Comic books July 1951

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Volume 43, Issue 2 - July, 1951. 6.75" x 9.75", 114 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.20.

Vintage British Men's magazine focusing on humorous cartoons, stories and anecdotes. 5-in. x 7-in, 28 pages, B&W.

Cover by L. B. Cole. Stories and art by William Allison and L. B. Cole. Part of Star Publications' purchase of Novelty Publications titles, former adventure comic 4Most becomes one of the most violent of the pre-Code crime titles, with lurid covers by L. B. Cole. The police finally capture Butcher Keer and send him to the chair...or so they think. An escaped convict heads to the swamps to elude a police dragnet. Master of disguise the Chameleon invents a new identity to solve a murder. Brutal Killer; Maze of Murder; The Chameleon; Dynamite D.A.; Gun Crazy. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Art by Frank Bolle and Dick Ayers. Cover by Frank Bolle. Western adventure starring movie cowboy Tim Holt. Tim battles an army of outlaws on the train taking Lightning Larry to trial; A masked killer is mistaken for the Ghost Rider; Chito takes magic lessons, just after the next town is swindled by a traveling magician. The Rescue of Lightning Larry; Quicker Than the Eye; The Ghost Rider: The Scourge of Guilt; The Man Who Forgot! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ernie Bushmiller. Stories and art by Ernie Bushmiller, Al Capp, Sam Leff, and Henning Mikkelsen. Tip-Topper Comics collected some of United Features Syndicates most popular comic strips of the 1940s in full color, including Lil Abner and Fritzi Ritz. Fritzi was later known as "Aunt Fritzi" in the Nancy comic strip. Phil's new job as an escort doesn't sit well with Fritzi. Curly Kayoe faces the ex-champion boxer Dynamite Dunn, who wants to reclaim his crown. While posing for a statue, Lil Abner accidentally drinks a chemical solution. Plus the Ripley-like Strange as It Seems. Fritzi Ritz; Li'l Abner; Curly Kayoe; Ferd'nand; Stamp Tips; Strange as It Seems. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories by unknown. Art by unknown. Featuring: Two Droopy 1-pagers; Tom & Jerry tale; Adventures of Tom tale; Big Spike & Little Tyke tale; Bertie Bird text story "Bertie Bird's Magic Circle"; Flip 'n' Dip 2-pager; Wuff the Prairie Dog tale; Jerry & Tuffy 2-pager; Barney Bear & Benny Burro tale; and Fuzzy & Wuzzy tale. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Silent-movie cowboy Tom Mix became a pop-culture icon with his 1940s radio show and this tie-in comic. When a hundred-year-old land deed is destroyed, outlaws set a dangerous plan into motion. A mastermind thinks he's got a foolproof robbery plan, as his cohorts never speak or meet until it's time for the crime. Tom witnesses a murder, then tries to figure out why the victim is a Native American dressed in ill-fitting cowboy garb. The One Hundred Year Old Deed; Roundup Time With Tom Mix; Tumbleweed Jr. Gets His Goat; Cowboy Cal; Saddlehead; The Perfect Set-Up; Fightin' Forbes: Warning to Snoopers; The Indian in the Cowboy Suit. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Bruno Premiani. Tomahawk -- King of the Aztecs, art by Bruno Premiani. The Victory of Flying Cloud starring Tomahawk, art by Bruno Premiani. The Legend of the Blue Jays--Tales of the Arrow Maker, art by Leonard Starr. Readin', Writin' and Redskins starring Tomahawk, art by Bruno Premiani. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 6, Issue 2 - July, 1951. True crime magazine with stories and article about women in the world of organized crime, murder, robbery, and debauchery. Softcover Magazine, 8.5" x 11", 74 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Lee Elias cover. Contains original and reprinted material as noted. In order of appearance: "Wild Fury!", retitled and reprinted with post-Code story alterations as "New Boy in My Life" in Romance Stories of True Love (1957) #49 ; "Roadhouse Waitress" art by Bob Powell, reprinted with post-Code story alterations in Romance Stories of True Love (1957) #49 ; "I Was a Failure on My First Date!" art by Bob Powell, reprinted from First Romance Magazine (1949) #4 and in Hello Buddies (1940's) #51, True Brides Experiences (1954) #9, Hi-School Romance (1949) #65, and Hi-School Romance Date Book (1962) #3; and "Shameless" reprinted in Harvey Comics Hits (1951) #58. "Blind Date" and "Cinderella Girl!" text stories, and "Peggy Walker's Test for Romance, Are You Really in Love?" and "Dear Peggy, Love Problems and Advice" text articles. Indicia states "LOVE PROBLEMS AND ADVICE ILLUSTRATED. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

