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Publisher: Avon
Years in Operation: 1945 - 1956
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Country: Flag United States Web Site: https://www.avonromance.com/ Brands: 6 Indicia Publishers: 4 Series: 126 Printings: 386 Disclose Notes: Avon Publications, Inc. was an independent publisher from 1941 to June 1959, when it was bought by the Hearst Corporation. Joseph Meyers and Edna Meyers Williams were the publishers. Their comics were distributed by ANC (American News Company) up to 1952, and by Hearst after that.

As of 2019, Avon still exists as an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
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Series Name Years in Print Issues (Printings)
All True Detective Cases {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: #1 may not exist
Public Domain
1952 - 1954 4
Atomic Spy Cases {Comic Books} 1950 - 1
Attack on Planet Mars {Comic Books} 1951 - 1
Avon Fantasy - An Earth Man on Venus {Comic Books} 1951 - 1
Bachelor's Diary {Comic Books} 1949 - 1
Badmen of the West {Comic Books} 1951 - 1
Badmen of Tombstone {Comic Books} Public Domain 1950 - 1
Behind Prison Bars {Comic Books} 1952 - 1
Betty and Her Steady {Comic Books} 1950 - 1
Black Hawk -- Tomahawk Indian War {Comic Books} 1951 - 1
Blazing Six Guns {Comic Books} 1952 - 1
Boy Detective {Comic Books} 1951 - 1952 4
Buddies of the U.S. Army {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Indicia title is "Buddies of the U.S. Army." Cover title is "Buddies in the U.S. Army."
1952 - 1953 2
Butch Cassidy {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Indicia title is just "Butch Cassidy". Issue number on inside spine.
1951 - 1
Campus Romance {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: "Campus Romances" on cover.
Public Domain
1949 - 1950 3
Campus Romances {Comic Books} 1953 - 1
Captain Silver's Log of the Sea Hound {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: This comic has no indicia, Title from cover.
1945 - 1
Captain Steve Savage {Comic Books} 1950 - 1953 8
Captain Steve Savage {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Second series.
1954 - 1956 9
Chief Crazy Horse {Comic Books} 1950 - 1
Chief Victorio's Apache Massacre {Comic Books} 1951 - 1
City of the Living Dead {Comic Books} 1952 - 1
Complete Romance {Comic Books} 1949 - 1
Cow Puncher Comics {Comic Books} Public Domain 1947 - 1949 7
Cowpuncher {Comic Books} 1953 - 1
Crime on the Waterfront {Comic Books} Public Domain 1952 - 1
Custer's Last Fight {Comic Books} Public Domain 1950 - 1
The Dalton Boys {Comic Books} Public Domain 1951 - 1
Davy Crockett {Comic Books} 1951 - 1
The Dead Who Walk {Comic Books} 1952 - 1
Diary of Horror {Comic Books} Public Domain 1952 - 1
Eerie {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Regular series horror title, after an earlier one-shot experiment, Eerie Comics (Avon, 1947 series); the horrified girl seen on the cover to issue #5 was reworked for the covers to #9, #13 and #17 (image reversed).
Public Domain
1951 - 1954 17
Eerie Comics {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: First comic of the supernatural/horror; one-shot; it was followed by a regular series from the same publisher: Eerie (Avon, 1951 series). See also Adventures into the Unknown (ACG, 1948), the first horror comic series.
Public Domain
1947 - 1
Escape from Devil's Island {Comic Books} 1952 - 1
Famous Gangsters {Comic Books} Public Domain 1951 - 1952 3
Fighting Daniel Boone {Comic Books} 1953 - 1
Fighting Davy Crockett {Comic Books} 1955 - 1
Fighting Indians of the Wild West Annual {Comic Books} 1952 - 1
Fighting Indians of the Wild West! {Comic Books} Public Domain 1952 - 2
Fighting Undersea Commandos {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Indicia series title for issue #1 is Undersea Fighting Commandos. Series title changed to Fighting Undersea Commandos with issue #2.
1952 - 1953 4
Flying Saucers {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: See also Flying Saucers (Avon, 1952 series).
1950 - 1
Flying Saucers {Comic Books} 1952 - 1
Flying Saucers {Comic Books} 1953 - 1
For a Night of Love {Comic Books} 1951 - 1
Frontier Romances {Comic Books} Public Domain 1949 - 1950 2
Funnies Annual {Comic Books} 1959 - 1
Funny Tunes {Comic Books} Public Domain 1953 - 1954 3
Gangsters and Gunmolls {Comic Books} Public Domain 1951 - 1952 4
Geronimo {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Each issue had a different cover title. Issue #1: Geronimo Indian Fighter. #2: Geronimo On The Warpath. #3: Geronimo And His Apache Murderers. For #2 and #3, the indicia title matches the cover title.
