The Holyoke Publishing Company first entered the comic book business as a printer. It became a publisher by taking over the publications of printing clients who went out of business as the U.S. entered World War II.
With issues cover-dated January 1942, Holyoke took over the two titles published by Frank Z. Temerson's company Helnit, as well as inheriting Temerson's creative and editorial staff. Both titles reverted to Temerson (whose company was by then called Et-Es-Go, which soon changed to Continental) in mid-1943. For this reason, Holyoke is often confused with Temerson / Helnit / Continental.
Additionally, Holyoke took over Fox Publications' Blue Beetle. It would lose the title and character to Fox's revived company in 1944, but would continue most of the non-title features in its own new series a few months later.
There have been a few Holyoke characters that have been revived by DC Comics as well as Dynamite Entertainment under their Project Superpowers title
A portion of the stable of characters that were originally published by Holyoke (most of which were first published by Temerson) are:
Ace Diamond
Ace Kids
Adam Star and the Solar Legion
Agent Z-2
Alias X
Bingo, the Wonder Boy
Black Friday
Black Fury and Kid Fury (Fox and Holyoke)
Blackout (Holyoke version)
Black Widow (Holyoke version)
Black Venus (Holyoke, Dynamite)
Blaze Baylor
Blue Beetle (Fox, Holyoke, Charlton, DC, Dynamite)
Blue Beetle (Nazi)
Blue Streak (Holyoke version)
Boomerang (Holyoke version)
Bull's Eye
Captain Aero
Captain Catapult
Captain Fearless (Holyoke version)
Captain K.O.
Captain Stone
Captain Storms
Catman and Kitten (Holyoke, Dynamite)
Continental
Cyclone (Holyoke, Dynamite)
The Deacon and Mickey
Death Mask
Death's Head (Holyoke version)
Dr. Diamond
Dr. Garcia and his Fish Men
Dr. Gaunt
Dr. Igor
Dr. Macabre
Duke of Darkness
Eric van Doorn
Eye (Holyoke version)
Falkon
Fangs the Wolf Boy
Flagman and Rusty
Flamingo (Holyoke version)
Gargoyle (Holyoke version)
Green Hornet and Kato (Holyoke, Harvey, Moonstone, Dynamite)
Golden Archer
Golden Eagle (Holyoke version)
Grey Mask
Halo (Fox, Holyoke)
The Hood (Holyoke, Dynamite) (Holyoke version)
Hurricane Harrigan
Inspector Cosmic
Jag
Juggernaut (Holyoke version)
Jungol
Karl von Keilman
Lance Rand
Magnificent Epoch
Masked Leader
The Menace
Mighty Mite
Miss Victory
Mr. Miracle (Holyoke version)
Mr. Nobody
Mr. Q (Holyoke version)
Mr. Slumber
Najar
Octopus (Holyoke version)
Pack Pearson, Space Adventure
Pied Piper (Holyoke version)
Phantom Falcon (Fiction House, Holyoke, Moonstone)
Phantom Flyer
Ragman (Holyoke version)
The Reckoner and Chipper
Red Cross
Red Knight I, II
Red Lash
Red Robe of Death
Robo of the Little People
Shangra
Sky Rangers
Solar (Holyoke version)
Solar Legion (created by Simon/Kirby)
Stinger (Holyoke version)
Strongman, the Perfect Human (Holyoke. Dynamite)
Tiny
Triggers
Tommy Tomahawk
Tornado Tom
Valkyrie (Holyoke version)
V-Man and the V Boys (Fox, Holyoke, Dynamite)
Volton (Holyoke, Marvel)
Volton the Human Generator (Joe Kubert's 1st work)
Voris, the Fire Eater
Vultures Claw
Yellow Fang
Zaro, the Jungle Magician
Zara, the Evil
Many of these characters have separate pages while others do not.
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