Comic books November 1951

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UK weekly men's interest magazine with humor and pin-ups. 8" x 11.25", 28 pages, B&W

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UK weekly men's interest magazine with humor and pin-ups. 8" x 11.25", 28 pages, B&W

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UK weekly men's interest magazine with humor and pin-ups. 8" x 11.25", 28 pages, B&W

UK weekly men's interest magazine with humor and pin-ups. 8" x 11.25", 28 pages, B&W

36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Bob McCarty and Rod Reed. Western hero Bob Colt, a Fawcett creation, fights for justice with his sidekicks Pablo and Terry. The model on the photo covers was Steve Holland, later the cover model for Bantam Books' Doc Savage reprints. Bob's enemies send four hired killers after him, but first the killers must find the Hidden Ranch. Sappy Nappy butters his flies to make butterflies. Bob investigates when sightings of a "dragon" cause ranchers to sell their mineral-rich lands off to land baron Tanner. Plus pinups of Steve Holland in his Bob Colt getups. The Specialists in Death; Chuck Waggin; Rawhide Hotchkiss: Prairie Pigskin; Rich Brother; Sappy Nappy; The Dragon of Disaster. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Painted cover art by Norman Saunders. Stories and art by Clem Weisbecker and others. A "Boys' Life"-style comic promoting hunting, fishing and other outdoors activities for 1950s boys. What makes it "a new kind of comic book" (as the cover says) is that the stories are interrupted periodically with tips on gun safety, proper fishing techniques, etc. Bob gets a puppy, Sahib, and trains him to be a hunting dog, teaching the reader about hunting dogs at the same time. On a fishing trip, Bob learns that non-native trout introduced to the ecosystem are devouring the local trout. Plus text articles and photos on camping hints, the walleye, and the opossum. And a Shazam dot-to-dot puzzle! Sahib's Sacrifice; Camping Hints; Cannibal Trout; The Walleye. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

November 24, 1951. Boxoffice Magazine Supplement - Section Two. 120 pages, black and white with spot color, 9.25-in x 12-in.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by William Overgard, Ben Brown, C.H. Moore, and Charles Biro. An anthology title from publisher Lev Gleason and his primary creator, Charles Biro, featuring teen hero Crimebuster and his nemesis Iron Jaw. A man becomes the American agent for a drug dealer who's been deported. Dilly Duncan gets an afterschool job managing the school athletic equipment, but some rivals try to frame him for stealing. Crimebuster gets to judge a beauty contest at an amusement park, but encounters murder and a deadly dive, in a story with good-girl art by William Overgard. Also featuring a vintage ad for Lev Gleason Comics Picture Trading Cards. Crimebuster: The High Cost of Dying; The Fatal Beauty Contest; Laff This Off!; Dilly Duncan: Just Buddies; Little Wise Guys: Collapse of a Career. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Bill Walton. Art by Frank Frazetta and Max Elkan. Adventure tales featuring Hollywood legend Buster Crabbe, star of Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers and Tarzan serials. A profile of Buster Crabbe, who was an Olympic athlete before becoming an actor; Buster and Whiskers track a killer into the Colorado mountains and find foreign agents making atomic weapons; A classic PSA featuring early art by fantasy and comics legend Frank Frazetta. Buster Crabbe; Mysterious Mountain; Whiskers Rides Again; The Guns That Won the West; The Branding Iron; The Arrow of Death; The Sinister Cargo; Billy the Kid - a True Story of the Old West; We Can Stop the Enemies of Youth. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by C.C. Beck. Stories by Otto Binder and unknown. Art by C.C. Beck and unknown. Captain Marvel (Billy Batson) stars in: "The Great Heat Age" by Otto Binder and C.C. Beck; "The Creeping Horror" with story by Otto Binder and pencils by C.C. Beck; and "Mr. Tawny's Fight for Fame" by Otto Binder and C.C. Beck. Plus: Captain Kid in "Easy Money"! And: Jon Jarl in the 2-page text story "The Space Swindle" with script by Otto Binder (as Eando Binder). 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Bud Thompson. Stories by Bill Woolfolk, Art Helfant and Howard Boughner. Art by Art Helfant, Howard Boughner and Joe Certa. Superhero action with Freddy Freeman, who gains the same powers as his hero Captain Marvel, better known these days as Shazam. Captain Marvel Jr. seeks the cause of strange protoplasm that falls from the sky and begins to grow, consuming a small village. CMJ tries to convince the king of Elluria that King Solomon's treasure is better spent on civic improvements. Marvel Jr. seeks a millionaire's missing dog, and finds him leading a dog pack. Captain Marvel Jr. Battles the Thing That Grew; Judge Smudge; Kanvasback: The Slugging Sapperoo; The Money-Mad Monarch; Rubbernose Randolph; Gorilla for Hire; Captain Marvel Jr. Meets the Millionairedale; Biographer Byson. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Gustaf Tenggren. A digest of fiction, fact and comics for children from the producers of Parents Magazine. "The Emperor's Nightingale" by Hans Christian Andersen; "Jonathan Bing" by Beatrice Curtis Brown; "The Wonderful Turkey Chase" by Robert L. Grimes; plus other stories, poems, comics, puzzles, games, jokes, and riddles. 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 132 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.25.

