Comic books February 1949

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Norman Maurer, C.H. Moore, Mike Roy, John Belfi, 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. Crimebuster investigates a murder involving identical twins, in the series' first use of the initials "C.B." instead of his name, possibly because of a social backlash against crime comics. C.B tells the story of Larry Lane, the junkman's son, and how he created a gold-plated playground called Treasure Park. Also featuring a vintage ad for the Buck Rogers Sonic Ray gun. Crimebuster; Daredevil: The Case of the Washed-Out Alibi. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby. Brooklyn--the Walking Book of Knowledge, pencils by Curt Swan; unknown to the Commandos a scientist uses Brooklyn in an experiment that makes him a walking encyclopedia. The Gem King; Rip disguises himself as Smokey in order to discover who the secret boss of a criminal gang is. Paul Bunyan and his Blue Ox, Babe article. Shorty humor page by Henry Boltinoff. Solitary Confinement, pencils by Jack Kirby; when criminal Bryan Clay gets out of prison, the Commandos shadow to see if he'll lead them to the stolen loot. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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"Jewels of Jeopardy," "The Dungeon of Doom," "Too Little Too Late," "The Ladder of Death," "The Ancient Vengeance," and "Peace to the Prairie!" Alex Schomburg cover. Cover price $0.10.

Alex Schomburg cover. Brick Bradford comic strip reprints by William Ritt and Clarence Gray. "Jewels of Jeopardy," "The Dungeon of Doom," "Too Little Too Late," "The Ladder of Death," & "Phineas the Parrot" (1pg). 32 pages, FC. Cover price $0.10.

52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Marguerite Hamilton and others. A kids' anthology in the tradition of Calling All Girls from the publishers of Parents Magazine, featuring stories, games and quizzes as well as comics. Marco Polar Bear and Bobby put on a play in their trailer; A kindly prince is aided by animals as he tries to free a princess; Paddy Penguin pulls a Pied-Piper stunt to get a new playground for the town kids. Guess My Name; Twinkle, The Star That Came Down From Heaven; Marco Polar Bear; Paddy Penguin; The Dwarf's Key; Riddles; What's Wrong?; Bobo; Pug and Curly. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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36 pages. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by C.C. Beck. Stories by Otto Binder, Al Liederman and unknown. Art by Pete Costanza, Al Liederman and unknown. Captain Marvel (Billy Batson) stars in: "The Book of All Knowledge" with art by Pete Costanza (Shazam appearance); "The World's Greatest Lawyer" with inks by Pete Costanza; "His Bad Star" by Otto Binder and Pete Costanza; and "The Bridge to the Future" by Otto Binder and Pete Costanza. Plus: Captain Kid in "The Goat's Tale" by Al Liederman; Kanvasback tale "Dog Days"; and Jon Jarl in the 2-page text story "Evil Beyond the Sun" by Otto Binder (as Eando Binder). 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories by Otto Binder, Al Liederman, George Marko, Howard Boughner and Art Helfant. Art by Joe Certa, Al Liederman, George Marko, Art Helfant and Howard Boughner. Superhero action with Freddy Freeman, who gains the same powers as his hero Captain Marvel, better known these days as Shazam. A talk therapist causes people to worry less, so the King of Worries sends his "worry shadows" out in force. When criminals invade a kids' gym, Captain Marvel Jr. makes short work of them. Bewitched by a sprite, a wooden table (!) flies about the town causing mischief, and Captain Marvel Jr. sets out in pursuit, in a very strange tale. Captain Marvel, Jr. Battles Worry; Rubbernose Randolph; Boxcar Benny; Judge Smudge; Captain Kid: The Fighting Fiasco; The Lure of Crime; The Meerschaum Murders; Dopey Danny Dee; Kanvasback: The Sick Gladiator; The Square Man; The Terrible Topsy-Turvy Table. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

February 26, 1949. No. 1413, Volume 55. United Kingdom weekly boy's adventure paper with illustrated text stories. This issue features "Mendoza-Mystery Speedster" cover/feature story by Mark Grimshaw. Also, "Johnny Fleetfoot Gets 'Em Guessing" by Donald Dane, "Rockfist Rogan, The Boxing Airman" by Hal Wilton, "Ginger Nutt" by Ted Cowan, and "The Ice Age From Nowhere" by John Marshall. Small tabloid format, 7.5" x 11", b&w, 16 pages-all newsprint.

