Comic books June 1953

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Vol. 5, No. 6 - June 1953. "America's Picture Magazine of Entertainment". This issue with an article on Lucille Knoch from "The Red Skelton Hour". 10.5" x 13", 42 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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May-June 1953. Science fiction digest. 5-1/2 in. x 7-3/8 in.; 130 Pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

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June, 1953; Volume 5, No 6 / Issue 30. 5 1/4-in. x 7 1/2-in.; black and white; 164 pages. Cover price $0.35.

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Cover art by Irv Novick. Scratch One Meatball, script by Bob Kanigher, pencils by Irv Novick, inks by Bernard Sachs. Guerilla Fighters, script by David Kahn, pencils by Gene Colan, inks by Joe Giella. Combat Report, script by Hal Kantor, art by Eugene Hughes. Soldier's Luck, script by Dave Wood, art by Bernie Krigstein. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Ken Bald. The Weird Wager, art by Edvard Moritz. Death Has Wings, art by S. Cooper. Domain of the Were-Beast, art by Frank Simienski. In the Wake of the Bomb, art by Robert McCarty. The Fountain of Age, art by Edvard Moritz. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Animator Paul Terry's Terrytoons featured Mighty Mouse, Heckle & Jeckle, and other classic cartoon characters of yesteryear. Heckle and Jeckle try out jobs in a rug shop, and accidentally board a flying carpet for regions unknown. Papa Bear really needs new glasses, but his new prescription makes everything seem monstrously huge. Chesty's "rubber egg" prank on Dimwit backfires. Heckle and Jeckle: How Wet Was the Ocean; Terry Bears; Little Roquefort; Being Responsible; Spell at Least 12 Flowers; Terry Bears: Papa's New Eyeglasses; Dimwit: Dimwit the Actor; Little Roquefort: Cat Trouble. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 6, Issue 12 - June 17, 1953. Pocket-sized, 4" x 6", 68 pages, B&W. MATURE READERS Cover price $0.15.

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Cover art by Walt Kelly. Scripts and art by Walt Kelly. Untitled story; Howland pulling teeth on Churchy and on his own stuffed moose's head. "Li'l Green Robin Hood"; A concoction of the stories of Robin Hood and William Tell, going off a tangent as Howland appears. "The Nesting Habits of the Horn Rimmed Bung Starter" starring Howland and Churchy; Everybody loses their heads--more or less literally. "Who Do Th' Hoo Doo Do?" text story. "How to Draw the Long Bow and Narrow"; Albert making Pogo's fishing rod into a bow and arrow. "Sick 'em Doc"; Howland and Churchy decide to go into the doctoring business, making customers sick with something they got a cure for. "Skull Skill"; Beauregard finds a book on being a detective, and tries to unravel the mystery of the children's cowboy games. Untitled one-page story; The crows steal Albert's seeds. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.15.

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Comic book starring the Warner Bros. cartoon character Porky Pig. Untitled story; Porky causes a bucket-brigade to be formed after he eats too much hot sauce at Petunia's barbeque. Porky Pig and the Mark of the Gypsy Dagger; After Cicero cuts a dagger-shaped hole in Porky's sunshade, Porky gets a dagger-shaped sunburn on his head; When he and Sylvester go to a gypsy carnival, they find the dagger mark is the subject of an old legend. Tiger Tamer; Porky's car gets snagged by the anchor of an advertising blimp and he and Sylvester end up in the kingdom of Bakdor. Untitled story; Porky gets a big fish stuffed and mounted to try to win a prize at the Sportsmen's Show. Sylvester thinks it a real fish and tries to steal it to eat it. Untitled story; When it rains, Cicero uses Porky's fan to fly his kite indoors. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Frank Frollo and Vince Alascia. Easy Money Racket, pencils by Frank Frollo, inks by Tony Tallarico. Calm Cool and Collected, pencils by Frank Frollo, inks by Vince Alascia. The Rug CleanUp, pencils by Dick Giordano, inks by Sal Trapani. Smooth as Silk, pencils by Frank Frollo, inks by Tony Tallarico. The Yogi from Chinchon text story, art by Frank Frollo. Opening Night, art by Stan Campbell. The Shiner, art by John Belfi. Swindle on the Midway, pencils by Frank Frollo, inks by Vince Alascia. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 61, Issue 1 - June, 1953. 6.5" x 9", 132 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

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Volume 62, Issue 374 - June 1953. Squarebound, 5.5" x 7.5", 168 pages, B&W.

