1937 saw the debut of Detective Comics (Volume 1). Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, strapped for money, entered an agreement with his printer Harry Donenfeld and accountant Jack Liebowitz to form Detective Comics, Inc. Meanwhile, still under the National Allied banner, New Comics (Volume 1) was changed into New Adventure Comics (Volume 1).
Magazine printer "Busy" Arnold, seeing the market for comic magazines rise, decided to join the game with Feature Funnies (Volume 1), the first comic magazine of what would become Quality Comics.
Creators
The following creative talent are known to have been born in 1937:
- Adrian Gonzales
- Archie Goodwin
- Chuck Bowman
- Dan Adkins
- David Dworski
- David Newman
- Gus Trikonis
- Jerome Charyn
- Pablo Marcos
- Sergio Aragonés
- Tom Sutton
The following creative talent passed away in the year 1937:
Titles
The following comic titles debuted with a 1937 cover date:
Characters
Selected 1937 character debuts. See all.
- Brian O'Brien (Quality Universe)
- Samuel Bradley (New Earth)
- Cyril Saunders (New Earth)
- Nadir (Earth-Two)
- Bartholomew Regan (Earth-Two)
- Chang I (Earth-Two)
- Douglas Stewart (Earth-Two)
- Cosmo (Earth-Two)
- Fui Onyui (Earth-Two)
- Henri Duval II (Earth-Two)
- Sally Norris (Earth-Two)
- June Justis (Earth-Two)
- Hope Hazard (Earth-Two)
- Marty McCann (Earth-Two)
- Lord of Life (New Earth)
- Roskoffin (Earth-Two)
- Bruce Nelson (Earth-Two)
- Johnnie Law (Earth-Two)
- Richard I of England (New Earth)
- Detective Sergeant Carey (Earth-Two)
- Buck Marshall (Earth-Two)
- Charlemagne (New Earth)
- Bret Lawton (Earth-Two)
- Samuel Morgan (New Earth)
- Lawrence Steele (Earth-Two)
- Cesare Borgia (New Earth)
- Hanko Hare (Earth-Two)
- Larry Trent (Earth-Two)
- Crack Casey (Quality Universe)
- T. James Harrington II (Quality Universe)
- Jean Le Grand (Earth-Two)
- Chin Lung (Earth-Two)
