Comic books November 1952

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Add to cart PR 0.5 $45.00 View scans Interior complete. Remaindered Copy. Long cut through first page (does not affect art or story).

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Stories and art by Dick Briefer and Mort Meskin. Cover by Dick Briefer. Prize Comics revives Dick Briefer's Frankenstein series in line with the horror trends of the Pre-Code 1950s. The Monster and his hunters encounter a lost prehistoric world of dinosaurs. Explorers bargain with the ghost of pirate captain Jean Lafitte to find his treasure. The sinister-looking actor playing Satan in a movie is a little too real. World of Monsters; Ghost of Jean Lafitte!; Satan and the Sailor. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart FN- 5.5 $43.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Water damage: Slight.	Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $41.00 View scans Paper: Off white Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.	Add to cart Very Good $26.00 View scans Paper: Off white dull cover colors, mildly brittle pages with light flaking, firm spine with moderate wear, heavy edge wear with moderate chipping and color loss, heavy denting, heavy color breaking spine stress, moderate corner damage with chipping at top and bottom of spine, heavy soiling, heavy scuffing, 2" spine split from top of book, 2" spine split from bottom of book	Add to cart Good $12.00 View scans Paper: Off white Spine stress. 1" Spine split from top of book. Corner Damage. Creasing. Denting. Edge damage. Scuffing. Soiling. Water damage.
Add to cart Good $15.00 View scans Paper: Cream Front cover detached 15%. Back cover detached 30%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.	Add to cart GD 2.0 $10.00	Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $7.00	Add to cart Fair $6.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Front cover detached 15%. Back Cover Detached. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Moderate.

Volume 3, Issue 4 - November 1952. Cover by A. Leslie Ross, Interior illustrations by Luros and Orban. Science Fiction and adventures stories featuring "Doomsday's Color Press" by Raymond F. Jones. 7-in. x 10-in. 96 newsprint pages B&W. Cover price $0.20.

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The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. Miss Ellie's corpulent cousin Eaton Grubb visits, and threatens to eat all the food in the rooming house. Outlaw Rusty Gates is preventing Buffalo Dam from being built, and Gabby wants to know why. Gabby sets out to reform professional loafer Slowpoke Amble, only to find people liked him better the way he was. Favorite line this issue: "Get smart, pard! Pull yore stakes and drift, afore I get riled!" The King of the Gluttons!; Cowboy Cal; Slumberjack; Battle for Buffalo Dam!; Young Falcon: Floodtide!; Chief Gray Matter; The Slowpoke Cowpoke. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $7.70 View scans Staple rust: Slight.

November 1952. Cover by Jack Coggins. Stories: "The Martian Way" by Isaac Asimov, "Sugar Plum" by R. Bretnor, "Command Performance" by Walter M. Miller, Jr., "Warrior Race" by Robert Sheckley, "A Thought for Tomorrow" by Robert E. Gilbert, "The Altar at Midnight" by C. M. Kornbluth, "The Misogynist" by James E. Gunn, and "Runaway" by William Morrison. 5.25-in. x 7.5-in.; 160 Pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

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36 pages. Cover price $0.10.

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Comic book featuring the famous singing cowboy hero Gene Autry. Gene Autry photo cover. "The Salt Battle," art by Bob Schoenke; The Crowder brothers try to force Gonzales off his ranch, take over the Salt Lake and fence it, and then charge for the salt. "The Silent Witness"; Stan Lane is killed, and the only witness is a silent one, a monkey. "Best in the West," art by August Lenox; Article with drawings of a Colt Single-Action "Peacemaker," a Winchester '73 Lever-Action Rifle, and a Colt Dragoon Holster Pistol. "Trapped" text story. "Ring Around the Mountain"; A dude cattle buyer will arrive two weeks early, and only half the cattle is at hand; To buy time, Curly has a plan to keep the dude counting. Wheaties ad featuring Stan Musial. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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"The Conjuror's Magazine." Vol. 17 # 3. Magic articles, demonstrations, and news. Approx. 8-in. x 11-in.; black and white with spot color; 40 pages on white paper stock. Nelson De Mers photo cover. Cover price $0.50.

