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Novelty Press/Star Publications (Target Comics, Blue Bolt, Startling Terror Tales, etc.)
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Electricmastro

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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/

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lou_fine

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1 hour ago, Electricmastro said:

An appreciation thread for Novelty Press, who started off with Target Comics in 1940 and had some of their titles continued by Star Publications after they went defunct in 1949, their longest-running series having been Target Comics, Blue Bolt, and Frisky Fables.

Yes, does any boardies have nice copies of their Target 7 with the classic Wolverton Spacehawk cover?  :luhv:

According to the HA archives, it looks like it has now been well over 15 years since a nice copy of this book has come out into the marketplace.  Makes me wonder how a relatively HG (i.e. 7.0 grade or higher) copy would do in today's much hotter classic cover GA marketplace.  hm  :taptaptap:

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1 minute ago, lou_fine said:

Yes, does any boardies have nice copies of their Target 7 with the classic Wolverton Spacehawk cover?  :luhv:

According to the HA archives, it looks like it has now been well over 15 years since a nice copy of this book has come out into the marketplace.  Makes me wonder how a relatively HG (i.e. 7.0 grade or higher) copy would do in today's much hotter classic cover GA marketplace.  hm  :taptaptap:

I would take a not-so-nice copy!  I consider myself lucky to have a coverless copy of #5...

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10 minutes ago, OtherEric said:

I would take a not-so-nice copy!  I consider myself lucky to have a coverless copy of #5...

Anequally tough book to find as the Wolverton Target 7, but the one that appears even rarer (well, at least according to the CGC Census Population Report) than both of these is the Target 8 with the bright beautiful motorcycle cover.  :luhv:   :takeit:

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