Red Band Comics

Red Band Comics was a short-lived, four-issue anthology series published by Rural Home in the mid-1940s, offering a mix of adventure, humor, and mystery tales. The series is notable for featuring the work of writer Bruce Elliott alongside artists August Froehlich and Bernard Baily, both of whom contributed to its pulpy, wartime-era visual style. Though it lasted only a year, the title remains a compact snapshot of the kind of genre-blending, pre-superhero comic books that thrived during the Golden Age.