Issue 20 - Australian Edition. Circa early to mid 1950's. Reprints "Ivanhoe" in abridged form with new cover art. 10" x 7 1/2" horizontal format, color covers with b&w interior, 24 pages-all newsprint.

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The Toilers of the Sea, 1st Printing, Line Drawing Cover. (HRN 55, 2/49). Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 8, Issue 3 - February, 1949. 7" x 10", 96 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Bob Fujitani, Al Borth, C.H. Moore, 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. The Hunger Brothers start as stick-up men on the Cherokee Strip, and soon become the objects of a Midwestern manhunt. Zoot suit-wearing, bow-tied, tommygun-carrying Keno Rawson is a bank robber and a killer, but at least he looks sharp. A cop goes undercover in prison to learn that the Nash and Waters gang have buried their loot in a local cemetery. Also featuring a vintage ad for the Buck Rogers Sonic Ray gun. Mac Hunger and His Brother, Gil; On the Level; Keno Rawson; This'll Kill Ya!; Dwight Nash and Max Waters; Our Police Hall of Fame; Laugh These Off!; Who Is This Man? 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Dan Zolnerowich. Stories and art by Ernie Schroeder, Al McWilliams, Paul Parker, Pete Morisi, John Giunta, Jack Keller, Jules Steiner and Leonard Starr. Tales of crime and mobsters, both true and fictional, a prime example of the genre that thrived in the years before the Comics Code. A determined cop launches a one-man war on crime in 1888 Chicago. Jewel thief Buda Godman becomes notorious for blackmailing wealthy men by staging fake arrests. Identical criminals force police to try a new method of identification - fingerprinting - in 1903 Sing Sing. Whimsical gorilla cover by Dan Zolnerowich. Little Mountain of Muscle; French Fried Ice; Buda Godman: Queen of Gem Thieves; Sold!; Big Operator; The Girl Who Sold Lace; Like Peas in a Pod; A Death in the Family. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by George Tuska, Fred Guardineer, Claude Moore, Tony DiPreta 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. Mr. Crime narrates the tale of Crag Denby, who wants to use his talents for crime to strong-arm his way to Hollywood stardom. A superstitious hood is undone by the "unlucky" card the four of hearts, just as he had feared. A story that dares the reader to figure out the killer of an heiress in her penthouse. Crag Denby the Movie-Struck Egomaniac; Andy Yole; Superstitious Bill Clements; This'll Kill Ya!; Our Police Hall of Fame; On The Level; Who Dunnit. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Art by Edmond Good and A. C. Hollingsworth. Cover by Edmond Good. Dagar the Desert Hawk, aka Bart Benson, is a Lawrence of Arabesque hero who lives and fights in the Arabian desert. Educational comics focus on exotic animals including gorillas, giraffes, kangaroos, ostriches, camels, cobras, lions, crocodiles, leopards, and elephants; A government agent seeks Safari Cary's help to stop a diamond smuggling ring; Jungle warrior Tangi offers inspiration to a blocked writer. The Forgotten Allah!; The Perfidious Portrait!; Tropical Topics; Jungle Curiosities; Meet the Seminoles; A Dame, Diamonds and Dynamite!; Felony Files; A Purple Parakeet! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Charles Biro. Cesar Leporello and the Phony Diamond of the Rio Grande!, art by Bob Fujitani [as B. Fuje]; Leporello would keep the eighteen karat diamond if it costs the life of every human in the Southwest. The Black Diamond Is Coming ad announcing new feature and title change. Fools' Gold, art by Fred Guardineer; The tragic tale of three cowardly fools whose greedy emotions led them to misery and death. How One Man's Bravery Helped Change the History of the Old West; Texas Rangers--the very name of that organization spelled doom to the criminal. Sheriff Jim Waters text story, art by Fred Guardineer. Blind Man's Bluff, art by Tony DiPreta. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Dick Sprang and Charles Paris. Stories by Otto Binder and unknown. Art by Jimmy Thompson, Dick Sprang, Charles Paris, Howard Sherman, Carmine Infantino and unknown. Big Jack Bancroft kidnaps Kay Kyser and his saxophonist (whom he resembles) in order to get on Kyser's radio show, "The College of Musical Knowledge" in order to hide from the police. Kyser has to find a way to tip off Batman to this and invite him to his program in order to round up the crook. Don't miss Batman and Robin in "Kay Kyser's Mystery Broadcast!" with art by Dick Sprang and Charles Paris. Plus: Robotman in "The Human Armored Car!" by Otto Binder and Jimmy Thompson; Slam Bradley in "The Seven Sinister Midgets!" with art by Howard Sherman; and The Boy Commandos in "The Case of the Black Cat Crimes!" with pencils by Carmine Infantino. Also: Jerry the Jitterbug half-pager by Henry Boltinoff; Shorty 2-pager by Boltinoff; Daffy & Doodle 1-pager by Lit-Win; and 2-page text piece "The Printed Word." 48 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 22, Issue 2 - February, 1949. 6.75" x 9.75", 132 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.20.

