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Alex Schomburg transformed this 1944 Wonder Comics #3 cover from Standard/Better/Nedor into a war-era classic.

While Standard/Better/Nedors art director, Graham Ingels created standout covers there before being hired by Al Feldstein for EC Comics.

One of the earliest and most rare of all Standard/Better/Nedor comic books, Best Comics #4 featured the Adventures of the Red Mask.

The American Crusader was created due to an atom smasher accident which rearranged his atomic structure, giving him limitless power.

Startling Comics #20 features a classic Standard/Better/Nedor WWII-era cover by Jack Binder and a Pyroman story by Ken Battefield to match.

Woman in Red artist co-creator George Mandel had become a novelist by the 1950s, and worked on a script draft of 1967 Bond film Casino Royale

Richard E. Hughes and Jon L. Brummer gave Standard/Better/Nedor character Fighting Yank a supernatural origin in Startling Comics #10.

After debuting a Captain Future pulp, publisher Ned Pines launched a completely different Captain Future in Startling Comics #1.

In late 1939, it appeared that pulp hero the Black Bat would be heading to comic books, and theres a glimpse of that in Exciting Comics #1.

Thrilling Comics #1 from Ned Pines Better Publications debuted a Doc Savage-inspired character named Dr. Strange in the Golden Age.