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

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Stories and art by Ralph Carlson and Howard Boughner. Movie cowboy Allan "Rocky" Lane roams the West with a yen for justice. Rocky tries to tame the infamous bronco Meteor, but even Rocky is unable to ride him until he confronts the men who killed his young master. When rustlers make repeated night raids that always fail, Rocky suspects they're up to something else. Rocky gets involved in the feud over a disputed lumber camp. Longhorn Killer; The Wrangler; Sage-Brush; Gopherface; Dee Dickens: Foul Fighting on Fair Grounds; Longhorn Masquerade; No Escape; Bronko Betsy. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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"Nightmare Planet" a complete short novel by Murray Leinster, and "The Spiral Intelligence" by Frank Belknap long, plus "The World in 2046" a prediction by Hugo Gernsback.

Volume 1 No 4. Front cover by Alex Schomburg. Back cover by Frank R. Paul and Tina. "Nightmare Planet" by Murray Leinster and "The Stolen Minute" by Pierre Devaux and H. G. Viot. Other stories by Harry Walton, Frank Belknap Long, and Lawrence E. Larkey. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/4-in., 66 pages, BW. Cover price $0.35.

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Cover pencils by Gil Kane, inks by Frank Giacoia. The Phantom Castle!, script by Robert Kanigher, pencils by Jerry Grandenetti, inks by Sy Barry; When Gloorie castle is transported from Scotland to the US, a stolen crown is hidden in the floor; Johnny Peril investigates and is confronted with three hooded henchmen posing as ghosts. Stairways of Destiny... half-page by Mort Drucker; Superstitions about stairways. How to Avoid a Witch! filler page, script and art by Mort Drucker; Account of precautious measures against confronting a witch. Vengeance of the Sea King!, pencils by Carmine Infantino, inks by Bernard Sachs; Crew members impersonate Neptune and his sons to make a murderer come forward and confess his crime. Images of Death! filler page, script and art by Mort Drucker; Short feature about voodoo. The Half-Lucky Charm!, pencils by Gil Kane, inks by Bernard Sachs; A man comes into possession of a half good-luck charm and makes some strange experiences: He inherits half his uncle's estate and falls in love with a woman in a half-white and half-black costume, learning only half her name and address. Mystery of the Yoga text article, script by Jack Miller, art by Raymond Perry. The Giant in the Swamp!, art by Murphy Anderson; Archeologist Steve Dexter discovers a hidden island of giant Indians and their gold treasure in the Okefenokee swamp in Georgia; He is being followed by three gangsters who attack and plan to rob him. A hermit comes to Dexter's rescue. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Albert B. Feldstein. The October Game, script by Ray Bradbury (original story) and Albert B. Feldstein (adaptation), art by Jack Kamen; A madman who hates his wife dismembers his daughter and passes around her body parts to children in a darkened cellar on Halloween. Came The Dawn!, script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Wally Wood; A man thinks that the girl he has met in the woods may be a dangerous escaped lunatic because she matches the description, but his girlfriend ends up meeting a grim fate as the latest victim of the true escapee. Surgery! text story, script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Marie Severin; In a Police Hospital room, criminal Bat Parker, seriously wounded in a gunfight with the Police, needs a gangrene-laden leg amputated before he dies. The Meddlers!, script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Joe Orlando; The folk of a small town attempt to drive away a doctor who is attempting to create life in a test tube. Carrion Death!, script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Reed Crandall (his first story for EC); A man handcuffed to policeman is trying to make his way through the desert on foot; He realizes that he has to separate himself from the body but has nothing sharp to cut off the dead man's hand with. One-page bio (with photo) of Ray Bradbury. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Articles on sports, crime, and adventuring, plus pin-up photos. 8" x 10.5". 66 pages. B&W. -MATURE READERS- Cover price $0.25.

