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Publisher: Pines
Years in Operation: 1939 - 1959
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Country: Flag United States Web Site: Brands: 9 Indicia Publishers: 21 Series: 117 Printings: 1216 (1213 Issues) Disclose Notes: Pines, as a Master Publisher, also contains predecessor publishers that have been known as Better, Nedor, or Standard.   Does this data need corrections? Become an editor.
Series Name Years in Print Issues (Printings)
Adventures into Darkness {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: The content intended for the never released 15th issue is published in Seduction of the Innocent 3-D (Eclipse, 1985 series)#1 (October 1985).
Public Domain
1952 - 1954 10
Adventures of Mighty Mouse {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Adventures of Mighty Mouse has two issues numbered #144, one published by Pines, the other published by Dell. Issue 129 (only) is titled " Paul Terry's Adventures of Mighty Mouse " both on the cover and in the indicia.
1956 - 1959 16
Adventures of Winky Dink {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Based on the CBS-TV series Winky Dink and You, a children's program that aired from 1953 to 1957.
1957 - 1
Alley Oop {Comic Books} 1947 - 1949 9
America's Best Comics {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Publishing gap between #1 (February 1942) and #2 (September 1942).
Public Domain
1942 - 1949 31
America's Biggest Comics Book {Comic Books} 1944 - 1
Barnyard Comics {Comic Books} Public Domain 1944 - 1950 31
Battlefront {Comic Books} 1952 - 1
Best Comics {Comic Books} 1939 - 1940 4
Best Romance {Comic Books} Public Domain 1952 - 3
Bill West {Comic Books} Public Domain 1951 - 1952 2
Billy West {Comic Books} Public Domain 1949 - 1950 8
The Black Terror {Comic Books} Public Domain 1942 - 1949 27
Boots and Her Buddies {Comic Books} 1948 - 1949 5
Brick Bradford {Comic Books} 1948 - 1949 4
Broncho Bill {Comic Books} Public Domain 1947 - 1950 12
Buster Bunny {Comic Books} 1949 - 1953 16
Buz Sawyer {Comic Books} 1948 - 1949 3
Buz Sawyer's Pal, Sweeney {Comic Books} 1949 - 2
Captain Easy {Comic Books} 1947 - 1949 8
Cartoon Humor {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Risqué humour magazine with painted covers throughout, by Earle Bergey, Jefferson Machamar etc: early issues were sporadic, then generally on a quarterly schedule, but only three issues per volume. Also, for a good part of the run, the indicia had a specific month while the cover listed a seasonal date. The numbering of final two issues don't reflect the previous releases, but coincide with the company's comics titles, which started at issue #5.
1939 - 1955 41
Clay Cody, Gunslinger {Comic Books} 1957 - 1
Complete Book of Comics and Funnies {Comic Books} 1944 - 1
Coo Coo Comics {Comic Books} Public Domain 1942 - 1951 56
Coo Coo Comics {Comic Books} Public Domain 1952 - 2
Coo Coo, the Bird Brain {Comic Books} Public Domain 1951 - 4
Crime Files {Comic Books} Public Domain 1952 - 2
Date with Danger {Comic Books} 1952 - 1953 2
Dear Beatrice Fairfax {Comic Books} 1950 - 1951 5
Dennis the Menace {Comic Books} 1953 - 1958 31 (32)
Dennis the Menace Giant {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Dennis the Menace Giant Vacation Special (Standard, 1955 series) and/or Dennis the Menace Christmas Issue (Standard, 1955 series) might have been the first issue in this series.
1956 - 1958 5
Dennis the Menace Giant Christmas Issue {Comic Books} 1955 - 1
Dennis the Menace Giant Vacation Special {Comic Books} 1955 - 1
Dinky Duck {Comic Books} 1956 - 1958 4
Dizzy Duck {Comic Books} Public Domain 1950 - 1953 8
Etta Kett {Comic Books} 1948 - 1949 4
Exciting Comics {Comic Books} Public Domain 1940 - 1949 69
Exciting War {Comic Books} Public Domain 1952 - 1953 5
Fantastic Worlds {Comic Books} Public Domain 1952 - 1953 3
The Fighting Yank {Comic Books} Public Domain 1942 - 1949 29
Freckles {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Indicia title on all issues posted so far (5,7-9,11) is "Freckles" only. Unknown if other issues have "and His Friends" in the indicia. All issues have "Freckles and His Friends" on the cover.
1947 - 1949 8
Funny Funnies {Comic Books} 1943 - 1
Gandy Goose {Comic Books} 1956 - 1958 2
Gang World {Comic Books} 1952 - 1953 2
Goofy Comics {Comic Books} Public Domain 1943 - 1953 48
Happy Comics {Comic Books} Public Domain 1943 - 1950 40
Happy Rabbit {Comic Books} Public Domain 1951 - 1952 8
Heckle and Jeckle {Comic Books} 1956 - 1959 10
Intimate Love {Comic Books} Public Domain 1950 - 1954 24
It Really Happened {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: William H. Wise published #1-4 as surrogate.
