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Pocket Comics #2

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Posted in 2006/03, 3 Timely, Assorted, Harvey Covers, Periods, Topic, z Archive.

In Pocket Comics #1 the title has been reduced compared to #1 so there is more room for the art. The main scene once again depicts an oversized attaching Satan, being ineffectively fought by a miniature military (in this case some of battleships) with an giant Spirit of ’76 coming to the rescue. On the left side of the cover is the Black Cat, seemingly not part of the scene with Satan, but oversized nonetheless. The Black Cat started in Pocket #1 just a month before, so her presence on the cover is too soon to be due to an unexpected popularity. Rather having depicted Satan and the Spirit of ’76, the Black Cat seemed more unique since the other features were the standard male heroes.

Pocket Comics #2

The similarity of design and execution of the Satan and Spirit of ’76 scene with that depicted on Pocket #1 leaves little doubt that this was also done by Joe Simon. Further the execution of the Black Cat matches the rest, so Joe did all of the cover.

Comic Book Experts

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Posted in 2006/03, Experts, z Archive.

What is an expert? Well my Webster’s dictionary defines an expert as:

A person who is very skillful or highly trained and informed in some special field.

Who am I to argue with Webster? But in the field of fine arts an expert generally means something more. While reading about a debate concerning a particular Chinese painting I came across two statements about what an expert should be. Here is one quote, although I am ashamed to admit I failed to record who said it:

An “expert” should be able to convince a reasonably intelligent person of his opinion with specific references to other works as well as indisputable evidence, if any, such as photographs and provenance.

Embedded in this meaning is the idea that experts should be able to explain their ideas. Unfortunately comic book experts seem to have little interest in convincing others. Comic experts seem only concerned about making their proclamations. Ask them to defend some attribution and all you are likely to get is reply about how many comic books they have studied. But by Webster’s definition that would in fact make them experts. And as I said, who am I to argue with Webster.

But I still want a word that describes the type of person in comics that is the same sort of expert as I’ve seen in the fine arts. So I have chosen to use the word scholar. Webster’s definition for scholar may not be any closer to what I want then expert was but at least is it not as commonly used (or misused). Although the word scholar may not be used often in the comic world, that does not mean there aren’t any. Boy am I grateful that there are such scholars. It is possible to learn from a scholar even when you disagree with them. I don’t see how someone learns from a comic book expert.

Does that mean comic experts serve no purpose in this world? Well actually sometimes they do, when they compile lists. I don’t know who the experts were that helped to create the Jack Kirby Checklist, but they sure did me a favor. It is not that the JK Checklist is 100% accurate. Yeah there was a few times that when I tracked something from the Checklist I found Mort Meskin’s signature on it. Sure sometimes I think work in the JK Checklist was actually done by Joe Simon. What matters is that the Jack Kirby Checklist points the way as to what to search for in order to see Jack’s work. So what about experts who don’t make lists? Well I am sure they serve some purpose, I just haven’t figured out yet what that is.

By now I am sure you have figured out what I want to be when I grow up. I want to be a Simon and Kirby scholar. But don’t call me an expert, thems fighting words where I come from.

That Old Black Magic

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Posted in 2006/03, 5 Studio, Anthologies, Periods, Prize, Topic, z Archive.

As I mentioned previously Simon & Kirby’s longest running comics were their anthologies. Although the Prize romances were clearly their greatest success, they also appeared to do pretty well with their take on the horror genre, Black Magic. This series was also published by Prize, but at least initially was a Simon and Kirby production. Black Magic #1 came out with a cover date of October 1950.

Black Magic #1

Like most S&K comics, Black Magic was originally a bimonthly It went monthly with issue #10 (March 1952). But it is not safe to consider the delay before going monthly as a sign that it was not that popular. Young Romance and Young Love were by all accounts immense successes right from the start and both of them took over a year before going monthly. This delay was more likely due to the publishers concern that even a popular title might turn out to be just a fad. One indication of how important Black Magic was to S&K is that Jack penciled every cover up to #33. But Black Magic was nowhere nearly as popular as the Young Romance since there never was any spin-offs like Young Love was for the romances. Further Black Magic went back to bimonthly with issue #26 (September 1953).

Like the Prize romances, Black Magic was a Simon and Kirby production and labeled as such. That is until after #32 when the S&K label disappears. This was September 1954, about the same time the label disappears from the Prize romance comics. But unlike the romance comics, Black Magic would have only one issue without the S&K label and then it would be cancelled. Could this be retribution by Prize for S&K’s Mainline comics that came out at this time? If that was the case why didn’t they just hand the title to another editor? An alternative explanation was that it just was not selling that well. After all it had gone back to a bimonthly schedule a year before. Whatever the reason, Black Magic would end a year before Young Love.

