Comic books April 1949

Tex Morgan in "Valley of Missing Cowboys," "The Killer's Brand," and "The Mystery of the Desert Sands!" Blaze Carson back-up story, "Killer's Mistake!" Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart FN- 5.5 $69.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart Very Good $23.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.

Add to cart Very Good $50.00 View scans Paper: Off white

Volume 34, Issue 2 - April, 1949. 6.75" x 9.75", 98 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart Very Good $48.00 View scans Front cover detached 20%. Back cover detached 10%. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $41.00 View scans Staple rust: Extensive.

Volume 33, Issue 3 - April, 1949. 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, 96 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.50.

Cover by Alex Schomburg. Edited by Ned Pines. Stories by Art Saaf, Ruben Moreira, Jerry Devers, Donald Bayne Hobart, Gene Fawcette, Oliver Buchanan, and Frank Frazetta. Chock full of action and adventure, these are Thrilling Comics! 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $30.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.	Add to cart VG- 3.5 $17.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.	Add to cart VG- 3.5 $17.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 30%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.	Add to cart VG- 3.5 $17.00 View scans Paper: Off white Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Extensive.
Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $13.00 View scans Paper: Cream Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Moderate.	Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $15.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 15%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.	Add to cart FR 1.0 $5.49 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Back cover missing. Front cover detached 15%. No Back Cover. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.

April 1949. Stories by Noel Loomis, Edmond Hamilton, Ray Bradbury, Benj. Miller, Raymond Z. Gallun, Leigh Brackett, Rog Phillips, Margaret St. Clair, Murray Leinster, Fredric Brown, and James Blish. Five Virgil Finlay illustrations. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 166 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

Art by Frank Bolle and others. Western adventure starring movie cowboy Tim Holt. Devil Dan Barnett takes advantage of a harsh winter to try to drive ranchers off their land; An outlaw sells illegal booze to the nearby tribes; Paul and his sister get into a war with a rival operation over management of a key route to California. Tim Holt's Western Album; The Winter War!; Tim Holt's Roundup; Along the War-Whoop Trail!; Badge of the Lawman; Desperate Journey. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $65.00 View scans .5" Spine split from bottom. Centerfold detached. Only one staple (manufacturing). Chew.

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Cover by Mario DeMarco. Stories and art by Lee Sherman, Mario DeMarco, and James McKell. Western comics featuring Western star Tim McCoy and adaptations of movie Westerns. Wells Fargo agent Whip Wilson masquerades as a sheriff to get the goods on the leader of an outlaw gang. Tim McCoy tells the story of Jesse James' lost treasure. Plus comics biographies of Western stars William "Hopalong Cassidy" Boyd, legendary stuntman Yakima Canutt, silent star William S. Hart and Tim Holt. Tim McCoy; Renegade Guns; William "Hopalong Cassidy" Boyd; The Treasure Trove of Jesse James; Apache Gold; Virginia City; Yakima Canutt; Crashing Thru; The Origin of the "Curly Bill Spin"; William S. Hart; Tim Holt. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover pencils by Rudolph Dirks (The Captain and the Kids). Stories and Art by Ernie Bushmiller, Sam Leff, Al Capp, Ving Fuller and unknown. (Note: Who the inkers are is mainly unknown.) In this issue: Nancy by Ernie Bushmiller; Fritzi Ritz by Bushmiller; Curly Kayoe by Sam Leff; Stamp Tips article "The Costly Invitation"; Li'l Abner by Al Capp; Doc Syke 1-pager by Ving Fuller; How It Began article "Hocus Pocus"; and Strange as It Seems 1-pager. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD 2.0 $8.40 View scan Staples added (not manufacturing) and reinforced with tape. Small cover-to-cover hole (does not affect readability).

