Target Comics

    (Premium, 1940-1949)
™ and ©1946 Premium Services Co., Inc.
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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Target Comics #45

January, 1944
Cover Price: $0.10
1 copy available for $31.50 		 Tom Gill, Milt Hammer, B. Gordon Guth
Target Comics #60

June, 1945
Cover Price: $0.10
1 copy available for $31.50 		Alonzo VincentKen Battefield, Walter Johnson, Alonzo Vincent, B. Gordon Guth