Comic books June 1953

Edited by Stan Lee. Cover pencils by Sol Brodsky. Stories by Carl Wessler and unknown. Art by Eddie Robbins, Don Perlin, Dick Ayers, George Roussos and unknown. The strangest stories ever told! In this issue: "The Man with No Face" with art by Eddie Robbins - An ambulance driver is hired by a strange doctor to transport accident victims to his private nursing home, but he begins to suspect that something is not quite right; "A Thousand Years Later" with art by Don Perlin - A German scientist invents a time machine and travels to 2953, where a man fills him in about the intervening thousand years; "The Two Dollar Bill" with story by Carl Wessler and pencils by Dick Ayers - When a crook shoots and robs a man he finds an unlucky two dollar bill on him, then has trouble getting rid of it; "In the Bag" - In a hotel, a crook steals a bag, not realizing what's in it; "The Hunter of Men" by Carl Wessler and George Roussos - A sadistic prison guard chases an escaped homicidal maniac back to the maniac's family home; and 2-page text story "The Little People"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 2, Issue 6 - June, 1953. 8.5" x 10.5", 100 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Volume 53, Issue 210 - June, 1953. Digest-size UK men's magazine. Articles, humor, and pin-up photos. 5" x 7.25", 148 pages, B&W with color.

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Cover art by Bill Everett. A Vampire Is Born, script by Stan Lee, art by Fred Kida; this story reveals that Stalin was a vampire. Escape to the Moon!, script by Stan Lee, art by Russ Heath; A spy fails in his effort to steal an element required in the construction of a hydrogen bomb so he knows he faces death if caught by the police or the Communists. Genius!, script by Stan Lee, art by Joe Maneely; A super intellect grows tired among life on Earth as mere humans are like children to him when he receives a telepathic message from what appears to be a beautiful woman on Saturn imploring him to build a rocket to journey to her. The Madman, script by Stan Lee, art by Bill Everett; Nurse Jane Bryant arrives at the mysterious Hagstone Sanitarium for a job, but she is really there on a secret mission of her own. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Art by Frank Carin and others. Cover by Frank Carin. Funny-animal stories for kids from publisher Avon, featuring Merry Mouse and his friends. Merry gets a job delivering a singing telegram to a wealthy heiress, but mistakes burglars for her servants; Flat Foot Floogle investigates a coast-to-coast toy breakdown epidemic; Merry Mouse encounters cannibals. Goat-Propelled!; From Song to Sing-Sing!; Tiger Kitty!; Flat Foot Floogle; The Haunted House; Cannibal Territory!; A Real Reel!; Modern Art!; Bee's Beezness! 32 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. 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.

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.

No. 6, June 1953 - German language reprint. 32 pages, full color.

No. 6, June 1954 - German language reprint. 32 pages, full color.

Art by Art Bartsch, Jim Tyer and Connie Rasinski. The world's mightiest mouse defends Mouseville from danger - mostly cats - in the comic-book adventures of the Terrytoons animated superhero. 100-page giant. In a three-part story, micestronauts are stranded on the moon by the Claw's treachery. Professor Ohm joins forces with the moon's "Dart Men" to capture the spacefaring mice. Rabbit Rollo builds his own plane, but he doesn't reckon on the weather or the eagles in the upper atmosphere. Oil Can Harry threatens Pearl Pureheart with a mad bull and that old melodrama standby, a runaway locomotive. Plus a Mitzi solo adventure where she saves herself, thanks to a book. Dart Men of the Moon; Farmer Alfalfa; Little Roquefort; Suit Looted; The Perils of Pearl Pureheart; The Reckless Rabbit; Mitzi Mouse; Hectic Honeymoon; Gandy Goose: Tricky Business; Dinky: All Aboard; Gandy Goose: All Washed Up; Jungle Terror; Denizens of the Deep. 100 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.25.

