Comic books April 1957

Volume 14, Issue 1 - April, 1957. Men's interest magazine focusing on Western adventure stories. 8.5" x 11", 100 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Volume 1, Issue 2 - April, 1957. Bettie Page cover plus centerfold and nine other photographs. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 68 pages, B&W and color. Mature readers. Cover price $0.50.

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April 1957. Cover by Ed Emshwiller. Science fiction stories: "Operation: Square Peg" by Irving W. Lande and Frank Belknap Long, "Cold War" by Arthur C. Clarke, "Act of Creation" by Gordon R. Dickson, "Welcome, Stranger" by Robert Bloch, "The Wheel" by Stephen Barr, "The Three Hours You Left Me Alone" by Mann Rubin, "The Science Fiction Collector" by Sam Moskowitz. Leo Margulies, publisher. 5-3/8 in. x 7-5/8 in.; black and white; 132 pages. Cover price $0.35.

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Vol. 8 #22 - April 1957. Science Fantasy, which later became Impulse and then SF Impulse, was a UK published science-fiction and fantasy digest that began production in the Summer of 1950 and was distributed by Nova Publications as a companion to Nova's New Worlds. When Nova went out of business in early 1964, The title was changed to Impulse in early 1966, to little avail, and then changed once more to SF Impulse for the last few issues. Science Fantasy ceased publication the following year, after the printer went bankrupt. Edited by John Carnell. Stories by Richard Wilson, E.C. Tubb, John Wyndham, A. Bertram Chandler and others. Cover by Jose Rubios. Inside front cover is full page ad for Forbidden Planet. 5 1/4-in. x 7 3/4-in., 128 pages, black and white.

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Volume 56, Issue 4 - April, 1957. Jane Powell photo cover. Movie fan magazine. This issue features short adaptations of "Boy on a Dolphin" starring Alan Ladd and Sophia Green, "The Wings of Eagles" starring John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara and Dan Dailey, "Omar Khayyam" starring Cornell Wilde and Debra Paget, "Mister Cory" starring Tony Curtis, Martha Hyer and Kathryn Grant, "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas and Rhonda Fleming, and "The Girl Most Likely" starring Jane Powell, Cliff Robertson, Keith Andes, and Tommy Noonan. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in. 84 Pages B&W. Cover price $0.25.

April, 1957. True crime magazine. 76 Pages, B&W, 8.5" x 10.75". Cover price $0.25.

Photo cover of Sergeant Preston [as played by Dick Simmons]. Trapper on the Trail article. The Luck of Horseshoe Island; When the ice breaks up on the river, the water will flood Horseshoe Island, and Miles and his wife are trapped there. The Mysterious Mine; Jim's partner has hired two men to kill him and his wife so he can take over the rich mine for himself. Gray Wolf Leader of the Wolf Pack story. The Thieving Dog; Shamus has been robbed, with he and his dog left for dead by the robbers; they come to and hide in a cave where young Donnie finds them. Yukon Weather article. Scripts by Gaylord Du Bois, art by Alberto Giolitti. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

15 cent test market edition. Photo cover of Sergeant Preston [as played by Dick Simmons]. Trapper on the Trail article. The Luck of Horseshoe Island; When the ice breaks up on the river, the water will flood Horseshoe Island, and Miles and his wife are trapped there. The Mysterious Mine; Jim's partner has hired two men to kill him and his wife so he can take over the rich mine for himself. Gray Wolf Leader of the Wolf Pack story. The Thieving Dog; Shamus has been robbed, with he and his dog left for dead by the robbers; they come to and hide in a cave where young Donnie finds them. Yukon Weather article. Scripts by Gaylord Du Bois, art by Alberto Giolitti. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.15.

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Volume 1, Issue 6 - April 1957. This issue focuses on playgirls of the world, featuring Rome, Paris, Copenhagen, London and Toyko! 4-in. x 5 1/2-in., 64 pages, B&W. MATURE. Cover price $0.15.

