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Comic books March 1948

  • Vol. 9 #1
    Target Comics (1940) Vol. 9 #1

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    Cover art by L. B. Cole. Cadet story, art by Nina Albright; Kit Carter and Dan Merry go on a scavenger hunt. Target story, art by Ken Battefield. Midnight Fiddler text story. Bull's-Eye Bill western story, art by Joe Certa. The Candy Bar starring Speck, Spot, and Sis, art by Alonzo Vincent; Kids dress as the Shadow and Roy Rogers at a masquerade. Targetoons humor page by Milt Hammer. Candid Charlie story, art by Robert Sale (as Bob Q. Siege). Heathcliff the Hobo story, script and art by Art Helfant. Gary Stark story, art by Don Rico. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #2
    Tarzan (1948-1972 Dell/Gold Key) 2

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    "Tarzan and the Captives of the Thunder Valley." Tarzan battles a lion, a crocodile, and a great ape, and then proceeds to destroy one million dollars owned by a slaver. Includes part two of Jesse Marsh's adaptation of Burroughs' Ape-English Dictionary. Script by Gaylord DuBois, art and cover by Jesse Marsh. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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    $600 Tarzan No 2 Tarzan and the Captives of Thunder Valley / 1948 Dell 4-Color

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  • Vol. 55 #1
    Ten Detective Aces (1933-1949 Ace Magazines) Pulp Vol. 55 #1

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  • Issue #66
    Terry-Toons Comics (1942 Timely/Marvel/St. John) 66

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    Cover by Art Bartsch. Art by Art Bartsch and Connie Rasinski. St. John presents the comics adventures of the characters of animator Paul Terry's studio. The Claw discovers that a certain musical chord will kill mice, while leaving cats unharmed, and disguises himself to perform at the Terrytown Opera House. Dimwit sets out for a relaxing afternoon of fishing, but then Heckle and Jeckle come along. Sylvester the Fox needs a cuckoo egg for a recipe, but ironically, the cuckoo egg is occupied by someone else: Dingbat. Dinky: Stubby Finds Himself; Mighty Mouse: The Super-Sonic Chord; Heckle and Jeckle: The Prize Catch; Gandy Goose: Open Season; Sylvester the Fox: Foolish Goulash. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Vol. 30 #1
    Texas Rangers (1936-1958 Standard) Pulp Vol. 30 #1


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    • Paper: Off white
    • Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

    March 1948. Jim Hatfield stars in "The Black Gold Secret" written by Jackson Cole. Other western action stories by Joseph Chadwick, Tom Parsons, Allan K. Echols, and Ben Frank. 7" x 9 1/2"; black and white; 114 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

    • Front cover detached 20%. Back cover detached 50%.

    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. 8.5-in. x 11-in, 100 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.50.

  • Vol. 65 #1
    Thrilling Love (1931-1955 Metropolitan-Standard) Pulp Vol. 65 #1

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  • Vol. 37 #1
    Thrilling Ranch Stories (1933-1953 Standard) Pulp Vol. 37 #1


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    • Paper: Light tan to Cream
    • Front cover detached 40%. Back cover detached 20%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Slight.

    Volume 37, Issue 1 - March, 1948. 6.75" x 9", 116 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 20 #2

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  • Vol. 44 #3
    Thrilling Western (1934-1953 Standard) Pulp Vol. 44 #3


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    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 15%. Back Cover Detached. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.
  • Issue #26
    Tick Tock Tales (1946) 26
    • Oxidation.

    Art by Phil De Lara and others. Funny-animal antics from Magazine Enterprises. A rival circus owner steals Little Tops' animals and sells them to the zoo; A sleepwalking Tom-Tom falls into a plot to steal a sacred jewel; Catchy and Scrapps accidentally stow away on a freighter. The Pixie Flyer; Flying Freddy the Model Pilot; Little Tops of the Big Top; Koko and Kola; Tom-Tom the Jungle Boy; Catchy and Scrapps; Goofus the Gopher; The Pixies. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #140
    Tip Top Comics (1936) 140
    • Centerfold detached at one staple.
    • Centerfold detached at one staple.
  • Issue #3
    Tom Mix Western (1948 Fawcett) 3

