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Avon Comics

Avon Comics, Inc. 1947-1959 --- Avon Publications, Inc. was an independent publisher from 1941 to June 1959, when it was bought by the Hearst Corporation. Joseph Meyers and Edna Meyers Williams were the publishers. Their comics were distributed by ANC (American News Company) up to 1952, and by Hearst after that. As of 2019, Avon still exists as an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. -From GCD

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Boy Detective

(1951 Series) May-June 1951 to June 1952 Issues Published: 4 (#1 - #4)

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Captain Silver's Log of the Sea Hound / Sea Hound

(1945) + (1949) 1945; Jul 1949 to Sep 1949 COMPLETE SERIES! Issues Published: 4 (nn, 2, 3, 4) Tracking - After a 1945 one-shot numbering continues from Sea Hound (Avon, 1945 series) #2 -numbering continues with Captain Silver's Log of the Sea Hound (Captain Silver Syndicate, Inc., 1949 series) #3 also included in this folder. Note: publication gap

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Captain Steve Savage v1 + 2

(1950+1954 Series) v1 - 1950 to Jan 1953 Issues published: 8 (#nn-8) ----------------- v2 - Sep-Oct 1954 to May-Jun 1956 Issues published: 9 (#5-13) Tracking: Continues from Sensational Police Cases (1954 series) #2-4.

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Eerie

1947 #1 one-shot (1951 Series) May/June 1951 to Aug/Sep. 1954 Issues published: 17 (#1-17)

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Fighting Undersea Commandos

(1952 series) August 1952 to April 1953 Issues Published: 4 (#2 - #5) #2-5 Kinstler covers Tracking- Continued from Undersea Fighting Commandos (1952 series) #1. Notes- Indicia series title for issue #1 is Undersea Fighting Commandos. Series title changed to Fighting Undersea Commandos with issue #2.

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Gangsters and Gunmolls

(1951 Series) September 1951 to June 1952 COMPLETE SERIES! Issues Published: 4 (#1 - #4)

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Geronimo

(1950 Series) 1950 to November 1951 SERIES COMPLETE! Issues Published: 4 (#1 - #4) #1 Indian Fighter - Maneely art #2 Kinstler cover #3 Kinstler cover/2 stories #4 Kinstler cover Tracking- Continues as Savage Raids of Chief Geronimo (1952 series) #4. Notes Each issue had a different cover title. Issue #1: Geronimo Indian Fighter. #2: Geronimo On The Warpath. #3: Geronimo And His Apache Murderers.

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Intimate Confessions

(1951 Series) July-August 1951 to March 1953 Issues Published: 8 (#1 - #8) Indicia Publishers: Realistic Comics, Inc. (1 issue) without indicia publisher information (7 issues)

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Jesse James

(1950 Series) August 1950 to Aug/Sep 1956 COMPLETE SERIES! Issues published: 24 (1-29) Title Notes: No issues #10-14 was published.

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Kit Carson

(1950 Series) 1950 to Aug/Sep 1955 COMPLETE SERIES! Issues Published: 7 (#[nn] [1] - #8) Tracking: Issue # 5 continues from All True Detective Cases (1952 series) #1-4. Continues as Fighting Davy Crockett (1955 series) #9. Notes: 34 months hiatus between #3 (December 1951) and #5 (November-December 1954). There is no issue #4.

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Merry Mouse

(1953 Series) Jun 1953 to Jan/Feb 1954 COMPLETE SERIES! Issues Published: 4 (#1 - #4)

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Murderous Gangsters

(1951 Series) July 1951 to June 1952 Issues Published: 4 (#1 - #4)

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Out of this World Adventures

(1950 Series) July 1950 to December 1950 Issues Published: 2 (#1 - #2) Notes- Not the same series as Out of This World (1950 series). This is a pulp magazine that contains 32 pages of full color comics (making it at least 50% comics) #1 Has Avon's 'Out of this World #1' comic insert. #2 Has Avon's 'Strangle Worlds #1', pg 120 #2 (4/'51) Has Avon's 'Flying Saucers #1'

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Penny

(1947 Series) 1947 to September-October 1949 Issues Published: 6 (#1 - #6) Teen-humour title

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Peter Rabbit v1 + 2

(1947+1950 Series) 1947 to Aug/Sep 1956 Issues Published: 34 (#1-6)(#7 - #34) Tracking- Peter Rabbit Comics, (Avon, 1947 series) #1-6. Notes- Issues #7-8: "Adventures of Peter Rabbit" on cover. Issues #9-24: "The New Adventures of Peter Rabbit" on cover. Issues #25-34: "Adventures of Peter Rabbit" on cover. Just "Peter Rabbit" in the indicia only throughout the run.

