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BIP Comics: Publisher Insigne and Indicia Data
Prize Comic Group

Insignias:


Title Owners:
• Black Magic
[21-Sep-1951] v2#4: Crestwood Publishing Co., Inc.; Michael M. Bleier; Paul Epstein;
• Headline Comics
[19-Sep-1949] v5#4: Headline Publications, Inc.; Michael M. Bleier; Paul Epstein;
• Prize Comics
[10-Oct-1940] v1#9: Feature Publications, Inc.; M. M. Bleier; Paul Epstein;
• Prize Comics Western
[19-Sep-1949] v9#1: Feature Publications, Inc.; Michael M. Bleier; Paul Epstein;
[21-Sep-1951] v11#1: Feature Publications, Inc.; Michael M. Bleier; Paul Epstein;
[24-Sep-1952] v12#1: Feature Publications; Paul Epstein; Michael M. Bleier;
• Young Love
[21-Sep-1951] v4#1: Crestwood Publishing Co., Inc.; Michael M. Bleier; Paul Epstein;
[21-Sep-1953] v5#12: Crestwood Publishing Co., Inc.; Michael M. Bleier; Paul Epstein;

Publishers of Record:
• American Boys' Comics, Inc.
Justice Traps the Guilty (v1n2);
• Crestwood Publishing Co., Inc.
Black Magic (v1n5,v8n1,v8n4,v8n5); Black Magic Magazine (v2n3,v2n4,v2n6,v2n10,v2n11,v2n12,v4n1,v4n2,v4n4); Charlie Chan (v1n2); Young Love 1949 (v1n4,v3n6,v3n10,v4n1,v5n8,v5n12,v6n3,v6n6,v6n8);
• Feature Publications, Inc.
Babe (v2n1); Babe, Darling of the Hills (v2n3); Frankenstein (23); Prize Comics (v1n4,v1n9,v1n11,v3n3,v3n6,v5n6,v5n11,v5n12,v6n5); Prize Comics Western (v8n4,v9n1,v11n1,v11n2,v11n4,v12n1,v12n5); Tom Corbett, Space Cadet (v2n1-v2n3); Young Brides (v1n6,v2n3); Young Love 1954 (v4n1); Young Romance (v3n6,v3n7,v5n2,v5n4,v6n12,v7n5,v7n9,v7n10,v9n5,v10n1,v10n4);
• Headline Publications, Inc.
Black Magic (v1n3,v6n4,v7n1); Dixie Dugan (v3n2,v4n4); Headline Comics (v5n4,v7n5,v9n3); Justice Traps the Guilty (v1n5,v2n2,v6n1,v6n10); Personal Love (v3n1); Strange World of Your Dreams (v1n1-v1n4);

Addresses:
• Editorial and Circulation Offices:
1790 Broadway, New York 19, N.Y. [19-Sep-1949]
32 West 22nd Street, New York 10, N.Y.
• Office of Publication:
8 Lord St., Buffalo 10, N.Y.
1250 Camden Ave., SW, Canton, Ohio
Sparta, Illinois

Personnel:
• Editor:
Nevin Fiddler [19-Sep-1949]
Joe Simon [21-Sep-1951]-[21-Sep-1953]
Jack Kirby [21-Sep-1951]-[21-Sep-1953]
Norman Wexler [21-Sep-1951]
Joe Genalo [24-Sep-1952]
• Business Manager:
Maurice Rosenfield [19-Sep-1949]-[21-Sep-1953]

Statements of Ownership:
Black Magic Magazine v2n4 (Mar 1952)
Headline Comics v5n4(40) (Apr 1950)
Prize Comics #9 (Feb 1941)
Prize Comics Western v9n1(80) (Apr 1950)
Prize Comics Western v11n1(92) (Apr 1952)
Prize Comics Western v12n1(98) (Apr 1953)
Young Love v4n1(31) (Mar 1952)
Young Love v5n12(54) (Feb 1954)

