The Clock was the star of an eight-page color section that debuted in newspapers including the Lake Charles American Press and the Deadwood Pioneer-Times. Little is known about this project, which seems to have been used by very few newspapers. That experience plays into what happened next, because Mahon and Cook launched a comic book-like Sunday newspaper comic section about five months after the debut of Funny Picture Stories #1. Cook, who were previously the business manager and managing editor of Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson's National Allied Newspaper Syndicate and More Fun Magazines. Comics Magazine Company had been founded by John F. The Clock debuted in Comics Magazine Company's Funny Pages #v1#6 and Funny Picture Stories #1, both cover-dated November 1936. George Brenner's first comic book work came via Eisner and Iger Studio for Wow–What a Magazine #2, cover-dated August 1936. Feature Funnies #3 featuring The Clock (Quality Comics, 1937) There's an affordable copy of Feature Funnies #3 Incomplete Condition: PR and many other Clock appearances in Feature Funnies and Feature Comics up for auction in the 2022 August 21-22 Sunday & Monday Comic Books Select Auction #122234 at Heritage Auctions.
That's where Brenner and The Clock ended up after the failure of Comics Magazine Company and the character made its Quality Comics debut in Feature Funnies #3.
This prior attempt also included Will Eisner's "The Brothers 3" and almost certainly influenced the development of the Spirit Section concept when both Brenner and Eisner connected with Everett "Busy" Arnold at Quality Comics. These issues hit newsstands 18 months before Superman's debut in Action Comics #1, and The Clock anchored a little-known attempt to do comic book-like comic sections for newspapers over three years before Spirit Sections. The character was created by George Brenner and first appeared from publisher Comics Magazine Company in Funny Pages #v1#6 and Funny Picture Stories #1, both cover-dated November 1936. The Clock was the first masked hero of the Golden Age of American comic books.
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