Comic books December 1972

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"The Conjurors' Magazine." Vol. 36 # 12. Magic articles, demonstrations, and news. Approx. 8-in. x 11-in.; black and white; 48 pages on white paper stock. Christian From Vienna photo cover. Cover price $1.00.

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Rescuing a princess leads Geronimo Jones into all sorts of twists and turns in "When East Meets West." Story and art credits: Unknown. Issue also has "The Charisma Kid" and one-page "The Cowboy Sings!" text feature. Cover price $0.20.

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Cover by Joe Staton. Stories and art by Steve Ditko, Joe Staton, Nicola Cuti, Jack Abel, Sanho Kim and Wayne Howard. A horror anthology from Charlton, with a stable of artists that included Steve Ditko. Henri and Jean have found a fortune in mineral wealth in the caverns beneath Europe. But their partnership is threatened by their competition for Inger's affections and by the strange creatures stalking them through the dark, in a story with art by Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko. Shut-in Jabez cannot see the doors to leave his sprawling house, in a story by E-Man co-creators Nicola Cuti and Joe Staton. In another Cuti story, a sculptor is assigned to create a head for Mr. Blanque, who has no face, and it just gets weirder from there. Till We Meet Again; Mr. Blanque; No Way Out; The Ghosts From Outer Space. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.20.

Cover by Tom Sutton. Stories and art by Steve Ditko, Tom Sutton, Nicola Cuti, and Sanho Kim. A horror anthology from Charlton that often featured work by Steve Ditko and other comics luminaries. A horror story involving a ventriloquist's dummy, with art by Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko. Need I say more? A man seeks advice from a crooked fortune teller, in a story with early art (and cover) by future horror legend Tom Sutton. An American soldier is attacked by ghostly kamikaze pilots in 1972. Plus one-panel gags by E-Man co-creator Nicola Cuti. Don't Talk Back; The Last Kamikaze; The Living Past; The Weirdlings; Crystal Clear. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.20.

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September 1972. Volume 2, Number 4, Whole Number 8 (last issue under this title, becomes Wonderworld The World of the Graphic Story). Graphic Story World is a newsletter edited by Richard Kyle covering the entire spectrum of graphic arts: Underground Comix, Comic Books, Animated Films, Books, & more. This issue: "Penn & Chris" by Dan Spiegle (5 page comic strip), "Krazy Moose" starring Myron Moose by Bob Foster (1 page comic strip), Interview with Jim Steranko, and lots more. September 1972. 8 1/2" x 11"; black and white; 32 pages. Cover price $0.60.

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Cover by Steve Ditko. Stories and art by Joe Gill, Sanho Kim, Pat Boyette, and Wayne Howard. Charlton's long-running horror series eventually became the home of horror host Baron Weirwulf. The mysterious Shutan offers to help a rebel overthrow a tyrant by peaceful means... if he will pay his price. A wealthy, Scrooge-like man is haunted by the images of those he left behind. Satanist bikers capture a cop. Brother Satan Rides Tonight; Voice of the Victim; Here Comes Shutan. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.20.

Long running fanzine/newsletter for Old Time Radio fans. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 10 pages, black and white.

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Published in 96 weekly parts. Saddle-Stitched, 28 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $0.95.

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Published in 96 weekly parts. Saddle-Stitched, 28 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $0.95.

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Published in 96 weekly parts. Saddle-Stitched, 28 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $0.95.

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Published in 96 weekly parts. Saddle-Stitched, 28 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $0.95.

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Published in 96 weekly parts. Saddle-Stitched, 28 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $0.95.

Cover by Bill Alexander. Stories and art by Cirilo Munoz, Domingo Mandrafina, Ezra Jackson, Oscar Stepancich and Torre Repiso. Legendary publisher Myron Fass presents another Eerie series, featuring tales of horror and the macabre. A vampire bat in a theater's wings is actually a vampire. Explorers seeking the elephant's graveyard are haunted by a ghost. A man inherits a cursed castle and ignores all the warnings. Featuring altered reprints from Witches Tales and other 1950s pre-Code comics. The Devil's Witch; The Corpse That Lives; The Thing in the Ring; This Tomb Is Ours; Vampire; Weird Safari; Torture Castle; The Old Hag's Claws of Horror. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 48 pages, B&W. Mature readers. Cover price $0.60.

