Comic books October 1954

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Reprint of Talbot Mundy's Soul of a Regiment. Also an article with behind-the-scenes photographs on filming 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea movie. 8 1/4-in. x 11 1/4-in., 80 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $42.00 View scans 1" Spine split from bottom.

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"Pigeon Boss," "Booby Trap Island," "Battle Carnival" (art by Russ Heath), and "The Soldier and the Tiger!" Full-page ad for Our Fighting Forces 1. Edited by Whitney Ellsworth and Robert Kanigher. Cover by Irv Novick. Stories by Ed Herron, Ross Andru, Mike Esposito, Irwin Hasen, Ed Herron, George Papp, Causin, Russ Heath, and Sam Burlockoff. Adventure tales of war and the military, including some humor—go into combat with All American Men of War! 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $36.00 View scans Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.

Monthly magazine focusing on human interest stories, social issues and fiction. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 140 pages, full color. Cover price $0.35.

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Walter Lantz' Andy Panda. Stories by Don R. Christensen and various. Art by Ken Champin and Lynn Karp. Featuring the tale "The Swamp Pirates," plus three untitled stories! Also has four untitled 1-page stories! Starring Andy Panda and Charlie Chicken! 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 1, Issue 4 - October 1954. Men's interest Magazine focusing on Hunting and Animal stories and articles. This issue features "Tigrero!" and "Black Terror of the Jungle!". 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 66 pages, Text, with B&W images through out Cover price $0.35.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $630.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Label #4027789002

Add to cart GD 2.0 $189.95 or Best Offer View scans 1.75" Cumulative spine split. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover art by Harry Anderson. Jessica!, art by Sid Greene; A young man invents a girlfriend for himself, but comes to regret it when he tells people he's meeting her that evening at the bridge, and a body is found floating in the river which matches his description of his girlfriend. The Dinner Guest, art by Don Perlin; A Soviet peasant feeds the local commissar to his zombie son. Collins Is In His Coffin!, art by Ed Winiarski; When a man is hanged on trumped charges in order for his neighbors to steal his land, he curses the area. Brother Vampire!, art by Al Eadeh; A man thinks that his Siamese twin is a vampire, but it turns out that the vampire just used his amnesia in order to hide in plain sight after using some plastic to connect the two of them. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Add to cart Very Good $2.50 View scans Front cover detached 20%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

October 1954. Volume 54, Issue 2. Cover by Van Dongen. Science fiction stories by Poul Anderson ("The Big Rain"), Everett B. Cole, Walter L. Kleine, Edward Peattie, and Mark Clifton & Frank Riley ("They'd Rather Be Right" part 3 of 4). Illustrations by Freas, Shapiro, and van Dongen. Article by R. S. Richardson. Softcover, 5.5-in. x 7.75-in.; 168 newsprint pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

Add to cart CGC 6.5 $550.00 View scans Paper: White Label #4385984021 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Cover by Win Mortimer. "Batman's Greatest Thrills!", script by Bill Woolfolk, pencils by Bob Kane, inks by Stan Kaye; Batman is surprised and honored that a TV station is presenting his life story and recounting some of his greatest feats....until the Joker decides to break out of prison and do his own "honoring" of the Caped Crusader! School Blues! public service announcement with Buzzy, script by Jack Schiff, art by Win Mortimer. One-page Casey the Cop story by Henry Boltinoff. "The Synthetic Crime King!", pencils by Sheldon Moldoff, inks by Stan Kaye; A miffed college professor decides to get revenge on his former employer by creating what is believed to be a synthetic man and using him as a weapon, But Batman discovers that this creature is actually a human being used by Vilmer, stops Vilmer and restores the athlete to his former self. Batman Whirly-word Game activity page by Martin Naydel. One-page Little Pete story by Henry Boltinoff. "They Prove the Guilty Innocent" text story by Jack Miller. "Batman Falls in Love!", script by Bill Finger, pencils by Bob Kane (Batman and Robin figures only) and Sheldon Moldoff, inks by Stan Kaye; Batman is to guard a foreign model, whose life has been threatened by a smuggling ring; But Vicki Vale nearly messes everything up with her jealousy. 44 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $279.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Label #2055589011 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

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Stories and art by Bob Powell, Howard Nostrand, Rudy Palais, Manny Stallman, and Joe Certa. Former superhero comic Black Cat becomes a showcase for Harvey's unique brand of pre-Code horror. Sarah's uncle brings a macabre trophy back from India - a severed hand that grants wishes, in a pastiche of the horror classic "The Monkey's Paw." A wife-killer is pursued by the corpse of his victim. Halloween partiers are forced into a macabre scavenger hunt by a strange creature. Plus a vintage ad for a "Savage Australian Boomerang." Hand of the Yogi; Jack of Horror; Halloween Nightmare; Shadows on the Tomb; The Return of the Mummies; Mark of the Vampires. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $29.50 View scan 1.5" Spine split from bottom. Cover coming loose at one staple.

