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Publisher: Fox
Years in Operation: 1939 - 1951
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Country: Flag United States Web Site: Brands: 10 Indicia Publishers: 11 Series: 144 Printings: 666 Disclose Notes: Actual years of activity were mid-1939 to early 1942 (mostly as Fox Publications, inc.) and mid-1944 to 1951 (mostly as Fox Feature Syndicate, Inc.), with "Blue Beetle" being published by Holyoke Publishing Co., Inc. in the interim. 1944 and to a lesser extent 1945 saw a great deal of activity through surrogate publishers, mostly in the form of giant-size (128 or 196 page) issues alongside the return of an actual Fox publishing company.   Does this data need corrections? Become an editor.
Series Name Years in Print Issues (Printings)
Album of Crime {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Fox Giant. Made up of four coverless Fox comics. Since Fox often started their story on the inside cover, removing the cover discards the first page of the first story of each rebound book.
1949 - 1
Album of Love {Comic Books} 1949 - 1
All Good Comics {Comic Books} 1944 - 1
All Good Comics {Comic Books} 1946 - 1
All Great Comics {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Note there are actually two one-shot All Great Comics, one in 1944 and one in 1945. They are indexed separately. They are distinguished from the ongoing All Great Comics series.
1944 - 1
All Great Comics {Comic Books} 1945 - 1
All Great Comics {Comic Books} Public Domain 1946 - 1947 3
All Great Jungle Adventures {Comic Books} 1949 - 1
All Real Confession Magazine {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Fox Giant, made up of four coverless Fox comics. Since Fox often started their story on the inside cover, discarding the cover removes the first page of the first story of each rebound book.
1949 - 1
All Top Comics {Comic Books} 1944 - 1
All Top Comics {Comic Books} Public Domain 1946 - 1949 19
All Your Comics {Comic Books} 1944 - 1
All Your Comics {Comic Books} 1946 - 1
All-Famous Crime Stories {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Fox Giant, made up of four coverless Fox comics. Since Fox often started their story on the inside cover, discarding the cover removes the first page of the first story of each rebound book.
1949 - 1
All-Great Confessions {Comic Books} 1949 - 1
All-Great Crime Stories {Comic Books} 1949 - 1
Almanac of Crime {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Fox Giant, made up of four coverless Fox comics. Since Fox often started their story on the inside cover, discarding the cover removes the first page of the first story of each rebound book.
1948 - 1950 2
Animal Crackers {Comic Books} 1950 - 1
Big 3 {Comic Books} Public Domain 1940 - 1942 7
Blue Beetle {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Often titled The Blue Beetle (with the definite article) throughout the series run, on both cover and indicia. No issue #43 was published.
Public Domain
1940 - 1950 40
Book of All-Comics {Comic Books} 1945 - 1
The Book of Comics {Comic Books} 1944 - 1
Book of Love {Comic Books} 1950 - 1
The Bouncer {Comic Books} 1944 - 1
The Bouncer {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: The Green Mask #10 had a cover date of August 1944, which would suggest that issue #11 would appear in August. Instead, The Bouncer #11 came out at that time, with most of the same features as The Green Mask (except for the lead feature). The Rocket Kelly story in The Bouncer #11 is a direct continuation of the Rocket Kelly story in The Green Mask #10. Clearly, The Bouncer was intended, at that time, to be the continuation of The Green Mask. However, two months later, The Green Mask did continue, and resumed with its own issue #11.
Public Domain
1944 - 1945 4
Burning Romances {Comic Books} 1949 - 1
Captain Kidd {Comic Books} Public Domain 1949 - 2
Cody of the Pony Express {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: featuring the exploits of William 'Buffalo Bill' Cody; see also Colossal Features Magazine (Fox, 1950 series) #33[1] and #34[2] (May and July 1950), which also star William Cody.
1950 - 1
Colossal Features Magazine {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Remaindered copies of #3 can be found inside some copies of Blue Circle Comics (Rural Home, 1944 series) #6.
