Farrell Publications Archives

Farrell Publications published some 321 issues of 62 titles from 1951-1958, which is to say that most Farrell series were short lived.  The company put out a wide range of genres from romance to war comics, but might be best remembered for their Pre-Code Horror line and their underappreciated mid-1950s superhero line which included former[...]

Captain Flight Comics introduced Red Rocket with this classic cover on issue #5 from Robert Farrell's Four Star Publications in 1944.

Farrell Publication's Voodoo Annual #1 is a comic book that Pre-Code Horror collectors rarely want to part with, and it's easy to see why.  It's a scarce 100-page giant squarebound edition comic book that includes Matt Baker art from the height of the notoriously-difficult Pre-Code era.  Although the title is part of publisher Farrell Publications[...]

Before the X-Men, Professor X was a criminology professor in Captain Flight Comics who knew everything there was to know about crime.

After the Superman TV show sparked a new superhero boom in 1953, Farrell's Black Cobra became a thoroughly Cold War-era superhero.