Stories and art by Chester Gould and Bill Ely. Dell reprints the original comic-strip adventures of legendary tough cop Dick Tracy and his rogues gallery of freakish enemies. This issue reprints strips from Sept. 26 - Oct. 27, 1935. Tracy temporarily becomes Chief of Police in small-town Homeville to reduce crime. But his arrival coincides with that of gangsters Cut and Muscle Famon, and their equally deadly mother, Maw Famon. The backup feature by Bill Ely stars tough cop Jim O'Brien, a plainclothes detective nicknamed The Iron Man. Dick Tracy; Dick Tracy Reports to You; The Iron Man. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 59, Issue 2 - February, 1949. 6.75" x 9", 100 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Volume 4, 1st Printing - "Fast Woman" by Marty Holland. Softcover, 5" x 7.5", 128 pages, B&W, text only. Cover price $0.35.

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Volume 5, Issue 4 - February, 1949. Men's interest magazine featuring pin-up pictorials with humorous captions. 8.5" x 11.5", 60 pages, B&W. -MATURE CONTENT- Cover price $0.25.

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"What Can You Do About Comic Books" by Harvey Zorbaugh and Mildred Gilman , article on comic books and how they affect children (5 years before "Seudction of the Innocent").

Volume 34, Issue 2 - February, 1949 issue, featuring an article on comic books and how they affect children. This article appeared five years before Seduction of the Innocent and unlike the Wertham book, it is pro-comic book reading. The article was written by Dr. Harvey Zorbaugh, professor of education and director of the Clinic for the Social Adjustment of the Gifted, New York University, and by Mildred Gilman, author and mother. The article discusses Dr. Fredrick J. Wertham's views and includes photos of children reading Rusty Comics, Superman, Iron Vic and Cookie. Cover price $0.05.

In order of appearance: "Billy Hille" art by Gerald Altman; "Joe Catalino, Crime Is a Trap" art by Myron Fass, retitled and reprinted as "Bloody Hands of Vengeance" in Shocking Mystery Cases (1952) #51; "Marty Durkin, Killer at Large!" reprinted in March of Crime (1950 Fox) #7; "Next Door Nemesis, The Man Who Vanished" art by George Peltz, reprinted in Hunted (1950) #2 and All Famous Police Cases (1952-54) #14; "Racketeers' Revenge, The Racket King" reprinted in Crimes by Women (1948) #14 and retitled and reprinted as "Killers' Revenge, The Racket King" in All Famous Police Cases (1952-54) #12; and "The Crime That Wrought It's Own Punishment!!!" reprinted in All Famous Police Cases (1952-54) #12. "Corpus Delicti, Without Teeth!" text story retitled and reprinted as "Corpse, Without Teeth!" in Shocking Mystery Cases (1952) #51. 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

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"The Scarlet Plague" a novelette by Jack London.

Volume 10, Issue 3 - February, 1949. 7" x 9.5". 130 pages. Cover by Lawrence (Sterne Stevens). Text with occasional B&W illustrations. Cover price $0.25.

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Contains comic strip reprints and a text story. In order of appearance: "Buck Rogers" by Philip Francis Nowlan and Rick Yager (as Dick Calkins); "Steve Roper and Wahoo" by Allen Saunders and Elmer Woggon; "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "Dickie Dare" by Mabel Burwick (as Odin); "Bobby Sox" by Martha B. Links; "Scorchy Smith" by Rodlow Willard; "Oaky Doaks" by Ralph Briggs Fuller. "Swimming Through" text story by Frank Hammond. 52 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 11, Issue 2 - February 1949. Cover by Arnold Kohn. Science Fiction and Adventures stories. This issue features "The Magician of Misty Cave" by S. M. Tenneshaw. Softcover Pulp, 7-in x 10-in, 156 Pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.