It seems that until it was cancelled, Black Magic was produced by Simon and Kirby. They were listed as editors in the postal statement from March 1952 to March 1954. Further the usual suspects (Bill Draut, Mort Meskin and John Prentice) show up frequently.

Prize would relaunch Black Magic almost three years later (September 1957). Although Jack Kirby was still doing work for Young Romance at this time, he would never pencil anything for the resurrected Black Magic.

Black Magic #17

Enter Joe Simon, Pocket Comics #1

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Posted in 1 Early, 2 Fox, 2006/03, 3 Timely, Assorted, Harvey Covers, Periods, Topic, z Archive.

In his book “The Comic Book Makers” Joe Simon describes how his friend Al Harvey approached him to do a cover for Al’s new concept, a small sized comic book. Joe also tells how Harvey offered to make Joe a partner for $250. But Joe was then working on Captain America. At Timely he and Jack Kirby were supposed to get a share of the profits for this very popular comic. So Joe felt the safe thing decision was to stay at Timely and so turned Al down. It probably seemed at the time like a no brainer, but Simon would never saw much royalty money from Timely and would leave before the year was out. As for Harvey his new comic book concept would not last long but he still managed to build up a very successful comic publishing business.

Pocket Comics #1

Joe’s first effort for Harvey appeared on Pocket Comics #1 with cover date August 1941. This comic came out in the same month as Captain America #5. Jack Kirby was doing some great stuff at that time, but the true Simon & Kirby style had not yet emerged. The Pocket #1 cover was not in the Simon & Kirby style either, and in fact it does not show much in the way of influence from what Jack was doing. Here we get Joe doing Joe.

There are things about this cover which I find unfortunate. The field of stars gives me a claustrophobic feeling. But the biggest problem may not have been Joe’s fault as he said he was working from a mock-up. Nearly half the top is occuppied by the comic’s title. If that was not enough the left side has a list of the comic’s contents. This left little room for Joe to work, but he uses it well. Joe came up with a terrific design and he executed it well. The scene portrayed actually is not logical, but it works.

On the cover Simon provides a Satan that is a bit differant then that in the comic itself. This is not just due to the colorist’s use of yellow instead of the classic red. Instead Joe has turned to a cover he did for Fox, Wonderworld #13 (May 1940). For the Fox cover, Joe was trying to work in the style of Lou Fine. His success is shown by the fact that that cover was often attributed to Lou despite the presence of a Joe Simon signature.

Wonderworld #14

But there is also an even earlier version of Satan. That was the Claw as portrayed on Silver Streak #2 (January 1940). That, along with Keen Detective Funnies #14, were Joe’s first cover work. Simon gave the Claw more of a Frankenstein look in the face, but the hands are similar to both Wonderworld #13 and Pocket #1.

Silver Streak #2

Now For A Not So Little Romance

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Posted in 2006/03, 5 Studio, 6 Mainline, 7 Freelance, Anthologies, Periods, Prize, Prize, Topic, z Archive.

I blogged about Simon & Kirby acting as editors, but now I want to discuss what comics they actually produced. But I will be leaving aside the hero theme comics for which S&K are famous. Comics like Fighting American, Boys’ Ranch, and Bullseye. These were classics but their short runs show that they were commercial failures. Simon and Kirby had their greatest success in comic anthologies. Comics like the long running Young Romance Comics.

Young Romance #1

I once asked Joe about what sort of deal he had with Young Romance, the comic that started a whole new, and very profitable genre. He said that S&K paid all the costs of producing and packaging the art. They received nothing in advance from the publisher. The money would only start coming in when 40% of the printed comic was shipped to the distributor. After the shipping advance they would start sharing the profits. Joe remarked that contrary to his reputation as a savvy business man, it really wasn’t that a great deal. Most of the financial risk was on S&K, and if Young Romance wasn’t as widely successful as it was, they would have lost a bundle.

Young Romance #1 has a cover date of September 1947 and it had a very long run published first by Prize (124 issues) then by National. Like many others, S&K copied their own success and produced Young Love also published by Prize (94 issues) and National. But the romance genre continued to be profitable so S&K later produced Young Brides, that title was not so long running (30 issues) and was only published by Prize. But since YR and YL were so long running, clearly S&K did not produce them all. So which ones did they do? Well they pretty much told us about some of them. Starting with YR #13 (September 1949) the lead story of the comic would be labeled as a “Simon and Kirby Production”. It didn’t matter who the artist was and the label would only show up on the lead story. Once started, the S&K label would appear on pretty much every YR, YL and YB they produced. With only a few exceptions until about around August 1954 (YR #73, YL #61 and YB #16). The S&K label did not reappear until May of 1955. Even then it was used sporadically (YR #78, #80, YL #64 and YB #22, #24 and #25). The last appearance of the label was in December 1955 (YR #80).

