Comic books November 1945

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Strength & Health was one of the earliest magazines devoted to fitness and bodybuilding. Through the early 1960s, it was the most popular weightlifting magazine in the United States. Cover price $0.15.

Stories and art by Chester Gould, Harold Gray, Stanley Link, Frank Willard, Walter Berndt, Martin Branner, George Clark, Al Posen and Carl Ed. An early comic book from Dell, featuring reprinted newspaper comic strips alongside new material. Now the owner of racehorse Blue Boy, Tiny Tim gets mixed up in the battle to own Magnolm Manor. Smitty goes to the tropics with The Boss to capture an exotic creature, but The Boss doesn't know the creature is just an insect. Stranded, Clyde Beatty and his crew build an airfield in remote northern Burma so rescue crews can land. Also featuring popular strips Little Orphan Annie and Dick Tracy. Moon Mullins; Dick Tracy; Tiny Tim; Smitty; The Ripples; Halloween Hob; Sweeney & Son; Winnie Winkle; Harold Teen; Little Orphan Annie; Clyde Beatty. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

"Blackstone Presents Sawing a Woman in Half in the Haunted Theatre," "Blackstone Shows Tom and Dick More Magic Tricks," "Hi, Young Feller," Lady in white in "Doodles Dood It," and "Blackstone and the Whispering Ghost." Cover price $0.10.

Volume 8, Issue 1 - November, 1945. 6.75" x 9.75", 100 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

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#36 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 1945 by National Comics Pub., Inc., under license to Tim Promotions, Inc. B&W with a single color, 5 1/2 in. x 8 in.

Cover art by Al Fago. The Comeback starring Cadet, art by Walter Johnson. Volto of Mars Grape-Nuts ad. Target and the Targeteers, art by Lucy Feller. Targetoons story, script and art by Milt hammer. Candid Charlie story, art by B. Gordon Guth; Charlie and Merkin board a clipper plane. Storm text story by William F. Haywood. Dan'l Flannel humor story. Bull's-Eye Bill war story, art by Jack Hearne. Speck, Spot, and Sis, script and art by Alonzo Vincent. Chameleon story, art by Bill Allison. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Nov. 1945. Detective and mystery stories by John L. Benton, C.S. Montanye, Hal K. Wells, Allan K. Echols, and Benton Braden. 7" x 10"; black and white; 82 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.10.

British Edition. November 1945. Stories include: "Murder in the Sky" by G. Wayman Jones, "The Dead Reach Far" by R. Sprague Hall, "The Flaw" by Edward Ronns, "On a Steep Side Street" by C.S. Montanye, "You Can Always Duck" by G. T. Flemming-Roberts, and "Diamonds Flushed" by Benton Braden. 6 1/8" X 8 7/8". 68 pages. B&W.

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Volume 27, Issue 3 - Fall, 1945. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Henry Kuttner, Ed Weston, Polton Cross, Stanton A. Coblentz, John Russell, and George Whitley. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 98 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

Cover by Rudolph Dirks. Stories and art by Al Capp, Ernie Bushmiller, Rudolph Dirks, Dick Moores, Fred Methot, Paul Berdanier, Sam Leff, Ed Dodd, and Charles Plumb . Sometimes listed as Tip Top Comics Vol. 10 #4. Tip Top Comics presented color reprints of United Features newspaper comic strips. Joe Jinks talks about the great real-life boxing matches of the past, in an offbeat story featuring real still photographs of Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney in the ring, plus caricatures of Hollywood stars Humphrey Bogart and Charles Coburn. Fritzi Ritz learns the downside of dating a bored millionaire. Bill Bumlin impersonates Brazilian billionaire Samba Bahia, and winds up being pursued by the police. Plus a Li'l Abner storyline by Al Capp. Li'l Abner; The Captain and the Kids; The Triple Terror; Jim Hardy; Stamp Tips; Curly Kayoe; Back Home Again; Ella Cinders; Nancy; Fritzi Ritz; How It Began. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 2, Issue 4 - Winter, 1945. 8.5" x 11.5", 66 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Edited by Samuel Bierman. Cover by August Froehlich. Stories by August Froehlich, Walter Johnson, Charles Voight, Clem Colbert, Munson Paddock, Manny Stallman, and H. C. Kiefer. Adventure stories starring such characters as Dr. Styx, Paul Bunyan, Arabian Knight, and Marco Polo--these are comics to Treasure! 52 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 51, Issue 4 - November 1945. "A Magazine for Boys and Girls." Stories, poems, and activities designed for kids. 7-in. x 10-in., 36 pages, PC,PB&W Cover price $0.15.

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November, 1945. Cover by Lee Brown Coye. Horror and supernatural stories: "Lost Elysium" by Edmond Hamilton, "The Murderous Steam Shovel" by Allison V. Harding, "The Mad Dancers" by Roger S. Vreeland, "Mrs. Lannisfree" by August Derleth, "The Cranberry Goblet" by Harold Lawlor, "The Fangs of Tsan-Lo" by Jim Kjelgaard, "Soul Proprietor" by Robert Bloch, and "The Mirror" by Charles King. Verse: "Midnight Moon" by Stanton A. Coblentz, and "Superstitions and Taboos" by Irwin J. Weill. Softcover Pulp, 6 1/2-in x 10-in, 96 Pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Cover by Lee Elias. Edited by J.F. Byrne. Stories and art by Jack Keller, Howard Larsen, Alex Blum, and Lee Elias. Aviation-themed adventure, combat and history tales from pioneering comics publisher Fiction House. Good-girl art by Howard Larsen as Agent Jane Martin seeks a hidden Japanese munitions factory; Clipper Kirk goes on a photo-reconnaissance mission; Greasemonkey Griffin tries to smuggle war relics back to the States. The Most Treacherous Battlefield; Suicide Smith; Jane Martin; Clipper Kirk; Greasemonkey Griffin; Captain Wings. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Morris Weiss and Herman C. Browner. An early comics anthology featuring humor and funny-animal stories from Charlton, published under the imprint Children Comics Publishing. Bloodhound Sherlock Sniff, better known as Detecto, and his giraffe sidekick Billy Longneck investigate after a runaway cobra steals milk from an unsuspecting cow on a farm. Little Leo, son of the king of the beasts, is framed for robbery and tried by a court of the animals, but the fox lawyer sees an opportunity. In an offbeat take on fairy tales, the King's Men are contractually obliged to attempt to put Humpty Dumpty back together again, but none can stand the rotten-egg smell. Plus puzzle and activity pages, fun facts about animals, and a WWII-era rendition of the Marine Corps Hymn in comics form. The Marines' Hymn; Detecto the Bloodhound: The Riddle of the Empty Udder; They Say; Little Leo; Animal Quiz: Okapi!; A Walking Stick; The Low-Down on Mother Goose: The Case of the Rotten Egg!; Rabbit-Son Crusoe; Tricks and Puzzles; Yellowjacket Jr.; Tommy and Dodo; Bojo the Monk; It's True. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.