July 1951. Photo cover. True Crime articles, stories and photos. Case of the Midnight Passion Killer. 8-1/4 in. x 112 in., 80 p, B&W Cover price $0.25.

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L.B. Cole cover. In order of appearance: "Star Another in Her Dream"; "I Don't Remember You"; "In Love and Hollywood" art by Marty Stallman; and "On the Altar of Fame" art by Norman Nodel. Dan Dailey and Gregory Peck text articles with photos. Indicia states "True-To-Life Romances". 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Final issue of the series. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Carl Barks. Stories and art by Carl Barks, Bill Walsh, Manuel Gonzales, Bob Karp, Don Christensen, Bob Moore, Bill Wright, and Al Taliaferro. Sometimes listed as Vol. 11 #10. The long-running vehicle for Disney character comics featured art by Carl Barks, the legendary Good Duck Artist. Mickey investigates the strange disappearances on Man-eater Mountain. In a story by Barks, Donald gives Uncle Scrooge an old dime to pay a debt, then learns it's worth $5 and tries to get it back. Mickey sets up a camera to find out who's been raiding the fridge at night. Donald Duck; Grandma Duck; Li'l Bad Wolf; Mickey Mouse; Double Trouble; Mickey Mouse: The Ghost of Man-eater Mountain. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Syd Shores. Stories and art by John Buscema, Mort Lawrence, Syd Shores, and Bill Woolfolk. Bloody pre-Code crime comics, in imitation of Crime Does Not Pay - including a top-hatted, otherworldly narrator. The twist is that the publisher offers wanted posters (and rewards) for real-life criminals. An early story by future Marvel and Conan legend John Buscema. A Reefer Madness-type story about dealers in marijuana and cocaine. The Great Unsolved Mysteries contest invites readers to ponder the murder of Hollywood director William Desmond Taylor, also with art by Buscema. The Mad Magician of Crime; The Horror Weed; Wanted: Charles Lester Mault; Murder Message; Crime Lab: The Hit-and-Run Killer; Great Unsolved Mysteries: The Mystery of the Murdered Movie Star; Wanted: Steven William Davenport; Hideout From Murder. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Matt Baker. Stories and art by Matt Baker, Ray Osrin, Chuck Miller, and Dana Dutch. Love plus war equals bittersweet 1950s drama, featuring art by good-girl art legend Matt Baker. Leslie says she's married so she can get a job, but that causes complications when she falls in love with her employer's nephew, in a story with art by Baker. Another Baker story adds the "nurse and patient" element, exploring the love life of an Army nurse. Everyone thinks Sally's crazy when she dumps her steady boyfriend Clark in favor or Frank, a sailor. More Luck Than I Deserved; Lovelife of an Army Nurse; I Tried to Burn the Candle at Both Ends!; I Learned the Secret of Love; Make-Believe Marriage. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Painted cover by Phil Marini. Stories and art by John Celardo and others. One-shot featuring Golden Age science fiction stories, like those in the pulp mags of publisher Ziff-Davis. Scientists create a dome over the city to aid against attack, but the plan backfires when criminals take control of the dome. A jilted scientist sets out to create a robot girlfriend and succeeds, but with an ironic twist. A man's life begins moving backwards from his wedding day. Plus predictions for futuristic devices, including mail-delivery drones, satellite TV, and self-refrigerating TV dinners. Painted cover by Phil Marini is like a sci-fi movie poster from the 1950s. Amazing Prophecies; Dome of Death; The Beautiful Robot; Horror of the Island; The Seeker from Beyond; The Man Who Lived Backwards! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Al Feldstein. Stories by Wally Wood, Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein. Art by Jack Kamen, George Roussos, Wally Wood and Al Feldstein. EC's influential New Trend series is considered one of the greatest science-fiction titles of all time. Two scientist brothers seeking the ancient ancestors of humanity find unexpected answers in a time warp and a mysterious lost world on the Moon. A scientist's assistant and his cheating wife plot to use his experimental new teleporter to commit the perfect murder. In the distant future, humans learn a horrifying secret about the cute little monkey-like Mokos, with charming art by Wally Wood. The Origin of the Species; It Didnt Matter; The Slave Ship; The Enemies of the Colony. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Al Feldstein. Stories by Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein. Art by George Roussos, Jack Kamen, Wally Wood and Al Feldstein. EC's influential New Trend title featured some legendary sci-fi and comics artists. An astronaut floating in space recalls the murderous events that got him there, in a rare science fiction tale from artist George Roussos, featuring a classic EC twist ending. Explorers from Earth seeking new worlds to colonize discover their crew members mysteriously missing, with art by Wally Wood. Classic Al Feldstein rocket/alien cover. Seeds of Jupiter!; The Escape; Invasion!; Beyond Repair; The Probers. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 43, Issue 5 - July 1951. Cover by Charles A. Kennedy. Featuring the novella The Skull of Barnaby Shattuck by Merle Constiner, Short Stories including Flame Birds of Angala by E. Everett Evans, Chinook by Mary Elizabeth Counselman, A Knocking in the Wall by August Derleth, The Little Red Owl by Margaret St. Clairy, Date in the City Room by Talbot Johns, The Priceless Polescu by David Eynon, and Amok! by Harold Lawlor. Also features the poetry of Clarence Edwin Flynn and Dorothy Quick. Softcover, 100 pages, Text only (with B&W illustrations) Cover price $0.25.

