Comic books May 1957

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Cover by Bill Molno and Vince Alascia. Stories and art by Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio, Bill Molno, Vince Alascia, and Sal Trapani. Racket Squad's focus on swindlers and con games allowed it to survive the Comics Code longer than most Pre-Code crime comics. An accident and a smashed window is but the first act of Tuffy's loan-sharking scheme targeting a small-business owner. A policewoman goes undercover to discover how a phony medium is conning the wealthy and bereaved. Con Burkley makes a tidy profit selling other people's houses at a bargain - even though they're not for sale. Through the Broken Window; The Spirits; Rancid; Train Robbers; Mansions for Sale; His Brothers Keeper. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 204, Issue 3 - May 3, 1957. 6.75" x 9", 118 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Cover art by Joe Maneely. "Code of Honor!", art by Dick Ayers; The Rawhide Kid is riding into Shotgun City when he spots a young man named Jimmy Alton just as he appears to be escaping from a bank robbery; As the boy tries to escape, the Kid notices that he is highly skilled in the tricks of the trade, but still manages to capture him and bring him back anyway. "The New Sheriff," art by Joe Maneely. "The Lost Spur!", art by Dick Ayers; The Rawhide Kid and his ward Randy Clayton spot a fire that is raging on Professor Scott's ranch and come to the aid of the Professor's family; They are too late to stop the fire from destroying Scott's home, but the Professor and his family manage to escape; Scott explains to the Rawhide Kid that some masked men burned his home to the ground. "Race Against Time!", art by Dick Ayers; Hearing that Faro James was plotting to rob the Gold Cost Express which was carrying a large sum of gold, the Rawhide Kid races to the train on his horse Apache and jumps aboard; The Kid doesn't know what Faro looks like so he begins provoking other passengers to see if they will reveal themselves as James. "The Texas Gunhawk," script by Stan Lee, art by George Tuska. Untitled story, art by Dick Ayers; The Rawhide Kid is riding across the range when he comes across a dead panther and its surviving cub; Unable to see the young panther starve in the wild, the Kid decides to take it back to the ranch, thinking it would make a great surprise for his ward Randy Clayton. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume B, Issue 3 - May 1957. Men's interest magazine featuring adventure stories and photos of buxom bombshells. "The Claw and the Crown of St. Stephen". 8 1/2-in. x 11-in. 98 pages B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Vintage men's interest magazine that focuses on adventure short fiction stories, true crime, war updates, and pin-up photography. 8.5" x 11", 82 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Photo cover features Rex Allen. Stories and art by Alex Toth and Bill Ziegler. Western action with movie cowboy Rex Allen. Rex and a young cowhand are targeted by the Muller Gang, in a story with early art by comics legend Alex Toth. Rex investigates after his friend Thad is framed for the robbery of the Empire Hotel. The story of the locomotive called "Little Emma." California Joe; The Yellow Robber; Man Without a Horse; Little Emma; Friend or Foe; A Laugh a Day. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

10¢ Cover Price. Photo cover of the famous dog. Article on trading in the Navaho reservation. Ramrod, art by Sparky Moore; A new general is arriving and he doesn't seems to like dogs and boys, or anything else. Untitled Paul Bunyan, Jr. story, art by August Lenox; Paul captures a would-be robber on the keelboat by hauling him straight up by the halyard. The Trail of Crafty Joe text story. Mirage, art by Sparky Moore; Outlaws dressed up as soldiers are trying to bust Butch out of jail in Fort Apache. Fact page on how a rich silver vein called Gunsight Vein was found in the desert by George Dennis in 1860. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

15¢ Cover Price. Photo cover of the famous dog. Article on trading in the Navaho reservation. Ramrod, art by Sparky Moore; A new general is arriving and he doesn't seems to like dogs and boys, or anything else. Untitled Paul Bunyan, Jr. story, art by August Lenox; Paul captures a would-be robber on the keelboat by hauling him straight up by the halyard. The Trail of Crafty Joe text story. Mirage, art by Sparky Moore; Outlaws dressed up as soldiers are trying to bust Butch out of jail in Fort Apache. Fact page on how a rich silver vein called Gunsight Vein was found in the desert by George Dennis in 1860. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.15.