Public Domain
1950 - 1951 3
Going Steady with Betty {Comic Books} 1949 - 1
The Hooded Menace {Comic Books} 1951 - 1
Intimate Confessions {Comic Books} Public Domain 1951 - 1953 8
Jesse James {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: No issues #10-14 was published.
Public Domain
1950 - 1956 24
Jesse James {Comic Books} 1953 - 1
Jesse James Annual {Comic Books} 1952 - 1
King of the Bad Men of Deadwood {Comic Books} 1950 - 1
King Solomon's Mines {Comic Books} 1951 - 1
Kit Carson {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Issue # 5 continues from All True Detective Cases (1952 series) #1-4. 34 months hiatus between #3 (December 1951) and #5 (November-December 1954). There is no issue #4.
1950 - 1955 7
Kit Carson and the Blackfeet Warriors {Comic Books} 1953 - 1
Last of the Comanches {Comic Books} 1953 - 1
Little Jack Frost {Comic Books} 1951 - 1
The Mask of Dr. Fu Manchu {Comic Books} 1951 - 1
The Masked Bandit {Comic Books} 1952 - 1
Merry Mouse {Comic Books} 1953 - 1954 4
Molly O'Day {Comic Books} 1945 - 1
Murderous Gangsters {Comic Books} 1951 - 1952 4
Night of Mystery {Comic Books} 1953 - 1
Out of This World {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: The reprint is dated August 1950, but has no date listed on the cover.
1950 - 2
Out of This World Adventures {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Pulp magazine series with illustrated text stories, plus a four color comics insert, minus their original covers, in each (32 pages each); edited by Donald A. Wollheim. The first issue contains Out of This World (Avon, 1950 series) #1 (June 1950) The second issue contains Strange Worlds (Avon, 1950 Series) #1 (November 1950) The comics stories for each issue are included, with writer and artist credits, in the 'table of contents' at the front.
Public Domain
1950 - 2
Outlaws of the Wild West {Comic Books} 1952 - 1
Pancho Villa {Comic Books} 1950 - 1
Parole Breakers {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: First issue mistakenly listed as #2 in indicia, though correct #1 appears on cover.
1951 - 1952 3
Penny {Comic Books} 1947 - 1949 6
Peter Rabbit {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Issues #7-8: "Adventures of Peter Rabbit" on cover. Issues #9-24: "The New Adventures of Peter Rabbit" on cover. Issues #25-34: "Adventures of Peter Rabbit" on cover. Just "Peter Rabbit" in the indicia only throughout the run.
Public Domain
1950 - 1956 28
Peter Rabbit Comics {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Issue #1-5: "Peter Rabbit Comics" on cover. Issue #6: "Peter Rabbit" only on cover.
1947 - 1949 6
Peter Rabbit Easter Parade {Comic Books} 1952 - 1
Peter Rabbit Jumbo Book {Comic Books} 1954 - 1
Phantom Witch Doctor {Comic Books} 1952 - 1
Pioneer Western {Comic Books} 1950 - 1
Pixie Puzzle Rocket to Adventureland {Comic Books} 1952 - 1
Police Line-Up {Comic Books} Public Domain 1951 - 1952 4
Prison Break! {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: There is no exclamation point at the end of the title in the indicia of #5.
1951 - 1952 5
Prison Riot {Comic Books} 1952 - 1
Realistic Romances {Comic Books} 1951 - 1952 8
Realistic Romances {Comic Books} 1954 - 3
Red Mountain Featuring Quantrell's Raiders {Comic Books} 1952 - 1
Reform School Girl! {Comic Books} 1951 - 1
Robotmen of the Lost Planet {Comic Books} Public Domain 1952 - 1
Rocket to the Moon {Comic Books} Public Domain 1951 - 1
Romantic Love {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: No issues #14-19 were published.
Public Domain
1949 - 1952 14
Romantic Love {Comic Books} Public Domain 1954 - 4
The Saint {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Featuring the adventure fiction character Simon Templar (aka The Saint) created by Leslie Charteris in 1928. At the time this comic series launched Vincent Price was portraying Templar on radio. Indicia title is The Saint Comics in issues 1-8, and The Saint in issues 9-12.
Public Domain
1947 - 1952 12
The Savage Raids of Chief Geronimo {Comic Books} Public Domain 1952 - 1
Sea Hound {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Captain Silver's Log of the Sea Hound on cover.
1945 - 1
Secret Diary of Eerie Adventures {Comic Books} 1953 - 1
Sensational Police Cases {Comic Books} 1952 - 1954 4
Sheriff Bob Dixon's Chuck Wagon {Comic Books} 1950 - 1
Sideshow {Comic Books} 1949 - 1
Slave Girl Comics {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: One story is reprinted in Jungle Adventures (Skywald, 1971) under another title. It is not known yet which story from Slave Girl Comics that is reprinted though. Another Malu story was published in Strange Worlds (Avon, 1950 series) #3.
Public Domain
1949 - 2
Space Comics {Comic Books} Public Domain 1954 - 2

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