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Fiction House is a American publisher of pulp magazines and comic books that existed from the 1920s to the 1950s. Its comics division was best known for its pinup-style good girl art, as epitomized by the company's most popular character, Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.

Publisher Thurman T. Scott, whose Fiction House group included the pulp imprints Glen-Kel and Real Adventures Publishing Co., expanded into comic books in the late 1930s when that emerging medium began to seem a viable adjunct to the fading pulps. Receptive to a sales call by Eisner & Iger, one of the prominent "packagers" of that time who produced complete comic books on demand for publishers looking to enter the field, Scott released Jumbo Comics #1 (Sept. 1938).

Fiction House star Sheena appeared in that initial issue. Will Eisner and S.M. "Jerry" Iger had created the leggy, leopard-wearing jungle goddess for the British magazine Wags, under the joint pseudonym "W. Morgan Thomas". But their much-imitated "female Tarzan" only became famous when writer "William Thomas" and artist Mort Meskin took over her exploits in Jumbo #1.

Fiction House's other features in that initial foray included the period adventure "Hawks of the Seas" (continuing a story from Quality Comics' Feature Funnies #12, after Eisner-Iger and Quality had had a falling out), and several now-obscure strips ("Peter Pupp"; "ZX-5 Spies in Action"; "Spencer Steel"; "Inspector Dayton") that nonetheless include future industry legend Jack Kirby's first comic-book work following his debut in Wild Boy Magazine 1: the science fiction feature The Diary of Dr. Hayward (under the pseudonym "Curt Davis"), the modern-West crimefighter strip Wilton of the West (as "Fred Sande"), and Part One of the swashbuckling serialization of Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo (as "Jack Curtiss"), each four pages long.

Jumbo proved a hit, and Fiction House would go on to publish Jungle Comics; the aviation-themed Wings Comics; the science fiction title Planet Comics; Rangers Comics; and Fight Comics during the early 1940s — most of these series taking their titles and themes from the Fiction House pulps. Quickly developing its own staff, Fiction House employed either in-house or on a freelance basis such talented artists as Meskin, Matt Baker (the first prominent African-American artist in comics), Nick Cardy, George Evans, Bob Powell, and the British Lee Elias, as well as such rare female comics artists as Ruth Atkinson, Fran Hopper, Lilly Renée, and Marcia Snyder.

Despite such pre-feminist pedigree, Fiction House found itself targeted in psychiatrist Dr. Frederic Wertham's famous book Seduction of the Innocent (1954), which in part blamed comic books for an increase in juvenile delinquency. Aside from the ostensible effects of gory horror in comic books, Wertham cast blame on the sexy, pneumatic heroines of Fiction House, Fox Comics and other companies. A subsequent, wide-ranging investigation by the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency, coupled with outcry by parents, a downturn in comics sales, the demise of the pulps, and the rise of television and paperback novels competing for readers and leisure time, Fiction House faced an increasingly difficult business environment, and soon closed shop.

In 1987, AC Comics Associate Editor Frank Xenau, himself a big Fiction House fan, successfully tracked down Fiction House publisher, T.T. Scott. Frank was able to gain permission from Scott the rights for AC Comics to reprint all of the Fiction House comic book material with the exception of SHEENA. SHEENA had been sold previously to film producer, Paul Aratow. So AC Comics has kept alive the images of Fiction House by reprinting a vast quantity of material including characters such as Hunt Bowman (THE LOST WORLD), Mysta Of The Moon, Futura, Auro- Lord of Jupiter, Mars- God of War, Camilla- Congo Queen, Tiger Girl, Glory Forbes, Gale Allen and the Girl Squadron, Firehair, Phantom Falcon, Kaanga and many others. A few Fiction House characters such as SKY GIRL (by Matt Baker), CAPTAIN WINGS (by Bob Lubbers) and SENORITA RIO actually gained titles of their own at AC Comics, something never accomplished during the Golden-Age. In fact, Rita Farrar (SENORITA RIO) was actually incorporated into the AC Comics Universe as a World War Two member of FEMFORCE. Known as RIO RITA now, she plays an active role in new FEMFORCE stories to this day. An additional deal was made with Paul Aratow for AC Comics to reprint SHEENA, QUEEN OF THE JUNGLE and so the original jungle goddess was featured in several titles including JUNGLE GIRLS and THE GOLDEN-AGE OF SHEENA.