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[pikeprof]

Hello-I have just checked out some of Rural Home's superhero comics and it has surprisingly good art for a small publisher. Anyone know much about them? Anyone I know work for them? Gil Kane? I like Gil Kane a lot and hope that's the case. Any info would be helpful.

[Powder Solvang]

A search brought up this:
http://www.comicvine.com/rural-home/4010-1878/

[josemas]

Here's GCD's list of Rural Home titles-

http://www.comics.org/publisher/138/

You can search through them to see which artists have been identified.

Jerry Bails' Who's Who has Kane doing unconfirmed work there c. 1946.

Best

Joe

[JVJ]

The easiest way to understand Rural Home is to think of the name and the dates. By 1944, a publication aimed at rural readership probably had a paper allowance, but little circulation due to the war. It was a legal source for paper and some printer or packager in Chicago or New York made it available to comic publishers for a short span in 1944-45.

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[JVJ]

Here's GCD's list of Rural Home titles-

http://www.comics.org/publisher/138/

You can search through them to see which artists have been identified.

Jerry Bails' Who's Who has Kane doing unconfirmed work there c. 1946.

Best

Joe

THIS list is the definitive Rural Home. Some big companies like Orbit/Our had one or two of their very earliest issues published through the auspices of RH, but then went on their own. Some other companies had their entire output done through them. Only those comics with "Rural Home" in the indicia qualify. Companies like Farm Women's Quarterly SOUND like the should belong, but they don't! Enwil happened to be another source of an early Orbit/Our issue, but that doesn't make it connected to Rural Home.

They had a very limited life span during World War II. I don't believe they outlasted it.

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[pikeprof]

Thanks for the info! It's hard to find stuff about them.