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    Stories and art by Al Liederman and Carl Pfeufer. Silent-movie cowboy Tom Mix became a pop-culture icon with his 1940s radio show and this tie-in comic. Before Tom can stop an outlaw, he must rescue a trapped Ranger from a raging forest fire. To prevent a fight over a water source from erupting into bloodshed, Tom shoots the guns out of five men's hands in one panel. Tom meets Celia, who has tracked her father's killer from all the way Back East. The Blaze of Death; Cowboy Cal; Saddlehead; Doc Greene's Dilemma; The Badman Wins; Tumbleweed Jr.: School Daze; Round Up Time with Tom Mix; The Whip; Whipper-Snappers; Scales of Justice. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #7
    Topix Vol. 06 (1948) 7

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  • Issue #14
    Treasure Chest Vol. 03 (1947) 14

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    March 2, 1948

  • Issue #15
    Treasure Chest Vol. 03 (1947) 15

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    March 16, 1948

  • Issue #16
    Treasure Chest Vol. 03 (1947) 16

    March 30, 1948

  • Issue #1

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  • Vol. 2 #2
    Triple Detective (1947-1955 Standard) Pulp Vol. 2 #2

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    Spring 1948. Cover by Dreany. Three detective novels: "Tickets for Death" by Brett Halliday, "The Night before Murder" by Steve Fisher, and "Find my Killer" by Manly Wade Wellman. 7" x 10"; black and white; 194 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 22 #130
    True (1937-1976 Country/Fawcett/Petersen) Vol. 22 #130
    • 1.5" Cumulative spine split.
  • Issue #70
    True Comics (1941 Parents' Magazine Press) 70

    Stories based on actual people and events: The Case of the Seven Hunted Men. He Laughed at Rain; introduction of umbrellas to England. The Radio Industry [VI]--American Adventures in Industry. My Most Interesting True Experience article by Gary Cooper. A Lost World starring the Minoans. Scholar with a Punch about a boxer. Abraham Lincoln's Fighting about balloonist. The Last Stand of a Sea Wolf; German battleship Scharnhorst. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #308
    True Confessions (1922-1985 Fawcett) Magazine 308

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  • Vol. 5 #2
    True Crime Detective (1940 Your Guide Publications) Vol. 5 #2


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  • Vol. 48 #6

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  • Vol. 44 #4

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  • Vol. 2 #16

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  • Vol. 47 #1

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  • Vol. 58 #2
    True Story Magazine (1919-1992 MacFadden Publications) Vol. 58 #2

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  • Issue #49
    Two Complete Detective Books (1939-1954 Fiction House) Pulp 49


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    • Paper: Off white
    • Back cover detached 30%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
  • Issue #1
    Two-Gun Kid (1948) 1
    • Paper: Off white to white
    • Tape on interior cover.
    • Label #1482221025
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

    Cover by Syd Shores. First appearance of Two Gun Kid in "Introducing the Two Gun Kid," art by Syd Shores; The Two-Gun Kid and his horse Cyclone ride into the town of Sundown, Arizona; There a stray bullet zips by knocking off the cowboy's had; Suspecting trouble, Two-Gun rushes to the saloon where the shot rang out from and finds a man shot in the arm for refusing to take a drink with another. First appearance of Blaze Carson (unnamed) in "The Sheriff"; The Sheriff is spending his quiet day playing checkers with one of the locals when he hears someone beating up on a horse. "Two Hungry Hikers" text story. "The Code of the West," art by Syd Shores; Dry Gultch, Nevada has been plagued with a series of bank robberies that has kept the town living in fear, and the sheriff unable to catch the gang responsible; 20 minutes after the most recent robbery, Sheriff Winn gathers a posse to go out looking for the thieves and bring them to justice. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

  • Vol. 3 #9

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  • Issue #1
    Underworld (1948 D.S. Pub.) 1
    • Interior is complete. Full length spine split.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    Cover by Sheldon Moldoff. Stories and art by Walter T. Johnson, Frank Bolle and Leonard Starr. Violent pre-Code tales of crime and the law from DS Publishing. Bill Batlen may be a crook and a killer, but his younger brother Andy wants to be just like him. Eddie Bendix may look like a kid, but he's a deadly menace. Marge Morrow escapes from prison, in a story with some Chester Gould-style bad-girl art. Extra-violent cover at least gives the law the upper hand, unlike some other covers of the crime-comics era. The Mad Dog Murderers; The Baby-Face Killer; Killers Inc.; Crime Curtain; The Female Menace; Murder for Millions. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #90
    Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (1940 Dell/Gold Key/Gladstone) 90
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    • Paper: Off white
    • Label #23-3D47B15-013
    • Cover detached at one staple. Piece missing from interior page (does not affect art or story).

