Comic books November 1950

Stories and art by Marc Swayze and others. Romance comics from Fawcett with tales of love, betrayal, heartache and reconciliation. Factory girl Teresa loves teacher Gene, but fears she's not smart enough for him. Eileen loves Martin, a doctor, but when his surgery on her brother goes wrong, she says things she can't take back. Cannery worker Ann dates the owner's son Pete, and schemes to place her needs ahead of Pete's dreams. Plus an interview with movie stars Guy Madison and Gail Russell. Tears for Teresa; Too Young to Know; Exclusive Interview with Guy Madison and Gail Russell; Belated Sorrows. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Al Capp, Vic Herman and Harvey Kurtzman. Reprints of Al Capp's famed comic-strip masterpiece, featuring hillbilly hero Li'l Abner, his love Daisy Mae, and the citizens of Dogpatch, USA. Li'l Abner meets Rockwell P. Squeezeblood, Al Capp's commentary on the comics business in general, and the Siegel and Shuster scandal in particular. Abner also briefly becomes Squeezeblood's chauffeur, a possible reference to Capp's former boss, Joe Palooka's Ham Fisher. Also featuring Genius strips by comics legend Harvey Kurtzman. Good-girl cover featuring Daisy Mae in a swimsuit by an unknown artist. Genius; The Injuns are Comin; Jack Jawbreaker; Prospector Pete; Kid Science: His Rain-Making Machine, or, Every Cloud Has a Silver Iodide; Lonesome Polecat & Hairless Joe; Memphis Smith: Champagne For Leta. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $12.50 Tape.

Cover art by Irving Tripp. Lucky Lulu; Lulu wins a turkey in a raffle but doesn't want to eat it for Thanksgiving. Little Lulu; Lulu tricks the boys into raking the leaves off her lawn. In Nothingland; Lulu tells Alvin about the little girl who didn't like anything and wanted to go to Nothingland. Cousin Pete; Tubby doesn't want to take his cousin Pete to the clubhouse. Alvin humor page. All scripts by John Stanley, art by Irving Tripp. Two-page text story, Lulus Diry ("Diary"). Back cover has advertisement for five color Little Lulu pinups. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Morris Gollub. Facts about Indian customs and tools. The Broken Spur, script by Fran Striker, art by Charles Flanders; A stage is robbed and the driver killed; The only clue is part of a broken spur left behind. The Indians and the Cannon, script by Fran Striker, art by Charles Flanders; Robbers help Indians wreck a train so they can steal money and the Indians can steal a cannon. Little Man Runs the Gauntlet text story by Gaylord Du Bois. The Invisible Attackers, script by Gaylord Du Bois; Little Buck returns to his village, only to find that Young Hawk is trailing a Dakota war party trying to find him; Little Buck is captured, but Young Hawk rescues him and scares the Dakotas who run away. Based on the popular Western TV series. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $3.30

52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Canadian edition with same content as U.S. edition. Inside front cover is blank; indica appears on bottom of back cover rather than at bottom of first story page. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by John Buscema, Bill Woolfolk and Mort Leav. A post-war, pre-Code romance comic from pioneering female publisher Rae Herman of Orbit-Wanted (who doubled as Love Diary's advice columnist, Ray Mann). Neither Judy nor Jerry wants marriage, but meeting each other might change their minds, in an early story by future Marvel and Conan legend John Buscema. Ruth asks "Ray Mann" if she should wait for Dirk, imprisoned for five years for DUI and manslaughter. In Mexico, Millie gives tour guide Ted the brush-off with a postcard picture of her "fiance" Jose - only to later learn Jose's a bullfighter and national celebrity. Bachelor Girl; Mockery of Love; Mexican Madness; Prescription for Happiness; Time on my Hands; A Love D-I-V-I-D-E-D. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

"Blind Love!" (art by Joe Kubert), "I Was a Fugitive From Love," and "Cinderella Can Also Cry!" Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $56.00 View scans Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.

Add to cart Fair $7.00 View scans

Men's magazine printed in Australia with articles, fiction and cartoons. 8.75" x 11.75" 100 pages, PC. Cover price $0.25.

