainted with Victor Fox.
Wonder Comics trademark filing, February 20, 1939. The"claims use" date likely means an ashcan or mock-up of some sort was produced.Despite having gotten issue #1 of his first comic book series onto the newsstands before DC Comics could stop him, despite historical impressions to the contrary, and despite putting on a well-reasoned defense in a likely attempt to avoid monetary damages, Fox gave up the fight to publish Wonder Man before it had truly begun — at least in the short term.
There are a couple of relevant interior announcements inside the issue, namely that"there's not enough room in this issue for the Wonder Man, but he'll be back with you soon in bigger and better adventures" and"because of the many new features in this exciting magazine, and to make our name more complete, we are changing our title, beginning with the next issue, toWonderworld...
was a practical move by Fox to sidestep any court-ordered consequences that might impact both the character and the title itself or even help reassure printing and distributing partners that the renamed title would be legally unencumbered. However, there is a more likely scenario here. The bookstates that"Litigation was also threatened by, and so the title was changed with effect from No. 3."to pulp publishername change forced by Pines might be even more likely.
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