Comic books December 1951

Painted cover by Norman Saunders. Stories and art by Vic Martin, Robert Bernstein and Al Carreno. Short-statured agent "Little" Al and his sidekick Ox Collins fight crime in the Cold War '50s. Al and Ox go deep undercover to aid resistance fighters in a Soviet-bloc country. Al and Ox seek out a spy ring on the East Coast. Fifth columnists working within the US are smuggling secrets to America's enemies. Action-packed painted cover by Norman Saunders. Counterfeit Capers; Timko's Wolfhounds!; Clear as Crystal; The Gaunt Guy; The Case of the Floating Fish; Operation Empire State!; Secret Service Secrets. Final issue of the series; issue #10 was actually published first. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Jerry Muddle in "A Hare Raising Escape!" (2 pg, inside covers), Little Iodine 'untitled' (A) Jimmy Hatlo, Little Iodine [Wet Paint], Yogurt [How to be a Flagpole Sitter]. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Lulu Goes Sledding one-page story. The Football Star; The Fellers recruit Lulu for a football game against the West Side gang. Lulu Shovels Snow; The Fellers take a snow shoveling job away from Lulu and Annie. Lulu Buys Eggs; Lulu is trying to get home with a dozen eggs without breaking them. Tubby Pays His Dues; Tubby makes the Fellers think the clubhouse has been buried in snow. Two-page text story, Lulus Diry ("Diary"). Back cover has advertisement for Dell Comics Club. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Al Avison and others. Joe Palooka's speechless sidekick from the popular Ham Fisher boxing strip gets his own comic, noteworthy for early versions of Little Dot and other Harvey characters. Humphrey ill-advisedly agrees to let the members of his fan club practice first aid on him. Plus solo stories featuring Rags Rabbit and Little Max. Little Max; Rumpus; Humphrey: Let's Play Doctor; Little Max Rhymes with Reason; Rags Rabbit. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Painted cover art by Ernest Nordli. The Grayson Trail, script by Paul S. Newman, pencils by Tom Gill; Scar Grayson's gang sends a false message by telegraph to Batesville to lure the Sheriff and his posse away from town. Geronimo "The Restless One"; The story of the Apache Indian Geronimo. Little Hunter and the Cougar's Cub text story; Pawnee toddler Little Hunter stumbles into the den of a cougar and her cub. A Debt Repaid, script by Gaylord Du Bois; While exploring the lower reaches of the Rio Grande, Young Hawk returns to camp to find Little Buck and High Cloud gone; He trails them to the village of the two women whose lives he saved earlier, but is captured. Based on the popular Western TV series. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Western comics featuring the masked hero Lone Rider and other champions of Old West justice. Lone Rider rescues a boy who survived a deadly attack, and learns that the new town sheriff is not who he claims to be. Lone Rider learns the surprising truth about the new woman living on the Old Hermit's property. Lone Rider's horse Lightnin' is blamed for the damage done by a mountain lion. Death Rides an Iron Horse!; The Old Hermit: Buckwheat and Buckshot; Golden Arrow: Revenge!; Lightnin' Rides Danger's Trail! 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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36 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.

