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Reef Ryan from Planet Comics #16 (January, 1942). Art by Al Gabriele.

Animal Crackers from Funny Picture Stories #16 (July 1938, Centaur Comics). Art by DickRyan.

Bob Steele from Funny Picture Stories #6 (April 1937, Centaur Comics). Art by George Brenner.

From Speed Comics #24 (December 1942, Harvey Comics). Art by Arthur Cazeneuve.

 

Henry Kiefer's considerably detailed art on Sub Saunders from Fantastic Comics #1 (December 1939, Fox Comics).

Art from whom I think are DC Comics' earliest female artists:

Connie Naar (aka Constance Naar) - Petey the Pup from New Comics #1 (December, 1935) -

Emma McKean (aka Ema Keen) - Sister and Brother from New Comics #1 (December, 1935) -

Serene Summerfield - Stratosphere Special, 2036 A.D. from New Comics #4 (March, 1936) -

 

 

Iron Munro the Astounding Man from Shadow Comics #1 (January 12, 1940). Art by E. C. Stoner.

 

1 hour ago, lou_fine said:

Although this comic book character had a relatively short life with Street & Smith, it looks like it did have some legs as I assume this must be the same character that was resurrected by Marvel in the early to mid 70's, then by DC in the latter part of the 80's and once again about 9 years ago, before finally landing at Dynamite about 5 years ago.  Looks like it has landed in the hands of a few other publishers in between those dates.  I guess it must have 9 lives like a cat does.  

Maybe the book will finally see some life if it ever hits the silver screen.  Oh, looks like it already has, and it didnt really help at all, much like the silver screen of the Phantom didn't really helped the comic book version of that character also.  

His history goes as far back as 1933, with Doc Savage Magazine, though before he moved onto Gold Key Comics and such, it's worth noting that the Golden Age Doc Savage comics attempted to shape him into a more traditional superhero, as he was more of a scientist adventurer before that.

Spacehawk from Target Comics #9 (October, 1940). Art by Basil Wolverton.

 

An appreciation thread for Street and Smith, a book and magazine publishing company founded in 1855, but didn't start publishing comics until 1940, their first one having been Shadow Comics. Their longest-running series ended up being Shadow Comics, Super-Magician Comics, and True Sport Picture Stories before stopping their comic line in 1949 and becoming defunct in 1959.

Their comics include:

Shadow Comics (1940)

Super-Magic Comics/Super-Magician Comics (1941)

Street and Smith’s Sport Comics/True Sport Picture Stories (1940)

Army and Navy Comics/Supersnipe Comics (1941)

Bill Barnes Comics/Bill Barnes, America's Air Ace Comics/Air Ace (1940)

Doc Savage Comics (1940)

Top Secrets (1947)

Pioneer Picture-Stories (1941)

Trail Blazers/Red Dragon Comics (1941)

Buffalo Bill Picture Stories (1949)

Ghost Breakers (1948)

Adventure Is My Career (1945)

Aviation Cadets (1943)

Devil Dogs Comics (1942)

Freedom Train (1948)

How Champions Play (1948)

Kid Zoo Comics (1948)

Remember Pearl Harbor (1942)

Science Is in the Air (1947)

Other appreciation threads: https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/topic/470215-publisher-appreciation-threads/

Some of the earliest WWII-related covers, from Speed Comics and Amazing-Man Comics.

An appreciation thread for Novelty Press and Star Publications, whom are technically separate, but are so often grouped together, that I might as well group them here together as well.

Their comics include:

Novelty Press:

Target Comics (1940)

Blue Bolt (1940)

Frisky Fables (1945)

4Most (1941)

Young King Cole (1945)

Criminals on the Run (1948)

Humdinger (1946)

Guns Against Gangsters (1948)

DickCole (1948)

Star Publications:

True-to-Life Romances (1949)

Popular Teen-Agers (1950)

Top Love Stories (1951)

Frisky Animals (1951)

All-Famous Police Cases (1952)

Shocking Mystery Cases (1952)

Blue Bolt (1949)

Blue Bolt Weird Tales of Terror (1951)

Crime Fighting Detective (1950)

Spook (1953)

Thrilling Crime Cases (1950)

Holiday Comics (1951)

Startling Terror Tales (1953)

Confessions of Love (1952)

Terrors of the Jungle (1953)

Frisky Fables (1949)

All-Famous Crime (1951)

Confessions of Romance (1953)

DickCole (1949)

Ghostly Weird Stories (1953)

The Horrors (1953)

The Outlaws (1952)

Sport Thrills (1950)

Terrifying Tales (1953)

Other appreciation threads: https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/topic/470215-publisher-appreciation-threads/

19 minutes ago, sacentaur said:

Very cool sci-fi, I especially like the elongated bottom panel.