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Volume 23, Issue 3 - August 1951. Children's Playmate Magazine features creative stories, poems, rebuses, recipes, activities, crafts, science experiments, and health articles for children. This issue is Spring themed. 52 pages. Cover price $0.20.

Stories and art by Bob Oksner, Alice Kirkpatrick, Merrylen Townsend and Jack Sparling. Ziff-Davis published the first incarnation of this influential romance title. Amanda meets her horrid relatives at the reading of her uncle's will, but also meets handsome family friend Ray. Store clerk Nancy falls for co-worker Frank, unaware he's actually the boss's son. Ann, a nanny, is subjected to jealous abuse from her employer's fiancee Paula, but luckily, she has the kid on her side. The Unexpected Legacy; Love on Trial!; Man Hunt; Model for Romance; Cindy; Big Act; Dream House; The House on the Hill. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Issue 53 - Australian Edition. Circa early to mid 1950's. Reprints "The Cloister and the Hearth" in abridged form with new cover art. 6.5 x 8.5, color covers with b&w interior, 24 pages-all newsprint.

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Uncle Tom's Cabin, 7th Printing, Line Drawing Cover. (HRN 89). Cover price $0.15.

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Crime and Punishment, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. Cited in Parade of Pleasure. (HRN 89, with 11/51 date). Through the streets of a large metropolis walks a murderer. Follow this criminal as he seeks to escape from poverty and his own guilty conscience while becoming trapped in a web of justice. Cover price $0.15.

"Vanity was my Downfall": After becoming disfigured in an auto accident, fashion model Grace adopts a baffling revenge strategy. "My Selfish Lie!": Janet falls for Tom while deceiving him on Carlotta's behalf. "My Nightmare Romance", text story. "Fear Drove Me Into His Arms": In an attempt to save her father's job, Marge goes steady with the boss' son. "Education for Love": Johnny breaks hearts and fixes football games. 36 Pages. Full color.

The classic weekly magazine featuring news and fiction. 10.75" x 13.75", 74 pages, PC/B&W. Cover price $0.15.

F. Fox's Rest Haven starring Fox and the Crow, art by James F. Davis; The Fox opens a rest home. ["A lot of berries"] starring Raccoon Kids, art by Otto Feuer. ["A lot of berries"] starring Raccoon Kids, art by Otto Feuer; Presto decides to get out of the magic business. Squawking to the Dog starring Flippity and Flop, art by James F. Davis. Yow! A Falling Leaf! starring Nutsy Squirrel, art by Rube Grossman. ["A Skiing we will go"] starring Dizzy Dog, script and art by Sheldon Mayer. The Bunny Who Looked Funny starring Giggletoons, script and art by Howie Post. Side Show starring Bagby Bear. Fennimore's Travels starring Dodo and the Frog, script by Woody Gelman, art by Otto Feuer. 76 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.15.

