Crestwood Publications
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Crestwood Publications, also known as Prize Comics and Feature Publications, was a comic book publisher from the 1940s through the 1960s, though most of their titles were published in the 1950s. Its main claim to fame was that in the 1950s, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby became editors for the company, expanding it as Prize Comics and creating many new titles. This included the non-gory horror comic Black Magic, the creator-owned Fighting American, and the first romance comic title, Young Romance.
The company shut down in 1963, selling off its remaining romance comics to DC.
[edit] Characters
- Airmale
- American Eagle
- Atomic Man
- Black Owl
- Blue Streak
- Bulldog Denny
- Captain Gallant
- Dr. Dekkar, Master of Monsters
- Dr. Frost
- The Futureman & Jupiter
- Green Lama (also published in pulp magazines and by Spark Publications)
- Junior Rangers
- Master Magician
- Power Nelson
- Ted O'Neil
- Yank & Doodle
[edit] Titles
- Black Magic (50 issues, 1950-61, renamed Cool Cat)
- Cool Cat (3 issues, 1962)
- Charlie Chan (5 issues)
- Fighting American (7 issues, 1954-55)
- Frankenstein Comics (33 issues, 1945-54)
- Headline Comics (77 issues, 1943-56)
- Justice Traps the Guilty (92 issues)
- Prize Comics (68 issues, 1940-48)
- Prize Comics Western (46 issues, 1948-56)
- Strange World Of Your Dreams (4 issues)
- Treasure Comics (12 issues)
- Western Love (1 issue)
- Young Brides (29 issues, 1952-56)
- Young Love (94 issues, 1949-47; 1960-63) (sold to DC Comics)
- Young Romance (126 issues, 1947-63) (sold to DC Comics)
