In 1933, salesperson Maxwell Gaines and sales manager Harry
I. Wildenberg of Eastern Color Printing collaborated with Dell
to publish the 36-page one-shot Famous Funnies: A Carnival of
Comics, considered by historians to be the first true American
comic book. It was a reprinting of earlier newspaper comic strips,
thus came the term comic book. These publications established
the story telling and format that is still used today.
Maxwell Gaines
First Strip
Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur, or simply Prince Valiant, is a long-
run comic strip created by Harold Foster in 1937. The strip currently appears
weekly in more than 300 newspapers, according to its to its distributor, King Features Syndicate.
Harold Rudolf Foster
Thomas Edwin "Tom" Mix (January 6, 1880 – October 12, 1940)
Mix appeared in 291 films between 1909 and 1935, all but nine of which were
silent movies. He is credited as having helped define the genre for all cowboy
actors who followed.
1935
The Tom Mix Memorial On Highway 79 Outside of Florence,
Arizona
