List of comics publishing companies

European comics have existed since 1837, when Swiss artist Rodolphe Töpffer published Histoire de Mr. Vieux Bois.

So the Mad Hatter decides to talk to the girl at a dance aboard ship, but he discovers something wrong.

Soon after, a doctor claims the body, takes it to his lab, and removes the brain, placing it in the skull of a gorilla.

When the gorilla comes to, he kills the doctor and disguises himself as a human, calling himself the Gargoyle, and vows revenge on the judge, jury and Mad Hatter.

(13 pages) Synopsis: In 1528, Spanish exporer Fernand De Leon had discovered the fabled City of Gold, built by the Atzecs who had fled from Cortez twenty years before.

Characters: The Mad Hatter [Grant Richmond]; Fernand De Leon (flashback, explorer, death); Fuddy (lawyer); Bustle (lawyer); De Leon (descendant of Fernand); Spade Delvane (villain, jewel thief), and Crime Consultant!

(11 pages) Synopsis: The Hatter spots Humpty Dumpty and his men making a fur heist on the waterfront.....later, the villain decides to "go straight" in business selling advice for a price......to criminals!

In 1944, Bill Woolfolk and Jack Oxton, Sr., co-founded their own comic book company, O.W.

Victims of the acute paper rationing of 1945-1949 which bankrupted many U.S. Publishing Companies during World War II, O.W.

Comics Corp., had bought a catalogue business in order to get their paper rations during the war.