Comic books March 1951

Cover by C. C. Beck and Pete Costanza. Stories and art by Otto Binder, Kurt Schaffenberger, Pete Costanza, Pete Riss, and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. When the people of a crowded land fear the bandits of the nearby mountains, The Marvel Family solves both problems at once by simply getting rid of the mountains. The original Captain Marvel loses his sense of taste, and sets out to find who or what is responsible. Mary Marvel meets a man who loves hate mail and does terrible things just to get more hate, a sort of predictor of future social-media phenomena. The Land That Never Was; Capt. Marvel: The Mystery of the Lost Sense; Boxcar Benny; Lazy Lee; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry: Firing Escape; Mary Marvel: The Collector of Hate; As Thousands Jeer; Capt. Marvel Jr.: The Floating Department Store; Captain Marvel: The Runaway Genius. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Published from 1950-1959, this Belgian publication reprinted various Disney comics and strips in a magazine-sized format with half the pages in color and half in black and white on newsprint pages. Each issue had 20 pages. In addition to comic stories, issues featured puzzles, editorials, and letters columns. The stories, including ones by Carl Barks, were serialized and often printed one page per issue, but each issue ended with one complete story. As a result, many stories were resized to five or six lines per page.

Published from 1950-1959, this Belgian publication reprinted various Disney comics and strips in a magazine-sized format with half the pages in color and half in black and white on newsprint pages. Each issue had 20 pages. In addition to comic stories, issues featured puzzles, editorials, and letters columns. The stories, including ones by Carl Barks, were serialized and often printed one page per issue, but each issue ended with one complete story. As a result, many stories were resized to five or six lines per page.

Published from 1950-1959, this Belgian publication reprinted various Disney comics and strips in a magazine-sized format with half the pages in color and half in black and white on newsprint pages. Each issue had 20 pages. In addition to comic stories, issues featured puzzles, editorials, and letters columns. The stories, including ones by Carl Barks, were serialized and often printed one page per issue, but each issue ended with one complete story. As a result, many stories were resized to five or six lines per page.

Published from 1950-1959, this Belgian publication reprinted various Disney comics and strips in a magazine-sized format with half the pages in color and half in black and white on newsprint pages. Each issue had 20 pages. In addition to comic stories, issues featured puzzles, editorials, and letters columns. The stories, including ones by Carl Barks, were serialized and often printed one page per issue, but each issue ended with one complete story. As a result, many stories were resized to five or six lines per page.

Published from 1950-1959, this Belgian publication reprinted various Disney comics and strips in a magazine-sized format with half the pages in color and half in black and white on newsprint pages. Each issue had 20 pages. In addition to comic stories, issues featured puzzles, editorials, and letters columns. The stories, including ones by Carl Barks, were serialized and often printed one page per issue, but each issue ended with one complete story. As a result, many stories were resized to five or six lines per page.

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Published from 1950-1959, this Belgian publication reprinted various Disney comics and strips in a magazine-sized format with half the pages in color and half in black and white on newsprint pages. Each issue had 20 pages. In addition to comic stories, issues featured puzzles, editorials, and letters columns. The stories, including ones by Carl Barks, were serialized and often printed one page per issue, but each issue ended with one complete story. As a result, many stories were resized to five or six lines per page. French Language.

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Published from 1950-1959, this Belgian publication reprinted various Disney comics and strips in a magazine-sized format with half the pages in color and half in black and white on newsprint pages. Each issue had 20 pages. In addition to comic stories, issues featured puzzles, editorials, and letters columns. The stories, including ones by Carl Barks, were serialized and often printed one page per issue, but each issue ended with one complete story. As a result, many stories were resized to five or six lines per page. French Language

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Published from 1950-1959, this Belgian publication reprinted various Disney comics and strips in a magazine-sized format with half the pages in color and half in black and white on newsprint pages. Each issue had 20 pages. In addition to comic stories, issues featured puzzles, editorials, and letters columns. The stories, including ones by Carl Barks, were serialized and often printed one page per issue, but each issue ended with one complete story. As a result, many stories were resized to five or six lines per page. French Language.

