Vin Sullivan
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Vincent "Vin" Sullivan (died on February 3, 1999) is an early comic book editor, artist, and publisher. As an editor for National Allied Publications,Gerard Jones, Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book (Basic Books, 2004; trade paperback ISBN 9780465036578), the future DC Comics, he was responsible for buying Superman from creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, and edited that archetypcal superhero in his first appearance, in Action Comics #1 (1938), and in the following year's Superman, the first American comic book devoted to a single character. In additional, he drew the premiere cover of Detective Comics, the series that in issue #27 launched the hit character Batman.
In 1940, the McNaught Newspaper Syndicate hired Sullivan to form a new comic book publishing house. This became the Columbia Comic Corporation, which published several superhero features, the best known of which was Skyman.
Unhappy with the reluctance of the owners to develop more original series, Sullivan left the company in 1943 and formed Magazine Enterprises. This company would last until 1958, after which Sullivan left comics.
References
- [The view from the Comfy Chair, issue 83], accessed 29 January 2006
- Alter Ego Vol. 3, #10 (Sept. 2001)
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