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In the coming months and years, AC will bring the Centaur line and it's history out of the shadows of the past and into the hands of collectors and historians with the help of The Bookery Fantasy Collection, the research of Hames Ware, Henry Steele and Lee Boyette, and interviews with actual Centaur creators. Wildly creative, original and interesting, the Centaur Comics line ceased publication in 1942, due to poor distribution, although Joe Hardie remained in business with a line of crossword puzzle books and periodicals which ran quite successfully until they were sold off in the 1970's. In January of 1938, Joe Hardie and Fred Gardner bought out Ultem and began Centaur Comics in March of 1938. Ullman formed Ultem Publications and bought out Chesler's Star Comics, keeping him on as editor.
Born of a mixed lineage, it's precursors include The Comics Magazine Company, Inc., started in May of 1936 by John Mahon and Bill Cook, former employees of Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson at his National Allied Publications, which would later become DC Comics. This often-overlooked pioneer was the seminal proving ground for virtually all of the early creative greats- including Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster , BobKane , WillEisner , BillEverett , JackCole , CarlBurgos , and a legion of others. Centaur was one of the earliest and most important comic book publishers. When this material is made available, you can expect the same high quality reproduction for which AC Comics is famous. Careful research is underway on Centaur and more is coming soon. There is also a brief interview with Mr. It is one of the earliest publishers and material is hard to locate. However, little has been done from Centaur.
Amazing-ManAC Comics has reprinted, and thus preserved, many stories from the time period known as the Golden-Age of comics. Notify me of follow-up comments via email. Click here to cancel reply. For fans of Plastic Man, this was a magnificent moment and there were more to come as the hero proved popular enough with writers and viewers to bring back several times.
The art style, voice acting and writing perfectly captured the character. The episode depicted Plastic Man as being a recently reformed hoodlum who was still proving himself as having put his crooked ways behind him to Batman. In 2008, Plastic Man appeared as a guest star in the childrens animated series Batman: The Brave and the Bold. Despite the rumor of some kind of wide release Plastic Man relaunch, nothing ever came aside from an aborted animated series for the Cartoon Network. No matter the real story, the untimely cancellation of the Plastic Man series remains a real head scratcher. Unfortunately, rumor has it that Warner Bros. It is a beautiful series and easily approachable to both sides of the guys in tights/guys with real life problems fence.
The series utilized Bakers unique cartooning talents in making for a distinctive comic while the story lines were sophisticated enough that they attracted the attention of the non-super hero art set of readers who usually shunned this kind of thing. In 2003, the famous cartoonist Kyle Baker developed a Plastic Man monthly series that became a cult hit in no time. Subsequent writers including Rick Veitch and Joe Kelley have taken up the task of continuing to develop the bad guy turned good in Plastic Mans persona, making him a fan favorite. Incoming writer Mark Waid was overjoyed by the opportunity to write one of his favorite characters and it showed as Plastic Man became the focus of some of his issues, raising the character to a higher level of importance so that readers no longer asked why anyone would want Plastic Man in the JLA in the first place.
Later inducted into the Justice League of America by Grant Morrison, Plastic Man was officially one of the heavy hitters. This was also around the time that the character started to turn up in numerous marketing pieces from bed linens to coloring books alongside Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. Aside from a regular feature in Adventure Comics, he was almost unknown to readers until a Saturday Morning cartoon arrived from Ruby-Spears in 1979. The first Plastic Man was also shown in the pages of All-Star Comics alongside the other Quality Comics characters known collectively as the Freedom Fighters.