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As the comic book began to show signs of being a money-maker and the decade of the 1930's came to a close, existing magazine publishers began to take note. Among the first to branch out into four-color fantasy were the pulp magazine houses. One of the most successful of those was Ned Pines' Better Publications, purveyors of adventure pulp fiction since the 1920's. Not one to let an opportunity pass him by, Pines initially tried his hand at comics in November of 1939, with the first issue of Best Comics. Utilizing an experimental sideways-opening format, Best proved a failure, but by the next spring, Better (known at various times as Nedor, Standard, and finally Pines Publications) was back with more enduring fare.
February, April and June of 1940 would see the release of the titles Thrilling, Exciting and Startling Comics respectively, echoing successful Pines pulps with identical titles. General interest anthologies to start with, all three soon began to rely heavily on costumed, super-powered characters that were doing well with other publishers. The dark, dramatically-costumed Black Terror proved their longest-running hero, starring in Exciting, his own title, and the Better star-showcase, America's Best, until 1949. A few others, like the Doc Savage Inspired Doc Strange, Fighting Yank and Pyroman had respectable runs. Unfortunately, unexciting artwork (often provided by the small Editorial Artist's Syndicate shop) and pedestrian scripts kept the Better line from achieving great success; through the super-hero era the line's sensational Alex Schomburg covers were often the comics greatest selling points. Schomburg did almost all the Better covers between 1941 and 1950- a prodigious output. At right is one of his Fighting Yank covers.
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Standard Comics was a comic book imprint of publisher Ned Pines, who also published pulp magazines under a variety of company names that he also used for the comics. Standard[1] in turn was the parent company of two comic-book lines: Better Publications[2] and Nedor Publishing[3] Collectors and historians sometimes refer to them collectively as "Standard/Better/Nedor".[4][5]
In business from 1939 to 1956, Standard was a prolific American publisher during the Golden Age of comic books. Its best-known character, initially published under the Better imprint, is the Black Terror. In June 1949, the Better and Nedor imprints were consolidated as the Standard Comics line, with a "Standard Comics" flag-like cover logo. The titles previously had no publisher logo. In 1956, Standard ended and only two titles continued, published by Pines Comics.
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