Comic books April 1949

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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. CB's pals in the junior basketball league resort to unusual measures to counter an especially tall kid on the other team. Famous Eccentrics features Ponce de Leon and Kublai Khan. Aspiring criminologist Dave decides to go undercover to find out what makes criminals really tick, and quickly gets involved with hoods planning a prison break. Also featuring a vintage house ad for a contest to name Western hero Black Diamond's horse. Crimebuster; Famous Eccentrics; Daredevil: The Windrop Case. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Dale Evans appearance on cover and story. Cover art by Jack Kirby. The Designer of Doom, script by France Herro, pencils by Jack Kirby; a condemned man dreams of breaking jail. Humor two-pager starring Bebe by Henry Boltinoff. The Magnificent Ham, script by France Herron, pencils by Carmine Infantino, inks by Steve Brodie; Brooklyn takes time off from the Commandos to pursue an acting career. Arms Maker to the World article with Samuel Colt. Shorty humor two-pager by Henry Boltinoff. Dale Evans--Queen of the Westerns, script by France Herron, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Brodie. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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The adventures of Dale Messick's fearless comic strip hero, redheaded reporter Brenda Starr. Brenda faces a terrifying chase on a roller coaster when she tracks supposedly dead gangster Mugs Lawson to an amusement park. Newspaper copy boy Pesky Miller, who looks a lot like classic Jimmy Olsen, is crowned prince for a day to fill column space on a slow news day. Brenda narrates the real-life story of newspaper publisher Carl Magee, who exposed the Teapot Dome Scandal. The Case of the Undead Corpse; Paradise by Proxy!; Trapped by Nothing; Tempest in the Teapot Dome!; Murder in Style. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Vic Herman 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 investigate reports of a monster; Twinkle enters a kite contest with help from a dragon; Paddy Penguin plays baby-sitter. Marco's Puzzle Page; Twinkle, The Star That Came Down From Heaven; Marco Polar Bear; Paddy Penguin; Pop and Junior; Riddles; Play the F Game; Bobo; Pug and Curly. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by C.C. Beck. Stories by Bill Woolfolk, Otto Binder, Howard Boughner and unknown. Art by C.C. Beck, Al Liederman, Howard Boughner and unknown. Captain Marvel (Billy Batson) stars in: "The Great Polar Ice Cap" by Bill Woolfolk and C.C. Beck (Sivana appearance); "The Man Who Wanted to be Poor" by Otto Binder and C.C. Beck; "History Goes Wild" by Otto Binder and C.C. Beck; and "Captain Marvel's Long Chance"! Plus: Captain Kid in "Chair-Man of the Day" with art by Al Liederman; Headline Harry tale "Fruitful Assignment" by Howard Boughner; and Jon Jarl in the 2-page text story "Interplanetary Census" by Otto Binder (as Eando Binder). 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Kurt Schaffenberger. Stories by Otto Binder and Art Helfant. Art by Bud Thompson, Art Helfant 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 latest supervillain to face Captain Marvel Jr. has strange suction powers. Busybody Ima Snoop discovers Captain Marvel Jr.'s diary among Freddy Freeman's things, and soon everyone wants to read it. Captain Marvel, Jr. Fights the Vacuum Master!; Judge Smudge: Influential; Captain Marvel Jr. Meets the Night Crawler; Rubbernose Randolph: Defendant; The Boy Scientist; Kanvasback: Head-Strong; Turkey Shoot Murder; The Camouflage Mystery; Rubbernose Randolph: Barbed Retort. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Pal. Cartoons and jokes by readers and artists of the time. 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 64 pages, Text,(with B&W Illustrations) Cover price $0.35.

