Comic books October 1951

Photo Cover. Stories by unknown. Art by Charles Quinlan and unknown. She wouldn't stand by and let her man be stolen from her -- not without a fight! Don't miss the heart rendering story of Kaye Warren's bitter battle to win her man in "Flames of Fury," also starring Ronny Stevens, Donald Prescott and Gloria Farnsley. Also featuring "Men Were My Hobby" starring Babs Blanchard, Miss Morgan, Paul Delwood and Todd Morgan and "Stolen Kisses" (pencils by Charles Quinlan) starring Diana Dunlop, Jeff Burton, Peggy Crowder and Colonel Stanley. Plus the retitled reprint story "I Loved an Actor" starring Marcia Farrell, Steve Prince, Hal Gage and E.C. Farrell. And: 1-page text story "A Night to Remember" starring Lenore Grant. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

These are Canadian reprints of US romance comics Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Harry Anderson. Cover featured in Scott Shaw's Oddball Comics. Offbeat romance comic, from pioneering female publisher Rae Herman of Orbit-Wanted, often featured early work by future comics legends. "Carny girl" Trina falls for handsome local Keith after the carnival comes to Morristown. But to win his love, she must overcome the townies' prejudice against carnies. A woman who prides herself on her intellect thinks she's too smart to fall in love...and then she meets him. Branded!; Too Smart For Love; S.O.S. For Love; Never Say Goodbye. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Photo cover. Stories by unknown. Art by John Forte, Charles Quinlan, Bill Ward, Sam Citron and unknown. Love letters and the revealing tales of the lovers who wrote them! In this issue: "Second Fiddle"; "Back Door to Fame" with art by John Forte and Bill Ward; "Glamour Mad" with pencils by Charles Quinlan; 1-page text story "Time for the Wedding"; and "Career Girl" with inks by Sam Citron, reprinted from Love Confessions (1949) #6 (with altered art; original title: "Pitfall of Kisses"). 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Sid Greene, Robert Martinott, Fred Kida, Al Wenzel, Frank Bolle and Eloise Taylor. From the publisher of Crime Does Not Pay, Lover's Lane offered somewhat edgier, more lurid tales than other romance comics of the era. On their wedding night, Sue regrets marrying Lee and wonders if she should have married Chuck after all. Mark and Olive agree to date other people while he's in the service, but neither of them really wants to. Vera and Walt fall in love while trying to set up their widowed parents with each other. Classic nursesploitation painted cover by an unknown artist. Honeymoon Story; Restaurant Manners; I'm In Love; Another Love Another Kiss; The Love Clinic; Love Problems; How Did He Propose? 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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October 1951. Cover by George Salter. "Dress of White Silk" by Richard Matheson, plus other fantasy and science fiction stories by Alfred Bester, H. Russell Wakefield, Richard Deming, Joseph H. Gage, Donald A. Wollheim (as David Grinnell), Richard Brookbank, Margaret St. Clair (as Idris Seabright), L. Sprague DeCamp & Fletcher Pratt, and Cornell Woolrich. Softcover. 5.5-in. x 7.5-in. 132 pages, black and white (all text). Cover price $0.35.

"The Man Who Turned Yellow," "The Demon of Devil's Island" (art by Robert Q. Sale), "The Black Robe" (art by Jerry Robinson), and "The Gift of Gab" (art by Allen Ballman). Two-page text story, "The Final Victory." Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Pete Costanza. Stories and art by Otto Binder, Kurt Schaffenberger and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. When Billy Batson's radio station gets into TV broadcasting (a hot topic in 1951), Sivana decides to bend the new technology to his own nefarious purposes. The Marvel Family must stop him, in an issue-length, multi-part adventure that asks the question, "Will television reach around the world like radio in the near future?" Sivanas Terrible Television Plot, Chapter One: The Sivana Bomb Strikes; Trouble for Two; Boxcar Benny; Chapter Two: Doom to USA-TV; Lazy Lee; Chapter Three: The World-TV Man Hunt; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry: Syncopation Sap; Scribbling Scribbs. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Edited by Stan Lee. Cover by Sol Brodsky and Christopher Rule. Stories by Hank Chapman and unknown. Art by Paul Reinman, Ross Andru, Jerry Robinson, Manny Stallman and unknown. The strangest stories ever told! In this issue: Paul doesn't know what he'll find down there, but he's got to know the secret of the creature with the..."Touch of Death" by Hank Chapman and Paul Reinman. Plus: "When Time Stood Still" with pencils by Ross Andru; "Behind the Mask" with art by Jerry Robinson; "The Ink Blots!" with art by Manny Stallman; and 2-page text story "The Devil Is Davy Jones"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 30, Issue 2 - October, 1957. 6.75' x 9.75", 114 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.20.

