Startling Comics News Today

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

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.

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.

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

Alex Schomburg created around 40 airbrushed covers for Ned Piness Standard/Better/Nedor titles during the period of 1947-1948.

Lasting 73 issues from January 1940 to Winter 1953, Planet Comics is the most important science fiction title in American comic book history

Ned Pines short-lived Pre-Code Horror series Adventures Into Darkness featured a combination of lurid covers and classic horror.

Marvel Mystery Comics #56 from 1944 is an example of the intense detail that has made Alex Schomburg famous among collectors.