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Published from 1950-1959, this Belgian publication reprinted various Disney comics and strips in a magazine-sized format with half the pages in color and half in black and white on newsprint pages. Each issue had 20 pages. In addition to comic stories, issues featured puzzles, editorials, and letters columns. The stories, including ones by Carl Barks, were serialized and often printed one page per issue, but each issue ended with one complete story. As a result, many stories were resized to five or six lines per page. French Language.

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Published from 1950-1959, this Belgian publication reprinted various Disney comics and strips in a magazine-sized format with half the pages in color and half in black and white on newsprint pages. Each issue had 20 pages. In addition to comic stories, issues featured puzzles, editorials, and letters columns. The stories, including ones by Carl Barks, were serialized and often printed one page per issue, but each issue ended with one complete story. As a result, many stories were resized to five or six lines per page. French Language.

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March 3, 1951 issue. Newsprint, 10.5" x 14", 12 pages, B&W with some color.

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March 10, 1951 issue. Newsprint, 10.5" x 14", 12 pages, B&W with some color.

Art by Jim Tyer and others. The world's mightiest mouse defends Mouseville from danger - mostly cats - in the comic-book adventures of the Terrytoons animated superhero. When cats invade a mouse boy's bedroom, his Mighty Mouse doll comes to life to save the day. Oil Can Harry enlists every Native American warrior in America to battle Mighty Mouse, plus a shrinking trap, just in case. Heckle and Jeckle: No Joking Allowed; Was It a Dream?; The Perils of Pearl Pureheart. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Art by Jim Tyer and others. The world's mightiest mouse defends Mouseville from danger - mostly cats - in the comic-book adventures of the Terrytoons animated superhero. When cats invade a mouse boy's bedroom, his Mighty Mouse doll comes to life to save the day. Old Honey Bear is making life miserable for the bees. Oil Can Harry enlists every Native American warrior in America to battle Mighty Mouse, plus a shrinking trap, just in case. Heckle and Jeckle: No Joking Allowed; Was It a Dream?; Bee Ware Bear Bee Ware; Terry Bears: Happy is the Home?; The Perils of Pearl Pureheart; Gandy Goose: The Power of Suggestion, Shrewd Sourpuss; Little Roquefort; Dinky. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Articles, schematics and photos on the latest available flying models. 8.5" x 11.5", 60 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Cover and feature on Esther Williams. Articles and features on Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Tony Curtis, Elizabeth Taylor, Shirley Temple, Howard Duff, Faith Domergue. Full-page movie ads include Storm Warning, Mr. Imperium, Call Me Mister, Payment on Demand. 8 1/2-in. x 10 3/4-in., 110 pages, B&W and partial color. Cover price $0.15.

French language movie magazine. 8 1/4 in. x 12-in., 16 pages, B&W. NOTE: French Language.

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Issue #240. March 28, 1951. French language movie magazine. Errol Flynn cover. 8 1/4 in. x 12-in., 16 pages, B&W. NOTE: All text in French.

Monte Hale and Pardner cover photo. The Verse of Death, art by Edmond Good; Monte has to find out the last verse of a song to locate a band of killers. Captive's Return text story featuring Gray Hawk by Dick Kraus. How to make a treasure chest with Scotch Cellophane Tape ad. The Fake Brand, art by Carl Pfeufer; Gabby traces cattle rustlers to the ranch of Bigger Oaff. Monte Hale Battles the Human Fort!, script by Bill Woolfolk, art by Edmond Good; Monte uses a swarm of bees to overcome an ironclad outlaw. The Boy Editor of Faro City, script by Bill Woolfolk; Freedom of the press in a town run by gamblers. Captain Video ad with photo of Al Hodge. Monte Hale Tackles the Rodeo Terror!, art by Edmond Good; Baker and Morgan had two black horses and a trick chute; They always switched them so Morgan rode the easy one, and the local rider the killer. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Photo cover features Allan "Rocky" Lane and Eddy Waller. Story by Leo Dorfman, from the screenplay by M. Coates Webster. Fawcett presents adaptations of popular movies of the 1950s in comics form. This issue is based on Covered Wagon Raid, a 1950 Republic B-movie western starring Allen "Rocky" Lane. Insurance investigator Rocky Lane witnesses a murder by thugs working for would-be land baron Deacon Grimes. Rocky goes undercover to help the dead man's daughter Susie bring charges against Grimes. But rancher's daughter Gail learns Rocky's true identity, and inadvertently reveals it to Grimes' henchmen. Plus pinup photos of Rocky Lane. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