UK edition, one shilling cover price. Vol. 43 #5 - July 1951. 6 1/2-in. x 9 1/4-in., 96 pages, black and white. Cover price $0.25.

Cover art by Howard Sherman. The Trail of the Iron Horse starring Wyoming Kid, art by Howard Sherman. Rodeos' Triple Threats starring Rodeo Rick, script by Gardner Fox, art by Tom Cooke. The Substitute Nighthawk, script by Don Cameron, art by Leonard Starr. The Mississippi Trace, script and art by Al McLean. The Outlaws of Yellow Gulch starring Cowboy Marshal, art by Ed Smalle Jr. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Outlaws, gunfighters, and tales of the Old West - some true, and others merely legends. A hot-tempered young gunfighter kills the wrong man and dooms his boom town called Saturday Night, Nevada. A US Cavalry deserter falls in with a gang of gun-runners, but a stray salute gives the game away. An outlaw buys Ripper, a horse that's just as wild and dangerous as he is, but Ripper has his own priorities. Saturday Night, Nevada; The Southpaw and the Bracelet; The Mark of the Quitter; Brown Saddle Fire; Just One Bullet; The Wooden Enemy; Buckskin Benson and Muskrat. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Bill Woolfolk, Edmond Good, Leonard Frank and Carl Pfeufer. Fawcett's tales of Western heroes from folklore and the movies. Outlaws use a white flag to lure Tom Mix into a trap. Gabby Hayes can't figure out why anyone would rob the tailor's shop, but he doesn't know about the gold buried underneath it. Monte Hale learns the truth about Panhandle Pete, the founder of Petesville, but the people of the town don't necessarily want to hear it. Tom Mix: The False Surrender; Li'l Buck; Cactus Brain; Monte Hale and the Town Hero; Slim Carson: White King of the Apaches; Gabby Hayes: Pixilated Pickles. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Wild Pecos Bill in "The Curse of Ashtor," "Draw With Death," and "The Kidnapped Cayuses." Art by Syd Shores? Lobo the Wolf Boy in "Battles the Killer Wolf!" Cover by Syd Shores. Stories by Bill Woolfolk, Syd Shores, Mort Leav, Bob Roberts, Al Luster, and Otto Binder. True tales from the Old West, starring such real-life characters as Wild Bill Pecos, Nuggets Nugent, Charley Lord, Lobo the Wolf Boy, and Bronco Bailey (horse thief). House ad for the next issue of Westerner Comics. 36 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 5, Issue 1 - July, 1951. Painted cover by Peter Driben. Men's interest magazine with articles, pin-ups, and glamour photos. 8.5" x 11.5", 60 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Art by Louis Ravielli and Charles Sultan. Cover by Everett Raymond Kinstler. In the tradition of Sheena and Tarzan, redheaded, blue-eyed jungle queen Taanda rides a trained zebra and fights for the people of her adopted tribe, the Tauruti. White hunters enter Taandas jungle and soon regret it; The native tribes are threatened by strange swamp beasts; Slavers target Taandas tribe, but before she can save them, she must wrestle an enraged gorilla. Also featuring a dramatic contents page by Louis Ravielli on the inside front cover. Death at the Animal Pit!; Terror-Fangs at Tauruti Kraal!; The Trek of the Swamp Beasts!; Tenderfoot Mary; Capt'n Courage. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Kurt Schaffenberger. Stories and art by Otto Binder, Walter Palais, Anthony Cataldo, Bill Woolfolk and Kurt Schaffenberger. The Fawcett comic that introduced the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) to the world. When the ruthless amoeba men from space invade the Earth, the World's Mightiest Mortal realizes he may have to destroy the world to stop them. When a man is framed for murder, it's a matter for the law, but when he then escapes jail, it's a job for Golden Arrow. A sculptor brings the statue of a centaur to life, and when Ibis tries to restore the natural order, his Ibistick fails. Captain Marvel Destroys the World; Colonel Corn and Korny Kobb; Golden Arrow: The Frame-Up; Wicky and O'Shawnessy; Ibis the Invincible: The Ibistick Fails. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Issue 637 - July, 1951. The true adventure magazine for men. A collection of true stories from all over the world. 6.5" x 9.5", B&W.

