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Street & Smith Street and Smith was a well-known pulp publisher, starting back in the 1920s and still publishing pulps as late as the 1950s. But the pulp giant was slow to get into the booming comic book business. Eventually they did, but they never had more that a handful of titles at any given time. Help us find the characters that we still need information on. Characters that we need text and visual information on: Astron the Crocodile Queen Characters that we need text information on: Ajax the Sun Man Characters we do have information on: Avenger I
Fiction House Fiction House was a successful company, but not known for its mystery-men types. Predominantly a "good girl" art company, who delved into every conceivable genre, superheroes were not a high priority for them. Here is what we need. Characters that we need text and visual information on: Amazona Characters that we need text information on: Rip Regan, the Power-Man I Characters we do have information on: Atlas the Mighty
In this next section we are going to deal with the very small publishers who only had a few characters. At this time we will not go into who they were, but rather present their characters and what information on them we still need. For simplicity’s sake, we are just going to list them, starting with those companies with the most characters and move downward. Magazine Enterprise The Avenger II (have info) Charlton Publications Captain Atom III (have info) St. John Publishing Co. Masked Blackjack (need
visual and text info) Elliot Publishing (Cover Heroes Only) Double-Up (have visual info) Sterling Publishing Captain Flash (have info) William H. Wise Co. Captain V (have info) Consolidated Corps. Black Orchid II (need text
info) F. E. Howard Company Congo Raider (need visual
and text info) Victory Corp. Atom Wizard (need visual
and text info) Regor Co. Atomic Thunderbolt (have info) R. B. Leffingwell Criss-Cross (need text
info) Hugo Gernsback Hip Knox (have info) H. C. Blackberry Iron Man I (need visual
and text info) E.C. Comics Moon Girl (have info)
And, finally, here are the publishing companies that had only one character each. We will list them as character first, publisher second, and what we have or need third. Blue Streak III - Whitman Co. - have info And that wraps it up for this month. Join us next month as we explore the "foreign" characters from Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. With your help we can complete these publishers’ stables of characters. If we have omitted anyone on the above lists, please let us know who, what, when, and where, and we will add them to the companies’ listings.
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