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Cover art by Jack Kirby. 2nd appearance of Challengers of the Unknown in "Ultivac is Loose!" ULTIVAC Is Loose!, script by Dave Wood, pencils by Jack Kirby; Felix Hesse, a German scientist, comes pleading to the Challengers to save him from Ultivac, "a creature of my own making... but now out of control!" Chapter 2: A Challenger Must Die!, script by Dave Wood, pencils by Jack Kirby; The Challengers consult Director June Robbins, computer expert; She deduces radioactive materials have given ULTIVAC super-intelligence; She runs a computation to find their odds, and the card reads, "ULTIVAC WILL FALL WHEN A CHALLENGER DIES!" Dead or Alive? filler page with Robert Louis Stevenson. Chapter 3: The Fearful Millions, script by Dave Wood, pencils by Jack Kirby; Hesse shoots ULTIVAC with a ray gun; The robot falls; Now Hesse and Barker can "make millions"; ULTIVAC is clamped and displayed in Yankee Stadium in New York before thousands. Moolah the Mystic humor page by Henry Boltinoff. Supernatural Sleuths; "Ju-Ju" detectives & the Man with the "Radar Brain" are among those who exploit superstition to make men confess. Chapter 4: The Fatal Prediction, script by Dave Wood, pencils by Jack Kirby. Reprinted in Challengers of the Unknown 75. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Vintage monthly published magazine with a focus on the film industry as a whole. First published in November of 1930, publication continued through the late 1970s. Priding itself as a source for exclusive behind the scenes stories about filmmaking, Silver Screen also contained a fair amount of articles about celebrities, their relationships, the latest in fashion, and film reviews. Cover price $0.25.

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

Official Magazine of the RSROA of America (Roller Skating Rink Operators Association of America). News, articles, competition results, and more. 8-5/8 in. x 11-3/4 in.; black and white; 24 pages on slick paper. Cover price $0.15.

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Volume 8, Issue 4 - April, 1957. Men's adventure magazine featuring articles on sports, hunting politics and crime. Art by Ben Thomas. Features story by Chet Melody. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in. 100 pages B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Cover art by Joe Kubert. The Walking Sub, script by Bob Haney, art by Jack Abel. Waiting Mine, script by Robert Bernstein, pencils by Ross Andru, inks by Mike Esposito. The Fighting Link, script by Bob Haney, art by Joe Kubert. Postcard War, script by Bob Haney, pencils by Ross Andru, inks by Mike Esposito. Army Customs fact page, script and pencils by Morris Waldinger, inks by Tom Nicolisi. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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"Invaders From the Ice World!" (pencils by Carmine Infantino), "Around the Universe in 1 Billion Years," and "The Living Automobile." Kane cover pencils? 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Bill Everett. "Beware... A Martian," script by Carl Wessler, pencils by Al Williamson, inks by Ralph Mayo; In 1968 a bigot attempts hate crimes against a Martian who has fled war-torn Mars to live on Earth in peace. "Someone is in the Trunk," script by Carl Wessler, art by Dick Ayers; A thief in a rooming house gets a psychologist as a roommate who sets a trap for him by placing a mirror in the bottom of a trunk to plague the thief's guilty conscience with his own reflection. "When His World Vanished," art by Robert Q. Sale; When a man hits-and-runs a little boy, the boy's uncle gets revenge by giving the man a pill which erases him from existence. "All Through the Night," script by Carl Wessler, art by Tony DiPreta; A man finds that the people he is familiar with have all been replaced by strangers. "Surprise for the Audience" text story. "Child's Play!", art by John Tartaglione; A man with a self-inflated ego takes several years to assemble found parts, creating a materializer which brings forth a resident of the fourth dimension. "Inside the Hidden Well!", art by Doug Wildey; In Africa, during WWII, a German soldier finds the well where Achilles' mother bathed him and so becomes invulnerable to bullets and steals the American soldiers' food who had found him wandering dazed in the desert; They open up on him and one of the bullets glances off his heal, killing him, because that is where the American medic had placed a bandage over a boot blister. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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"You Used To Be Me," "Murder On His Mind" (art by Pete Morisi), "The Door That Wouldn't Open," "The Voice of Doom" (art by Gray Morrow), "Volcano" (art by Richard Doxsee), "It Walks in the Night" (art by Paul Reinman), and a two-page text story, "The Missing Squadrons." Bill Everett art? Cover price $0.10.

