This thread has branched out a bit. Very nice! Brother Duck you bring up a great point - that being, that during the 50's there were lots of different types of comics. I began looking at comics at the age of 6 in 1954. At that time Batman and Superman and the Disney stuff was what I really liked. The last gasps for Horror scared me. I began reading AND enjoying comics at the age of 8. Again Superman, Batman, The Ducks and Dennis The Menace were my main interests but, I also read and enjoyed Archie's line and DC funny animals very often. Alter all I only got to the local Drug Store when my parents took me at that young age. The point noted about lack of Super Heroes in the 50's is a valid one. Superman (Boy) in his various comics ( Superman, Action, Adventure, World's Finest, Superboy, Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen) and Batman's comics were Batman, Detective and World's Finest and that was it until (as pointed out) just before the 60's. There were some other Super Heroes (The Atlas numbers, The Fly and Fighting American to name a obvious few) but variety was the name of the game. I had brief flings with Wonder Woman, western comics (The Lone Ranger) Tarzan and War Comics (the DC version)
As my memory goes DC's Hero Explosion came in with the 60's and The Justice League was the high point of that for me. It was a good thing that Stan and Jack gave us the Marvel age starting with the FF because just about that time DC had almost burnt me out with Baby Heroes like superbaby and Wonder Tot. Stan and Jack's comics seemed very adult and real to a comic fan at the age of 13. I would really like to know what runs were selling during those final days of the 50's.