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Issue 22 - Australian Edition. Circa early to mid 1950's. Reprints "Kidnapped" 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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Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Bob Fujitani, Robert Perry, C.H. Moore, Robert Martinott, 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. Hop-Head Harris - not a junkie, just a drunk - is framed for a mob killing that threatens to start a gang war. Bart Shocker pretends to be an ordinary salesman, but when he pulls a bank job, he kills two detectives. Larry Patton turns out to be a valuable addition to the Miller bank-robbing gang. Also featuring vintage ads for "Amazing Life-Like Rubber Masks" and "Animated Lilliputiana." Hop-Head Harris and a Cop's Determination!; On the Level; Bart Shocker and Charlie Spenn; This'll Kill Ya!; Marty Phelps and Whitey Radin; Science Vs. the Criminal; Our Police Hall of Fame; Thug Uglies; Larry Patton and John Miller. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Dan Zolnerowich. Stories and art by Ray Willner, Al McWilliams, Clem Weisbecker and Mort Lawrence. Tales of crime and mobsters, both true and fictional, a prime example of the genre that thrived in the years before the Comics Code. The legendary sale of the island of Manhattan to Dutch settlers is portrayed as the work of a world-class con artist. Corrupt delivery workers scheme to identify and steal jewelry packages from their company. Spinster sisters Tabby and Birdie Rosebud, "the 70-year-old teenagers," have a wacky adventure involving a fugitive astronomer and an impending planetary collision. Harvest Time; Manhattan's First Con Man; The Artist; The Vise; Right on the Dot; The Rosebud Sisters: Riot in Simon's Spyglass; Tony's Best Job; The Paycheck. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by George Tuska, Fred Guardineer, Claude Moore, 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 Nick Durin, who convinces his brothers that they can take over the city's rackets if they join forces. Cops use a hidden microphone to get the goods on a killer named William Gaines (the name of the rival publisher of EC Comics). A story that dares the reader to figure out who killed two eccentric brothers in their own museum. The 5 Durin Brothers; Science vs. the Criminal; Clue in a Poker Hand!; Laugh These Off; This'll Kill Ya!; Our Police Hall of Fame; On The Level; Tony Krug and Pete Tatum; Who Dunnit. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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"The Cleveland Vulture" (art by Sid Greene), "Showdown in Abilene," "Big Gun of the Arsenal Gang," and "Jonathan Wild, Kingpin of Crime." Two page text story, "Ransom of the Dead," by John Mason. Cover price $0.10.

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Art by Jack Kamen and Al Davoren. Fox Feature Syndicate creates a pre-Code title guaranteed to provide lurid covers and art, as women both historical and fictional commit murder and other heinous acts. Irish immigrant Memphis Mae quickly establishes herself in the Chicago underworld with her murderous ways; Arva Bolling builds a fortune on the backs of the people she murdered; Sarah Rachel Russell, better known as Madame Rachel, is a British blackmailer and con artist in Victorian-era London. Cover features women fighting, but played for laughs. Memphis Mae Corey; Arva Bolling: She Killed to Live!; Murder Proceeds: $1.13; Madame Rachel; A Woman's Intuition! 32 pages, Full Color. Classic fight cover. A violent panel on page seven of "Madame Rachel" shows a woman's face dissolving in acid. In order of appearance: "Memphis Mae Corey" retitled and reprinted with modifications as "Ruthless Devil.." in All Famous Police Cases (1952-54) #12; "Arva Bolling, She Killed to Live!" art by Al Davoren; "Madame Rachel" retitled and reprinted with modifications as "Her Face of Horror.." in Spook (1954) #22; and "A Woman's Intuition!". "Murder Proceeds: $1.13" text story reprinted in Crime Incorporated (1950) #2 and Crimes by Women (1948) #15. Cover price $0.10.

Art by Edmond Good and others. 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. The Dagar series concludes with a typically lurid, action-packed cover that includes elements of bondage and suggestions of torture, presaging the Comics Code battles a few years later. Dagar; Safari Cary; Tangi. Final issue under this title; numbering continues with Captain Kidd (1949) #24. Dagar made one last appearance in All Top Comics (1945 Fox) #18. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Scarce. 52 pages. No number. painted cover. Roussos art. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Dick Sprang. Stories by Bill Finger, Otto Binder, Jack Farr and unknown. Art by Dick Sprang, Jimmy Thompson, Jack Farr, Howard Sherman, Carmine Infantino and unknown. Carl Cave is lucky with numbers, especially concerning the lucky number "3", and he believes that number can protect him from the minions of the law...and Batman himself! Don't miss Batman and Robin in "Three's a Crime!" by Bill Finger and Dick Sprang. Plus: Robotman in "The Candid Camera Pest!" by Otto Binder and Jimmy Thompson; Super-Sleuth McFooey in an untitled story by Jack Farr; Slam Bradley in "The Luck of Lucky Louie" with art by Howard Sherman; and The Boy Commandos in "Gangster Island!" with pencils by Carmine Infantino. Also: Shorty half-pager by Henry Boltinoff; Varsity Vic 1-pager by Boltinoff; and 2-page text piece "A Dog's Life." 48 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

