This extended to DC suing Fawcett Comics over Captain Marvel, at the time comics ' top-selling character.

Berg's work also appeared in Dell Comics and Fawcett Publications, typically on humorous back-up features.

Dennis the Menace has been published in comic books and comic digests from the 1950s through the 1980s by a variety of publishers, including Standard / Pines ( 1953 – 58 ), Fawcett Comics ( 1958 – 80, during their only return to comics after losing the Captain Marvel lawsuit ), and Marvel Comics ( 1981 – 82 ).

Charles Clarence Beck ( June 8, 1910 – November 22, 1989 ) was an American cartoonist and comic book artist, best known for his work on Captain Marvel at Fawcett Comics and DC Comics.

After years of litigation due to a suit lodged by National Publications ( publishers of DC Comics ) against Fawcett for copyright infringement claiming that Captain Marvel was a copy of Superman, Fawcett in the early 1950s ( partly in response to flagging sales ) reached a settlement with DC in which it agreed to discontinue its comic line.

After Fawcett Comics folded, Beck left the comic book industry but continued doing commercial illustrations.

Beck used MacMurray as the initial model for the superhero character who became Fawcett Comics ' Captain Marvel.

Following a trial in which DC Comics sued Fawcett Comics for breach of copyright, claiming Fawcett's Captain Marvel was too similar to Superman, the latter stopped publishing Captain Marvel.

Shazam is a comic book character created by Bill Parker and C. C. Beck for Fawcett Comics.

Notable events included meeting the Fawcett Comics heroes, including Captain Marvel, the death of Mr. Terrific and an explanation for why Black Canary hadn't aged much despite debuting in the 1940s.

Although DC and Timely ( which evolved to become Marvel Comics ) characters are more famous today, circulation figures suggest that the best-selling superhero title of the era may have been Fawcett Comics ' Captain Marvel, whose approximately 1. 4 million copies per issue made it " the most widely circulated comic book in America.

In 1954-55, it acquired a stable of comic book properties from the defunct Superior Comics, Mainline Publications, St. John Publications, and most significantly, Fawcett Publications, which was shutting down its Fawcett Comics division.

Charlton also picked up a number of Western titles from the defunct Fawcett Comics line, including Gabby Hayes Western, Lash LaRue Western, Monte Hale Western, Rocky Lane Western.

For rival Fawcett Comics, he wrote stories for Superman's chief competitor Captain Marvel.

An example of the latter kind of crossover would be DC's acquisition of Fawcett Comics, Quality Comics, and Charlton Comics and the absorption into the DC continuity of the original Captain Marvel, Plastic Man and Captain Atom.

Angry at this decision, some of the group's leaders, including Lydia Becker and Millicent Fawcett, stormed out of the meeting and created an alternative organisation committed to the " old rules ," called the Great College Street Society after the location of its headquarters.

He recounted some of his experiences in a chapter in his Life of Fawcett as well as in some less formal Sketches from Cambridge: By a Don ( 1865 ).

While there, he alleged that he had been subject to a homosexual rape some years earlier by Michael Fawcett, a married former footman who had become one of the Prince's closest friends.

Dr. Sullivan Travis ( aka " Dr. T .") ( Richard Gere ) is a wealthy Dallas gynecologist for some of the wealthiest women in Texas who finds his life beginning to fall apart starting when his wife, Kate ( Farrah Fawcett ), suffers a nervous breakdown and is committed to the state mental hospital.

With Glen Gamble's help, Vollmer added three new members to bring some stability back to the lineup: Jeff " Stan " Fountain replacing Daryl Gray on bass, Dan Fawcett on guitar, and Shaun Sanders on guitar.

However, some have noted that the original Cody rocket suit design appears to have been " lifted " by Republic from a preliminary flying suit design for the 1940s Fawcett comic book character called Bulletman, whose adventures the studio had once considered adapting into a serial.

Regency romances which may include more social realism, or, conversely, anachronistically modern characterization, might be classed by some as " Regency Historical ", signifying that their general setting is in Regency England, but the plot, characterization, or prose style of the work extends beyond the genre formula of the Regency romances published by Heyer, Fawcett, etc.

Fawcett chose only two companions, so they could travel lighter, and so they would travel with less notice from the tribes of the jungle, some being hostile towards explorers ; many tribes at the time still had not come into contact with white men.

