Comic books October 1951

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Photo cover of the famous singing cowboy, plus interior photos. Rope Artists fact page, art by Bob Jenney. Roy Rogers finds the Tiger's Lair, art by Albert Micale; An outlaw and border-jumper named Apache Joe Sandal, a half-breed cutthroat, claims he fell in love with Tom's daughter, Nellie and aims to marry her. Raider's Reward starring Roy Rogers and Trigger, art by Albert Micale; Roy Rogers gets mixed up with a Medicine Show and bank robbers led by "Honey" Bock. The Madman of Grizzly Peak starring Roy Rogers and Trigger, art by the Al McKimson team. Outlaws of the Old West text story, art by Albert Micale. Back cover photo of Roy and Trigger. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Men's interest magazine focusing on Western adventure stories. 8.5" x 11", 98 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

October 1951. Science Fiction Newszine published by Bob Tucker. The first sixteen issues were called the Bloomington Newsletter. 20 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Screen Stars Magazine was one among many of the supermarket celebrity tabloids that focused heavily on the day to day lives of the Hollywood elite, during the golden-age of cinema. This publication is filled cover to cover with typical fodder such as candid celebrity photos (some of which are in color), gossip columns, reader's letters to the editor, and the latest motion picture advertisements. 8.5" x 10.5", 74 pages, mostly B&W with a few color photos. Cover price $0.15.

Original, pre-Code romance stories from Canadian publisher Superior, often featuring a crime or mystery element and plentiful good-girl art. Navy sailor Dan meets and woos Betty through the personals (like an online romance before computers), but on leave he learns that he's actually been communicating with Betty's younger sister, Peggy. Nelson and Beth get into a fight, and both risk their romance by having dinner with old flames. Returning veteran Rod adopts a young war refugee, but his fiancee Sandy isn't ready for that in any way - luckily, Anne is there for support. Wanted: A Mate; I Married a Bombshell; I Surrender; Shared Kisses. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Original, pre-Code romance stories from Canadian publisher Superior, often featuring a crime or mystery element and plentiful good-girl art. Navy sailor Dan meets and woos Betty through the personals (like an online romance before computers), but on leave he learns that he's actually been communicating with Betty's sister Peggy. Nelson and Beth get into a fight, and both risk their romance by having dinner with old flames. Returning veteran Rod adopts a young war refugee, but his fiancee Sandy isn't ready for that in any way - luckily, Anne is there for support. Plus a look at international marriage customs. Wanted - A Mate!; I Married a Bombshell; I Surrender; Shared Kisses; Romance Around the Globe. 36 pages, Full Color. NOTE: Cover shown is the Superior Publishers Canadian edition. Cover price $0.10.

Women's magazine with articles and fiction. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 82 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Cover pencils by Irwin Hasen, inks by Bernard Sachs. Secret of the Giant Forest starring Wonder Woman, art by Harry G. Peter. Varsity Vic humor page by Henry Boltinoff. Danger in the Everglades starring Doctor Pat. SOS From Space starring Astra, script by John Broome, pencils by Gil Kane. Take Back Your Heart--Romance, Inc., inks by Bernard Sachs. Old Folks Are People Too! public service announcement with Buzzy, script by Jack Schiff, art by Win Mortimer. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 6, Issue 2 - October 1951 - College humor magazine independently published by students at Illinois State University, beginning in 1946. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 28 pages, B&W. MATURE READERS. Cover price $0.25.

October 6, 1951. Film trade publication with lots of news. 9.25 in. x 12.25 in.; black and white; 28 pages.

October 20, 1951. Film trade publication with lots of news. Though usually a black-and-white publication, this isue includes 8 pages in color: 6 promoting Universal releases, and a double-page spread featuring the movie poster for Adventures of Captain Fabian starring Errol Flynn. 9.25 in. x 12.25 in.; 42 pages.

October 27, 1951. Film trade publication with lots of news. Double-page ad for "My Favorite Spy" starring Bob Hope and Hedy Lamarr. 9.25 in. x 12.25 in.; black and white; 36 pages.