April 1949 Volume 42 Issue 1. Cover by Rafael DeSoto? Full length stories include "Homicidal Baby" by Day Keene, "Those Dames are Dynamite!" by John K. Polito, "The Cop and the Murder-Machine!" by Philip Weck, and "Here Comes Killer Jordan" by Francis K. Allan. Short story "His Own Funeral" by John D. MacDonald (as John Lane), plus other shorts by Dave Sands, Larry Holden, Don Holm, Robert Zacks, C. Williamson Harrison, Willard Neal, Edward D. Radin, and others. A few interior illustrations. 7-in. x 9.5-in.; black and white; 130 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

"I was a $100 a Night Call Girl!" Cover price $0.25.

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 Dec. 4, 1935 - Jan. 26, 1936. Tracy and the police are puzzled by murders in a hotel, where no bullets can be found. Junior goes undercover as a bellhop, and discovers the clever murder weapon: bullets made of ice. 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.

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Volume 54, Issue 4 - April, 1949. 6.75" x 9", 100 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Volume 38, Issue 2 - April, 1949. 6.5" x 9", 116 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.20.

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Volume 54, Issue 4 - April, 1949. 6.75" x 9", 100 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Volume 6, 1st Printing - "Amorous Interne" by Edward Reltid. Softcover, 5" x 7.5", 128 pages, B&W, text only. Cover price $0.35.

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April 1949. Monthly publication sent free to all owners of Harley-Davidson motorcycles. Article and photographs by Madelyn Williams about her trip to Mexico. Windy Lindstrom wings the Pacific Trails Endurance Race. How Los Angeles trains its motorcycle cops. Club news from around the nation. 6-in. x 9-in., 22 pages, B&W.

April-May 1949. Two short novels, Pay for My Kiss and Wanton Lover. 5 1/4-in. x 7 1/4-in., 130 pages, B&W text. Cover price $0.35.

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Volume 5, Issue 5 - April, 1949. Vintage men's interest magazine full of adult humor comics and tasteful pin-up pictorials. 8.5" x 11.5", 60 pages, B&W. -MATURE CONTENT- Cover price $0.25.

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In order of appearance: "Barbary Bill" retitled and reprinted as "Giant of Terror" in Shocking Mystery Cases (1952) #58; "Constantine, The Killer" retitled and reprinted as "Madhouse of Crime!!" in Startling Terror Tales (1952-53 1st Series) #12; "Payoff, Death!" retitled and reprinted as "The Deadly Trail..." in Shocking Mystery Cases (1952) #59; and "You Can't Escape Justice! Aids to Crime Detection..". "Mr. Blackburn Should Have Known Better." text story reprinted in Crimes by Women (1948) #14 and retitled and reprinted as "Trial and Execution." in Startling Terror Tales (1952-53 1st Series) #12 and Shocking Mystery Cases (1952) #55. 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

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John Taine is profiled in the "Masters of Fantasy" column.

Volume 10, Issue 4 - April, 1949. 6.75" x 9", 134 pages, B&W. 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; "Dickie Dare" by Mabel Burwick (as Odin); "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "Bobby Sox" by Martha B. Links; "Scorchy Smith" by Rodlow WIllard; and "Oaky Doaks" by Ralph Briggs Fuller. "Blind Flight" text story by Claude Dunnagan. 52 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 11, Issue 4 - April 1949. Cover by Edmond Swiatek. Science Fiction and Adventures stories. This issue features "War of the Giant Apes" by Alexander Blade. Softcover Pulp, 7-in x 10-in, 154 Pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Funny-animal comics from Fawcett, featuring Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, who has the same powers and power-word as his hero (Shazam!). Marvel Bunny has an adventure while trying to help fellow Funny Animal Benny Beaver build a bridge. When Billy the Kid captures one of the notorious turkey outlaws the Turk Brothers, the other Turks plot revenge. Goat con artist "Kid Gloves" (from Fawcett's Animal Fair) tries to stay one step ahead of the Inspector with his latest scam. Hoppy the Marvel Bunny; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck: Shoe Enough; The Modern Pied Piper; Benny Beaver Meets Ali Baba and the Forty Rat Thieves; Billy the Kid and the Terrible Turk Brothers; Willie the Worm: Lightning Fast; Animal Quiz; Battling Bantam: The Fighting Fool; Kid Gloves: Bedsheet of Roses. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

"A Coffin a Day" a novel by John D. MacDonald.