Editing Joe Kubert (section)

===1940s and 1950s===
Kubert's first work for [[DC Comics]], where he would spend much of his career and produce some of his most notable art. Throughout the decade, Kubert's art would appear in comics from [[Fiction House]], [[Avon (publishers)|Avon]], and [[Harvey Comics]], but he worked primarily for All-American and DC.<ref name=gcd /> Kubert's long association with the [[Hawkman]] character began with the story "A Hot Time in the Old Town" in ''The Big All-American Comic Book'' (1944).<ref>{{harvnb|Wallace|2010|page= 49}}: "Artist Joe Kubert began his most memorable work on the gravity-defying superhero Hawkman in this issue...'The Painter and the $100,000' written by Gardner Fox marked the start of a long and fruitful run between illustrator and character."</ref> Kubert drew several Hawkman stories in that title as well as in ''[[All Star Comics]]''.<ref>{{cite book|last = Thomas|first = Roy|author-link = Roy Thomas|chapter= The Men (and One Woman) Behind the JSA: Its Creation and Creative Personnel|title = All-Star Companion Volume 1|publisher = [[TwoMorrows Publishing]]|year= 2000|location= Raleigh, North Carolina|page = 30|isbn = 1-893905-055}}</ref> He and [[Irwin Hasen]] drew the debut of the [[Injustice Society]] in ''All Star Comics'' #37 (Oct. 1947) in a tale written by [[Robert Kanigher]].<ref>{{harvnb|Wallace|2010|page= 56}}: "In Robert Kanigher's story, featuring art by Irwin Hasen and Joe Kubert, a cabal of villains united as the Injustice Society of the World and took revenge on the JSA's assembled do-gooders."</ref> The Kanigher/Kubert team created the [[List of Flash enemies#Thorn|Thorn]] in ''[[Flash Comics]]'' #89 (Nov. 1947).<ref>{{harvnb|Wallace|2010|page= 57}}: "Writer Robert Kanigher and artist Joe Kubert presented a female twist on Robert Louis Stevenson's ''Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'' with the Thorn."</ref>

In the 1950s, he became managing editor of [[St. John Publications]], where he, his old classmate [[Norman Maurer]], and Norman's brother, Leonard Maurer, produced the first [[Stereoscopy|3-D]] comic books,<ref name=CCM>{{cite journal|title = WonderCon Special Guests|journal = Comic-Con Magazine|pages = 20|publisher = [[San Diego Comic-Con International]]|date = Winter 2010|url = https://issuu.com/comic-con/docs/ccmag_winter2010|access-date = February 21, 2020|archive-date = March 14, 2016|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160314205231/https://issuu.com/comic-con/docs/ccmag_winter2010|url-status = dead}}</ref> starting with ''Three Dimension Comics'' #1 (Sept. 1953 oversize format, Oct. 1953 standard-size reprint), featuring [[Mighty Mouse]].<ref name=gcd /> According to Kubert, it sold a remarkable 1.2 million copies at 25 cents apiece at a time when comics cost a dime.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.universohq.com/Quadrinhos/interview_kubert01.cfm |title=Joe Kubert Interview: A Myth in the World of Comics |publisher=UniversoHQ.com |date=c. 2001 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101124033248/http://www.universohq.com/quadrinhos/interview_kubert01.cfm |archive-date=November 24, 2010 |url-status=live |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

At St. John, writer Norman Maurer and artist Kubert created the enduring character [[Tor (comics)|Tor]], a [[prehistoric]]-human protagonist who debuted in the comic ''1,000,000 Years Ago'' (Sept. 1953). Tor immediately went on to star in ''3-D Comics'' #2-3 (Oct.-Nov. 1953), followed by a titular, traditionally 2-D comic-book series, written and drawn by Joe Kubert, that premiered with issue #3 (May 1954). The character has since appeared in series from [[Eclipse Comics]], [[Marvel Comics]]' [[Epic Comics|Epic]] imprint, and DC Comics through at least the 1990s.<ref name=gcd /> Kubert in the late 1950s unsuccessfully attempted to sell ''Tor'' as a [[Comic strip|newspaper comic strip]]. The ''Tor'' samples consisted of 12 daily strips, reprinted in six pages in ''[[Alter Ego (magazine)|Alter Ego]]'' vol. 3 #10 and later expanded to 16 pages in DC Comics' ''Tor'' #1. He contributed work to Avon Periodicals, where he did science-fiction stories for ''[[Strange Worlds (Avon Comics)|Strange Worlds]]'' and other titles.<ref name=gcd />

For [[EC Comics]], Kubert drew a few stories for [[Harvey Kurtzman]]'s ''[[Two-Fisted Tales]]'' alongside EC stalwarts [[Wally Wood]], [[Jack Davis (cartoonist)|Jack Davis]], and [[John Severin]].