According to the fastidiously researched, American Comic Book Chronicles, this 1944 one-shot giant comic book, Hollywood Comics, was packaged (drawn by) Comic House (New York studio) by Lev Gleason, for client, New Age Publishers, Inc. (a funds-raising arm of American Youth For Democracy, exclusively to raise funds for their efforts in pushing left wing political causes. On The Grand Comics Database, only New Age Publishers, Inc. is listed as publisher, with no reference to Quality Comics in ANY way being related to this books production. So, I think it should be placed either with Lev Gleasons publishing category, as his firm ordered the artwork from Comic House, and packaged (edited and assembled) the book, and was paid by New Age Publishers for doing so, and had it distributed by its own regular distributors, as his own product, and forwarded the profits (over and above publishing costs net of his production costs and own companys fees for the books production), OR have this New Age Publishers single book placed in Comic Book Plus One Shot Publishers category.
Apparently, sales of (and, thus, profits from) this standard quality funny animal comic book weren't high enough for The American Youth For Democracy fundraisers to authorise issuance of even a second book in this series, and they abandoned the idea of selling comic books to raise funds. At least they had the good sense to try selling a commercially viable book to try to earn the money, rather than making it a propaganda tool to each their potential audience. I guess they realised that it wasn't really practical to get the kiddies hyped up on promoting more socialistic reforms, and then HOPING they would convince their parents to donate large sums of money to that cause. I'm sure more copies of Hollywood Comics reached voters' homes than giveaway copies of
Alice in Blunderland (the Fight Government Waste public service comic book issued in the 1952 by Industrial Services.
Link to the book:
Hollywood Comics 1
