Whiz Comics

Published: 1940 - 1953 Issues: 155 Format: Was ongoing series According to the Fawcett Companion: The Best of FCA, Whiz Comics magazine sold 500,000 per issue its first year (eleven issues published that year). Information on Fawcett Comics' annual sales of Whiz Comics from 1941 to the mid-1950s is taken from the book *Juvenile Delinquency* (from 1950). CIRCULATION DATA 1941 - 3,963,535 1942 - 4,686,658 1943 - 7,773,028 1944 - 8,269,958 1945 - 6,657,661 1946 - 7,149,869 1947 - 4,852,948 1948 - 4,149,523 1949 - 3,270,005 1950 (First 6 months) - 1,406,254 CIRCULATION DATA: Data from Audit Bureau of Circulations via Russ Mahera January 1944 – 788,950 February 1944 – 779,982 March 1944 – 779,956 April 1944 – 775,477 May 1944 – 762,936 June 1944 – 757,022 July 1944 – 696,768 August 1944 – 735,369 September 1944 – 739,481 October 1944 – 732,536 November 1944 – 721,481 December 1944 – No issues published January 1945 – 735,862 February 1945 – 722,717 March 1945 – 711,973 April 1945 – 718,553 May 1945 – 718,500 June 1945 – No issues published July 1945 – 744,004 August 1945 – No issues published September/October 1945 – 733,461 November/December 1945 – 708,659 December 1945 – 863,932 January 1946 – 877,653 February 1946 – 846,413 March 1946 – 705,670 April 1946 – 570,403 May 1946 – 572,724 June 1946 – 471,777 July 1946 – 525,686 August 1946 – 497,724 September 1946 – 534,975 October 1946 – 516,786 November 1946 – 535,045 December 1946 – 495,013 CONTRIBUTORS AND INDEXERS: Some of these issues were provided on microfiche by Pat Iacovone for indexing. Thanks also to Jerry Bails and Mike Tiefenbacher for their support and contributions to indexing this series.