Logo go loco!!! Changing it up a bit ....

[Ameri]

[VintageComics]

 

Actually yeah, they change a lot too, but that wasn't what meant.

 

When I compared issues #4 and #9 there were very subtle differences, likely because at the time they were hand drawn and not standardized. The later issues became standardized and are actually again slightly different from earlier issues.

 

I believe they also went through a size change somewhere in the 20's or 30's.

 

It's been a few years now but I do remember something like that.

[Cat-Man_America]

First, second style & last logo (there were others in between)...

 

 

 

 

[Cat-Man_America]

 

Followed by this style...

[Cat-Man_America]

Transitional logo change...

 

[Point Five]

Fun thread, but I think you could have scanned these logos without tearing them off the covers.

 

 

[Point Five]

First, second style & last logo (there were others in between)...

 

Catman was definitely my first thought when I saw where this thread was going. Catman probably had as many logo styles in five years as Batman has had since 1940!

 

 

[damonwad]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[damonwad]

 

 

 

 

 

[telerites]

May be other variations in the title but these are the examples in my collection.

 

 

[jimbo_707]

First, second style & last logo (there were others in between)...

 

 

 

Here are a couple more:

[Sqeggs]

 

OT, but wow what a cover this is!

[fifties]

The first and last examples are not mine, just used to illustrate the earlier and later logo wording.

 

I never realized the subtle difference in the second and third examples, "Tales of Terrror", vs simply "Tales".

 

And then of course an entirely different title later on.

 

 

 

 

[MrBedrock]

Animal Comics...

[MrBedrock]

Fawcett's Funny Animals...

[MrBedrock]

Mighty Mouse...

[MrBedrock]

Here's a cool one, Terrytoons actually morphs into Paul Terry's Comics...

The Terrytoon logo font stayed essentially the same from the Timely issues through the St. John's issues. Issues 1 and 2 had a film background to the logo which disappeared with issue 3 and didn't reappear until a decade later with issue 85 of Paul Terry's Comics. Not coincidentally Paul Terry's 85 and 86 and Terrytoons 85 and 86 are identical books with different logos and slightly different covers. The film background disappears from Paul Terry's with issue 121...

 

[MrBedrock]

[MrBedrock]

Captain Video tried three logos in the first four issues before he finally got it right....and cancelled the series with #6...

[MrBedrock]

A lot of people don't realize this but the Marvel Mystery Comics logo changed a lot in very subtle ways in the early issues. If you overlaid them by hand you'd see the subtle differences. I found this out when I was trying to make my own logo.

The big change in subtle differences occurred between issue 8 and issue 9. Notice particularly the "R". Issues 2 - 8 all have that funky looking R. From 9 on the redrawn logo has a more standardized lettering size...