Comic books March 1953

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Volume 3, Issue 3 - Softcover, 5" x 7.5", 160 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

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Funny-animal comics featuring Gandy Goose, part of the family of Paul Terrys Terry-Toons. Sourpuss tries to talk Gandy into taking a job as a "stunt parachutist." Percy's owner hires a dog "hit man" to get rid of Little Roquefort the mouse, but maybe he shouldn't use that much dynamite. Rudy Rooster and Sourpuss both learn the hard way that a pendulum always swings back. Plus a vintage ad for a joke bow-tie with pop-out snake ("Scare the gals! Startle the men!"). Doghouse Daze; Swing Swung; Farmer Alfalfa; Beaned By a Bag; Percy Puss; Little Roquefort: Trigger Man; Short Cut; Puzzle Playmate; The Moon Rooster; Terry Bears; That Sinking Feeling. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover pencils by Reed Crandall. "Bridge to Bloody Hell!", script by Joe Millard, pencils by Dick Dillin; Ernie Akin has been nick-named 'Belly Akin' for all of his complaining; His unit gets trapped, and he is selected to run a mission to get word to Command for reinforcements. "Vengeance Raid," script by Joe Millard, art by Sam Citron; Corporal Sam Crane, usually mild mannered, is changed into an unstoppable agent of vengeance when he finds what the enemy has done to his best friend. "The Lieutenant Attacks"; The company's beloved Lieutenant dies in battle, and his replacement finds that he will get the cold shoulder from his men until he can prove himself. "Escape from Red Fury" text story. "One Man Army," pencils by Reed Crandall; The regimental messenger is a former race car driver, and old habits die hard; His racing way get him in trouble, and he earns a trip from the relative safety of his old job to working in the infantry and adventure. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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#16, 3-5/53, 10c. Comic book adventures of the teenager from the classic radio and television shows "The Aldrich Family." This issue features Henry Aldrich and the gang in three untitled stories and Homer in an untitled story. Issue also has a two-page text feature "The Card Party Catastrophe" on the inside covers. Story and art credits: unknown. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Frank Bolle and Westbrook Wilson. Western adventure featuring one of the most popular heroes of the mid-20th century, star of TV, film and radio. Hopalong is skeptical when a "pied piper" offers to rid the farmlands of rabbits, but there's something more sinister going on. Medical student Jim buys a clandestine corpse for his studies, but when it turns out to be the body of his rival for Faith's affections, he's in a heap of trouble. Pistol Packing Pattie meets Peter and berates him for the slacker that he is. Plus a vintage ad for "Hopalong Cassidy's Favorite Spun Honey - Spreads Like Butter!" Flying Rustlers; The Gravedigger's Secret; Hill Billy; Whitey Whiskers: The Buckshot Buckaroo; Pistol Packing Pattie; The Tax Plots; Hopalong Cassidy and the Fatal Formula; Quiz. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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"Southward, Ho, Ho!" text story. Untitled story; Howdy and Dilly travel to Bubblegumia. Untitled story; Princess Summerfall helps to cure Mr. Bluster's gout. Untitled story; Howdy and Dilly go to the dentist. Untitled story; Dilly becomes the lion tamer. Princess Summerfall Winterspring story on back cover. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Painted cover art by Sam Savitt. "The Rock Dam" text story by George Haas, art by Jon Small. "The Haunted Pueblo"; Several Taos Indians brave a haunted pueblo to learn that it is only haunted by Apaches. "The Trapper," art by Jon Small; Several Sauk warriors are captured spying near the Chippewa camp; Turtle is tasked to watch over them; When they escape, his trapping skills are put to the test. "The Last Cavalier" illustration; reproduction of Fredric Remington painting. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Vampire Vengeance; classic story in which two thrill-killers inadvertently select a vampire as their target. The Devil's Ally. Satan's Playhouse text story. Evil Intruder; Classic story of a Trugg searching for love; It finds a couple, kills the husband, and casts a spell over the wife so that she believes he is her husband. No Rest for the Dead; A cemetery caretaker tortures the ghosts in his cemetery. