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Ögan comic books issue 52

  • Issue #52
    Gang Busters (1948 DC) 52
    Published Jul 1956 by DC.

    Cover art by Ruben Moreira. The Cop Who Lost the $80,000 Question, art by Howard Purcell. I Escaped from 100 Prisons, art by Bernard Baily. The Invisible Burglars, art by Bill Ely. The Prizefight the Fans Never Saw, art by Ruben Moreira. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

  • Vol. 52 #12
    Comfort (1888-1942 W. H. Gannett) Vol. 52 #12


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    • Fore-edge tears to all with 3" tear to front cover. Spine split 10%. Staple rust: Slight.

    Mail order magazine, edited initially by William H. Gannet. In 1888, Gannet created Comfort primarily as a means to advertise his patent medicine, Giant Oxien, a variant of The Moxie Nerve Food. Comfort's circulation increased from 13,000, in 1888, to 1.3 million, in 1894, which made Comfort the first publication in America to reach a circulation of 1 million. 10.5" x 13", 12 pages, B&W.