artists were flocking to Detroit, Florida, and California for work.
And a comic book industry (including Donenfeld and Pines), hun-
gry for talent, began to snatch crumbs from the tables of the
animation studios. One agent who supplied those "crumbs" from
the animation crowd was Pines' father-in-law, B. W Sangor. Using
moonlighting animators, illustrators from pulp magazines, and
new, untested talent, Sangor began to funnel hundreds of pages of
art and story to Pines, as well as to Donenfeld and other publishers.
These super-talents of animation were so prolific that Sangor began
to skim off pages for his own adventures in the world of publishing.
His publishing house was named Creston, and the final piece that
would become ACG was added to the puzzle.

In retrospect, ACG's accomplishments from 1943 to 1967 remain
impressive today Unnumbered hundreds of thousands of ACG
readers have had moments of epiphany forever etched into their
memories as they traveled on forbidden adventures into unknown
worlds of imagination.

Written for scholars but accessible to comic book fans and casual
readers as well, this book is intended for an people interested in
comic books and in the history of the men and women who created
them during the early days of the most popular art form in the
world.

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