I.D. All Of The DC Publishers/Imprints Who Started Off With Their Own Universe

[SecretWarrior]

-National
-All-American
-Fawcett
-Charlton
-Milestone
-Wildstorm

[Jim Kelly]

-Prize
-Quality Comics
-kind of St. John, as they published Kubert's TOR first.

[scary harpy]

- Nedor (renewed by Popular Library...purchased by WB)
- Thrilling Publications (renewed by Popular Library...purchased by WB)

[Icefan]

- IPC (original publisher of the characters in Albion)

[Thor-Ul]

-National
-All-American
-Fawcett
-Charlton
-Milestone
-Wildstorm

I think the situation of National-All_American was a little more complicated than that.

[SecretWarrior]

I think the situation of National-All_American was a little more complicated than that.

I just thought it was the Superman-Batman company merging with the WW/GL/Flash company.

[Digifiend]

- IPC (original publisher of the characters in Albion)

No, Warner don't own IPC, and only licensed the characters used in Albion. It was at one point owned by Time Inc, part of Time Warner and therefore a sister company of DC Comics, but is now owned by Future Publishing. IPC's comic characters were sold to Rebellion, the 2000AD publishers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI_Media
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebellion_Developments

[Jim Kelly]

Harry Donenfeld (publisher) and Jack Liebowitz (distributor, Independent News) owned Detective Comics, Inc. and bought out National Allied from Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson.

Max Gaines was the publisher of the All-American line and Jack Liebowitz partnered with him, too. Since Liebowitz was the distributor of both, he arranged for D.C. titles and All-American titles to carry the same advertising, promote each other's books, and have the D.C. bullet. For awhile, Gaines went out on his own and then the comics had the A-A bullet, with no cross promotion. But, in the end, Gaines sold his share to Donenfeld and Liebowitz--and went off to start another company, E.C.

So, at that point D.C./National/Superman acquired the All-American line and the whole amalgamated company was called National Comics (later National Periodical Publications).

Later still, Max died while trying to save someone in a boating accident, and his son, William, took over E.C. and started up a line of horror and science fiction anthology comics. He was hounded out of the comic book business, but kept one title--MAD--which was turned into a black & white magazine from a colour comic book. MAD magazine was very successful. But in the 1960s MAD was sold to the Kinney Parking Company which also acquired National Periodical Publications and Warner Bros. Gaines remained with the Kinney group and continued to run the operations on MAD--but D.C. and MAD were in the same office building and shared staff. So you could say they acquired MAD which had been E.C.

[SecretWarrior]

Harry Donenfeld (publisher) and Jack Liebowitz (distributor, Independent News) owned Detective Comics, Inc. and bought out National Allied from Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson.

Max Gaines was the publisher of the All-American line and Jack Liebowitz partnered with him, too. Since Liebowitz was the distributor of both, he arranged for D.C. titles and All-American titles to carry the same advertising, promote each other's books, and have the D.C. bullet. For awhile, Gaines went out on his own and then the comics had the A-A bullet, with no cross promotion. But, in the end, Gaines sold his share to Donenfeld and Liebowitz--and went off to start another company, E.C.

So, at that point D.C./National/Superman acquired the All-American line and the whole amalgamated company was called National Comics (later National Periodical Publications).

Later still, Max died while trying to save someone in a boating accident, and his son, William, took over E.C. and started up a line of horror and science fiction anthology comics. He was hounded out of the comic book business, but kept one title--MAD--which was turned into a black & white magazine from a colour comic book. MAD magazine was very successful. But in the 1960s MAD was sold to the Kinney Parking Company which also acquired National Periodical Publications and Warner Bros. Gaines remained with the Kinney group and continued to run the operations on MAD--but D.C. and MAD were in the same office building and shared staff. So you could say they acquired MAD which had been E.C.

Thank you for this!

[Icefan]

No, Warner don't own IPC, and only licensed the characters used in Albion. It was at one point owned by Time Inc, part of Time Warner and therefore a sister company of DC Comics, but is now owned by Future Publishing. IPC's comic characters were sold to Rebellion, the 2000AD publishers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI_Media
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebellion_Developments

Interesting, seems I'm two sell-offs behind.

I may have to contact the guy that does the Worlds of 2000 AD RPG, and see if his license includes the pre-1970 IPC stuff.

[Thor-Ul]

And on a tangent, DC almost bought Malibu comics. Marvel won that, unfortunately, for the Ultraverse characters.

[Digifiend]

Interesting, seems I'm two sell-offs behind.

I may have to contact the guy that does the Worlds of 2000 AD RPG, and see if his license includes the pre-1970 IPC stuff.

Rebellion owns the post-1970 stuff as well, which they'd already acquired from Egmont.