Comic books October 1955

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Text Only Edition - Volume 26, Issue 4 - October, 1955. Squarebound, 5" x 7.5", 144 pages, B&W, Text Only. Cover price $0.35.

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Volume 1, Issue 1 - October, 1955. Cover photo by Keith Bernard. Vintage men's interest magazine featuring articles, essays, poetry, adult humor comics, and tasteful nude pin-up pictorials. This issue includes the short fiction story, "The Mice" by Ray Bradbury. 8.5" x 11", 58 pages, B&W/Color. -MATURE READERS- Cover price $0.50.

Cover by Johnny Craig. Stories by Johnny Craig and others. Art by John Severin, Johnny Craig, and Reed Crandall. One of EC Comics' late New Direction titles, a response to the new Comics Code, featuring reporters finding danger while pursuing stories. Ace photographer Steve Rampart gets caught up in intrigue while vacationing in Mexico. Reporter Geri Hamilton has a chance to interview an elusive bank robber at a remote rail way-station, but things don't go as planned. Reporter Keith Michaels is marked for death after accidentally witnessing a bank robber's getaway. Dynamic action cover by Johnny Craig. Dateline: New York City; Steve Rampart; Geri Hamilton; Front Page Story; Dateline: Rio Para. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

"Dream Love," "Unhappy Birthday," "How Did I Lose You," and "Flight to Heartbreak!" Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 16, Issue 5 - October, 1955. 6.5" x 9", 98 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Oct 1955. Science fiction and fantasy stories by Clee Garson, Lee Grant, Ron Butler, Alice Eleanor Jones, and Paul W. Fairman. 5.5-in. x 7.75-in.; black and white; 128 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.35.

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Oct 1955. Science fiction stories by Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp (Conan in "Hawks Over Shem"), Frederik Pohl, Sam Merwin Jr., Bryce Walton, Ruth Sterling, Craig Rice, Matt Carter, Tom Godwin, and Evelyn E. Smith. No interior illustrations. Cover by Kelly Freas. 5.25-in. x 7.5-in.; black and white; 128 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.35.

Volume 8 - Number 10, October 1955. Pulp magazine devoted to exploring the paranormal. This issue features The Planet That Disappeared, Mexico's Island of Death, and Hawaii's Living Fire Goddess! Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 7 1/2-in., 130 page, Text (with B&W Illustrations and Photos). Cover price $0.35.

Cover by Joe Oriolo. Stories and art by Otto Messmer and Joe Oriolo. Comics adventures of the popular, long-running cartoon character; this series often featured art by the two men most associated with Felix, Otto Messmer and Joe Oriolo. Inky and Dinky hear a burglar breaking in, but Kitty knows their room is too messy for any burglar to escape. When Flub the dog gets a flat tire on the bubblegum delivery truck, he has an idea how to fix it. Felix the Cat; Flub the Pup: All Gummed Up; Inky and Dinky: Stumbling Blocks. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 11, Issue 10 - October, 1955. Art Moore comic cover. Vintage film enthusiast magazine for those interested in learning the ins and outs of proper equipment execution. This issue features articles about cinema lab standards, sound design, electronic editing and more. 9" x 12", 64 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

Stories and art by Bob Powell and others. Tales of love and heartbreak in 1950s America from publisher Harvey. Mary nurses Ken back to health after a plane crash, but knows he'll be returning to his girlfriend Nora. Nurse Eve loves soldier Bill, but fellow nurse Doris lets her know she plans to steal him away. Photographer's assistant Liz loves shutterbug Tommy, but he only has eyes for redheaded model Joann. Seven Days!; Heartbreak Flight; Nurses and Soldiers!; Kiss in the Dark; Love Makes the World Go 'Round. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 5, Issue 10 - October, 1955. Men's interest magazine featuring Athletes, True Crime, Starlets, and Pin-ups. 4-in. x 6-in., 64 pages, B&W Cover price $0.15.