"They Meet at Night" (art by Mac L. Pakula), "Prophet of Doom," "A Matter of Life or Death" (art by Sol Brodsky), "Mind Reader" (art by Bernard Krigstein), "Stowaway in the Sky," and "Captured by the Cave Men," plus a two-page text story, "Image in the Mirror" (illustration by Gene Colan). Bill Everett cover. Cover price $0.10.

Vintage magazine featuring stories about, and tips for those interested in the nudist way of life. Softcover Magazine, 8" x 11", 32 pages, B&W. -MATURE READERS- Cover price $0.50.

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Sunday Pix Vol. 9 (1957). Apr. 7, 1957. Pencils by Andre LeBlanc, a Brazilian artist who worked with Eisner on "The Spirit," and with Sy Barry on "The Phantom." LeBlanc also did work on Flash Gordon, Apt. 3-G, and Rex Morgan, M.D. newspaper strips. 7 x 10, 12 pages. These were available through mail subscription only. Published by David C. Cook Publishing.

Sunday Pix Vol. 9 (1957). Apr. 14, 1957. Pencils by Andre LeBlanc, a Brazilian artist who worked with Eisner on "The Spirit," and with Sy Barry on "The Phantom." LeBlanc also did work on Flash Gordon, Apt. 3-G, and Rex Morgan, M.D. newspaper strips. 7 x 10, 12 pages. These were available through mail subscription only. Published by David C. Cook Publishing.

Sunday Pix Vol. 9 (1957). Apr. 21, 1957. Pencils by Andre LeBlanc, a Brazilian artist who worked with Eisner on "The Spirit," and with Sy Barry on "The Phantom." LeBlanc also did work on Flash Gordon, Apt. 3-G, and Rex Morgan, M.D. newspaper strips. 7 x 10, 12 pages. These were available through mail subscription only. Published by David C. Cook Publishing.

Sunday Pix Vol. 9 (1957). Apr. 28, 1957. Pencils by Andre LeBlanc, a Brazilian artist who worked with Eisner on "The Spirit," and with Sy Barry on "The Phantom." LeBlanc also did work on Flash Gordon, Apt. 3-G, and Rex Morgan, M.D. newspaper strips. 7 x 10, 12 pages. These were available through mail subscription only. Published by David C. Cook Publishing.

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Cover by Frank Kelly Freas. Edited by W.W. Scott. Stories by Robert Silverberg, Winston Marks, Koller Ernst, Lyle G. Boyd and William C. Boyd (credited as Boyd Ellanby), Arthur Sellings, Allan R. Evans, Curtis W. Casewit, Richard Wilson, Scott Nevets, Steven Rory, Edgar P. Straus and Harlan Ellison. Art by Ed Emshwiller, Paul Orban and Frank Kelly Freas. A short-lived science fiction magazine with an impressive lineup of writers and artists, including Robert Silverberg, Harlan Ellison, Ed Emshwiller, and Kelly Freas. Immortal; One Woman for Venus; The Rim of Eternity; Pariah Girl; Brink of Madness; Galactic Thrill Kids; Time and Space; Invulnerable; Science Shorts; Bright Flowers of Mars; Hometown. 5-in. x 7 1/2-in., 132 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