Painted cover by Norman Saunders. Stories and art by Carl Pfeufer and Al Liederman. Silent-movie cowboy Tom Mix became a pop-culture icon with his 1940s radio show and this tie-in comic. A rash of vicious stagecoach robbery-murders causes Tom to suspect someone's trying to put Tad Hodges' coach line out of business. Tom agrees to help Mr. Frost and his daughter search for the gold atop treacherous Vulcan's Peak, but outlaw Blackjack Creely wants the gold for himself. Henry, teen king of Transvania, travels to America to visit his hero Tom Mix, but his advisors are plotting to seize Henry and the throne. Death Rides the Highway; Cowboy Cal; Perils of Vulcan's Peak; Old Slick; Fightin' Forbes: Threat of the Skull; The Fatal Feather; Helpless Horatio: The Ambitious Job Agency; Tumbleweed Jr.: The Teacher's Pet; Round Up Time with Tom Mix; Tom Mix and the Royal Threat. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Jack Sparling, Phil Berube, Richard G. Waite and Claude Jarman Jr. Biography and history stories in comics form, part of a trend in non-fiction comics in the 1940s. The legend of racehorse Moifaa, who survived a shipwreck; A soldier stranded in the Arctic finds messages left by Admiral Peary 40 years before; Wrestling as an amateur sport. Walt 'Turk' Broda; A Story of Buried Treasure; Youre the Detective; The Case of the Missing Jewels; Are You a Quiz Whiz?; Moifaa the Super Horse; My Most Interesting True Experience; Wrestling for Fun; Truly Comic!, Solving the Great Arctic Mystery; The Story Behind the Department of National Defense. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Add to cart CGC 9.0 $300.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: Off white to white Label #0047768003 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Stories and art by Edd Ashe and others. Biography and history stories in comics form, part of a trend in non-fiction comics in the 1940s. Genghis Khan uses brute force and strategy to conquer vast territory; The Marie Celeste is found adrift with all hands missing, a mystery that was never solved; Attorney Abe Lincoln defends a murder suspect. Star of Stanford: Hank Luisetti; The Mystery of the Marie Celeste; Genghis Khan: Empire Builder; Wolves Can Be Tough; Shotgun Bank Robbers; Abraham Lincoln: Murder by Moonlight; The Truth about Cattle Rustling. 32 pages, Full Color. NOTE: #80-84 are all newsprint editions that were distributed by mail only to subscribers (no newstand distribution). Cover price $0.10.

36 pages. Cover price $0.10.

Phillips 66 Oilers basketball team, baseball manager Connie Mack, spring training, and boxer Ezzard Charles. Most of issue (plus cover) drawn by Bob Powell. Cover price $0.10.

"Brand of the Killers!"; Horn City: Two-Gun Kid is a patron at the Ace Saloon where he witnesses young Billy Horn is forced into an altercation with a patron whom Billy shoots dead. Article in defense of comics, comparing anti-comics critics to anti-novel critics. "Fine Feathers and Flying Fists!"; Two-Gun Kid hears a boy crying and goes to see if he is okay; He learns that the boy has been run out of town and school, and is intending to run away to become a gunfighter like the Two-Gun Kid. "Ghost Story" text story. "Nuggets of Doom!"; Jake Miller is toiling his gold panning operation when he is confronted by a gang of masked riders who demand that he turn over his gold; When Miller recognizes the voice of the gangs leader, the leader shoots Miller dead; Soon Blaze Carson and a crowd of local gold miners arrive to investigate. "The Saga of the Mad Mayor!"; Two-Gun Kid rides a train to Rail's End, meeting railroad detective Pat McCune and Jeremiah Mooney the mayor of Mooneyville; Ahead of the train are some of Mooney's men who have blocked the rail track, causing the engine to derail, stopping the train. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

"Whom the Gods Would Destroy!" Venus brings Samson to Earth to make Beauty Magazine publisher Whitney Hammond jealous."It's All in the Mind!" Della tricks Venus into toning down her beauty. Also includes: "Oh, Doctor!"; "Out of This World"; and "Hey Look!" Script and art by Harvey Kurtzman. Cover price $0.10.

This #4 published 1949. NOTE: There is another #4 with a 1948 publication date. Cover price $0.10.

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52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Max Elkan. "The Cross-Draw Kid Fights El Tigre's Tyrannt," art by Max Elkan; El Tigre and his bandits kidnap prospectors and take them across the border to work on his new silver mine. "Blazing Six-Guns on a Manhunt," art by Max Elkan; How the cold-bloded desperado, Cole Younger was killed by a Minesota posse. Untitled Sheriff Sal story, art by King Ward; Sally blows up a gang of outlaws with a barrel of blasting powder. "The Bisbee Massacre"; The Heath gang's reign of terror and murder in Arizona in 1884 comes to a violent end in an ambush. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by John Lehti. The Origin of the Wyoming Kid, art by Howard Sherman. Ads for All-American Western #107 and Dale Evans Comics #4, pencils by Alex Toth, inks by Joe Giella. The Battle of Liberty Hill starring Rodeo Rick, script by Phil Evans, art by Jimmy Thompson. A short history of young BIlly Smith's work in the rodeo. A short history of the life of Buffalo Jones. Wagon-Wheel War starring Nighthawk, art by Charles Paris. Highlights of the careers of some rodeo cowgirls. From War-Whoop to Wigwag, art by Raymond Perry. The Phantom of Gunsmoke Mesa starring Cowboy Marshal, script by Phil Evans, art by Ed Smalle Jr. Ad for Scribbly #5, art by Sheldon Mayer. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $5.50

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Painted cover by Norman Saunders. Stories and art by Bill Woolfolk and others. Fawcett's tales of Western heroes from folklore and the movies. Protecting a seemingly worthless treasure seems like an easy job for Hopalong Cassidy, but it's neither worthless nor easy. Young Falcon proves Little Star didn't commit the theft that got her exiled from her tribe, but finding the real culprit is trickier. An outlaw framed for murder is blackmailed by the real killer. Hopalong Cassidy: Buried Trouble; Cactus Brain; Young Falcon: Little Star's Secret; Monte Hale: The Men Who Died Twice; Hammer Head; Red Roan: Outlaw Valley; Gabby Hayes: The Cliff Bandits; Vita Min; Tom Mix: Blackmail. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $33.00 View scans Paper: Off white Staple rust. Rust migration. Foxing. Soiling.