Cover by Ogden Whitney. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Art by John Rosenberger, Leonard Starr, and Ogden Whitney. Cover by Ogden Whitney. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. An anthology series featuring tales of fantasy and science fiction adventure from legendary early independent comics publisher ACG. A bumbling actor winds up in the court of King Arthur after a blow to the head; A successful writer on vacation realizes that he is caught up in one of his own stories, and it doesnt have a happy ending; A woman meets her ancestor from 1704 in a dream, and learns an important fact about the present. One Exciting Knight!; Knights' Gallery; Step by Step; Journey into the Past!; Cyclone! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Jack Kirby. Stories and art by Jack Kirby, Carl Wessler, Jo Albistur, Art Gates, Bill Draut, and Rocke Mastroserio. Gritty war comics "produced by veterans," (as the tagline proclaims) created and originally published by comics legends Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. A wounded American soldier hides out in a French house that is soon occupied by Nazis. An American and a Nazi soldier have a fateful encounter. A WAC caught in the Battle of the Bulge has a secret reason for her battlefield bravery, in a rare action-girl story for the era. Decision at Dieppe!; Hazard; Even Steven!; G.I. Laughs; Secret; Listen to the Boidie; The 50th Man; Dear Joan! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

8 in. x 10.5 in. 66 pages. B&W. Mature Readers. Cover price $0.25.

Stories and art by Dick Ayers, Art Gates, Carl Hubbell and Fred Ottenheimer. Charlton's Mad imitator continues its hit-or-miss parodies of 1950s pop culture, converting to a magazine format with this issue, as Mad did. This issue features no art by Marvel legend Jack Kirby, contrary to some sources (the Kirby art is in issue #11). Photo cover includes 1950s icons Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, Jackie Gleason, and Jerry Lewis. How Davy Crockett rose up from a simple frontiersman to a 1950s TV star. Parodies of the films Blackboard Jungle and Marilyn Monroe's The Seven Year Itch. Another 1950s icon, trans pioneer Christine Jorgensen, gets the From Here to Insanity treatment. An indecipherable article written in "jazz" lingo. Spoofs of 1950s advertising, including shampoo, deodorant, and cigarettes ads. Haloo Shampoo; Chase & Sunburn Coffee; Old Spicy Sticky Deodorant; Classified Ads; The Raving Reporter; How Davy Crockhead Captured America; The Man on the Flying Trapeze; Confidentially; The Truth About the French Pose Card Raquet; The Truth About Army Justice; Why Gretel Garbow Wants Her Privacy; Operation Denmark; The Truth About the Einstein Experts; I Toyed With the Hearts of Men; Blackboard Jumble; Fisherman's Daily Guide for August; How to Catch a Man; Camp Minnacootchie; Eat Younger and Look Older; Jive Me Gently; You Too Can Dance; How To Pour a Patio; Across and Drowkcab Puzzle; Insanity Removes the Wraps from Atomic Age's Most Explosive Pin-Ups!; Recommended by Huncan Dines; Those T.V. Commercials; Maryland Monrowboat in "The Seven Year Twitch"; French Girdle; Pearliaments Cigarettes. Final issue under this title; series continues as Crazy, Man, Crazy (1955) #1. 8.5-in. x 11-in., 64 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Davy Crockett in "The Challenge of Black Warrior," Buffalo Bill in "The Tenderfoot Caravan," Kit Carson in "Mohave Uprising." Listed in Overstreet as scarce. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 21, Issue 3 - October 1955. Cover by Thomas Beecham, back cover of Lili St. Cyr. Men's adventure magazine featuring articles, fiction, humor, and pin-up pictorials. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 82 pages, B&W. MATURE. Cover price $0.35.