These are Canadian reprints of US romance comics Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.0 $249.00 View scans Paper: Off white Label #4219560019 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Cover by Ken Bald. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Art by John Belfi and Sam Cooper. Tales of romance from legendary early independent comics publisher ACG, one of the earliest of the romantic comics genre of the postwar era. A political reporter is torn between her powerful but corrupt publisher and a principled gubernatorial candidate; Surgeon Ken schemes to secretly cure the woman he accidentally blinded and prove his love for her; A circus animal trainer is torn between a handsome poster artist and a duplicitous but sexy tightrope walker. Vote for Your Love!; Courageous Heart!; Love is Blind; Someone Different; Matrimonial Mistakes; You Can't Fight Fate; Cupid Hails a Cabby; How He Proposed; Are You Listenin'?; Roadmap to Romance. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ken Bald. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Art by King Ward and others. Tales of romance from legendary early independent comics publisher ACG, one of the earliest of the romantic comics genre of the postwar era. A tennis pro has a rocky on-again, off-again love affair with the boy who used to egg her on; Actress Susie falls for the man cast as her romantic lead, but when her career moves on, she tries to do the same; A woman competes in love with her cruel and manipulative sister. The Love Set; The Power of a Woman; Mr. and Mrs. Romance!; The Lady's a Liar; Older Sister!; I Had To Grow Up!; Two Against Romance!; Too Dangerous To Love!; Is He Sick and Tired? 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Bob Fujitani, Dick Rockwell, Al Bare, Fred Kida, and Eloise Taylor. From the publisher of Crime Does Not Pay, Lover's Lane offered somewhat edgier, more lurid tales than other romance comics of the era. Babs tries to marry off her sister Ellen after she learns her boyfriend has a crush on Ellen. Doris and Herb face friction in their marriage when she opens her own business and gets a loan from ex-boyfriend Chet. Paul doesn't know if he still wants to marry Rita, now that he's been drafted into wartime service. 3 Wrong Guys; Those Dangerous Weeks; Take a Chance on Love; The Love Clinic; Love Problems. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by George Salter and Dirone Photography. Fantasy and science fiction stories by Fritz Leiber, Percival Wilde, Manly Wade Wellman, Arthur Porges, Howard Schoenfeld, Margaret Irwin, Robert Arthur, Zenna Henderson, James S. Hart, Kenneth R. Deardorf, and H. Nearing Jr. Softcover. 5.5-in. x 7.5-in. 132 pages, black and white (all text). Cover price $0.35.

Cover by C. C. Beck and Pete Costanza. Stories and art by Otto Binder, 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 finds themselves involved in the worldwide search for the legendary Miracle Stone, in an issue-length, multi-part adventure. It will offer untold power to the person who finds it, power which may be dangerous in the hands of ordinary mortals. The Miracle Stone, Chapter One: Safari to Danger; The Face of Murder; Chapter Two: The Mad Miracles; Fiddlers Folly; Chapter Three: The Miracle of the Marvels; Boxcar Benny; Lazy Lee; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry: The Cinema Scoop!; Speechless Sperry. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Russ Heath. Freddy's Friend!, art by Bill Everett; An alien robot wishes to be a human being and convinces a greedy man to exchange places with him to learn the secret of where he acquires his riches from; When the alien's compatriots arrive on Earth to return him to his home planet they mistake the transformed human for the creature they are looking for and deposit him in an asylum for the delusional back home. The Letter text story, art by Russ Heath. Gateway to Horror, art by Basil Wolverton; Two prospectors find sub-surface creatures preparing an attack upon the surface world. The Murder Mirror!, art by Morris Weiss; A man kills an old man for his chest containing a magic mirror which produces a reflection of him which steals and kills for him, but when the police catch up with him, the blood of the latest victim is on his hands. I Saw Tomorrow!, art by Norman Steinberg. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Kurt Schaffenberger. Stories and art by Carl Pfeufer and John Jordan. Master Comics was one of the cornerstones of the Fawcett lineup during the 1940s. Captain Marvel, Jr. must save Mrs. Wagner from the most nefarious trap ever to target a boarding-house - a deadly Murphy-bed trap that crushes people into the wall! When hunters steal rare pink elephants from an Indian maharajah, Nyoka makes them wish they'd just hallucinated the elephants. Western hero Tom Mix investigates a double crime. Capt. Marvel Jr.: The Bed Mystery; Muscle Hedd; Nyoka the Jungle Girl: The Missing Pink Elephants; Ozzie and Babs: Tennis, Anyone?; Vacuum Bloobstutter: Crooked Work; Tom Mix: The Two-Way Crime. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

"Guard Duty" (art by Paul Reinman), "Captive City" (art by Russ Heath), "Death of a Soldier," "Retreat," and a two-page text story, "A Bell For a Buccaneer." Cover price $0.10.

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.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $17.75 View scan Puncture through first six pages. Pencil marking. Water damage. 3/4" 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.

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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 VG+ 4.5 $27.00 View scan 3/4" Spine split from bottom. Pencil marking.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $27.00 View scan Staple rust.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $15.25 View scan Missing interior edge pieces, slightly affects art.

