* Quality Comics ( some properties licensed 1956, later acquired )

The license to reprint 2000 AD material in the US was later taken over by Quality Comics.

In 1940, he joined Will Eisner's studio, where he wrote and drew for the Quality Comics line.

After becoming an editor at Lev Gleason and revamping Jack Binder's original Golden Age Daredevil in 1940, Cole hired on at Quality Comics.

At the behest of Quality publisher Everett " Busy " Arnold, Cole later created his own satiric, Spirit-style hero, Midnight, for Smash Comics # 18 ( Jan. 1941 ).

These meetings produced a considerable number of notable events and characters to JSA history, including Black Canary leaving to join the Justice League, the return of the Golden Age team the Seven Soldiers of Victory, the creation of the Freedom Fighters, ( which incorporated several Quality Comics characters into DC continuity after the characters were purchased by DC Comics ), and the introduction of a number of other alternative Earths to house these other teams.

Other popular and long-running characters included Quality Comics ' Plastic Man, and cartoonist Will Eisner's non-superpowered masked detective the Spirit, originally published as a syndicated Sunday-newspaper insert in a quasi-comic book format.

* Merlin the Magician ( comics ), a Quality Comics character

* Bart Hawk, a military pilot who went by the codename Blackhawk in the 1940s Quality Comics incarnation

Quality Comics was an American comic book publishing company that operated from 1939 to 1956 and was an influential creative force in what historians and fans call the Golden Age of comic books.

Notable, long-running titles published by Quality include Blackhawk, Feature Comics, G. I.

Quality Comics was founded by Everett M. " Busy " Arnold, a printer who saw the rapidly rising popularity of the comic book medium in the late 1930s.

Arnold became 50 % owner of the newly formed Comic Magazines, Inc., the corporate entity that would publish the Quality Comics line.

That year Quality released Smash Comics # 1 ( Aug. 1939 ), the company's first comic book with exclusively new material.

Crack Comics # 5 ( Sept. 1940 ), first use of the " Quality Comic Group " logo ( to right of " COMICS ").

The name Quality Comics debuted on the cover of Crack Comics # 5 ( Sept. 1940 ; see at right ).

" Seemingly never an official publishing title ," the Connecticut Historical Society noted, " the Quality Comics Group is a trademarked name ( presumably taking its name from Stamford's nickname of ' the Quality City ') encompassing Comic Favorites Inc., E. M. Arnold Publications, Smash Comics, and any other imprints owned by Arnold ".

This allowed Malibu Comics, for instance, to publish new stories of several Quality characters ( mostly those Quality itself bought from Centaur Publications ), such as Zardi the Eternal Man.

* CHCQM ( Board Certification in Health Care Quality and Management ) conferred by the American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians

* Cusack M., " Online Customer Care ", American Society for Quality ( ASQ ) Press, 2000.

According to the American Productivity & Quality Center (" APQC ") there are basic principles an organization can develop to encourage and reward innovation.

Kansas City is most famous for its steak and barbecue. The American Hereford Association bull and Kemper Arena and the Kansas City Live Stock Exchange Building in the former Kansas City Stockyard of the West Bottoms as seen from Quality Hill, Kansas City | Quality Hill During the heyday of the Kansas City Stockyards, the city was known for its Kansas City steaks or Kansas City strip steaks.

The CSCMP has adopted The American Productivity & Quality Center ( APQC ) Process Classification Framework < sup > SM </ sup > a high-level, industry-neutral enterprise process model that allows organizations to see their business processes from a cross-industry viewpoint.

Among his many honors, an exhibit memorializing Deming's contributions and his famous Red Bead Experiment is on display outside the board room of the American Society for Quality.

Baranski also received an American Comedy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Viewers for Quality Television Award for her portrayal, while Shepherd was awarded the 1996 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy.

On March 13, 1984 after the Business Process Improvement was under way at IBM, John Akers stated at the American Electronics Association seminar on Quality in Boston, Our studies show that more than 50 percent of the total cost of billing relates to preventing, catching, or fixing errors.

The American Productivity & Quality Center ( APQC ) Process Classification Framework ( PCF ) SM is a high-level, industry-neutral enterprise process model that allows organizations to see their business processes from a cross-industry viewpoint.

