Comic books May 1946

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Vol. 30, No. 2 - May 1946. 7" x 9.75", 100 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

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Cover art by Joe Musial. The Phantom strips, script by Lee Falk, art by Ray Moore. Daffy Doodles strips, art by Doc Winner. Katzenjammer Kids strips, art by H.H. Knerr. Tim Tyler's Luck strips, art by Lyman Young. Pete the Tramp strips by Clarence D. Russell. Jungle Jim strips, art by Alex Raymond. Barney Google strips, art by Billy DeBeck. Blondie strips, art by Chic Young. Teddy and Sitting Bull strips, art by Joe Musial. Tillie the Toiler strips, art by Russ Westover. Prince Valiant strips, art by Hal Foster. They'll Do It Every Time strips, art by Jimmy Hatlo. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 11, Issue 4 - May, 1946. 6.75" x 9", 98 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

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UK bi-weekly magazine focusing primarily on WWII era aircraft, but covering the whole history of flight. 8" x 11.5", 12 pages, B&W

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UK bi-weekly magazine focusing primarily on WWII era aircraft, but covering the whole history of flight. 8" x 11.5", 12 pages, B&W

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Cover by Fred Kida. Stories and art by Maurice Del Bourgo, Tony DiPreta, and E. Dorris. One of the more fanciful and influential of 1940s aviator heroes, Airboy fights evil with his radio-controlled plane "Birdie" and its plethora of experimental flying tech. Sometimes listed as Airboy Comics #27. No issue # on cover; Vol. 3, issue #4 in indicia.(There was no Vol. 3, issue #3.) Airboy investigates when blinded pilots stumble on a bandit's golden hoard. Flying Dutchman meets the Little People after crashing in Rip Van Winkle country. Sky Wolf learns a mad scientist has revived his old foe The Heap and used it for murder. This story served as a "backdoor pilot" for The Heap, launching a backup series in Airboy featuring comics' original muck-monster adventurer. Airboy; Skinny McGinty; Iron Ace; Flying Dutchman; The Man Who Forgot; Sky Wolf: The Return of the Heap. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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The Justice Society of America face "The Paintings That Walked the Earth!" Script by Gardner Fox. Art by Martin Naydel plus individual stories featuring Hawkman (art by Joe Kubert), Green Lantern (art by Jon Chester Kozlak), Dr. Mid-nite (art by Stan Aschmeier as "Stan Josephs"), Johnny Thunder (art by Aschmeier), the Atom (art by Joe Gallagher), and the Flash (art by Naydel). Wonder Woman cameo. Two-page text story, "The Case of the Nifty Lifter" by Jesse Merlan. Naydel cover. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Paul Reinman. Mountain Music Mayhem starring Green Lantern, art by Paul Reinman; Alan and Doiby head to the Great Smoky Mountains to put on the air an actual hillbilly show, only to discover the family they've selected are a bunch of thieves. Valley of the City of Gold starring Dr. Mid-Nite, art by Stan Aschmeier. Dimwits in a Diner starring Winky, Blinky and Noddy, art by Everett E. Hibbard. Might Doesn't Make Right starring The Black Pirate, art by Alfonso Greene. No Trouble, Professor, No trouble at All starring Hop Harrigan, script and art by Jon L. Blummer. Mutt and Jeff strips by Al Smith [signed as Bud Fisher]. