Comic books July 1948

"Venomous Lady" a novelette by John D. McDonald, and "Till Death Do Us Join" a short story by Theodore Sturgeon, plus "Undertaker's Delight" A short story by John Bender.

Featuring "I'll Mary A Killer!" written by Frederick C. Davis; "No Deadlier Worship" written by Marian O'Hearn. Cover price $0.15.

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. Cover price $0.15.

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Vol. 3, No. 4. July 1948. Magazine providing lyrics for popular songs of the time. Jeanne Crain cover. Full-page ad for "Winter Meeting" with Bette Davis. 8.5" x 11". 20 pages. Black and white. Cover price $0.15.

36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ernie Bushmiller. Stories and art by Burne Hogarth, Al Capp, Ernie Bushmiller, Jack Sparling, Charlie Plumb, Bernard Dibble, Ed Dodd, Rudolph Dirks, J. P. Williams, Arnie Mossler and Raeburn Van Buren. United's anthology featured reprints of early comic strips, including Tarzan, Li'l Abner and Nancy. The Captain and the Kids' prospecting adventure continues from the previous issue, as they search for gold in the Klondike. But the Kids' alteration of a wanted poster leads to the Captain being mistaken for outlaw Bloody Bill. Sue Groggins makes a play for Slats while Becky is away, in an Abbie an' Slats strip with fine art by Raeburn van Buren. Plus a Li'l Abner storyline by Al Capp and a Tarzan strip with art by Burne Hogarth. Li'l Abner; Hap Hopper; Nancy; Sluggo; Captain and the Kids; Sparkler's Stars of the Air; Tarzan; Dink O'Day; Abbie an Slats. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Spirit Weekly Newspaper Comic Insert. 7-1/2 x 10 inches, 16 Pages, full color, all newsprint with no slick cover. Scripts, pencils/inks by Eisner except where noted. Spirit by Andre Le Blanc.

Spirit Weekly Newspaper Comic Insert. 7-1/2 x 10 inches, 16 Pages, full color, all newsprint with no slick cover. Scripts, pencils/inks by Eisner except where noted.

Spirit Weekly Newspaper Comic Insert. 7-1/2 x 10 inches, 16 Pages, full color, all newsprint with no slick cover. Scripts, pencils/inks by Eisner except where noted.

Spirit Weekly Newspaper Comic Insert. 7-1/2 x 10 inches, 16 Pages, full color, all newsprint with no slick cover. Scripts, pencils/inks by Eisner except where noted. Ambrose Bierce's "The Thing" adaptation classic by Eisner/Grandenetti.

Add to cart PR 0.5 $109.95 or Best Offer View scan INCOMPLETE. Two center wraps missing, affects Star Spangled Kid story. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Robin in "The Boy Who Hated Robin," Robotman in "The Robot's Revenge," the Star-Spangled Kid in "The Crimes by Magic," and Tomahawk in "The Phantom of the Sea Spray!" One-page Tootsie Roll ad, "Captain Tootsie Traps the Circus Culprit" by C.C. Beck. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Alex Schomburg. The Slaves of Babylon starring Tygra, art by Art Saaf. The Tyrant of Mulda starring Lance Lewis. Tygra and the Vikings text story by Charles S. Strong. Baby Buggy Blues starring Jefferson Jones, art by Hal Sherman. Sinister Visitor text story by Donald Bayne Hobart. Teen Age Trues Seed Tycoon starring Billy Hepler. The Return of the Hook starring Sea Eagle. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $20.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white

Add to cart Very Good $23.00 View scans Paper: Off white Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $19.00 View scans Paper: Cream Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart Good $11.00 View scans Paper: Cream Front cover detached 10%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Moderate.

July 1948. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Henry Kuttner, Edmond Hamilton, L. Ron Hubbard, Jack Vance, Margaret St. Clair, and Walt Sheldon. Six Virgil Finlay illustrations. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 150 pages. Cover price $0.20.

Cover by Jerry Fasano. Stories and art by Gil Kane, Allen Ulmer, Ray Willner, Phil Berube, Mike Roy, Sam Burlockoff, Larz Bourne and Jerry Fasano. Teen comedy from Famous Funnies, featuring early art by comics legend Gil Kane. Jazz kitties the Hepcats would rather listen to jazz records than chase mice. Randy hopes to win a "midget" car race. Joan and Honey save a pedestrian, stop a crook and find a lost boy during a day's shopping. Ted the Tattler; Randy; She Couldn't Say No; Just Girls; Hepcats Tom and Tabby; Our Modern Juniors; Poor Dad!; Wendy; Ginny. 48 pages, Full Color. 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.

Canadian edition. Cover pencils by Wayne Boring, inks by Stan Kaye. List of Superman's accomplishments in the "real world." The Origin of Superman, script by Bill Finger, pencils by Wayne Boring, inks by Stan Kaye; After a prologue that demonstrates Superman's amazing abilities, his origin is recounted. 32 pgs. NOTE: This printing contains less pages and material than the standard edition, which is 52 pgs. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG 4.0 $73.00 View scans 1/2" spine split. Staple rust.

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $109.00 or Best Offer View scans No staples (manufacturing). Puzzle completed in pencil. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

#68 in a series of 90. Superman-Tim is a boys' clothing catalog, activity book, and comic book all rolled into one, featuring Superman illustrations throughout. All issues are 16 pages unless a Superman story is inserted (bringing page count to 24 or 36 pages). Every issue encourages boys not to be a "Whoo-Shoo" -- a boy who reads "Superman-Tim" but doesn't buy clothes from the Superman-Tim Store. Copyright 1948 by National Comics Pub., Inc., under license to Tim Promotions, Inc. B&W with a single color, 5 1/2 in. x 8 in.

