CBR

When Famous Funnies #1 debuted in 1934, it was the first ongoing America comic book series. 1 / 12

Later in the year when Major Malcolm Wheeler- Nicholson launched an ORIGINAL comic series. 2 / 12

Two of Wheeler-Nicholson's employees started their own comic company the next year. 3 / 12

They spotlighted in their comics that these were ORIGINAL comic book stories. 4 / 12

However, they didn't sell that well. Busy Arnold had helped them and he got an idea. 5 / 12

He thought fans just wanted ESTABLISHED comics, so he launched Feature Funnies #1 in 1937. 6 / 12

It was published by Comic Favorites, Inc. - basically Arnold and three comic strip syndicates. 7 / 12

Another failed original comic magazine, Wow! What a Magazine had paired Will Eisner and Jerry Iger together. 8 / 12

In 1936, Harry A Chesler launched his own comic book company, doing original comics. 9 / 12

It failed, but Chesler then went into comic book "packaging," selling comics to new companies. 10 / 12

So did Eisner/Iger, and Feature Funnies #1 features some Eisner/Iger comics from a British comic, Wags. 11 / 12

Feature Funnies, though, had NOTHING to do with Chesler, despite that "fact" being widely circulated. 12 / 12