Master Comics

Fawcett, 1940 Series
Published in English (United States) United States
 
Random Cover from Series #31
October 1942
Cover Gallery 
Publication Dates:
March 1940 - April 1953
Number of Issues Published:
133 (#1 - #133)
Color:
color
Dimensions:
10.5" x 14" (#1-6); standard Golden Age U.S. (#7-133)
Paper Stock:
glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding:
saddle-stitched
Publishing Format:
was ongoing series
Publication Type:
magazine
Series Details:
Tracking:
  • merged with #7 from Slam-Bang Comics (Fawcett, 1940 series) #7
    Note:
    Merged into Master Comics (Fawcett, 1940 series) with #7 of that series, as shown on the covers of Master Comics #7-9, and in the indicia of Master Comics #8, which reads "MASTER COMICS, combined with SLAM-BANG COMICS, is published...".
Notes
Information on Fawcett Comics' annual sales of Master Comics from 1941 to the mid-1950s is taken from the book "Juvenile Delinquency" (from 1950).

CIRCULATION DATA
1941 - 1,552,197
1942 - 2,698,077
1943 - 5,390,246
1944 - 5,933,851
1945 - 4,448,897
1946 - 4,231,471
1947 - 3,696,499
1948 - 3,703,703
1949 - 2,692,960
1950 (First 6 months) - 1,105,408

Index Status

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