Add to cart GD 2.0 $125.00 or Best Offer View scans Oxidation. Water damage. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

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The Spirits Sing Tonight; Jean Randall wants to be a singer in Paris, but is turned down again and again. So she falls for count Rompre's offer to help her career; Her boyfriend Bob discloses the count as a demon who controls the souls of undead singers. Meet Me At The Cemetery; A cobra kills people at the cemetery; It is a mysterious snake-woman from India, who wants to take revenge on her husband. No Escape From Nightmare, art by Jim McLaughlin; Ramon Blagdon, a miserable psychology professor, dabbles with the forces of the supernatural and is warned by Fate to do so; Blagdon succeeds in transporting his astral body to other places and commits crimes with it. Devilish Dolls of Death, art by Louis Zansky; An evil doll maker in Vienna can transplant human souls into dolls which look just like the people he captures in his basement; Young American Wade Farman can escape his torture and brings the evildoer to justice. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Painted cover by Harvey Fuller. Stories and art by Mike Roy and others. Non-fiction comics featuring true tales of heroism from everyday people and courage on the battlefield. Two brothers named Good save a drowning toddler; A bus driver saves a man from a burning truck just before it explodes; Vintage PSAs about education, voting, and the Junior Red Cross. Ambush; Hero First Class; Death Trap; The Best Automobile Sticker of 1952; The Ammunition Merchant; Hey! Get Your Folks to Vote; The Goods Deliver the Goods; Flying Trapeze Pilot; The Daring Duke; He Gave 'Em Hell!; Busy Junior Red Cross Councils; Trouble is His Business; Captain Richard Fleming, Far Beyond the Call of Duty; Captain Courageous; Parents: Visit Your Schools. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Frank Bolle and others. Western adventure featuring one of the most popular heroes of the mid-20th century, star of TV, film and radio. Reporter Burbank is assigned to cover the fire at the trophy shop, but instead he steals a fortune in diamonds. A tip-off on a planned cattle rustling leads to Hopalong being trapped in a burning barn. You can figure that Pistol Packing Pattie doesn't go easy on clumsy dance partners. Greed's Reward; Hill Billy; Whitey Whiskers: The Elegant Eater; Diamonds of Death; Gold Dust Trail; Pistol Packin' Pattie; The Fiery Revenge; Show Business Shotton; Quiz. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $1,300.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Slab: Minor side/edge crack(s); Minor crack(s) front or back, under 1" Label #4333804002

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"Tail of Death"; Amos Hatter has to take care of his younger scientist brother, Joseph; The mentally deranged Joseph experiments with a growing formula, but finds the opposite and shrinks himself down to mouse size; Amos helps him to regain his normal size, but is murdered by Joseph out of fear to be submitted to a mental institution. "Terror On High"; Two criminals infiltrate a monastery in the Bavarian Alps, where the bodies of the dead are preserved in its sub-zero cellar; Ralph and Jerry steal precious gems from the corpses and make their escape to their hide-out cabin; But the ghosts of the robbed come for revenge. "The Bony Shadow" text story by Brett Thompson. "The Clay Coffin"; Sculptress Hortense Hollingsworth creates things of beauty, but is homely herself; When husband Grover starts flirting with the new maid, Hortense poisons her and makes her into a statue. "The Vengeful Corpse"; Fisherman John Penn murders old Silas Barnes for his gold; He dumps the body at sea. Penn panics, however, when the corpse turns up in his fishing net. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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"Wild Ghost Chase" text story. Untitled story, script by Edward Kean; After seeing a science fiction movie, Dilly dreams that he, Howdy and the Flub-a-Dub are captured by Martians. Untitled story; Howdy and Dilly are wallpaper hangers. Untitled story, script by Edward Kean; In this hilarious outing, a little African boy stows away in a crate of monkeys shipped to Mr. Bluster's circus; Howdy and Dilly try their best to tame the wild boy. Untitled story, script by Edward Kean; Dilly Dally vs. Pretty Boy Burt. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $7.00 View scans 1/4" Spine split from bottom.

Nov 1952. Science fiction stories by John Jakes, John Scott Campbell, Richard Matheson, Noel Loomis, Horace B. Fyfe, and M.C. Pease. Cover by Ralph Joiner. 5.25-in. x 7.5-in.; black and white; 120 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.35.

