#Irwin Hasen

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Today in 1941, Wildcat debuted in a story by Bill Finger and Irwin Hasen! The boxing superhero first appeared in Sensation Comics #1.

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Wonder Woman and the Trail of the Lost Hours - art by Irwin Hasen and Bernard Sachs (1951)

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Wonder Woman #43 (September-October 1950) cover by Irwin Hasen and Bernard Sachs.

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Wildcat's first appearance from Sensation Comics (vol. 1) #1 (January, 1942). Art by Irwin Hasen.

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All-American Comics #26 (1941) by Bill Finger & Irwin Hasen

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Iconic Artists and Incredible Heroes #128.

A celebration of the amazing comic book artists who brought us indelible images that best capture the spirit and essence of the superhero or superheroine.

Issue #128 - "Here kitty kitty".

The superheroes voted most likely to cough up a hairball.

Irwin Hasen, et. al / Wildcat - Ted Grant.

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All-Star Comics #45 ‘The Case of the Cosmic Criminals!’ (1948) by John Broome, Irwin Hasen, Bernard Sachs and Bob Oksner. Edited by Whitney Ellsworth. Cover by Hasen and Oksner.

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Irwin Hasen cover - Wonder Woman #34, March-April 1949

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Today In JSA History: First Appearance of Per Degaton

Per Degaton—whose real name remains unknown—made his first appearance in All-Star Comics #35, published on June 5, 1946. He was created by writer John Broome and artist Irwin Hasen.

During World War II, Per Degaton was a member of the Nazi Party and a brilliant, ruthless scientist. He infiltrated top-secret government organizations such as the Time Trust and Project M, manipulating events to serve his own ambitions. His actions brought him into direct conflict with the Justice Society of America and the All-Star Squadron.

Degaton became obsessed with world domination and power, eventually joining the Injustice Society. He learned the secrets of time travel from a robot from the future, gaining not only the ability to traverse time but also to exist outside the time stream itself—making him a constant and dangerous threat.

With his intellect, ambition, and temporal abilities, Per Degaton stands as one of the most enduring and formidable villains in the DC Universe, especially to Golden Age heroes and their legacies.

The Image of Justice League of America #209 is by George Pérez and the interior page is from Justice Society of America #3 written by Geoff Johns with art by Mikel Janín.

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In the year 2023, a police officer lost his arm and had it replaced by a computerized cybernetic one. The limb was designed to seek out wickedness. The cop ended up being so corrupted in his search for vegence that the hand eventually ended up strangling him. ("The Long Arm of the Law", "Slave of Pharoh", "The Man Who Died Tomorrow", House of Mystery 286#, November 1980, DC Comic)

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"All-American Comics" #49 (DC, 1943). Couverture d'Irwin Hasen. - Source Heritage Auctions.

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Ferret, Mystery Detective adventure "King of the Counterfeiters" in Marvel Mystery Comics #5, March 1940. Bob Davis (as "Stockbridge Winslow") script, Irwin Hasen pencils & inks.

Info from Grand Comics Database.

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Irwin Hasen

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Wonder Woman #41 (May-June 1950) cover by Irwin Hasen and Bernard Sachs.

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Some pages from the origin story and first appearance of Wildcat, by Bill Finger (co-creator of a some guy called Batman) and Irwin Hasen, from Sensation Comics (vol. 1) #1 (January, 1942).

As a kid I only knew Hasen as the artist on the newspaper strip Dondi. I bought the New York Daily News every Sunday for my grandmother, and she let me have the large color comics section, which carried Dondi. The other Sunday newspapers my family read were Long Island's Newsday, which had a so-so comics section with no adventure strips, and The New York Times, which carried no comic strips at all (boring!).

It wasn't until I purchased Famous First Edition #C-30, the over-sized reprint of Sensation Comics #1, that I realized Hasen had been a comic book artist during the Golden Age. I really loved those reprints from DC, complete with the ads that ran in the books.

I liked the whole bit where Ted Grant is inspired to become Wildcat by "comic book character" (and his future Justice Society of America teammate) Green Lantern. That same bit is used in the Little Boy Blue origin story in the same issue. When deciding to become a costumed crime fighter, the hero is told by his best friend that Wildcat was inspired to do so by Green Lantern. So very meta.

Sensation Comics #1 included the original and first appearance of Mr. Terrific (another future member of the Justice Society), and The Gay Ghost (later renamed The Grim Ghost). It also featured the second appearance of some dame named Wonder Woman, who also snagged the cover spot.