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BIP Comics: Publisher Insignia and Indicia Data
Avon Comics Group

Insignias:


Title Owners:
• Peter Rabbit
[1-Oct-1954] #28: Avon Periodicals, Inc.; Joseph Meyers; Maurice Diamond; Harry Rebell;
[30-Sep-1955] #32: Avon Periodicals, Inc.; Joseph Meyers; Harry Rebell;
• Strange Worlds
[1-Oct-1954] #21: Avon Periodicals, Inc.; Joseph Meyers; Maurice Diamond; Harry Rebell;
• Wild Bill Hickock
[28-Sep-1951] #11: Avon Periodicals, Inc.; Joseph Meyers; Maurice Diamond; Harry Rebell;
• Wild Bill Hickock and the Cherokee Rebellion
[9-Oct-1953] #18: Avon Periodicals, Inc.; Joseph Meyers; Maurice Diamond; Harry Rebell;

Publishers of Record:
• Avon Comics, Inc.
Cowpuncher Comics (1); Eerie Comics (1); Penny (3,4);
• Avon Periodicals, Inc.
Attack on Planet Mars (1); Avon Fantasy - An Earth Man on Venus (1); Black Hawk Tomahawk Indian War (1); Blazing Six Guns! (1); Boy Detective (3,4); Buddies Of The U.S. Army (1,2); Captain Steve Savage (6;5,7,11); Captain Steve Savage And His Super Jet Fighters (3); Captain Steve Savage And The Rockets Of Death (5); Captain Steve Savage Battles The Red Mystery Jet (8); Captain Steve Savages Flight To Kill (7); Chief Crazy Horse (1); Custer's Last Fight (1); Diary of Horror (1); Eerie (3-5,9,12,14-16); Fighting Undersea Commandos (2,3); Geronimo (1); Geronimo And His Apache Murderers (3); Jesse James (6,9,17,22); King Solomons Mines (1); Kit Carson (1,3); Last Of The Comanches (1); Mask of Dr. Fu Manchu (1); Merry Mouse (1); Night of Mystery (1); Out of this World Adventures (1,2); Penny (5,6); Peter Rabbit (13,18,23,28,32,33); Phantom Witch Doctor (1); Police Line-Up (1); Prison Riot (1); Realistic Romances (16); Romantic Love (22); Saint (9-11); Saint Comics (6,8); Savage Raids Of Chief Geronimo (4); Slave Girl Comics (1,2); Space Detective (1,2,4); Space Mouse (1,4); Spotty the Pup (3); Strange Worlds (1-9,18-22); Super Pup (4,5); Television Puppet Show (2); Undersea Fighting Commandos (1); Underworld Story (1); Unknown Man (1); US Paratroops Surprise Attack (6); White Princess Of The Jungle (5); Wild Bill Hickok (1,9,11); Wild Bill Hickok, Terror of the Medicine Men (18); Witchcraft (1,3,5,6);
• Hearst Corporation, Avon Book Division
Funnies Annual (1);
• Realistic Comics, Inc.
Crime On The Waterfront (4); Dead Who Walk (1); Gangsters and Gun Molls (3); Hooded Menace (1); Murderous Gangsters (3); Prison Break (3,5); Realistic Romances (4,8); Romantic Love (12); Speedy Rabbit (1);

Addresses:
• Offices:
119 West 57th Street, New York, NY (Jan 1947)-(Jun 1951)
575 Madison Avenue, New York, NY (Aug 1951)-(Jul 1956)
959 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY (1959)

Personnel:
• President:
Joseph Meyers (Aug 1948)-(Spr 1953)
• Publisher:
Joseph Meyers [28-Sep-1951]-[1-Oct-1954]
• Editor:
Harry B. Tendler (Aug 1948)
Charles R. Byrne (Feb 1949)-(Jul 1949)
Sol Cohen (Aug 1949)-[30-Sep-1955]
• General Manager:
Sol Cohen (Aug 1949)-(Jun 1954)
• Business Manager:
Maurice Diamond [28-Sep-1951]-[1-Oct-1954]

Statements of Ownership:
Peter Rabbit #28 (Sep 1955)
Peter Rabbit #32 (May 1956)
Strange Worlds #21 (Jul 1955)
Wild Bill Hickok, Terror of the Medicine Men #18 (Jun 1954)
Wild Bill Hickok #11 (May 1952)

