Comic books January 1947

Volume 18, Issue 8 - January 1947. 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.

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1st Printing, Classics Comics. Kiefer cover, contains Hound of the Baskervilles & A Study in Scarlet, 68 pgs. (HRN 33, 1/47). Cover price $0.10.

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Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 4th Printing, Line Drawing Cover. 15 cent price, 4A has Kiefers name on cover. (HRN 89). Cover price $0.15.

Cover art by Everett E. Hibbard. The Menace of the Rebel Manlings, script by Joyce Murchison, art by Harry G. Peter; Wonder Woman and Octavis are taken prisoner aboard a submarine controlled by Manilus, a former lab assistant who was exposed to Vitamin Z gas, which enlarged his brain; He has taken over Atlantis and now plans to conquer the world. Mutt and Jeff strips by Al Smith (signed as Bud Fisher). The Galloping Greenbacks starring The Flash, art by Everett E. Hibbard. Foney Fairy Tales, script and art by Ed Wheelan. Detour--Just a Story, script and art by Howard Purcell. Seek and Hide, or, The Airmail Trail starring Hop Harrigan, script and art by Jon L. Blummer. The Meaning of 'D' starring Green Lantern, art by Paul Reinman. 76 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.15.

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Volume 2, Issue 11 - January, 1947. Magic Periodical put out by Walter B. Gibson with help from Harry Houdini's brother, Hardeen that showcases the talent of magicians as well as teaching tricks to readers. 8.5" x 11", 48 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.50.

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Stories by E. J. Bellin and others. Art by Joe Kubert, E. Balter, Howard Larsen, Jon Small (credited as and Jack Ross), and Gus Schrotter. Gunfights, outlaws and frontier justice in the Old West. Clint Cortland, The Texas Ranger, goes "undercover" in a Comanche tribe; How Alabam became the sheriff of Broken Creek; The Fighting Parson must learn to use a gun when fate sets him against the Piper Brothers. The White Comanche!; The Arctic Assassin!; Split-Second Stand In!; Throwing the Bull!; The Jealous Lover!; Kit West: Spitting Snake's Revenge!!; Poisoned Pipers!! 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Vol. 8, No. 1. January 1947. 7" x 9.5". 98 pages. Text with occasional B&W illustrations. Cover price $0.15.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Norman Maurer, Bob Wood, Chic Stone, Fred Guardineer, Virginia Hubbell, Dan Barry and Carl Hubbell. This early superhero title was one of the comics that made publisher Lev Gleason a major player during the Golden Age. Daredevil and the Little Wise Guys star in a topical story of alcoholism, child neglect and murder (that also features Daredevil acting as a defense lawyer in court, in full costume), with early art by Flash Gordon's Dan Barry. Daredevil and the Little Wise Guys encounter a juvenile delinquent (then a new concept) while at summer camp. Teen inventor Dickie Dean heads out West and encounters outlaws who are trying to swindle a rancher out of his uranium-rich land. Also featuring an illustrated profile of artist Charles Biro, and an early strip by future Marvel legend Chic Stone. Daredevil and the Little Wise Guys; Daredevil: The American Crime!; Table Tennis; Sniffer: Inheritance Trouble; We'll Never Forget; Inside Dope; Crimebuster: Extra Evidence; Dickie Dean. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Norman Maurer, Virginia Hubbell and Carl Hubbell. This early superhero title was one of the comics that made publisher Lev Gleason a major player during the Golden Age. At a fancy-dress ball, Scarecrow runs afoul of a spoiled rich bully. Daredevil goes after a crook who targets poor people. Sniffer becomes the latest victim of the famous "falling barrel of bricks" urban legend. Daredevil and the Little Wise Guys; Daredevil; Famous Eccentrics; Crimebuster: A Touch Too Much; Sniffer: What Goes Up Must Come Down! 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Win Mortimer. Stories by Bill Finger and unknown. Art by Dick Sprang, Gene McDonald, John Daly, Lee Harris, Curt Swan and Steve Brodie. A crook on the lam assumes the role of a guard at an asylum and gets the idea of using the men inside (who think of themselves as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin and others) as dupes to carry out his nefarious crimes. Don't miss Batman and Robin in "The Case of the Famous Foes!" by Bill Finger, Dick Sprang and Gene McDonald. Plus: Slam Bradley in "Danger -- Crooks at Work!" with art by John Daly; Air Wave in "The Talking Dog!" with art by Lee Harris; and The Boy Commandos in "The Runaway Robot" with art by Curt Swan and Steve Brodie. Also: 2-page text story "Gentlemen's Agreement" by John Broome (as John Osgood). 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 35, Issue 2 - January, 1947. 6.75" x 9", 100 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

