Comic books April 1946

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.

Cover art by Al Bryant. Midnight story, art by Paul Gustavson; Everyone's looking for King Zoris who's been missing since before the war. Spunky story, art by Sid Lazarus. Black X story. Lady Luck story, script and art by Klaus Nordling. Rookie Rankin story. Daffy story, art by Janice Valleau [as Ginger]. The Jester story. 60 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Burne Hogarth, Paul Berdanier, Fred Methot, Ernie Bushmiller, Jack Sparling, Drew Pearson, Bob Allen, Rudolph Dirks, and Raeburn Van Buren. United's anthology featured reprints of early comic strips, including Tarzan, Captain and the Kids and Nancy. The Spark Man investigates the theft of the 13 Pigeon-Blood Rubies by the collector Moto Royle. After Bathless Groggins endorses Miracle Wave Shampoo, it's discovered that it causes hair loss, and he's run out of town. When Mr. Biltybux gives Bombo a U.S. history lesson, Bombo imagines himself in the days of Columbus and George Washington. Hap Hopper; Nancy; Captain and the Kids; Tarzan; Back Home Again; The Spark Man; Ella Cinders; Abbie an Slats; El Bombo; Broncho Bill. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Nip Treachery starring Hell's Angels. Chuck story, art by Gus Jud. Elephants Are Deathly Afraid of Mice starring Debunker. Ali Baba story, art by Harry Lazarus. Stolen Gems and Spooks starring Detective Click Hunt, art by Herman Browner. The Baffling Bird Mystery text story. Woman "Kingpin" Defies Torturers article. Boxie Weaver story, art by Ink Higgins. Hopalong Hare story, script by H. C. Jones, art by H. Chambers. Zaro story. Magic Tricks for Young and Old. Rescues Red Walters and Wins Swimming Meet starring Speed Spaulding. 68 pgs. 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/layouts by Eisner, Eisner/Nordling, Eisner/Mercer, or Spranger/Eisner; inks by Eisner or Eisner/Spranger. 2nd appearance of Nylon.

Spirit Weekly Newspaper Comic Insert. 7-1/2 x 10 inches, 16 pages, full color, all newsprint with no slick cover. Scripts/layouts by Eisner, Eisner/Nordling, Eisner/Mercer, or Spranger/Eisner; inks by Eisner or Eisner/Spranger.

Spirit Weekly Newspaper Comic Insert. 7-1/2 x 10 inches, 16 pages, full color, all newsprint with no slick cover. Scripts/layouts by Eisner, Eisner/Nordling, Eisner/Mercer, or Spranger/Eisner; inks by Eisner or Eisner/Spranger. Intro and 1st appearance of Mr. Carrion and his pet buzzard Julia.

"Original Edition" text at top. This version of the 4/21/46 Spirit Section has no date or newspaper information printed at the top; potentially a promo. Spirit Weekly Newspaper Comic Insert. 7-1/2 x 10 inches, 16 pages, full color, all newsprint with no slick cover. Scripts/layouts by Eisner, Eisner/Nordling, Eisner/Mercer, or Spranger/Eisner; inks by Eisner or Eisner/Spranger. Intro and 1st appearance of Mr. Carrion and his pet buzzard Julia.

Spirit Weekly Newspaper Comic Insert. 7-1/2 x 10 inches, 16 pages, full color, all newsprint with no slick cover. Scripts/layouts by Eisner, Eisner/Nordling, Eisner/Mercer, or Spranger/Eisner; inks by Eisner or Eisner/Spranger.

Cover pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Steve Brodie. Gabby Strikes a Gusher starring Newsboy Legion, pencils by Curt Swan. A Guilty Innocent starring Penniless Palmer, art by Stan Kaye. The Jigsaw Puzzle Murder starring the Star Spangled Kid, art by Jon Small. The Successful Failure starring Robotman, art by Jimmy Thompson. The Temporary Traitor starring Liberty Belle, script by Don Cameron, art by Chuck Winter. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Fine $35.00 View scans Paper: Off white

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $49.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white

Add to cart Very Good $16.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $17.00 View scans Paper: Cream Front cover detached 25%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.