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Cover art by Stan Campbell. "The Madman of Mars," script by Walter Gibson, art by Stan Campbell; Rockets bearing hydrogen bombs and originating from Mars are destroying major cities on Earth; Spurs Jackson is called in by General Carpenter to go discover the source of the Martian bombs; Nazis who travelled to Mars in 1935 are discovered to be sending the bombs. "Spurs Sees Red!", script by Walter Gibson, art by John Belfi; When a flying saucer lands at the McLeod farm, Pop McLeod leaves his daughter Jane in the house while goes out to investigate; He is shot by a sniper, so Jane goes to Spurs for help; Spurs investigates, discovering the saucer is of Soviet design. "Visit in Spaceman's Gulch!" one-page story. "Spurs Jackson and the Selenites!" text story. "The Stone Men From Space," script by Walter Gibson, art by John Belfi; Queen Thuvia is talking to Spurs, the Mayans Strong Bow, Rapid Fox about desert petrified logs; She gives Strong Bow a thuvia flower she says will grow in the desert then goes Mars; Strong Bow says the flower won't grow in desert and discards it. "The Menace of Comet 'X'", script by Walter Gibson, art by John Belfi; Spurs and his Space Vigilantes are contacted to investigate a dangerous comet; Spurs takes along Queen Thula of Mars; Spurs and the other vigilantes are captured, only to discover Spurs's old enemies, Korok, ex-Prime Minister of Mars, and Vodor from Venus are piloting the deadly comet toward Earth to devastate the planet. Mars is next. "SPACE WESTERN COMICS." 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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June 1953. Cover by Ed Emshwiller. Stories by Philip Jose Farmer "Moth and Rust" (sequel to "The Lovers"), Fox B. Holden, Leslie Waltham, and Robert F. Young. Virgil Finlay (3) and Emsh illustrations. 6.5-in. x 9-in. trimmed format; black and white; 144 pages. Cover price $0.25.