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Cover art by Bernie Wrightson. "For Money...For Love!", script by Steve Skeates, art by Alfredo Alcala; Mr. Lawson will not let his daughter marry John because he is poor; John becomes a grave robber to earn enough money for the marriage. Cain's Game Room cartoon half-page, script and art by Bill Riley. "Maniacs," script by Steve Skeates, art by Ruben Yandoc; A werewolf is hunted by a local sheriff. "Tomorrow, I Hang!", script by E. Nelson Bridwell, art by Jim Aparo; Mario is sentenced to death by hanging but he is looking forward to it as it will complete his transformation into a vampire; Unfortunately for him, the method of execution is changed at the last moment. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.20.

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Cover art by Bernie Wrightson. "Waiting... Waiting... Waiting...", script by Sheldon Mayer, art by Rico Rival; A gambler who gets involved with a scientific project to recreate Earth history in simulation hopes to view the winner of the next atomic war, but the lab is destroyed before he can learn of the victor. "No Bed of Roses," script by John Albano, art by Jack Sparling; A man frames another man so that he can marry his wife when he is sent to prison; In prison, the convicted man hangs himself and leaves a note that he hopes to reincarnate in order to seek revenge and get his wife back; He reincarnates into a gorilla and escapes the zoo to tear apart the man who married his wife. "The Village on the Edge of Forever," script by Steve Skeates, art by Alex Niño; After the radiation of a future war has destroyed humanity, a sole survivor builds lifelike robots for company; One of the machines, believing itself to be human, seeks out other humans and finds a girl under attack by mutants; He tries to save her and during the fight his arm is damaged and he realizes that he is a robot. Cain & Abel cartoon page by Sergio Aragonés. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.20.

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Dec 1972. Volume 21, No. 8 (Whole No. 163). Cover by Brian Boyle. Science fiction stories by Robert L. Davis, Piers Anthony, Colin Kapp's "The Wizard of Anharitte - Part 1", Robert F. Young, David Magil, David Lewis, Larry Eisenberg, and Doris Piserchia. 5.25-in. x 7.5-in.; black and white; 176 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.75.

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Cover art by Herb Trimpe. Frenzy On a Far-Away World!, script by Roy Thomas and Steve Gerber, pencils by Herb Trimpe, inks by Sal Trapani; While Hulk takes a trip to Counter-Earth where he battles the Rhino, gets involved in a New Men civil war and meets his counter alter ego (Bruce, his wife Betty and their son Bobby), back on his own Earth, Betty Ross and Glenn Talbot are busy getting married. 36 pgs. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

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1st printing. "Radical Rock!" - Story and art by Guy Colwell. A classic underground look at social situations, prison life, and drug use. 44 pages, B&W. MATURE READERS. Cover price $0.50.

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1st Printing.Winter issue. Early horror underground comic, in the vein of EC Comics, going after the reader's natural fears of creepy crawlers. More chilling tales of humankind's battle with the superior insect world. Front Cover by Spain Rodriguez. Back cover by Joe Schenkman. Contributors to this issue, Spain Rodriguez, Jim Osborne, Clay Wilson, Justin Green, Rory Hayes, Kim Deitch, Roger Brand, Charles Dallas, Larry S. Todd, Jack Jackson, & Joe Schenkman; slick cover; b&w; 36 pages; mature; 6 3/4-in. x 10-in.

One of many vintage supermarket tabloid magazines full of high profile FBI and CIA cases of the era, accompanied by black and white photographs and testimonials from those involved in, and close to the events themselves. 8.5" x 10.5", 58 pages, B&W, recommended for 16+. Cover price $0.50.

