The Funnies Dell 052 1941 Cbz
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| | Here are a variety of collections or 'archives' of individual characters or popular artists. Not specific to any one publisher or theme merely popular enough to warrant extra attention from fandom. Nosotros recommend all of them for excellent entertainment value. |
| | Ace Magazines 1940-1956 --- Ace Magazines was a comic-book and lurid-mag publishing visitor headed past Aaron A. Wyn and his wife Rose Wyn. The Wyns had been publishing pulp fiction nether the Journal House and A. A. Wyn's Magazine Publishers names since 1928, and published comics between 1940 and the terminate of 1956. -From GCD and Wikipedia |
| | Ajax-Farrell Publications 1951-1958 --- Founded and operated by Robert W. Farrell in the 1940s and 1950s, Farrell is particularly known for its pre-Comics Lawmaking horror comics, mostly produced past the South. One thousand. Iger Studio. Farrell acted as editor throughout. In add-on to packaging art for Farrell from the beginning, Jerry Iger was the visitor's fine art manager from 1955–1957. Also published comics nether the names of Ajax, America'south Best, American Feature Syndicate, Decker Publications, Excellent Publications, Farrell, Four Star, Kiddie Kapers, Crimson Top Comics and Steinway Comics. No matter the imprint, most titles had the words "A Farrell Publication." |
| | American Comics Group/ACG 1943-1967 --- ACG, from 1946 to 1953, was co-owned past Fred Iger who besides owned part of National Journal Publications. Iger was sole owner from 1953 to the early on 1960s, when Harry Donenfeld became co-owner. They were distributed past Independent News Co., which was a sister company to DC comics. In 1967 the line of newsstand titles was cancelled, but the Custom Comics part of the business organisation lasted until at least the belatedly seventies. Annotation- due to DCM's rule of Not sharing books post Dec 1959 several American Comics Group/ACG titles are incomplete on DCM |
| | Avon Comics, Inc. 1947-1959 --- Avon Publications, Inc. was an independent publisher from 1941 to June 1959, when information technology was bought past the Hearst Corporation. Joseph Meyers and Edna Meyers Williams were the publishers. Their comics were distributed by ANC (American News Company) up to 1952, and by Hearst after that. As of 2019, Avon still exists as an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. |
| | Better/Nedor/Standard/Pines Publications 1939-1959 --- In business from 1939 Standard was a prolific publisher during the Golden Historic period of comic books. Its best-known character, initially published under the Better banner, is the Black Terror. In June 1949, the Amend and Nedor imprints were consolidated every bit the Standard Comics line, with a "Standard Comics" flag-like comprehend logo. The titles previously had no publisher logo. In 1956, Standard ended, and but 2 titles continued, published past Pines Comics. This last venture also incorporated several titles from the defunct St. John Publications. Most titles went to other publishers subsequently the company folded in 1959. -From Wikipedia |
| | 1941-1946 During the 2d World War in that location was a strange-exchange crisis which led to a ban being placed on the importation of U.S. comics. This period, which witnessed an explosion of English-Canadian comic book publishing, is now described as the Canadian Golden Age of Comics. Featured publishers include - Maple Foliage Publishing in Vancouver and the Toronto-based firms Anglo-American, Hillborough Studios, and Commercial Signs of Canada (later called Bell Features) You tin can read more about the history of Canadian Whites at this link - Ivan Kocmarek has an online index here - http://canadasowncomics.com/ |
| | Centaur Publications 1938–1942 --- Centaur consisted of Centaur Publications, Inc. and the Comics Corporation of America. Comics published by both of these publishers were advertised together and referred to as existence published by the "Centaur Group" in those ads. Later comics by Comic Corporation of America were also advertised together, including Astonishing Man Comics which had also been part of the "Centaur Group." Centaur almost never put any brand identification on their covers, and instead used internal ads to connect their titles. Several boosted companies have historically been lumped nether "Centaur" on the grounds that the titles they published were later purchased and continued by Centaur Publications, Inc. The earliest of these were the Comics Magazine Company, Inc. and Chesler Publications, Inc., both of which sold titles to Ultem Publications, Inc. Many sources include these predecessors equally Centaur issues, merely the companies are all distinct, with dissimilar buying. Ultem in turn sold all 4 of their titles to Centaur Publications, Inc., which is the proper get-go of this group. Centaur used the erstwhile Ultem titles to begin their comic book line, and too drew on the back inventory of stories to fill out the early issues of their new titles with reprints. -From GCD |
