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Publisher: Pocket Books
Years in Operation: 1938 - ?
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Country: Flag United States Web Site: Brands: 11 Indicia Publishers: 3 Series: 59 Printings: 117 (97 Issues) Disclose Notes: First U.S. Mass-Market paperback publisher.   Does this data need corrections? Become an editor.
Series Name Years in Print Issues (Printings)
Addams and Evil {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Part of a larger Cardinal Books paperback series, not all comics. Continues from series #50062. Continues into series #50064. Imprint: Pocket Cardinal Edition / Pocket Books, Inc.
1965 - 1
The Amazing Spider-Man {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Part of a larger Pocket Books / Marvel Comics paperback series. Continues from series #81442. Continues into series #81445. Continues from series #82578. Continues into series #82580. Imprint: 81443 & 81444 - Pocket Books (a Simon & Schuster Division of Gulf & Western Corporation) / A Kangaroo Book / Marvel Comics. 82579 - Pocket Books (a Simon & Schuster Division of Gulf & Western Corporation) / Marvel Comics.
1977 - 1979 3
The Amazing Spider-Man {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Part of a larger Pocket Books paperback series, not all comics. Continues from series #83488. Continues into series #83491.
1980 - 2
Baby Sitter's Guide by Dennis the Menace {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Part of a larger Pocket Books paperback series, not all comics. Continues from series #1079 (The Fool Killer). Continues into series #1081 (Ravaged Range). Copyright 1954 by Hank Ketcham. Reprints Dennis The Menace comic strip from 1954? Reprints Henry Holt original with same name October 1954. Known printings: First Printing: August 1955, Published October 1955. Fourth printing: November 1955. Seventh printing: July 1959. Tenth printing: July 1959. 13th printing: March 1960.
1955 - 1
The Bank Street Book of Creepy Tales {Comic Books} 1989 - 1
The Bank Street Book of Fantasy {Comic Books} 1989 - 1
The Bank Street Book of Mystery {Comic Books} 1989 - 1
The Bank Street Book of Science Fiction {Comic Books} 1989 - 1
Barnaby {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Part of a larger Pocket Books paperback series, not all comics. Continues from series #365. Continues into series #367. Copyright 1942-1943 by The Newspaper PM, Inc. Published April 1946. First Printing March 1946. Complete and unabridged.
1946 - 1
Belvedere {Comic Books} 1965 - 1
Black Maria {Comic Books} 1964 - 1
Brother Juniper {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Part of a larger Pocket Books paperback series, not all comics. Continues from series #1241. Continues into series #1243. There is a sequel, called More Brother Juniper (Pocket, 1060 series) #6036. First collection of Brother Juniper cartoons. Copyright 1957 by Justin McCarthy. Listed as printing April 1959, published June 1959.
1959 - 1
Brother Sebastian {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Continued in Brother Sebastian Goes On (1961 series) #6020 and Brother Sebastian at Large (1963 series) #6160. Part of a larger Pocket Books paperback series, not all comics. Continues from series #1223. Continues into series #1225. Published February 1959, First Printing December 1958. Copyright 1957 by Chon Day. Copyright 1954-1957 by Cowles Magazines, Inc.
1959 - 1
Brother Sebastian at Large {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Continued from Brother Sebastian (1959 series) #1224 and Brother Sebastian Goes On (1961 series) #6020. Also a part of a larger Pocket Books paperback series, not all comics. Continues from series #6159. Continues into series #6161. First printing: November 1962. Copyright 1959 by Chon Day. Copyright 1959-1962 by Cowles Magazines, Inc. First Printing November 1962, Published January 1963.
1963 - 1
Cobean's Naked Eye {Comic Books} 1952 - 1953 1
Conrad {Comic Books} 1985 - 1
Degrassi: The Next Generation: Extra Credit {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: American reprint (or maybe simultaneous co-publishing) of Degrassi: The Next Generation: Extra Credit (Fenn, 2006 series). Based on the Canadian TV series "Degrassi: The Next Generation". Four volumes.
