Gullor Advanced Hero Fountain Pen 3015a Orange with Fine Nib

The Shanghai Hero Pen Company, popular for its Hero fountain pens, is a Chinese company. Founded in 1931 as the Huafu Pen Factory, it was renamed in 1966 to the current name. Some of its brands of fountain pens include Hero, Doctor, Wing Sung, Lucky, Huafu, Xinming, Guanleming, Xinhua, and Gentleman. By the 1990s, the company's Hero brand of fountain pen had earned a high reputation among Chinese, and had come to be known as the best in the country.Hero pens were also popular in the world during the 1980s and 1990s.