Volume 21, Issue 12 - October 1951. Vintage monthly published magazine with a focus on the film industry as a whole. First published in November of 1930, publication continued through the late 1970s. Priding itself as a source for exclusive behind the scenes stories about filmmaking, Silver Screen also contained a fair amount of articles about celebrities, their relationships, the latest in fashion, and film reviews. This issue features the articles "And So We Were Married" by Janet Leigh, and "Love is My Problem" by Marilyn Monroe, 74 pages. 8.5 in. x 10.5 in. B&W Cover price $0.15.

Articles on sports, crime, and adventuring, plus pin-up photos. 8" x 10.5". 66 pages. B&W. -MATURE READERS- Cover price $0.25.

Cover by Ken Bald. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Art by Leonard Starr, Al Gordon, and Charles Sultan. Tales of adventure from legendary early independent comics publisher ACG. Ace Carter tries to save a beautiful woman and a fortune in diamonds from the mysterious Captain Crocodile; Lance Larson gets caught between revolutionaries and a dictator in South America; The true tale of teen privateer and war hero Joshua Barney. Ace Carter, Adventurer; Java Sea Episode; True Soldiers of Fortune: Captain Joshua Barney; Jungle Jeopardy; Lance Larson, Soldier of Fortune. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover and three stories with art by George Tuska. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ernie Bushmiller. Stories and art by Alex Toth, Ernie Bushmiller, Rudolph Dirks, Leonard Sansone, Warren Tufts and Ernest G. Osborne. United's anthology featured reprints of early comic strips, including Casey Ruggles, Captain and the Kids and Nancy. Casey learns the secret of the strange flying man called Aquila, and meets him in final combat. The art assistant on this story was a young Alex Toth. The Captain and the Kids get shipwrecked on an island, where the Kids cause havoc with their new pet hippo. The Family Workshop; Nancy; Captain and the Kids; Casey Ruggles; Willie. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Spirit Weekly Newspaper Comic Insert. 7-1/2 x 10 inches, 8 Pages, full color, all newsprint with no slick cover. Not Eisner.

Spirit Weekly Newspaper Comic Insert. 7-1/2 x 10 inches, 16 Pages, full color, all newsprint with no slick cover. Not Eisner.

Spirit Weekly Newspaper Comic Insert. 7-1/2 x 10 inches, 16 Pages, full color, all newsprint with no slick cover. Not Eisner.

Spirit Weekly Newspaper Comic Insert. 7-1/2 x 10 inches, 16 Pages, full color, all newsprint with no slick cover. Not Eisner.

Volume 2, Issue 3 - October 1951. Men's adventure magazine featuring articles on sports, hunting politics and crime. 10-in. x 13-in., 66 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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George Rogers Clark Hero of Vincennes, art by H. C. Kiefer. Gyorgy Dozsa and the Throne of Fire, pencils by Ed Goldfarb, inks by Bob Baer. Baseball and the Abner Doubleday Myth, pencils by Harry Harrison, inks by Ernie Bache. Oddities in Stamps fact two-pager. The Mail Must Go Through featuring The Pony Express, pencils by Ed Goldfarb, inks by Bob Baer. Man's First Flight starring Icarus. How to Collect Stamps article. The Leopard Men, pencils by Stephen Kirkel. 36 pgs. $0.15. Cover price $0.15.

Tomahawk in "Adventure in New York," Captain Compass in "The Bank That Sailed the Seven Seas," and Robin in "The Mystery of Trailer Town!" One-page Tootsie Roll ad, "Linda Wins for Captain Tootsie" by Bill Schreiber. Cover price $0.10.

October 1951. Volume XVI, No. 8. Children's magazine featuring stories, illustrations, songs and more. 68 pages, PC/PB&W, 7" x 10". Cover price $0.35.

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Art by Bob Powell and Fred Meagher. Cover by Fred Meagher. Rancher Steve Adams, a Comanche raised by white settlers, has a secret identity as the warrior Straight Arrow, a hero who first appeared on a popular radio show. Straight Arrow is captured by Professor Morey's crime school, and subjected to an inventive torture involving rattlesnakes frozen in a slowly-melting block of ice. A strange wolf-cowled renegade attacks Cheyenne hunters with a pack of trained wolves. A white doctor must operate on a Comanche chieftain's daughter, but a fearful medicine man tries to sabotage the operation. The Educated Outlaws; Death from Nowhere!; Red Hawk: The Fanged Killer!; The Ugly One. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Captain Comet stars in "When the Earth Was Kidnapped!" (story by Edgar Ray Merritt, art by Murphy Anderson); "Artist of Other Worlds!" (story by Edmond Hamilton, art by Alex Toth); "The Man Who Televised Time!" (story by Gardner Fox; art by Gil Kane/Carmine Infantino?); and "The Hidden People!" (story by Hugh Davidson). Kane cover pencils. 44 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

