Master Comics was a monthly ongoing comic book

Comic book

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 anthology

Anthology

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 series that began its 133-issue run (cover dated March 1940 – April 1953) during the 1930s and 1940s period known as the Golden Age of Comic Books

Golden Age of Comic Books

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. Published by Fawcett Comics

Fawcett Comics

Fawcett Comics, a division of Fawcett Publications, was one of several successful comic book publishers during the Golden Age of Comic Books in the 1940s...

, it contained features starring superhero

Superhero

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 characters including Master Man

Master Man (Fawcett Comics)

Master Man was a short-lived comic book superhero created during the 1930s to 1940s period historians and fans called the Golden Age of Comic Books. His exact creator is uncertain: His first story, in Fawcett Comics' Master Comics #1 , was drawn by Newt Alfred, but that issue's cover was drawn by...

, in the first six issues only, Bulletman, Minute-Man

Minute-Man

Minute-Man is a fictional comic book superhero.-Publication history:Named after the minutemen of the American Revolution and sporting an American flag-inspired costume, he was originally published by Fawcett Comics...

, and its best-known character, Captain Marvel, Jr., part of the lighthearted Marvel Family

Marvel Family

The Marvel Family is a group of fictional characters, a team of superheroes in the Fawcett Comics and DC Comics universes. Created in 1942 by writer Otto Binder and Fawcett artists C. C...

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Publisher

Master Comics was also the name of an unrelated comic book publishing company that produced one series, the 24-issue horror comic

Horror comics

Horror comics are comic books, graphic novels, black-and-white comics magazines, and manga focusing on horror fiction. Horror comic books reached a peak in the late 1940s through the mid-1950s, when concern over content and the imposition of the self-censorship Comics Code Authority contributed to...

Dark Mysteries (July 1951 - July 1955).