    52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #1
    War Against Crime (1948 EC) 1

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    Cover by Johnny Craig. Stories and art by Ed Moore, Graham Ingels, Lee J. Ames, and Johnny Craig. E.C.'s Pre-Trend early crime title featured gangsters, gunplay and femmes fatale. The "true" story of Prohibition-era gangster Machine-Gun Kelly. A mastermind of crime seeks the secret evidence the police have against him, in a story by Johnny Craig. Modern-day train robbers become killers, in Graham Ingel's first story for EC Comics. Public Enemy…the Story of Machine-Gun Kelley!; Portfolio of Death!; The Ruby Stickpin!; Smokin Six-Guns! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Vol. 53 #8

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    Volume 53, Issue 8 - March 1948. "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.

  • Vol. 40 #3
    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 40 #3


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    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 20%. Back cover detached 15%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Moderate.
    • 1" Cumulative spine split. Water damage.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 15%. Back cover detached 30%. Water damage: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 60%. Back cover detached 50%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Trimmed
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 20%. No Back Cover. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

    Volume 40, Issue 3 - March, 1948. 25th Anniversary Issue. Cover by Lee Brown Coye. Horror and supernatural stories by Edmond Hamilton "The Might-Have-Been", Allison V. Harding, H. Russell Wakefield, Manly Wade Wellman, Carl Jacobi, August Derleth "The La Prello Paper", Ray Bradbury "The October Game", Robert Bloch "Catnip", Clark Ashton Smith, Theodore Sturgeon "The Professor's Tidy Bear", Seabury Quinn, Algernon Blackwood, and H. P. Lovecraft (verse). Illustrations by Lee Brown Coye, E. J. Beaumont, Boris Dolgov, and John Guinta. 6 3/4-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 96 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.20.

  • Vol. 68 #2
    West (1926-1953 Doubleday) Pulp Vol. 68 #2

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  • Vol. 25 #4

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  • Vol. 11 #3
    Western Novel and Short Stories (1934-1957 Newsstand-Stadium) Pulp Vol. 11 #3


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    • Paper: Off white
    • Foxing. Soiling. Heavy water damage.

    Volume 11, Issue 3 - March, 1948. 6.75" x 9.75", 134 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 5 #10
    Western Short Stories (1936-1957 Manvis-Stadium) Pulp Vol. 5 #10

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  • Vol. 218 #5
    Western Story Magazine (1919-1949 Street & Smith) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 218 #5

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  • Vol. 1 #6
    Whisper (1946 Whisper, Inc.^) Magazine Vol. 1 #6


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    Vol. 1, No. 6. March 1948. Cover by Peter Driben. Men's interest magazine with articles, fiction, and pin-ups. 10.25" x 13.5". 64 pages. Black and white. Cover price $0.25.

  • Issue #95
    Whiz Comics (1940 Fawcett) 95

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    Cover by C.C. Beck. Stories and art by Basil Wolverton, Otto Binder, Bernie Krigstein, Kurt Schaffenberger and Bill Woolfolk. The Fawcett comic that introduced the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) to the world. Criminal Wings Whalen frames Captain Marvel for damage to skyscrapers, leading the Air Traffic Council to demand that CM stop flying when he's fighting crime. Helpful Jones's inventions always cause trouble, but he tries to convince Golden Arrow that this time will be different, in a story with early art by EC legend Bernie Krigstein. A mysterious woman warns Ibis of impending disaster at the hands of someone named Holocaust, in a story with art by Superman artist Kurt Schaffenberger and a cameo by Freddy Freeman (Captain Marvel Jr.). Plus a "Culture Corner" strip by legendary cartoonist Basil Wolverton, featuring useless but hilarious advice on "How to Extricate Your Upper Plate." And "Comix Cards" (like the later Marvel Value Stamps) featuring Captain Marvel Jr. art by Mac Raboy. Captain Marvel: Grounded!; Doc Sorebones; The Culture Corner; Colonel Corn and Korny Kobb; Golden Arrow: The Barricade; Wicky and O'Shawnessy; Non-Scents; The Whiz Quiz; Ibis the Invincible: Holocaust, God of Destruction! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #1
    Wild West (1948 WFP) 1
    Published Mar 1948 by WFP.