Indicias:
1940-1944
  1940 1941 1942 1943 1944
Jan       Prize Comics v3n3(27)
 
Feb   Prize Comics #9
     
Mar         Prize Comics (40)
Spr          
Apr       Prize Comics v3n6(30)
 
May Prize Comics #3
       
Jun Prize Comics #4
Prize Comics v1n11
     
Sum          
Jul          
Aug          
Sep          
Oct          
Fall          
Nov          
Dec          
Win          
  1940 1941 1942 1943 1944

1945-1949
  1945 1946 1947 1948 1949
Jan       Justice Traps the Guilty v1n2(2)
 
Feb         Justice Traps the Guilty v2n2(8)
Mar          
Spr          
Apr          
May          
Jun   Prize Comics v5n11(59)
     
Sum          
Jul          
Aug Prize Comics v5n6(54)
Prize Comics v5n12(60)
  Justice Traps the Guilty v1n5(5)
Babe v2n1(7)
Sep     Prize Comics v6n5(65)
Charlie Chan #2
Young Love v1n4
Oct         Prize Comics Western v8n4(77)
Fall          
Nov          
Dec         Babe Darling of the Hills v2n3(9)
Win          
  1945 1946 1947 1948 1949

1950-1954
  1950 1951 1952 1953 1954
Jan         Young Romance v7n5(65)
Feb Young Romance v3n6(18)
  Black Magic Magazine v2n3
Strange World of Your Dreams #4
Black Magic Magazine v4n4(28)
Dixie Dugan v4n4(8)
Headline Comics v9n3(63)
Young Love v5n12(54)
Mar Young Romance v3n7
Black Magic v1n3
Black Magic Magazine v2n4
Young Love v4n1(31)
Frankenstein #23
 
Spr          
Apr Headline Comics v5n4(40)
Prize Comics Western v9n1(80)
  Prize Comics Western v11n1(92)
Prize Comics Western v12n1(98)
 
May     Black Magic Magazine v2n6
Dixie Dugan v3n2
  Young Love v6n3
Young Romance v7n9(69)
Jun     Headline Comics v7n5(53)
Prize Comics Western v11n2(93)
  Young Romance v7n10(70)
Sum          
Jul   Black Magic v1n5
Young Love v3n6
  Black Magic Magazine v4n1(25)
Justice Traps the Guilty v6n10(52)
 
Aug     Strange World of Your Dreams #1
Young Brides v1n6
Young Romance v6n12(60)
Young Love v6n6
Sep     Black Magic Magazine v2n10(16)
   
Oct   Young Romance v5n2(38)
Black Magic Magazine v2n11(17)
Justice Traps the Guilty v6n1(43)
Prize Comics Western v11n4(95)
Strange World of Your Dreams #2
Black Magic Magazine v4n2(26)
Young Love v5n8
 
Fall          
Nov     Black Magic Magazine v2n12(18)
Young Brides v2n3
Young Love v6n8
Dec   Young Love v3n10(28)
Young Romance v5n4(40)
Strange World of Your Dreams #3
Prize Comics Western v12n5(102)
 
Win          
  1950 1951 1952 1953 1954

1955-1959
  1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
Jan     Young Romance v10n1(85)
   
Feb          
Mar          
Spr          
Apr       Black Magic v6n4
 
May          
Jun Tom Corbett Space Cadet v2n1
       
Sum          
Jul   Young Romance v9n5(83)
Young Romance v10n4
   
Aug Tom Corbett, Space Cadet v2n2
       
Sep          
Oct Tom Corbett Space Cadet v2n3
    Black Magic v7n1
Personal Love v3n1
Fall          
Nov          
Dec          
Win          
  1955 1956 1957 1958 1959

1960-1961
  1960 1961
Jan    
Feb    
Mar    
Spr    
Apr   Black Magic v8n1
May    
Jun    
Sum    
Jul Young Love v4n1
 
Aug    
Sep    
Oct   Black Magic v8n4
Fall    
Nov    
Dec   Black Magic v8n5
Win    
  1960 1961




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