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Maurice Whitman. Edited by J. F. Byrne and Jerry Iger. Stories and art by Robert Webb, John Belcastro and Dick Dillin. An influential anthology starring jungle hero Sheena, featuring early art by legendary comics artists in the Eisner-Iger Shop. A beautiful woman leads a man to learn the truth about the Cult of the Leopardmen; One-eyed detective The Eye seeks a gang that escapes their crimes in a high-speed dragster; Outlaw ivory traders make a night hunt for a rogue leopard even more dangerous for Sheena and her band. The cover alone has more action than whole issues of other comics. Ghost Gallery; The Eye; Space Rangers; The Man Who Spoke Too Soon; Famous Fighters; Sheena, Queen of the Jungle. Final issue of series; Sheena's adventures continue in Jungle Comics (1940 Fiction House). 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Marvin Stein. Pioneering crime comic Justice Traps the Guilty was produced by the studio of comics legends Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, creators of Captain America. A cop investigates gangsters who fix hockey games. Trivia about crime, prisons and police. A killer gets a new face through plastic surgery. The Hockey Fixers; Trapped; Strange Facts About Crime; Face of Death; Closeups; West Meets West; Web of Pain. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories by Hubie Karp and others. Art by Bob Wickersham and others. 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. Solid and Natch decide to skip school and go pheasant hunting; Pops hates flying, so Natch offers to drive him to Washington in his souped-up jalopy; Portia hatches a leap-year plan to win Solids affections. Solid Jackson; A-Hunting We Will Go!; Something Went Click!; The Kilroys; Pop Knows -- or Does He?; Betsy in the Pink!; Music Man. 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. "Roving marshal" Lash tries to help a town through an epidemic of the "red rash," but outlaws plan to use the crisis to cover a robbery. Belle Buckley, the "Prairie Nightingale," conspires with her boyfriend to steal a gold shipment that he and Lash are supposed to be guarding. Dusty tells his neighbor about the elevator dance - it doesn't have any steps. Hair Breath Escape; Belle Buckley: Gold Town Siren!!!; Wagonwheels; Molasses Mouth; The Prairie Epidemic!; Dusty: The Dancemaster; The Phony Letter. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Lou Morales. "The Dead End Ghost"; A murdered criminal gets revenge on his killer. "Round-Trip Ticket!", pencils by Lou Morales, inks by Dennis Laugen; A bus breaks down and seven passengers must spend the night in a home where the gracious host knows each of their evil past. "The End of a Perfect Crime," pencils by Dick Giordano, inks by Al Fago; A dying father wants his son to get revenge on the relative that stole his fortune. "One Body Too Many"; A murderer has trouble disposing of the body. "The Punchboard Mystery" text story. "Explosive!", pencils by Lou Morales, inks by Al Fago; A woman's plot to kill her husband goes off with a bang. "Down to the Last T," art by Collier; Slinky Barlow looks to make a big score from a bookie. "Time Out of Mind!"; A getaway driver keeps getting knocked out and doesn't know if he killed a man or just dreamed it. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Final issue of the series. Three untitled Little Beaver stories, plus back-up story, "The Marriage of White Elk's Ghost." 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by John Stanley. The Ten-Dollar Reward; The kids are looking for the woman who is offering ten dollars to the most polite kid she sees. The Dog Who Wore Shoes; Lulu helps Alvin get his father's shoes back after a dog takes them. Law-An'-Order; Tubby, deputized as a junior policeman, handcuffs Annie and has his hands full. Big Boom; The Fellers trick Lulu and Annie into thinking they have made a bomb. The Little Pioneer; Lulu tells Alvin about a little girl whose parents were captured by Indians. The Mascot; The Fellers trade Alvin to the West Side gang for a goat. All scripts and pencils by John Stanley, inks by Irving Tripp. Two-page text story, Lulus Diry ("Diary"). 