This series began in More Fun #15 (Nov’ 1936) with art by Tom Hickey. I thought the earliest strips were in B&W, so they may have been colored for the reprinting in Warrior Comics #1?

Building and vehicle designs can really help bring out a sci-fi feel (Planet Comics #1, 1940).

Buzz Crandall of the Space Patrol from Planet Comics #7 (July, 1940). Art by Fletcher Hanks.

From New Fun #3 (April 1935, DC Comics), apparently the first sci-fi comic book cover ever. Art by Clem Gretter.

5 minutes ago, jimbo_7071 said:

Monte Hale Western was a Fawcett title; I don't see that one on the list.

It was formerly Mary Marvel, having transitioned from Mary Marvel #28 (September, 1948) to Monte Hale Western #29 (October, 1948).

 

From Daredevil Comics #10 (May, 1942). Art by Charles Biro.

From Whiz Comics #100 (August, 1948). Art by Kurt Schaffenberger.

12 hours ago, pemart1966 said:

Daredevil gets my vote as being the biggest waste of a superhero in the Golden Age if not all time.  The character had the look; the artists; the main villain etc etc.  Lev Gleason just let the character fade away with his title being taken over by the Little Wise Guys.  Seriously?  Why did this happen?

Yeah, despite the Golden Age Daredevil having been one of the most successful superheroes of his time (his comic having amassed 134 issues, appearing in about 70 of them), it rather stinks how he has fallen into obscurity as much he has. That said, though his namesake lives on more popularly with Matt Murdock, it was still nice to see Dynamite Entertainment give Bart Hill more attention.

Fiction House's Big 6 (Jumbo Comics #104, October 1947).

Announcement in Smash Comics #7 (February, 1940) regarding a contest as to what Quality Comics' next comic should be named, later having been announced in Smash Comics #9 (April, 1940).

An appreciation thread for Fawcett Comics, a division of Fawcett Publications who started off with Whiz Comics in 1940 and had halted many of their titles by 1953, their longest-running series having been Whiz Comics, Captain Marvel Adventures, and Master Comics.

Their comics include:

America's Greatest Comics (1941-1943)

Andy Devine Western (1950-1951)

Animal Fair (1946-1947)

Baseball Heroes (1952)

Battle Stories (1952-1953)

Beware! Terror Tales (1952-1953)

Big Book Romances (1950)

Bill Battle, the One Man Army (1952-1953)

Bill Boyd Western (1950-1952)

Billy the Kid (1945-1946)

Bob Colt (1950-1952)

Bob Steele Western (1950-1952)

Bob Swift, Boy Sportsman (1951-1952)

Bulletman (1941-1946)

Captain Marvel Adventures (1941-1953)

Captain Marvel Adventures Wheaties Giveaway (1947)

Captain Marvel and the Good Humor Man (1950)

Captain Marvel and the Lieutenants of Safety (1950-1950)

Captain Marvel, Jr. (1942-1953)

Captain Marvel Story Book (1946-1949)

Captain Marvel Thrill Book (1941)

Captain Midnight/Sweethearts (1942-1953)

Captain Video (1951-1951)

Comic Comics (1946-1947)

Comics Novel (1947)

Copper Canyon (1950)

Cowboy Love (1949-1952)

Crime Smasher (1948)

Dakota Lil (1949)

Destination Moon (1950)

Don Newcombe (1950)

Don Winslow of the Navy (1943-1951)

Down with Crime (1952-1953)

Eddie Stanky (1951)

Exciting Romances (1949-1953)

Fawcett Movie Comic (1950-1952)

Fawcett's Funny Animals (1942-1954)