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Volume 8, Issue 35 - November 1952. Photo cover by Bill Stone. One of many vintage supermarket tabloid magazines full of high profile FBI and CIA cases of the era, accompanied by black and white photographs and testimonials from those involved in, and close to the events themselves. 8.5" x 10.5", 72 pages, B&W, recommended for 16+. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart FR 1.0 $190.00 View scan Harvey file copy slip attached to cover. Mold. Cover detached. Water damage. Staple rust with migration. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by Bud Plant

Add to cart PR 0.5 $129.95 or Best Offer View scan Interior is complete. Cover heavily torn/oxidized and held together with tape. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Gallery of the Dead; Lovely Lorna was born among the hex-ridden people of a desolate village and reared by a hateful, crazed beldame; her body was destined to be devoured by the Worms of Wrarth. Haven of Terror; a down-on-his-luck man finds a dead body in the place where hes staying. Legacy of Horror text story. Your Head for Mine; a woman loses her head over the handyman, and her husband lost his in an untimely demise. Crawling Evil; Lorna is trained to hate men; She finds a witchcraft book; She begins a crusade of turning men into worms and squishing them. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories by Hubie Karp and others. Art by Bob Wickersham and others. Cover by Lynn Karp. The Kilroys (Americas Funniest Family!) combined the family humor of the then-new sitcom format with Archie-style teen hijinks featuring Katie, Natch, and pal Solid Jackson. Solids school essay gets mixed up with a writers latest trashy novel; Judy wants to rent a clubhouse for the gang, but Solid believes the old place is haunted; Katie has a crush on Natchs handsome new friend. Solid Jackson; That Fascinating Older Man; Buster; Typical Tommy; The Haunted Club House; Back to Normal; Lovely to Look At; The Greatest. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Movie cowboy Lash Larue is known for his trademark black outfit and his skill with a bullwhip. Lash investigates when an oil well suddenly goes dry, and soon finds himself up to his armpits in black gold. "Roving marshal" Lash tries to protect a murder witness from hired guns, but the job is complicated by the Quicksand Swamps. Dusty meets a Vaudeville insult comedian, and the jokes are coming thick and fast. The Black Gold Hijackers; Molasses Mouth; Loco Lew; Dusty: Horses, Horses, Horses!; Ransom in the Hollow Tree Trunk; Shooting Party; Wagonwheels; Terror at the Quicksand Swamps. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Stan Campbell. Stories and art by Dick Giordano, Frank Frollo, Stan Campbell, Albert Tyler, and Stan Asch. Pre-Code crime comics typical of the era, featuring violent crimes, no-nonsense cops, and grim fates for the lawless. After poverty-stricken cabbie Malone foils a cab robbery, he decides to take the crook's gun and do some robbing of his own. Mob enforcer Johnnie Bacon doesn't know what to do when a business won't pay protection money, so his boss shows him. Two women work out a scheme to pick up and rob random men, but one night they pick up the wrong guy. Minute Clues; A Day for Homicide; Death Was His Business; He Wanted to Be a Detective; Murder for Nothing; The Gun; Crime from Within. Final issue under this title; series continues as Lawbreakers Suspense Stories (1953 Charlton) #10. 32 pages, Full Color.

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Servant for a Day; Lulu wins the club raffle and has Tubby for her servant all day long. The Case of the Burgled Bunny; Lulu thinks her pop has cooked a bunny she found in the woods. Sleigh Ride; Wilbur orders his butler Parks to take him sledding. The Wandering Snow Woman; Lulu and Annie's snowwoman appears to be moving all over town. Untitled story; Lulu tells Alvin about a little Eskimo girl named Ulul at the North Pole. Bear in the Woods; The Fellers trick the West Side gang into not taking over their clubhouse. Two-page text story, Lulus Diry ("Diary"). 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Ed Emshwiller. Fantasy and science fiction stories by Philip K. Dick, Mildred Clingerman, Donald A. Wollheim (as David Grinnel), Evelyn E. Smith, Ward Moore, Charles T. Webb, Vance Randolph, and Ray Bradbury. Softcover. 5.5-in. x 7.5-in. 132 pages, black and white (all text). Cover price $0.35.

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Volume 6, Issue 3 - November, 1952. 6.75" x 9", 98 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Volume 51, Issue 203 - November, 1952. Digest-size UK men's magazine. Articles, humor, and pin-up photos. 5" x 7.25", 152 pages, B&W with color.

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Add to cart VG- 3.5 $17.75 View scan 1 1/2" Cumulative spine split. 1 3/4" tear on back cover.

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.

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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.

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The world's mightiest mouse defends Mouseville from danger - mostly cats - in the comic-book adventures of the Terrytoons animated superhero. In a four-part epic adventure, Mighty Mouse must join forces with his enemies The Claw and Professor Ohm to battle the invading bat-winged cats from the planet Saturn. But one of his new allies plots to betray them by forming an alliance with the Saturnians. Heckle and Jeckle seek a way to profit from Dimwit's new magic tricks. Raiders From Saturn; Terry Bears: Off to the City; Heckle & Jeckle: Dimwit's Magic. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart FN- 5.5 $110.00 View scans Spine split 5%. Staple rust: Moderate.