The Shadow, art by Joe Maneely; When a man's rival slugs him and he falls and breaks his neck, he doesn't realize that he's dead until he notices the absence of his shadow; Eventually he spies the shadow and it darts away from him. The Man Who Never Was, art by John Romita? (ghost) [as Les Zakarin]; A man who conceives of Death as a person is wiped out of existence along with his friends. Trapped In the Cave of Horror text story. Invisible Death, art by Mike Sekowsky. The Madman, art by Joe Maneely; A man is turned invisible by a spiteful poltergeist. Voodoo, art by Bill LaCava; A man gets a voodoo practitioner to cause his wife to die, but when he finds out she has inherited a large sum of money, he asks the practitioner to call off the spell. 36 pgs. $0.10. Atom bomb panel. Cover price $0.10.

Vintage magazine featuring stories about, and tips for those interested in the nudist way of life. Softcover Magazine, 8" x 11", 32 pages, B&W. -MATURE READERS- Cover price $0.50.

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Supermouse in "Knighthood Daze" and "There Was a Crooked Man." Butch and Buttercup in "Three's a Crowd." Cover price $0.10.

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Features Superhombre, Garlitos el Pegador, Rodeo el Hombre de Texas, Veloz y Su Formula Magica, Lucho Villegas, Congo Bill, Tommy Futuro and Hacha Brava. 9-in. x 11 1/2-in sizes vary throughout this series. 20 pages, B&W. Spanish Language.

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Cover art by Win Mortimer. The Unfunny Prankster starring Superman, The Prankster, and The Financier [Van Retz], script by Alvin Schwartz, pencils by Wayne Boring, inks by Stan Kaye. The Private Life of Perry White, script by Edmond Hamilton. The Man Who Knew All the Words by R. Fairbanks; Noah Webster bio. The Flight of the Failures starring Superman, Harvey Follensby, Manton, Miss Starr, and Evan, sscript by Bill Woolfolk, inks by Stan Kaye. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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"The Dark Road" (art by Russ Heath), "The Trumpet!" (art by Joe Maneely), "You're Killing Me!" (art by Norman Steinberg), "Draw Me a Picture," "Fingers of Fire," and "The Old Woman" (art by Paul Reinman). Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Samm Schwartz. "Professor Doodle's Doodles," script and art by Sam Schwartz; Professor Doodle demonstrates some of his latest inventions. "Tux Free," script and art by Sam Schwartz; Ferdie borrows a magician friend's tuxedo for a date with Suzie. "Hare Today Gone Tomorrow," script and art by Sam Schwartz; Ferdie tries out his ventriloquist act on Suzie's dad. "Doing What Comes Unnaturally," script and art by George Frese; Ginger's cheap, miserly, money-loving Uncle Scragg visits. "The Story Writer," script and art by Sam Schwartz; Suzie and Ferdie attempt to write a short story to win $500. Suzie's Movie Diary article; Suzie does movie reviews. "Safety First," script and art by Sam Schwartz; Suzie is learning to drive. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Photo cover. "Flight to Destiny"; Elaine loves pilot Steve but is jealous of fellow stewardess Marlene; Their plane crashes on a flight to Hawaii and the survivors reach shore; Steve and Marlene are injured so Elaine goes for help but Marlene dies before rescuers arrive; Elaine blames herself. "My Deception!"; Tina is elderly Mrs. Mercers paid companion; She "borrows" earrings and loses them, and juggles the household accounts; Grocery clerk Nick covers for Tina and she agrees to date him in return; He uses Mrs. Mercers house to store stolen goods and strikes the homeowner when she confronts him. "Find My Love" text story by John Martin. "One Alone"; Rina travels with a fast crowd and thinks pianist Harvey is a square; He tutors her in piano and falls in love with her but she isnt interested; Rina gets a job playing piano for a dance band, rejecting Harveys classical teaching, then realizes he was right and that she loves him. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.