Gabby Hayes Western (1948-1953)

Gene Autry Comics (1941-1943)

George Pal's Puppetoons (1945-1950)

Girls in Love (1950-1950)

Golden Arrow (1942-1947)

Hopalong Cassidy (1943-1953)

Hoppy the Marvel Bunny (1945-1947)

Hot Rod Comics (1951-1953)

I Love You (1950)

Ibis the Invincible (1942-1948)

Jackie Robinson (1949-1952)

Joe Louis (1950-1950)

Jungle Girl/Nyoka the Jungle Girl (1942-1953)

Ken Maynard (1950-1952)

Lance O'Casey (1946-1948)

Larry Doby (1950)

Lash Larue Western (1949-1954)

Life Story (1949-1953)

Love Memories (1949-1950)

Love Mystery (1950-1950)

The Marvel Family (1945-1954)

Mary Marvel/Monte Hale Western (1945-1953)

Master Comics (1940-1953)

Mike Barnett, Man Against Crime (1951-1952)

Minute Man (1941-1942)

Montana (1950)

Motion Picture Comics (1950-1953)

Negro Romance (1950-1950)

Nickel Comics (1940-1940)

Nutty Comics (1946)

On the Spot (1948)

Ozzie and Babs (1947-1949)

Phil Rizzuto (1951)

Pinhead and Foodini (1951-1952)

Pioneer Marshall (1950)

Powder River Rustlers (1950)

Ralph Kiner (1950)

Rocky Lane Western (1949-1954)

Rod Cameron Western (1950-1953)

Romantic Secrets (1949-1953)

Romantic Story (1949-1953)

Romantic Western (1949-1950)

Roy Campanella (1950)

Singing Guns (1950)

Six-Gun Heroes (1950-1953)

Slam-Bang Comics (1940-1940)

Smiley Burnette Western (1950-1950)

Soldier Comics (1952-1953)

Special Edition (1940)

Spy Smasher (1941-1943)

Strange Stories from Another World (1952-1953)

Strange Suspense Stories (1952-1953)

Suspense Detective (1952-1953)

Sweetheart Diary (1949-1953)

Tex Ritter Western (1950-1954)

This Magazine Is Haunted (1951-1953)

Thrilling True Stories of the Baseball Giants (1952)

Tom Mix Western (1948-1953)

True Confidences (1949-1950)

True Stories of Romance (1949-1950)

True Sweetheart Secrets (1950-1953)

True Tales of Romance (1950)

Underworld Crime (1952-1953)

Unknown World (1952)

Vic Torry and His Flying Saucer (1950)

Whiz Comics (1940-1953)

Whiz Comics Wheaties Giveaway (1947)

Worlds Beyond (1951)

Worlds of Fear (1951-1953)

Wow Comics/Real Western Hero/Western Hero (1940-1952)

X-Mas Comics (1941-1942)

Yogi Berra (1951)

Young Eagle (1950-1952)

Young Marriage (1950)

Fight scene with Lightning Girl from Four Favorites #21 (January, 1946). Art by George Gregg.

 

An appreciation thread for Lev Gleason Publications, who started off with Silver Streak Comics in 1939 and went defunct in 1956, their longest-running series having been Daredevil Comics, Crime Does Not Pay, and Boy Comics.

Their comics include:

Daredevil Comics (1941)

Silver Streak Comics/Crime Does Not Pay (1939)

Capt. Battle Comics/Boy Comics (1941)

Crime and Punishment (1948)

Desperado/Black Diamond Western (1948)

Lovers' Lane (1949)

Boy Meets Girl/Boy Loves Girl (1950)

Adventures in Wonderland (1955)

Cutie Pie (1955)

Squeeks (1953)

Uncle Charlie's Fables (1952)

Buster Crabbe (1953)

Horse Feathers Comics (1948)

Dilly (1953)

Best of Crime Does Not Pay (1944)

Captain Battle Jr. (1943)

Tops (1949)

Crime Does Not Pay 1953 (Annual) (1953)

Dime Comics (1945)

Giant Boy Book of Comics (1945)

Spooky Mysteries (1946)

Other appreciation threads: https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/topic/470215-publisher-appreciation-threads/