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markseifert just posted information on  Frank Comunale on the old Publisher Groupings Thread,. Thanks Markseifert, but to make it more accessible I have created a new thread and re-posted it here.

Regarding Frank Comunale:

Apologies for adding to a very old thread, but this is just about the only place on the internet that has any info on this subject at all, and I have a couple of additional crumbs to add to it.

I'm not completely sure if Feldman's comment is meant to imply that Frank Comunale is not a real person, but he was a real person, and it is confirmable that Frank Comunale was the head of the Frank Comunale Publishing Company of New York:

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/104322090/newsday-suffolk-edition/

In addition to the Detective Parade 1945 pulp one shot, and the short lived 1950 version of Chief Detective (both of which were published via a NYC address), Comunale was the editor and publisher of Il Mattino d'America, a NYC-based newspaper with editions in both Italian and English.  I think I'll eventually find other ventures by Comunale.

Frank Comunale Publishing Co is not an imprint of Charlton, in my opinion.  Given the indicia address and the time frame, I think it likely that like many newspaper (and other) publishers of this period, Comunale was induced into using his paper quota to make a brief foray into comics.

Anyway... while I don't think it's wrong to group Comunale in with Charlton, he had his own independent publishing company, and I think further digging here will enhance the history of Charlton's origins. 

cheers!