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Cover art by Kurt Schaffenberger. The Light That Failed, art by Bill Ward; Captain Marvel, Jr. starring Mancat. Bushwhacked, pencils by Carl Pfeufer, inks by John Jordan; Someone is stealing horses one at a time and Tom Mix thinks that Husky and Gingo are behind it; While out trying to find out what is going on, Tony is stolen and Tom left knocked out; Husky and Gingo find him and decide to get payback for Tom putting them in jail. The Knights of the Jungle starring Nyoka the Jungle Girl. Maddening Mystery text story by Rod Reed. 36 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.

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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.

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.

No. 2 October, 1951 - German language reprint. 32 pages, full color.

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The Jungle That Time Forgot. Cover by Ross Andru and Mike Esposito. Stories and art by Ross Andru, Mike Esposito and Harry Kantor. The adventures of pro wrestler Mr. Universe was the only comic published by "Mr. Publishing," an imprint of Stanley Morse publishing. In an issue-length story, Mr. Universe and pals Jeff and Scarcely Able find a lost city in the jungle where the natives hail Mr. U. as "The Golden One" and fear the prehistoric flying beasts they call "The Terrible Ones." Art and cover by future Marvel artists Ross Andru and Mike Esposito. 32 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", 60 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Vintage celebrity gossip tabloid with a focus on Hollywood during the golden-age of cinema. 8.5" x 11.5", 130 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

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Stories and art by Dick Kraus and Leonard Frank. Movie cowboy Monte Hale wanders the frontier, cleaning up the West one outlaw at a time. Monte tries to find out how executed highwayman Banko Simms has seemingly returned from the grave with revenge on his mind. Figure of fun Gabby Hayes gets into a fight over painting a barn with a young farmhand named Rem Brandt. Long-retired lawman Pop Craig decides to strap on his guns one more time to help Monte find The Outlaws of Bat Cavern. Plus vintage ads for cereal-box prizes, including the "Magic Moving Picture Eye" and Walt Disney mini-comics. Dead Man's Rendezvous; Gabby Hayes: Paint in the Neck; The Outlaws of Bat Cavern; Gray Hawk: Dance of the Wolf; Old Slick; Bronko Betsy; Rustler's Rockets. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Mel Keefer. Stories and art by Mel Keefer and others. US Marine Monty Hall (no relation to the game-show host) fights for America during the Korean War. Monty, Tex and Canarsie are tasked with safeguarding female war correspondent Randy Bailey on her trip to the front in Korea. Monty, Tex and Canarsie must parachute behind enemy lines in an attempt to destroy the Inchon dam. Marine "Pin-Up Pete" discusses women he has known, an excuse to present full-page pin-ups featuring good-girl art. Monty Hall and the Girl Photographer; Guerilla Fighter; Tex Finds a Pal!; The Bull Session; Pin-Up Pete. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra cover and feature article. Also articles and features on Shelley Winters, Bing Crosby, Peter Lawford , Montgomery Clift and more. Full-page movie ads include Texas Carnival, Silver Anniversary for Warner Brothers, A Place in the Sun, Saturday's Hero, A Millionaire for Christy. Profusely illustrated with photographs. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 98 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Photo cover of Hendrik van der Zee (James Mason), Pandora Reynolds (Ava Gardner), Steve Singleton (John Payne), and Katherine Shelley (Rhonda Fleming). "D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S Ava Gardner" article with photo. "Pandora and the Flying Dutchman"; Adaptation of the 1951 movie; A seductive woman falls for the captain of a mysterious ship. Olivia De Haviland bio story, art by Frank Fogarty. Montgomery Clift bio story, art by Fred Guardineer. Faith Domergue bio story, art by Frank Fogarty and Cal Cagno. "Crosswinds," art by Henry Kiefer; Adaptation of the 1951 movie; An adventurous man tries to recover gold from a sunken plane. Famous Funnies Patterns ad. "'Masculine' James Mason" bio with photo. 52 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Otto Feuer. Out West starring the Raccoon Kids, art by Otto Feuer; The boys take a trip out west and get involved with Indians and oil rustlers. Weather For Sale starring Custer Cat and Cheesy the Mouse, art by Rube Grossman; Cheesy sells Custer his weather making business. Bernard Goes to Switzerland starring Bernard the Brave, art by Otto Feuer; Bernard goes to Switzerland where he can be a REAL St Bernard. Gonna Build a Mountain starring Nip and Chip, art by Otto Feuer. The Goblin! starring Fraidy Cat, art by Otto Feuer. Balloon Race starring the Raccoon Kids, art by Otto Feuer. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Win Mortimer and Charles Paris. Stories by Dick Wood, Ed Herron, Morris Waldinger, Al McLean and unknown. Art by Howard Purcell, Charles Paris, Bernard Baily, Bill Ely, Morris Waldinger, Al McLean and unknown. Brand-new adventures of radio's No. 1 hit! Mr. District Attorney in: "Diary of a Criminal!" by Dick Wood, Howard Purcell and Charles Paris; "The Big Basketball Fix!" by Wood, Purcell and Paris; and "The Gang with 1,000 Gimmicks!" by Ed Herron, Purcell and Paris. Also in this issue: "Counterfeit Oddities!" 1-pager by Morris Waldinger; "I Trap Art Racketeers" with art by Bernard Baily; A Casebook Mystery "The Case of the Midget Auto Classic!" with art by Bill Ely; The Crime File 2-page text article; Beware the Rackets half-pager "The Magic Money Machine" by Al McLean; and Crime Curios! 1-pager. 48 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Sheldon Mayer (credited as Bud Fisher). Stories and art by Al Smith (credited as Bud Fisher), Jack Schiff, and Otto Feuer. DC reprints the comic strip that defined the comic strip, featuring the original tall-and-short comedy duo. Also featuring the "topper" strip Cicero's Cat. Jeff pretends to be drowning so he'll be rescued by the pretty lifeguards. In a surreal strip, Mutt and Jeff debate the comic timing of the very comic strip they're in. Jeff describes how to make a Good Gosh Sandwich. Plus a PSA about staying in school. Mutt & Jeff; Cicero's Cat; Lost -- A Free Education!; Teeners in Television. 40 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

