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Here are a variety of collections or 'archives' of individual characters or popular artists.
Not specific to any one publisher or theme but popular enough to warrant extra attention from fandom. We recommend all of them for excellent entertainment value. |
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Ajax-Farrell Publications 1951-1958
Also published comics under the names of Ajax, America's Best, American Feature Syndicate, Decker Publications, Excellent Publications, Farrell, Four Star, Kiddie Kapers, Red Top Comics and Steinway Comics. |
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American Comics Group/ACG 1943-1967 |
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Avon Comics, Inc. 1947-1959 |
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Better/Nedor/Standard/Pines Publications 1939-1959 |
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1941-1946
During the Second World War there was a foreign-exchange crisis which led to a ban being placed on the importation of U.S. comics. This period, which witnessed an explosion of English-Canadian comic book publishing, is now described as the Canadian Golden Age of Comics.
Featured publishers include - Maple Leaf Publishing in Vancouver and the Toronto-based firms Anglo-American, Hillborough Studios, and Commercial Signs of Canada (later called Bell Features)
You can read more about the history of Canadian Whites at this link -
http://tinyurl.com/noevjz |
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Centaur Publications 1938–1942 |
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Charlton Comics Group 1944-1986 |
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Harry "A" Chesler Comics 1937-1946
Chesler (the "A" stood for "Anything") was a comic book packager and publisher. He operated a packaging studio more or less continuously from the mid-30s through 1953, and at times also operated as a publisher.
In 1941 Chesler published with Dynamic Publications, Inc. From this point on, most of Chesler's comics would be branded with a logo proclaiming them the "World's Greatest Comics". In 1941-1942, this also identified each issue as "A Dynamic Publication". After just over half a year, Dynamic ceased publishing, he continued producing a few books through surrogates.
The surrogate activity picks up dramatically in 1944, leading into Chesler's third major wave of publishing. In place of "A Dynamic Publication" these had "Harry "A" Chesler, Jr.". Junior, however, was the son of Chesler the publisher, a point of much confusion for latter-day comics researchers. This period lasted through 1946, after which the ongoing titles were continued in Canada by Superior Publishers through early 1948. Chesler continued to run his art shop, but no longer published his own comics after 1946. |
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Columbia Comics Corporation 1940-1949 |
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Cupples and Leon Co. 1902-1956
In 1903, Cupples & Leon collected such strips as The Katzenjammer Kids. Alphonse and Gaston, Happy Hooligan, On and Off the Ark, Poor Lil Mose and The Tigers. Their major competitor in books of comic strip reprints was Frederick A. Stokes, who died in 1939.
To reprint comic strips, the company offered, for 25 cents, a square-bound paperback format of 52 pages of black-and-white strips between flexible cardboard covers. Between 1906 and 1934, Cupples & Leon published more than 100 titles in that format. They collected Bringing Up Father, Little Orphan Annie, Reg'lar Fellers, Smitty, Tillie the Toiler and other leading strips of the 1920s and 1930s.[2] They left the comic strip reprint field in 1934, concentrating on their juvenile lines, just as the modern day comic book was introduced that same year with Famous Funnies.
Victor Cupples died in Mount Vernon, New York in July 1941. Arthur Leon, who lived in New Rochelle, New York, died in December 1943, and his wife, Louise Heroy Leon, died five years later in February 1948.
The Platt and Munk publishing firm acquired Cupples & Leon in 1956. |
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Dell Publishing Co., Inc. 1936-1973
Dell was founded in 1921 and first published comics with 1929's "The Funnies", which looked like a newspaper insert but was distributed on newsstands. Eastern Color Printing Company was involved with several of Dell's earliest comic book ventures, although the exact nature of each partnership is not always clear. The company's comic book division folded in 1973, although Dell continued to publish the occasional book with comics content, including newspaper strip collections. Dell became part of Bantam Doubleday Dell in 1988, ceasing to exist as an independent company.
-"The American Comic Book: The Evolutionary Era, 1884-1939" by Denis Gifford. |
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D.S. Publishing 1947-1951 |
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Eastern Color Printing Company 1933-1955 |
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Fawcett Publications 1940-1954 |
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Fiction House, Inc. 1939-1954 |
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Fox Feature Syndicate, Inc. 1939-1951 |
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'In the U.S.A, any work created by a federal government employee or officer is in the public domain, provided that the work was created in that person’s official capacity.'
USA government publications are in the Public Domain and therefore can be shared here.
We do reserve the right to limit uploads to this section when needed. |
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Harvey Comics Group 1941-1994 |
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Hillman Periodicals 1940-1953 |
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Holyoke Publishing Company 1940-1950
Imprints - Et-Es-Go Mags, Continental Magazines, HELNIT Publishing Co. and TEM Publishing Co.
Associated publishers Nita Publishing Co., Narrative Publ., Bilbara Publishing Co. and Aviation Press |
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1958 - 1964
Founded by Israel Waldman. |
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Key Publications 1951-1956
Imprints - Timor Publications, Gillmor Magazines, Stanley P. Morse; Aragon Magazines, Medal Comics, Stanmor Publications |
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Comics House Publications / Lev Gleason 1939-1956 |
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Magazine Enterprises 1943-1958 |
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M. L. J. Magazines, Inc. 1939-present (as Archie Comics) |
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Orbit Pub. covering: Our/Wanted/Toytown/Taffy/Patches Pub. Co
Ray R. Hermann publications |
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Parents Magazine Institute 1941-1950 |
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Prize Comics Group 1940-1961 |
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Spark Publications 1944-1946 |
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Star Publications 1949-1955
Imprint - Accepted Publications |
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St. John Publications 1947-1958
A Checklist of all St. John ROMANCE comics by John Benson can be found at the following link:
http://www.fantagraphics.com/downloads/stjohnchecklist.pdf |
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Story/Merit/Master group. 1951-1955 |
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Toby Press, Inc. 1950-1955 |
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Trojan Magazines 1950-1955 |
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Youthful Magazines, Inc. 1949-1953 |
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Ziff-Davis Publications 1947-1957 |
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Smaller publisher grouped in one area |
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A home for foreign reprints of known US comic titles.
Please do not upload anything printed after 1959 or that contains known non-PD material in these countries. |
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Classic Newspaper comic strips |
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A home for orphaned or 'Grossly Mistreated' (GM) scans. They are small and watermarked. We frankly don't like them but for some books they are the only scan available.
These are best thought of as placeholders until hopefully a better scan can be uploaded. Anyone that owns one of these books PLEASE consider scanning and sharing them!
NOTE -
If you have a GM scan of a book ALREADY with a better scan on the site please don't upload it.
BUT...
If you have a GM scan of something NOT on the site or ours is incomplete or fiche, please DO upload it to this folder.
NOTE -
Non GM scans we hope will someday be replaced will also be hosted in this folder. |
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