Comic books January 1953

January, 1953. Vintage humor digest magazine that pokes fun at the relationships of men and women of the time. Digest, 5" x 7", 96 pages, B&W. -Recommended for ages 16+ Cover price $0.25.

Cover art by Al Jaffee. Untitled Patsy stories. Untitled Buzz Baxter story. Untitled Hedy Wolfe story. All art by Al Jaffee. Patsy's Club Page! Bus Trip to Julie's text story. Paper doll. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Art by Art Bartsch and others. Animator Paul Terry's Terrytoons featured Mighty Mouse, Heckle & Jeckle, and other classic cartoon characters of yesteryear. An infant with super powers arrives on Earth, and unfortunately, Heckle and Jeckle are the ones who find him. The Terry Bears get a new chemistry set, much to Papa's regret. Dinky tries to convince Rudy the Rooster of the value of his crackpot inventions, and gets his chance when a hungry fox comes along. Heckle and Jeckle: The Mighty Stranger; Dinky; Sourpuss; Little Roquefort: The "Stuffed" Mouse; Terry Bears; Dimwit; Gandy Goose: Gandy's Kite; Dinky: Inventing Trouble. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

1st Printing - Reprinted Cartoon Strips from the New York Herald Tribune by Harry Haenigsen. 5-in. x 8-in. Softcover 158 Pages B&W Cover price $1.00.

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Cover art by Bill Vigoda. "Kiss and Yell!"; Veronica's mad at Archie because she thinks he has been unfaithful; Archie confirms her suspicions when he shows up at her house with his face covered in lipstick. "The Losing Battle"; Jughead kisses Judy and ends up breaking her heart. "Suit Yourself," pencils by George Frese; Ferdie and Gregory fight over who will take Suzie to the dance. "Handle With Care," art by Joe Edwards; Wilbur helps Laurie with her father's traveling arrangements. Pep Puzzle Page with Archie and Jughead. Untitled story, script and art by Bill Woggon; Katy Keene and Randy go on a double date with K.O. and Gloria. Katy Keene paper doll by Bill Woggon. "Spell Bound," script and art by Joe Edwards; Li'l Jinx wants to learn how to spell and ends up thinking that a spelling bee has something to do with a bee hive. Archie's Pals 'n' Gals ad. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover photo of Suzan Ball and Anthony Quinn from the movie "City Beneath the Sea." Stories and art by Jack Berrill, Ben Thompson, Bill Walton, Harold LeDoux and Sam Burlockoff. Romance comics and movie stars of yesteryear from Famous Funnies. Elaine fears for her diver boyfriend after a previous boyfriend died while diving; Profiles of film legend Anthony Quinn and actress Suzan Ball; Suzie is torn between two pilots working for her air-taxi service in the Canadian bush. She Flew Towards Danger; Be True to Your Heart; Beyond Redemption; A Life of Her Own; The Best Automobile Sticker of 1952; Anthony Quinn "Our Cover Man"; Suzan Ball "Our Cover Girl". 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Otto Feuer. Untitled story, art by Otto Feuer; Wolfie puts an outboard motor into his sailboat so he can win the race but Peter outwits him in the end. Untitled story, art by Rube Grossman; Goofy Goose has to get Señor Pizzicato's autograph for a bet, but he ends up ruining the pianist's concert. Untitled story, art by Rube Grossman; Pinky believes that he can dig for a food mine, just like for coal. Dinner Bait text story with Peter Porkchops. Ad for Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, art by Rube Grossman. Untitled story, art by Otto Feuer; Wolfie paints multi-colored spots on a dog so he can enter it in a dog show as a "spotted snafflehound." UNICEF Spells Help for the Children of the World public service announcement with Superman, script by Jack Schiff, art by Win Mortimer. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 58, Issue 2 - Winter 1958. The Phantom Detective stars in "The Staring Killer" by Robert Wallace. 7-in. x 9 1/2-in., 114 pages, B&W Cover price $0.25.

Volume 2, Issue 1 - January 1953. Vintage men's magazine featuring pictorial articles on a wide variety of topics including sports, fitness, true crime, and of course, beautiful women. This issue features pictorials on an African Trial by Fire, in which a Witch Doctor heats a spear blade, presses it to the accused hands, and the guilty party is identified as being the only one to be burnt, an expose on Rita Gam, and a beach pictorial featuring Mara Corday, Kathy D'Orr, Ginny Randolph and June McCall. 5 1/2-in. x 7 1/2-in., 130 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Volume 42, Issue 2 - August 1952. Hollywood magazine. Esther Williams Cover feature, and articles including Pat Neal's Heartbreak by Hedda Hopper. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 96 pages, PC/PB&W Cover price $0.25.