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Stories by Stan Lee. Art and Cover by Dan DeCarlo. Millie the Model in: two untitled stories; five untitled 1-pagers; and "Millie's Fashion Page"! Plus: untitled Chili story; 2-page text story "Dream Girl" (creators unknown); and untitled Daisy and Iggy story. 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.

Vol. 2, No. 12. June 1953. Vintage Men's magazine featuring articles, pictorials, and pin-ups. This issue features "Bloody Blades of Battle", "Backstage at the London Casino", "Ships That Never Sailed the Sea", and more. Cover by Jack Stager. MATURE. Cover price $0.50.

Vintage celebrity gossip tabloid with a focus on Hollywood during the golden-age of cinema. 8.5" x 11.5", 116 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.20.

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French language movie magazine. 8.25" x 12", 16 pages, B&W. NOTE: French Language.

Movie cowboy Monte Hale wanders the frontier, cleaning up the West one outlaw at a time. Monte sets out to find the truth behind the ghostly figures seen haunting a cave on the Shoshona Trail. Monte decides to turn the tables on a carny con-man who's running a fool's-gold swindle, leading to a chase around the carnival. A hero-worshipping kid goads deputy Jawbone Jeffers into a fight with Fierce Fred Pierce, twice his size and even meaner. Revenge; The Ghosts in the Night; Bronko Betsy; The Costly Bargain; The Hateful Wastrel; Old Slick; Jawbone Jeffers: Nero's Hero; The Prisoner of the Wheel Chair. Final issue published by Fawcett; Charlton took over with issue #83, published two years later in 1955. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Vol. 5, No. 6 - June, 1953. Includes articles on Studebaker and Oldsmobile 88. 8 1/4" x 10 3/4", 82 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Photo cover of Kazah the Great (Paul Henreid) and Princess Zendi (Patricia Medina). Patricia Medina bio with photo. "Siren of Bagdad," art by Harold LeDoux; Adaptation of the 1953 movie; A magician uses his powers and his magic box to save slave girls In ancient Bagdad. Brief bios on Susan Hayward, David O. Selznick, Jess Barker, Timothy Barker, and Gregory Barker. Paul Henreid bio with photo. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 1, Number 4 - June 1953. 8.5" x 11", 100 pages, B&W Cover price $0.25.

