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The Comics Magazine #1 (May 1936), The Comics Magazine Co. (defunct), cover art by Vin Sullivan

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Everett M. "Busy" Arnold

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To illustrate an example of one of the article subject's (a publisher) most important contributions: one of the earliest prototypes of what would become the American comic book.

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2. The image is used as the only means of visual identification of the article topic.
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5. It is a low-resolution image.
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