Cover by Ernie Bushmiller. Stories and art by Ernie Bushmiller and others. Comics on Parade features reprints of Ernie Bushmiller's popular Nancy strip, featuring precocious Nancy and her streetwise pal Sluggo. Nancy and Sluggo go on a picnic. Nancy makes an attempt at "modern" painting. Sluggo visits his favorite museum. Nancy; Stamp Tips. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories by Dan Gordon and others. Art by Dan Gordon and Lynn Karp. Teen hijinks featuring Cookie and his pals, created by legendary animator Dan Gordon. Cookie and the gang cross paths with a visiting sultan; The gang tries to raise money by putting on a banquet and inviting a football coach to be the speaker; Lover Boy is lovesick. Cookie; Kid Sister; Jitterbuck: Jit's Wrong Number; Skitch; Starlet O'Hara in Hollywood; Lover Boy; Ambitious Andrew; Cookie: Cookie and the Master Brain. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Reed Crandall. Stories by Joe Millard and unknown. Art by Leo Morey, Paul Gustavson, Charles Sultan & unknown and Harry Anderson? Dawson floods the mines to get the holders to sell their shares to him in the Two-Gun Lil story "The Vultures of Goldhill!" Plus: Arizona Raines and Spurs are nearly killed by stampeding longhorns in "Trampling Hoofs of Murder!"; Johnny Lash (the Whip) is framed and jailed for bank robbery in "Hangnoose Sunrise!"; a man is killed trying to help Bob Allen, Frontier Marshal in "Kill or Be Killed!"; and 1-page text story "A Trap for Rustlers"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Walter Davoren. Stories and art by Walter Davoren and Bob Forgione. Pre-Code crime comics from Charlton, sometimes published under its short-lived Capitol or Law and Order imprints. "Gun moll" Babes Trevor doesn't like it when her take of the bank job is less than the rest of the gang's, and she's just homicidal enough to kill for equal pay, if that's what it takes. Brothers plot against each other to gain an inheritance, in a story where one clue is what they called then a "ball pointed pen." A killer freed in a prison break is horrified to learn who's actually behind his escape...and why. A look at the forensics of the 1950s, in a "true facts" feature on glass. Crime Tracks: Clues in Breaking Glass; The Corpse Provided the Alibi; Thieves Can't Trust Each Other; Blackmail; Trigger Happy; Breakout to Death! Big Shakedown. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Dick Rockwell, Carl Wessler, Hal Sherman, Fred Guardineer, and Charles Biro. A companion series to Crime Does Not Pay from the same publisher, slightly less violent and with more emphasis on police work. An imprisoned killer sets out to dig himself to freedom, but this is no Shawshank Redemption. A tiny jeweled stickpin is the only evidence the cops have to find a couple's killer. A comic that dares the reader to figure out the murder of a loan shark, in a whodunit with multiple clues and an upside-down panel for the answer. Also featuring a vintage ad for Lev Gleason Comics Picture Trading Cards. The Man Who Dug His Own Grave; Murder Plays No Favorites; The Walking Dead Man; Death Was His Only Witness; This'll Kill Ya; The Bullseye Murder Case. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

"The Big Blast" (art by Marion Sitton), "The Victim" (art by 'Margie' creator Morris Weiss), "The Last Day of Growler Erics" (art by Dan Loprino), and "The Arm of the Law" (art by Manny Stallman). Two page text story, "Operation - Murder!" Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Gene Colan, Fred Guardineer, Carl Wessler, Frank Bolle, Dick Rockwell, and Charles Biro. The title that launched the crime comics genre, Crime Does Not Pay was noted for its violent pre-Code content and lurid tales of underworld life. A blind man is stalked by a killer, featuring early art by comics legend (and future Daredevil artist) Gene Colan. A race-car driver tries to outrun gangsters after he refuses to fix a race. A story that dares the reader to figure out who killed the salvage diver who found Blackbeard's pirate treasure. Also featuring a vintage ad for "Lev Gleason Comics picture trading cards." Dead Men Don't Double-Cross; Terror in the Dark; The Curious Case of the Curio; Murder in Greenwich Village; Who Dunnit?: Riddle of Blackbeard's Treasure. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Wally Wood. Stories and art by Robert Leslie Bellem, Adolphe Barreaux, Max Plaisted and Keats Petree. Despite the title, not true "crime" comics, but mystery comics featuring detective heroes. Action girl Sally the Sleuth suspects that a bowling alley is a front for an illegal gambling den. Reporter Ray Hale investigates the murder of a dance-hall girl and uncovers a dope ring. Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective (who dresses like '50s-era Jimmy Olsen in these stories) investigates blackmail and murder on a movie set, in a story with an extended girl-fight sequence. Bondage-themed cover is early work by comics legend Wally Wood. Gail Ford, Girl Friday: The Clutch of Evil; Sally the Sleuth: Death Rolls a Strike; Ray Hale, News Ace; Bump the Jackpot; Dan Turner Hollywood Detective: Off Stage Kill. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

