AC Comics has reprinted many, many Fawcett characters in a variety of books. Three of these books are pictured here. Painstakingly taken from the original comics, these wonders of modern technology have preserved the great American art form, the comic book! You can go to our Online Store and place "FAWCETT" in the search engine and up will come the many books with these characters.

All your favorites are represented in AC's books: Spy Smasher, Bulletman, Bulletgirl, Mr. Scarlet and Pinky, Commando Yank, Phantom Eagle, Ibis the Invincible, Taia, Don Winslow, Golden Arrow, Lance O'Casey, Tom Mix, Lash LaRue, Masterman, The Hunchback, Diamond Jack, Singapore Sal, Shanghi Lil, Minute Man, Captain Midnight, Captain Video, Ivan Shark, Zoro the Mystery Man, Dr. Voodoo, Jungle King and Eric the Talking Lion, The Red Gaucho, The Devil's Dagger, The White Rajah, El Carim, Nyoka, Radar, Hopalong Cassidy, Buck Jones and more!

Roscoe K. Fawcett's magazine publishing concern was built on the success of the ribald post-WWI joke book, Captain Billy's Whizbang. By the late 1930's, it had such successful general-interest periodicals as True Confessions, Motion Picture and Mechanix Illustrated. As 1939 came to a close, Fawcett commissioned staffers Bill Parker (writer) and Charles Clarence Beck (artist) to produce an anthology to launch his foray into comic books. The book was called Whiz Comics, (after an abortive ashcan as Thrill Comics) and it's lead feature proved a sensational smash hit- Captain Marvel. The only truly successful rival to DC's Superman character, the similarities lead to legal entanglements that contributed to the comics line's demise- though not before turning Fawcett Comics into one of the biggest four-color money-makers of the 1940's, and bringing forth a stable of other hit characters.

Beyond the good Captain's "family", (Captain Marvel, Jr. and Mary Marvel) names like Bulletman, Spy Smasher and Captain Midnight remained top sellers for most of the decade, and diversification into licensed properties like movie cowboy and serial star comics, romance, funny animal and horror comics had Fawcett neck-and-neck with DC as the most successful comics publisher of it's era. But with declining sales in the market overall, and the nagging Captain Marvel lawsuit, Fawcett chose to close it's comic book line in 1953, selling off some titles (including Nyoka, Lash Larue and Strange Suspense Stories) to Charlton Comics. They ceased publication on the Marvel Family and it's remaining books; subsequently settling out of court with DC. Remaining in the magazine publishing business for many years, Fawcett kept a hand in the comics market from 1958 to 1980, producing and distributing a line starring Hank Ketcham's Dennis The Menace. DC Comics revived the Marvel Family in the 1970's, and has produced new stories featuring them (and occasionally guest-starring some of the other Fawcett heroes) on an irregular basis since then.

Some of the wonderful artists that worked at Fawcett include: C.C.Beck, Pete Costanza, Kurt Schaffenberger, Ed Robbins, Pete Riss, Jack Binder, Al Bare, Mac Raboy, Al Allard, Chic Stone, Leonard Frank, John Rosenberger, Clem Weisbecker, Carl Pfeuffer, John Jordan, Marc Swayze, Bill Ward, Bob Butts, Bob Fujitani, Harry Anderson, Jon Small, Charles Sultan, Ed Smalle, George Tuska, Joe Simon, Jack Kirby, Dave Berg, Joe Certa, John Belfi, Reuben Zubofsky, Nick Zuraw, Charles Nicholas, Ben Thompson, Dan Barry, Greg Duncan, Alex Blum, John Spranger, Andre Le Blanc, Ken Bald, Bob Boyajian, Ray Harford, Phil Bard, Jack Sparling, H.C. Kiefer, Burt Whitman, Al Carreno and Till Goodson.

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