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Volume 11, Issue 9 - April, 1949. 6.75" x 9.75", 134 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Volume 6, Issue 6 - April, 1949. 6.75" x 9.75", 134 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $57.00 View scans Water damage. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by Bud Plant

Gun-blazing Western adventure from Fox Feature Syndicate. Scouts and cavalry unite against rebellious native tribes; Former Confederate soldier Don King becomes a rustler and killer; The story of Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid fleeing to meet their fates in South America, as told in the famous film. The Infamous Monument Of Revenge!; The Rebel Killer; Bullets Of Death; Butch Cassidy And The Wild Bunch; Facts About Our Western Indians. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

All stories reprinted in Outlaws, The (1952 Star) #10. All comic stories reprinted in Blazing Six-Guns (1964 I. W. Reprint) #17. In order of appearance: "The Little Weasel" retitled as "Gunsmoke of Doom" in Outlaws, The (1952 Star) #10; "Henry Plummer and the Road Agents"; "Ben Thompson, The Murderer Whose Weapon Was Fear!"; and "Facts About Our Western Indians". "The Indians Decided to Massacre" text story. 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Wild Bill Pecos in "Badman's Land" (art by Mort Leav), plus "Fast Draw Artist" (art by Mort Lawrence), "Remember the Alamo," and "River Pirates" (art by Lawrence). Edited by Ray R. Hermann. Cover by Mort Leav. Stories by William Woolfolk and Mort Lawrence. True tales from the Old West, starring such real-life characters as Wild Bill Pecos, Sheriff Jud Benson, and General Sam Houston. 52 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by C.C. Beck. Stories and art by Basil Wolverton, Otto Binder, Frank Little, Frank Bolle, Lee Elias, Louis Cazeneuve, Kurt Schaffenberger and Bill Woolfolk. The Fawcett comic that introduced the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) to the world. Captain Marvel acquires a magic coat that is cursed to turn a person who wears it into the opposite of what he wants. Lance and Mike are attacked by a giant condor while making a courier run on the open ocean. Plus a "Culture Corner" strip by legendary cartoonist Basil Wolverton, featuring useless but hilarious advice on "How to Keep a Cool Conk." And "Comix Cards" (like the later Marvel Value Stamps) featuring Captain Marvel, Mary Marvel and Captain Marvel Jr. Captain Marvel: The Magic Coat; Doc Sorebones; Wilbur the Waiter; Carey the Coach; The Culture Corner; Golden Arrow: Winged Victory; Ronnie and Johnnie; Wicky and O'Shawnessy; Lance O'Casey: The Bandit Birds; Abernathy the Author; Freshman Freddy: Tick-Tock; The Whiz Quiz; Ibis the Invincible: The Menace of Gog and Magog. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Al Fagaly. "About Face," art by Bill Vigoda; Wilbur begins a series of pranks when he gets his order of Plastimasks in the mail. "My Rhyme Is Your Rhyme," art by Bill Vigoda; The Nursery Rhyme Costume Dance at Westfield High School causes more trouble than Principal Dripwaite bargained for. Untitled story, art by Bill Vigoda; Laurie tries to win over Wilbur under the guise of doing research for her book. "Chicken Feed," art by Bill Vigoda; Wilbur tries to help Linda keep pests out of her garden. "Of Mice and Wilbur," art by Bill Vigoda; Wilbur tries to get on Mr. Dripwaite's good side by finding a bunch of cats to help rid the school of its mice epidemic. "Tell A Phone The Answer," art by Bill Vigoda; Radio contests and radio commercials add up to a headache for Mr. Wilkin. Untitled Katy Keene story, script and art by Bill Woggon; Sis models reader-submitted outfits to wear to a birthday party--and then eats all of the candy she was giving as a present before she arrives. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Bob Lubbers. Edited by J.F. Byrne and William R. Shelton. Stories and art by Bob Lubbers, Robert Webb, Ruben Moreira, Frank Fermonetti, George Evans, John Celardo and Maurice Whitman. Aviation-themed adventure, combat and history tales from pioneering comics publisher Fiction House. While seeking a boxer's secluded training camp, reporter Jane Martin stumbles on a gang of thugs; King of the Congo tells the story of an ancient aviator who explored Africa by balloon; The Phantom Falcon aids farmers targeted by a protection racket. Captain Wings; Jane Martin; King of the Congo; Air Heroes of World War II; Phantom Falcon; Suicide Smith; Ghost Squadron. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.