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 20, Issue 2 - May, 1946. Front cover by Arnold Kohn. Back cover by James B. Settles. Science fiction stories by Richard Shaver, Frances M. Deegan, Robert Moore Williams, Rog Phillips, Millen Cooke, David Wright O'Brien, John and Dorothy de Courcy, and H.B. Hickey. Illustrations by Joe W. Tillotson, Rod Ruth, Arnold Kohn, Robert Fuqua, and Julian S. Krupa. 6.75" x 9.75", 180 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Cover by Dick Sprang. "The Marathon of Menace!" starring Batman and Robin, script by Bill Finger, pencils by Dick Sprang (as Bob Kane); Racer Marty Steele is banned from racing when doctors discover he has a bad heart; But he has plans to compete anyway under another name, whilst his erstwhile opponent is a blind scientist; The prize for the winner is $250,000, a sum that Roy Damon hopes to take home in order to allow others who are blind to build new and better lives for themselves. "Ally Babble and the Four Tea Leaves!" starring Batman and Robin, script by Bill Finger, pencils by Dick Sprang (as Bob Kane); Ally visits Madame Patio for a free tea leaf reading and explains to him the meaning of the four tea leaves of fate: money, a girl, a ship's deck, and happy faces; By a quirk of fate, these all come true, but not the way Ally imagined. "Nobody Knows" text story by Tom Patrick. "Tired Tracks," art by Jerry Robinson; Alfred makes a study of tires and the tracks they make; Too bad for him the car he is examining belongs to crooks! "The Master Vs. the Pupil!", script by Bill Finger, pencils by Dick Sprang (as Bob Kane); Robin's bragging about his prowess in crook hunting leads Batman to disguise himself as a jewel thief and have Robin attempt to track him down. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Bud Thompson. Stories by Otto Binder, Bill Woolfolk, Art Helfant and Sid Lazarus. Art by August Froehlich, Art Helfant, Sid Lazarus and Bud Thompson. Superhero action with Freddy Freeman, who gains the same powers as his hero Captain Marvel, better known these days as Shazam. Captain Marvel Jr. travels to "Arabia" to help a man woo a sultan's daughter with magical gifts. Criminal mastermind Greybeard figures out how to use a dowager's amnesia to steal her fabulous jeweled necklace. Captain Marvel Jr. figures out the connection between opium-related crimes on the waterfront and the stage magician named "Spawn." Captain Marvel Jr. discovers that a Western ghost town has real ghosts. Captain Marvel Jr. Fights the Arabian Knights!; Rubbernose Randolph; Boxcar Benny; The Stolen Half Century!; Whipper-Snappers: Auto Know Better; Rubbernose Randolph Gets in the Swim!; The Magic Act; Giggle Gags: A Close Shave; If the Shoe Fits; Snortville Sneeze; Captain Marvel Jr. Haunts the Ghost Vigilantes! 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Vol. 2, No. 3 - May , 1946. Magazine for magicians. 8.5" x 11.75", 52 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.50.