2006 - 2007 4
Dennis the Menace Household Hurricane {Trade Paperbacks} 1958 - 1
Dennis the Menace Rides Again {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Part of a larger Pocket Books paperback series, not all comics. Continues from series #1124 (Cowboy, Say Your Prayers!). Continues into series #1126 (The Jungle Kids). Copyright 1954 by The Post-Hall Syndicate, Inc. Copyright 1955 by Hank Ketcham. Expanded edition containing 62 additional cartoons that did not appear in the original edition. Humor genre listed. Known printings: First printing October 1956, Published October 1956. Twelfth printing July 1959. Reprints Dennis The Menace comic strip from 1954. Reprints Henry Holt and Company, Inc. original with same name, June 1955. No Dates listed. 4/24/54 only panel identified.
1956 - 1
Dennis the Menace vs. Everybody {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Reprints "Dennis the Menace" newspaper panels.
1957 - ? 1
Doctor Strange, Master of the Mystic Arts {Comic Books} 1978 - 1979 2
Drawn and Quartered {Trade Paperbacks} Disclose
Note: Reprinted Charles (Chas) Addams cartoons from the New Yorker Magazine from 1935 to 1942. Some of the cartoons contain the Addams Family. Copyright 1942 by Charles Addams. Copyright 1941-1942 by Crowell-Collier Publishing Company.
1964 - 1
Eggbert: Belly Laughs {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Numbering continues from The Poisoned Anemones (Pocket Books, 1974 series) #77907 [non-comic paperback publication of the Pocket Book series]. Numbering continues in The White Ghost of Fenwick Hall (Pocket Books, 1974 series) #77909 [non-comic paperback publication of the Pocket Book series]. Copyright 1974 by Lester A. Friedman. Eggbert Belly Laughs (without the colon) on the cover.
1974 - 1
The First Kingdom {Comic Books} 1978 - 1
Grin and Bear It {Comic Books} 1970 - 1
Here's Heathcliff {Comic Books} 1981 - 1
Homebodies {Comic Books} 1965 - 1
Impollutable Pogo {Trade Paperbacks} Disclose
Note: Part of a larger Pocket Books paperback series, not all comics. Continues from series #80400. Continues into series #80402. SBN: 671-80401-4. Copyright 1970 by Walt Kelly. Library of Congress Catalog Card #: 72-132022. Re-release, in a smaller format, of Impollutable Pogo (Simon and Schuster, 1970 series) #nn. Incorrectly states "For the First Time--The Inimitable Pogo and His Friends in Paperback!" on cover.
1976 - 1
In Hell.... Everyone Eats Watermelon Naked {Trade Paperbacks} Disclose
Note: This is the third collection of the comic strip "Long Overdue."
1991 - 1
The Incredible Hulk {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Part of a larger Pocket Books paperback series, not all comics. For first issue: Numbering continues from series #81445 (The Fantastic Four). Numbering continues into series #81447 (Doctor Strange Master of the Mystic Arts #1). For second issue: Numbering continues from series #82558. Numbering continues into series #82560. #[1] 81446-X: Publisher: Pocket Books (a Simon & Schuster division of Gulf & Western Corporation) / A Kangaroo Book, three printings known, Copyright 1978 by Marvel Comics Group, unknown dates for second and third printings. #2 (82559-3): Publisher: Pocket Books (a Simon & Schuster division of Gulf & Western Corporation), no printing listed but probably first printing, Copyright 1978 by The Marvel Comics Groups (a division of Cadence Industries Corporation). Copyright 1966 by Vista Publications, Inc. Copyright 1967 by Vista Publications, Inc., Marvel Comics Group.
1978 - 1979 2
The Incredible Hulk {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: A video novel of the pilot episode of The Incredible Hulk television series.
1979 - 1
Inside Brother Juniper {Comic Books} 1963 - 1
The Katzenjammer Kids {Comic Books} 1970 - 1
Li'l Leaguer {Comic Books} 1960 - ? 1
The Life and Times of the Shmoo {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Reprints of the "Li'l Abner" newspaper strips from 1948 featuring the Shmoos.
1949 - ? 1
Marvel Comics' The Fantastic Four {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Part of "Marvel Comics Series", a series of paperback size color reprints of early Marvels under the Pocket Kangaroo logo. These editions were printed from brand-new plates. More Fantastic Four issues were planned, but only one was published. Cover and spine read "Stan Lee Presents THE FANTASTIC FOUR". This book has no issue number, but a Pocket internal book number (81445). Copyright 1977 by Marvel Comics Group.
