The debut comic book effort from magazine and paperback publisher Hillman Periodicals, the Miracle Comics series ran for four issues from early 1940 to early 1941.
Hillman's comic book line and this title itself were developed under the auspices of Hillman editors Anatole Field and Lionel White, with White soon becoming the publisher's editor-in-chief for a brief time. The title's protagonist was the Sky Wizard, the world's greatest scientist with a headquarters on a floating island in the sky. With a series of superweapons of his own invention, Sky Wizard defended mankind from a variety of threats.
By the early 1930s he was working for publisher William Godwin, Inc., soon becoming president of that firm. He eventually formed a partnership called Hillman-Curl, which got into magazine-style pulps around the mid-1930s, and started his own Hillman Periodicals in 1938. Hillman then essentially made three distinct attempts to enter the comic book publishing business from 1939 to 1941.
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