So why the gap in use of the S&K label? Well one thing that happened at the beginning of the gap is that S&K started Mainline and became publishers of their own comics. Bullseye #1 first appeared with a cover date of August 1954, the same date the S&K last appears. Mainline was a commercial failure and its last comics was cover dated April 1955. The S&K label reappears in the romance comics in May 1955. One reasonable explanation would be that while Mainline was in operation S&K were not producing the Prize romances. Perhaps there was friction because Prize now viewed S&K as competition, particularly since Mainline had there own romance line, In Love.

As I said it is reasonable to say that between August 1954 and May 1955 (cover dates) that S&K were not producing Prize’s romance comics. It may be reasonable, but I don’t believe it is true. The first reasons is what I refer to as the usual suspects. S&K studio employed a number of artists on a freelance basis. But Bill Draut, Mort Meskin and John Prentice were regulars both in the length of time and amount of art. We may not be able to follow the money, but we can follow the artists. We have to be a little cautious since they did not work exclusively for S&K. But any comic where the usual suspects are prominent was likely to have been produced by Simon & Kirby. And the usual suspects were prominent during the gap. In fact they did most of the covers.

Another reason to believe S&K continued producing the Prize romances is a story Martin Thall tells. The comic company of Mike Esposito and Ross Andru also met their demise during the comic crisis of this period. According to Thall, they sold unused romance artwork to S&K (at a bargain price) and delivering it to Jack Kirby’s house. Three stories penciled by Andru appear in the Prize romances of November and December 1954 (YB #19, YL #63 and YR #75). Andru also did some work for S&K in 1952 but that was too early to be what Martin is talking about. But the 1954 stories fit the timeline perfectly. And this is right in the middle of the S&K label gap.

But if S&K produced these romance comics through the 1954 and 1955, when did they stop? Well if we follow the usual suspects we find them prominent until December 1955. Then something surprising happens, Kirby is all over the place. From YR #80 until YR #86 (December 1956) Jack did pretty much the entire issues for all the Prize romances. This includes YL #69 to #73 as well as YB #26 to #30. Jack did 74 stories and covers over this period. Joe seemed to have been part of this because the cover to YR #83 appears to have both their hands involved. Further the cover to YB #30 depicts a couple with twin babies, Joe had twin girls. Finally Joe still has the original art to YL #71. In these issues John Prentice has only one story (YL #69), Bill Draut 3 (#71 and two in #73) and other artists provided only three more stories (Ann Brewster and Ted Galindo both in YL #70 and an unidentified artist in YR #81).

Young Romance #80

Why was Kirby so prominent in these particular romance comics? Well perhaps one reason is after the failure of Mainline, S&K had financial problems and perhaps could not afford to continue to pay their freelancers. In fact they may have had trouble finding work for themselves. YR and YL were monthly titles. But after the December 1954 issues the next YR would have a cover date of April 1955 and become a bimonthly. YL would not be published again until 1960. Although this is all after the Kirby romance run, it may reflect that the Prize romance comics had become less profitable. Remember Joe and Jack shared in the profits but had to pay the expenses to produce the art.

Starting in 1957, Jack’s pencils would appear in most issues of YR until #103 (December 1959). But the usual suspects would not. There is one other piece of evidence that can help. At one point comics started to include a yearly statement. The statement included the name of the editors. I’ve heard that this statement was not always reliable. But that was for editors that worked directly for the publisher. I think that in the cases of S&K this statement may be more trustworthy. The earliest statement is the February 1950 issue of YL where Joe and Jack are listed as editors. The last time they are so listed is the April 1959 issue of YR. Starting with the June 1960 issue of YR only Joe Simon is listed as editor. The August issue of the resumed YL also list only Joe as editor. My information may be incomplete, but the last time I have a listing for editor as Joe is the April 1963 YL. But in a few months National would take over publication of YR and YL and I suspect they would use their own editors.

So it would appear that Jack’s involvement in the Prize romances ended in early in 1959. Even that is surprising since in 1957 he started to work for other publishers like National and Atlas. Although Jack may have taken S&K ideas to these publishers (such as Challengers of the Unknown), nothing indicates that Joe did any work for them. To me this means that by 1957 there was no Simon & Kirby studio. Whatever working relationship Jack and Joe had, it was a very different one then they had during most of their partership.

Avison Takes On More Speed

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Posted in 2006/03, 3 Timely, Artists, Assorted, Avison, Al, Harvey Covers, Periods, Topic, z Archive.