Supersnipe in "Haunted Money," plus Ulysses Q. Wacky in "The One That Got Away," Roxy Adams Girl Guerrilla in "Roxy Meets Society," Gramps in "The Checker Board Athlete," and a two-page Supersnipe's Diary text story. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Joe Certa. Cadet story, art by Nina Albright. Heathcliff the Hobo humor page by Art Helfant. Alligator Hunt text story. Boiltram the Boiglar humor page by Art Helfant. The Target and the Targeteers, art by Joe Certa. Targetoons humor page by Milt Hammer. Some Punch! starring Timid Tim, script and art by Art Helfant. Targetoons humor page by Milt Hammer. Gary Stark story, art by Don Rico. Targetoons humor page by Milt Hammer. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $23.00 View scans Paper: Off white Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart Good $17.00 View scans Paper: Cream

Volume 31, Issue 2 - July, 1948. 6.75" x 9.75", 114 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

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Add to cart Good $7.00 View scans Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 10%. Staple rust: Moderate.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $6.30 View scans Front cover detached 20%. Back cover detached 20%.

Volume 32, Issue 4 - June/July, 1949. TAM is legendary for its thorough and insightful coverage of the stage, both in American and England. Less well-known is the fact that TAM also provided some outstanding coverage of motion pictures. Broadway and Hollywood. Henry Fonda cover photographed by Richard Avedon. Includes: "Fall River Legend" by Louis Bromfield, "The Joke's on Me" by Irving Hoffman, and much more. 8.5-in. x 11-in, 94 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.50.

Add to cart Very Good $48.00 View scans Paper: Off white Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart Good $4.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Staple rust. Spine stress. Corner Damage. Creasing. Denting. Edge damage. Scuffing. Soiling. Water damage.

Volume 46, Issue 1 - July, 1948. 6.75" x 9", 114 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Stories and art by Al Capp, Ernie Bushmiller, Rudolph Dirks, Sam Leff, Bernard Dibble, Ernest Hix, Raeburn Van Buren, Ving Fuller and Gustavo Arriola. Sometimes listed as Tip Top Comics Vol. 12 #12. Tip Top Comics presented color reprints of United Features newspaper comic strips. Mark Turkle, the Soup King, has a mission for Bathless Groggins, in an Abbie an' Slats strip with nice art by Raeburn van Buren. Curly Kahoe comes to a tragic misunderstanding after seeing Terry rehearsing a love scene with a fellow actor. Bombo falls asleep on the beach and dreams of a world where women prefer fat men, in a story featuring a Babe Ruth caricature. Plus a Li'l Abner storyline by Al Capp. Li'l Abner; The Captain and the Kids; Stamp Tips; Curly Kayoe; Abbie an' Slats; El Bombo; Gordo; Nancy; Fritzi Ritz; Strange as It Seems; Doc Syke; How It Began. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG 4.0 $17.00 View scans 7/8" Cumulative spine split. Staple rust.

Add to cart GD 2.0 $16.00 View scan 2 1/2" Spine split from bottom. Cover detached at one staple.

Stories and art by Al Liederman, Chad Grothkopf, Carl Pfeufer and Bill Brady. Silent-movie cowboy Tom Mix became a pop-culture icon with his 1940s radio show and this tie-in comic. Tom rescues a baby from a burning farmhouse using only his lasso, then must protect the baby's family from a buffalo stampede. Outlaws try to get at Tom by poisoning his horse Tony. Outlaw "Red Bull" and his gang capture the Dobie town sheriff and plan to hang him, unless Tom can stop them. Plus Comix Cards (like the later Marvel Value Stamps) featuring the Marvel Family. Also, a vintage Tootsie Roll ad, Captain Tootsie Tames a Tornado, with art by Shazam co-creator CC Beck, and a hair-cream ad featuring detective Sam Spade. Trail Blazer; The Mistaken Identity; Cowboy Cal; Guns of Destiny; The Poison Peril; Tumbleweed Jr.: Go Fly a Kite; Round Up Time with Tom Mix; Badmen Roundup. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Bob Feller and others. Biography and history stories in comics form, part of a trend in non-fiction comics in the 1940s. Pioneering African-American baseball player Jackie Robinson; The history of firefighting; At long last, the story of Abraham Lincoln's dog. The Case of the Vicious Gunmen; Did This Dog Shape History?; What's Your FBI-Q?; Twin Teeners; Rookie of the Year; You're the Detective; My Most Interesting True Experience; Fire! Fire!; Truly Comic! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Al McWilliams. Stories and art by Ann Brewster, "Red" Holmdale, Tom Hickey and Al McWilliams. Violent pre-Code tales of crime and the law from DS Publishing. "Ma" Wilkins finds her niche in the crime world by cornering the market on fencing stolen goods. The terrifying Belle Gunness becomes one of the first American serial killers, and not even her children are safe. The teen gang known as the Bronx Boys grows up to become a criminal force to be reckoned with, until they cross the Luciano mob, in a story by early female comics artist Ann Brewster. They Killed By Night; The Bronx Boys; Ma Wilkins, Queen of the Fences; The Widow of Death; Monk Maloney, the Terror of No Mans' Land!; Gambler's Showdown; The Accident Club. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.