Comic books March 1950

Cover by Ken Ernst. Stories and art by Bob Powell, Allen Saunders and Ken Ernst. The ultimate busybody, Mary gives advice to friends and neighbors coping with love woes. Pixie must choose between her stage career and the man she loves. A man loses sleep over his beautiful but noisy neighbor and her little yip-dog. Too Smart for Love; I Married an Angel; Too Young to Love. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Spring, 1950, Volume 1, Number 2. Softcover, 5.5-in. x 7.5-in.; 132 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

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Volume 6, Issue 3 - March, 1950. 6.75" x 9.75", 166 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Volume 1, Issue 2 - March 1950. Men's interest magazine focusing on true crime, and war stories. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 68 pages, B&W. MATURE READERS Cover price $0.25.

Stories and art by Otto Binder, C. C. Beck, Al Liederman, Art Helfant, Kurt Schaffenberger, and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. The Marvel Family investigates when developer John Stoneheart's New City springs up almost overnight, and they soon discover it's made of paper and cardboard. To earn a donation for an orphanage, Mary Marvel agrees to work as a maid for a wealthy woman for one day. Captain Marvel, Jr. tries to figure out why the trees, objects and even buildings in Friendly Valley have turned against the residents. The Hoax City; Boxcar Benny; Lazy Lee; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry: The Big Scoop; Mary Marvel: The Worlds Wealthiest Woman; Capt. Marvel Jr.: The Valley of Fear; Guns and a Ghost; The Toothache; Captain Marvel Discovers the Wooden Age; Rubbernose Randolph. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Kurt Schaffenberger. Stories and art by Kurt Schaffenberger, Henry Kiefer, Howard Boughner, Carl Pfeufer and John Jordan. Fawcett's showcase for comics covers the humor, Western, adventure and superhero genres, featuring Captain Marvel Jr. An escaped convict hides out in a secret compartment underneath a suburban house where even the owner can't find him, in a story (and cover) with art by longtime Superman artist Kurt Schaffenberger. Action girl Nyoka learns a secret that will change the mind of tribal chieftain Noma...if she lives long enough to reveal it. Western hero Tom Mix encounters outlaws who arrange fatal accidents for popular townspeople, then make off with the money the town raises for the family's benefit. Capt. Marvel Jr.: The Strange House!; Muscle Hedd; Nyoka: The Lost Brother; Pilot Pete Gives the Bird; Ozzie and Babs: Coiffure Craziness!; Dizzy Daisy; Ben the Business Man; Marlow the Marshal; Colonel Corn and Korny Kobb: Flicker Fools; Vacuum Bloobstutter: No Holes Barred; Poetic Pete; Tom Mix: The Case of the Sheriff's Misfortune. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 43, Issue 171 - March, 1950. Digest-size UK men's magazine. Articles, humor, and pin-up photos. 5" x 7.25", 132 pages, B&W with color.