Issue #3. Full-color pin ups of golden age film starlets. Includes measurements, eye and hair color, a film starred in, and the photographer. 8.25" x 10.75". 32 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.35.

Cover by Matt Baker. Stories and art by Matt Baker, Joe Kubert, Jack Sparling, Hy Rosen, Ric Estrada and Dana Dutch. Beautiful covers and art by Matt Baker elevate St. John's 1950s romance comic above the norm. 100-page giant. Department-store clerk Margery dates three men who could help her career, but is in trouble when they find out about each other, in a cautionary tale with art by Baker. In another Baker story, redheaded showgirl May can't help coming on to every handsome man she meets, and that includes her sister's boyfriend, Gregory. Mike and Judy have a tempestuous romance as he struggles to make it as a race-car driver, in a story with early art by future comics legend Joe Kubert. Cover by Baker. Sharecropper's Daughter; Strange Relationship; Secret Bride; Quips and Queries; Gag-Bag; Love Demon; They Caught Me Cheating at Love; The Heart's Trophy; I Was Fooled by Love; I Played at Love; Clipped Wings; Tangled Destiny; Black-Balled; Fun Time; Have You Heard This One?; Husband Not Wanted. 100 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.25.

Volume 2, Issue 1. 10" x 13.25", 44 pages, B&W Cover price $0.25.

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Cover by Maurice Whitman. Edited by J. F. Byrne. Stories and art by Joe Doolin, Rudy Palais, Saul Rosen, and Art Saaf. The first true science fiction comic, Planet Comics featured classic space opera with square-jawed heroes, rockets, rayguns and bug-eyed aliens of every stripe. Reprints most of issue #20: The Red Comet battles the Slasher and his gang of space hijackers; Gale Allen and the Girl Squadron set out to rescue Rika from the Outer Venusians; Flint Baker squares off against mad scientist Dr. Worr to save Earth. Some images used in Parade of Pleasure (a Seduction of the Innocent-type anti-comics book). Mars, God of War; The Red Comet; Gale Allen and the Girl Squadron; Flint Baker. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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This issues highlights: "Design for Great-Day" A novel by Eric Frank Russell, and "War Drums of Mercury Lost" a short story by John W. Jakes,

Volume 5, Issue 10 - January, 1953. Cover by Allen Anderson. "Oh Mesmerist from Mimas!" by Roger Dee. Other stories by Erick Frank Russell, John W. Jakes, Stanley Whiteside, and Bryan Berry. Illustrations by Herman Vestal, Wally Wood. 6.75" x 9.75", 116 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

The Stairway To Madness starring Plastic Man and Bullethead Becker. Woozy Winks story. In the Fourth Dimension starring Plastic Man. Suspicion of Murder text story. The Hounds of Horror starring Plastic Man. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Reed Crandall and Chuck Cuidera. Death Came Screaming starring Ken Shannon, pencils by Reed Crandall, inks by Chuck Cuidera. The Halloween Murders starring Inspector Denver, art by W. G. Hargis. Terror Behind the Lines starring T-Man. M Is For Murder text story. Bomb Scare story, art by John Forte. 36 pgs. $.0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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America's Leading New Idea Magazine. 6.5" x 9.5", 286 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Cover by L. B. Cole. Stories and art by Jay Disbrow and others. Romance comics with teen angst from L.B. Cole's Star Publications. After a minor dalliance results in a fatal accident, scandal and divorce, a woman wonders if murder is next on the agenda. A gal goes to work at a dance hall, a scandalous job at the time, but she's just trying to support her family. A strait-laced girl decides to have a little fun for once, and the inevitable result is kissing in a stolen car, a night in jail, and her mom in the hospital with worry, just like she said. Scandal; My Ten Cent Love; A Twist of Fate; Love Must Be Faithful; I Was "Starved for Love"; My Repentance. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Hastings Edition - Volume 3 - 1st printing. "Prince Valiant on the Inland Sea!" Story and art by Hal Foster. Adapted by Max Trell. Across a decaying Roman Empire, on the isles of Greece, and upon the waves of the Mediterranean Sea, Prince Valiant repels the attacks of pirates and Arab raiders as he searches for the ever elusive, and bewitching, Aleta, Queen of the Misty Isles. Hardcover, 128 pages, B&W. NOTE: Prose story with B&W illustrations on every page. Cover price $3.95.