Cover by Dick Dillin and Chuck Cuidera. Stories by Dick Wood, Paul Gustavson and unknown. Art by Dick Dillin, Paul Gustavson and Chuck Cuidera. Featuring Blackhawk in: "The Monster Dynamo" by Dick Wood, Dick Dillin and Chuck Cuidera; "The Sea Monsters of Killer Shark" with art by Dillin and Cuidera; and "The Flying Flat-Top" with art by Dillin and Cuidera. Plus: Chop Chop in an untitled back-up story by Paul Gustavson, reprinted from issue #32 (with a page cut). And: 1-page text story "Tricks to All Trades"! 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Jack Kirby. Written by unknown. Art by Jack Kirby, Bob McCarty and unknown. He never misses! Featuring: Bulls Eye tales "Trial by Fire," "Union Jack" (with art by Bob McCarty, and splash pencils by Jack Kirby) and "Grand Prize" (with art by Kirby). Plus: 2-page text story "The Indian and the White Man," and 1-page fillers "Hunting the Mountain Lion" and "Outlaws Anonymous"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Buster Bear in "Nervous Repair Service," "Laugh, Hyena, Laugh," and "Buster Gets the Goods." Buzzy Rabbit in "A Moving Tale." Two untitled Marmaduke Mouse stories. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $15.00 View scans Staple rust. Rust migration.

36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Painted Cover. Stories by unknown. Art by Bob Jenney. Featuring the tales "The Iron Bandit" and "Mystery of Rancho D'oro"! Also: the 1-page filler "Frontier Spanish" by George Haas and Bob Jenney on the inside front cover! 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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The Sleeping Beauty. NOTE: We do not currently differentiate between HRN 576 copies and other HRN #'s of Classics Illustrated Junior reprints. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $230.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Label #2009631011

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $300.00 or Best Offer View scans Minor staple rust and migration. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

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Stories by Richard E. Hughes. Art by Sheldon Moldoff. Cover by Ogden Whitney. The crew of an atomic-powered submarine, The Atomic Commandos roam the seas battling threats to American naval supremacy. The Commandos face a new threat to American security: a secret empire at the center of the Earth, made up of subterranean giants with strange powers. But first, they must battle a giant octopus, making for a terrific sub-vs.-octopus cover. (The TV-like 3-D Truevision from issue #1 is retired without fanfare.) Fight for Survival!; Winner Loses; The Hoax That Backfired!; Atom Sub of the Future. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $8.99 Water damage.

Giordano-Alascia cover. Contains all reprints except for "Golden Arrow...". In order of appearance: "Golden Arrow, Death Meets the Scavenger" art by Stan Campbell; "Jesse James" reprinted from Cowboy Western Comics (1948) #21; "The Action Story of Wild Bill Hickok" reprinted from Cowboy Western Comics (1948) #18; "Annie Oakley" reprinted from Cowboy Western Comics (1948) #21; "Rusty Hall, The Coyote Chase" reprinted with character name "Rusty Hall" replacing "Monte Hale" from Real Western Hero (1948) #73; and "The Dead Man's Hand" art by Mario DeMarco, reprinted from Cowboy Western Comics (1948) #32. "Covered Wagon Days" text story reprinted from Cowboy Western Comics (1948) #20. Indicia states "COWBOY WESTERN". 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 1, Issue 17 - October 1954. Men's interest magazine focusing on Military, Politics, celebrities and showgirls. 4-in. x 6-in., 68 pages, B&W Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $21.00 View scans Spine split 10%. Staple rust: Slight.

Betty Page cover

Vintage men's interest magazine full of adult humor comics and tasteful pin-up pictorials. 8.5" x 11.5", 50 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart Very Good $29.00 View scans Paper: Cream Staple rust. Foxing. Soiling. Water damage.

Volume 14, Issue 3 - October, 1954. 6.5" x 9", 100 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Oct 1954. Cover by Bart Lief. Science fiction stories by Philip K. Dick "Souvenir", Frank Belknap Long, Philip Jose Farmer, Robert Sheckley, Evan Hunter, George Whitley, Norman Arkawy, Charles E. Fritch, Gerda Rhoads, Carl Jacobi, Arthur T. Harris, and Gene Cross. No interior illustrations. 5.25-in. x 7.5-in.; black and white; 128 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.35.