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 VG/FN 5.0 $30.00 View scan Pencil marking.

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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 VG+ 4.5 $27.00 View scan Staple rust.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $17.75 View scan Water damage.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $17.75 View scan Water damage. Residue. Pen marking.

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

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December 8, 1951 issue. Newsprint, 10.5" x 14", 12 pages, B&W with some color.

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December 15, 1951 issue. Newsprint, 10.5" x 14", 12 pages, B&W with some color.

December 22, 1951 issue. Newsprint, 10.5" x 14", 12 pages, B&W with some color.

December 29, 1951 issue. Newsprint, 10.5" x 14", 12 pages, B&W with some color.

No. 4 December, 1951 - German language reprint. 32 pages, full color.

Add to cart CGC 6.0 $199.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Label #4301299008 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Poka

Stories and art by Pete Riss and John Martin. Mike Barnett, who did not carry a gun, was one of the first private-eye heroes on the brand-new medium of television. Baseball fans sometimes yell "kill the umpire," but when someone actually does it, Mike learns the umpire was up to some shady business. A search for counterfeit coins in the slums of Cairo leads Mike to the sinister, fez-wearing crimelord Dr. Dionysos. But the secret lies in finding the gold Dionysos is using to make his copies. Like many great private eyes, Mike narrates his stories in first-person. Kill the Umpire!; Doc Sorebones; Color Blind; The Mint of Dr. Dionysos; Colonel Corn and Korny Kobb: College Cutups; Dizzy Daisy. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ross Andru and Mike Esposito. Stories and art by Ross Andru, Harry Kantor and Edward Haas. The adventures of pro wrestler Mr. Universe was the only comic published by "Mr. Publishing," an imprint of Stanley Morse publishing. Mr. Universe's career may be over after he is accused of killing fighter Big Max in the ring. Scarcely visits the offices of Media Publications and is made "guest editor" for the Mr. Universe Club News. Mr. Universe discovers that "philanthropist" Silas Cratchett is using a youth gang to peddle marijuana for him. Also, opinion polls about popular wrestlers and wrestling teams of the era, which would seem essential for the fan of Golden Age wrestling. Plus a vintage ad for the books "How to Get Along with Boys" and "How to Get Along with Girls." Art and cover by future Marvel artists Ross Andru and Mike Esposito. Mister Universe, the Killer; Scarcelys Dilemma; Sorry - No Cigarettes Today; Modern Fagin; Rating the Wrestling Champions. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $90.00 View scans Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart Very Good $65.00 View scans Spine split 25%. Staple rust: Slight.

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Add to cart Good $32.00 View scans Spine split 5%. Cover Detached. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Moderate.

Volume 45, Issue 6 - December, 1951. Articles, schematics and photos on the latest available flying models. 8.5" x 11", 68 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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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 Dick Kraus and Leonard Frank. Movie cowboy Monte Hale wanders the frontier, cleaning up the West one outlaw at a time. Someone has dammed up the Dead River to end a peace treaty between settlers and the Dakota, and Monte wants to find out who did it. Gabby Hayes, in the dictionary next to the word "grizzled," enters the Beard Beauty Contest and the judges are in for a shock. Monte learns about a blackmail scheme and swears to find the owlhoot behind it all. River Menace; Gray Hawk: Forest Pinto; Old Slick; Bronko Betsy; The Gully-Hoppers; Druggist Dugger; Gabby Hayes: The Beard Beauty Contest; Hitt and Runn; Our Ancestors ...As It Might Have Happened!; Blackmailer's Doom. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Mel Keefer. Stories and art by Mel Keefer and Jack Sparling. US Marine Monty Hall (no relation to the game-show host) fights for America during the Korean War. Monty, Tex and Canarsie accompany an intelligence officer to investigate reports of an epidemic among enemy troops. Canarsie is assigned to an experimental unit using helicopters, then still a new concept in warfare. Marine "Pin-Up Pete" discusses women he has known, an excuse to present three full-page pin-ups featuring good-girl art by Jack Sparling. This issue's pin-ups focus on women in sports. Danger Below!; The Flying Mare; Up Front with the Marines; Prisoner of War; Pin-Up Pete. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.