Appearances
Merlin the Magician's final Quality Comics appearance was in National Comics #45, and thereafter followed an almost fifty-year hiatus for Merlin during which Quality Comics (or a large part of its stable of characters) was essentially folded into DC Comics. He recently made an appearance in All Star Comics v.2 #1 (May 1999), as a part of the Justice Society Returns storyline. In that two-part arc, it was revealed that Merlin the Magician had actually died in battle with the supernatural entity known as "Stalker" in 1945.
In 1985, Blackthorne Publishing released some black and white reprints of early issues of National Comics, including Merlin the Magician's appearances.
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