Comic books May 1959

Volume 8, Issue 71 - May, 1959. Vintage men's interest magazine dedicated to War, Hunting, and Adventure stories, along with adult themed comic strips, and nude pin-up pictorials. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in. 90 Pages B&W. -MATURE READERS- Cover price $0.25.

Volume 5, Issue 3 -May 1959. Cover by Mel Crair. Men's magazine with adventure stories, pinups. 8 1/2 in. x 11 in. 74 pages. B&W. Cover price $0.35.

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"Isle of No Return." The Challengers get zapped with a shrinking ray. "The Beasts from Planet Nine." The Challengers tangle with creatures that have escaped from an alien zoo. Plots and pencils by Jack Kirby, scripts by France Herron, inks by Wally Wood. Cover by Kirby and Marvin Stein. Cover price $0.10.

Vol. 14. No. 10. May 1, 1959. Illustrated throughout. 5" x 6 1/4". 64 pages. Black and white. Cover price $0.35.

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Photo cover of Ty Hardin [as Bronco Layne]. The Rio Smugglers; Bronco Layne goes to the town called Trinity to help his friend Jim O'Neil who is about to be hanged for the murder of a ranger, Colly Smith; Layne investigates Duke Rhein, a cattle owner, and finds out that he and his thugs are smuggling opium across Jim O'Neil's ford in the Rio Grande river by packing it inside hollowed out cattle horns; Duke had also killed the ranger who knew too much and framed Jim O'Neil. Bronco tries to stop O'Neil's execution but finds out that Jim's wife and daughter are held hostage. Small Bear, art by Rex Maxon; Small Bear wounds and is wounded by a mountain lion; The animal, not able to hunt, later attacks the Cheyenne tribe and it's horses convincing them that it is a "spirit cat. The Crooked Circle starring Bronco Layne. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Issue #88 - May 1959. Fiction, poems, games, jokes, puzzles for children. 5 1/2-in. x 7 1/2-in., 124 pages, black and white with some pages tinted with an extra color. Cover price $0.35.

Cover art by Harvey Eisenberg. The Tree Trade, pencils by Harvey Eisenberg; Berle Squirrel wants to trade trees with Chip 'n' Dale. Two for Trouble, pencils by Harvey Eisenberg; Chip 'n' Dale start a baby-sitting service. The Defective Detective, pencils by Harvey Eisenberg; Chip 'n' Dale solve "missing eggs" case with help of a kangaroo rat. Outsmarted Smarties starring The Three Little Pigs / comic story / 4 pages (report information), script by Carl Fallberg, art by Jack Bradbury; The lazy brothers try to sabotage Practical's chores, but make more work for themselves. The Caretakers, pencils by Harvey Eisenberg; Chip 'n' Dale are looking after Donald's house while he's away. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Rip Van Winkle, 12th Printing, Painted Cover. (HRN 150). Cover price $0.15.

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Huckleberry Finn, 12th Printing, Painted Cover. (HRN 150). Cover price $0.15.

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Oliver Twist, 10th Printing, Painted Cover. (HRN 150, original 5/59 date). Cover price $0.15.

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The Virginian, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. (HRN 150, with 5/59 date). Wyoming in the 1870's was a vast territory of men, guns and cattle. With cattle came rustling and with rustling came the need for law and justice. For some, law came out of a blazing gun and justice meant swinging at the end of a rope in the cold dawn. For the Virginian, justice came in a duel at sunset. Cover price $0.15.

Stories featuring Woody Woodpecker, Woofus Woodpecker, Uncle Salty Woodpecker, and and Winnie Woodpecker. Also Windy and Breezy in "Snapped Snacking." 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Art by John Severin, Bill McCartney, Carl Burgos, Bill Everett, Richard Doxee, Dick Richards, Angelo Torres, Gray Morrow, and Stan Quinnley. Severin cover. Cover price $0.25.

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8" x 10.5", 74 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.50.

