Comic books July 1951

Cover by Reed Crandall & Les Zakarin. Stories by Joe Millard, Bill Woolfolk and unknown. Art by Chuck Winter, Sid Greene, Harry Anderson, Reed Crandall & Les Zakarin and unknown. Corsair Queen in "The Castle of Greed!" Plus: Captain Eric Falcon spots a ship ablaze and goes to her aid, only to discover a band of plunders who have looted the ship and set it ablaze in "The Code of Treachery!" Also: Adam Peril in "The Signet of the King"! And: The island of Illyria is captured by Captain Foxx in the Captain Daring story "Alliance of Evil"! Plus: The Black Roger succeeds in rescuing a lovely Princess in "The Lady in the Iron Mask"! Also: 2-page article "William Fly, The Inefficient Buccaneer"! 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by C.C. Beck. Stories by Otto Binder and Al Liederman. Art by C.C. Beck, Pete Costanza and Al Liederman. Captain Marvel (Billy Batson) stars in "The Atomic Fire" by Otto Binder, C.C. Beck and Pete Costanza, and "The Uranium Rush" by Otto Binder and Pete Costanza. Plus: Captain Kid in "Hold It" by Al Liederman. And: Jon Jarl in the 2-page text story "Hollow World" by Otto Binder (as Eando Binder). 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Kurt Schaffenberger. Stories by Bill Woolfolk and Howard Boughner. Art by 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. The world seems to be at peace with the suicide of Sivana Jr., until he returns as a "ghost" intent on destroying the city. A clothing salesman tries to swindle boxer Kanvasback, but he's smarter than he looks. A strange explosion sends Captain Marvel Jr. into the far future year of 4 Million AD, and he must figure out how to get the others with him back to the 20th century. The Ghost of Sivana, Jr.; Calculated Risk; Kanvasback: Clothing Clucks; The Tunnel to the Future; Judge Smudge. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Australian Edition reprint of Captain Marvel Jr. (1942) #105; Cover originally featured on Captain Marvel Jr. (1942) #100. Features the stories Captain Marvel Jr. Battles the Space Master, Captain Marvel Jr. and the Invisible Guest, and Captain Marvel and the History Hoax! 11 3/4-in. x 8 3/4-in., 16 pages. B&W

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Volume 23, Issue 1 - June 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 $0.15.

Issue 49 - Australian Edition. Circa early to mid 1950's. Reprints "The Scottish Chiefs" 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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The Sea Wolf, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. Comic book adaptation of the classic Jack London story about Humphrey Van Weyden and Maud Brewster's perils aboard a ship captained by the cruel and vicious Wolf Larsen. Issue also has a text biography of London and text stories on "Pioneers of Science," "Famous Operas," and "Dog Heroes." (HRN 85, with 7/51 date). Cover price $0.15.

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The Sea Wolf, Painted Cover. Comic book adaptation of the classic Jack London story about Humphrey Van Weyden and Maud Brewster's perils aboard a ship captained by the cruel and vicious Wolf Larsen. Issue also has a text biography of London and text stories on "Pioneers of Science," "Famous Operas," and "Dog Heroes." (HRN 132). Cover price $0.15.

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The Sea Wolf, Painted Cover. Comic book adaptation of the classic Jack London story about Humphrey Van Weyden and Maud Brewster's perils aboard a ship captained by the cruel and vicious Wolf Larsen. Issue also has a text biography of London and text stories on "Pioneers of Science," "Famous Operas," and "Dog Heroes." (HRN 141). Cover price $0.15.