| | Charlton Comics Group 1944-1986 --- Charlton began in 1933 with Hit Parader mag, publishing song lyrics. Charlton Comics published comics from 1944 - 1987. The last of the magazines were published in the mid-1990s. Information technology was unique among comic volume companies in that it controlled all areas of publishing –from editorial to printing to distribution – rather than working with outside printers and distributors as did well-nigh other publishers. It did then under 1 roof at its Derby headquarters. Notation - due to DCM'southward rule of Non sharing books post Dec 1959 several Charlton titles are incomplete on DCM |
| | Harry "A" Chesler Comics 1937-1946 --- Chesler (the "A" stood for "Anything") was a comic book packager and publisher. He operated a packaging studio more or less continuously from the mid-30s through 1953, and at times too operated as a publisher. In 1941 Chesler published with Dynamic Publications, Inc. From this signal on, virtually of Chesler'southward comics would be branded with a logo proclaiming them the "World's Greatest Comics". In 1941-1942, this also identified each outcome as "A Dynamic Publication". After just over one-half a yr, Dynamic ceased publishing, he continued producing a few books through surrogates. The surrogate activity picks upwards dramatically in 1944, leading into Chesler's third major wave of publishing. In place of "A Dynamic Publication" these had "Harry "A" Chesler, Jr.". Junior, even so, was the son of Chesler the publisher, a point of much confusion for latter-day comics researchers. This period lasted through 1946, after which the ongoing titles were connected in Canada by Superior Publishers through early 1948. Chesler continued to run his art store, but no longer published his own comics after 1946. |
| | Columbia Comics Corporation 1940-1949 --- Formed in 1940 equally a partnership between artist/editor Vin Sullivan, the McNaught Syndicate, and the Frank Jay Markey Syndicate to publish comic books featuring reprints of such McNaught and Markey comic strips every bit Joe Palooka and Sparky Watts, besides as original features. Other properties published by Eastern Color Printing are also transferred to Columbia Comics. Charles V. McAdam, president of the McNaught Syndicate, was also publisher of Columbia Comics. |
| | Comic Media 1950-1954 --- A short-lived comic book company owned by Allen Hardy that existed in the 1950s. Notable artists included Pete Morisi and Don Heck. When Comic Media became defunct, the visitor sold its titles and characters to Charlton. |
| | Cupples and Leon Co. 1902-1956 In 1903, Cupples & Leon collected such strips as The Katzenjammer Kids. Alphonse and Gaston, Happy Hooligan, On and Off the Ark, Poor Lil Mose and The Tigers. Their major competitor in books of comic strip reprints was Frederick A. Stokes, who died in 1939. To reprint comic strips, the visitor offered, for 25 cents, a square-bound paperback format of 52 pages of black-and-white strips between flexible cardboard covers. Between 1906 and 1934, Cupples & Leon published more than 100 titles in that format. They collected Bringing Up Father, Little Orphan Annie, Reg'lar Fellers, Smitty, Tillie the Toiler and other leading strips of the 1920s and 1930s.[2] They left the comic strip reprint field in 1934, concentrating on their juvenile lines, just as the modern day comic volume was introduced that same year with Famous Funnies. Victor Cupples died in Mount Vernon, New York in July 1941. Arthur Leon, who lived in New Rochelle, New York, died in Dec 1943, and his married woman, Louise Heroy Leon, died five years later in Feb 1948. The Platt and Munk publishing business firm acquired Cupples & Leon in 1956. |
