Comics creators who worked for Columbia included Fred Guardineer, on Marvelo, the Monarch of Magicians; and Ogden Whitney and Gardner Fox on Skyman.

[1] Columbia Comics was formed in 1940 as a partnership between artist/editor Vin Sullivan, the McNaught Syndicate, and the Frank Jay Markey Syndicate[2] to publish comic books featuring reprints of such McNaught and Markey comic strips as Joe Palooka, Charlie Chan, and Sparky Watts, as well as original features.

Other properties published by Eastern Color Printing are also transferred to Columbia Comics.

Other titles published by Columbia included spinoff series from Big Shot Comics featuring Skyman (four issues) and The Face.

[3] Charles V. McAdam, president of the McNaught Syndicate, was also publisher of Columbia Comics.