Comic books February 1944

Cover by Mac Raboy. Stories by Otto Binder and Art Helfant. Art by Mac Raboy, Al Carreno and Art Helfant. Superhero action with Freddy Freeman, who gains the same powers as his hero Captain Marvel, better known these days as Shazam. Freddy Freeman joins a charity golf tournament, but when crooks plan to steal the donations, Captain Marvel Jr. swings the clubs. Freddy Freeman and Captain Marvel Jr. try to find a killer hiding out in a vaudeville theater without alarming the audience. Mr. Hex and Sivana join forces to rob Freddy Freeman and Billy Batson of the magic words that transform them into the Captains Marvel. Pogos Poisoned Fish!; Sam the Sheriff; Captain Marvel, Jr. Tees Off!; Opportunity Knoxx; Mayhem in the Music Hall; Pie From The Sky; Rubbernose Randolph: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star!; The Wrong Changes! 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

The comics incarnation of a beloved radio hero, aviator "Red" Albright uses his inventions, including an early wingsuit, to fight evil as Captain Midnight. Anti-war protesters are secretly Axis agents, in a story billed as "The Most Daring Capt. Midnight Story Ever!" Midnight's dopey sidekick Sergeant Twilight sees students rehearsing for a play, and thinks he's back in the time of Julius Caesar. Axis spies want to sabotage Captain Midnight's latest invention, a plane that's lighter than air. Terrific cover may be the work of Mac Raboy. The Americans Who Forgot; Red Skye: Thunder Sea; Sergeant Twilight Meets Great Caesar's Ghost!; Johnny Blair, in the Air; The Wolf of the Wasps; The Plane That Wouldn't Stay Down. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 15, Issue 9 - February 1944. Features creative stories, poems, rebuses, recipes, activities, crafts, science experiments, and health articles for children. 6-in. x 9-in. 52 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $0.15.

The classic weekly magazine featuring news and fiction. Approximately 10.75-in. x 14-in.; black and white; 68 pages on white paper. Cover price $0.10.

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Agriculture and farming magazine. Includes articles, fiction, and humor. 11" x 14", 112 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.05.

The implied violence in this cover for "Beware of the Tramp!" is about as extreme as you will see on the cover of a Golden Age comic! And an issue that is very hard to come by, as well!

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Norman Maurer, Dick Wood, Bob Wood, Dick Hall, Basil Wolverton, Rudy Palais and Dick Briefer. This early superhero title was one of the comics that made publisher Lev Gleason a major player during the Golden Age. Rhyming reporter Scoop Scuttle is foiled and fooled by the false faces of Stan Dan the Makeup Man, in the final Scoop Scuttle story by comics legend Basil Wolverton. A new phase begins in the saga of The Claw, featuring art by Rudy Palais. The Pirate Prince takes on a corrupt judge who's jailed one of his sailors, in a story with art by Dick Briefer. Daredevil: Meet the Tramp; Sniffer and the Deadly Dozen; Dickie Dean; Scoop Scuttle; The Pirate Prince; Crimebuster: Squeeks Does It Again; The Claw. 60 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Batman and Robin in "Artists in Villainy," Air Wave in "Bandits on the Beam" (art by George Roussos), the Crimson Avenger in "Scoundrels in Society," Slam Bradley in "Shorty Falls in Love," Three-Ring Binks, and Boy Commandos in "Never Say Die" (by Jack Kirby and Klech). Tootsie Roll back cover ad, "Captain Tootsie and the Secret Weapon" by Rod Reed and C.C. Beck. 60 pgs. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 27, 1st Printing - "The Uncomplaining Corpses" by Brett Halliday. Softcover, 5" x 7.5", 128 pages, B&W, text only. Cover price $0.25.

"Jane fished up the skull with a grappling hook." -- from "The Remembering Skull" by Clyde Moorehead.

February 1944. Cover by Modest Stein. Stories include "Death Had Yellow Eyes," a book-length novel by "Kenneth Robeson"; "Guts Come High" by J. Patrick Fleming; "Jungle Crucible" by Stuart Friedman; "Mountain Justice" by Ray Vicker; and "Efficiency, Main Herr" by E.E. Halleran. 5.5-in x 7.75-in.; black and white; 128 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

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Cover art by Alex Schomburg. Attack On the Red Cross starring Black Terror, art by Alex Schomburg; vs. Col. Bosch and Nazis. The Tuxedo starring American Eagle, art by Maurice Gutwirth; vs. The Tuxedo and the Enigma Raiders. Encounter With Mr. Doom starring the Crime Crushers; vs. Mr. Doom [Count Hezky-Duom]. Air Trap For a General starring Sgt. Bill King, art by Maurice Gutwirth; vs. Schmidt and the Japanese. Action In the Aleutians starring Crash Carter, art by Bob Oksner; vs. the Japanese. 60 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Human interest family centric publication that features short fiction stories, recipes and celebrity gossip. 24 pages, 8.5" x 11.25", B&W Newsprint.

Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "Buck Rogers" by Philip Francis Nowlan and Rick Yager (as Dick Calkins); "Invisible Scarlet O'Neil" by Russell Stamm; "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "Dickie Dare" by Milton Caniff; "Jitter" by Arthur B. Poinier; "Oaky Doaks" by Ralph Briggs Fuller; "Connie" by Frank Godwin; "Scorchy Smith" by Noel Sickles; "Roy Powers, Eagle Scout" by Paul Powell; "Olly of the Movies" by Julian Ollendorff; and "Chief Wahoo" by Allen Saunders and Elmer Woggon. "Smoke Proof" text story. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 60 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 6, Issue 1 - February 1944. Cover by Rod Ruth. Science Fiction and Adventures stories. This issue features "A Thought in Time" by Leroy Yerxa, and "Outlaw Queen of Venus" by Wallace West. Softcover Pulp, 7-in x 10-in, 212 Pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Stories and art by Chad Grothkopf, Joe Oriolo and Bill Brady. Funny-animal comics from Fawcett, featuring Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, who has the same powers and power-word as his hero (Shazam!). Hoppy and Millie climb into a picture on the wall and enter Picture Land, where everyone is controlled by the ink-bottle enforcers of a paint-brush tyrant and his court of living art supplies! Monkey detective Sherlock Monk goes to the movie theater and learns why everyone avoids sitting in Seat 13. Sheriff Oscar wonders why Hiram's auctioning his horse for such a cheap price. Plus songs and a coloring page. Hoppy the Marvel Bunny; Sherlock the Monk Defies Superstition; Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear; Willie the Worm and the Midnight Visitor!; Sherlock's Song Page; Uncle Don: Silly Riskers; Billy the Kid and Oscar: Billy the Kid Plays Follow the Leader; Chuck the Duck: Pick Up Your Troubles; Fuzzy Bear on the Bridle Path!; Billy the Kid and Oscar; Willie the Worm; Billy the Kid Color Me Up Page!; Sherlock the Monk Turns Dog Trainer; Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear; Billy the Kid and Oscar: Billy the Kid Can't Sleep; Hoppy the Marvel Bunny. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Gill Fox. "The Girl You Couldn't Trust," pencils by Alex Kotzky, inks by John Cassone; Doll Man (Darrel Dane) vs. Pacardo and Yutz and his gang. Untitled Mickey Finn story, script and art by Lank Leonard. "Enemy That Is Neither Beast Nor Man," pencils by Mort Leav; Rusty Ryan saves two men from a castaway boat, and also a cage with an unknown beast. "The Ghost of the Clover Club" starring Swing Sisson, script and art by Vernon Henkel; A man shot and killed in the Clover Club swears he will return to have his vengeance. "Introducing Perky," script and art by Sid Lazarus. "Submarine Assignment"; Spin Shaw is sent to recover a secret sight from a downed plane. "The Case of the Museum Crooks," art by Tony DiPreta; Blimpy (aka Rufus Rastas Sassafrass O'Brain) vs. Nervous Harry. 60 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 48 Issue #10 - February, 1944. Cover by Henry S. Gillette, Herman Rountree, Arthur Fuller and many more. "Five Shot Adam" by Roland Clark, illustrated by Fuller. Articles and stories about fishing, hunting, arms and ammunition, conservation laws and much more. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/4-in. 92 pages, black and white. Cover price $0.15.

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Cover by Joe Doolin. Edited by Claude Lapham and Jerry Iger. Stories and art by George Tuska, Nina Albright, Karen Karol and Arnold Hicks. A combat-themed anthology from Fiction House that featured early work from many future comics legends (often uncredited) in the Eisner-Iger Shop. Good-girl art aplenty as Senorita Rio investigates a voodoo cult in Haiti; Hooks Devlin discovers that a Nazi agent is dressing in drag to hide out in America; More good-girl art as boxer Kayo Kirby is invited to speak on a radio show. Another upside-down bondage cover (see issue #27). Shark Brodie; Dusty Rhodes; Senorita Rio; Rip Carson; Guerrilla Mother!; Decoy For Doom; Kayo Kirby; Hooks Devlin; Chip Collins. 60 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Alex Schomburg cover. Cover price $0.10.