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Issue 5 - October, 1955. Men's interest joke book with one page cartoons centered around the relationships of men and women at the time. Digest Size, 5" x 6.5", 98 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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"Celluloid Sleith" and "River Peril." Back-up story, "The Telltale Slip." 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Comic book featuring stories focusing on famous singing cowboy hero Gene Autrys horse. Painted cover art by Sam Savitt. The Flash Flood article. "Champion in Dangerous Waters," script by Gaylord Du Bois, art by Morris Gollub; Champion and Rebel dog are in the high country, watching over the herd; A mare and her colt stray, and Champ rescues them from a cougar; The colt stumbles into an arroyo, trapped; Coudburst, downpour; Champ leads the colt out of the arroyo; As a flash flood rushes forth, Champ descends again into the arroyo, grabs a fawn by the nape, and leaps to safety; Rancher Tex: his jeep has stalled in floodwater; He rides Champ back to save the ranch from the storm and dam-burst. "Champion in Fire Trap," art by Morris Gollub; Dan Brady Traveling Grocery crashed his wagon during the morning run. Pinned; Axle broken; Ricky and Champ rescue him; They will carry groceries to Sue Hall, Forest Service lookout at Tower Rock, and send a repairman back; On the way, they smell smoke: Mr. Houser and his boys (one a scout) are vacationing, camp-out. Dell Comics A Pledge to Parents. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Dick Dillin and Chuck Cuidera. Written by unknown. Art by Charles Nicholas, Sid Greene? and unknown. War front fury! Battlefield adventure! In this issue: "Prisoners at War," with pencils by Charles Nicholas; "Red Treachery Assault"; "Ranger Onslaught," with pencils by Nicholas; 1-page text story "Plan for Doom"; and "Patrol Ambush," with art by Sid Greene? 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ernie Schroeder. Stories and art by Mike Suchorsky, Ben Brown, David Gantz, Vic Martin, and Ernie Schroeder. Neither a tie-in with the later toy line/cartoon nor a grim war comic, this first-gen GI Joe focused on lighthearted tales of military life. The Yardbirds, featuring Pvts. Windy and Whitey, was straight-up comedy of the Beetle Bailey/Sad Sack variety. Susie, GI Joe's girlfriend, tells the story of her life on the home front while waiting for Joe to return. Pvt. Bragg is the only soldier on his ship who isn't seasick, and that's something for him to brag about. Pvt. Dopey gets the Beetle Bailey treatment from Sarge, but somehow Sarge always suffers from Dopey's ineptitude. Army Chuckles; Pvt. Dopey: It Pays To Advertise; I Was The Girl He Left Behind; Weapons of the Future; Pvt. Bragg: Bon Voyage; Whos Oscar; Dear Gertrude; Pvt. Dopey: The Sergeants Secretary; The Crooner; Khaki Fun. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

She was losing Vic forever -- what could she do to make him hear the desperate cry in her heart? "Love, Don't Leave Me!" is the cover-featured 8 page story. Plus: 7 page story "Letter from an Unknown Love"; 7 page story "Brooding Heart"; 2 page text story "What Price Beauty?"; 7 page story "Friend of the Bride." Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Matt Baker. Stories and art by Matt Baker and Dana Dutch. Tales of teen angst and amour, often featuring art and covers by celebrated good-girl artist Matt Baker. Cheryl tries trickery to win Edmund, but when that has the opposite effect, she takes a different approach, in a story with art by Baker. In another Baker story, Edna falls for Jack, the writer in her family boardinghouse, but then she sees he's writing letters to Carole. In still another Baker story, Gwen is dating handsome, wealthy Richard, but has a secret in her past that she is certain will doom their future together. First Love; Love Isn't for Deceivers; Unfair to My Boy Friend; The Runaround; Blinded by My Ideals; Love's Worst Enemy: Suspicion! Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 2, Issue 7 - October 1955. 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.

