Comic Media was a short-lived comic book

Comic book

A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...

 company owned by Allen Hardy that existed in the 1950s. Its titles were mainly action

Action genre

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/adventure

Adventure

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, western

Western (genre)

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, and horror. Their only memorable character was Johnny Dynamite

Johnny Dynamite

Johnny Dynamite is a comic book private detective character created by writer Ken Fitch and artist Pete Morisi. Johnny Dynamite appeared in 1953's Dynamite #3-9 published by Comic Media and in Johnny Dynamite #10-12 published by Charlton Comics...

, created by Pete Morisi

Pete Morisi

Peter A. Morisi , who sometimes went by the pseudonym PAM, is an American comic book writer and artist who also spent much of his professional life as a New York City Police Department officer. He is best known as creator of the 1960s Charlton Comics series Peter Cannon .....

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When Comic Media went under, they sold their titles and characters to Charlton Comics

Charlton Comics

Charlton Comics was an American comic book publishing company that existed from 1946 to 1985, having begun under a different name in 1944. It was based in Derby, Connecticut...

. Charlton then continued Dynamite as Johnny Dynamite, with work by Pete Morisi

Pete Morisi

Peter A. Morisi , who sometimes went by the pseudonym PAM, is an American comic book writer and artist who also spent much of his professional life as a New York City Police Department officer. He is best known as creator of the 1960s Charlton Comics series Peter Cannon .....

, who continued to work for the company for many years. Johnny Dynamite would later be purchased by Max Allan Collins

Max Allan Collins

Max Allan Collins is an American mystery writer. He has written novels, screenplays, comic books, comic strips, trading cards, short stories, movie novelizations and historical fiction. He wrote the graphic novel Road to Perdition , created the comic book private eye Ms...

 and Terry Beatty

Terry Beatty

Terry Beatty is an artist who has worked as a penciler and inker in the comic book industry.-Career:Beatty is the artist and co-creator of the long-running private eye series, Ms. Tree...

 and reprinted in their Ms. Tree

Ms. Tree

Ms. Tree was the best-known comic book creation of author Max Allan Collins prior to his graphic novel, Road to Perdition. Terry Beatty was the series' artist.-Character Biography and Synopsis:...

 title, and later a new miniseries

Miniseries

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 they created.

Notable titles

• All True Romance (20 issues, 1951–54) (romance) — acquired by Farrell Publications
  Farrell Publications
  Farrell Publications is the name of a series of American comic book publishing companies founded and operated by Robert W. Farrell in the 1940s and 1950s, including Elliot Publishing Company, Farrell Comic Group, and Excellent Publications. Farrell is particularly known for its pre-Comics Code...
  
  
• Danger (11 issues, 1953-53) (espionage)
• Death Valley (6 issues, 1953-54) (western)
• Dynamite (9 issues, 1953-54) (action, Johnny Dynamite in issue #3 on)
• Horrific (13 issues, 1952-54)
• Weird Terror (13 issues, 1952-54)