Target Comics

    (Premium, 1940-1949)
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Series continues in Target Western Romances #106

Target Comics emerged in the heyday of the Golden Age, featuring a credible lineup of masked heroes, comic strip-style adventure stories, and humorous filler. Leading talents such as Jack Cole (creator of Plastic Man), Bill Everett (Sub-Mariner), and Carl Burgos (The Human Torch) contributed to its pages, but Target is today best known as the showcase for Space Hawk, the classic, science-fiction strip by comic art genius Basil Wolverton. Space Hawk appeared in the first several issues, but by the mid-1940s, Target slipped back into the pack as an average-quality anthology title. In 1949, it was bought, along with Novelty’s other books including Blue Bolt by L. B. Cole’s Star Publications. Cole contributed a few of his lurid poster-painted covers, but reader interest continued to wane and Target folded before 1950.
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  • 45
    #45
    Jan 1944
    Cover: $0.10
    A: Tom Gill, Milt Hammer, B. Gordon Guth
    Listed as Vol. 4, #9
    1 copy for $12.20
  • 60
    #60
    Jun 1945
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Alonzo Vincent  ·  A: Ken Battefield, Walter Johnson, Alonzo Vincent, B. Gordon Guth
    Listed as Vol. 6, #4
    1 copy for $22.05
  • 95
    #95
    Jul 1948
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Don Rico  ·  A: Nina Albright, Don Rico
    Listed as Vol. 9, #5
    1 copy for $15.00