Stories and art by Dan Gormley and others. Talking magpies Heckle and Jeckle are known for their identical appearance, their distinctive chatter, and their mischievous schemes. Heckle and Jeckle are hired to capture African animals for a circus. The talking magpies compete with Dimwit on a TV quiz show, but the host is Dimwit's cousin. The duo pulls a scam on a too-trusting dog. Final issue published by St. John; Pines takes over publication with the next issue. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Al Avison and Joe Certa. A romance comic from Harvey, as the teens of the 1950s explore the new world of dating. Rebellious Jeanie falls for handsome Craig, but he turns out to be a heel. Like many stories of this period, this one is reprinted from an earlier issue, but has been revised in the wake of the Comics Code to tone down any salacious elements, including changes to Jeanie's dresses. Fran suspects Ted is only dating her to advance his career at her dad's store. Spoiled rich girl Bette dates other men after a tiff with her boyfriend. My Rebellious Heart; Rate Your Date-Ability; Jealousy; Bargain Counter Wife; Love Thief; Out of Bounds; Our Lonely Hearts; Another Cinderella. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

"Th' MacSleezy's," "L-Lem," "Hank th' Hermit," "Gumbo Galahad," and "Hillside Hilda." All art and cover by Art Gates. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 13, Issue 11 - October, 1955. Julius Larosa photo cover. Long running magazine that features song lyrics, celebrity gossip, articles, and fan letters. 8.5" x 11", 34 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Stories and art by Gene Colan, Julius Schwartz, Ed Herron, Morris Waldinger, Tom Nicolosi, Ray Burnley, and John Broome. Western adventure featuring one of the most popular heroes of the mid-20th century, star of TV, film and radio. Outlaws use a con to get a signature on a fraudulent document, in one of three stories this issue illustrated by future Marvel legend Gene Colan. Hopalong aids a traveling schoolhouse. Plus fun facts from Old West history, written by legendary DC editor Julius Schwartz. The Secret of the Stolen Signature; Cowboy Slicker Tricks; The Schoolhouse-on-Wheels!; A Hopi Childhood!; The Great Western Windwagon; Strange Indian Beliefs!; Western Pastimes!; The Tenderfoot Rides West! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

UK black and white reprint of Hopalong Cassidy #112. Cover by Gene Colan. "Treasure Trail to Thunderbolt Ridge," "Three Notches on a Gun," and "The Secret Sheriff of Black Bluff!" 7-1/8 in. x 9-7/8 in.; black and white; 24 pages.

Cover art by Bill Ely. "The Man Who Could Read Minds," pencils by Howard Purcell, inks by Stan Kaye; A mind-reader blackmails several men because he knows all their secrets. Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone comic book ad. One-page Shorty story by Henry Boltinoff. "The Midget Maker," art by Ruben Moreira; A criminal "professor" hides criminals after a hold-up by shrinking them, but one of the criminals is actually an under-cover cop. 2/3 Professor Eureka story by Henry Boltinoff. "What Are You Getting Out of School?" public service announcement starring Buzzy, script by Jack Schiff, art by Win Mortimer. "The Master of the Stars," art by Jim McArdle; An efficency expert changes the way businesses do business to save them money, and to make them easier to rob, then dresses as a phony fortune-teller, Centauri, to guide robbers. "The Mysterious Gypsy Cards" article by Jack Miller, art by Raymond Perry; Facts about Tarot cards. One-page Moolah the Mystic story by Henry Boltinoff; Moolah's crystal ball and the newspaper don't agree on what the weather is going to be. "The Imp on the Flying Trapeze," art by Bill Ely; Marko, a trapeeze artist who lost his nerve, helps a tree and gains the friendship of a wood elf. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Lucy stars in "Stunt Girl," "In the Soup," and "Dream House." Four photos from the TV show on the inside front cover. Photo cover. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

October 1955. Cover by Ed Valigursky. Stories: "The Almost-Men" by Irving E. Cox, Jr., "Prisoners of Earth" by Robert F. Young, "The Proxies" by Arthur Sellings, "Juvenile Delinquent" by Edward W. Ludwing, "Slow Burn" by Henry Still, "Last Rites" by Charles Beaumont, "Meeting of the Board" by Alan E. Nourse. 5.5-in. x 7.5-in.; 120 Pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

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October, 1955 Volume 6, Issue 8. NOTE: Vol. 6 #8-Up subtitled Science Fiction. 5-3/8 in. x 7-5/8 in; black and white; 162 pages. Cover price $0.35.