Comic books December 1949

Volume 4, Issue 5 - December 1949. This issue is jam-packed with vintage B&W pictorials of the world's most alluring amateur models in various bikinis and beachwear. This issue features a five-page Marilyn Monroe pictorial. 8" x 10", 64 pages, B&W. -Recommended for ages 16+ Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart Very Good $21.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Front cover detached 15%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.

Vol. 1, No. 2. December 1949. 6.75" x 9.75". 144 pages. Cover by Kirk Wilson. Text with occasional B&W illustrations. Cover price $0.25.

Issue #8 - Oct-Dec. 1949. Jokes and single panel cartoons. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 50 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Cover by Graham Ingels. Stories by Gardner Fox and others. Art by Graham Ingels and Johnny Craig. This Pre-Trend title from EC Comics featured the adventures of Gunfighter and The Buckskin Kid. Old Jasper, the town hobo, gets a new lease on life with help from his daughter and the Gunfighter, but first they must overcome The Bandits of Eagle Rock. Cover features early art by EC legend Graham Ingels. The Bandits of Eagle Rock!; The Last Straw; Bert Sutton…Texas Ranger; A Case of Hindsight; Buckskin Kid: The Eyes Have It! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Photo cover features Jack Kirby and Joe Simon. Stories and art by John Severin and others. Headline Comics featured the lurid, hard-edged crime dramas then in vogue, many by Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Petty thieves plot to abduct the pets of wealthy New Yorkers; A rookie detective fakes evidence to catch a killer; Another photo cover featuring the artists: Joe Simon in the role of the cop and Jack Kirby as the crook. Train Robbery of 1949; The Clue That Stuck; No Escape; Rat Trap; Double Revenge; The Dog-Nappers. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Vintage supermarket tabloid magazine full of high profile true crime stories of the FBI and the CIA, some with testimonials from those involved in, or close to the cases themselves. 8.5" x 10.5", 66 pages, B&W. Recommended for ages 16+. Cover price $0.25.

Stories by unknown. Art by unknown. Stirring tales of alluring women and the men who were theirs! Featuring: "Swamp Flame"; "Love Was the Navigator"; "A Second Chance at Happiness"; and "The Hijacked Heart"! Plus: Advice on Love Problems letters page by Marilyn Minton. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $37.00 View scans Centerfold detached at one staple.

Stories by unknown. Art by unknown. Carl Anderson's Henry in "Football vs. Carnival," "Fat Stuff" and "There's No Fun Like Snow Fun!", plus the activity page "Henry's Cartoon Lesson"! Also: Henry and his Uncle in the 2-page text story "Happy Daze," and Henrietta in "A Pretty Maid - Plus - First Aid!" and an untitled half-page story! 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Bob Powell and Tom Gill. A romance comic from Harvey, as the teens of the 1950s explore the new world of dating. A girl's romance is jeopardized when she is sent to an all-girls school. Tom's friends think his new girlfriend takes life far too seriously. A woman must choose between her current beau Neil and her first love, Jim, who has just returned from Bolivia. I Had to Share My Boy Friend; Love Isn't Funny; My Phantom Lover; Love Laughs; I Fell In Love with my History Teacher; A Good Sport. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Early Joe Kubert cover and art (entire book).

Cover by Joe Kubert. Stories and art by Joe Kubert, Carmine Infantino, Hy Rosen, Robert Bernstein, and John Belfi. Love and heartbreak in Tinseltown and its suburbs. Director Jack Diamond has a meltdown on the set and realizes he's sacrificed love for Hollywood success, in a story with art by comics legend Joe Kubert. In another story with inks by Kubert, Florine gives up zoologist boyfriend Barry, and her own moral scruples, to get Hollywood success at any cost. Edythe gets a job as a stand-in for a movie star, but her scheming threatens her attempts at romance and her livelihood, in a story with early art by future DC legend Carmine Infantino. Success or Else!; The Scandal I Had to Confess; My Lips Had to Be Tamed; Career Mad. Final issue under this title; series continues as Hollywood Pictorial (1950) #3. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Good $53.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Extensive.

Volume 9, Issue 3 - December, 1949. 6.75" x 9.75", 132 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Painted cover art by Norman Saunders. "The Mysterious Explosions"; Mort Bookins thinks two men are trying to sabotage a railroad hauling his lumber; But after Hopalong captures the pair, the railroad explosions continue. "More Power to Him"; Hill Billy's stubborn mule refuses to move. Rocky Lane Bandana/Carnation Malted Milk ad. "The Water Hole Fight"; Hopalong gets caught in the middle of two ranchers fighting over access to a water hole. "Whitey Whiskers and the Magic Needle"; Whitey pretends he found a magic needle in order to trade for a boy's chocolate bar. "Twin Trouble" starring Hopalong Cassidy; A tramp who looks just like Mesquite pretends to be his long-lost twin brother. Ralston ad featuring Tom Mix. "Slinger Sid" text story by Rod Reed (as R. R. Symes). Hopalong Cassidy Western Shirt ad. "The Crooked Tree" starring Hopalong Cassidy; A crook tricks a man into helping him steal some silver from a silversmith. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ham Fisher (credited). The comedic adventures of Humphrey, the buddy of Ham Fishers Joe Palooka, a sweetly dumb country bumpkin with super-strength, nigh-invulnerability and an incredible appetite. Humphrey sets out to buy a dress for Pruney in the city and winds up fast asleep in a bicycle race. Little Max makes a Calvin-like rapid descent down a hillside on a sled. Also featuring a vintage ad for Lionel Trains ("Hi Fellows! The New Lionel Train Catalog Is Ready"). A Present for Pruney; Little Max: Snow Trouble. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