"If the Coffin Fits..Get In!"; Two brothers fall in love with a mysterious woman they meet at a funeral; She leads them to a curio shop where they buy miniature coffins; Strangely, though, the wooden boxes begin to grow. "The Horror of Van Mort!", art by A. C. Hollingsworth; John Harvin rents a haunted house, waiting for the ghost of Van Mort to appear; When three friends from the city come visit him and scare him with a practical joke, the ghost rises. "Terror of the Ghostly Stallion" text story. "Ghost of the Un-Dead," art by Bill Fraccio; American marine lieutenant Allen kills a Muslim chieftain in Tripoli in 1815; The dying man puts a curse on all of his descendants; Every Allen visiting Tripoli ever after is being drained of his blood by the vampiristic ghost of the chieftain. "Terror of the Ancient Skeleton"; Dr. Luther digs up a skeleton from an Indian burial hill. The bones have mystical powers; whoever dislocates them, suffers terrible consequences. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Knights of the Galaxy in "Master of Doom" (script by Robert Kanigher as "Dion Anthony," pencils by Carmine Infantino?), "The End of the World" (script by Edmond Hamilton), "The Rocket Lanes of Tomorrow" (art by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby; 2 pages), and "The Man Who Walked Through Walls!" (script by John Broome as "Robert Starr"). Murphy Anderson art. One-page Tootsie Roll ad, "Linda Wins for Captain Tootsie" by Bill Schreiber. 44 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories, Art and Cover by Howie Post. America's red-headed riot! Nellie the Nurse stars in: "Vain Campaign"; "Dr. Dingbat's Dilemma"; "Her Perfume Problem"; and "Turnabout"! Also in this issue: 1-page text story "The Most Wonderful Thing on Skis" (writer unknown); 1-page text story "I Fought for My Love" (writer unknown); and Speedy and Ingy in "The Candy Caper"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 16, Issue 4 - October, 1951. 6.75" x 9", 114 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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October, 1951 Issue - 8.5" x 11", 100 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Issue #7 - October 1951. Literary short story fiction magazine. 6-in. x 9 1/2-in., 136 pages, no illustrations, text only, black and white. Cover price $0.50.