I fear this might be a little like a movie with a long introduction before the plot actually begins. But before I get to blogging about some of my favorite series of covers I want to show one more by Al Avison. This time it is Speed #15 cover date November 1941. This one is unsigned, but the similarity between the hero in it and Speed #14 leaves little doubt that they were done by the same artist. For some reason Shock Gibson has gotten younger and the whole cover somewhat goofier. The Nazi seem more menacing on Speed #14 then these little red men.
Speed Comics #15

Al Avison on Speed

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Posted in 2006/03, 3 Timely, Artists, Assorted, Avison, Al, Harvey Covers, Periods, Topic, z Archive.

Some of my favorite covers were done for a not yet popular line of comics; Speed, Pocket, Champ and a few Green Hornet comics. These covers were dated from August 1941 to October 1942. Considering the name of this blog, it should not come as a surprise that they were done by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Some were signed, but they were signed as Jon Henri, a pseudonym. But which artist did what? I’ve heard a number of different takes on the answer to that question, and I have my own opinions.

But before I get into that I want to write about a third artist that did some covers for these comics as well. Al Avison was part of the team at Timely producing comics like Captain America. There he work with both Joe and Jack and was obviously very influenced by them. Joe was a friend of Al Harvey who published these comics. Perhaps Joe introduced Avison to Harvey. However they met, there started a long working relationship.

The first cover Avison did for Harvey seems to have been Speed #14 dated September 1941. Fortunately Al signed this cover so it serves as a good reference when trying to sort out the attributions. This was early in his career, so although he tried to use what he learned from working with Simon and Kirby he could not yet pull it off. But he matured quickly so that when Joe and Jack left Timely in a few months, Al became the head artist for Captain America for a while.

Speed Comics #14

Simon & Kirby as editors

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Posted in 2006/03, 5 Studio, Art Editing, Harvey, Odds & Ends, Periods, Topic, z Archive.

Joe Simon and Jack Kirby not only created great art, they produced great comics. They would hire writers to make scripts and artists to illustrate them. Joe and Jack would deliver to a publisher a complete comic ready for the printing. During the process of working on these comics they would improved both the scripts and the art. In the end they were Simon and Kirby comics even when other artist did most of the art for the stories.

I thought I would share some examples of Joe and Jack as editors of other artists. The first is from a “The Case of the Hapless Hackie” a Calamity Jane story by Bill Draut from Boy Explorers #1. Bill was a regular of the S&K studio and I am sure I will talk about him often. The original art, still in Joe Simon’s collection, was done on illustration board. These boards are thick (about 1/8 inch) and were the staple of work done for S&K productions. But the art on the bottom of the splash page of this story was done on bristol that was taped to the illustration board. With the bristol removed you can see the art as it was done by Draut.

Boy Explorers #1

As you can see Bill did a good job and the notes by the editor and the artists was a clever idea. However the notes and the title clutter up the page and leave only a thin strip for the art. I believe for this reason and to modernize the effect, Joe did the overlay showing the editor and artist talking by phone. This is the version that was actually printed.

Boy Explorers #1

I say Joe did the editing in this case because the art was done in his style. Bill did a good job, but Joe made it much better. That was not the only change done on this page. The story title was done on paper pasted over the illustration board. The paste still holds the paper down tight so I have no idea what change was made. A similar paste job was done on the third panel on page three, but this time the glue has failed and the scan below shows Draut’s (left) and the final (right) version. Frankly this time I do not see the final version as that much of an improvement on Bill’s take.

Boy Explorers #1

The Boy Explorers and Stuntman comics did not last long as they were victims of the comic glut and resulting crash at that time. Boy Explorers #2 and Stuntman #3 never reached the news stands. But small (1/4 sized), reduced length, black and white versions were mailed to subscribers. I borrowed Joe’s personal copies for scanning and found this on the top of page 18, the third page of “In This Corner Kid Adonis” by Joe Simon.

Stuntman #3

I think that is Simon’s handwriting, so it seems he was not satisfied with the face on the person on the right in the first panel. This particular story was reprinted in Green Hornet #37. This time the person has a very different nose. It seems Joe was not above editing himself.

Green Hornet #37

One casualty of the comic crash was a Vagabond Prince story “Trapped In Wax” by Joe Simon that had been scheduled for the Boy Explorers #2. This particular story did not make it into the small comic sent to subscribers. Perhaps because there were still a few places where the inking had not been completed. In fact this story was never printed until Greg Theakson included it in Stuntman reprint. Below I include a close up of the first panel of page 7 of the story from a xerox in the Joe Simon collection.

Unpublished

Notice there still remains a ghost of the pointing hand. The final hand was redone in a style that is unmistakenly that of Jack Kirby. The man’s right shoulder has also been adjusted. So here we have Jack stepping in as art editor. Careful examination of Simon & Kirby productions show that it was not unusual for Jack to make this sort of corrections.

