BIP Comics

Features
• Comic Ages Timeline
• BIP "white spaces" list
• CGC Page Quality Rankings
• A best practice for using tape
• Comic Book Scarcity

Guides and Research Projects
• Indicia & Insignia Data
• Cover Artifacts
• Humorama Digests
• Marvel Diamond Issues (1977-79)
• Star Wars Comics
• Action Comics #1 Reprints
• Detective Comics #27 Reprints
• Whiz Comics #2 Reprints
• EC Promotional Comics
• Picture Stories from the Bible

Other Stuff
• Comic Book Supplies
• Auction/Store Venues
• Third Party Grading
Publisher Insignia and Indicia Data (return to index)


BIP Comics: Publisher Insignia and Indicia Data
Comics Magazine Company

Title Owners:
• Funny Pages
[30-Sep-1936] #7: Comics Magazine Co., Inc.; John F. Mahon; Samuel A. Fried; Francis N. Cook (?);

Publishers of Record:
• Comics Magazine Company, Inc.
Comics Magazine (1,3-5); Detective Picture Stories (1,5); Funny Pages (6-10,v2n2,v2n3); Funny Picture Stories (1);

Addresses:
• Editorial Executive Offices:
11 West 42nd Street, New York, NY (May 1936)-(Oct 1937)
• Offices of Publication:
1723 West 74th Street, Chicago, IL (May 1936)-(Sep 1936)
420 De Soto Avenue, St. Louis, MO (Nov 1936)
1213 West Third Street, Cleveland, OH (Mar 1937)-(Oct 1937)
• Advertising Offices
William J. Delaney, Eastern Representative, 420 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY (May 1936)-(Oct 1937)
T. W. Farrell, Western Representative, 180 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL (May 1936)-(Oct 1937)

Personnel:
• Editor:
William H. Cook
• Business Manager:
John F. Mahon

Note: Comics Magazine Company titles were acquired by Ultem in 1937. Some Ultem issues have double indicias as the covers had already been printed by the Comics Magazine Company.
Statements of Ownership:
Funny Pages #7 (Dec 1936)

Indicias:
1936-1937
  1936 1937
Jan    
Feb   Funny Pages #8
Mar   Funny Pages #9
Spr    
Apr   Detective Picture Stories #5
Funny Pages #10
May Comics Magazine #1
 
Jun   Funny Pages #11
Western Picture Stories #4
Sum    
Jul Comics Magazine #3
 
Aug Comics Magazine #4
 
Sep Comics Magazine #5
Funny Pages v2#2 (cover)
Oct   Funny Pages v2#3 (cover)
Fall    
Nov Funny Pages #6
Funny Picture Stories #1
 
Dec Detective Picture Stories #1
Funny Pages #7
 
Win    
  1936 1937




(return to index)
©1999-2013 BIP Comics. All rights reserved. Problems? Contact Us.