Cover pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Stan Kaye. "The Secret of Fort Smallville," script by Otto Binder, art by John Sikela; When an unknown vandal attempts to sabotage a reenactment of a Ft. Smallville Indian battle, Superboy teams up with an Indian youth and his father to find the culprit. Careers in Nursing public service announcement starring Buzzy, script by Jack Schiff, art by Ruben Moreira. "Clark Kent, Vandal," script by Jerry Coleman, art by John Sikela; Lana Lang cannot understand why Clark Kent is going around Smallville writing on all Superboy posters, "SUPERBOY IS A SAP." Lionel and His Lions humor page by Henry Boltinoff. "My Business is Dynamite" text story. "A Job for Super-Dog," script by Otto Binder, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by George Klein; Krypto decides he's only going to save dogs from now on. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Stan Kaye. Jimmy Olsen's Super-Pet; Jimmy raises a dinosaur named Danny. The Trial of Jimmy Olsen; Jimmy gets in trouble for inadvertently selling fake Superboy souvenirs. The Merman of Metropolis; a mermaid gives Jimmy a ring that makes him able to breathe underwater. Scripts by Otto Binder, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Ray Burnley. Careers in Nursing public service announcement starring Buzzy, script by Jack Schiff, art by Ruben Moreira. Hy Wire humor page by Henry Boltinoff. Home of the Cowboy text story. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Gossip magazine with sensationalistic stories. Heavily illustrated with photographs. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 64 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Western comics featuring Native hero Swift Arrow, masked lawman The Lone Rider, and grizzled prospector the Hermit. A warrior's simple gesture of kindness results in a boon to his people, in the legend of Golden Arrow. Wild West gunfighter and outlaw Billy the Kid dies at age 21, but not before becoming a legend. A native legend reveals that once horses could talk, and why they stopped. Legend of the Winged Weapon!; The Fate of Billy the Kid!; The Wolf Slayer!; A Tribal Tale; The Trail of No Return. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Long Running vintage men's interest digest magazine that features articles, war stories, short fiction, true crime, and black and white pin-up photography. 5" x 7.5", 130 pages, B&W. -MATURE READERS-

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"Aftermath!" (art by Jay Scott Pike), "The Thief," "The Little Guy!" (art by Bob Forgione), "The Strong and the Savage," "Stranger in the House!" (art by Joe Orlando), and a two-page text story, "Glowing Flowers." John Severin cover. Cover price $0.10.

Cover price is 10 cents. Gordon Scott photo cover. "Tarzan and the Thunder of Hoofs," script by Gaylord Du Bois, art by Jesse Marsh; Tarzan and Buto visit with the lost Vikings; They help lift a siege of the Viking's castle and then negotiate a peace between the Vikings and their enemies. "Help for Kaino" text story starring Mabu. "Tarzan and the Secret Playground," script by Gaylord Du Bois, art by Jesse Marsh; Boy and Dombie take a joyride in a glider and must be rescued by Tarzan from an angry elephant herd. Untitled Brothers of the Spear story, script by Gaylord Du Bois, art by Russ Manning; Returning to Aba-Zulu to raise an army for the relief of Tungelu, the brothers encounter Umbopo, the new leader of the witch men. The Nandi Bear illustration by Jesse Marsh. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover price is 15 cents. Gordon Scott photo cover. "Tarzan and the Thunder of Hoofs," script by Gaylord Du Bois, art by Jesse Marsh; Tarzan and Buto visit with the lost Vikings; They help lift a siege of the Viking's castle and then negotiate a peace between the Vikings and their enemies. "Help for Kaino" text story starring Mabu. "Tarzan and the Secret Playground," script by Gaylord Du Bois, art by Jesse Marsh; Boy and Dombie take a joyride in a glider and must be rescued by Tarzan from an angry elephant herd. Untitled Brothers of the Spear story, script by Gaylord Du Bois, art by Russ Manning; Returning to Aba-Zulu to raise an army for the relief of Tungelu, the brothers encounter Umbopo, the new leader of the witch men. The Nandi Bear illustration by Jesse Marsh. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.15.

Weekly U.K. comic featuring Edgar Rice Burroughs' famous hero. Tarzan by Rubimar, reprinting daily comic strips. 28 pages, B&W.

Weekly U.K. comic featuring Edgar Rice Burroughs' famous hero. Reprinting daily comic strips. 28 pages, B&W.

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Weekly U.K. comic featuring Edgar Rice Burroughs' famous hero. Tarzan by Ruben Moriera, reprinting daily comic strips. 28 pages, B&W.

Weekly U.K. comic featuring Edgar Rice Burroughs' famous hero. Tarzan by Rubimore, Color Cover, reprinting daily comic strips. 28 pages, B&W.

Volume 8, Issue 7 - April 2nd 1957. Celebrity gossip magazine. The issue features Peggy Connelly on the cover, and articles on Jazz Musicians, a Judo Master Police Officer, and Temp delves into a Girl's Gang! 4-in. x 6-in., 64 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.