The illustrator Norman Saunders became a Fawcett staffer in 1927 after doing some spot illustrations for Fawcett editor Weston " Westy " Farmer, and Saunders ' first cover illustration was for the August, 1929 issue of Modern Mechanics and Inventions.

Diverse expeditions at diverse epochs and lands, have tried to find proof of the existence of a subterranean world, from the Col. Fawcett notorious expeditions to Third Reich sponsored attempts and many private expeditions in modern times, some sponsored by cultural foundations and even magazines as the 1978 Roncador Expedition to the Roncador mountains in Matto Grosso, Brazil, sponsored by the magazine Noticias from Uruguay and led by pilot and writer A. de Souza.

Other uses of Syncro-Vox were in a pair of episodes of Courage the Cowardly Dog which featured a talking tree and a talking " spirit of the harvest moon ", and in some That ' 70s Show episodes imitating Farrah Fawcett and Richard Nixon.

He died in Chestertown, New York on October 13, 1974, leaving behind, counted Bridwell, " almost 50, 000 pages of comics " comprising " over 1, 300 scripts for Fawcett " and " more than 2, 000 for 20 other publishers ", including " some 93 heroes in 198 magazines.

In 1972, as part of a bonus magazine series Fawcett published a " Short Stuff Special " where Dennis visited Children's Fairyland in Oakland, California.

The book has been reprinted many times: in 1953 by Galaxy, in 1957 and 1964 by Bantam, in 1958 and 1982 by Corgi as the first British edition, in 1968 by Sidgwick & Jackson in hardcover, in 1969, 1972, 1974 ( both paper and hard cover editions ) and 1981 by Sphere Science Fiction, in 1971 and 1975 by Fawcett Books, in 1983 by Del Ray Books, in 1986 in hardcover by Grafton and in 1990 again by Doubleday in hardcover ; in addition, it was reprinted as part of the Empire series, in 1986 by Ballantine Books, in 1992 by Spectra and in 2010 by Orb Books, in both print and Kindle editions.

The character's comic adventures continued until 1953 ; when DC Comics assumed the rights to the Fawcett characters in 1972, Captain Marvel, Jr. was returned to publication.

They were leased by DC Comics along with the rest of the Fawcett comics stable of characters in 1972.

During her 26 years at Fawcett, Nevler became the editorial director in 1972.

After DC Comics obtained the rights to the Fawcett characters in 1972, Spy Smasher began appearing irregularly in DC Comics, presented as one of the heroes of Earth-S prior to Crisis on Infinite Earths.

In 1972, the station moved from its old studios at 2470 North Star Road in Upper Arlington to a new facility, the Fawcett Center for Tomorrow, on the banks of the Olentangy River near ( now on ) the campus of OSU.

Charlton published a wide line of romance titles, particularly after it acquired the Fawcett line, which included the romance comics Sweethearts, Romantic Secrets, and Romantic Story.

Fawcett, now home to Ballantine's mysteries, was acquired in 1982.

Post-Crisis, with the restart of the universe as one thanks to the machinations of the Anti-Monitor, a simpler, more streamlined DC Universe seemed imminent, with characters acquired from Charlton Comics, Fawcett Comics, and Quality Comics all becoming incorporated into the new DC Universe.

Bertelsmann AG, the German company that also owns Bantam Books, Doubleday Publishing, Dell Publishing, Times Books, the Modern Library, Everyman's Library, Vintage Books, Crown Publishing Group, Schocken Books, Ballantine Books, Del Rey Books, Fawcett Publications also acquired Random House in 1998, making Bertelsmann the largest publisher of American books.

In 1970, Fawcett acquired Popular Library from Perfect Film & Chemical Corporation and renamed it Fawcett Books.

When Ballantine Books ( a division of Random House ) acquired Fawcett Books in 1982 while Popular was sold to Warner Communications, it inherited a mass market paperback list with such authors as William Bernhardt, Amanda Cross, Stephen Frey, P. D. James, William X. Kienzle, Anne Perry, Daniel Silva, Peter Straub and Margaret Truman.

Sivana was soon established as Captain Marvel's archenemy and most frequent foe, a role that he continues to hold to this day in his appearances in DC Comics who eventually acquired the rights to those characters from Fawcett.