Volume 1, Issue 8 - November 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, Pete Costanza, Kurt Schaffenberger, Bud Thompson (credited as Bernard Thompson), Pete Riss, Bill Woolfolk, Sheldon Moldoff, Art Helfant, George Marko, and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. Professor Mason's ray enlarges the Earth and every object on it, but people are now tiny figures in relation. The citizens of a flower-rich valley agree to allow an exterminator (in a cropduster) eliminate all insects, but only Mary Marvel realizes this will upset the ecosystem and kill the flowers and plants as well. The hermit Ezra Bitterstone blames humanity for mistreating him and begins to take revenge with his deadly inventions. The Man Who Changed the World; Fence Buster; Mary Marvel: The Evil Exterminator; Capt. Marvel Jr.: The Good Rumor Factory; Judge Smudge; Boxcar Benny; Lazy Lee; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry: The Big Alarm; Rubbernose Randolph; Oh, Doctor; Dopey Danny Dee; The World Hater. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Auction Item: VG 4.0 View scans Auction opens July 6 1.5" cumulative spine split. Cover oxidation.	Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $302.00 View scans Paper: Off white Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.	Add to cart Very Good $268.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 25%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.	Add to cart VG- 3.5 $235.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 15%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Moderate.
Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $140.00 View scans Cover adhered to first and last pages with glue along spine. 4" cumulative spine split.

"temptress of the time flow" a novel by Gardner F. Fox (DC Comics writer),"The Cataaaa" a short story by A. E. Van Vogt, and "Race to the Moon" an article by Forrest J. Ackerman.

November 1950. Formerly Marvel Stories. Cover by Norman Saunders. Science Fiction Stories: "Trin" by Arthur J. Burks, "Temptress of the Time Flow" by Gardner F. Fox, "Overlord of Earth" by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach, "Firebrand!" by A. Bertram Chandler, "The Cataaaa" by A. E. Van Vogt, "The Guinea Pig" by Cedric Walker, "The Day They Landed" by Paul Chadwick, plus other editorial features. Illustrations by F.R. Paul and V. Napoli. Softcover Pulp, 6 1/2-in x 9 1/4-in, 134 Pages, B&W. NOTE: See Marvel Science Stories (1938-1939 Postal Publications) Pulp 1st Series; Marvel Tales (1939-1940 Western Fiction) Pulp; and Marvel Stories (1940-1941 Western Fiction) Pulp for earlier issues. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $11.00 View scans

Volume 45, Issue 179 - November, 1950. Digest-size UK men's magazine. Articles, humor, and pin-up photos. 5" x 7.25", 108 pages, B&W with color.

"Brother Act," "The Secret of the Flying Saucer," "I Was Called a Weak Sister," "Dead End," and a two-page text story, "The Deadly Verdict." Cover price $0.10.

Nov. 1950. Retail stores trade journal. 9-in. x 12-in., 162 pages, B&W.

Published from 1950-1959, this Belgian publication reprinted various Disney comics and strips in a magazine-sized format with half the pages in color and half in black and white on newsprint pages. Each issue had 20 pages. In addition to comic stories, issues featured puzzles, editorials, and letters columns. The stories, including ones by Carl Barks, were serialized and often printed one page per issue, but each issue ended with one complete story. As a result, many stories were resized to five or six lines per page.

Published from 1950-1959, this Belgian publication reprinted various Disney comics and strips in a magazine-sized format with half the pages in color and half in black and white on newsprint pages. Each issue had 20 pages. In addition to comic stories, issues featured puzzles, editorials, and letters columns. The stories, including ones by Carl Barks, were serialized and often printed one page per issue, but each issue ended with one complete story. As a result, many stories were resized to five or six lines per page.

Published from 1950-1959, this Belgian publication reprinted various Disney comics and strips in a magazine-sized format with half the pages in color and half in black and white on newsprint pages. Each issue had 20 pages. In addition to comic stories, issues featured puzzles, editorials, and letters columns. The stories, including ones by Carl Barks, were serialized and often printed one page per issue, but each issue ended with one complete story. As a result, many stories were resized to five or six lines per page.

Published from 1950-1959, this Belgian publication reprinted various Disney comics and strips in a magazine-sized format with half the pages in color and half in black and white on newsprint pages. Each issue had 20 pages. In addition to comic stories, issues featured puzzles, editorials, and letters columns. The stories, including ones by Carl Barks, were serialized and often printed one page per issue, but each issue ended with one complete story. As a result, many stories were resized to five or six lines per page.

Published from 1950-1959, this Belgian publication reprinted various Disney comics and strips in a magazine-sized format with half the pages in color and half in black and white on newsprint pages. Each issue had 20 pages. In addition to comic stories, issues featured puzzles, editorials, and letters columns. The stories, including ones by Carl Barks, were serialized and often printed one page per issue, but each issue ended with one complete story. As a result, many stories were resized to five or six lines per page. French Language.

Published from 1950-1959, this Belgian publication reprinted various Disney comics and strips in a magazine-sized format with half the pages in color and half in black and white on newsprint pages. Each issue had 20 pages. In addition to comic stories, issues featured puzzles, editorials, and letters columns. The stories, including ones by Carl Barks, were serialized and often printed one page per issue, but each issue ended with one complete story. As a result, many stories were resized to five or six lines per page. French Langugae.