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Articles, schematics and photos on the latest available flying models. 8.5" x 11", 60 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Cover pencils by Reed Crandall, inks by Chuck Cuidera. Untitled stories starring Blackhawk and King Earthquake, Torchy (script and art by Gill Fox), and Ezra. Moronic Hall starring Will Bragg. Blackhawk's Challenge text story starring Blackhawk. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Vol. 40, No. 4. March 1950. Elizabeth Taylor cover. Movie magazine with news, reviews, profiles and photographs. Includes articles on Shirley Temple's divorce, Ingrid Bergman, Clark Gable, Kirk Douglas, and more. Full-page color ad for Walt Disney's Cinderella. 8.5" x 11". 98 pages. Partial color, partial B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Movie cowboy Monte Hale wanders the frontier, cleaning up the West one outlaw at a time. Monte helps the pretty new schoolmarm set up the town's new school when someone seems determined to stop it. Monte tries to keep ornery bull One Horn in line, but when rustlers set up an ambush on a cattle drive, they're glad One Horn is along. Head Strong Jack tries to cheer up a despondent barber. Plus a cowboy song. The Danger Bell; The Saga of One Horn; The Musical Madman; Head Strong Jack; Gabby Hayes: The Cuckoo Crooks; Monte Hale's Cowboy Songs: The Cowboy's Dream; Whitey Whiskers: The Old Rocking Chair; Gray Hawk: Hard Bargain; The Desert of Death. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Al Feldstein. Stories by Al Feldstein and Gardner Fox. Art by Al Feldstein, Graham Ingels, Harry Harrison and Wally Wood (credited as Harry Wood). The former Moon Girl completes its transformation into a romance comic. When Florence meets Jerry, she almost forgets that her husband is in the state penitentiary, in a story featuring good-girl art by Al Feldstein. A female ex-convict has gone straight, but feels she can never be reformed enough to romance a handsome judge, with art by Graham Ingels. After surviving a car crash, a man learns his fiancee isn't who he thought she was. I Was a Prison Widow; I Was Not Worthy of Love!; I Had Been Blind to My Real Love!; No Rx for Romance. Final issue under this title; series changes names yet again, continuing as the legendary EC comic Weird Fantasy, which explains the odd numbering of that title. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Gladys Parker. Stories and art by Gladys Parker and Gracie Allen. One of the first female-centric comic strips, by pioneering female artist Gladys Parker, Mopsy combines an Ever Meulen art style with pantomime-style gags and good-girl art. Mopsy decides to give herself a home perm, causing a meter-reader to think she's a ghostly spirit, and a talent agent to think she's a comedian. Thinking that she's found a poem Wally wrote for another girl, Kitty goes out with nerdy Rodney Bookmark to get back at Wally. Rather than fix a dent in her car, Mopsy sets out to make the rest of the car match it. Plus a three-page text piece written by comedy legend Gracie Allen of the Burns & Allen vaudeville duo. Mopsy; Kitty: How Do I Love Thee?; Bon Voyage. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Elizabeth Taylor cover and feature article. Also articles and features on Gene Autry, June Allyson, Kirk Douglas, Bob Hope, Van Johnson, Bing Crosby and more. Full-page movie ads include Key to the City, Paid in Full, Young Man With a Horn, Deadly is the Female, Three Came Home. Profusely illustrated with photographs. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 98 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

One of many romance comics from Fox Feature Syndicate. Connie meets handsome David after catching the bouquet at a wedding; Diane is crushed when her childhood sweetheart marries another woman, but the friend who brings her the news is awfully handsome; A woman fears her criminal past will come to light when she goes to work in a handsome lawyer's office. Plus love advice to readers and advice on overcoming possessiveness. I Wasn't His Kind of Girl; He Trifled with My Heart; Are You In Love; Between Us Girls; I Dated Disaster. Final issue under this title; numbering continues with Judy Canova (1950) #23. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Art by Paul Gattuso and others. Tame love tales with suggestive titles from Fox Feature Syndicate. Eve seeks a rich husband and marries Ken, only to find out he's a gambler and a criminal; Opal leaves the city to marry her farmer husband, but then suspects he's been planting with Zelda from the next farm over; Olga tries to conceal her status as a child of immigrant parents from boyfriend Tod, only to learn that he is one too. I Sold My Love; I Was a Farmer's Girl; My Love Was a Secret; Foreign Born! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Fox Feature Syndicate presents the third romance title to launch the romance comics craze, following Crestwood's "Young Romance" and Timely/Marvel's "My Romance". Broadway drama queen Helen must adjust to a slower pace when she marries single father Marvin; Ruth has an affair with Bill and decides to divorce her husband, only to learn Bill is already married; Bored secretary Rosalie fools around with her boss while her teacher fiance is working late. Plus love advice to readers and advice on getting pretty hands. I Wanted Good Times; I Was a Brazen Cheat; What Am I to Do?; Gloom Chasers; My Two-Timing Heart. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Art by Wally Wood and others. Lurid tales of romance and regret from Fox Feature Syndicate. A woman uses her beauty to fish for guys, until she meets the one she shouldn't have let get away; A couple splits after he learns that she lied to make him love her; A woman regrets a decision made in crisis. Plus love advice to readers. Beauty Was My Bait; I Lied For Love; Ask Debby Brown; My Reckless Act. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Women tell tales of hard-won romance. A woman makes a deal for love; A man tells a woman what she wants to hear to win her heart; A woman thinks nothing can come between her and her family, but then she meets the wrong man. Plus love advice to readers. I Bartered With Marriage; He Misled Me; For Lovers Only; I Broke My Mother's Heart. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

