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From: mwm@dartvax.UUCP (M. W. Modrall)
Newsgroups: net.comics
Subject: Re: Oldest comics
Message-ID: <1643@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 21-May-84 11:54:10 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 21 11:54:10 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 23-May-84 08:07:42 EDT
Organization: Dartmouth College
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all you guys flaming on the "DC stands for jerk" all point to 1939 as the
starting date for dc... come on guys... where is your trivia??? 39 was the
first action comic... not the first dc comic by a long shot... Detective 
Comics (for which dc is named) beat action by some stretch of time,
i don't know how much... if any of you hard core buffs REALLY know when
dc started, i'd be interested in finding out.  granted superman is an important
milestone to dc, but he isnt everything....
  
another thing... would anyone know the actual legalities of the Timely/Marvel
connection... i've always suspected that marvel just picked and chose, buying
up the character writes from timely after its death... does anybody know any
specifics??? some people i know think that Timely just changed its name to
Marvel at some unspecified date....
  
any information on the above would be greatly appreciated...
  
                                        Mark Modrall
                                        mwm
                                        Dartmouth college