American Comics Group
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| Status | defunct (1967) |
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| Founded | 1943 |
| Founder | Benjamin W. Sangor |
| Country of origin | United States of America |
| Headquarters location | 45 West 45th Street, New York City |
| Key people |
Richard E. Hughes Fred Iger Harry Donenfeld |
| Publication types | Comic books |
| Fiction genres | Superheroes, science fiction, horror, crime, mystery, romance |
| Imprints | B & I Publishing Co., Inc. B. & M. Distributing Co., Inc. Best Syndicated Features, Inc. Creston Publications Corp. Culver Publications Custom Comics, Inc. La Salle Publishing Co. Michel Publications, Inc. Milt Gross, Inc. Modern Store Publications Modern Store Publishing Preferred Publications, Inc. Regis Publications, Inc. Scope Magazines, Inc. Titan Publishing Co. Inc. |
American Comics Group (ACG) is an American comic book publisher which existed from 1943 to 1967. It published the medium's first ongoing horror-comics title, Adventures into the Unknown. ACG's best-known character was the 1960s satirical-humor hero Herbie Popnecker, who starred for a time in Forbidden Worlds. Herbie would later get his own title and be turned into a "superhero" called the Fat Fury.
Founded by Benjamin W. Sangor, ACG was co-owned by Fred Iger from 1948 to 1967. Iger's father-in-law, Harry Donenfeld, head of National Periodical Publications (later known as DC Comics), was also a co-owner in the early 1960s (though Donenfeld was severely incapacitated and out of the business after an accident in 1962). ACG was distributed by Independent News Company, which also distributed (and was part of the same company as) DC.
The company evolved out of a company owned by Sangor. In the mid-1930s, Sangor and Richard E. Hughes began to produce a short-lived prepackaged comics supplement for newspapers. In 1939, the Sangor Shop (as it was informally known) began producing comics for Sangor's son-in-law Ned L. Pines. The Sangor Shop produced the characters and stories of The Black Terror, Pyroman, and Fighting Yank for Pines' Nedor Comics and produced most of the comics for Pines until 1945.
In 1943, ACG started to publish its own work under such names as B&I Publishing, Michel Publications and Regis Publishing. It acquired the publisher Creston Publications in 1943, making Creston into an ACG imprint. By 1948, it was publishing comics under the name of American Comics Group. Its titles were typical of the times, including horror, crime, mystery, romance, and funny-animal comics. In 1948, it began publishing the long-running horror title Adventures into the Unknown. This was the first of a trilogy of ACG horror/supernatural titles that also included Forbidden Worlds (1951–1967) and Unknown Worlds (1960–1967).
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