Comic books August 1949

UK weekly men's interest magazine with humor and pin-ups. 8" x 11.25", 28 pages, B&W

UK weekly men's interest magazine with humor and pin-ups. 8" x 11.25", 28 pages, B&W

Cover by Joe Certa. Stories and art by Milt Hammer and Jack Hearne. Sometimes listed as Blue Bolt #100. Blue Bolt has adventures while flying for Glimpses, a photography magazine. An injured Dick Cole struggles to convince his teammates he can win a baseball game. Millionaire adventurer Rick Richards battles a giant clam to save a boy, but still has to get past the crooks waiting on the surface. Sergeant Spook and the ghost of Daniel Boone help Jerry battle thieving poachers, in the Sergeant's final adventure in this series. Dick Cole; Toby's Mule; Rick Richards; Draw Funny Faces; Sergeant Spook. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

An anthology series from St. John that alternated early romance comics with funny-animal characters from Paul Terry's Terrytoons. Heckle and Jeckle challenge a cocky rabbit to a race. Sourpuss discovers that boomerangs don't always return in the condition you sent them. Rudy Rooster wants to sing in the opera, but Dinky Duck isn't sure he's got the chops. The Lucky Ring; Rudy's Rude Awakening; Heckle and Jeckle; Sourpuss Throws a Boomerang; Golden Eggs; Gandy Goose: A Pot of Gold; Opportunity Knocks; Hired and Fired. Final issue of the series; Heckle and Jeckle (1952 St. John/Pines) and Teen-Age Diary Secrets (1949) are considered the spin-offs/ continuations of this series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Norman Maurer, C.H. Moore, Al Borth, and Charles Biro. An anthology title from publisher Lev Gleason and his primary creator, Charles Biro, featuring teen hero Crimebuster and his nemesis Iron Jaw. A boxer who is losing his eyesight struggles to hold on long enough to finish one last fight. A pilot makes a daring flight for medical help through a dangerous storm. Crimebuster; Kamp Sappies; Little Wise Guys: Scarecrow Meets Harriet. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

The Dog That Became A Commando, pencils by Carmine Infantino. Captain Tootsie ad for Tootsie Rolls, Tootsie Pops, and Tootsie Fudge, script and art by C. C. Beck. The Battle That Changed History, script by Gardner Fox, pencils by Arthur Peddy, inks by John Giunta; Nineteen buffalo hunters hold off a band of seven hundred Indian warriors with the help of the new Colt Revolver. The Bandit of Mile-High Mountain, pencils by Carmine Infantino; the Commandos help a prince battle a man who apparently cannot be harmed by bullets. Jerry the Jitterbug humor page by Henry Boltinoff. The Rembrandt from Flatbush; Brooklyn gains fame as a painter. A short history of the Coast Guard article by Joe Simon. Ads for All-American Western #108, Dale Evans Comics #6 and Western Comics #10, art by Alex Toth, Bob Oksner, Joe Giella, Bob Oksner, and Howard Sherman. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Lee Diamond and others. The adventures of Dale Messick's fearless comic strip hero, redheaded reporter Brenda Starr. Unexplained ambulance crashes lead Brenda to a gang stealing penicillin. Brenda investigates when a man takes out an ad promoting his own impending suicide. Brenda narrates the real-life story of American reporters in Cuba covering the Spanish-American War. The Great Penicillin Plot; The Case of the Classified Suicide; Frame-Up; A Message to Gomez; Bullets and Beaux. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

"Rangeland Horse Race," "Handy With a Lasso," "His Own Game," "Death in the Gorge," and "A Charmed Life!" Alex Schomburg cover. Cover price $0.10.

52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Vic Herman, Orestes Calpini and Ernie Schroeder. A kids' anthology in the tradition of Calling All Girls from the publishers of Parents Magazine, featuring stories, games and quizzes as well as comics. Marco Polar Bear and Bobby train a new puppy; Pop and Junior try to help Mom throw a tea party, but only create chaos; Paddy Penguin captures a strange dog that doesn't know how to talk. Twinkle, The Star That Came Down From Heaven; Marco Polar Bear; Paddy Penguin; Pop and Junior; Riddles; Pug and Curly; Dribble; Funny Freddy; What's Wrong? Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