cover by Walter Johnson. Stories and art by Walter Johnson and others. Pre-Code tales of horror and the supernatural from Story Comics. Psychic investigator Channing Wells learns Dayla is being stalked by a vampire, and he suspects her fiance knows more than he's telling. A professor ignores all warnings, and thaws out the strange lizard-like monster his associate Janet found frozen in the Arctic tundra. An artist is compelled to paint a face he's never seen, and then things get weirder when he reads his own obituary in the newspaper. Soldier of the Dead; A Portrait of Death; Revenge of the Voodoo Dead; The Horrible Fangs of Professor Prome!; Curse of the DMedici. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

The Man Who Vanished, art by Manny Stallman; An eight foot tall circus freak drinks a shrinking potion that continues to shrink him until he disappears. The Strange Tree!; A man buys a house with a tree out in the yard which possesses people. The New England Horror text story. Trapped in Time!; A man travels forward in time and finds that dinosaurs have again returned when man has destroyed himself through nuclear war. The Hollow Men; A reporter finds a scientist dead in a castle when the robot he created rebelled against him. Mike Sekowsky art. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 3, Issue 9 - Spring, 1951. Squarebound, 5" x 7.5", 96 pages, B&W, Text Only.

Issue #1 - March 1951. Literary short story fiction magazine. Features Ray Bradbury's "The Other Foot". Also includes stories from Jean Genet, John Pierce, David Marcus, Jeanne Rogers, Richard Trudgett and T.L. Berger. 6-in. x 9 1/2-in., 136 pages, no illustrations, text only, black and white. Cover price $0.70.

Nifty Gals & Gags (1951) is a humor digest published by Dearfield Publishing Company. Features the character Dead-Eye Nick who as a "wolf" is always on the prowl for his next young catch. Also contains a page with words of advice from Nick. 96 pages, color cover with B&W illustrations, 5.25-in x 7.25-in. Cover price $0.25.

Cover features Kay Aldridge from the movie serial Perils of Nyoka. Stories and art by R. R. Symes and Howard Boughner. Raised in the jungle by her scientist father, Nyoka faces its dangers like no man ever could. In a three-part story, Nyoka's old foe Dr. Zanzere uses the missing Tonker Diamond to lure Nyoka and Larry into a trap. In a three-part story, a key leads to a lost treasure in the Congo. Nyoka and Larry race the sinister Dr. Swyne to the treasure after he steals the key. The Island in the Sky, Part I: The Lost Diamond!; Ballyhoo Barney: Shades of the Past; Part II: The Death Fall!; Egbert the Explorer; Part III: The Double Cross; The Congo Calamity, Part One: The Key to Danger; Trader Tom; The Curse of Kalli; Quiz; Part II: The Tree with the Legs; Wilbur the Waiter; Kirk and Dirk: The Prairie Inn; Colonel Corn and Korny Kobb: The Cheerful Visitor; Part III: The Rock with the Head! 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Ogden Whitney. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Stories by Richard Hughes. Art by Ogden Whitney, Ken Bald, and Leonard Starr. Tales of adventure and science fiction from legendary early independent comics publisher ACG. A shrunken head in a museum tells its story of misadventure in the Amazon; To prove that their time machine works, Tom and Peggy travel to the time of King Arthur and return with his sword Excalibur; Danny Danger helps a playwrights secretary who has been targeted by gangster Fingers Feeley. Typhoon Tyler; River-Crossings Were Rough!; Time Travelers; The Thing that Talked; Madman's Jump; Blind Man's Bluff!; Danny Danger; Checkerboard Sheriff! 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

March, 1951; Volume 3, No 2 / Issue 10. 5 1/4-in. x 7 1/2-in.; black and white; 162 pages. Cover price $0.35.