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Volume 53, Issue 2 - January, 1947. 6.75" x 9", 100 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Story by J. P. McEvoy. Art by John Striebel, Mart Bailey, A. W. Nugent and Frank Beck. Reprints of the long-running comic strip, featuring a former showbiz star who encounters adventure and, sometimes, romance. Dixie takes tap-dancing lessons from Hal Leroy. Dixie and the gang think the old lighthouse is haunted after they see lights in it. After the truth is revealed, they get the whole town together to renovate the lighthouse into a recreation center. Also featuring Dixie Dugan paper dolls. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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January 1947. "Target for Death" by Kenneth Robeson; "Borrowed Brawn" by John Scott Douglas; and "Eight Dozen Agents" by John D. MacDonald. Digest size, 5-5/8" x 7-3/4"; black and white; 132 pages. Cover price $0.15.

Volume 13, Issue 4 - January, 1947. 6.75" x 9.75", 116 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

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#D3 - 2nd and later printings. You will believe an elephant can fly?! A true Disney classic. Hardcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 24 pages, full color. Cover price $0.29.

Cover by Bob Fujitani. Edited by Sol Cohen. Stories by Henry Kuttner (credited as Edward Bellin). Art by Bob Fujitani, Jon Small, George Roussos, Fred Kida and Joe Kubert. This is the legendary comic book that started the horror comics trend of the 1940s-50s, as well as the first horror comic with original content, long before the Comics Code was introduced. A man is haunted by the ghost of a stuffed tiger; An island is populated with flesh-eating lizards; A man disposes of his nagging wife with a subway train, but then is haunted by visions and hallucinations. The backup story is a humorous tale starring Goofy Ghost. Stories by sci-fi legend Henry Kuttner, working under one of his many pseudonyms. This was the only issue of this run, but the title returned as a regular series with Eerie (1951 Avon Series) #1. The Eyes of the Tiger; Dead Man's Tale; The Man-Eating Lizards; Goofy Ghost; Proof; Mystery of Murder Manor; The Strange Case of Henpecked Harry, aka The Subway Horror! 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

New Years cover. Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Buck Rogers" by Philip Francis Nowlan and Rick Yager (as Dick Calkins); "Invisible Scarlet O'Neil" by Russell Stamm; "Chief Wahoo and Steve Roper" by Allen Saunders and Elmer Woggon; "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "Dickie Dare" by Milton Caniff; "Scorchy Smith" by Noel Sickles; and "Oaky Doaks" by Ralph Briggs Fuller. "Greedy Grab" text story. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 52 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 9, Issue 1 - January, 1947. Robert Gibson Jones. Science Fiction and Adventures stories. This issue features "Princess of the Sea" by Don Wilcox. Softcover Pulp, 7-in x 10-in, 180 Pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Fantasy Advertiser Vol. 1 #6, January 1947. Published by Gus Willmorth. With general editorial content and ads from the era. 64 pages. Cover price $0.10.

