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Publisher: American Comics Group
Years in Operation: 1943 - 1978
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Country: Flag United States Web Site: Brands: 3 Indicia Publishers: 15 Series: 98 Printings: 1299 (1296 Issues) Disclose Notes: The American Comics Group, from 1946 to 1953, was co-owned by Fred Iger who also owned part of National Periodical Publications. Iger was sole owner from 1953 to the early 1960s, when Harry Donenfeld became co-owner. They were distributed by Independent News Co., which was a sister company to DC comics.

In 1967 the line of newsstand titles was cancelled, but the Custom Comics part of the business lasted until at least the late seventies.
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Series Name Years in Print Issues (Printings)
Adventures in El Dorado Land {Comic Books} 1959 - 1
Adventures into the Unknown {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Adventures Into the Unknown was a series best known as the medium's first ongoing horror-comics title. The first two issues, which included art by Fred Guardineer and others, featured horror stories of ghosts, werewolves, haunted houses, killer puppets, and other supernatural beings and locales. The premiere included a seven-page abridged adaptation of Horace Walpole's seminal gothic novel The Castle of Otranto, by Frank Belknap Long and Al Ulmer. Unlike many American horror comics of the Golden Age, it weathered the public criticism of the early 1950s and survived the aftermath of the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency hearings of April and June 1954 when the comics industry attempted self-regulation with a highly restrictive Comics Code.
Public Domain
1948 - 1967 174
The Baby Doll Story Book {Comic Books} 1958 - 1
The Battle for Survival! {Comic Books} 1971 - 1
Below the Surface {Comic Books} 1968 - 1
Billy & Betty, Pilot Jim and Miss Sunbeam in Adventures in Space {Comic Books} 1955 - 1
Blazing West {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Canadian editions may also exist. A copy of issue #9 was advertised as Canadian on Ebay in May of 2008, unknown what (if any) difference exists between editions.
Public Domain
1948 - 1951 20
Bobby's Adventures {Comic Books} 1956 - 1957 7
Bulb Magic {Comic Books} 1956 - 1
Buster Brown in "Buster Makes the Team!" {Comic Books} Public Domain 1959 - 1
Buster Brown in "Out of This World!" {Comic Books} 1959 - 1
Buster Brown of the Safety Patrol {Comic Books} 1960 - 1
Buster Brown's Safety Coloring Book {Comic Books} 1958 - 1
Championship Football {Comic Books} 1956 - 1
Chuckle {Comic Books} 1945 - 1
The Clutching Hand {Comic Books} 1954 - 1
Commander Battle and the Atomic Sub {Comic Books} 1954 - 1955 7
Confessions of the Lovelorn {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Indicia title confirmed for #76-80, 82, 84-85, 87-88, 90, 92-114
Public Domain
1956 - 1960 39
Cookie {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Titled "Cookie" on cover (including quotations). Indicia publisher: Issue #1-44: Michel Publications. #46-55: Regis Publications, American Comics Brand: Logo first appears on issue #19 June-July 1949.
Public Domain
1946 - 1955 55
Dizzy Dames {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: B & M Distributing Company.
1952 - 1953 6
Don't Be a Fizzle {Comic Books} 1960 - 1960 1 (2)
Electric Safety, from A to Zap! {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Known utility company logos on front: Consumers Power Company; Illinois Power Company. May have been reissued as a coloring book in 1986, per information at the MSU Comic Art Collection.
1972 - 1 (3)
Flashing Blades {Comic Books} 1960 - 0
Forbidden Worlds {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Publishing hiatus from #34 (December 1954) to #35 (July 1955), during which the series was temporarily continued in Young Heroes (American Comics Group, 1955 series).
Public Domain
1951 - 1967 145
Funny Comics {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Probably packaged together with Smile Comics (1955 series) and Tickle Comics (1955 series).
1955 - 1
Funny Films {Comic Books} Public Domain 1949 - 1954 29
Funnybone {Comic Books} 1945 - 1
The Further Adventures of Happy Halsam {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Given away with Halsam Toys.
1960 - 1
G.I. Joe America's Moveable Fighting Man {Comic Books} 1967 - 1
Gasp! {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: The American Comics Group was owned by family members who also owned part of National Periodical Publications. They were distributed by Independent News Co., which also distributed DC comics. This is the last title launched by ACG.
1967 - 4
Gay Comics {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Probably came packaged with Pop Comics (1955 series) and Whee Comics (1955 series).
1955 - 1
Giggle Comics {Comic Books} Public Domain 1943 - 1955 99
Great Guns! {Comic Books} 1957 - 1
Ha Ha Comics {Comic Books} Public Domain 1943 - 1955 99
Harlem Youth Report {Comic Books} 1964 - 1
Herbie {Comic Books} 1964 - 1967 23
Hi-Jinx {Comic Books} 1945 - 1
Hi-Jinx {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Not to be confused with Hi-Jinx published by LaSalle in 1945. Ron Goulart in "Great American Comic Books" (Publications International, Ltd., 2001, p. 159) describes the series as "the most unusual attempt to cash in on the teenage craze" and notes that, despite contributions from Milt Gross and Dan Gordon, the series expired after seven issues.
Public Domain
1947 - 1948 7
The Hooded Horseman {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: First series.
1952 - 1954 7
The Hooded Horseman {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Second series.