Volume 13, Issue 3 - Spring, 1946. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Clark Ashton Smith, Polton Cross, Edmond Hamilton, and John Russell Fearn. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 118 pages. Cover price $0.15.

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Children's magazine featuring stories, illustrations, songs and more. 52 pages, PC/PB&W, 7" x 10". Cover price $0.25.

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. Harvey Ripple mistakes his wife's new hat for an art nouveau lampshade. A passing movie producer realizes Tiny Tim looks exactly like ailing child star Dickey Hooper. Clyde Beatty is hired by the zoo to capture an orangutan in Borneo. Also featuring popular strips Little Orphan Annie and Dick Tracy. Moon Mullins; Dick Tracy; Tiny Tim; Smitty; The Ripples; Little Joe; Napoleon's Heads; Sweeney & Son; Winnie Winkle; Harold Teen; Little Orphan Annie; Clyde Beatty. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Warren Kramer as 'DOC'. In order of appearance: "Magno and Davey, 'Case of the Careening Coupe'" art by Rudy Palais; "Harry the Hack, 'In Right There's Might...'"; "Mr. Risk, 'Riddle of the Revolutionary Portrait'" art by Warren Kramer as 'DOC'; and "Chuck". "Ticket to the Badlands" text story by Cliff Howe. 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD 2.0 $225.00 View scans 1" cumulative spine split. Cover oxidation.

Add to cart VG 4.0 $599.95 or Best Offer View scans Staple rust with migration. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Add to cart PR 0.5 $179.95 or Best Offer View scans Interior is complete. Full length spine split (glued to first wrap). First wrap detached and centerfold detached at one staple. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Add to cart Coverless $99.00 View scans Comic is complete other than being coverless. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Cover pencils by Jack Burnley. The Big Superman Broadcast, pencils by Joe Shuster, inks by George Roussos; 1st Superman radio show. The Monster of China Deep starring Superman, Captain Spears, and Lois Lane, pencils by Ira Yarbrough. Picture Frame text story by Whitney Ellsworth [as Fred Whitby]. Lois Lane story, script by Whitney Ellsworth, art by Sam Citron. Swindle In Sweethearts starring Superman, Wilbur Wolfingham, and Lois Lane, script by Don Cameron, pencils by Ira Yarbrough. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $59.00 View scans Water damage.

Add to cart GD 2.0 $32.00 View scan Interior activity completed. Interior coloring. Heavy water damage.

#41 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 1946 by National Comics Pub., Inc., under license to Tim Promotions, Inc. B&W with a single color, 5 1/2 in. x 8 in.

Edited by William DeGrouchy. Cover by George Marcoux. Stories by George Marcoux and Clare Dwiggins. Supersnipe in an untitled story, plus "Huckleberry Sinks a Sub," Ulysses Q. Wacky, Dotty, and a three-page Supersnipe's Diary text story. 52 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Nina Albright. Cadet story, art by Nina Albright. Chameleon story, art by Bill Allison. Easy Money text story by Robert Plate. Dan'l Flannel story, art by Gus Schrotter. Heathcliff the Hobo humor page by Art Helfant. Target and the Targeteers story, art by Ken Battefield. Speck, Spot, and Sis story, art by Alonzo Vincent. It Could Happen To You starring Fraidy-Cat Phil, script and art by Art Helfant. Dink story, script and art by Milt Hammer. Targettoons humor page by Milt Hammer. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Add to cart Very Good $2.65 View scans

Theatre Arts Monthly (April, 1946). 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. Includes: "From Far to Near" by Rosamond Gilder, "Where Do We Go from Here" by Norris Houghton, and much more. 8.5-in. x 11-in., printed on a nice heavy stock. Cover price $0.35.