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Art by Bob Powell and Fred Meagher. Cover by Fred Meagher. Rancher Steve Adams, a Comanche raised by white settlers, has a secret identity as the warrior Straight Arrow, a hero who first appeared on a popular radio show. Straight Arrow suffers a mysterious illness, unaware he's being poisoned by radioactive material. Red Hawk seeks the truth about the Flying Cat-woman of legend, who suddenly seems all too real. Straight Arrow seeks the hidden valley where rustlers are storing their stolen herds. The Treasure of Pedro Bomba; The Invisible Terror; Red Hawk: The Flying Horror!; The Invisible Terror. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Russ Heath. "The Extra Coffin," art by Larry Woromay; The uncle of two sponges has had enough so he orders coffins fitted for them; When the two make a deal with the coffin maker to pad his bill so that they can split the extra cash, the uncle orders an extra coffin and offers the coffin maker a modeling fee if he will lie down in it after the other two are sealed in the air tight coffins placed in the cellar. "Flight to Where" text story. "You Made the Pants Too Long," art by Fred Kida; A tailor's obnoxious customer meets his end when he refuses to heed a warning about staying out of the man's pressing room invention that can press multiple suits of clothes at once. "The Rag Doll," art by Joe Certa; An abusive foster parent is concerned about an agency evaluation so when one of her charges acts up, instead of hitting him like she usually would do, she hands the child a rag doll and tells him to take out his anger on the doll. "The Farmer Takes a Life!", script by Carl Wessler, art by Bob Fujitani; A sadistic farmer who beheads chickens merely to watch their headless bodies run around gets the tables turned on him. "Look Out," art by George Tuska; A man in an auto accident attempts to con the insurance company out of a fat settlement by pretending to be blind, but fate has the last laugh when he is warned about a falling window box and believes it to be a trick. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Jack Davis. EC Artist of the Month article about George Evans (with photo) by Al Feldstein. "Fare Tonight, Followed By Increasing Clottyness...", script by Al Feldstein, art by Jack Davis; A cab driver has a dream that he is pursued by a Dr. Mueller into a basement filled with vampire-occupied caskets. "Curiosity Killed...", script by Al Feldstein, art by George Evans; A woman is convinced that her friend down the hall has been murdered by her husband and that he is disposing of her remains bit by bit via carrier pigeon to a local kennel. "Tight Squeeze" text story. "How Green Was My Alley," script by Al Feldstein, art by Jack Kamen; A bigamist is decapitated by his two athletic wives when they find they've been deceived; The golfer putts with his eyes and the bowler uses his severed head. "The Handler," script by Ray Bradbury and Albert B. Feldstein (adaptation), art by Graham Ingels (as Ghastly); A mortician avenges himself against perceived slights upon the closed-casket victims of his parlor by violating their bodies until a corpse who isn't quite dead yet overhears his gruesome doings and begs the dead to rise from their graves and stop this horrid man. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 1, Issue 1 - June 8th 1953. Celebrity gossip magazine. The issue features President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Daughter-in-Law Barbara Eisenhower, and features a look at the families private life. 4-in. x 6-in., 64 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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Art by Art Bartsch, Jim Tyer and Connie Rasinski. St. John presents the comics adventures of the characters of animator Paul Terry's studio. Mice scouts on a forest hike accidentally discover the secret hideout of Mighty Mouse's foe The Claw. Heckle and Jeckle give a scarecrow a brain - an "electronic brain," that is, a 1950s term for a computer. Sourpuss and Gandy Goose get jobs as farmhands to get away from the noisy city, but they're no farmers. Mighty Mouse: Trail to Trouble; Heckle and Jeckle: Luck; Dinky: Barnyard Baby Sitter; Heckle and Jeckle: The Misdirected Scarecrow; Gandy Goose: Peace and Quiet. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 37, Issue 6 - June, 1953. Art cover by Paul Harvey. TAM is legendary for its thorough and insightful coverage of the stage, both in American and England. Less well-known is the fact that TAM also provided some outstanding coverage of motion pictures. Broadway and Hollywood. Includes: "Toward American Opera" and "My Darlin' Aida" by Charles Friedman, and much more. 8.5-in. x 11-in, 96 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.50.

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June, 1953. Cover by Walter Popp. Stories by Wallace West, R.J. McGregor, Chad Oliver, J.W. Groves, Kris Neville, John Christopher, and Murray Leinster. Three Virgil Finlay illustrations. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 148 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

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Cover pencils by Ernie Bushmiller. Stories and Art by Ernie Bushmiller, Rudolph Dirks and unknown. (Note: Who the inkers are is mainly unknown.) In this issue: Nancy by Ernie Bushmiller; The Captain and the Kids by Rudolph Dirks; Stamp Tips article "Jose Marti"; How it Began article "Podunk"; and Tarzan. Plus: "Bill Wins a Medal" public service announcement. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 9, Issue 6 - June 1953. Cover by Peter Driben. Humorous pin-up magazine with photos and cartoons scattered throughout. This issue has Bettie Page in a two-page pictorial and a single page photo. 8 1/2-in. x 1 1/2-in., 50 pages, B&W. MATURE READERS Cover price $0.25.

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Stories by unknown. Art by unknown. Featuring: Tom & Jerry tale; Adventures of Tom tale; Barney Bear & Benny Burro tale; Big Spike & Little Tyke tale; Bertie Bird text story "The Search"; Wuff the Prairie Dog tale; Jerry & Tuffy 2-pager; Fuzzy & Wuzzy tale; Flip 'n' Dip 2-pager; and Droopy 1-pager. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 13, Issue 1 - June, 1953. 6.75" x 9.75", 146 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Volume 68, Issue 5 - June 1953. Cover by Ozzie Sweet. Photos and articles focusing on the American life. "High School Thrill Marriage," "How To Dress Your New Baby." 132 pages. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in. B&W. Cover price $0.20.

