Victor Fox was one of the more colorful figures in the early days of comics. He had been involved in a wide array of shady, unsuccessful businesses. One day, he happened to see the early sales figures on a new book that a named Harry Donenfeld was publishing called Action Comics featuring a character named Superman. Before Donenfeld even realized he had a hit, Fox had rented office space in the same building and begun publishing a comic book imitating Superman. Later, he ran a kind of sweatshop where young artists sat in long rows, cranking out comic book pages like galley slaves…and if you ever read any of those early Fox comics, you can almost tell. Good people worked for him, many of them doing their first-ever jobs in comics, but the material was generally sterile and lifeless, and it sold accordingly. Still, the history is worth recounting and it's well-told in this article by Jon Berk. The Comicartville site where it appears has also set up this gallery of Fox covers. Check out the story of this oft-neglected company.