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    Two-Gun Kid, Arizona Annie, and Tex Taylor begin. Cover by Shores. Cover price $0.10.

  • Vol. 11 #1
    Wings (1928-1953 Fiction House) Pulp Vol. 11 #1


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  • Issue #91
    Wings Comics (1940) 91

    Cover by Bob Lubbers. Edited by J.F. Byrne and William R. Shelton. Stories and art by Bob Lubbers, Charles Sultan, Al Walker, George Evans, John Celardo and Maurice Whitman. Aviation-themed adventure, combat and history tales from pioneering comics publisher Fiction House. Jane Martin's experimental flight to aid a wealthy deaf boy is attacked by would-be kidnappers; Greasemonkey Griffin is hired to rescue hurricane survivors, but picks up two crooks instead; The Phantom Falcon's secret identity Chet Horne is framed for murdering a singer on stage. Good-girl cover with bondage elements by Bob Lubbers. Captain Wings; Jane Martin; Greasemonkey Griffin; Air Heroes of World War II; Phantom Falcon; Suicide Smith; Ghost Squadron. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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    $175 WINGS COMICS # 91 FICTION HOUSE 1948 CLASSIC GOOD GIRL BONDAGE COVER

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  • Vol. 11 #6

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  • Issue #28
    Wonder Woman (1942 1st Series DC) 28

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    Cover by Harry G. Peter. "Villainy Incorporated" (Part 1), script by Joye Hummel (as Charles Moulton), art by Harry G. Peter; As Wonder Woman brings Saturian women to Transformation Island, one of them, Eviless, escapes and gets control of Wonder Woman's magic lasso. "Trap of Crimson Flame" (Part 2), script by Joye Hummel (as Charles Moulton), art by Harry G. Peter; Villainy, Inc. succeeds in capturing Queen Hippolyte and the rest of the Amazons, then summon Wonder Woman, planning to kill her and Queen Hippolyte. Wonder Women of History: two-page Elizabeth Barrett Browning bio, art by Robert Sale. Two-page text story, "Recoil" by Ted Udall. "In The Hands of the Merciless" (Part 3), script by Joye Hummel (as Charles Moulton), art by Harry G. Peter; The four remaining members of Villainy, Inc. have fled to the man's world with Hippolyte's jewels. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #33
    World's Finest (1941) 33
    Published Mar 1948 by DC.

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    Cover art by Win Mortimer. Superman Press, Inc. starring Superman, script by Don Cameron, pencils by Ira Yarbrough; The Daily Globe and the Daily Planet compete to see which would be the best paper if Superman helped them equally. The Archer From Sherwood Forest starring Green Arrow, art by George Papp. Neat Tricks starring Zatara, script by Joe Samachson, art by William F. White. The Weapon of Doom starring Tomahawk, script by George Kashdan, art by Fred Ray. The Battle of Brooklyn starring Boy Commandos, script by George Kashdan, pencils by Curt Swan. The Five Jewels of Doom starring Batman, script by Bill Finger, pencils by Bob Kane, inks by Ray Burnley. 76 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.15.

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    1 day left Auction WORLD'S FINEST #33 - GOLDEN AGE - 1948 - BACK COVER DETACHED - COMPLETE!

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  • Issue #64
    Wow Comics (1940-1948 Fawcett) 64

    Stories and art by Carl Pfeufer and Marc Swayze. A Fawcett anthology with an emphasis on superhero adventure. Mr. Scarlet and Pinky suspect that spiritualist Professor Curiosa is swindling Mrs. Van Rich. Phantom Eagle learns that the deadly air ace Black Flamingo has survived. Commando Yank investigates a murder at a baseball field. Ozzie: A High Position; Boy Scout Bob; Bobo; Pete the Policeman; Mr. Scarlet and Pinky: That's the Spirit!; Phantom Eagle: The Horror of the Swamp!; Uncle Herkimer; Clever Clem; Muscle Hedd; Penny Graves: Hostile Cargo; Richard Richard, Private Dick: The Watch Case; Commando Yank: Death on the Diamond. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.