| | Dell Publishing Co., Inc. 1929-1988 --- Dell was founded in 1921 and outset published comics with 1929'south "The Funnies", which looked like a paper insert simply was distributed on newsstands. Eastern Color Printing Company was involved with several of Dell's earliest comic volume ventures, although the verbal nature of each partnership is not ever clear. The company's comic book division folded in 1973, although Dell continued to publish the occasional book with comics content, including newspaper strip collections. Dell became part of Bantam Doubleday Dell in 1988, ceasing to exist as an independent visitor. -"The American Comic Book: The Evolutionary Era, 1884-1939" by Denis Gifford. NOTE- due to DCM's dominion of Not sharing books postal service Dec 1959 several Dell titles are incomplete on DCM. |
| | D.S. Publishing 1947-1951 --- D.S. Publishing enters the publishing market around 1941, with several 'song sheets'. In late 1947, D.Southward. begins publishing comic books, which includes Select Detective, now as a comic; with early problems of Underworld and Outlaws being notably violent; by 1949-l, D.Due south. is publishing its final comic titles, with the juvenile interest Elsie the Cow and Allow's Pretend. Richard Davis is listed throughout as editor, publisher or president, with V.C. Albus listed as vice president 1949-50; the editorial accost throughout is xxx Rockefeller Plaza, NYC, which was afterward used by some other comic book publisher, P.Fifty. Publishing (1951); no other connection is known at this time. |
| | Eastern Color Printing Visitor 1933-1955 --- At get-go it was only paper comic strip reprints. Eastern incorporated in 1928, and soon became successful past printing color newspaper sections for several New England and New York papers. In addition to publishing its own comic books during the 40s, Eastern did the printing for the majority of publishers in the comics industry. An article in the Hartford Courant dated February. fifteen, 1954 states that "An executive of 1 of the largest comic volume printing firms in the nation, located in Waterbury, Conn. said 65,000,000 issues are printed each month. Of these 65 one thousand thousand issues, more than forty per cent are printed in Connecticut." Eastern published its own comics until the mid-1950s, and continued to print comics for other publishers until 1973. Eastern struggled financially from the 1970s to 2002, when the business closed, a victim of irresolute printing technologies. |
| | Fawcett Publications 1940-1954 --- Founded in 1919 in Robbinsdale, Minnesota by Wilford Hamilton "Helm Billy" Fawcett (1885–1940). It kicked off with the publication of the bawdy sense of humour magazine Captain Baton's Whiz Blindside and expanded into a magazine empire with the first issue of Mechanix Illustrated in the 1920s, followed by numerous titles including True Confessions, Family Circle and Woman'south Day. Fawcett Comics, which began operating in 1939, led to the introduction of Helm Curiosity. The company became a publisher of paperbacks in 1950 with the opening of Golden Medal Books. In 1953, the visitor abased its roster of superhero comic characters in the wake of failing sales and a lawsuit for infringement by the Helm Marvel character on the copyright of the Action Comics grapheme Superman, and ended its publication of comic books. It was purchased by CBS Publications in 1977 and afterwards underwent dismantling and absorption by other companies. Notation - Warner Brothers (current owners of Fawcett copyrights) legal representation has informed us several Fawcett books on DCM were in fact not in the public domain and must come down. You lot can read more about information technology on the forums at this link: |
| | Fiction House, Inc. 1938 - 1954 --- Fiction House was an American publisher of pulp magazines and comic books that existed from 1921 to the 1950s. By the late 1930s, publisher Thurman T. Scott expanded Fiction House into comic books developing its own staff employed either in-house or on a freelance basis such artists equally Mort Meskin, Matt Baker, Nick Cardy, George Evans, Bob Powell, and Lee Elias, too as female artists such as Ruth Atkinson, Fran Hopper, Lily Renée, and Marcia Snyder. The later-day owner's comics division was best known for its pinup-mode good girl fine art, as epitomized past the company'southward well-nigh popular character, Sheena, Queen of the Jungle. |
