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Given the success of the JSA, National decided to develop a team title of its own—this became Leading Comics, #1 (Winter 1941-1942) of which debuted the Seven Soldiers of Victory, a team made up exclusively of characters from National's anthology publications: More Fun Comics, Adventure Comics, Action Comics, Detective Comics, and Star-Spangled Comics. Like its predecessor All Star Comics, each issue of Leading was taken up with a single adventure of the SSOV broken into multiple chapters, each featuring one or two heroes. However, the heroes of the SSOV were hardly the company's most popular characters—most of those already being members of the JSA—and the strip lasted through only the first fourteen issues of Leading.

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Winter 1941-1942 - Feb/Mar 1950 Apr/May 1950 - Aug/Sept 1955

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Cover of Leading Comics #9 , featuring the Seven Soldiers of Victory.

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Leading Comics'' ''Leading Screen Comics

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#18-64, #77 #65-76 Quarterly: Bi-monthly: 8 #1-17

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Given the success of the JSA, National decided to develop a team title of its own—this became Leading Comics, #1 (Winter 1941-1942) of which debuted the Seven Soldiers of Victory, a team made up exclusively of characters from National's anthology publications: More Fun Comics, Adventure Comics, Action Comics, Detective Comics, and Star-Spangled Comics. Like its predecessor All Star Comics, each issue of Leading was taken up with a single adventure of the SSOV broken into multiple chapters, each featuring one or two heroes. However, the heroes of the SSOV were hardly the company's most popular characters—most of those already being members of the JSA—and the strip lasted through only the first fourteen issues of Leading. When the superhero genre faded in popularity in the late 1940s, DC Comics decided to focus more on other genres, such as science fiction, westerns, humor and romance. Leading Comics led the charge as the first DC title to drop its superheroes. With its Summer 1945 issue #15, Leading switched to funny animals, with the introduction of Nero Fox (a fox who was billed as the "jive-jumpin' emperor of Ancient Rome"). In issue #23 (February–March 1947), Nero Fox was dropped as the cover-featured first story in each issue, to be replaced by Peter Porkchops, a pig (created by Otto Feuer), in his first appearance. Peter appeared in Leading Comics (retitled Leading Screen Comics in 1950) regularly until issue #77 (August–September 1955). Leading Screen Comics ended with issue #77 (August–September 1955).