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Flash stars in "Thousand Dollar Bill," written by Gardner Fox, art by Martin Naydel. Also includes: Ghost Patrol in "Legend of the Lethal Lagoon" with art by Frank Harry; Johnny Thunder in "The Thunderbolt Impersonates Johnny" by John B. Wentworth and Stan Aschmeier; The Whip in "The Light That Never Failed" with art by Homer Fleming; "The Sleeping Beauty" by Ed Wheelan; an ad for the Junior Justice Society; and Hawkman in "Personal Protection from the Hawkman" by Fox and Sheldon Moldoff. Cover art by Everett E. Hibbard. 60 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Illustrated text pieces. Cover price $0.10.

World War II cover by L.B. Cole. In order of appearance: "Magno and Davey", "Captain Courageous", and "Unknown Soldier" art by Louis Ferstadt; and "Lash Lightning". "From Beyond Boot Hill" text story by Clint Douglas. 60 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Vol. 3 #2 - Feb. 1944. Mostly single-panel cartoons and some text jokes. 10 1/4-in. x 13 1/2-in., 40 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Stories and art by Till Goodan and others. Western comics starring beloved singing cowboy Gene Autry. Dell takes over publishing from Fawcett. Answering a call for help from aging Colonel Blake, Gene becomes involved in the power struggle over the vast Mesa Ranch in Arizona. Rustlers Crip and Rocky are determined to steal the ranch for themselves. But Gene finds allies in Mexican police detective Ramon and beautiful Senorita Clara. Plus short biographies of Gene Autry and his horse Champion. The Blue Band; Angel-Face Kirby; Down Mexico Way; A Smart Trick; Famous Bucking Horses: War Paint, High Skip. Final issue of the series; followed by Gene Autry Comics (1946-1959 Dell) #1. 56 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories by Lloyd Randall, Carl Wessler, Ben Solomon, Gordon Sheehan, James Keane and Buck Evans. Art by Ben Solomon, Carl Wessler, Woody Gelman, Gordon Sheehan, Rube Grossman and Ken Hultgren. Funny-animal mayhem from Creston, later an imprint of legendary independent publisher ACG. When the cartoonist falls asleep while working on a Byron Bunny comic book, the characters in the story come to life; A dog soldier and a sailor duck compete for the affections of a cute bird, but it turns out shes already married to a bulldog Marine; The debuts of long-running features Filbert Fox and The Duke and the Dope. Nezzo; The Duke and the Dope; Busybody Bear; Weepy Woodchuck; Filbert Fox; Byron Bunny; 3 Boys an' a Gal; The Cat and the Canary; Peewee the Pup; Patty Plump Buys a Present; Doggie Dave; The Ghost of Terrible Tomcat; Happy Goes Hayseed. 56 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 1, Issue 4 - February, 1944. Cover by Peter Driben. Glamour and pinup magazine. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 68 pages, black and white. Cover price $0.25.

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February 6, 1944. The Grit "Story Section" was originally issued weekly as part of the Grit newspaper. Fiction stories by Doris Hume, Rose Franken (as Franken Meloney), Harley F. Cope, W.H.B. Kent, Katherine Greer, and H. Carson Lee. 8 1/4-in. x 11 1/2-in., 28 pages, black and white text with illustrations.

February 13, 1944. The Grit "Story Section" was originally issued weekly as part of the Grit newspaper. "Range Rider" by W.H.B. Kent begins. Other fiction stories by Helen R. Woodward, Jack London Berkebile, Rose Franken (as Franken Meloney), Allen F. Herdman, Sabella Toemmes, and Hester Hawkes. 8 1/4-in. x 11 1/2-in., 28 pages, black and white text with illustrations.

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February 20, 1944. The Grit "Story Section" was originally issued weekly as part of the Grit newspaper. Fiction stories by W.H.B. Kent, Edward Price, Linnie Ethel Biles, Rose Franken (as Franken Meloney), Ray Humphreys, and Ruth Ayers. 8 1/4-in. x 11 1/2-in., 28 pages, black and white text with illustrations.