One of many vintage supermarket tabloid magazines full of high profile FBI and CIA cases of the era, accompanied by black and white photographs and testimonials from those involved in, and close to the events themselves. 8.5" x 10.5", 58 pages, B&W, recommended for 16+. Cover price $0.15.

Text stories, activities, puzzles and illustrations. 6.75" x 10". 68 pages. Partial color. Cover price $0.25.

Cover by David Tendlar. Stories and art by George Carlson, David Tendlar, Allen Ulmer, Ray Willner, Larz Bourne, Jerry Fasano and Jack Farr. Kids' comics featuring the whimsical fables of beloved artist George Carlson, praised by Harlan Ellison as a "comic of the absurd." Pickle-boat Pirate Sawdust Sam travels by cannonball, Baron Munchausen-style, and winds up on a runaway Atomic locomotive. Bingo and Glum try to help the Three Little Pigs. After the king's pet unicorn escapes from the Royal Zoo, the Pie-Faced Prince determines to get it back. Also featuring a full-page ad for movie and celebrity stills from Irving Klaw, better known these days as the man who "discovered" pinup model Bettie Page. Bingo and Glum in Fairytale Land; Chauncey Chirp and Johnny Jay; Jingle Jangle Tales: The Pickle-Boat Pirate and the Red-Hot Ruby; Topsy Turtle; Dobbin's Palace; Batty and the Coyotes; Hortense the Lovable Brat; Aunty Spry; The Pie-Face Prince of Old Pretzleburg; The Old Swap Shop. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Allen Ulmer and Ray Willner. Stories and art by George Carlson, David Tendlar, Allen Ulmer, Ray Willner, and Jack Farr. Kids' comics featuring the whimsical fables of beloved artist George Carlson, praised by Harlan Ellison as a "comic of the absurd." The Inky Snowman steals a Yule-Log, so the King's Trusty Varlet seeks help from Tuneful Tim and his Soprano Scream Engine. Bingo and Glum give Santa's magic sled to an impoverished boy. Carlson's last Pie-Faced Prince tale is a delightfully detailed Christmas classic. Bingo and Glum in Fairytale Land; Chauncey Chirp and Johnny Jay; Jingle Jangle Tales: The Steam-Heated Yule-Log and the Trusty Varlet; Batty; Pee Wee Penguin; Xmas Shopping; Santa's Shadow - A Merry (Christmas) Fantasy; Hortense the Lovable Brat; Christmas TV-Eve - 49; The Pie-Face Prince of Old Pretzleburg; The Old Swap Shop. Final issue of the series. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Al Capp (credited as Ham Fisher) and Bob Powell. Ham Fisher's comic-strip boxer has adventures both inside and outside the ring. Joe Palooka meets hillbilly strongman Big Leviticus, in a story likely written by Ham Fisher's assistant, Al Capp. Big Leviticus was a prototype for the future "L'il Abner" comic strip by Capp. Plus true tales of athletic greats and solo stories featuring Little Max. The Big Leviticus Fight; Little Max: Sherlock Max; Little Max: The Big Kicker; Knobby's Golf Bet; Joe Palooka's Album; Sport Short. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Winter 1949. John Wayne photo cover. John Wayne—A Mans Man bio with photo. The Cowboy and the Gambler starring Wayne; bold, ruthless and fired with the burning ambition to stamp his brand of crime on the frontier town of Gamblers Gulch was a gunman to be reckoned with in the wests never-ending fight for law and order; his name—Blackjack Wells. Sudden Death at Dragon's Peak starring Wayne. The Mysterious Valley of Violence starring Wayne.Photos on the inside front and back covers, and the back cover. Sudden Death at Dragon's Peak. The Mysterious Valley of Violence. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

In order of appearance: "Sheena, Queen of the Jungle", reprinted in Golden Age Sheena Queen of the Jungle TPB (1999 Paragon) #1-1ST, and "The Hawk" art by Robert Webb; "Stuart Taylor in Weird Stories of the Supernatural" art by Jack Kamen; "Sky Girl" art by Matt Baker; and "ZX-5" and "The Ghost Gallery", reprinted in Horror House (1994) #1, art by Jack Kamen. "Return to Doom" text story by Henry Wysham Lanier. 52 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

"Sky Girl" ends. In order of appearance: "Sheena, Queen of the Jungle" art by Robert Webb; "The Ghost Gallery" and "Stuart Taylor in Weird Stories of the Supernatural" art by Jack Kamen; "Sky Girl" art by Matt Baker; "ZX-5" art by Jack Kamen; and "The Hawk" art by Robert Webb. "The Courageous Marquise, Part Two" text story by Henry Wysham Lanier. 52 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