Add to cart VG 4.0 $32.00 View scans 1 1/2" Spine split from bottom.

Published from 1950-1959, this Belgian publication reprinted various Disney comics and strips in a magazine-sized format with half the pages in color and half in black and white on newsprint pages. Each issue had 20 pages. In addition to comic stories, issues featured puzzles, editorials, and letters columns. The stories, including ones by Carl Barks, were serialized and often printed one page per issue, but each issue ended with one complete story. As a result, many stories were resized to five or six lines per page. French Language.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $10.75 View scan 3 3/4" Cumulative spine split.

Published from 1950-1959, this Belgian publication reprinted various Disney comics and strips in a magazine-sized format with half the pages in color and half in black and white on newsprint pages. Each issue had 20 pages. In addition to comic stories, issues featured puzzles, editorials, and letters columns. The stories, including ones by Carl Barks, were serialized and often printed one page per issue, but each issue ended with one complete story. As a result, many stories were resized to five or six lines per page. French Language.

The world's mightiest mouse defends Mouseville from danger - mostly cats - in the comic-book adventures of the Terrytoons animated superhero. This is a shortened version of the 52-page issue, with many non-Mighty Mouse stories removed. Mighty Mouse finds trouble at The Alley Cats' Convention. In his first appearance, the cat supervillain known as the Claw employs a Mighty Mouse impostor to frame MM for his crimes. But while Mighty Mouse is in prison, the Claw's gang runs wild in Terrytown. The Perils of Pearl Pureheart; Mighty Mouse Meets the Claw; The Alley Cats' Convention; Mighty Mouse Plays Peacemaker. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD 2.0 $10.00 View scan 1.5" Cumulative spine split. Cover detached at one staple. Centerfold detached.

The world's mightiest mouse defends Mouseville from danger - mostly cats - in the comic-book adventures of the Terrytoons animated superhero. Mighty Mouse finds trouble at The Alley Cats' Convention. In his first appearance, the cat supervillain known as the Claw employs a Mighty Mouse impostor to frame MM for his crimes. But while Mighty Mouse is in prison, the Claw's gang runs wild in Terrytown. Sourpuss thinks Gandy's ventriloquism act could be the next great radio sensation. Heckle and Jeckle: A Helping Hand; The Perils of Pearl Pureheart; Dinky; Sourpuss: The Boomerang; Gandy Goose: Hidden Talent; Mighty Mouse Meets the Claw; Gandy and Sourpuss: Sourpuss Finds a Wallet; The Alley Cats' Convention; Mighty Mouse Plays Peacemaker. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Good $2.50 View scans Spine split 30%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $2.50 View scans Spine split 5%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Slight.

Articles, schematics and photos on the latest available flying models. 8.5" x 11.5", 68 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Vintage celebrity gossip tabloid with a focus on Hollywood during the golden-age of cinema. 8.5" x 11.5", 130 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Stories and art by Edmond Good and Leonard Frank. Movie cowboy Monte Hale wanders the frontier, cleaning up the West one outlaw at a time. Monte must escort Anne to her father's frontier fort, through hostile territory and past ill-intentioned mountain men. Deep in the Rocky Mountains, Monte stumbles on a lost fort of Confederate soldiers who refuse to acknowledge the truth about the Civil War. Monte encounters the work of the Catman, a strange feral being who wears a cougar skin and stalks the roads around Pineville. Plus a cowboy song and a vintage ad for Dubble Bubble. Frontier Danger; Gabby Hayes: The Bandits At the Bridge; Gray Hawk: Bound by Pledge; The Last Confederate; The Roper Rides High; Bronko Betsy; Poat the Poet; Monte Hale's Cowboy Songs: The Railroad Corral; The Not so Sharp Sharpy; Old Slick; The Claws of the Catman. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 0.5 $145.00 View scan Paper: Off white Slab: Significant scuff(s) front or back INCOMPLETE. 7th page and centerfold missing, affects story. 5th page detached. Label #18-45C021F-003

Cover by Gladys Parker. Stories and art by Gladys Parker and Frank Bolle. 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 gets a job as a reporter and is sent to interview movie star Gilda Glamor, but she's more interested in Gilda's handsome press agent. Mopsy goes back to school to earn a raise, but that doesn't work out quite like she expected. Mopsy takes issue with a fellow cheerleader dating a football player before a big game. Plus "Mopsy Modes" paper dolls, showcasing the fashions of the era. Mopsy; Mopsy the Reporter; Mopsy Modes; Strictly for Laughs; It's Co-old Outside. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 1, Issue 4 - November, 1950. Softcover, 8.5" x 10.5", 98 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Volume 15, Issue 3 - November, 1950. 6.75" x 9", 116 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.