Jumbo Comics

Launching in 1938 under Real Adventures Pub. Co., Inc., Jumbo Comics is a series best remembered for the work of writer Bill Gibson and artist Matt Baker. Though its run length is listed as zero issues—a curious footnote in comics history—its association with Baker, one of the first prominent African American comic artists, and Gibson lends it a quiet significance for collectors and historians of the Golden Age. The series endures in name as a ghost of what might have been.