Animal Fun 3-D

[OtherEric]

So, would this book be allowed?

http://www.comics.org/issue/173781/

It's from Premier Magazines, a very small publisher where we have every other book they did on the site:

http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?cid=1047

The catch is, the Animal Fun issue features Ziggy Pig and Silly Seal, who are normally Marvel/ Timely characters.  Does anybody have the slightest idea of the history of this book?  It's not a simple bootleg like the IW/ Super books, given that the story is in 3-D.

In either case, the book is on the way to me, I just want to know if we can not use it, use it in part, or use it in full.

[Yoc]

Hi Eric.
Check the indicia when it arrives and we can go from there.

-Yoc

[OtherEric]

Sounds like a plan, Yoc.  It just amuses me that we're down to needing one book, not for a series, but for an entire publisher.  We're making progress!

[Yoc]

Sure.  Now say that about a bigger publisher like Fiction House and I'd Really be impressed!

[OtherEric]

We're definitely getting close on some of the larger publishers.  Fiction House and Novelty are both getting impressively close.

Not that I have anything to contribute on Fiction House beyond the handful I've already done; I think I have more issues of Planet Stories (the pulp) than Fiction house comics from all titles.

[OtherEric]

Hi Eric.
Check the indicia when it arrives and we can go from there.

-Yoc

The indicia reads:

Published Bi-Monthly, by Premier Magazines, Inc., 333 West End Ave., New York, N. Y. Entire contents Copyrighted 1953.  By
Premier Magazines, Inc.                                                                                                                Printed in U. S. A.

Awaiting the expert verdict.

[Yoc]

This came after the Marvel books, I've no clue but better not just to be safe.

[OtherEric]

There's an ad for the Animal Fun issue in "Nuts!" #1, otherwise I might wonder if was even the same Premier Magazines that published the 3-D issue.  The issue also has "Billy and Buggy Bear", who appeared in Timely books in 1943-1946... and Charlton books in 1947.  This is just an odd book at best, it seems; it seems to be all (or almost all) Marvel/ Timely inventory.  But the Charlton appearance suggests it's not impossible Marvel let the material go; Charlton's rep is more for grabbing stuff others don't want cheap rather than actual theft.  This may be a rare case where I scan the book to share it elsewhere; I suspect it's legitimately in the PD even if we have valid reasons to not post it here.