PRIZE COMICS

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#1-68 (68 ISSUES)

FEATURES JOE SIMON AND JACK KIRBY PACKAGING AND ARTWORK

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Publication Dates:

March 1940 - February-March 1948

Number of Issues Published:

68 (#v1#1 (1) - #v7#1 (68))

Colour:

Colour

Dimensions:

Standard Golden Age U. S.

Paper Stock:

Glossy cover; Newsprint interior

Binding:

Saddle-stitched

Publishing Format:

Was Ongoing

Publication Type:

magazine

CRESTWOOD PUBLICATIONS

Crestwood Publications, also known as Prize Comics and Feature Publications, was a magazine publisher that also published comic book from the 1940s through the 1960s. Its main claim to fame was that in the late 1940s to mid 1950s, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby packaged comics for the company, 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 gave up publishing comics in 1963, selling off its remaining romance comics to DC. They continued to publish humour magazines up to the mid-late 1970s.

THE SIMON & KIRBY TEAM

From the very beginning in the late 1930s, Simon and Kirby produced the finest stories around, creating dramatic new super heroes (Captain America, Blue Bolt, Fighting American, The Fly), western action (Boy’s Ranch), gruesome horror (Black Magic), explosive detective fiction (Justice Traps the Guilty), and the very first romance comics (Young Romance). They were the dream team.

As superhero comics waned in popularity after the end of World War II, Simon & Kirby producing a variety of other genre stories. In partnership with Crestwood Publications a.k.a. Prize Comics, they launched an early horror, the atmospheric and non-gory Black Magic, and others. Simon & Kirby are credited as well with publishing the first romance title, Young Romance Comics. In addition, Kirby and Simon produced crime, and humor comics.
1974 Comic Art Convention program, reprinting Simon's original 1940 sketch of Captain America.

Later, in 1953, they would form their own short-lived comics company, Mainline Publications, creating the masked Western hero Bullseye, the superhero-parody character Fighting American, and others.

The partnership ended in 1955 with the comic book industry beset by self-imposed censorship, negative publicity, and a slump in sales. Simon turned primarily to advertising and commercial art, while dipping back into comics on occasion.