Spanish language horror/suspense anthology comic. Reprints material from Strange Worlds (1958 Marvel) #3. 36 Pages, Full Color, Spanish Language.

Untitled one-page story, script and art by Chic Young; Lydia takes over Dagwood's couch so he falls asleep in the chair; Elmo uses a curling iron on the sleeping Dagwood. "Pinch Hitter," script and art by Chic Young; Cookie brings home a black dog thinking it is a dirty Elmer. Untitled one-page story, script and art by Chic Young; Dagwood gets thirsty working on a second-floor porch in the sun and then falls off of it. Untitled two-page story, script and art by Chic Young; Dagwood is constantly interrupted while taking a bath. "Bird Brain," script and art by Chic Young; Dagwood helps a stranger find an address and is two hours late for supper; He helps Cookie get Daisy to eat; He helps the plumber and a salesman and ends up eating the dictionary he buys. Untitled one-page story, script and art by Chic Young; Blondie calls Dagwood at work to ask him where they should go on vacation next Summer. Untitled one-page story, script and art by Chic Young; Dagwood finds out why you shouldn't joke about a women's work when she is holding a mop. Untitled one-page story, script and art by Otto Soglow; The Little King tries to decide what disguise to wear to study his people. He decides on a mailbox. Untitled one-page story, script and art by Otto Soglow; The Little King sees a lot of 'Men At Work' signs and makes one for himself - 'King Looking For Work'. Untitled one-page story, script and art by Chic Young; The Colonel and the Duchess take pictures at the zoo and get in trouble for feeding a giraffe when it swallows their camera. Untitled one-page story, script and art by Chic Young; The Colonel has given a girl flowers so Duchess tells a policeman he picked them from the city park flowers. "The Cocker Spaniel" text story. Untitled one-page The Katzenjammer Kids story; The Inspector get the Captain to do his chores. Untitled one-page The Katzenjammer Kids story; Rollo tries to get Chumbo to spray Hans and Fritz with water, but the joke backfires and he gets sprayed by Chumbo. Untitled one-page story, script and art by Chic Young; Alexander wishes he was younger than Cookie so he could've collected quarters from her boyfriends to stay out of the parlor. Untitled one-page story, script and art by Chic Young; Dagwood gives Cookie a horseback ride and later she comes downstairs for her goodnight kiss--and a cup cake, an apple and a glass of milk. Untitled one-page story, script and art by Chic Young; Dagwood accidentally pays a can opener salesman instead of the laundryman. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Graham Place. Oogie for Everybody, art by Graham Place; Judy's girls club decides that they've been selfish with their boyfriends, so to "share the wealth," it's open season on any other girl's guy. Ad for The Brave and the Bold #23. Tips to Teens: Growing Pains article. Untitled story, art by Graham Place; When Oogie works out with weights to impress Judy, he almost wrecks her house. Teen Laffs humor page by Henry Boltinoff. Untitled story, art by Graham Place; When Judy's father tells her she should date other boys, not just Oogie, Judy retaliates by bringing home a string of boys, all of whom irritate her dad until he's elated when Oogie comes by. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Al Wiseman. Reprints of daily Dennis the Menace cartoons by Hank Ketcham. The Tokyo Kid, script by Fred Toole, art by Al Wiseman. H20h-oh!, script by Fred Toole, art by Al Wiseman. C'mon! Get Your Crayons Out...Let's Go! Star Gazing Is Fun! text article. Joey, script by Fred Toole, art by Al Wiseman; Joey helps his dad with the yard work. Star Spangled Dennis, script by Fred Toole, art by Al Wiseman. Ad for the Dennis the Menace line of clothing. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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1st appearance of Bat-Mite. Cover pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Stan Kaye. "Batman Meets Bat-Mite" starring Batman, Robin, and Bat-Mite (intro), script by Bill Finger, pencils by Sheldon Moldoff, inks by Charles Paris; Preparing to go off on patrol, Batman and Robin find the Bat-Cave disturbed and meet the zany and humorous Bat-Mite, an admirer of Batman's from another dimension; Bat-Mite wants to join Batman and Robin in their fight against crime. Ad for Showcase #20. Warden Willis humor page by Henry Boltinoff. "The Mystery of the Magic Sea!" starring Roy Raymond TV Detective, art by Ruben Moreira; When an earthquake exposes a portion of an underground sea, a small town hopes it will be a boon to its tourism business; But a legend warns that if a person swims too deep in the water, he'll turn into a fish; Roy Raymond films the attempts of two townspeople to disprove the legend for Impossible but True. Clyde Beatty and Cole Bros Circus at Palisades Amusement Park ad starring Superman. "John Jones' Farewell to Earth" starring John Jones Manhunter from Mars, art by Joe Certa; Jovians come to Earth searching for a criminal but they need Manhunter's help because their weakness is water and it's raining. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Printed in Philippines. Same contents and date as Detective Comics #260 with different ads. 6-1/2" x 10-1/4", color, 32 pages. NOTE: Comic manufactured with a thread-bound spine, not stapled. Cover price $0.30.