| | Play a trick on Feature Syndicate, Inc. 1939-1951 --- Fox Feature Syndicate (too known every bit Fox Comics, Fox Publications, and Bruns Publications, Inc.) was a comic-book publisher from the early on Gilt Age started by Victor S. Trick and business organisation associate Bob Farrell. For content, Play tricks contracted with comics packager Eisner & Iger for their outset books. Fox'southward first publication, Wonder Comics #1 (May 1939) contained a Superman knock-off Wonder Human. DC sued claiming he was an illegal copy of Superman. After losing at trial, Victor Fox dropped Eisner and Iger, and hired his ain stable of comic creators. Fox would be known for his depression page rate and poor quality control. Actual years of action were mid-1939 to early on 1942 (mostly equally Trick Publications, inc.) and mid-1944 to 1951 (mostly every bit Fox Characteristic Syndicate, Inc.), with "Blueish Protrude" beingness published by Holyoke Publishing Co., Inc. in the interim. 1944 and to a lesser extent 1945 saw a great deal of activity through surrogate publishers, generally in the grade of giant-size (128 or 196 page) issues alongside the return of an actual Flim-flam publishing company. Following the establishment of Comics Code Dominance in the mid-1950s, Fox went out of business, selling the rights to the Blue Beetle to Charlton Comics. |
| | 'In the U.South.A, whatsoever work created by a federal government employee or officer is in the public domain, provided that the work was created in that person's official capacity.' United states of america government publications are in the Public Domain and therefore can exist shared here. Additional materials courtesy Ethan Persoff, |
| | Harvey Comics Group 1941-1994 --- Harvey Comics was founded by the Harvey brothers; Alfred, Leon and Robert, in the 1940s after start acquiring Speed Comics from Brookwood Publications. Harvey began a shift to licensed characters when in 1942 they took over as the radio hero Green Hornet's publisher from Holyoke subsequently six problems. Harvey added boosted titles such that about of their titles were licensed. The visitor ultimately became best known for characters it published in comics from 1950s onward, peculiarly those it licensed from the animation company Famous Studios, a unit of Paramount Pictures, starting in 1951. |
| | Hillman Periodicals 1940-1953 --- Founded in 1938 by Alex Fifty. Hillman, a former New York City book publisher. Information technology is all-time known for its truthful confession and true criminal offense magazines; for the long-running general-interest magazine Pageant; and for comic books including Air Fighters Comics and its successor Airboy Comics. In 1948 Hillman began publishing paperback books. At that place were several series of abridged mystery and western novels published in the larger 'digest' size. These lasted until 1961. Hillman's early titles included costumed superheroes. Every bit trends changed, their focus shifted more than to offense fiction/detective stories, making Hillman one of the earliest crime comics publishers. During this time, Hillman oftentimes utilized the talents of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Hillman'south most notable character was the Charles Biro, Dick Wood and Al Camy-created aviator-adventurer Airboy in Air Fighters Comics and its successor, Airboy Comics. Hillman ceased publishing comic books in 1953, while concentrating on magazine publishing. |
| | Holyoke Publishing Company 1940-1950 --- Imprints - Et-Es-Get Mags, Continental Magazines, HELNIT Publishing Co. and TEM Publishing Co. Associated publishers Nita Publishing Co., Narrative Publ., Bilbara Publishing Co. and Aviation Press |
| | I. Westward. Publishing / Super Comics 1958 - 1964 --- Founded past State of israel Waldman. Reportedly, Waldman came into possession of a printing company and among the assets were the production materials for several hundred comic books previously published by various publishers as well as a express corporeality of previously unpublished material. Waldman equated possession of production materials as the right to reprint and I.Westward. became notable for publishing unauthorized reprints of other company's comics, often with new covers as Waldman's windfall did not often include the production materials for covers. The after half of the company's being, information technology published comics nether the Super Comics name. Normally these companies were out of business, simply non always. CLICK ON THE DOWNLOAD LINKS TO Become TO THE Existent DOWNLOADS - IGNORE Whatsoever "0 Bytes" Messages. |
| | Comics Business firm Publications / Lev Gleason 1939-1956 --- Founded in 1939 past Leverett Stone Gleason (1898–1971), was the publisher of a number of popular comic books during the 1940s and early 1950s, including Daredevil Comics, Crime Does Non Pay, and Boy Comics. The first and virtually successful crime comic, Crime Does Not Pay spawned dozens of imitators. Gleason's crime titles (along with horror titles by EC Comics) became targets of increasing criticism of the influence of comic books. This pressure eventually led to the formation of the Comics Code Authority in 1954. |