Add to cart Very Good $65.00 View scans Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $2.50 View scans Spine split 10%.

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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.

Add to cart Fine $35.00 View scans Staple rust. Rust migration. 1/4" Spine split from base of comic. Corner Damage. Creasing. Denting. Foxing. Scuffing. Soiling.

November, 1952 - Vintage Men's magazine featuring articles, pictorials, and pin-ups. This issue features "Death is My Cellmate!", Nude Movie review, Jane Dolinger, Gina Lollobrigida, Jennie Lee, and more of uncovered cover girl Abbe Lee! MATURE READERS Cover price $0.50.

Add to cart FN 6.0 $11.00 View scan 1/2" Cumulative spine split. Staple rust.

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 $0.20.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $48.00 View scans Staple rust: Extensive. Foreign edition: NonEnglish.

French language movie magazine. 8.25" x 12", 16 pages, B&W. NOTE: French Language.

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Stories and art by Westbrook Wilson and Leonard Frank. Movie cowboy Monte Hale wanders the frontier, cleaning up the West one outlaw at a time. Monte tries to find out who is killing buffalo to stir up trouble between Comanches and railroad workers. Monte sets a trap for the Grand Canyon Gully-Hoppers, ex-circus acrobats who have turned to crime, and who can ascend a sheer cliff to their mountain hideout. Gabby Hayes orders a new scout's outfit from a mail-order catalog, but it turns out to be an Eagle Scout's outfit. Horseback Territory; Bronko Betsy; Gabby Hayes: The Good Scout; The Stranger; The Acrobats of Crime; The Tragedy; Old Slick; The Claim Jumpers. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 8.0 $1,200.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: Off white Slab: Scuffing on front of case; Top edge label strip missing Label #0019162004 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Blackout at Midnight!, script by Stan Lee, art by Tony DiPreta. The Hand Is Quicker. The Mind Reader!, pencils by Manny Stallman, inks by Manny Stallman. The Enemies. Beware of the Beggar!, art by Ed Winiarski. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $170.00 View scans Paper: Off white Label #3862449014

"Hiding Place" (art by Tony DiPreta), "They Can't Catch Charlie," "The Corpse and I" (art by Ed Win), "The Reluctant Ghost," "Guillotine," and a two-page text story, "The Living Legend." Cover price $0.10.

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52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover features Kay Aldridge and Clayton Moore from the movie serial Perils of Nyoka. Stories and art by Howard Boughner and John Martin. Raised in the jungle by her scientist father, Nyoka faces its dangers like no man ever could. In a three-part story, Nyoka investigates why the peaceful Tooki tribe has suddenly turned violent. But soon she suspects she's been misled by the man who claimed to be her guide. But what does that have to do with the mysterious white "jungle goddess"? The Jungle Goddess, Chapter One: The Unexplained Deaths; Trader Tom; Ballyhoo Barney: The Big Wind Meets the Draft; Chapter Two: The Tribal Pyre; Hobo Harry; Quiz; Egbert the Explorer; Stone of Doom; Chapter Three: The Dangerous Deception. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart FN+ 6.5 $17.00 View scans

Add to cart Very Good $14.25 View scans Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 10%.

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November, 1952; Volume 4, No 8 / Issue 23. 5 1/4-in. x 7 1/2-in.; black and white; 162 pages. Cover price $0.35.

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Cover art by Irv Novick. "Last Man," script by Bob Kanigher, pencils by Irv Novick, inks by Bernard Sachs; At first glance he looked like any other dogface fighting up and down the 38th parallel; He wore the same uniform, ate the same food, fired the same weapons - and yet, there was something about him that marked him apart from every soldier. "Replacement," script by Hal Kantor, art by Bernie Kriegstein; In a combat zone, there are three things a man worries about: his life, equipment, and the time when he will be rotated back home; The first two he can take care of himself - the last depends on his replacement! "Special Delivery," script by Hal Kantor, pencils by Ray Schott, inks by Bob Lander. "Soft Job," script by Hal Kantor, pencils by Jerry Grandenetti, inks by Joe Giella. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $29.00 View scans 4" Cumulative spine split. Cover detached.

Cover art by Al Jaffee. Untitled Patsy stories. Untitled Hedy Wolfe story. Untitled Buzz Baxter story. All art by Al Jaffee. Patsy's Club Page! The Long & Short of It text story. Paper doll. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 5, Issue 10 - November 5, 1952. Pocket-sized celebrity gossip magazine. 4-in. x 6-in., 68 pages, B&W. MATURE READERS Cover price $0.10.