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Police Line-Up

(1951 Series) Aug 1951 to Jul 1952 COMPLETE SERIES! Issues Published: 4 (#1 - #4)

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Prison Break!

(1951 Series) Sept. 1951 to Sept. 1952 Issues Published: 5 (#1 - #5) Notes- There is no exclamation point at the end of the title in the indicia of #5. #1 Wood cover + 1 pg #2 Wood cover, Kubert story + 2 pgs Wood art #3 Orlando & Check stories #4 & 5 Kinstler cover, #5 Infantino art

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Realistic Romances

(1951+1953 Series) V1 - Aug-Sep 1951 to 1952? Number of Issues: 8 -- v2 - 1953? to Aug-Sep 1954 Number of Issues: 3 Continues from Realistic Romances (v1) #1-8.

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Romantic Love

(1949+1954 Series) v1 - Sep-Oct 1949 to Jan-Mar 1953 Number of Issues: 14 --- v2 - Mar-Apr 1954 to Sep-Oct 1954 Number of Issues: 4 COMPLETE SERIES!

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Saint, The

(1947 Series) August 1947 to March 1952 COMPLETE SERIES! Issues published: 12 (1-12) Notes- Featuring the adventure fiction character Simon Templar (aka The Saint) created by Leslie Charteris in 1928. At the time this comic series launched Vincent Price was portraying Templar on radio. Indicia title is The Saint Comics in issues 1-8, and The Saint in issues 9-12.

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Slave Girl

(1949 series) Feb. 1949 to Apr. 1949 COMPLETE SERIES! Issues Published: 2 (#1 - #2) Notes- Another Malu story was published in Strange Worlds (Avon, 1950 series) #3

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Space Detective

(1951 series) July 1951 to July 1952 COMPLETE SERIES! Issues Published: 4 (#1 - #4) Wood/Orlando art/covers on/in some issues. Kinstler cover on #3 Notes- Notes Space Detective is Rod Hathaway, who changes into the Avenger, the Space Detective, for adventure in Outer Space. He's joined by his beautiful partner, Teena.

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Space Mouse

(1953 Series) April 1953 to April-May 1954 Issues Published: 5 (#1 - #5)

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Strange Worlds

(1950 Series) Nov. 1950 to Sept/Oct 1955 Issues Published: 14 (#1-9, 18-22) Tracking- Issue #18 onwards continues from Eerie (Avon, 1951 series) #1-17. Notes- #10-17 does not exist. #18-22 (#20 - 22 are War stories) You'll find art by Kubert, Giunta, Wood, Orlando, Williamson, Frazetta, Krenkel, and Kinstler among other in these issues.

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US Paratroops

(1951 Series) circa 1951 to December 1952 COMPLETE SERIES! Issues Published: 5 (#2 - #6) Tracking- Continues from With The U.S. Paratroops Behind Enemy Lines (Avon, 1951 series) #1

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U.S. Tank Commandos

(1952 Series) Jun 1952 to Mar 1953 COMPLETE SERIES! Issues Published: 4 (#1 - #4)

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White Princess of the Jungle

(1951 series) July 1951 - #5 Nov. 1952 SERIES COMPLETE Issue: 5 (#1 - #5) Notes- #1 Origin of White Princess & Capt'n Courage (reprt) Kinstler cover. #2Reprints origin of Malu, Slave Girl Princess from Avon's Slave Girl Princess #1 w/Malu changed to Zora; Kinstler cover/story. #3 Origin Blue Gorilla by Kinstler #4 Jack Barnum, White Hunter app.; reprint Sheena #9 #5 Blue Gorilla by Kinstler

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Witchcraft

(1952 Series) Mar-Apr 1952 to Mar 1953 COMPLETE SERIES! Issues published: 6 (#1-6)

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