In order of appearance: "L'Olonnois the Cruel"; "Captain Kidd"; and "The Sorceress of the Briney Deep". "Gorilla-Man" text story reprinted from Jo-Jo Comics (1945) #8. Indicia states "CAPTAIN KIDD (formerly Dagar)". Numbering continues with My Secret Story (1949) #26. 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart PR 0.5 $39.95 or Best Offer View scan INCOMPLETE. Piece missing, interrupts art or story. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover by C.C. Beck. Stories by unknown. Art by C.C. Beck, Al Liederman and unknown. Captain Marvel (Billy Batson) stars in: "Airtown, U.S.A." with art by C.C. Beck; "Captain Marvel Stars in Television" with art by C.C. Beck (first appearance of TV star Milton Earle); "Captain Marvel's Absent-Mindedness" with art by C.C. Beck; and "The Rain of Terror" with pencils by C.C. Beck. Plus: Captain Kid in "The Good Skate" with art by Al Liederman. And: Jon Jarl in the 2-page text story "Wandering World" with script by Otto Binder (as Eando Binder). 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Kurt Schaffenberger. Stories by Art Helfant and Otto Binder. Art by Bud Thompson, Sheldon Moldoff, Art Helfant and Joe Certa. Superhero action with Freddy Freeman, who gains the same powers as his hero Captain Marvel, better known these days as Shazam. A sudden increase of the sun's heat threatens to turn Earth into a desert world, and Captain Marvel Jr. wants to find out why. Marvel Jr. discovers the lost jungle settlement called Treetop Town, in the canopy of the trees, and the madman who wants to take it over for himself. Sivana Jr.'s latest invention is electricity-based and dangerous in his hands. The Sun War; Dangerous Stuff; The Circe Lamp; The Terror in Treetop Town; Kanvasback: School Days; Rubbernose Randolph; Sivana Jr.'s. Lightning Rod. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Harvey Eisenberg. Art by Harvey Eisenberg. Edgar Bergen's ventriloquist's dummy, Charlie McCarthy, was a bona fide celebrity in the mid-20th century, star of movies, radio and this comic. Charlie and Mortimer set out to track down escaped criminals Jarface Jackson and his accomplice. Charlie gets a baby alligator for a pet, Gladstone. Eccentric Grampaw Snerd is not amused when Gladstone turns up in his bathtub, but Gladstone becomes essential to a surprising business. Charlie McCarthy, Super-Duper Snooper; Gladstone the Alligator. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Issue 26 - Australian Edition. Circa early to mid 1950's. Reprints "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" in abridged form with new cover art. 10" x 7 1/2" horizontal format, color covers with b&w interior, 24 pages-all newsprint.

Canadian Edition (HRN 62, Reprint), 15¢ cover price, dated August 1949. Reprinted for Canadian Distribution. Great Expectations, Line Drawing Cover. Cited in "Seduction of the Innocent." Cover price $0.15.

Canadian Edition (HRN 62), 15¢ cover price, dated August 30th, 1949 in indicia. Reprinted for Canadian Distribution. Black Beauty, Line Drawing Cover. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.15.

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Western Stories, 1st Printing, Line Drawing Cover. (HRN 62, 8/49). Cover price $0.10.

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Western Stories, 2nd Printing, Line Drawing Cover. (HRN 89). Cover price $0.15.

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Western Stories, 3rd Printing, Line Drawing Cover. (HRN 121). Cover price $0.15.