1944 - 1947 11 (12)
Jet Fighters {Comic Books} Public Domain 1952 - 1953 3
Jetta {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: At least the cover for a fourth issue (#8) of this series was produced as seen in Dan DeCarlo's Jetta (IDW Publishing, 2010).
Public Domain
1952 - 1953 3
Jiggs and Maggie {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Based upon the humorous newspaper strip by George McManus, distributed by King Features Syndicate; see also Four Color (Dell, 1939 Series) #18, Four Color (Dell, 1942 Series) #37 and various series as: Bringing Up Father
1949 - 1953 11
Joe Palooka Visits the Lost City {Comic Books} 1945 - 1
Joe Yank {Comic Books} Public Domain 1952 - 1953 12
Johnny Hazard {Comic Books} Public Domain 1948 - 1949 4
Jungle Jim {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Issues 16 through 20 are listed by some sources, but do not appear to exist.
Public Domain
1949 - 1950 5
Kathy {Comic Books} Public Domain 1949 - 1953 17
The Katzenjammer Kids {Comic Books} 1950 - 1953 10
King Comics {Comic Books} 1950 - 1952 4
Knights of the Round Table {Comic Books} Public Domain 1957 - 1
Leroy {Comic Books} Public Domain 1949 - 1950 6
Let's Take a Trip {Comic Books} 1958 - 1
Little Angel {Comic Books} 1954 - 1959 12
Little Annie Rooney {Comic Books} 1948 - 3
Little Miss Muffet {Comic Books} Public Domain 1948 - 1949 3
Little Roquefort Comics {Comic Books} 1958 - 1
Lost Worlds {Comic Books} Public Domain 1952 - 2
Lucky Duck {Comic Books} 1953 - 4
Major Hoople Comics {Comic Books} 1942 - 1
Mark Trail {Comic Books} 1955 - 1
Mark Trail's Adventure Book of Nature {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Indicia: 'MARK TRAIL'S ADVENTURE BOOK OF NATURE, a magazine published and entire contents copyright (c) 1958 by Hallden Publications, Inc., 163 Pratt Street, Meriden, Conn. All rights reserved. Copyright 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955 by The Hall Syndicate, Inc. Summer, 1958. PRINTED IN THE U. S. A.'
Public Domain
1958 - 1
Mel Allen Sports Comics {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Published and (c) Visual Editions, Inc., 10 E. 40th Street, NYC.
1949 - 1950 2
Merry Go Round Comics {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Title spelled without hyphens in the indicia of #2.
1947 - 1948 2
Mighty Mouse {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Ties-in with the TV show. "CBS Television Presents New Mighty Mouse" on cover.
1957 - 1959 12
Mighty Mouse Fun Club Magazine {Comic Books} 1957 - 1958 6
My Real Love {Comic Books} Public Domain 1952 - 1
Mystery Comics {Comic Books} 1944 - 4
New Romances {Comic Books} Public Domain 1951 - 1954 17
Out of the Shadows {Comic Books} Public Domain 1952 - 1954 10
Ozark Ike {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: See also Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #180 (February 1948), featuring Ozark Ike, which precedes this series
Public Domain
1948 - 1952 15
Paul Terry's Mighty Mouse {Comic Books} 1956 - 4
Peter Pig {Comic Books} 1953 - 2
Popular Romance {Comic Books} Public Domain 1949 - 1954 25
Real Funnies {Comic Books} 1943 - 3
Real Life Comics {Comic Books} Public Domain 1941 - 1952 59 (60)
Reg'lar Fellers {Comic Books} 1947 - 1948 2
Ricky {Comic Books} 1953 - 1
Roger Dodger {Comic Books} 1952 - 1
Santa's Christmas Comics {Comic Books} 1952 - 1
Sniffy the Pup {Comic Books} Public Domain 1949 - 1953 14
Spunky {Comic Books} 1949 - 1951 7
Starlet O'Hara in Hollywood {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Indicia for issue 1 is just "Starlet O'Hara", issues 2, 3 and 4 have "Starlet O'Hara in Hollywood". Cover title for all four issues is "Starlet O'Hara in Hollywood." Feature continues in Cookie (American Comics Group, 1946 series) #24-36.
Public Domain
1948 - 1949 4
Startling Comics {Comic Books} Public Domain 1940 - 1948 53
Supermouse {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Indicia title: SUPERMOUSE #1-12; SUPERMOUSE, THE BIG CHEESE #13-34. Cover title: SUPERMOUSE #1, SUPERMOUSE COMICS #2-3, SUPERMOUSE #4-6, SUPERMOUSE THE BIG CHEESE #7-9, SUPERMOUSE #10-11, SUPERMOUSE THE BIG CHEESE #12-34
Public Domain
1948 - 1955 34
Supermouse, the Big Cheese {Comic Books} Public Domain 1956 - 1958 11
Supermouse, the Big Cheese, Giant Summer Issue {Comic Books} 1958 - 1
Supermouse, the Big Cheese, Summer Holiday Issue {Comic Books} Public Domain 1957 - 1
Sweetie Pie {Comic Books} 1957 - 1
Teena {Comic Books} 1949 - 1950 3

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