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Cert Search. Cert Search Close panel. CGC Lookup. Scan Label. Already an established pulp magazine publisher, Prize jumped onto the superhero bandwagon with their first title Prize Comics. Briefer would continue with a book named for the character starting in Today it's one of Prize's better known characters. Simon and Kirby would launch the romance comic genre in late with their Young Romance title which was a huge success for the publisher and spawned dozens of clones.
Crestwood gave up publishing comics in , selling off some of it's titles to publisher DC Comics. It continued to publish humor magazines, such as Sick, up until Quality Comics Founded by Everett M. Comic Favorites, Inc. Notable titles included Blackhawk, Feature Comics, G. By the mids, after a foray into other genres such as war, humor, romance and horror, the company ceased operations with comics cover-dated December Many of Quality's character and title trademarks were sold to National Comics Publications now DC Comics , which chose to keep only four series running.
Rural Home A group of loosely tied fly-by-night publishers using prepackaged material, many using black market supplies of paper at the end of World War II; mutual tie-ins unclear. Enwil listed as copyright publisher. Some titles continued by Orbit Publications and others by Charlton Comics. Spark Publications Established and owned by Ken Crossen, who was the creator and writer of the Green Lama. Most of their comics was produced by a studio run by Jerry Robinson and Mort Meskin.
The combination of Robinson, Meskin, and Raboy, using similar styles gave Spark's books a sort of house style. Solely a publisher of superhero comics, the company was too small to survive the shrinking of the market post-World War II.
Imprints - Aragon Magazines, Inc. Argyle Magazines, Inc. Gillmor Magazines, Inc. Key Publications Key Publications, Inc. Media Publications, Inc. Readers should be aware they are known for their gory contents. Star Publications In , publisher Novelty Press sold its characters and artwork to cover artist L. Co-owner L. Cole contributed distinctive and highly collected cover illustrations to many Star books. John Publications Archer St. John, who had a background in journalism and advertising, founded St.
John Publications in In the early s St. John became friends with artist Matt Baker, who provided most of the book covers for the company. It reportedly was a huge hit. After the St. John comic books came to an end in , the company continued to publish its magazine line into the next decade.
A Checklist of all St. Toby Press, Inc. Some of its comics were published under the imprint Minoan. Toby went out of business in , a victim of the anti-comics sentiment stirred in that era by Dr. After closing two of its titles were picked up from Youthful. Youthful Magazines, Inc. Youthful specialized in non-superhero titles, instead focusing on horror, Western, humor, and romance comics.
Doug Wildey was the company's lead cartoonist, with work published in virtually all their titles. Youthful acquired the Pix-Parade title Youthful Hearts in , continuing its numbering under the new title Daring Confessions until The Youthful titles Attack and Beware were acquired by Trojan in , which continued their numbering.
Youthful, in turn, renamed the titles Atomic Attack and Chilling Tales, respectively, also continuing the numbering. The company was mostly finished by , with only Jackpot continuing until -From Wikipedia.
Ziff-Davis started publishing comic books during the early s, operating by their own name and also 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 issues. In , the company mostly abandoned comics, selling its most popular titles to St. Ziff-Davis continued to publish one title, G. Joe, until , a total of 51 issues. Alice New Advs. Dearfield Publishing Co. Peter Wheat P. Leffingwell and Co.
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Below is a list of 16 other top war comics, showcasing soldiers and sailors, spies and commandos, pilots and civilians; everyone dealing with the personal dilemma and terror that war can bring. In , Marvel was riding high with its brash approach to comics, the bombastic writing of Stan Lee and the eye-popping art from innovators Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko. Publisher Martin Goodman, however, disagreed with Lee about the key ingredients of that success.
Lee bet him that he could make a winner out of a low-selling genre -- the war comic -- even if it had the worst title imaginable. Thus, "Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos" was born.
Fury" lived up to its billing as "the war mag for people who hate war mags. Fury and his cohorts romped and wisecracked their way through one adventure after another, doing impossible deeds of derring do -- such as Dum-Dum Dugan taking out a plane with a hand grenade.
Along the way, Junior Juniper and Fury's girlfriend, Pamela Hawley, were killed off, giving the strip a tinge of seriousness. Kirby was followed by Dick Ayers , but the art got an upgrade when legendary war comics artist John Severin became inker and then solo artist. Fury" up to eleven. This three-issue miniseries from Vertigo introduced us to the sextet of the title.
Each member of the team is a broadly drawn caricature of war-fightin' men. The unit is led by Capt. Hugo "Khyber" Darcy, who is so British, he is unaware the United States is an independent nation, and refuses to believe it when told.
Also along for the ride are the cigar-chomping, token American, Hank the Yank, who never says anything but "Gawd Dammit! Last but not least is Second Lt. Cecil "Doubtful" Milk, as fey as everyone else is macho. The second miniseries, "Operation: Bollock," has the Brigade in a race to recapture a sensitive part of Adolf Hitler's anatomy ahead of rivals from the Americans, the Third Reich and fellow Brits.
Both series were drawn by Carlos Esquerra. The Comics Code , imposed in , was the set of standards comics publishers pledged to adhere to when their stories were being written and drawn. It initially forbade a wide swath of content, including just about all the elements of horror stories. The Code was relaxed for the first time in , allowing for stories of werewolves, vampires and other monsters.
DC quickly took advantage of that new freedom to introduce "Weird War Tales" later that year. Each issue had a framing page featuring Death as a skeletal figure wearing a soldier's garb from a different era. The stories were written and drawn by a rotating crew of creators. Many were drawn by artists who lived in the Philippines, including Alfredo P.
Cruz and Tony DeZuniga. There was a four-issue Vertigo series in and one-shot specials in and in with art by Darwyn Cooke. Blackburn Should Have Known Better.
Art by J. Maxwell and others. Crimes; Manhunt for Harry Tracey. Darrow, retitled and reprinted as "Tri-State Terror.. Kinnie Wagner! All stories reprinted in Famous Crimes All stories reprinted in Horrors Cover art reprinted on Famous Crimes Louis Find is haunted by the souls of the many women he has robbed and murdered; A phone call and a trail of chewed matchsticks leads the cops to ruthless killer Cliff Sutterstone; The Salicki and Gennet gangs turn San Francisco into a battlefield.
Art by Wally Wood and others. Smuggling booze in coffins is only one of Frankie Vale's many crimes; Bank robbers who use poison gas get a taste of their own medicine; The two-year crime spree of the Bevins brothers ends dramatically during a visit to a carnival sideshow.
Frankie Vale: Contractor for Death! Dutch Schultz was done in by his own cronies when the heat got too hot, but thanks to a buried treasure and some cryptic last words, his legend only grows after his death; Charles Ponzi is a con artist who specializes in the infamous swindle known as a Ponzi scheme.
Lester Reed discovers that too much of a good thing can be fatal; Helen Hasting and her husband are up to no good. This was reportedly one of the last comics printed by Fox Feature Syndicate before the company went out of business later in Lester Reed Greed All stories reprinted from Famous Crimes Famous Crimes".
Date This week Last week Past month 2 months 3 months 6 months 1 year 2 years Pre Pre Pre Pre Pre s s s s s s Search Advanced. Issue 1. Famous Crimes 1. Published Jun by Fox Feature Syndicate.
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