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Stories and art by Ben Brown, David Gantz and Ed Smalle. Horror-themed superheroics from Toby Press featuring Dr. Weir, who wields the mystic power of the Purple Claw. Dr. Jonathan Weir crash-lands in Africa, where he helps a local tribe survive a plague. The grateful tribe entrusts him with the mystical artifact known as The Purple Claw, giving him the power to battle evil. In his debut adventures, he faces Dr. Gool's army of the undead, and gangster's moll Brima Stone, who has the powers of witchcraft. Plus a look at the challenges of space travel that reflects the technology of 1953. The Power of the Purple Claw; The Devil Is a Dame; Doorway to Darkness; Problems of Space Travel. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Pocket-sized digest. Cover price $0.10.

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Art by John Prentice and others. Another crime comic from the prolific studio of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, this one featuring crimes throughout history as well as the standard gangster tales. Sometimes listed as Real Clue Crime #83. No issue # on cover; Vol. 7, issue #11 in indicia. A hotel maid has a double life as a high-dollar jewel thief. Feds investigating foreign agents focus on their latest asset, Adrian Zadek. Up-and-coming singer Roman gets involved with Sheila, the girlfriend of his ganglord employer. Also featuring a vintage ad for training as a "Criminal Investigator" by mail. The Mink Shroud; Goodbye Mouthpiece; The Two-Flag Huckster; The Law vs an Envelope Seal; Johnny the Gent; Third Window-Street Level; Purloined Pathos; Pigeon in the Jungle. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Red Ryder stars in two untitled stories. Untitled Aunty Duchess and Little Beaver back-up stories. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Red Ryder story, Red Ryder and Little Beaver follow a pair of bank robbers to an old mill. Little Beaver story. Auntie Duchess story. Traveling in the Old West article by Fred Harman, art by Tony Sgroi. Red Ryder story, Red Ryder wards off two men trying to steal a map from a stagecoach. Placer miners and lode miners article, art by August Lenox. Indian Moccasin Tracks article, art by August Lenox. Tom Fears of the Los Angeles Rams Wheaties ad. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Ralph Carlson and others. Movie cowboy Allan "Rocky" Lane roams the West with a yen for justice. "Undercover Marshal" Rocky learns that the unveiling of a town's new statue will set off a dynamite explosion, and then it's a race against time. Framed for murder, Rocky is stymied when the real killer is female and he "can't hit a woman," so he goes for a Three Stooges approach instead. A man thinks he might make a good actor, because his arm was in a cast once. Sagebrush; Gopher-Face; The Statue of Devastation; Dee Dickens: The Tough Hombre; The Frame-Up; Doctor of Law; Experienced!; The Ghost City That Came to Life; Fizzy: Barber Shop Blues. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Romance on Thin Ice; Betsy and Ed plan to marry following graduation, but Betsy is invited to join the Olympic figure skating team. Always a Lady text story. Too Young To Be Married! starring Nora Radcliffe, Honey Radcliffe, Henry Wesley, and Hubert Wesley. Party Line Kisses. Trousseau for Trudy. The Girl for His Money text story. Million Dollar Heartbreak. How to Turn a Date into a Catastrophe starring Rita. 36 pgs. $.10. Cover price $0.10.

Tales of secret love, heartbreak, unrequited love, and reconciliation. When Mark flunks out of medical school, Elissa believes their dreams of future happiness have been destroyed. A nurse begins to fall in love with a handsome patient who has amnesia. Clara ingratiates herself with her elderly neighbor, hoping to inherit her fortune. I Ruined This Man; Lost Memory; The Rich Girl; Heartbreak Haven. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Photo cover of the famous singing cowboy, plus interior photos. Ad for Whitman Peter Pan books. Christmas at Corbett's Curve starring Roy Rogers, Trigger, and Bullet, art by Albert Micale; Roy and the FBI are on the lookout for two men suspected of sabotaging government installations. Mountain Mystery, art by the Al McKimson team; Roy and an old prospector track down an armored car that has been stolen. Man Hunt starring Roy Rogers, art by Albert Micale. Highway Robbery text article. Chuckwagon Charley's Tale story, art by Ray Thayer. Sugar Crisp comic strip on back cover. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.