The path to romantic love presents many obstacles to women. Jenny doesn't know how to tell her sister Gloria that she's in love with the man Gloria's about to marry; Effie rejects the father of her son, but can't put him out of her life because of the child; Patty ruins a perfectly good romance with Roger by being jealous and demanding. Plus love advice to readers and the question Do You Want a Beautiful Face? I Tried to Be Good!; He Ruined My Future; Sincerely Yours; Your Glamour Cues; I Was Headstrong. Final issue under this title; numbering continues with Hoot Gibson Western (1950) #5. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Photo cover for "I Was Whistle Bait!"

4 romance stories. Photo cover. Cover price $0.10.

Art by Wally Wood and others. Women keep their love hidden from public view. Jackie almost loses Frank when he discovers that she still has a key to her old boyfriend's apartment; New teacher Mae becomes a temporary boarder for an elderly couple, but the wife is insanely jealous; Sue sacrifices everything to raise her troubled sister Sally, and as a result, Sally ruins Sue's reputation. Plus love advice to readers and tips on How to Be Popular. I Was Cornered; His Wife Hated Me; I Sacrificed My Reputation. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Art by Wally Wood and others. Women admit to secret love. A woman deals with insulting insinuations, in a story with early art by EC legend Wally Wood; A man's faith in the woman he loves is shaken; A woman tries to dominate the man in her life, not expecting him to dump her. Plus love advice to readers. They Called Me Cheap; He Couldn't Trust Me; Heart To Hart; Carolyn's Column; I Thought I Owned A Man. Final issue under this title; numbering continues with Star Presentation (1950) #3. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Women reveal tales of love and loss. A couple wonders if they can make their relationship work after they are brought together by a companionship agency; A woman thinks she's not good enough for the man she loves; A man refuses to let the woman he loves walk away. Plus love advice to readers. My Mail-Order Sweetheart; Second-Rate Girl; Please Advise; He Wouldn't Let Me Go. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

"I Came from the Slums!"; Cora and her alcoholic mother live in the slums of Easterling; At school, Cora meets Gary, who doesnt care about her poverty; After high school, they elope. Garys mother feels an early marriage will ruin Garys future, and offers Cora $10,000 to get an annulment; Cora accepts because she loves Gary but lies to him; Cora reinvents herself as "Coral," getting a good job; "Harvard man" Paul proposes to Cora. "I Wanted a Wedding Ring"; "Steady" Jud proposes to Tabby but she stalls and tells "exciting" Roy, who feels pressured into marrying her even though hes "not ready to be married yet!"; The couple gets into financial trouble and Roy blames Tabby for rushing him into marriage; A drunk Roy commits suicide; Tabby gives birth to Roys son; Jud pays the bills and even sends her away on vacation. "My Doubting Heart"; War widow Myra and her young daughter Lonnie move back to her home town; When Lonnie runs away, Bob brings her home and asks Myra for a date; Bob and Myra fall in love, but Myra is worried that he resents Lonnies presence; Myra insists that Lonnie accompany them to the house thats being built for the new family, and Lonnie is injured; Myra blames Bob and breaks up with him. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Spring 1950. Max Thursday stars in "Murder has Girl Trouble" by Wade Miller. Other detective and mystery stories by B. J. Benson, Will Oursler, and Anthony Boucher. Illustrations by Orban. 7" x 9 1/4"; black and white; 146 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

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52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.