1950 - 3
Cosmo Cat {Comic Books} Public Domain 1946 - 1947 10
Crime Incorporated {Comic Books} 1950 - 1951 2
Crimes by Women {Comic Books} Public Domain 1948 - 1951 15
Crimes Incorporated {Comic Books} 1950 - 1
Crimes Incorporated {Comic Books} 1950 - 1
Dagar {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Apparently issues #17 and #18 were not published. Cover title is "Dagar Desert Hawk", but indicia title is "Dagar" in #14-16,19-22.
Public Domain
1948 - 1949 8
Daring Love Stories {Comic Books} 1950 - 1
Dorothy Lamour {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Cover title is "Dorothy Lamour Jungle Princess", indicia title is just "Dorothy Lamour". An otherwise unreleased issue of Dorothy Lamour can be found rebound in the cover of some copies of Red Circle Comics (Rural Home, 1945 series) #4
1950 - 2
The Eagle {Comic Books} Public Domain 1941 - 1942 4
Everybody's Comics {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: This "series" is really more of a set of one-shots, and the number of issues from 1946 and the nature of each remains uncertain. The yellow-and-black cover 1946 issue is known to exist in two variations, both rebindings of earlier 196-pagers (the 1944 issue of this series or the giant-sized Ribtickler issue). The issue that looks almost exactly like the 1944 issue but with a rabbit in the lower left corner instead of the table of contents box is believed to have been published in 1946 but that has never been confirmed, nor has that issue's indicia publisher been documented. It is not clear whether the rabbit issue is Overstreet's 1946 #1 (not #1-Ribtickler) issue or if they just refer to the two variations of the yellow-and-black cover.
1944 - 1947 4
Exciting Romance Stories {Comic Books} 1949 - 1
Famous Crimes {Comic Books} Public Domain 1948 - 1951 20
Famous Love {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Consists of rebound unsold Fox romance comics. Cover shown has date stamp of 08 Jun A.M., I assume indicating when the book was put on display, though in some cases it was to indicate when the book was to be taken off the display stand by whomever sold it.
1950 - 1
Fantastic Comics {Comic Books} Public Domain 1939 - 1941 23
A Feature Presentation {Comic Books} Public Domain 1950 - 1
Feature Presentations Magazine {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: numbering continues in Feature Stories Magazine (Fox, 1950 series) [counting A Feature Presentation #5 as #1 and Feature Presentations Magazine #6 as #2]
Public Domain
1950 - 1
Feature Stories Magazine {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Numbering continues from Feature Presentations Magazine (Fox, 1950 series) [counting A Feature Presentation #5 as #1 and Feature Presentations Magazine #6 as #2] An otherwise unreleased issue of Feature Stories Magazine can be found behind the cover of some copies of Blazing Comics (Rural Home, 1944 series) #v2#2 (5).
Public Domain
1950 - 1
The Flame {Comic Books} Public Domain 1940 - 1942 8
Frank Buck {Comic Books} Public Domain 1950 - 3
Full Color Comics {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: "Full Color Comics" and "They Ring the Bell" were mistakenly listed in The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide for several years because of a misreading of the Fox advertisement shown as a cover scan here. The Overstreet errors have been corrected. Thanks to Nick Pope (gifflefunk) for the correction on 8 August 2008.
1946 - 1
General Douglas MacArthur {Comic Books} 1951 - 1
The Green Mask {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: There is a 2 and a half year gap in publication between the 9th and 10th issue. The character of Green Mask changes from father to son and all of the backup features change at this time.
Public Domain
1940 - 1946 17
Hoot Gibson {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: "Rip-Roaring Movie Star"
1950 - 3
Hoot Gibson's Western Round Up {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Fox Giant; made up of four coverless Fox comics; since Fox often started their story on the inside cover, removing the cover discards the first page of the first story of each rebound book.
1950 - 1
Hunted {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Mentioned in Seduction of the Innocent (p. 42) as an example of a romance comic converted to a crime comic.
1950 - 3
I Loved Real Confession Stories {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Indicia for issue #29 [2] is listed as "I Loved, True Confession Stories". Cover title for same issue is "I Loved Real Confession Stories".
1949 - 1950 5
Inside Crime {Comic Books} 1950 - 2
Intimate Confessions {Comic Books} 1950 - 1
Jo-Jo Comics {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Indicia title: JO-JO COMICS - 1-7[b], 14-29; JO-JO - 8-12. Cover title: JO-JO COMICS - 1-6; JO-JO, CONGO KING - 7[a]-29. There are two #7s. Numbering is corrected with #14, skipping #13.
