If ever a company lived up to it's name, it was Quality Comics. It is known throughout it's 17-year history for hiring the best artists and writers in the business. AC Comics has reprinted a great volume of the fabulous stories once published in Quality Comics. Reproduction is of the highest quality. Perhaps one of the best know characters in the Quality stable was The Spirit (right), but Torchy, Wildfire, Choo-Choo, Quicksilver, The Whip, Espionage/Black X, Midnight, Death Patrol, Lady Luck, Human Bomb, G-2, Spider Widow, Manhunter, Arizona Raines and many more were among their characters! You can go to our Online Store and find many, many books with stories from Quality. Just type "Quality Comics" in the search engine and see what comes up!

It's driving force was publisher Everett M. "Busy" Arnold. Arnold had originally been a printer in the mid-thirties, and had in fact printed some of the early Cook-Mahon titles. Seeing profit potential in the new medium, he bought out Harry "A" Chesler's Feature Funnies comic, as of issue #20, and by August of 1939, began to launch a memorable slate of super-hero and action titles including Smash, Crack, Hit, Military and Police Comics.

With story and art originally packaged by the famed Eisner/Iger studio, (and later supervised by art director Chuck Cuidera, when quality formed their own staff) virtually every artistic luminary of the era left their mark on the Quality books. They often did the best work of their careers, inspired by the supremely talented peers that surrounded them. Some of the most successful and enduring adventure characters in comics history came out of the Quality line, including Plasticman, Blackhawk, The Spirit and Dollman. With changing tastes throughout the 1950's, the line continued, moving into genres like war, romance, crime, humor and horror, until they suspended publication in December of 1956, selling a limited number of their properties ( including Blackhawk, G. I Combat, Robin Hood and Heartthrobs) to DC Comics, who subsequently continued their publication for some time. Although AC is not allowed to reprint Blackhawk's stories, we do have an interview with Blackhawk creator and artist, Chuck Cuidera, in Men of Mystery No.12.

Among the very fine artists who worked for Quality Comics were: Lou Fine, Will Eisner, Chuck Cuidera, Gill Fox, Alex Kotsky, Tex Blaisdell, Bob Powell, Klaus Nordling, Dave Berg, Bob Fujitani, Bill Ward, John Belfi, Russ Heath, Paul Gustavson, Harry Sahle, Jack Cole, Al Bryant, Mac Raboy, Elmer Wexler, Chuck Mazoujian, Lee Ames, Tony DiPreta, Ruben Moriera, George Tuska, Artie Saaf, Gene Fawcette, H.C. Kiefer, Rube Goldberg, Edmond Good, Nick Cardy, Maxwell Elkan, John Celardo, Rafael Astarita, Jack Alderman, Art Pinajian, Pete Riss, Don Rico, Dick Dillin, John Spranger, Emil Gershwin, Fred Guardineer, Andre Le Blanc, Sheldon Moldoff, Jim Mooney, Elmer Wexler, Frank Borth, Ogden Whitney, Chuck Winter and Wally Wood.

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