[The Fox meets the Sandman] starring Fox And Crow; When the Fox can't sleep, the Crow pretends to be Morpheus, the Sandman. The Radio Business, art by Otto Feuer; The Frog tries to sell the Dodo a broken radio. Jimmie Mouse is Coming Home starring Blabber Mouse, art by Rube Grossman. Dumb Lessons starring Bo Bunny, script and art by Sheldon Mayer. Looking for Gold starring J Rufus Lion, script and art by Howie Post. New Playroom starring Doodles Duck, script and art by Sheldon Mayer. Treasure Guards starring Custer Cat and Cheesy Mouse, art by Rube Grossman. Fishing Trip starring Nutsy Squirrel, art by Rube Grossman. Mine's Nicer starring Dizzy Dog, script and art by Sheldon Mayer. Know Your Country public service announcement starring Superboy, script by Jack Schiff, art by Win Mortimer. 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 goes to the Girls' Summer Camp. Nancy and Sluggo take a vacation on a farm. The kids learn the circus will be in town. Nancy; Stamp Tips. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories by Dan Gordon and others. Art by Dan Gordon and King Ward. Teen hijinks featuring Cookie and his pals, created by legendary animator Dan Gordon. Cookie and Jitterbuck join an amateur dogsled race at the winter carnival; Starlet O'Hara knocks over a man, then later learns hes a famous movie producer; Ricky inadvertently starts a trend when he shows up to school in mismatched socks. Cookie; Ricky; Jitterbuck: One Guy's Gal!; Gyp and Flip; Starlet O'Hara in Hollywood; Cookie: Cookie Meets a Suspicious Character! 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Keats E. Petree cover. In order of appearance: "The Texas Rangers" art by Mario DeMarco; "The Action Packed Story of Wild Bill Hickok"; "Denver Muss and Bushey Barns, The Mad Inventor", "Rod Kline, United States Marshal", "Li'l Hootie", "Legends of Paul Bunyan", and "Pecos Bill, Goril'la Mah Dreams" art by Clinton Harmon; and "Annie Oakley, Queen of the Sharpshooters" reprinted in Cowboy Western Comics (1948) #58. "Revenge Destroys Itself!" text story by Harold Gluck.36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Photo Cover of Bill Williams. Stories by Bill Woolfolk, Joe Millard and unknown. Art by Paul Gustavson, Charles Quinlan, Harry Anderson, Charles Sultan and unknown. A stagecoach has been ambushed and driver and passengers killed, but now the same coach and passengers appear as a white phantom to scare the man behind the robbery in the Arizona Raines story "The Phantom Stagecoach"! Plus: Arizona Raines in "Free Land!"; the Sheldon brothers shoot the sheriff and reckon to take over the town and start running it their own way in the Two-Gun Lil story "Six Guns from the Skye!"; the bank is robbed and the banker shot; he is unconscious and it will take days before he can identify the robbers in the Bob Allen, Frontier Marshal story "Gun-Slinger's Gratitude"; the Whip meets a girl masked as another Whip, and who is out to get back gold stolen by Berger in "The Counterfeit Whip!"; and 2-page text story "Cactus Pete's Gold"! 48 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Robert Q. Sale, Al McWilliams, Dick Rockwell, 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. Police investigate what two hoods were doing on a high scaffolding when they fell to their deaths. A crook gaslights an accountant into becoming his patsy, but it backfires when the number-cruncher shows up with a bomb. A comic that dares the reader to figure out the mystery of a murdered detective at a charity bazaar, in a whodunit with multiple clues and an upside-down panel for the answer. The Scaffold; The White Rose; The Blackout Murder; Box 444; The Death of the Private Eye. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Painted cover by Bob Fujitani. Stories and art by Bob Fujitani, Fred Guardineer, Al McWilliams, 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. Tough private eye Chip Gardner investigates a deadly woman in red, featuring another action-packed painted cover by Bob Fujitani and a story possibly written by Walter Gibson, creator of The Shadow. A woman with gambling debts plots to use gas to murder her father, who is smell-blind, in another off-the-wall story with an ironic twist ending. A story that dares the reader to figure out who killed a treasure-hunting sea captain aboard his ship. Also featuring a vintage ad for "Lev Gleason Comics picture trading cards." Chip Gardner: The Case of the Jittery Patient; The Smell of Death; Carney Couldn't Squeal!; Mission: Murder!; Uncle Sam Has a Green Thumb; Who Dunnit?: Who Killed Rex Gotha? 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Myron Fass cover. Sally the Sleuth in "Murder Wears a Mask" (art by Wally Wood), Ray Hale in "A Noose for News" (art by Ken Battefield), Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective in "Bellyboard Bump-Off!" (script by Robert Leslie Bellem), Gail Ford, Girl Friday in "The Case of the Hidden Murder" (art by Pierre Charpentier. Two page text story, "Be Careful, Killer!" by Ric Hasse. Cover price $0.10.