1977 - 1
Marvin Born to Be Wild {Comic Books} 1986 - 1
Marvin Shapes Up {Comic Books} 1987 - 1
Marvin Steps Out {Comic Books} 1985 - 1
Marvin: Spoil Me {Comic Books} 1986 - 1
Monster Rally {Comic Books} 1965 - 1
More Brother Juniper {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Continued from Brother Juniper (1959 series) #1242. Continues as Brother Juniper Strikes Again (1961 series) #6050. Part of a larger Pocket Books paperback series, not all comics. Continues from series #6035. Continues into series #6037. Copyright 1958 by Justin McCarthy. Published September 1960, First Printing July 1960.
1960 - 1
Nancy {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Part of a larger Pocket Books paperback series, not all comics. Continues from series #6045. Continues into series #6047. Copyright 1958-1961 by United Features Syndicate. Published February 1961, First Printing December 1960.
1961 - 1
The New Peter Arno Pocket Book {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Part of a larger Pocket Book paperback series, not all comics. Continues from series #1086 (Wagon Wheel Gap, non-comic). Continues into series #1088 (Guns in the Saddle, non-comic).
1955 - 1
Nightcrawlers {Comic Books} 1964 - 1
The Peter Arno Pocket Book {Comic Books} 1946 - 1
The Pocket Book of Cartoons {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Part of a larger Pocket Books paperback series, not all comics. Continues from series #232 (A Coffin For Dimitrios [not comics]). Continues into series #234 (Vogue's Pocket Book Of Home Dressmaking [not comics]). Probably the first full comic/cartoon mass-market paperback. Eleven printings known; possibly there are more. First printing August 1943. Second printing September 1943. Third printing September 1943. Fourth printing October 1943. Fifth printing October 1943. Sixth printing November 1943. Seventh printing March 1944. Eighth printing August 1944. Ninth printing December 1944. Tenth printing February 1945. 11th printing July 1945.
1943 - 1
The Pocket Book of Esquire Cartoons {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Part of a larger paperback series, not all comic books. Continued from #C-330 (Kids Say The Darndest Things!). Continued in #C-329.
1959 - 1
Ripley's Believe It or Not! {Trade Paperbacks} 1941 - 1982 30 (49)
Road to Perdition {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Movie tie-in edition of Road To Perdition (DC, 1998 Series)
2002 - 1
Scrambled Eggbert {Comic Books} 1969 - 1
Seventeen {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Part of a larger Pocket Books paperback series, not all comics. Continues from series #1252. Continues into series #1254. First printing published September 1959. Second printing published November 1959. Copyright 1957-1958 by Mirror Enterprises Co., 1958-1959 by Times-Mirror Syndicate. On inside Published September 1959, First Printing July 1959. A Pocket Book original, not a reprint from another book.
1959 - 2
Spider-Woman {Comic Books} 1979 - 1
Stan Lee Presents Captain America {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Part of a larger Pocket Books paperback series, not all comics. Continues from series #82580. Continues into series #82582 (Doctor Strange Master of the Mystic Arts, 1979 series, #2). Copyright 1979 by The Marvel Comics Groups, a division of Cadence Industries Corporation.
1979 - 1
Stan Lee Presents the Full Color Comics Version of Star Trek The Motion Picture {Comic Books} 1980 - 1 (2)
The Strange World of Mr. Mum {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Part of a larger paperback series, not all comics.
1960 - 1
They'll Do It Every Time {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Part of a larger Pocket Books paperback series, not all comics. Continues from series #297 "Death At The Bar". Continues into series #299 "The Pocket Book Of Basic English". First printing, June 1945.
1945 - 1
Wanted: Dennis the Menace {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Numbering continues from The Men from the Boys (Pocket Books, 1957 series) #1152 [non-comic paperback publication of the Pocket Book series] Numbering continues in The 7th Pocket Book of Crossword Puzzles (Pocket Books, 1957 series) #1154 [non-comic paperback publication of the Pocket Book series] Fifth Dennis the Menace Collection.
1957 - 1960 1
The Whimsical World of Brother Juniper {Comic Books} 1963 - 1

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