Printed in Philippines. Same contents and date as Detective Comics #267 with different ads. 1st appearance of Bat-Mite. 6-1/2" x 10-1/4", color, 32 pages. NOTE: Comic manufactured with a thread-bound spine, not stapled. Cover price $0.30.

Digest sized humor book with tons of single-page gags. 5" x 7", 66 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Vol. 10 #18 - May 2, 1959. Contents include Dan Dare, They Showed the Way, Riders of the Range, Luck of the Legion, Eagle Cutaway, Jack O'Lantern, Storm Nelson, Harris Tweed Extra Special Agent, The Travels of Marco Polo. Plus text stories and articles. 10 3/4-in. x 13 1/2-in., 18 pages, B&W and full color.

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Vol. 10 #19 - May 9, 1959. Contents include Dan Dare, They Showed the Way, Riders of the Range, Luck of the Legion, Eagle Cutaway, Jack O'Lantern, Storm Nelson, Harris Tweed Extra Special Agent, The Travels of Marco Polo. Plus text stories and articles. 10 3/4-in. x 13 1/2-in., 18 pages, B&W and full color.

Vol. 10 #19 - May 16, 1959. Contents include Dan Dare, They Showed the Way, Riders of the Range, Luck of the Legion, Eagle Cutaway, Jack O'Lantern, Storm Nelson, Harris Tweed Extra Special Agent, The Travels of Marco Polo. Plus text stories and articles. 10 3/4-in. x 13 1/2-in., 18 pages, B&W and full color.

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Vol. 10 #21 - May 23, 1959. Contents include Dan Dare, They Showed the Way, Riders of the Range, Luck of the Legion, Eagle Cutaway, Jack O'Lantern, Storm Nelson, Harris Tweed Extra Special Agent, The Travels of Marco Polo. Plus text stories and articles. 10 3/4-in. x 13 1/2-in., 18 pages, B&W and full color.

Vol. 10 #22 - May 30, 1959. Contents include Dan Dare, They Showed the Way, Riders of the Range, Luck of the Legion, Eagle Cutaway, Jack O'Lantern, Storm Nelson, Harris Tweed Extra Special Agent, The Travels of Marco Polo. Plus text stories and articles. 10 3/4-in. x 13 1/2-in., 18 pages, B&W and full color.

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Text cover. Cover price $0.35.

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Volume 1 Issue 8 - May 1959. Men's adventure magazines focusing adventures stories and pictorials. This issue features "Sex in the Key Clubs!", "Gruesome Ordeal of Hungary's Girl Guerrilla" and "Johnny Barton's Harem in the Hills!" 8 1/4-in. x 11-in., 82 pages, B&W Cover price $0.35.