Public Domain
1954 - 1955 5
How Jimmy Gets a Newspaper Route {Comic Books} 1967 - 1
How to Have Fun and Play with American Dolls & Toys {Comic Books} 1961 - 1
Hubley Presents Lost Forest {Comic Books} 1958 - 1968 1
Hubley Presents the Animal War {Comic Books} 1957 - 1
Hubley Presents the Colt .45 {Comic Books} 1958 - 1
Hubley Presents the Colt.38 {Comic Books} 1958 - 1
Jane's Husband Drank Too Much {Comic Books} 1972 - 1
The Kilroys {Comic Books} Public Domain 1947 - 1955 54
King Edward Presents Cigarama {Comic Books} 1957 - 1
Lovelorn {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Though the cover title changes to Confession of the Lovelorn with #52, the indicia changes in issue #76.
Public Domain
1949 - 1956 75
Magic Agent {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: This was a short-lived attempt to join the super-hero revival in the early sixties.
1962 - 3
Merry-Go-Round {Comic Books} 1945 - 1
Midnight Mystery {Comic Books} 1961 - 7
Milt Gross Funnies {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: No official publisher listed in indicia. Both issues list "Publication office: Rotary Litho Co., Ltd./Limited" and "Copyright, 1947, by Gross Publications, Inc." At least the cover for a third issue was produced as seen in The Complete Milt Gross Comic Books and Life Story (IDW Publishing, 2010).
1947 - 2
Moon Mullins {Comic Books} Public Domain 1947 - 1949 6
More Power to You {Comic Books} 1951 - 2
My Brother, the Cop {Comic Books} 1971 - 1
My Romantic Adventures {Comic Books} Public Domain 1956 - 1964 71
The New American Frontier {Comic Books} 1959 - 1
Once a Champion {Comic Books} 1963 - 1
Operation: Peril {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Basic information culled from Don Rosa's index.
Public Domain
1950 - 1953 16
The Other Town {Comic Books} 1965 - 1
Out of the Night {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Basic information for this title culled from an index by Don Rosa.
Public Domain
1952 - 1954 17
Park Plastics Presents The King's Catapults {Comic Books} 1956 - 1
Pop Comics {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Probably came packaged with Gay Comics (1955 series) and Whee Comics (1955 series).
1955 - 1
Remco Presents Remco-Land Adventures {Comic Books} 1961 - 1
Romantic Adventures {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: The title for issues #68-71 reads "My Romantic Adventures" but the indicia remains "Romantic Adventures". The indicia changes to "My Romantic Adventures" with issue #72.
Public Domain
1949 - 1956 67
Safety Around Electricity {Comic Books} 1978 - 1
Saving Can Be Fun! {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Giveaway for The Savings and Loan Foundation, Inc., 1111 "E" Street N.W., Washington, D.C. 20004.
1968 - 1
Search for Love {Comic Books} Public Domain 1950 - 2
The Sheriff of Cochise {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Based on the television series. Co-published with Mobil Oil.
Public Domain
1957 - 1
Shmoo Hard Candy {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Distributed by the Delmonico Foods & Candies Corp. Mini-comic came as a prize in Shmoo Hard Candy packages probably during the 1948-1950 massive merchandising of Al Capp's Shmoo.
1948 - 1953 24
Sir Clacky Wack and Little Miss Sunbeam in "The Zany Scientist!" {Comic Books} 1957 - 1
Skating Skills Featuring "Secrets of Roller Skating" {Comic Books} 1957 - 1
Skeleton Hand in Secrets of the Supernatural {Comic Books} 1952 - 1953 6
Smile Comics {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Probably packaged together with Funny Comics (1955 series) and Tickle Comics (1955 series).
1955 - 1
Soldiers of Fortune {Comic Books} Public Domain 1951 - 1953 12
Spencer Spook {Comic Books} 1955 - 2
Spy and Counterspy {Comic Books} Public Domain 1949 - 2
Spy-Hunters {Comic Books} Public Domain 1949 - 1953 22
The Story of Electricity {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: The 1977 edition is published by Culver Publications.
1969 - 1975 4
The Story of the New "Toni" Doll {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Giveaway from the American Character Doll Corporation. "Toni" was a popular female hair perm in the 1950's and 1960's.
1958 - 1
Teepee Tim {Comic Books} Public Domain 1955 - 3
That Wonderful Skunk {Comic Books} 1957 - 1
Tickle Comics {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Probably packaged together with Funny Comics (1955 series) and Smile Comics (1955 series).
1955 - 1
Topsy-Turvy Comics {Comic Books} 1945 - 1
Tupperware Dating Diary {Comic Books} 1968 - 1
The United States Air Force Presents: The "Hidden Crew" {Comic Books} 1964 - 1
Unknown Worlds {Comic Books} 1960 - 1967 57
Water Skiing {Comic Books} 1959 - 1
The Western Coloring Book {Comic Books} 1958 - 1
Whee Comics {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Probably packaged with Pop Comics (1955 series) and Gay Comics (1955 series).
1955 - 1
Wings of Adventure {Comic Books} 1956 - 1
Wrangler Authentic Western Jeans Presents... Ride 'Em Cowboy! {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Nabisco Shredded Wheat giveaways. Every cover has "Wrangler Authentic Western Jeans Presents [name of rodeo star] in Ride 'Em Cowboy!"
1957 - 6
Wrangler Great Moments in Rodeo {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Title from cover. Early issues had "Wrangler Presents Great Moments in Rodeo" on cover.
1955 - 1966 50
Young Heroes {Comic Books} 1955 - 3
Your Friend, the Policeman {Comic Books} 1960 - ? 1
Your Friend, the Policeman {Comic Books} 1968 - 1

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