36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Norman Maurer, Alden McWilliams, C. H. Moore and William Overgard. This early superhero title was one of the comics that made publisher Lev Gleason a major player during the Golden Age. Pee Wee tires of being the smallest, and begins acting out to prove he's not just a kid. Ace pilot "Hot Rock" Flanagan and war correspondent Nina try to find out the secret behind increased enemy activity at the border. The Little Wise Guys spend the night in a creepy old mansion owned by a deranged killer. Little Wise Guys Meet "Slugger" Sloane; Air Devils Starring "Hot Rock" Flanagan, Part 7; Little Wise Guys: Skeletons in the Closet; Crimebuster: The Surprised Trespasser. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover pencils by Joe Orlando, inks by Wally Wood. "The Curse of the Sea Witch," art by Wally Wood; Shipping magnate Caleb Dodge builds a yacht out of the timber of the "Sea Witch", a cursed sailing vessel. Dogde's ancestor committed murder there and the curse sails now with Dodge Junior. "The Corpse's Embrace!", art by Lou Cameron; Wealthy composer Leopold Zadek is killed by his young and greedy wife, Vania. When the police want to take her fingerprints, Vania hides in the coffin, contracting a deadly desease and the corpse's wrath. "Horror Of The Ghostly Recluse" text story. "The Ghoul Of Death," pencils by Edward Goldfarb, inks by Bob Baer; Surgeon Barton Hastings removes part of a murderer's brain to free him from his evil self; The operation is a success, but the evil spirit takes form in another body and commits new crimes. "The Nameless Terror Of Twin Dunes"; The peaceful town of Twin Dunes is haunted by a vampire scare. Professor Conlan figures out who's behind this and puts an end to the prowling beast. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Graham Place. Stories by Henry Boltinoff and unknown. Art by Graham Place, Henry Boltinoff and unknown. Radio's famous coast-to-coast favorite! In this issue: Four untitled A Date with Judy stories with art by Graham Place. Plus: A Date with Judy 2-page text story "The Eyes Have It!"; untitled Randolph story; two untitled Peg half-pagers by Henry Boltinoff; untitled Betty 1-pager by Boltinoff; and two untitled Jerry the Jitterbug 1-pagers by Boltinoff. Plus: Superboy says "Know Your Country!" in a 1-page public service announcement by Jack Schiff and Win Mortimer. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Don Perlin and Bernie Krigstein. Western tales both true and fictional, which, like Hillman's crime comics, are often told from the outlaw's point of view. Prospector Wo Sung plots a fitting revenge against the man who stole his mine and left him for dead, in a story with early art by EC legend Bernie Krigstein that features a rare (for the time) positive portrayal of a Chinese character. The story of Western legend Judge Roy Bean, the saloon-keeper and Justice of the Peace who called himself "The Law West of the Pecos." Folk hero Davy Crockett was a real-life adventurer who served in Congress, fought at the Alamo, and was later proclaimed "King of the Wild Frontier." Black Silver Heart; The Biggest Bean in Texas; Coyote Stallion; Coonskin Davey Crockett; Gun Belt Birthday; No Gold Today; The Cold Deck Kid; Best Shoulders in the Country. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Wrap-around cover. Issue features Bugs Bunny in "The Cat People" and in an untitled story, Porky Pig in "The Great Exasperations," Sylvester, Henery Hawk, Mary Jane & Sniffles, Elmer Fudd, Little Pancho Vanilla, Daffy Duck & Henery Hawk in untitled stories, a four-page text story "Too Much Country," and one- and two-page puzzlers and games. Entire issue is comic and puzzlers, no ads in book. Story and art credits: unknown. 116 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.25.

No # on cover, yellow cover, Disney characters in marching band. #2, 1951, 25c. Giant size comic featuring Donald Duck in "Captures the Range Rustlers," Li'l Bad Wolf in "The Pygmy Pigs," Mickey Mouse in "Ram's Head Ramblers," and Chip ?N' Dale, the Ugly Duckling, Little Hiawatha, Grandma Duck, Guz & Jaq in untitled stories. Comic also has one-page gag strips and games and puzzles. Wraparound cover. Story and art credits: unknown. 112 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.25.

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What a great Win Mortimer Batman cover and two for the price of one!

Cover by Win Mortimer. Stories by unknown. Art by Bob Kane, Lew Sayre Schwartz, Charles Paris, Bruno Premiani, Frank Bolle and Dan Barry. With his Van Cleer alias lost to him, Killer Moth decides to steal the identity of Bruce Wayne (whom he imprisons in a vault), then hires a plastic surgeon to alter his face into an exact double of Wayne's, and fools Dick Grayson into believing he is Wayne and Dick doesn't realize at first. The Moth goes out as Batman, enhancing his criminal reputation by making it appear that Batman fears the Moth. Wayne escapes in time to see Killer Moth shot down by one of his own gang, thinking he's been double-crossed. Moth's face is wrecked by the bullets, and the resultant cranial injury causes amnesia in "Batman's Double!" with art by Bob Kane, Lew Sayre Schwartz and Charles Paris. Plus: Pow-Wow Smith, Indian Lawman in "Pow-Wow Smith -- Chief of Police!" with art by Bruno Premiani; Robotman in "The Terrible Toys of Dr. Morro!" with art by Frank Bolle; and Impossible -- But True! tale "The Man with the Golden Touch!" (featuring Roy Raymond) with art by Dan Barry. Also: Jerry the Jitterbug 1-pager by Henry Boltinoff; Quick Quiz activity page by H.T. Elmo; Jerry the Jitterbug 2-pager by Boltinoff; 2-page text piece "Murder Is a Fine Art" by R.E. Gurvitz; Varsity Vic half-pager by Boltinoff; and Casey the Cop 1-pager by Boltinoff. 48 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