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Cover by Win Mortimer. Stories by Don C. Cameron, Jack Farr and unknown. Art by Win Mortimer, Jack Farr, Howard Sherman, John Daly, George Roussos, Curt Swan and Steve Brodie. A greedy mine owner gets on the wrong side of the people in his community by firing the local school teacher and by refusing to institute safe mine conditions for the workers in the Batman and Robin tale "Coaltown, U.S.A." by Don C. Cameron and Win Mortimer. Plus: Three-Ring Binks in an untitled story by Jack Farr; Slam Bradley in "Turnabout Tactics!" with art by Howard Sherman and John Daly; Air Wave in "The Case of the Unlucky Treasure Hunters!" with art by George Roussos; and The Boy Commandos in "Reconversion for Rats!" with art by Curt Swan and Steve Brodie. Also: 2-page text story "Soft Touch" by Al Martin, and Scuffy the Tramp half-pager by Lit-Win. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 53, 1st Printing - "Doctors Beware!" by Walbridge McCully. Softcover, 5" x 7.5", 128 pages, B&W, text only. Cover price $0.25.

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Vol. 33, No. 2 - May 1946. 7" x 9", 128 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

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"An Adam from the Sixth" a short story by Richard S. Shaver.

Volume 8, Issue 2 - May 1946. Cover by Robert Gibson Jones. Science Fiction and Adventures stories. This issue features "The Sword and the Pool" by Berkeley Livingston. Pulp, 7-in x 10-in, 180 Pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Flash stars in "Never the Twain Shall Meet," written by Gardner Fox, art by Everett E. Hibbard. Also includes: Ghost Patrol in "Music Hath Charm" by John B. Wentworth and Frank Harry; Johnny Thunder in "Peachy Pet--Prisoner" by John B. Wentworth and Stan Aschmeier; Rockhead McWizzard in "The Elevator" by Jack Farr; Out of the Gag Bag by Ed Wheelan; and Hawkman in "The Land of the Bird People" by Fox and Joe Kubert. Cover art by Kubert. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and Art by Russ Westover. Reprints of Tillie the Toiler (King Features Syndicate, Inc.) newspaper strips from 1939 and 1940. Starring Tillie Jones, Mac MacDougall, Glenny Hodge and Mr. Simpkins! 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "DONALD DUCK in the Terror of the River, No. 108." Cover art by Carl Buettner. The Terror of the River!!, script and art by Carl Barks; Donald's sneezes at an auction are mistaken for bids on a houseboat and soon he and the nephews are sailing down the Ohio River; There they encounter a huge serpent. The Firebug, script by Carl Barks, art by Carl Barks; Carl Buettner (last two panels only); Donald falls on his head when getting up one morning and turns into a pyromaniac, setting harmless fires but also getting the blame for big fires set by another firebug. Seals Are So Smart, script and art by Carl Barks; The nephews play ball at the beach with a baby seal, and this sets Donald to dreaming of how much money he could make with a trained seal act. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Jesse Marsh and others. Singing cowboy Gene Autry was a multimedia star from the 1930s-1950s, in music, movies, radio, and television, as well as comic books. An injured messenger with a note for Gene Autry sends Gene on the trail of would-be counterfeiters, in a story with art by Tarzan artist Jesse Marsh. Gene encounters a dying man on the road, victim of bushwhackers. he learns that the nearby town is terrified of the so-called ghost outlaws of Devil's Pass. Gunmens Game; Mighty Handy; The Ghost Outlaws. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Painted cover by Mario Colavito. Stories and art by Henry C. Nicholas, H.C. Kiefer, Charles Bange, Harvey K. Fuller, Graham Hunter, C. W. Winter, Stookie Allen and Alex Toth. Non-fiction comics featuring true tales of heroism from everyday people and courage on the battlefield. The story of young Abe Lincoln, featuring early art by comics legend Alex Toth; Clyde Eddy and his ragtag crew become the first to successfully navigate the Colorado River during its high-water stage; The final adventure of Vitaman, the last hero left from Heroic Comics' early superhero period. The Lifesaving Lineman; Wolf Catcher; When They Were Young; What Do You Know About Helicopters?; The Phantom Ship of Maine; Copper!; Rescue By Force; Clyde Eddy Beats the Raging Colorado; Race Against Death; Vitaman. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Number 2790 - May 1946. Humor and Satire cartoons. 8.5" x 11", 42 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

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Summer, 1946 May-July. Cover by George Gross. Ki-Gor stars in "Death Seeks for Congo Treasure" by John Peter Drummond, plus other jungle stories by John C. Ropke, Tom O'Neil, Alexander Wallace, Duncan Zerr, R.A. Emberg, Cordwell Staples, and Joe A. Small. Interior illustrations by H.W. Kiemle and others. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white text with spot illos.; 130 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.20.

