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The company was originally three companies, National Allied Publications, Detective Comics and All-American Publications. The first two companies merged in the 1930s to become National Comics (later National Periodical Publications) and the third shared offices until it was bought by the merged company in 1945. At this time "DC", an abbreviation for Detective Comics, was simply an informal logo regularly used on the cover.
This company was the first to publish original stories in comic book form in 1937, and then was the first to feature superheroes beginning with Action Comics in 1938Events January -June January 3 The March of Dimes is established by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. January 11 Frances Moulton is the first woman to become president of a US national bank. January 20 Wedding of king Farouk I of Egypt and Farida Zulficar in Cai, and was the foremost exploiter of them in the Golden Age of Comic BooksThe Golden Age of Comic Books was a period in the history of the American comic book industry primarily the 1940s during which the industry enjoyed a major surge of reader popularity. The golden age is popularly considered to have begun in 1938 with the d. When the genre faded in the late 1940sCenturies: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s Years: 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 Events and trends Technology First nuclear bomb First cruise missile, the, the company moved more into other genres like science fictionScience fiction generally speaking, is a form of speculative fiction which deals principally with the impact of imagined science and/or technology upon society or individuals. There are, perhaps, exceptions to (or at least, some very unusual examples of), westernsThe Western movie is one of the classic American film genres. Westerns are art works films, literature, television shows and paintings devoted to telling romanticized tales of the American West. While the Western has been popular throughout the history of, humourThis article discusses humour in terms of comedy and laughter. For ancient Greek theories of humour in physiology, psychology and medicine, see four humours. Humour humor in American English) is a form of entertainment and a form of human communication, i and romance. They largely avoided the crimeSherlock Holmes, pipe-puffing hero of crime fiction confers with his colleague Dr. Watson; together these characters popularized the genre. Crime fiction is a genre of fiction that deals with crimes, their detection, criminals, and their motives. It is us and horrorHorror fiction is, broadly, fiction intended to scare, unsettle or horrify the reader. Although a good deal of it is about the supernatural, any fiction with a morbid, gruesome, surreal, suspenseful or frightening theme may be termed "horror"; conversely, trends of the time, and thus avoided taking the brunt of the backlash against the medium in the 1950s.