Comic books April 1960
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Issue #60
$2.65
$2.65
Walter Lantz' Woody Woodpecker. Stories by unknown. Art by unknown. Featuring the tales "The Search At Sampico" and "A Bad Case of Sleepies," plus "Pay As You Throw" on the inside front cover! Also: Homer Pigeon in "The Fall Guy"! And: Buzz Buzzard in the 1-page text story "Cleanup Capers"! 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #20
$6.70
$5.70
Painted cover art. Classics Illustrated Junior ad. Through Time and Space: The Illustrated Story of Communications. "The First Words," art by Gerald McCann; Speculative story of how language developed. "Signs and Sounds," art by Gerald McCann; The development of written language, both phonetic and ideographic. "Signals and Speed," art by Bruno Premiani; Looking for ways to send long-distance messages, people experiment with such methods as drums, smoke signals, and heliographs; Even so, most such messages need to be delivered by runner; Pheidippides runs himself to death carrying vital messages when Athens is invaded. "Mounted Messengers"; Marco Polo describes the Great Khan's effective and elaborate system of mounted post couriers. "The Art of Printing," art by John Tartaglione; Chinese scholars invent practical forms of paper, printing, and moveable type. Europe later adopts the same innovations; Even so, printing and communication remain slow. "A Moving Stream"; Summary of the operation of electricity. "Words over Wires," art by Gerald McCann; Samuel Morse works out a code for communicating over wires via electricity and develops a system to accomplish this over long distances; He convinces the U.S. Congress to fund a demonstration project and sends messages 44 miles between Washington and Baltimore. "Linking Two Worlds," pencils by Norman Nodel; Cyrus Field conceives and implements a plan for a transatlantic telegraph cable; It takes ten years and many bitter failures, but at last he succeeds. "Talking by Telegraph," pencils by George Evans, inks by Reed Crandall; Bell looks for a way to improve the telegraph but in conjunction with Watson devises a way to transmit sound by wire and creates the telephone. "Words without Wires"; Marconi invents a radio transmitter to carry Morse Code which helps rescue seamen in distress in 1899; He then creates equipment to send a signal across the Atlantic and demonstrates his success in 1901. "The Electronic Ear," art by Sam Glanzman; radio story, including two pages on how radio works. "The Electronic Eye"; How television was developed, and how it is used. "Today and Tomorrow"; How communications technology and uses may develop. 72 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.25.
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$6 The World Around Us #20 Through Time And Space Apr 1960 Good+ 2.5 $22 The World Around Us #20 (1960): Through Time and Space! VG/FN (5.0)! Clicking on the links to the eBay listings shown above and then making a purchase may result in MyComicShop earning a commission from the eBay Partner Network.
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Issue #28
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Cover art by Russ Heath. The Guns of Shorty Swift starring Wyatt Earp, script by Stan Lee, art by Dick Ayers. Trapped in Trigger Valley!, script by Stan Lee, art by Dick Ayers; Wyatt Earp and Grizzley must stop Crusher Cragg and his gang from taking over Trigger Valley. The Hero text story. Every Gun Against Him!, script by Stan Lee, art by Doug Wildey. Them's Fightin' Words, Mister! starring Wyatt Earp, script by Stan Lee, art by Dick Ayers. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.
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$30 Wyatt Earp #28, April 1960, Atlas Comics, Stan Lee Dick Ayers VG Clicking on the links to the eBay listings shown above and then making a purchase may result in MyComicShop earning a commission from the eBay Partner Network.
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Vol. 13 #3 (105)
Young Romance (1947-1963 Prize) Vol. 13 #3 (105)This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
#105 on cover; Vol. 13 No. 3 in indicia. Cover by Joe Simon? (Note: Soldier on cover drawn to resemble Elvis Presley.) Stories by unknown. Art by Paul Reinman, Joe Orlando? and unknown. Featuring: "My Friend Flory"; "I've Seen You Before"; "Big Wheel"; "Rolling Stone"; and an untitled tale! Plus: Advice by Nancy Hale letters page! Also: 1-page Facing the Facts by Germaine article! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.
