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Publisher: Prize
Years in Operation: 1940 - 1978
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Country: Flag United States Web Site: Brands: 2 Indicia Publishers: 11 Series: 50 Printings: 1562 (1614 Issues) Disclose Notes: Though Prize published its last standard comic in 1963, it continued to publish Sick through 1968 and several gag cartoon magazines into the mid '70s. It appears Prize may have sold those remaining gag cartoon magazines to Histrionic Publishing, though the specifics have yet to be recorded.   Does this data need corrections? Become an editor.
Series Name Years in Print Issues (Printings)
All for Love {Comic Books} Public Domain 1957 - 1959 17
Army Fun {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: There are probably numerous unrecorded issues.
1952 - 1977 97
Army Laffs {Comic Books} 1941 - 4
Army Laughs {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Henry Boltinoff may have contributed lots of gag military cartoons for these issues.
1941 - 1949 93
Army Laughs {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Sometime between 1963 and 1965 the numbering leaped forward, skipping 8 1/2 volumes.
1951 - 1978 163
Army Laughs Annual {Comic Books} 1943 - 1945 3
Babe {Comic Books} 1948 - 1949 7
Babe, Darling of the Hills {Comic Books} 1949 - 1950 4
Big Annual Sick Birthday {Comic Books} 1966 - 1
Big Sick Laff-In {Comic Books} 1968 - 1
Big Sick Yearbook {Comic Books} 1967 - 1
Black Magic {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: The final statement of ownership for Black Magic (Prize, 1950 series) appears in Cool Cat v[9]#[1]. Publishing hiatus between #v5#3(33) (November-December 1954) and #v6#1(34) (September-October 1957), and between #v7#2[41] (November-December 1958) and #v7#3[42] (July-August 1960).
Public Domain
1950 - 1961 50
Broadway Laughs {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: After volume 15, this series continues with volume 7, evidently counting only the volumes of this series, not its predecessor. There may also have been a break in publication at that time.
1950 - 1976 152
Center of the Crowd {Comic Books} 1960 - ? 2
Charlie Chan {Comic Books} Public Domain 1948 - 1949 5
Cool Cat {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: The final statement of ownership for Black Magic (Prize, 1950 series) appears in Cool Cat v[9]#[1].
1962 - 3
Dixie Dugan {Comic Books} 1951 - 1954 8
Dolls & Gags {Comic Books} 1951 - 1962 70
Dudley {Comic Books} 1949 - 1950 3
Fargo Kid {Comic Books} 1958 - 3
Fighting American {Comic Books} 1954 - 1955 7
Fire and Blast! {Comic Books} 1952 - 1
Frankenstein {Comic Books} Public Domain 1945 - 1954 33
Going Steady {Comic Books} 1960 - 5
Halt {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Numbering likely continues in Screwball (Prize, 1948 series).
1941 - ? 72
Halt Annual {Comic Books} 1945 - 3
Headline Comics {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Volume numbering in indicia, whole numbering on cover.
Public Domain
1943 - 1956 77
Hollywood Film Stories {Comic Books} 1950 - 4
How Kathy Won a Pet {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Produced by Feature Publications for Lowe's, Inc.
1964 - 1
Justice Traps the Guilty {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: The first issue mistakenly has "Vol. 2" in the indicia. Issue #v7#5 has #60 on the cover, when it should have had #59. To correct this misnumbering, issue #v7#6 has 60A on the cover.
Public Domain
1947 - 1958 92
Laff Time {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: More issues are likely left to be documented.
1963 - 1980 80
Laff Time Cartoon Annual {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: There may have been more issues.
1967 - 1968 2
Laff Time Quarterly {Comic Books} 1965 - ? 3
Mickey Finn {Comic Books} 1952 - 2
Personal Love {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: There is no issue #v2#3.
Public Domain
1957 - 1959 13
Prize Comics {Comic Books} Public Domain 1940 - 1948 68
Prize Comics Western {Comic Books} Public Domain 1948 - 1956 51
Real West Romances {Comic Books} Public Domain 1949 - 1950 7
Screwball {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Numbering likely continues from Halt (Prize, 1941 series).
1948 - ? 9
Sick {Comic Books} 1960 - 1968 62
Strange World of Your Dreams {Comic Books} Public Domain 1952 - 1953 4
Tom Corbett, Space Cadet {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Based on the television program "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet," originally broadcast on CBS, 1950; ABC, 1951-1952; DuMont, 1953-1954, and NBC, 1954-1955.
Public Domain
1955 - 3
Treasure Comics {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: No publisher listed in comic. Listed under Prize Publications in Overstreet Price Guide. Contains rebound Prize Comics #7-11 from 1942 with cardboard cover. A separate Treasure Comics series from Prize Publications runs from 1945 to 1947.
1943 - 1
Treasure Comics {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: This series is NOT volume-numbered in the indicia like most Prize titles.
Public Domain
1945 - 1947 12
Western Love {Comic Books} 1949 - 1950 5
Wonderland Comics {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: There is no volume listed in the first issue, so this is one of the few Prize titles that is not volume-numbered.
Public Domain
1945 - 1947 9
Young Brides {Comic Books} Public Domain 1952 - 1956 30
Young Love {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: First Prize Young Love series. This is not continued as DC's Young Love. See Young Love (Prize, 1960 series).
Public Domain
1949 - 1956 73
Young Love {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Second Prize Young Love series.
Public Domain
1960 - 1963 21
Young Romance {Comic Books} Public Domain 1947 - 1963 124

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