Public Domain
1946 - 1949 29
Journal of Crime {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Fox Giant, made up of four coverless Fox comics. Since Fox often started their story on the inside cover, discarding the cover removes the first page of the first story of each rebound book.
1949 - 1
Judy Canova {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Title previously listed as "Judy Canova Star of Stage Screen and Radio" but is just Judy Canova in the indicia.
Public Domain
1950 - 3
Jungle Jo {Comic Books} 1950 - 1951 4
Jungle Lil {Comic Books} 1950 - 1
Junior [Junior Comics] {Comic Books} 1947 - 1948 8
Krazy Life {Comic Books} Public Domain 1945 - 1
Li'l Pan {Comic Books} 1946 - 1947 3
Life with Snarky Parker {Comic Books} 1950 - 1
Love Problems {Comic Books} 1949 - 1
Love Thrills {Comic Books} 1950 - 1
March of Crime {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Fox Giant. Made up of four coverless Fox comics. Since Fox often started their story on the inside cover, removing the cover discards the first page of the first story of each rebound book.
1948 - 1949 3
March of Crime {Comic Books} 1950 - 1951 3
Martin Kane, Private Eye {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Based on the Radio and TV Show. An otherwise unreleased issue of Martin Kane, Private Eye can be found inside the cover of some copies of Blue Circle Comics (Rural Home, 1944 series) #6.
Public Domain
1950 - 2
Meet Corliss Archer {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Based on the 1943-56 "Meet Corliss Archer" radio series.
1948 - 3
Murder Incorporated {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: First series. There are two #9s. Title in indicia for #1-3: "Murder, Incorporated"; Title in indicia for #5-15: "Murder Incorporated."
1948 - 1949 16
Murder Incorporated {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Second series.
1950 - 1951 3
My Confession {Comic Books} Public Domain 1949 - 2
My Confessions {Comic Books} Public Domain 1949 - 1950 2
My Desire Intimate Confessions {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Numbering changes mid-series, though all issues released on regular bi-monthly schedule.
1949 - 1950 4
My Experience {Comic Books} Public Domain 1949 - 1950 4
My Great Love {Comic Books} 1949 - 1950 4
My Intimate Affair {Comic Books} 1950 - 2
My Life True Stories in Pictures {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: "My Life True Stories in Pictures" was the third romance title to hit newsstands following Crestwood's "Young Romance" and Timely/Marvel's "My Romance".
1948 - 1950 12
My Love Affair {Comic Books} Public Domain 1949 - 1950 6
My Love Life {Comic Books} 1949 - 1951 8
My Love Memoirs {Comic Books} Public Domain 1949 - 1950 4
My Love Secret {Comic Books} Public Domain 1949 - 1950 7
My Love Story {Comic Books} 1949 - 1950 4
My Past Thrilling Confessions {Comic Books} Public Domain 1949 - 1950 5
My Private Life {Comic Books} 1950 - 2
My Secret Affair {Comic Books} Public Domain 1949 - 1950 3
My Secret Life {Comic Books} 1949 - 1950 6
My Secret Romance {Comic Books} 1950 - 2
My Secret Story {Comic Books} Public Domain 1949 - 1950 4
My Story True Romances in Pictures {Comic Books} 1949 - 1950 8
My True Love Thrilling Confession Stories {Comic Books} Public Domain 1949 - 1950 5
Mystery Men Comics {Comic Books} Public Domain 1939 - 1942 31
Nuttylife {Comic Books} Public Domain 1946 - 1
Pedro {Comic Books} 1950 - 2
Phantom Lady {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: The cover of issue #17 was illustrated in psychiatrist Fredric Wertham M.D.'s book, 'Seduction of the Innocent', 1954; above the caption, 'Sexual stimulation by combining "headlights" with the sadist's dream of tying up a woman.' Note/ Facsimile/replica editions exist of issues #13 and #17; they are identical, but printed on glossy white paper throughout.
Public Domain
1947 - 1949 11
Pin-Up Cartoons {Comic Books} 1947 - ? 1
Range Busters {Comic Books} 1950 - 1

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