Funny-animal comics from Fawcett, featuring Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, who has the same powers and power-word as his hero (Shazam!). Billy the Kid learns outlaws are planning to use Dry Gulch's annual dance as a diversion. Mac Mule asks Battling Bantam to help him rebuild his barn, but he didn't take "Battling's" temper into account. Sherlock the Monk and Chuck are hired to keep crooks from stealing a priceless formula for creating untearable ribbons. Plus a vintage Tootsie Roll ad, Captain Tootsie: Counter Spook, with art by Shazam co-creator CC Beck, and a hair-cream ad featuring detective Sam Spade. Billy the Kid and Oscar: Dangerous Dance; Battling Bantam: Brick Top; Uncle Don: Silly-Risers; Willie the Worm: Brick Top/ Makes Good Cents to Us/ A Light Answer; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck: A Winding Case; Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear Are Out of Focus. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Flash stars in "Evil Over Eelton," written by Gardner Fox, art by Everett E. Hibbard. Also includes: Ghost Patrol in "Crime With an Animal Twist" by John B. Wentworth and Frank Harry; Johnny Thunder in "The Barefoot Bandit" by John B. Wentworth and Stan Aschmeier; Rockhead McWizzard in "Turning Pages in a Book" by Jack Farr; Junk text story by Ted Udall (as Charles King); and Hawkman in "The Revolt of the Birds" by Fox and John Chester Kozlak. Cover art by Kolzak. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is "MARGE'S LITTLE LULU, No. 131." Little Lulu Is Taken For a Ride; Kidnappers mistake Lulu for the rich girl, Gloria Van Potts, and abduct her from the park. One Man Dog; Alvin finds a dog but his mother won't let him keep it; Tubby wants the dog but Alvin won't give it up. Little Lulu and the Three Bears; Alvin wants Lulu to tell her the story of the Three Bears. Scripts by John Stanley, pencils by John Stanley (layouts) and Irving Tripp, inks by Irving Tripp. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is "TILLIE THE TOILER, No. 132." Cover art by Jack Callahan. A Four-Bell Picture That Was Only a False Alarm; Jorson Snapps convinces Tillie and friends to appear in a movie he produces. The Surprise Prize; Tillie is a fortune teller in her mother's charity bazaar; Jan Vonsen the movie star stops by and is mobbed. Mac Goes Cow Punchy; Mac is going for a trip to his uncle's ranch and the gang decides to throw a western-themed going-away party, which rapidly snowballs out of control. Scripts and art by Jack Callahan. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is "DICK TRACY, No. 133." Crime, Inc.; Tracy is on the trail of Krome, an assassin who uses modified children's toys to kill his victims. Kitty; Krome's girlfriend Kitty rescues him from Tracy, but plans to turn him in to the police. Lost in a Blizzard; Krome makes his way through the blizzard to a doctor's office, where his arm has to be amputated because of gangrene from a bullet wound. Selbert the Killer; Tracy and Patton rescue the snowplow driver, but Krome freezes to death hiding in a snow drift. Selbert hides in Mrs. DePool's House; Mrs. DePool hides Selbert in a cistern in the basement of her mansion; Her dead husband framed Selbert, his nephew, and got him sentenced to 22 years in an insane asylum. Poisoned Doorbell; Selbert kidnaps Myrna, Mrs. DePool's granddaughter, and imprisons her in the basement cistern. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

In order of appearance: "The Unknown", reprinted with CCA alterations as "Deep Into Darkness" in Web of Mystery (1951) #29; "Dr. Klockenhand's Clinic"; "Hap Hazard, You've Got to Use Your Bean!"; "Bachelor's Diner"; "Hiram Hayseed"; "Hurry-Up Harrigan, Police Reporter, 'The Riddle of the Reluctant Revolver'" art by Al Camy; "Colonel Blow and His Radio Show"; "Luke the Lawyer"; and "Captain Courageous, 'The Adventure of the Vanishing Vessel'". "Wild West Gun Savvy" text story by Brant House, reprinted from Super Mystery Comics Vol. 6 (1946) #2. 52 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Al Fago. Stories and art by Al Fago, Mickey Klar Marks, Al Stahl, Milt Hammer, and C. W. Winter. Sometimes listed as Frisky Fables #13. Funny-animal hijinks in a cutesy style from Novelty Press. Dopsy Durvy uses his Magic Storybook to meet Jack, of beanstalk fame, and his giant nemesis. Kittens Tick, Tack, and Toe tire of being alley cats and seek a new home. Penguin Icicle Ike learns how to throw his voice and gets into new kinds of trouble. Neddy Bear; Spunky; For Little Artists: Fun Making Clothespin Dolls; Get the Point; Tick, Tack and Toe; Diggy the Derrick; Sniffy; Icicle Ike; Dopsy Durvy; Lee O'Lion. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.