Vol. 36 #7 - Aug. 1957. Boxing magazine. Features articles, departments, ratings, fight reports around the world and more. 8 1/4-in. x 10 3/4-in., 66 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

Richfield presents Rockets and Range Riders (1957) is an educational and promotional giveaway comic fully illustrated (cover and all interior art) by the legendary Alex Toth. Distributed by the Richfield Oil Company to promote Boron gasoline. A boy, his father, and his grandfather watch a rocket test in the American West. The boy tells Gramps how Boron makes rocket fuel more powerful. Gramps thinks Boron is some newfangled substance, but the boy tells him that it is element number five on the Atomic Scale, and that he has seen it before - as Borax. Gramps then tells the story of how he was a gold prospector in his youth. We see a great Western adventure sequence, with art similar to Toth's great work in the Zorro comic book. Gramps has finally found some gold nuggets, but two claim jumpers want to steal the claim from him. He barely gets away from the gunslingers. He is saved by a mule train carrying Borax, almost. The gunslingers find Grandpa, and he is wounded in a shootout. Unfortunately for Gramps, he loses his gold and ends up with a load of borax! Gramps' grandson relates that boron is considered as good as gold by many today. He tells Gramps all about the many uses of boron--in plastics, steel, medicine, agriculture, and rocket fuel! Then Dad tells Gramps and son how Boron is even more important as an additive for gasoline! We learn how Richfield makes a gasoline containing Boron. The back cover features a great ad for Richfield's Boron gasoline. The inside front cover shows a nice ad for Disney's Tomorrowland. 16 pages, full color, standard comic book dimensions, all newsprint, no cover price.

Vintage men's interest magazine full of articles, short fiction, Adult oriented comic strips, and tasteful nude pin-up photography. 8" x 11", 80 pages, Mostly B&W with some color pages. -MATURE CONTENT- Cover price $0.35.

Stories and art by Jo Albistur, Ray Bailey, John Prentice, Bob Powell and Bill Draut. Numbering continues from True Love Problems and Advice Illustrated (1949) #44. Tear-soaked tales of love, loss and reunion from Harvey. Fran finds love with Bob, but he's already promised to someone else, forcing them to make a difficult choice. David falls for Pam despite her disfiguring facial scars, but after she has plastic surgery, the dynamic in their relationship is changed. A poverty-stricken woman makes desperate choices. Like many stories reprinted from the comic's early incarnation as True Love Problems, this one has alterations to the art and text to conform to the Comics Code. The End of Love; Engagement Party; Can I Make a Go of it?; Marked Woman; Desperate Gamble; Perfect Love; Taking a Chance on Love. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Roscoe Vol. 4 No.3 "Tavern Presciption Selling" "(May 1957) is an in-house promotional comic book produced for the Falstaff Brewing Corp. by Vic Herman Studios. It was used to help company salesmen market Falstaff products. Ther are four main things to study in each tavern. Two pages of tips on how to plan your work day in partial comic book format, plus a two-page comic strip called "What Makes Taverns Tick." 8 pages, full color, white paper stock. 7-in.x10-in..

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Add to cart PR 0.5 $2.65 Interior is complete. 1/3 of front cover missing. Near full-length spine split. Brittle. Chipping.

Add to cart CGC 5.5 $150.00 View scan Paper: Off white to white Edgar Church (Mile High). Label #0072046006 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Photo cover of the famous singing cowboy. Three-Gun Treachery starring Roy Rogers, art by Nat Edson; Roy catches the robber of a stagecoach, but $30.000 is missing. Golden Ambush text story. Chuckwagon Charley's Tales story, script by Gaylord DuBois, art by Nicholas Firfires; how the dishpan saved the life of Charley in a hailstorm. The Roundup starring Trigger, script by Gaylord DuBois, art by Nat Edson; wild horses stampede into the roundup. The Indian Saddle fact page. View-Master ad with Donald Duck. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

"Wrong Writers," "Jet Age," "Sad Sack Goes to the Fair," "The Nightmare," and "Take Your Pick." 36 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.

May 11, 1957. Cover by Dick Sargent. The classic magazine featuring current event articles, editorials, human interest pieces, humor, illustrations, a letter column, poetry, single-panel gag cartoons, and stories by the leading writers of the time. 10.5" x 13.5", 164 pages, PC/PB&W Cover price $0.15.

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Vol. 1, No. 2 - May , 1957. 5.5" x 7.5", 132 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

Vintage men's interest magazine with articles, erotic short fiction stories, humorous adult comic strips, and tasteful nude/non-nude cheesecake pin-up pictorials. 8" x 10.5", 80 pages, B&W/Color. -MATURE READERS- Cover price $0.50.

Add to cart Very Good $13.00 View scans Paper: Cream Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart Very Good $13.00 View scans Paper: Off white Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $6.00 View scans Paper: Cream Front cover detached 25%. Back cover detached 20%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.

