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Entrepreneur Major Malcolm Wheeler Nicholson founded National Allied Publications in autumn 1934.The company debuted with the tabloid sized New Fun The Big Comic Magazine #1 with a cover date of February 1935. The company second title New Comics #1 (Dec. 1935) appeared in a size close to what would become comic books standard during the period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books with slightly larger dimensions than today. That title evolved into Adventure Comics which continued through issue #503 in 1983 becoming one of the longest running comic-book series. In 2009 DC revived Adventure Comics with its original numbering. In 1935 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster the future creators of Superman created Doctor Occult who is the earliest DC Comics character to still be in the DC Universe. Wheeler Nicholson third and final title Detective Comics advertised with a cover illustration dated December 1936 eventually premiered three months late with a March 1937 cover date. The themed anthology series would become a sensation with the introduction of Batman in issue #27 (May 1939). By then however Wheeler Nicholson had gone. In 1937 in debt to printing plant owner and magazine distributor Harry Donenfeld who also published pulp magazines and operated as a principal in the magazine distributorship Independent News Wheeler Nicholson had to take Donenfeld on as a partner in order to publish Detective Comics #1. Detective Comics Inc. was formed with Wheeler Nicholson and J