Comic books August 1972

B&W Magazine. Front cover art by Dennis Ellefson, Jake Thompson, and John Bruno. Stories and art by Nelson Dewey, Pete Millar, Robert Williams, Jerry Barnett, Jim Grube, Jim Willoughby, Roman Arambula, and Worm. Centerfold poster by Erroll McCarthy. 50 pages, black and white. Cover price $0.50.

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Number/month on cover: none. Comic book adventures with the Warner Bros. cartoon character Daffy Duck. Cover title says "Daffy Duck and the Road Runner." Issue features "Run-Amuck Duck," "Cwazy Caddy," and an untitled story. Issue also has Tweety and Sylvester in "Pet Getter" and a one-page text story "Beau Bumble." Story and art credits: unknown. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.15.

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Whitman edition. Daffy instantly regrets coming between the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote when he accidentally interrupts their eternal chase. 36 pages. Cover price $0.15 Cover price $0.15.

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Cover pencils by Gil Kane, inks by Tom Palmer and Frank Giacoia. The Sinister Secret of Project Four!, script by Gerry Conway, pencils by Gene Colan, inks by Tom Palmer; The Black Widow finally fills DD in on the mysterious secrets of Project Four and her history with Danny French; Both Daredevil and the Widow begin to experience intense attacks of debilitating fear. 36 pgs. Cover price $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

National Diamond Sales Advertisement Insert Variant. More of the Black Widow's origin is revealed in "The Sinister Secret of Project Four!" Script by Gerry Conway, pencils by Gene Colan, inks by Tom Palmer. Gil Kane/Frank Giacoia cover. Cover price $0.20.

UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 6p cover price. Cover pencils by Gil Kane, inks by Tom Palmer and Frank Giacoia. The Sinister Secret of Project Four!, script by Gerry Conway, pencils by Gene Colan, inks by Tom Palmer; The Black Widow finally fills DD in on the mysterious secrets of Project Four and her history with Danny French; Both Daredevil and the Widow begin to experience intense attacks of debilitating fear. 36 pgs.

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Innocent eyes gaze at Barnabas...and the path to evil blazes open! "The Night Children Pt. 1: Masks of Innocence" and "Pt. 2: The Pursuit of Quentin" are illustrated by Joe Certa. Cover painting by George Wilson. Cover price $0.15.

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Whitman edition. Innocent eyes gaze at Barnabas...and the path to evil blazes open! "The Night Children Pt. 1: Masks of Innocence" and "Pt. 2: The Pursuit of Quentin" are illustrated by Joe Certa. Cover painting by George Wilson. Cover price $0.15.

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Art by Su Gumen and others. 1970s teen heartthrob David Cassidy of The Partridge Family gets his own spin-off series, geared toward his legions of fans. While filming a gangster movie set in the 1930s, David gets mixed up with real gangsters. David encounters modern-day pirates on the high seas. Plus classic vintage ads for the Partridge Family Fan Club and "David's Private Photo Album." They Went That-Away!; Faith in the Desert; Crazy Cars; David and the Pirates. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.20.

Volume 1, Issue 9 - August, 1972. 8" x 10.5", 82 pages, B&W/Color. -MATURE READERS- Cover price $1.00.

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Hulk, Dr. Strange, and Sub-Mariner begin. See Marvel Feature for first Defenders. Also see Sub-Mariner # 34 & 35. Cover pencils by Sal Buscema, inks by Jim Mooney. I Slay By The Stars!, script by Steve Englehart, pencils by Sal Buscema, inks by Frank Giacoia; Necrodamus attempts to sacrifice Namor to The Nameless One; Omegatron starts its countdown again. 36 pgs. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

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Witness the fall of Camelot, and the rise of the Demon. Features the origin of Etrigan the Demon and the villainy of Morgaine Le Fey. "Unleash the One who Waits!" Story and art by Jack Kirby. Note: First appearance of Etrigan, the Demon. Cover price $0.20.

