Sport Thrills

Star Publications' Sport Thrills ran for five issues from 1950 to 1951, offering a compact anthology of athletic action across a variety of sports. The series is most notably associated with the vivid, often lurid cover art of L. B. Cole, whose distinctive style gave these tales of gridiron clashes, boxing bouts, and baseball showdowns a punchy, pulp energy. Inside, regular contributors like Jack Hearne and Jim Wilcox delivered fast-paced, no-frills sports stories that captured the era's love of athletic competition. Though brief, Sport Thrills stands as a colorful snapshot of early-1950s comic book sports anthologies.