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Publisher: Quality Comics
Years in Operation: 1937 - 1956
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Country: Flag United States Web Site: Brands: 4 Indicia Publishers: 7 Series: 60 Printings: 1664 (1662 Issues) Disclose Notes:     Does this data need corrections? Become an editor.
Series Name Years in Print Issues (Printings)
All Humor Comics {Comic Books} Public Domain 1946 - 1949 17
The Barker {Comic Books} Public Domain 1946 - 1949 15
Blackhawk {Comic Books} Public Domain 1944 - 1956 99
Brides Romances {Comic Books} Public Domain 1953 - 1956 23
Broadway Romances {Comic Books} 1950 - 5
Buccaneers {Comic Books} Public Domain 1950 - 1951 9
Buster Bear {Comic Books} Public Domain 1953 - 1955 10
Campus Loves {Comic Books} Public Domain 1949 - 1950 5
Candy {Comic Books} Public Domain 1947 - 1956 64
Crack Comics {Comic Books} Public Domain 1940 - 1949 62
Crack Comics [ashcan] {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Ashcan edition created to secure trademark of title and logo.
1940 - 1
Crack Western {Comic Books} Public Domain 1949 - 1953 22
Diary Loves {Comic Books} Public Domain 1949 - 1953 30
Doll Man {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Doll Man Quarterly, #1-16.
Public Domain
1941 - 1953 47
Egbert {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Egbert's stories continued in Marmaduke Mouse (Quality Comics, 1946 series) #21 (November 1950)
1946 - 1950 20
Exotic Romances {Comic Books} Public Domain 1955 - 1956 10
Exploits of Daniel Boone {Comic Books} Public Domain 1955 - 1956 6
Feature Comics {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: First 20 issues Feature Funnies; #21-144 titled Feature Comics.
Public Domain
1939 - 1950 124 (125)
Feature Funnies {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Frequently considered to have been published by Harry "A" Chesler in some way, but the indicia of issues #1 and #2 do not mention Chesler at all. The series is published by Comic Favorites, Inc. from the very beginning.
Public Domain
1937 - 1939 20
Flaming Love {Comic Books} Public Domain 1949 - 1950 6
Forbidden Love {Comic Books} 1950 - 4
G.I. Combat {Comic Books} Public Domain 1952 - 1956 43
G.I. Sweethearts {Comic Books} Public Domain 1953 - 1955 14
Gabby {Comic Books} Public Domain 1953 - 1954 9
Girls in Love {Comic Books} Public Domain 1955 - 1956 12
Heart Throbs {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: There was a publishing hiatus between issue #8 (October 1950) and #9 (March 1952).
Public Domain
1949 - 1956 46
Hickory {Comic Books} 1949 - 1950 6
Hit Comics {Comic Books} Public Domain 1940 - 1950 65
Hollywood Diary {Comic Books} Public Domain 1949 - 1950 5
Hollywood Secrets {Comic Books} Public Domain 1949 - 1950 6
Intrigue {Comic Books} 1955 - 1
Jonesy {Comic Books} Public Domain 1953 - 1954 8
Ken Shannon {Comic Books} Public Domain 1951 - 1953 10
Kid Eternity {Comic Books} Public Domain 1946 - 1949 18
Lady Luck {Comic Books} Public Domain 1949 - 1950 5
Love Confessions {Comic Books} Public Domain 1949 - 1956 54
Love Diary {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Title changed to Diary Loves due to another Love Diary comic book published by Dell dated July 1949.
Public Domain
1949 - 1
Love Letters {Comic Books} Public Domain 1949 - 1953 31
Love Letters {Comic Books} Public Domain 1954 - 1956 20
Love Scandals {Comic Books} Public Domain 1950 - 5
Love Secrets {Comic Books} Public Domain 1953 - 1956 25
Marmaduke Mouse {Comic Books} Public Domain 1946 - 1956 65
Military Comics {Comic Books} Public Domain 1941 - 1945 43
Modern Comics {Comic Books} Public Domain 1945 - 1950 59
National Comics {Comic Books} Public Domain 1940 - 1949 75
Plastic Man {Comic Books} Public Domain 1943 - 1956 64
Police Comics {Comic Books} Public Domain 1941 - 1953 127
Range Romances {Comic Books} Public Domain 1949 - 1950 5
Robin Hood Tales {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Indicia of issue #1 says "Robin Hood" (says Robin Hood Tales on the cover).
Public Domain
1956 - 6
Secret Loves {Comic Books} Public Domain 1949 - 1950 6
Smash Comics {Comic Books} Public Domain 1939 - 1949 85 (86)
The Spirit {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: With gratitude towards cat yronwode for data. Quality was the first company to produce authorized reprints of Will Eisner's Spirit Section, first in Police Comics (issues #1-102) and, starting in 1944, in a magazine devoted primarily to The Spirit.
Public Domain
1944 - 1950 22
T-Man {Comic Books} Public Domain 1951 - 1956 38
Torchy {Comic Books} Public Domain 1949 - 1950 6
True War Romances {Comic Books} Public Domain 1952 - 1955 21
Uncle Sam Quarterly {Comic Books} Public Domain 1941 - 1943 8
Untamed Love {Comic Books} Public Domain 1950 - 5
Web of Evil {Comic Books} Public Domain 1952 - 1954 21
Wedding Bells {Comic Books} Public Domain 1954 - 1956 19
Yanks in Battle {Comic Books} 1956 - 4

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