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Volume 7 - Issue 10, October 1954. Pulp magazine devoted to exploring the paranormal. This issue features cover art by Virgil Finlay, plus articles on Strange Powers of Animals, and Florida's Psychic Healer! Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 7 1/2-in., 130 page, Text (with B&W Illustrations and Photos). Cover price $0.35.

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Cover by Al Fago. Stories and art by Al Fago and others. Funny-animal comics from Charlton, featuring Hoppy the Bunny, Fuzzy Bear and Atomic Mouse. Hoppy gets a job at Millie's urging, only to learn he's the getaway driver for a gang of bank robbers. Outlaw Wezzy sees a fake bank robbery as the perfect chance to rob the post office while Sheriff Oscar and Billy the Kid are distracted. Sherlock and Chuck investigate accidents at a circus, and discover a crooked mouse lion-tamer who sells insurance on the side. Hoppy: Break the Bank; Billy the Kid and Oscar: The Hoax; Willie the Worm; Atomic Mouse: Bum-bum-bum-Bomb; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck: On the Flying Trapeze; Willie the Worm; Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear Play a Wishing Game; Fuzzy Bear: Nuts About Doughnuts; Willie the Worm and Sammy: No Joke. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Add to cart Very Good $32.00 View scans Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Moderate.

Vol. 59 #6 - Oct. 1954. Articles and stories about fishing, hunting, arms and ammunition, conservation laws and much more. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/4-in., 144 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart Very Good $33.00 View scans

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $49.00 View scans Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Vintage men's interest magazine full of pin-ups and glamour photos paired with humorous text stories and adult comic strips. 8" x 11.5", 64 pages, B&W. -MATURE CONTENT- Cover price $0.25.

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King Richard and the Crusaders (movie); Matt Baker art. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "BOZO, featuring Bozo the Capitol Clown, No. 594." Painted cover art by Lee Hooper. Elmer and the Witch, art by Lee Hooper; Mr. Wilks pays Bee Witch to take Bozo's pet, Elmer the Elephant, away from the circus; The witch uses a magic spray to send Elmer a million years back in time; Bozo and Sparky use the spray on themselves to go back in time to look for him. The Two-Headed Giant, art by Lee Hooper; A wandering planet comes close to earth and one of its inhabitants, a two-headed giant, falls to Earth next to Sparky's house. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $20.00 View scan 1 1/4" Cumulative spine split. Light Staple rust

Add to cart FR 1.0 $5.00 View scan Staple rust with migration. 4" cumulative spine split. Cover detached. Centerfold detached at one staple.

36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Good $9.00 View scans Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Volume 20, Issue 9 - October 1954. Cover by Clarence Doore. Men's magazine featuring articles on true crime, and politics. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 82 pages, B&W Cover price $0.35.

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#92, 10/54, 10c. Comic book featuring the famous singing cowboy hero Gene Autry in "The Secret of Lost Cause" in which Gene Autry helps a friend who has inherited a ghost town. Issue also has "The Blue Bucket Placer" and a two-page text feature "Mr. Flagg." Photo cover. Story and art credits: unknown. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Painted Cover by Sam Savitt. Stories by unknown. Art by Morris Gollub. Champion in "Champion Plays Good Samaritan" and "Highjacker's Hide-Out"! Plus: 1-page text article "How to Sit Your Horse" on the inside front cover! 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Add to cart GD 2.0 $89.00 or Best Offer View scan Tear on back cover. 1 1/8" cumulative spine split. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

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Add to cart PR 0.5 $39.95 or Best Offer View scan INCOMPLETE. Last page missing, interrupts art and story. Cover and interior oxidation. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Painted cover art by Clarence Doore. All For A Case of Pop starring G.I. Joe, pencils by Irv Novick; The pride a C.O. has for his outfit sometimes takes on impulsive proportions. Reilly's Real Estate starring G.I. Joe, pencils by Irv Novick; Sometimes it takes more than money and brains to be a tycoon, and Ready-Money soon finds out. K. P. Capers starring Pvt. Bragg, pencils by Ben Brown, inks by David Gantz. Operation Alteration starring G.I. Joe, pencils by Irv Novick; Ugly Otis dreams of face surgery to improve his looks. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Auction Item: GD/VG 3.0 View scans Auction opens July 6 RESTORATION. Color touch. Staple rust, rust migration. Staple added (not manufacturing).

