Quality / Everett M. Arnold

Founded by printer Everett M.Arnold in 1939, Quality Comics published a large number of titles during the 1940s. Arnold launched the company with Feature Funnies, which he had bought from another company, but this was soon joined by several additional titles, becoming one of the more prominent wartime comics groups. However by the 1950s things were on a downturn, and after attempting to branch out into non-superhero comics (humour, horror, and war titles), they shut up shop in December 1956, selling their characters and other assets to National Periodical Publications (later to become D.C. Comics). They kept a select few titles going (notably Blackhawk and G.I. Combat), but shelved the majority for later use (indeed, to this day, several Quality characters have yet to appear at all in D.C. Comics). Gradually some of the Quality characters were reintroduced, though many were placed on an alternate Earth (Earth-X) rather than "Earth-1", the home of the main D.C. characters. Following the Crisis on Infinite Earths, they were fully integrated into the D.C. Universe (alongside the similarly bought-out Fawcett and Charlton characters), but after the events of Final Crisis D.C. got the best of both worlds - versions of the characters remain within the main D.C. reality, while counterparts closer to the Golden Age versions reside on Earth-10. Without a doubt, the most prominent of the Quality characters still active at D.C. has to be Plastic Man.

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