"Stay Away from My Girl!" Cover price $0.25.

Mexican series. Stories and art by Chester Gould. 36 pages, full color, 7.25" x 10.5", Spanish language.

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Cover art by Joe Simon (as Chester Gould). "Murder by Mail," script and art by Chester Gould; Diet Smith rewards B. O. Plenty by buying a small truck farm; Nilon and Hoze and her chauffeur plot to steal money from her aunt using B. O. as a foil. "Identity Exposed," script and art by Chester Gould; Widow Hoze laughs when she realizes B. O. Plenty is not her mail-order groom; The real groom dies at the hands of Nilon's friend Rod. Untitled story, script and art by Chester Gould; Rod and Nilon bury Mortimer's body in a road bed; B. O. and Gravel Gertie get better acquainted. Dick Tracy Comics Monthly house ad. Untitled one-page story; Sparkle Plenty devises to protect her goldfish from her cat. "How Well Do You Know the Law?" Calling All Sleuths activity page; Questions about Junks, Dollar Bills, Bobbies, Gunsel, Bluebeard. "Special Agent of the F. B. I." text story. Dagwood Comics house ad. Wheaties ad featuring promo for 8 Walt Disney Comic Books. "Model for Murder" text story. Dick Tracy Minit Mystery; Dick and Pat solve the murder of a banker. Ad: "Now! Get Genuine Walt Disney Masks on Wheaties Boxes!" 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 60, Issue 4 - July, 1951, 6.5" x 9", 114 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

During the 1940s, military hero Don Winslow was the star of a comic strip, a movie serial and a popular radio show in addition to this Fawcett comic. In a three-part story, the US Navy's latest base on the Pacific island of Suaki is attacked, but Don and Red's investigation reveals the attack came from someone on the base. By the time they realize the rebel leader Santos is behind the attack, Don and Red have been thrown to the hungry sharks. Soon they find themselves at the center of a full-on armed skirmish. Bell Bottom Bill; The Attack on Suaki, Chapter One: Death on the Wing; Warriors of the Sea: Torpedo Passage; The Attack on Suaki, Chapter Two: Perilous Journey; Shipwreck and Seaweed: Hounded; The Attack on Suaki, Chapter Three: Trails End!; Tugboat Tucker. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Vol. 2 #13 - July 6, 1951. Contents include Dan Dare, P.C. 49, Riders on the Range, Eagle cutaway centerfold, Legend of the Lincoln Imp, Harris Tweed Extra Special Agent, Patrick, Fighter for Truth. Plus text stories and articles. 10 1/2-in. x 14 1/2-in., 14 pages, B&W and full color.

Vol. 2 #14 - July 13, 1951. Contents include Dan Dare, P.C. 49, Riders on the Range, Eagle cutaway centerfold, Legend of the Lincoln Imp, Harris Tweed Extra Special Agent, Patrick, Fighter for Truth. Plus text stories and articles. 10 1/2-in. x 14 1/2-in., 14 pages, B&W and full color.

Vol. 2 #15 - July 20, 1951. Contents include Dan Dare, P.C. 49, Riders on the Range, Eagle cutaway centerfold, Legend of the Lincoln Imp, Harris Tweed Extra Special Agent, Patrick, Fighter for Truth. Plus text stories and articles. 10 1/2-in. x 14 1/2-in., 14 pages, B&W and full color.

Vol. 2 #16 - July 27, 1951. Contents include Dan Dare, P.C. 49, Riders on the Range, Eagle cutaway centerfold, Legend of the Lincoln Imp, Harris Tweed Extra Special Agent, Patrick, Fighter for Truth. Plus text stories and articles. 10 1/2-in. x 14 1/2-in., 14 pages, B&W and full color.