Cover by Ernie Bushmiller. Stories and art by Ernie Bushmiller, Ving Fuller and Leonard Sansone. Comics on Parade features Fritzi, star of Ernie Bushmiller's good-girl strip Fritzi Ritz, and her more famous niece, Nancy. Phil Fumble applies a double standard when he and Fritzi go dancing, in a strip showcasing Bushmiller's good-girl art. Fritzi learns the downside of dating a bored millionaire. Phil and Fritzi learn that ballet dancers like boogie-woogie music too. Fritzi Ritz; Stamp Tips; Nancy; Doc Syke; Willie. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 17, Issue 5A - August, 1949. 6.5" x 9", 130 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Stories by Dan Gordon. Art by Dan Gordon and Clark Haas. Teen hijinks featuring Cookie and his pals, created by legendary animator Dan Gordon. Howdy Hail mounts an aerial pursuit of bank robbers with his flying jalopy; Jitterbuck falls for the new girl in class, Dixie Belle LaRue, but she likes Cookie instead. Cookie; Howdy Hail; Jitterbuck Jones: A Nest of Wag-Tailed Sproons; Cookie: The Most Wonderful Man in Town! 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Sheldon Moldoff, Edd Ashe, and Eddie Robbins. For those who love a little horse opera with their soap opera, Fawcett presents tales of romance and heartbreak on the Western frontier. A drifter settles in a Western town and falls in love with a female blacksmith. A prospector falls for the beautiful daughter of a recluse while searching for gold in the mountains. Wrongly accused of a sheriff's murder, Amy goes on the run, until she finds a refuge and a sympathetic ear from handsome homesteader Jeff. Loves Last Stand!; The Hermits Daughter; Melody Ames, the Prairie Troubadour Part 2; Song of the Six-Gun; Romance Renegade; Outlaw Girl! 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Joel McCrea (as Ross McEwen) photo cover. In order of appearance: Francis Dee (as Fay Hollister) photo; "Four Faces West" adaptation of the United Artists film; "Annie Oakley"; "Chuck Wagon Gus", "Legends of Paul Bunyan", "The Vigilantes, The Frame Up", "Happy Homer", and "Denver Mudd and Bushey Barns" art by Clinton Harmon; "Jesse James"; and Charles Bickford (as Pat Garrett) photo. "Sutter's Gold" text article Photos of Frances Dee (inside front), and Charles Bickford (inside back). 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Bob Fujitani, Robert Perry, C.H. Moore, Fred Guardineer, and Charles Biro. A companion series to Crime Does Not Pay from the same publisher, slightly less violent and with more emphasis on police work. Tip Dorrow uses his fleet of taxis to transport liquor all over the city during Prohibition. Rookie cop Ben Seldon corners two desperate characters, and earns his uniform. Prohibition hood Joe "Dizzy" Baker draws the ire of fellow felons by hijacking bootlegger shipments. Cover and first page feature endorsements from police Captain Felix Lynch and Mary Sullivan, NYPD Women's Bureau Chief, approving of "this magazine as a good reading for red-blooded American youngsters." Also featuring a vintage PSA to parents, warning of polio dangers. Tip Dorrow (Taxi Racketeer); On the Level; Science Vs. the Criminal: F.B.I.; Captain Roger Hanley; This'll Kill Ya!; Our Police Hall of Fame; Message to Parents: If Polio Hits Your Area This Year...; Rookie Ben Seldon; Joe "Dizzy" Baker; Gambling: The Odds Are Against You. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Dan Zolnerowich and Herb Rogoff. Stories and art by Charles Raab, Art Peddy, Jules Steiner, Jack Keller, and Dan Zolnerowich. Tales of crime and mobsters, both true and fictional, a prime example of the genre that thrived in the years before the Comics Code. The notorious cover of this issue portrays a spoof of anti-comics crusader Dr. Fredric Wertham bound and gagged, something acknowledged by the artists and Wertham himself, who points it out in both the illustrations and text of his 1954 anti-comics classic, Seduction of the Innocent. A female crimelord tries to turn herself and her fellow crooks into high-society types in 1880s New York. Spinster sisters Tabby and Birdie Rosebud, "the 70-year-old teenagers," enter a stock-car race in their ancient jalopy and astound fans and drivers alike with their speed. Beautiful Meat-Hooks; Elmo's Penthouse; No Mice Are Nice; The Apple; Strange Confession; The Rosebud Sisters; Smith Does It Again; The Witness; Corkscrew Alley. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $50.00 or Best Offer View scan 1/2" spine split from top. Water damage. Interior tearing. Cover oxidation. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by George Tuska, Fred Guardineer, Claude Moore, Tony DiPreta, and Charles Biro. The title that launched the crime comics genre, Crime Does Not Pay was noted for its violent pre-Code content and lurid tales of underworld life. Mr. Crime narrates the tale of Link Gage, whose attempt to take over his hometown rackets leads to a shootout on a parade float. Holdup men foolishly leave maps to their planned crimes where police can find them. A story that dares the reader to figure out who killed a concert violinist in the middle of a symphony performance. Cover and first page feature endorsements from police Captain Felix Lynch and Mary Sullivan, NYPD Women's Bureau Chief, approving of "this magazine as a good reading for red-blooded American youngsters." Also featuring a vintage ad for "Amazing Lifelike Rubber Masks." Link Gage; This'll Kill Ya; The Taxi Killers; On The Level; Our Police Hall of Fame; Al Hodges and John "Shorty" Gross; Who Dunnit. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Canadian Edition. Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by George Tuska, Fred Guardineer, Claude Moore, Tony DiPreta, and Charles Biro. The title that launched the crime comics genre, Crime Does Not Pay was noted for its violent pre-Code content and lurid tales of underworld life. Mr. Crime narrates the tale of Link Gage, whose attempt to take over his hometown rackets leads to a shootout on a parade float. Holdup men foolishly leave maps to their planned crimes where police can find them. A story that dares the reader to figure out who killed a concert violinist in the middle of a symphony performance. Cover and first page feature endorsements from police Captain Felix Lynch and Mary Sullivan, NYPD Women's Bureau Chief, approving of "this magazine as a good reading for red-blooded American youngsters." Also featuring a vintage ad for "Amazing Lifelike Rubber Masks." Link Gage; This'll Kill Ya; The Taxi Killers; On The Level; Our Police Hall of Fame; Al Hodges and John "Shorty" Gross; Who Dunnit. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $17.50 View scan Heavy water damage. Heavy residue. 1 3/4" Spine split from bottom. Pen marking.