| | Mag Enterprises 1943-1958 --- Published primarily Western, humor, crime, take a chance, and children'south comics, with almost no superheroes. It was founded past Vin Sullivan, an editor at Columbia Comics and earlier that the editor at National Allied Publications, the future DC Comics. ME'southward best-known graphic symbol may exist Ghost Rider, a horror-themed Western avenger created by author Ray Krank and creative person Dick Ayers in 1949. Several featured excellent covers by Frank Frazetta. Other original characters include the jungle goddess Cave Girl, drawn by Bob Powell, who also worked on their superhero title The Avenger. In late 1947, Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster collaborated once again with editor Vin Sullivan, on a new oddball hero book called Funnyman, a slapstick-comedian hero. Both as a comic volume and every bit a comic strip, however, the character failed to notice an audience. Among the company's publications were licensed motion picture and TV comics featuring comedian Jimmy Durante; suave actor Dick Powell; and the CBS television series The Adventures of Robin Hood, starring Richard Greene. |
| | M. L. J. Magazines, Inc. 1939-nowadays (every bit Archie Comics) --- Founded in 1939 by Maurice Coyne, Louis Silberkleit, and John L. Goldwater as M.50.J. Magazines, Inc., which primarily published superhero comics merely today are best known for their teen sense of humour character Archie and his gang. The initial Archie characters were created in 1941 by publisher John 50. Goldwater and artist Bob Montana, in collaboration with author Vic Blossom. They first appeared in Pep Comics #22 (comprehend-dated Dec. 1941). With the creation of Archie, publisher John Goldwater hoped to appeal to fans of the Andy Hardy films starring Mickey Rooney. Archie was a huge hit which led to the visitor irresolute its name to Archie Comic Publications in 1946. Archie Comics the title of the company'southward longest-running publication, the first outcome appearing with a cover engagement of Wintertime 1942. Starting with outcome #lxx, the championship was shortened to just Archie. The flagship series was relaunched from upshot #1 in July 2015 with a new look and blueprint suited for a new generation of readers, although later on #32 it reverted to its celebrated numbering with #699. Archie Comics characters and concepts have besides appeared in numerous films, television programs, cartoons, and video games. In November 1939 (with a January 1940 comprehend date), Pep Comics #ane debuted with the Shield, the commencement Us patriotic comic volume hero, created past writer and managing editor Harry Shorten and designed by artist Irv Novick. The Shield was a forerunner for Simon'due south and Kirby'south Captain America, being published 13 months earlier. Archie would flirt with superheroes over the decades only their fame will always be for their Archie line of books still existence published today. |
| | Novelty Press 1940-1949 --- (a.k.a. Premium Service Co., Inc.; a.k.a. Novelty Publications; a.k.a. Premier Group) was the comic book imprint of Curtis Publishing Company, publisher of The Saturday Evening Post. Amidst Novelty's best-known and longest-running titles were the companion titles Bluish Bolt and Target Comics. During its nine-twelvemonth run, Novelty had a roster of creators that included Al Avison, Dan Barry, Carl Burgos, Fifty.B. Cole, Neb Everett, Al Gabriele, Joe Gill, Tom Gill, Jack Kirby, Tarpé Mills, Al Plastino, Don Rico, Joe Simon, Mickey Spillane, and Basil Wolverton. Novelty's first title, Target Comics featured such stars as Bull'due south-Heart Pecker, Lucky Byrd, and The White Streak (Target's first superhero). Material for the book was supplied past Funnies, Inc. Basil Wolverton's Spacehawk fabricated its Target Comics debut with issue #v, and ran for many issues. The superhero Target, created by Dick Briefer nether the pen name "Dick Hamilton", was introduced in event #10 (Nov. 1940). Blue Bolt'south title character superhero was created by Joe Simon, and Blue Bolt #2 (July 1940) featured the start pairing of the longstanding and pioneering creative team of Simon and Jack Kirby. In 1949, due to the growing criticism over violence in comic books, Novelty Press sold its assets to Blue Bolt embrace artist L.B. Cole. Using his new assets, Cole began his own visitor, Star Publications. |
