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4 unusual facts about Quality Comics


Feature Comics

Feature Comics was a comic book anthology title published in the United States by Quality Comics from 1939 until 1950, that featured short stories in the superhero and humor genres.

Grumman XF5F Skyrocket

The XF5F Skyrocket was the only propeller fighter aircraft flown by the Blackhawks in Quality Comics monthly title Military Comics, which ran throughout World War II.

Lockheed XF-90

The XF-90 lived on as the aircraft flown through the 1950s by the popular Blackhawks Squadron in the comics series of the same name, first published by Quality Comics and later by DC Comics.

Quality Comics

Quality Comics was an American comic book publishing company that operated from 1937 to 1956 and was an influential creative force in what historians and fans call the Golden Age of comic books.


Lancer Books

After work on a Chicago newspaper, Stein returned to New York in 1949, where he wrote comic book scripts for Quality Comics (Doll Man, Plastic Man) and Hillman Periodicals before employment as the comic book editor with St. John Publications.


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Bozo the Iron Man

Hugh Hazzard's adventures were written and crudely drawn by Quality Comics editor George Brenner.

Feature Comics

The Clock: George Brenner's masked crime-fighter was featured was carried over from Feature Funnies, running in every issue of Feature Comics from #21–31 (Apr. 1940), when he moved over to the new Quality Comics title Crack Comics.