Besides the two mentioned above, there are the American Productivity & Quality Center's ( APQC ) Process Classification Framework and the Supply Chain Best Practices Framework

* In its first three years, the Baldrige Award was jointly administered by APQC and the American Society for Quality, which continues to assist in administering the award program under contract to NIST.

* According to Building on Baldrige: American Quality for the 21st Century by the private Council on Competitiveness, “ More than any other program, the Baldrige Quality Award is responsible for making quality a national priority and disseminating best practices across the United States .”

* The American Society for Quality ( ASQ ) assists in administering the award program under contract to NIST.

Some of these professionals are certified by organisations such as the American Industrial Hygiene Association, the American Indoor Air Quality Council and the Indoor Environmental Air Quality Council.

* Barking Man ( short fiction ) ( Ticknor & Fields, 1990 ) ( Penguin Contemporary American Fiction Series, 1991 ) ( Quality Paperback Club, 1991 )

While the 1998 Supreme Court decision Quality King v. L ' anza protects the reimportation of copyrighted materials under the first-sale doctrine, textbook publishers have still attempted to prevent the U. S. sale of international editions by enforcing contracts which forbid foreign wholesalers from selling to American distributors.

This track reached # 1 in Canada, # 22 in the U. S ( where Quality had licensed the track to the American Scepter label for release in the U. S .), and # 27 in Australia.

In concealing the identity of the band in this fashion, Quality Records may have been influenced by a similar ploy made the previous year by " The You Know Who Group ", an American outfit whose Merseybeat-ish 1964 single " Roses Are Red ( My Love )" had peaked at # 43 in the US and at # 21 in Canada.

* Quality Communications, a comic book publisher started in 1982

Quality also published comic-book reprints of Will Eisner's " The Spirit ", the seven-page lead feature in a weekly 16-page, tabloid-sized, newsprint comic book, known colloquially as " The Spirit Section ", distributed through Sunday newspapers.

The comic book was published first by Quality Comics and later by DC Comics.

The Blackhawks debuted in Quality Comics ' Military Comics # 1, in August 1941, and featured in that publication for several years as well as in its own comic book.

Kid Eternity is a fictional character, a comic book superhero that premiered in Hit Comics # 25 written by Otto Binder, drawn by Sheldon Moldoff, and published by Quality Comics in December 1942.

In 1956, Everett M. " Busy " Arnold, the owner of Quality Comics decided to leave the comic business entirely for the more profitable arena of Men's Adventure Magazines.

* A boom year for the burgeoning American comic book industry, as Archie Comics, Fawcett Comics, Fox Feature Syndicate, Lev Gleason Publications, Marvel Comics / Timely Comics, Nedor Comics, and Quality Comics all begin publishing.

* Kid Eternity-In DC's pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths continuity, Kid Eternity (" Christopher " Kit " Freeman ) was the long-lost brother of Freddy Freeman / Captain Marvel Jr. ( a retcon made because both characters shared the same surname, even though each was originally created for and published by a different comic book company: Fawcett Comics for Captain Marvel, Jr., and Quality Comics for Kid Eternity ).

With this in mind, other publishers ( including Capital City ( whose Nexus comic outsold several Pacific titles ), Comico, Aardvark-Vanaheim, Educomics, Quality, Eagle, Eclipse, First, Vortex, New Media, Fantagraphics, Mirage ) " feared that having Pacific, a rival publisher, as their distributor could result in their being cut off from comic shops.

Originally published by Quality Comics, the character was subsequently published by a series of now-defunct comic book companies, and a new version of the character currently appears in books published by DC Comics.

The Fox version which premiered in Phantom Lady # 13 ( taking over the numbering of Wotalife Comics ) is better known to contemporary comic fans than the Quality version because of the " good girl art " of Matt Baker.

* Merryman Originally known as " 98 Pound Weakling " ( Myron Victor, occupation: comic strip artist ), the son of The Patriot and Lady Liberty ( parodying Uncle Sam and Quality Comics ' Miss America ).

Wolfgang " Woozy " Winks is a fictional supporting character in comic books published by Quality Comics, and later DC Comics.

The character later appeared in some publications by DC Comics when DC Comics bought the rights to the character in 1956, along with a bulk buy of all Quality Comic's characters, although Madame Fatal not been seen much since except a few brief appearances and passing mentions by other comic book characters.

* National Comics ( series ): a 1940's comic book series published by Quality Comics