| | Orbit Publications 1945 to 1955 --- Orbit Pub, also known as Orbit-Wanted, was an American comic book publishing house operated by the female person publisher, editor, and cartoonist Ray Herman. The company's longest-running titles were Wanted Comics, The Westerner and Dear Diary; contributing artists included John Buscema, Syd Shores, Bernard Krigstein and Mort Leav. |
| | Parents Magazine Institute 1941-1950 --- Parents published a line of comic books and magazines heavily featuring comics, including such long-running titles as Calling All Girls, Children'southward Assimilate, Polly Pigtails, True Comics, and Truthful Picture-Mag. Parents too published Humpty Dumpty from the 1950s through the early 1980s, until it and Children'due south Digest were sold to the Saturday Evening Post company. -From Wikipedia |
| | Prize Comics Group 1940-1963 --- Prize Comics likewise known equally Feature Publications, was a subsidiary of Crestwood Publications, operated from 1940 to 1963. Already an established pulp magazine publisher, Prize jumped onto the superhero bandwagon with their offset title Prize Comics. In Prize Comics #7 writer-artist Dick Briefer introduced the eight-page characteristic "New Adventures of Frankenstein". Briefer would go along with a book named for the character starting in 1945. Today it's one of Prize's amend known characters. Simon and Kirby would launch the romance comic genre in late 1947 with their Young Romance title which was a huge success for the publisher and spawned dozens of clones. Crestwood gave up publishing comics in 1963, selling off some of it's titles to publisher DC Comics. It continued to publish humor magazines, such every bit Ill, upwardly until 1968. NOTE- due to DCM's dominion of Non sharing books post Dec 1959 several Prize Comics Group titles are incomplete on DCM |
| | Quality Comics 1937-1956 --- Founded by Everett M. "Busy" Arnold, in 1937 when he formed Comic Favorites, Inc. (in collaboration with three paper syndicates: the McNaught Syndicate, the Frank J. Markey Syndicate, and Iowa's Register and Tribune Syndicate). Comic Favorites, Inc.'s kickoff publication was Characteristic Funnies, which began primarily with color reprints of striking strips from all 3 co-owning syndicates alongside a small number of original features. In 1939 Quality would begin using the Eisner & Iger shop to provide original content for their expanding line of titles. Notable titles included Blackhawk, Feature Comics, M.I. Gainsay, Plastic Homo, Constabulary Comics, Smash Comics and The Spirit. By the mid-1950s, after a foray into other genres such as war, humor, romance and horror, the company ceased operations with comics comprehend-dated December 1956. Many of Quality's character and title trademarks were sold to National Comics Publications (now DC Comics), which chose to continue merely iv series running. |
| | Rural Home 1944-1946 --- A grouping of loosely tied fly-by-night publishers using prepackaged textile, many using black market supplies of paper at the end of Earth War Ii; mutual tie-ins unclear. Enwil listed as copyright publisher. Some titles continued by Orbit Publications and others by Charlton Comics. -From Wikipedia |
| | Spark Publications 1944-1946 --- Established and owned by Ken Crossen, who was the creator and writer of the Green Lama. Well-nigh of their comics was produced past a studio run past Jerry Robinson and Mort Meskin. Other creators who worked for Spark included Joseph Greene and Mac Raboy. The combination of Robinson, Meskin, and Raboy, using like styles gave Spark's books a sort of house style. Solely a publisher of superhero comics, the company was besides modest to survive the shrinking of the market place post-Globe State of war II. |
| | 1951-1972 --- Collects the various publishing outfits associated with Stanley P. Morse. Address:175 Fifth Artery NY, NY. 1955: 261 Fifth Avenue NY, NY. Imprints - Notable books include notorious horror titles Mister Mystery, Weird Mysteries and Weird Tales of the Future; and their Battle line of state of war titles. Readers should be aware they are known for their gory contents. |