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Painted cover art. Traitor in the Fold, script by Paul S. Newman, art by Tom Gill; A trio of outlaws enlist renegade Light Feather to lead his braves against a wagon train. The Blinding Storm, art by Tom Gill; The Dublin gang kidnaps Mr. & Mrs. Bancroft, who are returning east after striking it rich in the gold fields of California; The Lone Ranger and Tonto track the gang through a snowstorm. The Wings of the Thunderbird text story by Gaylord Du Bois. Banished, script by Gaylord Du Bois, art by Jon Small; The Sea People fend off an attack by Waikish raiders, but Chief Blackfish is wounded; The rest of the hunting party decides that Young Hawk and Little Buck are bad luck and must leave. Promo for subscriptions to Dell Lone Ranger Comics; Premium is gold-plated key chain holder. Color ad in comic form for Wheaties breakfast cereal featuring Chicago Black Hawk hockey player Sid Abel. Based on the popular Western TV series. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Western comics featuring the masked hero Lone Rider and other champions of Old West justice. Lone Rider and Bright Feather wind up on the wrong end of a buffalo stampede and go in search of buffalo rustlers. No-good hombres try to use a Kaw tribal snake-dance to get rid of Lone Rider. The Old Hermit gets free tickets to a show and makes himself presentable, but no one told him he couldn't bring his burro. Horns of Menace; Swift Arrow: Killer Hooves; Outlaw Horse; Serpent of Doom; The Hermit: Burro in the Balcony. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd and Daffy Duck, Mary Jane and Sniffles, Henery Hawk, Tweety and Silverster, and Little Pancho Panilla. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Chesley Bonestell. "Disappearing Act" by Richard Matheson. Plus other fantasy and science fiction stories by Anthony Boucher, Robert Sheckley, Richard Middleton, Ralph Robin, Wilson Tucker, Leslie Bigelow, H. Nearing Jr, Tom Brown, Margaret St. Clair (as Idris Seabright), Richard Parker, and Manly Wade Wellman. Softcover. 5.5-in. x 7.5-in. 128 newsprint pages, black and white (all text). Cover price $0.35.

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Volume 3, Issue 3 - March 1953. Adventure stories, articles and humor. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in. 98 Pages B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Volume 1, Issue 4 - March 1953. Men's interest magazine looking at cars, the military, and pin-up models. This issue features The Sex-Change; a Startling Clinical Report, Bill Mauldin in Korea, and Westbrook Pegler says "Sport-Writing is a Lost Art!" 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 68 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Volume 2, Issue 3 - March 1953 .Men's magazine featuring articles on hunting, fitness, politics, true crime, and buxom beauties. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in. 84 pages B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Volume 52, Issue 207 - March, 1953. 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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Cover art by Bill Everett. One Head Too Many!, script by Stan Lee, art by Bill Everett. The Man Who Couldn't Move, script by Stan Lee, art by George Tuska; A woman hires a man to kill her paralyzed husband making it look like a car accident, but he gets his sleeve caught in the door and goes over the cliff with the car. Poor Mr. Watkins, script by Stan Lee, art by Werner Roth; A practical joker torments a timid librarian until he transforms into a monster. They Wait in Their...Dungeon!, art by Russ Heath; After an execution in the gas chamber, a sadistic warden faces a revolt by the inmates and attempts to flee downstairs. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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No ads in book. Entire issue from cover to cover is comic stories and one page strips. Mickey Mouse in "Mystery of the Barefoot Snow Man" in which Mickey and Goofy's attempts to win a photo contest lead them into mystery and "Whale of a Time." Second story continues onto inside back cover and back cover. No art/story credits given. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Scripts by Stan Lee, art by Dan DeCarlo. Daisy and Iggy back-up. Chili back-up. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 48, Issue 3 - March, 1953. Articles, schematics and photos on the latest available flying models. 8.5" x 11", 60 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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French language movie magazine. 8 1/4 in. x 12-in., 16 pages, B&W. NOTE: French Language.