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Part Jim Starlin art. "The Black Lama!" Story by Mike Friedrich. Art by George Tuska, Jim Starlin, and Vince Colletta. Cover by Gil Kane. The golden avenger has two missions in this issue: first, prevent a lava flow from destroying a Southern California town, and then second, stop Raga, the Son of Fire, from killing two local civilians. Can Iron Man successfully achieve both objectives? And where does the mysterious Black Lama fit into the story? First appearance of the Black Lama. (Note: The Black Lama returns in Iron Man 71 to set up the War of the Super-Villains.) 32 pages Cover price $0.20.

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UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 6p cover price. Part Jim Starlin art. "The Black Lama!" Story by Mike Friedrich. Art by George Tuska, Jim Starlin, and Vince Colletta. Cover by Gil Kane. The golden avenger has two missions in this issue: first, prevent a lava flow from destroying a Southern California town, and then second, stop Raga, the Son of Fire, from killing two local civilians. Can Iron Man successfully achieve both objectives? And where does the mysterious Black Lama fit into the story? First appearance of the Black Lama. (Note: The Black Lama returns in Iron Man 71 to set up the War of the Super-Villains.) 32 pages

December/January 1972. Magazine for children, text stories and illustrations. "Let's Visit an Ice Cave" by Larry Grant, "Song of the Forest" by Mary Peacock, "My Father Makes Christmas Decorations" by Becky Richter and "Christmas at the Zoo" by Frances Watts. 64 pages PC/B&W. Cover price $0.50.

Vintage men's interest magazine heavily focused on articles, short fiction stories, adult humor comics, and nude pin-up photography .8" x 10.5", 72 pages, mostly B&W with some color pages. -MATURE READERS-

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Cover pencils by Stan Goldberg, inks by Jon D'Agostino. "Obedience Training," script by Frank Doyle, pencils by Dan DeCarlo, inks by Rudy Lapick; Josie is annoyed Alan M. takes everything literally and does things exactly as she tells him. "Teach In The Eyes Have It", pencils by Dan DeCarlo, inks by Rudy Lapick; The Pussycats discuss optical illusions. "Love at First Sight," script by Dick Malmgren, pencils by Dan DeCarlo, inks by Rudy Lapick; A guy with dollar signs in his eyes falls for Alexandra. "Insurance Policy," script by Frank Doyle, pencils by Dan DeCarlo, inks by Rudy Lapick; Valerie borrows a dog to get a date. "Spring is Busting Out All Over!" one-page story starring Li'l Jinx, script and art by Joe Edwards. "Follow the Leader," script by Frank Doyle, pencils by Dan DeCarlo, inks by Rudy Lapick; Alexandra and the Pussycats try to outrun and outsmart Alexandra's body guard. "The Missionary," script by Frank Doyle, pencils by Dan DeCarlo, inks by Rudy Lapick; Alexandra complains about the problems of the rich vs. poor; Melody says she will be a missionary for the poor, underprivileged millionaires. "Kissin' Cousins," pencils by Dan DeCarlo, inks by Rudy Lapick; Melody's cousin kisses her on the mouth. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.25.

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Cover by Gil Kane and Tom Palmer. Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper!, script by Robert Bloch (original story) and Ron Goulart (adaptation), art by Gil Kane and Ralph Reese; The notorious murderer Jack the Ripper has survived into the present day, remaining young due to the human sacrifices he regularly performs. More Than Blood!, script by George Alec Effinger, art by Billy Graham; The best student athletes of Westfield Heights High School are struck down one by one by an unknown illness. The Girl Who Couldn't Die, art by Mort Lawrence; A scientist attempts to reanimate his dead lover. After years of failed attempts he succeeds, but she kills herself at the sight of his decades-old body. 36 pgs., full color. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.

