Publication History
The character was intended as a simple replacement for Will Eisner's The Spirit while Eisner was at war, but took on its own life in later stories. He was created for Quality Comics by Jack Cole, who later that year would become famous for creating Plastic Man.
Midnight's first appearance was in Smash Comics #18 (January, 1941). The character was popular enough to become the cover feature with Smash Comics #28 (November 1941), a position he would hold for nearly eight years until the title's cancellation with issue #85 (October, 1949).
Read more about this topic: Midnight (DC Comics)
Famous quotes containing the words publication and/or history:
“An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.”
—Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)