Canadian reprint series published by Superior and potentially distributed in both Canada and the U.K. Features and altered cover of Red Circle Comics #2. Stories include Captain Wizard; "Teeny" McSweeny; Dr. Mercy; King O'leary; Race Wilkins; Impossible Man and more. Cover price $0.10.

Canadian reprint series published by Superior and potentially distributed in both Canada and the U.K. Cover price $0.10.

9d cover price. Canadian reprint series published by Superior and potentially distributed in both Canada and the U.K. Features an altered cover of Pep Comics #22.

6d cover price. Canadian reprint series published by Superior and potentially distributed in both Canada and the U.K. Features an altered cover of Pep Comics #22.

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $189.95 or Best Offer View scans Heavy tearing and taping to cover. Tape under staples. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover by Alex Schomburg. Edited by Ned Pines. Stories by Everett Hibbard, John Easterly, Sam Cooper, Stanley Kaufmann, Al Camy, Donald Bayne Hobart, and Charles Stoddard. Chock full of action and adventure, these are Thrilling Comics! 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Sam Cherry. Novelet "The Girl from New England" by Marian O'Hearn and other western stories by Stephen Payne, Shirley Manners, Johnston McCulley, Nancy Wayne, Joanna Phelps, and Joe Archibald. 7-in. x 9 1/2-in., black and white with spot illustrations, 114 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

Spring 1946. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Jerry Shelton, Edmond Hamilton, Manly Wade Wellman, Noel Loomis, Samuel Mines, Wilm Carver, Ray Bradbury, and Murray Leinster. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 112 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

Art by Phil De Lara and others. Funny-animal antics from Magazine Enterprises. Bud the skunk enters a perfume-making contest; The Mighty Atom battles the Miser Squirrel to save the Pixie food supply; Judy uses her Magic Chalk to enter the Land of Easter Bunnies (in a story featuring a connect-the-dots puzzle). Tricksy Pixies; Koko and Kola; Goofus the Gopher; Bud and Blossom; Muggsy Mouse; Spanky; Judy's Chalk Talk; Tricksy Pixies In The Forestland; Judy and The Magic Chalk. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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True Crime magazine featuring story titles like "Born to Hang," "Snake Hill Murder Saga" and more. Uncommon. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 100 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Cover by Al Capp. Stories and art by Al Capp, Ernie Bushmiller, Rudolph Dirks, Dick Moores, Fred Methot, Paul Berdanier, Sam Leff, Ed Dodd, Charles Plumb, and John Hix. Sometimes listed as Tip Top Comics Vol. 10 #9. Tip Top Comics presented color reprints of United Features newspaper comic strips. Boxing bully Kibby gets a chance to get even with Curly Kayoe when they meet in the ring for Curly's first fight. Bess, on the train to New York with the baby, doesn't realize her seatmate is a hired killer, and accidentally botches a hit when she has him watch the baby. Bill Bumlin feels like a failure, and volunteers to be a passenger on an experimental rocket flight to the Moon. 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; Bill Bumlin; Strange as It Seems; Nancy; Fritzi Ritz; How It Began. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.5 $299.00 or Best Offer View scans Restored: C1 Paper: Off white to white Restoration includes: small amount of color touch on cover. Label #4583828004 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Vol. 2, No. 6. - April, 1946. Men's magazine with humor and pin-up pictorials. Peter Driben cover. 8.5" x 11.5". 68 pages. Sepia-toned. Cover price $0.25.

Stories based on actual people and events: PFC Desmond Doss: Hero Without a Gun; The true story of conscientious objector and Medal of Honor winner, Desmond Doss. Baldy's Great Race; 1910 Alaska sled dog championship. Paul Robeson bio on actor/singer. The Doll Shop Mystery starring Steve Saunders; Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Cavalcade of England, script by Dr. Joseph H. Park; hapter 7: British history 1901 to 1933 AD. Human Howitzer bio on Al Blozis. Photos of Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, and Robert Montgomery. Fighting Schoolmarm bio on Amparo Bonecilla, a woman soldier in the Philippines. Pirate Patriot bio on Jean Lafitte; War of 1812. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.