Indicias:
1947-1951
  1947 1948 1949 1950 1951
Jan Cowpuncher Comics #1
Eerie Comics #1
    Chief Crazy Horse #11
Custer's Last Fight #11
Geronimo #11
Kit Carson #11
Underworld Story #11
Avon Fantasy (An Earth Man on Venus) #11
Black Hawk Tomahawk Indian War #11
Feb     Slave Girl Comics #1
   
Mar          
Spr     Saint Comics #61
Saint Comics #81
Geronimo on the Warpath #2
Apr       Atomic Spy Cases #1
Strange Worlds #2
May          
Jun         Mask of Dr. Fu Manchu #1
Strange Worlds #3
Sum     Slave Girl Comics #2
   
Jul     Penny #4
Out of this World Adventures #1
Jesse James #4
Space Detective #1
White Princess of the Jungle #1
Aug   Penny #3
Penny #51
  Police Line Up #1
Sep         Saint #10
Strange Worlds #4
Oct     Penny #6
Wild Bill Hickok #1
  Hooded Menace #1
White Princess of the Jungle #2
Fall         Attack on Planet Mars #11
King Solomons Mines #11
Unknown Man #11
Nov       Strange Worlds #1
Television Puppet Show #2
Eerie #3
Geronimo and his Apache Murderers #3
Space Detective #2
Strange Worlds #5
Wild Bill Hickok #9
Dec       Jesse James #2
Out of this World Adventures #2
Saint #9
Captain Steve Savage and His Super Jet Fighters #3
Kit Carson #3
Saint #11
Win          
  1947 1948 1949 1950 1951

1952-1956
  1952 1953 1954 1955 1956
Jan Dead Who Walk #11
Eerie #4
Captain Steve Savage Battles the Red Mystery Jet #8
Last of the Comanches #11
Night of Mystery #11
Speedy Rabbit #11
Witchcraft #5
Spotty the Pup #3
   
Feb Boy Detective #3
Jesse James #6
Realistic Romance #4
Savage Raids of Chief Geronimo #4
Strange Worlds #6
  Eerie #14
Space Mouse #4
Strange Worlds #19
Captain Steve Savage #11
Mar Eerie #5
Gangsters and Gunmolls #3
Murderous Gangsters #3
Saint #12
Buddies of the U.S. Army #2
Witchcraft #6
  Captain Steve Savage #7
 
Spr Flying Saucers #11
Secret Diary of Eerie Adventures #1
     
Apr Prison Break #3
Witchcraft #1
Space Mouse #1
Romantic Love #20
Super Pup #4
   
May Crime on the Waterfront #4
Peter Rabbit #13
Strange Worlds #7
Undersea Fighting Commandos #1
White Princess of the Jungle #3
Wild Bill Hickok #11
  Eerie #15
Jesse James #17
Jesse James #22
Strange Worlds #20
Peter Rabbit #32
Jun Boy Detective #4
Captain Steve Savage and the Rockets of Death #5
Merry Mouse #1
Wild Bill Hickok, Terror of the Medicine Men #18
   
Sum          
Jul Romantic Love #12
Space Detective #4
Peter Rabbit #18
Eerie #16
Jesse James #18
Realistic Romances #16
Super Pup #5
Strange Worlds #21
Peter Rabbit #33
Aug Captain Steve Savage #6
Fighting Undersea Commandos #2
Phantom Witch Doctor #1
Strange Worlds #8
White Princess of the Jungle #4
Witchcraft #3
Eerie #12
Peter Rabbit #23
Romantic Love #22
   
Sep     Realistic Romances #17
Peter Rabbit #28
 
Oct Captain Steve Savages Flight to Kill #7
Fighting Undersea Commandos #3
Prison Break #5
Witchcraft #4
  Captain Steve Savage #5
Strange Worlds #22
 
Fall          
Nov Eerie #9
Jesse James #9
Prison Riot #1
Realistic Romances #8
Strange Worlds #9
White Princess of the Jungle #5
  Strange Worlds #18
   
Dec Blazing Six Guns #1
Diary of Horror #1
U.S. Paratroops Surprise Attack #6
       
Win Buddies of the U.S. Army #11
       
  1952 1953 1954 1955 1956

1: Estimated cover date.

• 1959: Funnies Annual #1



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