| | Star Publications 1949-1955 --- In 1949, publisher Novelty Press sold its characters and artwork to cover creative person L.B. Cole. Using his new assets Cole and lawyer Gerhard Kramer started Star Publications. Star specialized in horror, offense, and romance comics — merely also published funny animal stories. Star was originally based in New York City before relocating to Buffalo, New York. Notable creators who contributed to Star titles included Nina Albright, Tex Blaisdell, Frank Frazetta, Milt Hammer, Alvin Hollingsworth, Joe Kubert, Pat Masulli, and Wally Wood. Co-possessor L.B. Cole contributed distinctive and highly nerveless cover illustrations to many Star books. Due to the grisly nature of titles like Blue Bolt Weird Tales of Terror, The Horrors, and Startling Terror Tales, Star Publications was singled out in Fredric Wertham's 1954 book Seduction of the Innocent. Similar many comic volume publishers of the fourth dimension, faced with the public outcry confronting the industry as well as the 1955 death of publisher Kramer — the company shut downward soon thereafter. |
| | 1954-1955 --- Sterling published 6 titles in various genres. ALL SERIES COMPLETE! |
| | St. John Publications 1947-1958 --- Archer St. John, who had a background in journalism and advertising, founded St. John Publications in 1947. In the early 1950s St. John became friends with artist Matt Baker, who provided most of the volume covers for the company. St.John is credited with publishing the the first three-D comic book, Iii Dimension Comics #ane featuring Mighty Mouse. It reportedly was a huge hit. After the St. John comic books came to an end in 1958, the company connected to publish its magazine line into the next decade. A Checklist of all St. John ROMANCE comics past John Benson tin can be plant at the following link: |
| | Story/Merit/Chief group. 1951-1955 --- Story came late to the field jumping on the criminal offence and horror comics trend with notorious titles like Night Mysteries and Mysterious Adventures. |
| | Toby Press, Inc. 1950-1955 --- Founded past Elliott Caplin, brother of cartoonist Al Capp and himself an established comic strip writer. Toby published reprints of licensed-character comics including Felix the True cat, Cadet Rogers, Li'50 Abner and other Al Capp spin offs. Some of its comics were published under the imprint Minoan. Toby went out of business in 1955, a victim of the anti-comics sentiment stirred in that era past Dr. Fredric Wertham's book Seduction of the Innocent |
| | Trojan Magazines 1950-1955 --- Evolved from 1940s pulp magazine publisher owned past Harry Donenfeld and Mike Estrow. After closing two of its titles were picked up from Youthful. Imprints: |
| | Youthful Magazines, Inc. 1949-1953 --- The company was owned by chaser Bill Friedman and his wife Sophie. Youthful specialized in non-superhero titles, instead focusing on horror, Western, sense of humor, and romance comics. Doug Wildey was the company's lead cartoonist, with work published in virtually all their titles. Other notable creators associated with Youthful included Beak Fraccio, Harry Harrison, Pat Masulli, Don Perlin, Wally Forest, Graham Ingels, Ed Goldfarb, Henry Kiefer, and Manny Stallman. Youthful caused the Pix-Parade title Youthful Hearts in 1952, continuing its numbering under the new title Daring Confessions until 1953. The Youthful titles Set on and Beware were acquired by Trojan in 1952, which connected their numbering. Youthful, in turn, renamed the titles Atomic Attack and Chilling Tales, respectively, likewise continuing the numbering. The company was mostly finished by 1953, with only Jackpot continuing until 1954 |
| | Ziff-Davis Publications 1947-1957 --- Founded in 1927 by William Bernard Ziff Sr. and Bernard George Davis every bit a hobbyist print magazine publisher in Chicago, Illinois. In early 1938 Ziff-Davis acquired Radio News and Astonishing Stories magazines which had been started past Hugo Gernsback. Ziff-Davis started publishing comic books during the early on 1950s, operating by their own name and as well the name Approved Comics. Eschewing superheroes, they published horror, crime, sports, romance, and Western comics, though most titles didn't last more than a few problems. Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel was the art director of the comics line; other notable creators who worked for Ziff-Davis included John Buscema, Sid Greene, Bob Haney, Sam Kweskin, Rudy Lapick, Richard Lazarus, Mort Leav, George Roussos, Mike Sekowsky, and Ogden Whitney. In 1953, the visitor by and large abandoned comics, selling its almost popular titles to St. John Publications. Ziff-Davis connected to publish one title, K.I. Joe, until 1957, a total of 51 issues. |
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