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Cover by Mike Kaluta. "Killer's Roulette!," script and art by Frank Robbins; Batman sets out to uncover the secret behind the suicides of three wealthy compulsive gamblers. "Trail of the Fadeaway Footprints!," script by Len Wein, art by Dick Giordano; a mystery starring Elongated Man and Sue Dibny. 36 pgs., full color. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

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Cover art by Warren Kremer. "The Ball!"; The Ball is an extremely fat bank robber who is captured by Hot Stuff. "Eager Demo"; Hot Stuff's foolish cousin keeps harassing the wrong people. "Hatland," art by Warren Kremer; Hot Stuff needs a top hat to be the best man at his friend Bugsy's wedding so he goes to Hatland, where he gets involved in a revolution. "Farm Alarm," art by Howie Post; Two farmers are shocked to realize that Hot Stuff is a real devil and not a child in a costume. "The Great Guide," art by Warren Kremer; Stumbo agrees to show some royal sightseers the sights around Tinytown. "Who Needs a Fork?", art by Howie Post; Hot Stuff has agreed to escort Princess Charma across Danger-Land, but he forgot to bring his fork to protect them against monsters and other dangers. "The Invention People" text story. "The Big Tryout!", art by Warren Kremer; Stumbo wants to be in a movie, but when aliens invade Tinytown he thinks it's part of the production. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.25.

*18+ Mature Readers Only* 2nd Printing. Tyler Lantzky and Dan Molidor. Appearances by Baldwin Bundy, Donald Dingbat, & Fighting Father Bob; 32 pages; slick cover; b&w; mature; 6 3/4-in. x 9 7/8-in. *18+ Mature Readers Only* Cover price $0.50.

UK Series. Fully illustrated stories and activities featuring Disney's vast cast of characters. 10.25-in x 13-in, 20 Pages, Full Color.

UK Series. Fully illustrated stories and activities featuring Disney's vast cast of characters. 10.25-in x 13-in, 20 Pages, Full Color.

UK Series. Fully illustrated stories and activities featuring Disney's vast cast of characters. 10.25-in x 13-in, 20 Pages, Full Color.

UK Series. Fully illustrated stories and activities featuring Disney's vast cast of characters. 10.25-in x 13-in, 20 Pages, Full Color.

French publication reprinting comics from various Marvel properties. Digest size, 5" x 7", 164 pages, B&W.

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Stories in this issue include: Warped by Kevin Pagan and Jerry Grandenetti; West Coast Turnaround by John Wooley and Tom Sutton; Heir Pollution by John Wooley and Jose Bea; The Caterpillars by Fred Ott and Luis Garcia; Derelict by John Thraxis and Paul Neary; The Safest Way by Steve Skeates and Jose Gual; and Dax the Warrior by Esteban Maroto. Cover art by Manuel Sanjulian. Cover price $0.75.

ERB-dom was one of the best fanzines focusing on Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs. Issue #61 includes the following: New Pellucidar Story book review, list of ERB books published by Hulbert Burroughs, Russ Manning Relinquishes Tarzan Strip, Tarzan of Outer Space by Karl Edward Wagner, and an ERB letter. Cover art by Dave Cockrum. Back cover by Jim Garrison. 20 pgs. Aug, 1972. Edited and published by Camille Cazedessus.

Vintage men's interest magazine featuring articles, essays, poetry, adult humor comics, and tasteful nude pin-up pictorials. 8.5" x 11", 72 pages, B&W/Color. -MATURE READERS- Cover price $0.75.

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Archie decides to quit school and go to work; the Archies get a bad review and a lesson about the difference between good music and pop music; Archie and friends stage a sit-in when Mr. Lodge threatens to move his business out of town. Art by Samm Schwartz and Al Hartley, plus Lil Jinx by Joe Edwards. 48 pages. Cover price $0.25. Cover price $0.25.

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Featuring: 5 page story "I Love My Boss!"; 1 page text article Want to Get Him Back?; 12 page story "Forbidden Love"; 1 page To You -- From Carol Andrews letters page; 1 page The Woman I Want to Be winning entry by Eve Davidson; 7 page story "Last Fling!" drawn by Win Mortimer (?) and Vince Colletta. Cover by Art Saaf and Vince Colletta. Cover price $0.20.

