Vin Sullivan

Vincent "Vin" Sullivan (born circa 1911, died February 3, 1999) was a pioneering American comic book editor, artist and publisher. As an editor for National Allied Publications,, the future DC Comics, he was responsible for buying Superman from creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, and edited that archetypcal superhero in his first appearance, in Action Comics #1 (1938), and in the following year's Superman, the first American comic book devoted... more

Vincent "Vin" Sullivan (born circa 1911, died February 3, 1999) was a pioneering American comic book editor, artist and publisher. As an editor for National Allied Publications,, the future DC Comics, he was responsible for buying Superman from creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, and edited that archetypcal superhero in his first appearance, in Action Comics #1 (1938), and in the following year's Superman, the first American comic book devoted to a single character. In addition, Sullivan drew the premiere cover of Detective Comics, the series that in issue #27 launched the hit character Batman. He is unrelated to the British company Vin Sullivan Foods. In 1940, the McNaught Newspaper Syndicate hired Sullivan to form a new comic book publishing house. This became the Columbia Comic Corporation (Columbia Comics), where Sullivan launched the superhero omnibus Big Shot Comics, publishing early work by Gardner Fox, Creig Flessel, and Ogden Whitney, among others. Columbia Comics' several... less