"The Outlaws of Big Nugget Butte", "The Accursed Canoe", & "Indian Warpath!" 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Norman Maurer, Hy Mankin and Alden McWilliams. This early superhero title was one of the comics that made publisher Lev Gleason a major player during the Golden Age. The Little Wise Guys stow away on the first rocketship to Jupiter. This is the final appearance of the Golden Age Daredevil. Ace pilot "Hot Rock" Flanagan must help a doctor investigate an epidemic behind enemy lines, in his final adventure. A "true-life adventures"-type story of a deer and doe in the wilderness. Also featuring a vintage ad for Lev Gleason Comics Picture Trading Cards, and another for "Uncle Bernie's Fun Shop." Little Wise Guys: Speed and Space; Air Devils Starring "Hot Rock" Flanagan, Part 11; Little Wise Guys: The Champion Phony; Crimebuster: Squeeks + Soot = Solution; Wild Devotion. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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"The Dread Book of Betarin," pencils by Edward Goldfarb, inks by Bob Baer; Eugene Gordon dabbles with black magic and tries spells out of a "grimore", the black book of Betarin; After summoning some elemental creatures and dead people, Gordon encounters Betarin himself. "Ghosts From Mars," art by Vince Napoli; Tiny dead ghostlike Martian creatures are raining down on earth and cause chaos and destruction; Only scientist and "authority on the occult" Don Blant may help by contacting the ghost of his dead brother Allen. "The Occult Notebook of Dark Mysteries" article; Methods of divination, superstitions about were-animals, voodoo dolls and the evil eye. "The Unwilling Witch"; Bob and Jane are haunted by an old witch who was an ancestor of Jane's; Under the witch's bidding Jane turns into a were-cat and tries to kill her fiancé. "Bargain With a... Worm"; Jim Thomas enters into a pact with a strange entity; Looking like a sack, the being offers Jim help in financial matters; In exchange the being can read Jim's thoughts. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories by Henry Boltinoff and unknown. Art by Henry Boltinoff and unknown. Radio's famous coast-to-coast favorite! In this issue: Three untitled A Date with Judy stories. Plus: A Date with Judy 2-page text story "Judy in Wonderland"; untitled Biff 1-pager; untitled Jerry the Jitterbug 1-pager by Henry Boltinoff; untitled Pam story; untitled Randolph story; Date Duds -- And a Date Dream! 2-pager "Personal Appearance"; untitled Peg 1-pager by Boltinoff; and untitled Sue 1-pager. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Gerald McCann. Anne of the Old Natchez, art by Mike Suchorsky; Gambling and duels on the Mississippi. Sergeant Barney's Gamble. The Old Man's Weapon; the editor has been insulted and has the right to choose weapons; he chooses shotguns. The Loaded Guitar, pencils by Mike Roy [as R.M.]; the stage is robbed for cash and diamonds, and the barber and his gang hide the loot in an old guitar. Ramrod in the Saddle, art by Gerald McCann; A new replacement officer proves to be a cunning soldier. Thorns From the East; when a stranger comes riding to warn them of Indians, they seem to be in no hurry to get away. The Man With the Mural Muscles; he blacksmith wanted a new tattoo, but didn't know that a tattoo artist means a gunslinger in French. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

25¢ edition. 84 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.25.

35¢ Canadian Edition. 116 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.35.