In order of appearance: "Movie-Struck Maniac!" reprinted in Crime Must Pay The Penalty (1948) #42 and in Justice Traps The Guilty (1951) UK #34; "Trail of the Airborne Ransom"; "Sinister Heritage" art by Bill Walton; and "Rex Lewis, Escape Artist". "A Cutting Clue, A True Crime Story" text story. 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $89.00 View scans 2" spine split from bottom of comic.

Canadian Reprint. "The Human Bomb," "Blades of Doom!" (art by Sy Grudko), "The Man Who Talked Too Much," "The Ghoulish Gambler" (art by Frank Giacoia), and a two page story, "The Death Signal," by Alan Ross. Astute collectors seek pre-code comics featuring transvestism, hypodermic needles, "injury to eye" panels, and other oddball story devices. This issue features transvestism in "The Human Bomb," featuring three panels in which the villain dresses like a woman to evade capture. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Jim Mooney. Stories by Otto Binder and unknown. Art by Jimmy Thompson, Dick Sprang, Charles Paris, Howard Sherman, George Klein and unknown. A clever doctor uses a phony "ghost" of executed mobster Rifle Rafferty and a group of stool pigeons within Gotham City's mobs in order to convince the police and the Dynamic Duo that Rafferty has come back from the dead to exact revenge. Don't miss Batman and Robin in "The Ghost of Gotham City!" with art by Dick Sprang and Charles Paris. Plus: Robotman in "Robotman Meets Robotcrook!" by Otto Binder and Jimmy Thompson; Slam Bradley in "A Day in the Life of a Private Eye!" with art by Howard Sherman; and The Boy Commandos in "Around the World or Bust!" with inks by George Klein. Also: Jerry the Jitterbug half-pager by Henry Boltinoff; Casey the Cop 1-pager by Boltinoff; and 1.5-page text piece "The Boy Conqueror." And: 1-page public service announcement "Superman on Safety First!" by Jack Schiff, Win Mortimer and Stan Kaye. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $19.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white

Volume 43, Issue 1 - August, 1949. 6.75" x 9", 132 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Volume 7, Issue 7 - December, 1949. Good girl pin-up cover by Mike McCann. Vintage supermarket pulp tabloid magazine that featured stories based on high profile FBI and CIA cases of the era, accompanied by photographs and testimonials from those close to, and involved in the events . 8.5" x 11", 98 pages, B&W, 16+ recommended. Cover price $0.25.

Dell presents new adventures of legendary tough cop Dick Tracy and his rogues gallery of freakish enemies. A jewel thief and his gang happen to be vacationing at the same resort as Dick Tracy, and their black cat Satan leads Tracy into danger. The original, rarely reprinted story is in the style of Chester Gould, but the actual artists are unknown. Also, Dick Tracy's Rogue's Gallery featuring Flattop, a text story, a solve-it-yourself mystery, and a Sparkle Plenty humor strip. Dick Tracy's Rogue's Gallery; The Black Cat Mystery; Dick Tracy's Minute Mystery; Sparkle Plenty. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Fair $9.00 View scans Paper: Cream Front cover detached 15%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Moderate.

Volume 55, Issue 4 - August, 1949. 6.75" x 9", 98 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.