Welcome

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Posted in 2006/03, Odds & Ends, Topic, z Archive.

I’ve decide to jump into the world of blogging. I just couldn’t resist the temptation to muse on my favorate comic artist team, Joe Simon & Jack Kirby. But posting will not be limited to just those two , but also to the S&K studio and the artists that worked for it. Artists like Bill Draut, Mort Meskin, John Prentice, and more. Although focusing on the time of the S&K collaboration, I will also branch out to other time periods.

Alias Lettering Checklist

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Posted in Alias, Letterer Checklist, Lettering.
Last update 6/4/2020

During a study of Simon and Kirby letterers a number of individual styles were identified with no hope of determining their actually names. As an memory aid I have given them aliases.

Codes:
   ?:  = questionable attribution

ALBERT ---------------------------------------------------------------

Young Romance (Prize)
      #91   (v.11, n.1)     December  1957   5p      "Live Alone And Love It"
      #92   (v.11, n.2)     February  1958   5p      "Running Mates"
      #92   (v.11, n.2)     February  1958   5p      "Mind Over Moonlight"
      #92   (v.11, n.2)     February  1958   5p      "The Happy Bachelor"
      #93   (v.11, n.3)     April     1958   5p      "Jealousy"
      #93   (v.11, n.3)     April     1958   5p      "Afraid Of Life"
      #95   (v.11, n.5)     August    1958   5p      "Listening To Love"
      #95   (v.11, n.5)     August    1958   4.67p   "Hold Back The Tears"
      #95   (v.11, n.5)     August    1958   5p      "Young As Romance"

CAPPY ---------------------------------------------------------------

Headline (Prize)
    #56  (v.8, n.2)    November  1952   6.67p   "An Eye For An Eye"

Justice Traps the Guilty (Prize)
    #43  (v.6, n.1)    October   1952   5.67p   "Ticket to the Gallows"
    #44  (v.6, n.2)    November  1952   5p      "Hotter Than a Firecracker"
    #45  (v.6, n.3)    December  1952   5p      "Easy Money"
    #46  (v.6, n.4)    January   1953   7p      "The Sniper"

CHARLIE ---------------------------------------------------------------

Captain America (Timely)
     #3     May       1941   6p      "The Return Of The Red Skull"
     #3     May       1941   6p      "Hunchback Of Hollywood And The Movie Murder"
     #3     May       1941   6p      "The Queer Case Of The Murdering Butterfly And The Ancient Mummies"

CLEM ---------------------------------------------------------------

Captain America (Timely)
     #2     April     1941   15p     "The Ageless Orientals Who Wouldn't Die"
     #2     April     1941   15p     "Trapped In The Nazi Stronghold"
     #2     April     1941   15p     "The Wax Statue That Struck Death"
     #2     April     1941   6p      "The Valley Of The Mist"
     #3     May       1941   6p      "Tuk, Cave-Boy"
   ? #7     October   1941   7p      "Hurricane"

Marvel Mystery (Timely)
   ? #25    November  1941   5p      "The Patriot"

USA (Timely)
     #1     August    1941   10p     "Mr. Liberty" pages 6-10
     #2     November  1941   7p      "Island Menace" except splash panel

DOUG ---------------------------------------------------------------

Young Romance (Prize)
      #98   (v.12, n.2)     February  1959   5p      "Secret In My Heart"
      #98   (v.12, n.2)     February  1959   4.67p   "A Husband For My Sister"
      #99   (v.12, n.3)     April     1959   4.67p   "Man Wanted"
      #99   (v.12, n.3)     April     1959   4.67p   "The Love I Lost"
      #101  (v.12, n.5)     August    1959   5p      "Young And Beautiful And Bored"

FRED ---------------------------------------------------------------

Headline (Prize)
    #25  (v.3, n.1)    July      1947   7p      "Murder's Reward"
    #25  (v.3, n.1)    July      1947   4p      "Prophet of Death"
    #25  (v.3, n.1)    July      1947   7p      "Blind Man's Death"
    #25  (v.3, n.1)    July      1947   7p      "Death Takes A Honeymoon"

