Star Publications Archives

Kramer (1907-1956) was born Abraham Joseph Kramer in New York City and had become a CPA by 1930.  Best remembered as the co-founder of Star Publications with L.B Cole, little has been understood about Kramer's activities in the comic book business up to now, perhaps due to some historical confusion over names he may have[...]

A trailblazing artist whose style and art remains highly regarded today, there's a copy of  Crime-Fighting Detective #19 (Star Publications, 1952) CGC FN 6.0 Off-white to white pages up for auction in the 2023 April 30-May 2 Sunday, Monday & Tuesday Comic Books Select Auction #122318. Crime-Fighting Detective #19 (Star Publications, 1952) featuring L.B Cole. Crime-Fighting Detective[...]

Cole might have thought more about what made comic book covers sell on the newsstands than any other artist of his era.  His use of eyeball-searing color and empty space, composition, and cover design makes his covers unique and identifiable among the comics of the period.  For some of his cover work at Star Publications,[...]

Climbing ever higher over the bodies of those she poisoned, she grasped for more until the stern and relentless hand of justice brought extermination and wiped out a snake in human form… The Poisoner!"  A typically lurid cover by Cole playing to an audience that had made crime comics an incredibly successful genre during this[...]

Cole once said, one of the premiere cover artists of the Golden Age and beyond. "If it's a horror cover and you have a big black background, just put in some squibbly line and the reader will see it as a fang, or a claw, or a staring eye, and will read the most horrible aberrations[...]