- Leading Comics
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title=Leading Comics"
"Leading Screen Comics
caption=Cover of "Leading Comics" #9, featuring theSeven Soldiers of Victory .
schedule=Quarterly, later bi-monthly
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publisher=DC Comics
date=("Leading")
Winter 1941-1942 - Feb/Mar 1950
("Leading Screen")
Apr/May 1950 - Aub/Spet 1955
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41
("Leading Screen")
36
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creators="Leading Comics" is a
comic book published during the 1940s and early 1950s, a period known to fans and historians as theGolden Age of Comic Books . The publisher was originally known as All-American Publications, sister company to National Comics (later National Periodical Publications), before merging with National in 1945 and taking on the current name ofDC Comics , a subsidiary ofTime Warner . Ananthology comic, "Leading Comics" featured several stories in each issue."Leading" is the comic book series that introduced the world to the
Seven Soldiers of Victory , the secondsuperhero team in the Golden Age of theDC Universe , debuting one year after DC introduced theJustice Society of America in "All Star Comics ". They first appeared in "Leading Comics" #1 (Winter 1941-1942), and appeared in the next fourteen issues.When the superhero genre faded in popularity in the late 1940s, DC Comics decided to focus more on other genres, such as
science fiction ,westerns , humor and romance, with "Leading Comics" as the first DC title to drop its superheroes. With its Summer 1945 issue, "Leading" dropped the Seven Soldiers of Victory and switched tofunny animal s, with the introduction ofNero Fox (afox who was billed as the "jive-jumpin' emperor ofancient Rome "). In issue #23 (March 1947), Nero Fox was dropped as the cover-featured first story in each issue, to be replaced byPeter Porkchops , apig (created byOtto Feuer ), in his first appearance. Peter appeared in "Leading Comics" (retitled "Leading Screen Comics" in 1950) regularly until issue #62 (September 1955)."Leading Screen Comics" ended with issue #77 (September 1955).
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