Photo cover of Wild Bill Elliott. Stories and art by Bob Jenney and Carles Cary Fontserè. Western adventure featuring movie cowboy Wild Bill Elliott, star of the Red Ryder and Wild Bill film series. Bill steps in when a friend's son is kidnapped by outlaws who want his gold-rush fortune. But the baby turns out to be more than a match for the outlaws. Bill helps his friend Dick investigate his father's mysterious death while painting a fence. The Easy Money Gents; Wet Paint Means Murder. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Bob Powell and Rudy Palais. A showcase for Harvey's distinctive brand of pre-Code horror. Strange, inhuman creatures have evolved from the people who lived in the catacombs beneath Paris. A guide to performing magic tricks. A jilted woman studies witchcraft to get revenge on the man who preferred money to her. The Sewer Monsters; The Yellow Menace; Witches Tricks; Death by Witchcraft; Bells of Doom; The Midget Men; Ghosts of Famous Pirates: The Ripper. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover pencils by Irwin Hasen, inks by Bernard Sachs. "Wonder Woman Vs. Robot Woman," script by Robert Kanigher, art by Harry G. Peter; Elektro builds a Wonder Woman robot and uses it for crime. "The Treasure of Captain Storm," script by Robert Kanigher, art by Harry G. Peter. "Giants on the Earth," script by Julius Schwartz, art by Raymond Perry. Wonder Women of History: two-page Anne Dacier bio by Julius Schwartz, art by John Giunta. "The Theft of the Robot Plane," script by Robert Kanigher, art by Harry G. Peter; Criminals gain control of Wonder Woman's Robot plane by taping her voice commands. Peg humor page by Henry Boltinoff. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

"Temptations of a Car Hop"-illustrated by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon!

#35 on cover; Vol. 4 No. 11 in indicia. Photo Cover. Stories by Jack Kirby? and unknown. Art by Jack Kirby, Mort Meskin, Marvin Stein?, Bill Draut, Joe Simon?, George Roussos? and unknown. Featuring: "Temptations of a Car-Hop!"; "The Man Who Loves Shabby Sally!"; "The Man I Married!"; "The Catskill Man-Chasers!"; and 2-page Nancy Hale's Problem Clinic story! Plus: 1-page article "Are You An Imposition?" Also: 1-page article "Beauty At Home"! 48 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.