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August, 1972. 5.5-in. x 7.75-in.; black and white; 144 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.60.

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The Monster's Secret!" Part 2 of 2. Script by Stan Lee. Pencils by John Buscema. Inks by Joe Sinnott. Cover by John Buscema and Joe Sinnott. While Ben and Johnny are hunting the Monster from the Lost Lagoon, the Invisible Girl fights to stay alive in an underground cave rapidly filling with water! But thankfully, Sue has an unlikely savior...the monster himself! Why is the alien monster rescuing the Invisible Girl? Reed deduces the creature's motives and devises a happy ending for everyone involved! (Note: This issue concludes Stan Lee's 10-year run (that began with issue number one) as the primary writer for the Fantastic Four title.) 32 pages Cover price $0.20.

Mark Jewelers Advertisement Insert Variant. The Monster's Secret!" Part 2 of 2. Script by Stan Lee. Pencils by John Buscema. Inks by Joe Sinnott. Cover by John Buscema and Joe Sinnott. While Ben and Johnny are hunting the Monster from the Lost Lagoon, the Invisible Girl fights to stay alive in an underground cave rapidly filling with water! But thankfully, Sue has an unlikely savior...the monster himself! Why is the alien monster rescuing the Invisible Girl? Reed deduces the creature's motives and devises a happy ending for everyone involved! (Note: This issue concludes Stan Lee's 10-year run (that began with issue number one) as the primary writer for the Fantastic Four title.) 32 pages Cover price $0.20.

UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 6p cover price. The Monster's Secret!" Part 2 of 2. Script by Stan Lee. Pencils by John Buscema. Inks by Joe Sinnott. Cover by John Buscema and Joe Sinnott. While Ben and Johnny are hunting the Monster from the Lost Lagoon, the Invisible Girl fights to stay alive in an underground cave rapidly filling with water! But thankfully, Sue has an unlikely savior...the monster himself! Why is the alien monster rescuing the Invisible Girl? Reed deduces the creature's motives and devises a happy ending for everyone involved! (Note: This issue concludes Stan Lee's 10-year run (that began with issue number one) as the primary writer for the Fantastic Four title.) 32 pages

Volume 25 - Number 8, August 1972. Pulp magazine devoted to exploring the paranormal. Articles and Stories include The Little Gold Dozer, UFO's and the Air Force, Thy They Live to be 100, Arthur Ford and the Voodoo Priest and Strange Salute to an Old Soldier! Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 7 1/2-in., 130 page, Text (with B&W Illustrations and Photos). Cover price $0.50.

All reprints: Cover pencils by Gil Kane, inks by Frank Giacoia. "I Entered the Dimension of Doom!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A teenager uncovers a plot of two-dimensional beings to invade Earth by posing as a construction crew to dig a hole in the street that acts as a passageway between dimensions and thwarts their designs. "The Greatest Magician of All," script by Mimi Gold, art by Bill Everett; An old theater watchman tells the story of The Great Marko, a magician who searched for the greatest magic trick of all only to have it stolen by his rival. "Dead Man's Escape!", art by Joe Maneely; A convict from an island prison tries to escape by being dumped in the bay inside of a corpse bag; Instead of dumping him in the bay, a large well has been dug which they are now using to dispose of bodies, inhabited by a large octopus. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.20.

National Diamond Sales Advertisement Insert Variant. New story: "The Greatest Magician of All." Script by Mimi Gold, art by Bill Everett. Reprints: "I Entered the Dimension of Doom!" with pencils by Jack Kirby; and "Dead Man's Escape!" with art by Joe Maneely. New Gil Kane cover (pencils). Cover price $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

A fanzine published by Joyce & Arnie Katz. Illustrated by Ross Chamberlain; 8 1/2-in. x 11-in; side-stapled; b&w; 4 pages.

