Prize Publications. Christmas cover. This issue (and following item #1817) is from the Lloyd Jacquet Estate. "Lloyd Jacquet Dec 6 - 1945" ink stamp in upper right corner of front cover. Jacquet was the founder of Funnies, Inc., one of the first and most prominent of a handful of comic book "packagers" established in the late 1930s that created comics on demand for publishers testing the waters of the emerging medium. Among its other achievements, Funnies, Inc. supplied the contents of "Marvel Comics" #1, the first publication of the company that would evolve into Marvel Comics. Characters created by Jacquet's company include the Sub-Mariner and the original Golden Age Human Torch.