DC's "Other" Comics

Trojan

Trojan was ostensibly owned by Adolphe  Barreaux and Frank Armer, although Harry Donenfeld's wife Gussie was listed as an owner in the annual statements of ownership that had to published in each title that had a second class postal permit.

As the pulp magazine market died out at the end of the forties, Trojan tried to switch their material to comic books.  Most of their pulps had carried comic strips anyway, so it wasn't that difficult.  Trojan and its sister companies passed around titles willy-nilly and renamed things depending on wind direction, so the following is a bit confusing.

 
Western Crimebusters 1-10 9/50-3/52 
Attack 5-8 1/53-7/53 
Attack 5  9/53
Farmer's Daughter 1 2/54
featuring Sally the Sleuth. (follows Youthful series and then retroactively renumbered 1-4)  moves to Stanhall

 
Beware 13-16 1/53-7/5/ 53 
Beware 5-15 9/53 5/55 
05
(follows Youthful series and then retroactively renumbered 1-4)

 

Ribage

Michael Feldman says  Michael Estrow and Stanley M Estrow as agents for Leader News Co are the listed owners.  They are located at 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, N.Y. (This is National's address)  Michael and Stanley are the owners of Leader News. Jerry Bails lists the owners of Ribage as Frank Armer and Adolph Barreux.  Ribage features many of the standard Trojan charactes
Crime Smashers 1-15 10/50-3/53 
Crime Mysteries 1-15 5/52-954 becomes Secret Mysteries
Secret Mysteries 16 11/54
featuring Sally the Sleuth featuring Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective moves to Merrit

 
Youthful Romances 15-18 1/53-7/53
(follows Pix Parade series and then retroactively renumbered 1-4)
Youthful Romances 5-9 9/53-8/54

Merrit

Who is Merrit?  Regardless, they took over titles from both Ribbage and  Stanhall.

Secret Mysteries 17-19 1/55-7/55 (follows Ribage)
G.I. Jane 11 3/55 (follows Stanhall)

Stanhall

Listed as owners are: Michael Estrow and Stanley M Estrow as agents for Leader
News Co. They are located at 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, N.Y, the same address as  National.

Stanhall apparently stands for Stanley Estrow and Hal Seeger.

Stanhall's comics are quite different from Trojan's.  I suspect most were intended for sale through army PX's.

Seegar had quite a career as an animator and writer.  He wrote Leave it to Binky and A Date With Judy for National and went on to produce Fearless Fly and Batfink for TV.
Oh, Brother 1-5 1/53-10/53  G.I. Jane 1-10 5/53-12/54 
(continues at Merrit)		 Farmer's Daughter 2-4 4/54-10/54 (follows Trojan)  Broadway Hollywood Blackouts 1-3 3/54-7/54
Jingle Dingle Christmas Stocking Comics 1 1951 Muggy-Doo Boy Cat 1-4 7/53-1/54

Youthful

According to Michael Feldman, Youthful Magazines (including Western and Pix Parade) are  similarly owned by Michael Estrow and Stanley M Estrow as agents for Leader News Co.  Although Jerry Bails lists the owners as Sophie Friedman and Adrian Lopez.

Beginning with the 1953 cover-dated issues, 3 of these titles, Beware, Attack, and Youthful Romance are suddenly being published by Trojan Comics, but the same comics continue to appear from Youthful with new titles.  This was apparently a bald faced attempt to put out two comics on one postal permit.  If that's true, it didn't work, because the post office made Trojan renumber their borrowed titles in short order.

 
Youthful Hearts 1-3 5/52-9/53 (becomes Daring Confessions)
Daring Confessions 4-8 11/52-10/53 
Attack 1-4 5/52-11/52 (becomes Atomic Attack)
Atomic Attack 5-8 1/53-10/53
06
Redskin 1-12 9/50-10/52 (becomes Famous Western Badmen) 
Famous Western Badmen 13-15 12/52-4/53
02
Captain Science 1-7 11/50-12/51 
(becomes Fantastic) 
Fantastic 8-9 2/52-4/52
(becomes Beware) 
Beware 10-12 (6/52-10/52) (becomes Chilling Tales)
Chilling Tales 13-17 12/52-10/53

Western

Gunsmoke 1-16 4/49-1/52
Indian Fighter 1-11 5/50-1/52

Pix Parade

Youthful Romances 1-14 8/49-10/52 (becomes Daring Love)
Daring Love 15-17 12/52-4/53

 
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