GEORGIE ---------------------------------------------------------------

Justice Traps the Guilty (Prize)
      #28   (v.4, n.10)    July      1951   6.67p   "Fear, Inc."
      #29   (v.4, n.11)    July      1951   6.67p   "The Time Trap"
      #30   (v.4, n.12)    September 1951   6.67p   "Slave To Habit"
      #30   (v.4, n.12)    September 1951   6.67p   "Trail Of Doom"
      #31   (v.5, n.1)     October   1951   6.67p   "335 Days Of Terror"
      #31   (v.5, n.1)     October   1951   6.67p   "The Little Giant"
      #31   (v.5, n.1)     October   1951   6.67p   "Less Than Zero"
      #31   (v.5, n.1)     October   1951   7p      "Angel Of Death"
      #32   (v.5, n.2)     November  1951   5.67p   "The Deadliest Game"
      #32   (v.5, n.2)     November  1951   6.67p   "Underworld Banker"
      #32   (v.5, n.2)     November  1951   7p      "A Very Careful Guy"
      #33   (v.5, n.3)     December  1951   5.67p   "Straight To The Chair"
      #33   (v.5, n.3)     December  1951   6.67p   "Deadly Dime"
      #35   (v.5, n.5)     February  1952   6.67p   "Merchant Of Death"
      #36   (v.5, n.6)     March     1952   6.67p   "His Big Mouth"
      #37   (v.5, n.7)     April     1952   6p      "Breakout"

MARTY ---------------------------------------------------------------

Foxhole (Mainline)
    #3     February  1955   6p      "Listen To Me, Sam"
    #4     April     1955   5p      "Mayhem In The Sky"
    #5     July      1955   6p      "Kamakaze Joe"
    #5     July      1955   1p      "Morale"
    #5     July      1955   1p      "Bell Bottom Bill"

In Love (Charlton)
    #5     May       1955   1p      "I Led Him On"
    #6     July      1955   1p      "A Love That Was True"
    #6     July      1955   1p      "Altar Bound"
    #6     July      1955   1p      "A Typical Teen Ager"
    #6     July      1955   2p      "Once Too Often"

Young Brides (Prize)
    #11  (v.2, n.5)    January   1954   1p      "Good Manners"
    #12  (v.2, n.6)    February  1954   1p      "Good Manners"
    #13  (v.2, n.7)    March     1954   .67p    "Good Manners"
    #17  (v.2, n.11)   July      1954   3p      "Every Man For Herself"
    #17  (v.2, n.11)   July      1954   1p      "Price Tag On Love"
    #17  (v.2, n.11)   July      1954   1p      "Til The End Of Time"
    #18  (v.2, n.12)   September 1954   3p      "Worst Of The Lot"
    #18  (v.2, n.12)   September 1954   3p      "The Way To Get A Man"
    #18  (v.2, n.12)   September 1954   1p      "I Was A Convict's Daughter"
    #23  (v.3, n.5)    July      1955   2p      "One Of Those Things"
    #23  (v.3, n.5)    July      1955   1p      "Mamma's Boy"
  ? #24  (v.3, n.6)    September 1955   1p      "Grown Up"

Young Love (Prize)
    #50  (v.5, n.8)    October   1953   1p      "Good Manners"
    #52  (v.5, n.10)   December  1953   1p      "Good Manners"
    #53  (v.5, n.11)   January   1954   1p      "Good Manners"
    #54  (v.5, n.12)   February  1954   .67p    "Good Manners"
    #56  (v.6, n.2)    April     1954   1p      "Too Young To Love"
    #58  (v.6, n.4)    June      1954   1p      "A Lesson In Love"
    #58  (v.6, n.4)    June      1954   1p      "I Was Heartsick"
    #62  (v.6, n.7)    October   1954   3p      "So Little Time For Love"
    #63  (v.6, n.9)    December  1954   1p      "The Kid Next Door"
    #66  (v.6, n.12)   August    1955   1p      "A Big Mistake"
    #66  (v.6, n.12)   August    1955   2p      "Dream Girl"

Young Romance (Prize)
    #63  (v.7, n.3)    November  1953   .5p     "Good Manners"
    #63  (v.7, n.3)    November  1953   .5p     "Good Manners"
    #64  (v.7, n.4)    December  1953   1p      "Primitive Horoscope"
    #66  (v.7, n.6)    February  1954   1p      "Good Manners"
    #67  (v.7, n.7)    March     1954   .5p     "Good Manners"
    #68  (v.7, n.8)    April     1954   1p      "Good Manners"
    #69  (v.7, n.9)    May       1954   1p      "I Fell For The Office Wolf"
    #72  (v.7, n.12)   August    1954   1p      "An Endless Courtship"
    #72  (v.7, n.12)   August    1954   1p      "My Kind Of Man"
    #74  (v.8, n.2)    November  1954   6p      "A Holiday For Love"
    #74  (v.8, n.2)    November  1954   1p      "I Thought It Was Love"
    #75  (v.8, n.3)    December  1954   1p      "Too Wise To Fall In Love"
    #78  (v.8, n.6)    August    1955   2p      "A Man To Love"
    #78  (v.8, n.6)    August    1955   1p      "Once And For All"
    #78  (v.8, n.6)    August    1955   1p      "Too Fickle To Marry"