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Issue #1 - Summer 1953. Cover price $0.25.

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Canadian Edition. Cover by Wally Wood. Stories by Harvey Kurtzman and Jerry De Fuccio. Art by John Severin, Bill Elder, Joe Kubert, Wally Wood, and Jack Davis. Harvey Kurtzman's legendary series enlisted top EC artists for gritty tales of war and adventure. A Signal Corps soldier learns why his outfit was issued firearms during a sudden skirmish. A sea captain encounters sharks and treachery while diving for pearls, in a rare art collaboration between two legends of comics, Kurtzman and Joe Kubert. In a Wally Wood story, a Japanese POW in Russia doesn't know his home in Nagasaki has been razed by the atomic bomb. Action-packed cover by Wally Wood. Signal Corps!; Outpost!; Indian Sign; Pearl Divers!; Atom Bomber! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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June 1953. Science fiction stories: "Stowaway"by Mack Reynolds, "Constant Reader" by Robert Bloch. 5-1/4 in. x 7-1/8 in.; black and white; 128 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.35.

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#153, 6/53, 10c. Donald Duck, the Li'l Bad Wolf, Pluto, Little Hiawatha, Grandma Duck in untitled stories and Mickey Mouse and Goofy in part two of "The Last Resort." The Donald Duck story is by Carl Barks. Issue also has one-page and half-page gag strips, and a two-page text feature "The Spring Bazaar." Story and art credits: unknown. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Joe Kubert. Stories and art by Joe Kubert, Ben Brown, David Gantz, Al Tyler and John Belfi. Classic pre-Code horror from St. John. During WWII, an American soldier has flashbacks of a horrifying past life in medieval England, in a story with early art by comics legend Joe Kubert. A magical painting gives an invalid nobleman the chance to visit his ancestral castle, but it also reveals to him his wife's infidelity. Treasure hunters ill-advisedly steal a sacred mask from a native temple, and soon learn they should have listened to the warnings. Cover by Kubert. Bloody Yesterday; The Castle in the Wall; Gag Bag; Queen Moll's Justice; The Road to Nowhere; Comedy Column; The Golden Mask. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Bernard Baily. Stories and art by John Romita, Les Zakarin and Eugene E. Hughes. Pre-Code tales of horror from Stanley Morse Publications. A woman seeks revenge after her husband kills her father with voodoo. A serial husband-killer makes a pact with the devil that he will free her if she will live with the man he chooses, but that man turns out to be Jack the Ripper. A man makes a deal with the devil and thinks he's come out with the upper hand, in a story by future Spider-Man artist John Romita Sr. Voodoo Dolls; Live With a Man; Life Insurance; The Door; Rat-Trap; Cremation. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 17, Issue 1 - June, 1953. 6.75" x 9.75", 134 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Cover by C. C. Beck. Stories and art by Bill Woolfolk, Otto Binder, Pete Morisi and Kurt Schaffenberger. The Fawcett comic that introduced the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) to the world. In his final adventure in Whiz Comics, Billy Batson investigates mysterious disappearances and discovers the "human deep-freeze" maintained by the intelligent, many-tentacled Kraken of legend. Like any Lovecraftian hero, a temporarily Shazam-less Billy responds, "No - No! I'll go gibbering mad!" In another horror-themed tale, war hero Jaspar's spirit pursues his murderer. When archaeologists unleash evil spirits from the tomb of Pharaoh En-Tep, only Ibis knows how to contain them. Captain Marvel: The Legend Horror; Doc Sorebones; Lance O'Casey: Undercover Warfare; Dr. Death: The Heros Spirit; Wicky and O'Shawnessy; Sacrifice Play; Wilbur the Waiter; Ibis the Invincible: The Guardians of the Tomb. Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.