Add to cart CGC 7.5 $1,770.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: Off white to white Slab: Minor side/edge crack(s) Label #4268060003 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Cover art by Graham Ingels. About Face--The Witch's Cauldron!, script by Carl Wessler, art by Graham Ingels; A father thinks he has twins, a beautiful girl and a deformed girl. Game Washed Out!--The Vault of Horror!, script by Carl Wessler, art by George Evans; A man in a Puritan colony kills his wife and dumps her body with a weight attached into a pond in order to solicit another man's wife to run away with him. Silent Treatment--The Old Witch's Grim Fairy Tale!, art by Jack Kamen. Swamped--The Crypt of Terror, art by Reed Crandall. 36 pages, full color. $0.10. NOTE: An editorial urges readers to write to the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency, which had started investigating the comic industry. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $185.00 View scans 3.5" Cumulative spine split.

Add to cart PR 0.5 $90.00 View scans Interior is complete. Full length spine split.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $349.00 or Best Offer View scans Water damage. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Stories and art by Frank Belknap Long and others. Pre-Code horror comics from Ajax-Farrell and their anonymous talents. A ballerina's partner returns from the grave for one last waltz. Lunatics think they're Napoleon, but they can't both be right. Paranormal investigator Dr. Fenn combats the Dorset monster, a Druidic horror from England's past. Mirror of Madness; Devil's Ballet; Die Screaming; Laughing Ghost; Monster in the Mist. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 2, Issue 1 - October 1954. Vintage Men's interest magazine focusing on sports, music, hunting, celebrities, models, and showgirls. 4-in. x 6-in., 68 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG 4.0 $110.00 View scan

Stories by unknown. Art and Cover by Owen Fitzgerald. Featuring two untitled Here's Howie tales with art by Owen Fitzgerald, plus an untitled Melvin tale with art by Fitzgerald. Also in this issue: Untitled Winnie the WAC tale with art by Fitzgerald; Word Battle activity page; Private Pete 1-pager by Henry Boltinoff; 2-page text story "Little Choice"; and Shorty 1-pager by Boltinoff. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $7.20

Stories and art by Sid Couchey, Harold LeDoux, Ed Moore and Sam Glanzman. Non-fiction comics featuring true tales of heroism from everyday people and courage on the battlefield. A train engineer executes a daring maneuver to save a boy on the tracks; A boy playing in a construction site protects a friend from a deadly accident; A woman leaps into a 45-foot well to save her baby. Colorful Casey; Dangerous Rescue; Keen Judgement; Age 13 Saves Family of 5; Daring Rescue; Teddy's in the Well; Better than Gold; Creeping Death; One Man Fire Department; The Baby and the Broken Bottle; Horse Mountain Hero; Dangerous Experiment. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Ruben Moreira. "The Incredible Illusions!", art by Bill Ely; An inventor of household appliances is being tricked by his business partner; With the help of magnets he creates the illusion that the machines are attacking its creator. "The Uncanny Creature of Carl Griffin!", pencils by Mort Meskin, inks by George Roussos; By twisting the words "Great Scott!" into "Sceat Grott!", Carl Griffin wins command over a demon-like creature; The creature does his every bidding and kills his rival, Frank Carter, for him; The blame falls on Griffin, though, who fails to call his demon to help--because he forgets the magic words all of a sudden. "Sounds in the Night!" one-page story. "The Dark Horseman!" Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen ad. "Touch of Doom" text story by Joe Mabely. "I Was A Sorcerer's Apprentice!", art by Ruben Moreira; Tourists enter a castle and find the diary of a sorcerer; Flashback to the middle ages and the tale of a young man learning the ropes from his master; One day, though, he wants to quit, but the master wont let him; The mans wife advises her husband to use his magic power to overcome his master. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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October, 1954 Volume 5, Issue 10. 5-3/8 in. x 7-5/8 in; black and white; 162 pages. Cover price $0.35.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $57.00 View scan 1/8" Spine split from top. Light Staple rust and Migration

Stories and art by Mike Sekowsky and Howard Nostrand. Pre-Code crime comics from Sterling, aka Feature Television Productions, focused on police-procedural stories in the "Dragnet" vein. A wounded criminal tries to force a doctor to treat him. Beat cop Kenny Cogan tracks the hit-and-run driver who struck his brother and finds a hot-car ring. In a whimsical story, con man Luke the Spook plots to swindle a millionaire, but the man's kindness puts him off his game. Help Me, Doctor!!; The Cop: Hit and Run; Outside the Law; Free-Lance Murder; Luke the Spook: Where There's A Will. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $12.00 View scans

Vol. 16 #12 - Oct. 1954. Cover by Leo Politi. Magazine for children featuring activities, articles and text stories. 6 3/4-in. x 10-in., 68 pages, B&W with single and full color illustrations. Cover price $0.25.