Comments on: Ira Schnapp and the early DC logos, new information

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Tue, 04 Sep 2012 11:33:43 +0000

[...] new information I’ve posted HERE indicates Ira Schnapp did not work on any of these early DC [...]

By: Todd

Todd — Sun, 06 May 2012 11:13:47 +0000

I had the date wrong on SUPERMAN #6, it’s cover-dated Sept.-Oct., so the time gap is not as large as it seems. Plus, the actual release dates of the two might be closer, as NEW YORK WORLD’S FAIR COMICS 1940 would not have had the kind of post-dating used on monthly comics to encourage newsstands to keep them on their racks longer. Both titles might have been out for the summer of 1940. I think that narrows down the creation of the logo to no later than June, 1940, perhaps May.

By: Todd

Todd — Sun, 06 May 2012 10:59:10 +0000

Thanks, Michael, I see I do have that in the DC Archives book “Superman in World’s Finest.” Kind of odd it was used there, as the following story from World’s Best #1 has another Shuster logo, but that could be an older story.

By: Michael Bradley

Michael Bradley — Sun, 06 May 2012 05:05:04 +0000

I don’t own the original issue, but here is a scan from the reprint in Superman Chronicles, Vol. 3: http://www.greatkrypton.com/wf40splash.jpg

By: Todd

Todd — Sat, 05 May 2012 14:39:23 +0000

Thanks for the information, Michael. If you have an image of that page I’d love to see it.

By: Michael Bradley

Michael Bradley — Sat, 05 May 2012 01:05:39 +0000

For what it is worth, while the first cover usage was SUPERMAN #6, it had been previously used on the opening splash panel to the Superman story in the 1940 issue of NEW YORK WORLD’S FAIR COMICS from a few months prior.