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Explore the origins of Quality Comics' Bozo the Iron Man by George Brenner, a precursor for the man/machine comics to follow.

Busy Arnold's title transition from Feature Funnies to Feature Comics was sparked by a forgotten legal battle of the Golden Age.

Hard Boiled Detective Ken Shannon became a Quality Comics star in the early 1950s featuring art by Jack Cole and Reed Crandall.

You shouldn't scoff at that pep talk notion, because Busy Arnold was well acquainted with lots of football coaches, and as we all know, football coaches can often be good motivators Now, as it happens, I don't think Busy Arnold gave John Mahon and Bill Cook a pep talk.  I suppose he may have, but[...]

Arnold sold most of the Quality Comics properties to DC Comics in 1956. In his book Paterno, Joe Posnanski describes Arnold's involvment with Paterno: How does Busy Arnold, comic-book titan, enter our story? As much as he loved money and women and being photographed, Busy Arnold's greatest love may have been his alma mater, Brown University[...]