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Cover pencils by Dan DeCarlo, inks by Rudy Lapick. "I Gotta Be Me," script by Dick Malmgren, art by Samm Schwartz; Jughead turns over a new leaf and becomes a handsome playboy who steals everyone's girlfriends. "Stroke of Genius," script by Frank Doyle, art by Samm Schwartz; Jughead drives everyone at school up the wall with his genius-like ability to remember everything he's taught with no apparent effort. "All Heart," script by Frank Doyle, art by Samm Schwartz; After putting Hot Dog out in the cold, Jughead has a dream that their situations are reversed. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.20.

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Cover art by Gil Kane. All reprints. "Jungle Uprising," script by Don Rico, art by Werner Roth (from Lorna, the Jungle Queen 1, July 1953); Putnam killed to find the map of a cave of diamonds in Ukakiland and goes in the cave in spite of all warnings. "The River of No Return, script by Rico, art by Joe Maneely (from "Red Poison" in Jungle Action 2, December 1954); Lo-Zar investigates the poisoning of a local river and who may be behind it. "Survival of the Mighty," script and art by Paul Hodge (from Jungle Action 1, October 1954); The gorilla Man-Oo protects the fawn Wabbi from the lion Numa and in his turn Tando the antelope saves Man-Oo from a snake. "The Day of Jungle Wrath, script by Rico, art by Jay Scott Pike (from Jann of the Jungle 14, December 1956); Jann faces a drought and locusts. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.20.

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Cover by Jeannette Elier. Stories and art by Art Cappello, Jeannette Elier, Don Sherwood, Charles Nicholas, Vince Alascia, and Norman Nodel. Charlton's long-running romance comic focused on the stormy passions of newlyweds. Steve is happy to marry Martha and ready to settle down, but Martha is more concerned about "making the scene." Redheaded Cara refuses to pick up around the house or do other "wifely" duties, until Robert dunks her under cold water, a scene that was sort of a trend in 1970s issues of Just Married comics. Plus a pinup of 1970s stars Susan Dey & David Cassidy. Voice of a Departed Love; Thanks, I Needed That; Making the Scene. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.20.

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Cover art by Nick Cardy. A Stranger Walks among Us!, script by Len Wein, pencils by Dick Dillin, inks by Dick Giordano; Phantom Stranger invited to join the Justice League; story takes place in Rutland Vt. NOTE: This story is part of a trilogy revolving around Rutland, Vermont's Halloween parade hosting by Tom Fagan. Two stories were printed by Marvel Comics during this time which also are located in Rutland, Vermont. They are Thor #207 and Amazing Adventures #16. Further a number of the parade goers are dressed up in costumes of super-heroes that were not part of DC Comics Earth-One continuity. Aside from the Earth-Two (JSA) and Earth-S (Shazam) costumes, there were reasonable facsimile of popular Marvel Comics characters. They included: "Commando America", based on Captain America, "Thunder God" based on Marvel's Thor, An unnamed arachnid character resembling Spider-Man. 36 pgs. $0.20.

NOTE: "In 1973, writers Steve Englehart, Gerry Conway, and Len Wein, unbeknownst to management, concocted a secret crossover event between Marvel and DC that saw characters from both companies crisscrossing through and interweaving in a connected story known as The Rutland Halloween Crossover. See Amazing Adventures (1970-1976 2nd Series) 16, Justice League of America (1960-1987 1st Series) #103, and Thor (1962-1996 1st Series Journey Into Mystery) #207." - Odinson, mycomicshop Archivist

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Cover by Joe Kubert. "The Search," script by Joe Kubert, art by Frank Thorne; Korak rescues a girl from a slave camp; The next morning as he hunts for food, the pirates kidnap the girl and gives her over to the Lizard-Men; Korak begins searching for the girl. "Gathering Tarel," script by Len Wein, art by Mike Kaluta; While jogging, Carson comes upon thieves and battles them; When Venusian warriors enter the scene, Carson retreats; Carson hunts for "Tarel" in the lush Venusian forest with Duran's son, Kamlotad; Adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Pirates of Venus. 36 pgs., full color. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.