Issue 3 - August 28, 1972. A fanzine published by Joyce & Arnie Katz. Illustrated by Ross Chamberlain; 8 1/2-in. x 11-in; side-stapled; b&w; 4 pages.

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Cover by Don Perlin. Stories and art by Don Perlin, Bill Molno, Fred Himes, Charles Nicholas and Vince Alascia. Charlton's long-running series focused on the military exploits of the US Marines throughout the 20th century. A medic who has sworn not to kill faces a moral choice when the blinded soldier he is tending is surrounded by enemy forces, in a story with art (and cover) by future Marvel legend Don Perlin. Shot down over Axis-occupied Philippines, Marine Gus must escape, but will the natives of Luzon help him, or turn him in? In Vietnam, Shotgun and Chicken are ambushed by enemy soldiers, upon which Chicken promptly faints. Shotgun Harker and the Chicken: The Voice of the Enemy; One Crummy Marine!; Sam Spolo: Catch the Courier; Kamikaze; I Cannot Kill! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.20.

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Fanzine published by Leonard Maltin dedicated to films from the Golden Age of Hollywood. 5.5" x 8.5", 48 pages, B&W Cover price $1.00.

Mark Jewelers Advertisement Insert Variant. Ira West's computer experiments inadvertently turn Flash into five Flashes in "The Flash Time Fives is Fatal." Script by Len Wein, pencils by Irv Novick, inks by Frank McLaughlin. Green Lantern/Green Arrow backup stories begin. Green Arrow accidentally kills a bad guy in "The Killing of an Archer." Script by Denny O'Neil, pencils by Neal Adams, inks by Dick Giordano. Letter to the editor from comics writer Bob Rozakis. Novick cover. Cover price $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

Mark Jewelers Advertisement Insert Variant. Cover art by Dick Giordano. The Heart That Attacked The World!, script by Cary Bates, pencils by Irv Novick, inks by Frank McLaughlin and Dick Giordano; Weather Wizard and Sinestro team up against Flash and Green Lantern. Ad for The House of Secrets #109. Pirates of the Caribbean MPC model kit ad. Prez ad. 36 pgs. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

Cover by Ray Dirgo. Stories by Gwen Krause and unknown. Art by Ray Dirgo and unknown. Featuring three Flintstones tales by Gwen Krause and Ray Dirgo: "Hot Stuff"; "The Knit Wits!"; and "The Cheesescape!" Plus: "An Important Client"; 1-pager "Cleaned Out" with art by Ray Dirgo; Huckleberry Hound 1-pagers "Grounded!" and "Who Dat?"; Gogo the Ghost text story "3 Tasks for Love"; and Dani 1-pager "The Big Prize" by Gwen Krause and Ray Dirgo. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.20.

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Stories and art by Don Sherwood, Art Cappello, Hugo Tombolan, Charles Nicholas and Vince Alascia. The 1970s brought relationship complexities to romance comics, along with some unique fashion and design choices. Barbara falls for Greg, ignoring warnings that she's too young, and that he doesn't really love her. Lisa falls for Doug while he's shooting a television pilot, but is he just using her to promote his acting career? Plus a pin-up of Partridge Family star David Cassidy. Rediscovered Love!; Love Who Forever?; Let Love Come First. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.20.

With this issue, the comic changes to an anthology type format featuring suspenseful and spooky stories, all part of the world of the Dark Mansion, a world of the unknown, the suspenseful, and the strange. This issue features "The Psychic-Blood-Hound," (Art by Jack Kirby), a tale of man who by simple contact can get visual flashes of events that involve the subject, and "Diary of a Dead Woman," (Script by Mike Friedrich & art by Jose Delbo), in which a woman who lives a miserable existence in her home finds solace with a mysterious man in a mansion. Issue also has "Reincarnation: Fact or Fancy? The Strange Story of Devi" text feature. Cover price changes to 20 cents. Cover price $0.20.

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Magazine of true stories of the American Frontier. Features illustrations and photos of the old west. B&W text. Color cover. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in. 76 pages. Cover price $0.50.