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Cover by Win Mortimer. Stories by Morris Waldinger, Henry Boltinoff and unknown. Art by Howard Purcell, Charles Paris, Morris Waldinger, Henry Boltinoff, H.T. Elmo and unknown. Brand-new adventures of TV and radio's favorite! Mr. District Attorney in: "A Crime Is Born" with art by Howard Purcell and Charles Paris; "Bomb Squad" with art by Purcell and Paris; and "Operation Annie K" with art by Purcell and Paris. Also in this issue: A Casebook Mystery "The Case of the Night-Shift Scandal"; "Message from the Beat!" half-pager by Morris Waldinger; Casey the Cop 1-pager by Henry Boltinoff; "Strange Laws!" 1-pager by Waldinger; Quick Quiz half-pager by H.T. Elmo; and The Crime File 2-page text article. 32 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), Jay Scott, 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 buys a used car. Jeff's twin brother Julius drops by to cause more confusion. Plus a PSA about carelessness. Mutt & Jeff; Cicero's Cat; Peter Porkchops Learns Carelessness Is no Joke!; Safety on Our Highways. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Al Hartley. Stories by Paul S. Newman and unknown. Art by Jay Scott Pike, Al Hartley and unknown. "Should a Girl Wait" by Paul S. Newman and Jay Scott Pike - Elaine and Eddie are engaged but he's drafted into the Army and sent to Korea. After one date with another man, Elaine resolves to wait for Eddie, eschewing any social life for 2 years. Eddie finally returns and they wed: "The wait was worth it!" Plus: "Tony's Kiss" - Gwen is engaged to Billy, but he sees her kissing playboy Tony at a party. Gwen insists Tony kissed her against her will, and was put up to it by the jealous Lil. Tony meets Gwen later and kisses her again, causing Billy and Gwen to break up. Gwen admits to her mother that she loves Tony, but he's left town. However, Tony writes to say he really does love Gwen, and they are reunited. Also: "A Shoulder to Lean On" - Betty meets Jim while on a ski vacation and they become close friends. However, he tells her "I never plan to marry!" because he was an orphan and grew up independent and unwilling to depend on anyone else. When Betty and Jim are trapped by a blizzard and he goes snow-blind, he has to rely on Betty. This makes Jim realise that he loves Betty and is willing to share his life with her. And: "Marion Gets Married!" with pencils by Al Hartley - Marion marries engineer Frank and they move to his family mansion in New York. Marion is at first overwhelmed by her new life, but when Frank returns from a business trip he discovers she's undergone a glamorous makeover and has been throwing parties. Marion explains she did this to try and fit in with his society friends, but Frank says he prefers "the sweet, simple girl I married." They reconcile and will travel the world together, wherever Frank's job takes him. (Note: This story is continued from the previous issue.) Issue also has 2-page text story "No Room for Love." 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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"Swamp Horror"; A man chases away a woman who comes to his cabin; The woman is his mother just released from an insane asylum; She dies, but returns every night until she chases him out of the house. "The Screaming Room"; A man has been raised to fear committing any sins; He receives a vase from the devil which allows him to remove a sin from his conscience when it is spoken into the vase. "Goddess of Vengeance" text story. "Monsters Three"; Uranium prospectors are attacked by uranium creatures; Two prospectors are killed; The remaining two evade the creatures until they are hit by lightning and destroyed in an atomic explosion. "Revenge in Small Form"; A woman breaks up with a man when the man's money dries up; The man places a curse on a voodoo doll and gives it to the woman; The man's brother arrives and, although killed by the woman, uses his last breaths to kill the woman with the doll. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Ed Goldfarb, Bob Baer, and Jon D'Agostino. Pre-Code tales of horror and the supernatural from Story Comics. A geologist has a narrow escape from a voodoo tribe in the South Pacific...or so he thinks. A sadistic football coach meets an ironic fate, "Foul Play"-style. The owner of a crematorium thinks he has a way of getting rid of his unfaithful wife, but she returns for revenge. The Human Clay; A Dead Ball; Haunted Houses; Money Hungry; Flame Thrower! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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"Ghoulash," art by Bill Savage. "Chef's Delight"; A vile famous chef named Francois Nicole, treats everyone in his life like garbage except his rich girlfriend whom he lavishes money on; Meanwhile his wife and two children are left to suffer in squalid conditions; Francois doesn't care about his family and treats them like animals; After Francois beats his wife and his young son (who dies as a result of appendicitis after the attack), his wife snaps. "Grave Information" text story by Ellen Lynn. "No Noose is Good Noose," art by Charles Nicholas; a demon is a hangman. "Partners in Death"; a tale of a slimy corpse. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

"Hollywood in Space" (pencils by Mort Drucker), "Destination--Star" (art by Carmine Infantino), "The Interplanetary Restaurant" (pencils by Gil Kane, inks by Joe Giella), and "Earth's Double Invasion" (art by Murphy Anderson). 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Joe Maneely. The Room That Isn't There, pencils by Dick Ayers. It's Too Expensive to Die!, art by Howie Post. Assassination!, art by George Tuska. The Flying Saucer That Was text story. The Scavenger, art by Manny Stallman. Never Say Die! 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Summer 1953. Scottish/UK SF Magazine. Cover by Bob Clothier. Stories by E. C. Tubb, William F. Temple, David S. Gardner, Michael Hervey, Charles Beaumont, and H. J. Campbell. Illustrations by Alan Hunter, Bob Clothier, Gerard Quinn, Jack Wilson. 5 1/82-in. x 8 1/2-in., 120 pages, Text

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52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.