MIKEROSS ---------------------------------------------------------------

Young Brides (Prize)
      #19   (v.3, n.1)     November  1954   5p      "Love For Sale"

Young Love (Prize)
      #63   (v.6, n.9)     December  1954   6p      "College Romeo"
      #63   (v.6, n.9)     December  1954   6p      "Lovely Liar"
      #63   (v.6, n.9)     December  1954   6p      "Romantic Free-For-All"

Young Romance (Prize)
      #75   (v.8, n.3)     December  1954   6p      "Personal Secretary"
      #75   (v.8, n.3)     December  1954   6p      "Light Of Love"
      #75   (v.8, n.3)     December  1954   6p      "Too Plain For Love - Problem Clinic"

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Young Romance (Prize)
    #101 (v.12, n.5)     August    1959   4.67p   "Man In The House"
    #102 (v.12, n.6)     October   1959   5p      "Miss Make Pretend"
    #102 (v.12, n.6)     October   1959   4.67p   "Beautiful But Smart"

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Adventure (National/DC)
      #102   February  1946   10p     "The Dream Of Peter Green"

Boy Commandos (National/DC)
      #12    September 1945   3p      "Coast Guard Reconnaissance"

Picture News (Lafayette Street Corp)
      #1     January   1946   4p      "You Can't Loose A Faithful Dog"

Real Fact (National/DC)
      #1     March     1946   2p      "The Rocket Lanes Of Tomorrow"
      #1     March     1946   4p      "Pirate Or Patriot?"
      #2     May       1946   2p      "A World Of Thinking Machines"

Star Spangled (National/DC)
      #53    February  1946   10p     "The Poet Of Suicide Slum"
      #54    March     1946   10p     "Dead-Shot Dade's Revenge"
      #55    April     1946   10p     "Gabby Strikes A Gusher"
      #59    August    1946   10p     "Answers, Inc."
      #60    September 1946   10p     "Steve Brodie da Second"
      #63    December  1946   10p     "Code of the Newsstand"
      #64    January   1947   10p     "Criminal Cruise"

World's Finest (National/DC)
      20            Winter    1945  3p "Foxhole Sailor"

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Captain America (Timely)
      #7     October   1941   7p      "Race Against Doom"
      #8     November  1941   5p      "Plague of Death"
      #8     November  1941   7p      "Carnival of Crime"
      #8     November  1941   7p      "Father Time"
      #9     December  1941   7p      "Hurricane" pages 1-4
      #10    January   1942   5p      "Headline Hunter"
      #10    January   1942   7p      "Hurricane"

USA (Timely)
      #2     November  1941   17p     "The Fiends of the Seas" pages 13-17

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Young Romance (Prize)
      #55     March     1953   7p      "Heartless"
      #55     March     1953   6p      "The Other Woman"

SIR ---------------------------------------------------------------

Justice Traps the Guilty (Prize)
      #15   (v.3, n.3)     April     1950   6.67p   "Trial By Fire"
      #15   (v.3, n.3)     April     1950   7p      "The Sheriff''s Vow"
      #15   (v.3, n.3)     April     1950   7.67p   "Death On The Assembly Line"
      #16   (v.3, n.4)     June      1950   10p     "Carnival Of Crime"

Headline (Prize)
      #42   (v.5, n.6)     July      1950   7p      "Boomerang"

Young Romance (Prize)
      #26   (v.4, n.2)     October   1950   8p      "Hired Wife"

SLIM ---------------------------------------------------------------

Young Romance (Prize)
      #91   (v.11, n.1)     December  1957   5p      "Man-Hater"
      #91   (v.11, n.1)     December  1957   4p      "The Waiting Game"
      #91   (v.11, n.1)     December  1957   5p      "That Certain Something"
      #92   (v.11, n.2)     February  1958   5p      "Lovable Dud"
      #93   (v.11, n.3)     April     1958   5p      "Last Year's Love"
      #93   (v.11, n.3)     April     1958   4p      "I Want To Dance"
      #93   (v.11, n.3)     April     1958   5p      "Empty Words"
      #96   (v.11, n.6)     October   1958   5p      "Infatuation"

TOOBIE ---------------------------------------------------------------

Young Love (Prize)
      #73   (v.8, n.1)     December  1956   6p      "The Troublemaker"

Young Romance (Prize)
      #86   (v.10, n.2)    February  1957   7p      "His Heart Was Blind"
      #86   (v.10, n.2)    February  1957   7p      "Was I To Be Hurt A Second Time"
      #86   (v.10, n.2)    February  1957   7p      "I Took The Easy Way Out"
      #87   (v.10, n.3)    April     1957   7p      "Was I Too Possessive"
      #88   (v.10, n.4)    June      1957   7p      "Why Don't They Leave Me Alone"

