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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.

It was hard to be unique in the WWII patriotic hero market, but American Eagles origin gave him "the strength and bouyances of an eagle."

Joker co-creator Jerry Robinson teamed with Mort Meskin to create the little-known Black Terror villain named Lady Serpent in 1948.

The character Miss Masque took over Standard/Better/Nedors Exciting Comics and Americas Best Comics in the late Golden Age.

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

Created by Richard E. Hughes and David Gabrielsen for 1941s Exciting Comics #9, the Black Terror became Ned Pines most popular superhero.

Fight Comics #15 introduces its fictional patriotic superhero Super-American with a cover blurb explaining his arrival from the future.

Ulf Andersen/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Author Patricia Highsmith, who was known for her psychological thrillers including 1950s Strangers on a Train and the Tom Ripley series, believed that life “didn’t make sense without crime in it.” Throughout her career, she published nearly two dozen novels and several short stories, many of which have been adapted for other mediums. Highsmiths works are still widely read and appreciated today because of their uniquely “modern feel,” making ot...