Cover by Ed Emshwiller. "Quick Freeze" by Robert Silverberg. Other stories by Milton Lesser, Donald Franson, L. Sprague de Camp, Winston K. Marks, Irving Cox Jr, and Gerald Macdow. Softcover pulp, 6 3/4-in. x 9 1/4-in., 95 pages, black and white (text with illustrations). Cover price $0.25.

Vol. 7, No. 6 - May , 1957. 5.25" x 7.5", 144 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

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.

Cover inks by Bernard Sachs. Stories by unknown. Art by Bernard Sachs and unknown. He wasn't going to let his love mail the letter! Mickey had come between them long enough! Read..."Love is a Riddle"! Plus: A young female painter finds out that there are more important things than her career (and the art critics don't like her work) in "Sweetheart's Wish!" Also featuring "Secret Love" and "Appointment with Heartbreak"! Plus: Oddities in Romance filler; Linda and Larry filler "Marriage Hint"; and letters page by Ann Martin, Counselor-at-Love. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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

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Cover by Maurice Whitman. Stories and art by Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio, Charles Nicholas and Vince Alascia. A showcase for popular Western heroes and movie cowboys. These mid-series issues feature Jingles and Wild Bill Hickok, main characters in the popular 1951-1958 television series "The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok." Jingles is assigned to guard the fortune in the town bank, but he's asleep when the outlaws show up... or is he? The widow Hawkins convinces Jingles not to use his guns during his on-duty time as the marshal's deputy. "Roving marshal" Lash LaRue tracks bank robbers to a hideout built right into the side of chalk mountain, a seemingly impenetrable fortress. Asleep at the Switch; Wild Bill Hickok...Is an Old Meanie!; Pinto Pete; Western Watermark; Don Jingles the Bandito; The Happy Horse Thief; Lash LaRue: One Man Fort. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

"A Trip for the Sheriff" (art by Gene Colan); "The Barton Gang Strikes" (art by Dick Ayers); "The Empty Holsters" (art by Bob Powell); "One of Our Deputies is Missing!" (art by Al Williamson); and "The Return of the Nevada Kid." Joe Maneely cover. Cover price $0.10.

"I Fled Three Wives" and "New Facts About the Third Sex" (Oh for the days when there were just three sexes – – whatever the third was – – and not the woke alphabets soup we now have!)

Volume 6, Issue 5 - May, 1957. Short-Lived men's interest digest magazine full of all the stuff that bachelors need to know, as well as lots of tasteful black and white pin-up photography. 4" x 5.5", 66 pages, B&W. -MATURE READERS- Cover price $0.15.

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Long running magazine featuring short news articles on musicians and bands, and lyrics to popular songs. 8-in. x 11-in., 36 pages, B&W Cover price $0.25.

Cover by Dick Giordano. Stories and art by Bill Molno, Vince Alascia, Jon D'Agostino, Sal Trapani and Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio. Another Charlton racing title combining technical jargon, old-fashioned romance and fisticuffs, and the great racecars of yesteryear. After unscrupulous rivals cause a life-altering crash, Denys is fine with retiring from racing - except that some people think he's a coward. "The car was green...everyone knows that's bad luck...and the number on the side was 13! To top it off, Jinx Gerrity was driving, making a package of bad luck that should have been easy to beat! But a redheaded gal named Midge had other ideas..." No improving on that. A female investor backs the rough-and-ready racer known as Hungry Joe. Plus famous racing cars from the early days of automobiles. Cowards Comeback; Jinx!; Chump or Champ; Your First Car, Oh; Famous Racing Cars; Hungry Joe. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Spooky - unlike his cousin, Casper the Friendly Ghost - loves to scare people, but his kindly ghost girlfriend Poil disapproves. Spooky's latest would-be victims are unperturbed, no matter how loud he boo's. Spooky has another chaotic day, thanks to his mischievous bat pal, Bat Belfry. Spooky; The Ghostly Trio; Nightmare; Wendy. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Jerry Grandenetti. Call For A Frogman, script by Robert Kanigher, art by Joe Kubert. Combat Umbrella, script by Bob Haney, pencils by Jerry Grandenetti, inks by Robert Stuart. Attack Time, script by Bill Finger, pencils by Ross Andru, inks by Mike Esposito. Periscope Rescue, script by Bill Finger, art by Russ Heath. Keep Up the Fire, script and pencils by Morris Waldinger, inks by Tom Nicolisi. Private Pete humor page by Henry Boltinoff. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.