Entrepreneur Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson founded National Allied Publications in Autumn 1934 intended as an American comic book publishing company. The first publishing of the company debuted with the tabloid-sized "New Fun: The Big Comic Magazine" #1 (the first of a comic series later called "More Fun Comics") with a cover date of February 1935. An anthology title essential for containing original stories not reprinted from newspaper strips unlike many comic book series before. While superhero comics are what DC Comics is known for throughout modern times, the genres in the anthology titles consisted of funnies, Western comics and adventure-related stories starting out. The character Doctor Occult, created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in December 1935 within the issue No. 6 of "New Fun Comics", is considered as the earliest recurring superhero created by DC that is still used. The company created a second recurring title called "New Comics" No. 1 released in December 1935 which would be the start of the long-running "Adventure Comics" series featuring many anthology titles as well.