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Volume 5, Issue 3 - May, 1946. 6.75" x 9.75", 180 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Stories and art by Sid Greene, George Markos, Herman C. Browner, Robert Sanders and Howard Larsen. Non-fiction comics about advances in science at mid-century. This was the first comic under the Charlton imprint. A speculative article about the future of aviation, including discussions of the first jet engines then in development. Some predictions came true, like intercontinental passenger flights, but others involving dirigibles, flying wings, and the family four-seater plane did not. Auto designer Preston Tucker and the Tucker Tornado. Plus a cutaway diagram of an observatory's space telescope. Aviation of Tomorrow; Scientific Wonders; Inventors Paradise; Your Own Aquarium; Bringing the Sun Inside; The Miracle Drug; Marvels of Science; Coaxial Cable Miracle; Odd Inventions; Electric Servants; Spiders!; The Torpedo Auto; Buna-S; Link Trainer Adaptations. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 36, Issue 3 - May, 1946. Mechanical science and technology magazine. This issue's articles include; "They Fight Fire With Fire" by Norman Carlisle, "Talking Tape" by Harry Bates, "Can We Atomize the Arctic Ice?" by Wallace W. Ashley, "Carved Glass" by Harry Bates. 6.5" x 9.5", 180 pages, BW/spot color. Cover price $0.15.

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Photo cover. Seven page Patsy Walker comic story. Fictional stories "If Wishes Were Horses" (W) Adel De Leeuw (A) double page splash by James Billmyer, "Backstage Mystery" (W) Vera Lawston (A) double page splash by Louise Altson. Fashion, photos, teen articles, and more. 74 p, PC/BW. Cover price $0.10.

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Vol. 34 #5 - May 1946. Articles, schematics and photos on the latest available flying models. 8.5" x 11.5", 100 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.20.

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Vintage celebrity gossip tabloid with a focus on Hollywood during the golden-age of cinema. 8.5" x 11.5", 134 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

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Volume 8, Issue 3 - May, 1946. 6.75" x 9", 100 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

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May 1946. Novel "The Son of Mustang Web" by Bob Obets. Novelettes "Wild was the River" by Giff Chesire and "Hang the Man High!" by Philip Ketchum. Short stories by Prentice A. Burlingham, Thomas Thompson, Harold R. Stoakes, and Richard Brister. Few interior illustrations. 7" x 9 1/2"; black and white; 98 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

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"Defense Mech" a short story by Ray Bradbury, "Engines of the Gods" a novel by Gardner Fox, plus "What Hath Me?" a novelette by Henry Kuttner.

Cover by H.L. Parkhurst. Science fiction novels "Engines of the God" by Gardner. F. Fox and "The Blue Venus" by Emmet McDowell. Novelette "What Hath Me?" by Henry Kuttner. Shorts "Survival" by Basil Wells, "Defense Mech" by Ray Bradbury, "Electron Eat Electron" by Noel Loomis, and "Crisis on Titan" by James R. Adams. Illustrations by H. W. Kiemle, Joseph Doolin, Hollingsworth, Chester Martin, Petrizzo, Guy Gifford, and C. A. Murphy. 7-in. x 10-in.; 128 Pages, B&W. Cover price $0.20.

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Stories and art by Robin Palmer, Elizabeth Eicher, Adele De Leeuw, Doris Falk, Annette Turngren, Jean Schick Grossman, Miriam Young, Laura Leahart, Lynne Smith, Nancy Williams and Alice Barr Grayson. A magazine for girls from the producers of Parents' Magazine, with stories, fashion and advice as well as comics. The Pigtail Club meets the mysterious hermit, who turns out to be handsome; Ballet dancer Anna Pavlova endures sickness and poverty to become the world's greatest ballerina; Polly Pilot's pal Susan uses a model plane to catch crooks. The Pigtail Club; New Address for Nancy; Hair Harmonies; All Because of Beautiful; Polly Pilot; Tricks Up Your Sleeve; Fairyland Is on the Air; Camp Comfort; Hobbies Hobbies Hobbies; Maytime is Playtime; On Her Toes; Mystery of the Circus House; Your Feelings and You; Polly Prefers; Witches and Fairies; A Stool for Your Doll; Sew Much Fun; Have You Troubles?; Polly in the Kitchen. 56 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Vol. 30, No. 5 - May 1946. 6.5" x 9.5", 128 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Volume 39, Issue 6 - May, 1946. 6.5" x 9", 146 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.