Vol. 51 #5 - The Magazine for Men. In this issue: The Staging of the Play - "J.B." by Archibald MacLeish and Elia Kazan; Orchestration of Crisis - The Communist Formula for Protracted Conflict; The Men Who Made the New Germany - 16 pages of pictures and text; Spain's Coming Ordeal by Emmet Hughes; and Baseball - The Brutal Art of Bench Jockeying. Cover price $0.60.

Men's interest magazine focused on the counter-culture movement, with related news, articles, satire comics, and nude pictorials. 8" x 10.5", 80 pages, B&W/Color. -MATURE READERS- Cover price $1.00.

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Volume 8, Issue 5 - May, 1959. Features The Hungry Eye by Robert Bloch, and Guardian Devil by Robert Silverberg. 5.5-in. x 7.75-in.; black and white; 130 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.35.

Volume 12 - Number 5, May 1959. Pulp magazine devoted to exploring the paranormal. Father Franz Eichinger brings us his story of meeting a Tibetan holy man and asks "Are Nude Tibetan Lamas the Monstrous Abominable Snowmen?" Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 7 1/2-in., 130 page, Text (with B&W Illustrations and Photos). Cover price $0.35.

Stories and art by Otto Messmer and Joe Oriolo. Comics adventures of the popular, long-running cartoon character; this series often featured art by the two men most associated with Felix, Otto Messmer and Joe Oriolo. A freezing Felix grabs a ride south for the winter, but winds up at the South Pole. He saves some scientists, but runs afoul of a sled dog, in a three-part story. Once the scientists run out of room in their plane, how will he get back home? Felix figures out how to safely skate on thin ice. Plus a vintage ad for "7 Gigantic Dinosaurs." Going South; Cold Shoulder; The Pole Cat; Inky and Dinky. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Dick Giordano. Stories and art by Sam Glanzman, Bill Molno, Charles Nicholas and Vince Alascia. Combat takes to the skies in the airborne incarnation of Charlton's Fightin' military series. Comics legend and WWII veteran Sam Glanzman presents the history of Nazi Germany's feared air force, the Luftwaffe. A radar "picket plane" has a Cold War encounter with a Soviet sub. In another Cold War story, suburban neighbors complain about the noise of jets scrambling at a nearby Air Force base. Might Is Right; Picket Plane; Vertigo; Fly High, Fly Fast; The Complainers. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Film in Review is a publication of the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, Inc, an independent, non-profit organization of public citizens founded in 1909 to represent the interests of the motion picture public. This National Board further assists the development of the motion picture as a source of entertainment, as education, and as art, by providing media for the expression of the public's opinion about films and their cultural and social effects. 5 1/2-in. x 7 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.50.

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Cover pencils by Carmine Infantino, inks by Joe Giella. Origin Grodd & Pied Piper. This is Flash's first visit to Gorilla City; begin Grodd the Super Gorilla trilogy. This book is listed as scarce in Overstreet. Menace of the Super-Gorilla!, script by John Broome, pencils by Carmine Infantino, inks by Joe Giella; Fred Pearson, star of the Central City Theatre's "The Great Gorilla" and friend of Barry Allen's, has been having blackouts, at the same time that a mysterious gorilla has been seen roaming Central City. The Brave and the Bold #23 ad. What's Your B.Q.*? (*Brotherhood Quotient) public service announcement, script by Jack Schiff, pencils by Bernard Baily. Flash Facts filler page. The Menace of the Super-Gorilla - Conclusion; Gorilla Grodd is the pilot of the super-sonic vehicle, and he has come to Central City to find Solovar, who is playing captive in the Central City Zoo. Comparative Speed Records fact page. Amazing Apes article. The Pied Piper of Peril!, script by John Broome, pencils by Carmine Infantino, inks by Joe Giella; Barry is on time for a dinner date with Iris for the first time, but he has to run out to deal with the Piper, the self-acclaimed Master of Sound. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.