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Cartoon Capers v8#3, May 1973: "The Kid Flips Her Id!" Cartoon Laughs v13#2, Apr 1974: "I, A Spy!" (Lieber and Mooney)

Thanks. It looks like Marvel (or the person who did the scanning just re-used the interior front cover page from #15 without any regard to the indicia data.

Does anyone have a copy of Amazing Spider-Man #14 laying around? I'm curious if the indicia states that it is issue #15. The Marvel DVD scan of issue #14 does, but I'm not sure if it is some type of mistake on the part of the guys who made the PDF files for the DVD (the inside front cover advertisement is the same for both issues so the page might just be wrong for issue #14 on the DVD).

While digging around for some other information I came across the following which seems to indicate that Croydon Publishing Co. was a J. A. Kramer company (Star Comics): Publisher Index If you search for Croydon in the PDF document you'll find several entries that really seem to link Croydon to Kramer and the Star Comics addresses.

I'm trying to decipher the Statement of Ownership to AMC #20, but the image I have is too blurry to make out some of the names. If someone with a copy could check the inside front cover and let me know the names listed in section 2 (Publisher, Editor, Managing Editor and Business Manager) and section 3 (Owners) for my little research effort I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks! -Giff

I have a copy of the report. But it is just a single snapshot of time (1954) and doesn't encompass the years prior to or after the research was done for the report. And as I've discovered over the years, the report isn't 100% accurate either.

Correct. I no longer believe Croydon to be part of the Universal Comic Group (Baird/Rewl/Rural Home). I don't see any evidence of a connection other than making the assumption that since Lloyd Jacquet Studio did the content for Croydon's Variety Comics series and that Funnies Inc. was a content provider for Universal that the two were somehow related at a publishing level (I'm not even sure if Lloyd Jacquet was still involved with Funnies Inc. in 1944-1946. All signs indicate that he sold Funnies Inc. and started the Lloyd Jacquet Studio).

A good thread on this can be found here: http://goldenagecomics.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,1083.0.html They mentioned/cited stuff I had posted here which is why I wanted to "update" my findings in this thread. JVJ over there has some good information explaining why some things have been erroneously linked together in the past (content provider connection v. publishing connection). So TNT and Triple Threat are Charlton books even though the same characters appear in Atomic Bomb, Top Spot, K-O Komics, Zoom Comics, and Merry Comics (Baily studio material): Atomic Bomb (Jay Burtis) ------------------------ Beau Brummell Special Agent 1 Airmale and Stampy Teeny Mc Sweeny Captain Milksop KO Komics (Gerona) ------------------- Duke of Darkness Prof. Jabberwacky Magnificent Epod Menace Merry Comics (Carlton) ---------------------- Bogeyman Teeny Mc Sweeny Dr. Mercy King O'Leary Snappy Comics (Cima) -------------------- Special Agent 1 Sorcerer and the Apprentice Beau Brumell Airmaile and Stampy Prof. Jabberwacky Top Spot (Top Spot) ------------------- Duke of Darkness Prof. Jabberwacky Magnificent Epod Menace TNT Comics (Charles Publishing; early Charlton imprint) ---------------------------------------- TNT Murders Beau Brummell Yellowjacket Shnook Triple Threat Comics (Special Action Comics; early Charlton imprint) ------------------------------------------------------ King O'Leary Duke of Darkness Beau Brummell Menace Magnificent Epod Whippet Wilkens Zoom (Carlton) -------------- Dr. Mercy Captain Milksop Satanas Bogeyman (text) King O'Leary

After a couple more years of mulling through this mess, I finally decided to get things organized (through my Indicia Project). A lot of the companies lumped together previously under "Rural Home" have fallen out of the list I put together two years ago using the PR Publications website data and other sources (like Nolan's article). In many cases I think prior researchers had lumped books together based on characters that may have appeared on the pages between the covers. So Bernard Baily studio, Funnies Inc., Jason Comic Art studio and Lloyd Jacquet studio material might turn up in the books from several publishers leading one to conclude erroneously that there existed a publication relationship when there was only a relationship between publishers and content providers. Charlton Comics Group (Charles/Charlton/Childrens/Frank Comunale/Special Action) Croydon Holyoke (Continental/Et-Es-Go/Helnit/Holyoke/Nita/Tem) Universal Comic Group (Baird/Rewl/Rural Home) Wanted Comic Group (Orbit/Patches/Taffy/Toytown)

I can see it going either way and you can definitely "rank" that first tier of characters, but I'm not sure where the "clean split" would be to divide that tier if one were so inclined. Within the comic book medium I'd go with my definition, but if you wanted to look at it from a wider view (say total earning potential for that character) then I'd definitely want to factor in the other mediums and perhaps even things like merchandising.

I think that gets a little tricky. Characters like the Blue Beetle and Captain Midnight made the cross-over to other media, but they didn't last as long as Blackhawk. Would you really rank Timely's Human Torch lower than the Blue Beetle just because the Blue Beetle had a radio show and a short run as a newspaper strip?

In general? 1st tier: Any character that had his own title and was the lead feature in one or more other titles (the superstar characters). 2nd tier: Any character that headlined his own title. 3rd tier: Any character that was consistently the lead feature in a anthology title but never had the power to sustain his own title. 4th tier: The regularly featured back-up characters. 5th tier: The filler story back-up characters (one-shots or randomly moved from title to title, etc.)

Does anyone know more about Victor Fox's dealings in Chicago? There seems to be several ties between Fox and the midwest city: 1) The 1944 nn issue of Rocket Kelly is published by "Larkin, Roosevelt & Larkin" of Chicago. 2) The 1944 issues of The Bouncer (no #), All Good Comics, and All Your Comics, are published by "R. W. Voigt" of Chicago. 3) The 1945 nn issue of Ribtickler is published by "Chicago Nite Life News, Inc." 4) The two 1947 issues of All Great Comics are published by "Fox Feature Syndicate, Inc." but the cover to #14 states "Copyright, 1947, The Chicago Tribune" and the cover to #13 states "Famous Chicago Tribune Comics"

Scanned for GCD, but I thought I'd share it here too.

Another sign turned up on eBay, this time from a seller in Arizona (I'm not sure how the sign got to AZ!): KOOBA COLA TIN SIGN Here is some interesting tid bits from the New York Times (8/25/1940, 4/28/1941, and 6/22/1941): ---- ---- ---- Seems like the Kooba market was limited to a 150 mile radius from New York City (and perhaps some smaller markets outside of New York? I still haven't found any evidence to suggest it got distributed outside of NY).