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Cover by Gladys Parker. Stories and art by Gladys Parker and others. 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. When Mopsy's hat is too big for the movie theater, she finds a solution that is both stylish and polite. Mopsy tires of rapidly changing fashion styles, and sets out to fix things with her own scissors. Bored with her filing job, Mopsy joins the WACs (Women's Army Corps) and gets a boring filing assignment. Mopsy; Gag-Bag; Comedy Column. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Bill Everett. "The Specimen!", art by Joe Maneely; A scientist plots to use a mermaid from Atlantis to gain world renown and so he lies to her that he loves her until he can build an escape-proof tank; Unfortunately for him, she has the exact same intentions for him and drags him down to Atlantis so they can use him as a specimen to model how human males appear in order to create an invasion force. "Hunger," pencils by Ben Brown, inks by David Gantz; A butcher poisons his ex-partner's meat locker in order to drive him out of business but then comes back later to make sure he did not leave any evidence behind and gets himself locked in; Over the course of several days he waits for someone to come and let him out, but no one comes. "Ashes to Ashes!", pencils by Al Eadeh; A woman burns her uncle to death before learning that the directions to his fortune are tattooed in a map upon his back. "The Broken Step" text story. "The Man in the Morgue," art by Vic Dowling; A hoodlum spends his last buck for a psychic reading and is told that his luck will change; After spending the night in an alley with nothing to eat an elderly man approaches him and he strangles him in order to rob him; The cops give chase and gun him down; The police wonder why the elderly man was in such a rundown area. "Lost!", art by Pete Tumlinson; Criminals hide loot in a cave and one is arrested and serves a jail sentence of twenty years; When he is released he goes back to the cave and shoots the man and woman who were lost in there for twenty years, but their son kills him. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Mystic #18 features a memorable Bill Everett horror cover for "The Russian Devil!" The cover depicts skeletal communist party official literally dragging the corpse of an unfortunate citizen from his grave. "Get up, Ivan!" shouts the commie, "You can't escape us by dying! We're not through with you yet!" Fortunately, this story was written by a red-blooded American comic creator so the commie villain comes to a bad--and eternal--end. In Old Baghdad; A woman brought to the city as a slave schemes to become the wife of the Sultan but she is unaware of the the custom of that country to throw the Sultan's wife to the lions when he dies. The Drowning Man, art by Carrabotta; A thief cast overboard mistakes the back of a whale for a raft. The Perfect Mold text story. Tom-Tom!; Natives skin a cruel plantation owner and use him for their drums. Charley's Crime, art by Jack Abel; A thief comes back as a ghost to rob a bank but the ghost of the guard he killed stops him. The Russian Devil; The communist overseer of a labor camp is glad when he is told by his doctor that he has not long to live because he has spent his whole life killing and is weary; Death wants an assistant however and refuses to allow him to rest in peace. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 7, Issue 20 - March, 1953. Squarebound, 5" x 7.5", 96 pages, B&W, Text Only.

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March 1953. Science fiction stories: "Invasion From the Microcosm" by August Derleth, "Luena of the Gardens" by Paul Brandts, "The Captain's Getaway" by Robert Abernathy, "D. P. From Tomorrow" by Mack Reynolds, "Fritzchen" by Charles Beaumont, "Gateway to Yamara" by E. Everett Evans, "Asteroid 745: Mauritia" by Martin Pearson, "Monster No More" by Basil Wells, "Ganymede House" by David Grinnell and "The Heart of the Game" by Richard English. 5-1/2 in. x 7-3/8 in.; 128 Pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

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March, 1953 - Volume 5, No 3 / Issue 27. Front cover by Robert Gibson Jones, back cover by Hannes Bok. Science Fiction stories by Joe Gibson, Ralph Robin, Robert Moore Williams, Raymond Palmer, Edward E. Smith, and Boyd Ellanby. Interior illustrations by Harold W. McCauley, Sam Kweskin, Robert Fuqua, and Malcolm Smith. 5 1/4-in. x 7 1/2-in.; black and white; 164 pages. Cover price $0.35.