WYATT ---------------------------------------------------------------

Clue (Hillman)
      (v.2, n.1)    March     1947   8p      "King Of The Bank Robbers"
      (v.2, n.2)    April     1947   13p     "The Short, Dangerous Life Of Packy Smith"

Frankenstein (Prize)
   ?  #7     May       1947   5.5p      "Justice Finds A Cop Killer"

Headline (Prize)
      #23    (v.2, n.11)   March     1947   7p      "The Last Bloody Days Of Babyface Nelson"
      #23    (v.2, n.11)   March     1947   7p      "The Doctor Is Missing"
      #23    (v.2, n.11)   March     1947   7p      "The Bear Skull Trail To Death"
      #23    (v.2, n.11)   March     1947   10p     "Burned At The Stake"
      #23    (v.2, n.11)   March     1947   8p      "To My Valentine"
      #23    (v.2, n.11)   March     1947   5p      "Killer In The Kitchen"
      #24    (v.2, n.12)   May       1947   9p      "Trapping New England's Chain Murderer"
      #24    (v.2, n.12)   May       1947   7p      "Murder On A Wave Length"
      #24    (v.2, n.12)   May       1947   7p      "Grim Pay-Off For The Pinball Mob"
      #24    (v.2, n.12)   May       1947   8p      "A Phantom Pulls The Trigger"
      #24    (v.2, n.12)   May       1947   8p      "You Can't Forget A Killer"
      #24    (v.2, n.12)   May       1947   4p      "The Case Of The Floating Corpse"
      #25    (v.3, n.1)    July      1947   7p      "Masquerade Of Eddie The Doll"
      #25    (v.3, n.1)    July      1947   7p      "Pay Up Or Die"

Laugh (Archie)
      #24    September 1947   6p      "Pipsy"

My Date (Hillman)
      #1     July      1947   14p     "My Date With Swifty Chase"

Punch & Judy (Hillman)
      (v.2, n.9)    April     1947   1p      "Rover The Rascal"
      (v.2, n.12)   August    1947   6p      "The Mystery Crooner"

Real Clue Crime Stories (Hillman)
      (v.2, n.4)    June      1947   8p      "Mother Of Crime"
      (v.2, n.7)    September 1947   7p      "The Mad White God Of Palm Island"

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Adventure (National/DC)
      #72    March     1942   10p     "Riddle Of The Slave Market"
      #73    April     1942   10p     "The Buzzard's Revenge"
      #73    April     1942   10p     "Bells Of Madness"
      #74    May       1942   10p     "The Man Who Knew All The Answers"
      #74    May       1942   9p      "Scavenger Hunt"
      #75    June      1942   9p      "Beware Of Mr. Meek"
      #75    June      1942   10p     "The Villain From Valhalla"
      #76    July      1942   10p     "Mr. Noah Raids The Town"
      #76    July      1942   9p      "The Legend Of The Silent Bear"
   ?  #77    August    1942   10p     "Dreams Of Doom"
      #77    August    1942   9p      "The Stone Of Vengeance"
      #78    September 1942   9p      "The Lady And The Tiger"
   ?  #80    November  1942   9p      "Man Trap Island"
   ?  #91    April     1944   10p     "Courage a la Carte"

Boy Commandos (National/DC)
      #4     Fall      1943   6p      "Flames At Dawn" pages 1, 5
      #4     Fall      1943   9p      "Brooklyn Revere's Ride" pages 7-10, 12, 13
      #4     Fall      1943   9p      "Madman At Mr. Cloud" pages 16-21
      #4     Fall      1943   9p      "Toinette The Terrible"
      #4     Fall      1943   9p      "Bugle Of The Brave"
      #4     Fall      1943   4p      "Road To Berlin"
      #5     Winter    1943   11p     "A Town To Remember" pages 1, part 2, 3-11

Detective (National/DC)
      #64    June      1942   12p     untitled page 1
      #65    July      1942   12p     untitled
      #66    August    1942   12p     "The Sphinx Speaks"
      #82    December  1943   11p     "The Romance Of Rip Carter" pages 1, 2, 4, 6-11

Star Spangled (National/DC)
      #7     April     1942   13p     "Newsboy Legion"
      #8     May       1942   13p     "Last Mile Alley"
      #9     June      1942   13p     "The Rookie Takes The Rap"
      #10    July      1942   10p     "Kings For A Day"
      #11    August    1942   13p     "Paradise Prison"
      #30    March     1944   11p     "The Lady Of Linden Lane"

World's Finest (National/DC)
      #6     Summer    1942   10p     "The Adventure Of The Magic Forest"
      #7     Fall      1942   10p     "A Modern Arabian Night-Mare"