"Killer King's Domain," art by Maurice Whitman; Kaänga learns that the Azandes have been forbidden to trade with the trader Songa by their witch doctor, M'fonga. Kaänga visits the tribe and tells the chief and the warriors that he thinks they should trade with Songa; At the trader's camp, the warriors are betrayed by their chief and Songa takes them all captives, including Ann, to be sold as slaves; Kaänga pursues them to the slave auction and frees the slaves and captures Songa. Untitled story, art by Bill Walsh; Competing parties seek a legendary salt mine: white ivory hunters who will trade the salt to natives for their ivory and natives who will trade the salt for needed supplies; Simba, fighting cantankerous leopards, leads each party to the mine. Untitled story, pencils by Robert Webb; Terry escorts Dr. Carter, an ethnologist, to the L'tonga village where a trial for a pair of jewel thieves is scheduled; Dr. Carter is exposed as an ex-Nazi, looking for the loot taken by the thieves. Untitled story, art by Henry Kiefer; Wambi and Leo pretend to have swamp madness in order to drive away the gothali dogs. Untitled story, art by Enrico Bagnoli; A thief steals the idol of Ovambu from the Bulandas and hides it in the temple of the Songais; A pair of treasure hunters come and loot the Songai temple, taking the idol. Untitled story, art by Ralph Mayo; Treasure hunters kidnap chief Hetlai's daughter in order to coerce him into helping them loot an ancient Egyptian tomb; Camilla frees the daughter and captures the treasure hunters; She prevents Hetlai from killing them so they can be turned over to the district commissioner. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Jack Kamen. Untitled story, pencils by Tom Cataldo, inks by Ruben Moreira; Bull Brannigan hopes to drain a lake near the Mgombas village and expose an ancient city that he expects to be full of treasure; Brannigan suspects that Kaänga will interfere with his scheme and attempts to have both Kaänga and Ann sacrificed to the Mgombas' spider-god; Kaänga manages to escape and Brannigan is killed by the spiders. "Fire-Birds from the Sky!", art by Tom Cataldo; Bronson, an unscrupulous con man convinces the Tulagis that he commands the sky gods, using hot air balloons in his deception; Kaänga exposes him and watches him fall to his death. Untitled story, pencils by Tom Cataldo; Kaänga's arbitration of a dispute over an idol is not received well by the cliff people who steal the idol and Ann, with the intent of sacrificing her to the idol. "Boomerang Juju" text story by Frank Riddell. "The Dead Who Could Not Sleep," pencils by Tom Cataldo; Unscrupulous archaeologists trick the N'ganas into believing that the N'gana gods are alive; Kaänga and N'geeso expose their plans to steal the N'ganas' treasures. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Canadian Edition. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Alfred Andriola. Stories and art by Allen Saunders, Alfred Andriola and Bob Powell. Reprints of Alfred Andriola's detective comic strip Kerry Drake and other adventure tales. A round-robin of murder begins when Mother Whistler's son Punky tries to blackmail Vixen Vargo. Adventures of Old West gunfighter Kitty Carson, the ruff ridin' gal sheriff. Kerry Drake: The Case of the $50,000 Robbery; Smashing a Dope Ring; Kitty Carson; Above Suspicion. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

First issue in the title (formerly Smash Comics). Three untitled Lady Luck stories (art by Klaus Nordling). Back-up story, "The Count" (art by Nordling). Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Bob Montana. Written by Samm Schwartz, Bill Woggon and unknown. Art by Ray Gill, Bill Woggon, Bill Vigoda, Samm Schwartz and unknown. Archie stars in "If the Hat Fits"! Plus: Katy Keene in an untitled story; Wilbur in "It's a Gift"; Katy Keene Fashions illustration; Suzie's dad bought a cabin in Noisy Swamp, and he wants Suzie and Ferdie to spend the night with him there in "Battle of the Bugs"; 2-page "Hollywood Gossip" article; Laugh Puzzle Page; Debby in an untitled story; and Jughead in "Nature Boy"! 48 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Bob Oksner. Glasses Make the Man, script by Hal Seeger, art by Bob Oksner; Pa's obsession with a bowling championship duel against Peggy's father threatens to drive a wedge between Binky and Peggy. Binky Carries On, script by Hal Seeger, art by Bob Oksner; A fairy tale Lucy tells to Allergy reminds Binky of an important task. Capt. Tootsie Saves the Day Tootsie Rolls ad, art by C. C. Beck. Cliff Hanger; Lucy and Herbert spend the night studying American history. Green Eyes, script by Hal Seeger; Binky goes to extremes to keep Peggy from staring at the handsome new boy in class. Hopeless Romantic, script by Sheldon Mayer, art by Bob Oksner; Allergy and Soozie get into an argument over whose father can beat whom. Double Trouble Date, script by Hal Seeger, art by Bob Oksner. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Classic weekly news/photo magazine. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color.. Cover price $0.20.