Comic books October 1956

"Feather Your Zest," script by Frank Doyle, art by Harry Lucey; Jughead tries to help a baby bird he finds on the school grounds by smuggling it into class. "The Big Push"; Jughead thinks Moose is scared of him. Courtin' Trouble; Archie tricks Moose into vacating the tennis court and tricks the gang into believing that he stood up to Moose. "Dates and Nuts," script by Frank Doyle, art by Bill Vigoda; Jughead's explanation of Veronica's dating strategy to Betty, and later to Archie and Reggie, causes a series of problems that ultimately land on Jughead's doorstep. "Sundaes Used to be Called Sundays" trivia article. "Dressed To Spill," script by Frank Doyle, pencils by Harry Lucey, inks by Terry Szenics; Jughead gets fifty dollars from an aunt to buy himself new clothes; Veronica and Archie immediately volunteer to show him what to buy, whether he likes it or not. "Ice Cream for You"; Jughead is offered $10,000 for his recipe for his signature ice cream sundae by a local ice cream manufacturer. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

"The Wolf Pack," "The Raiders," "Showdown in Smoke Mesa," and an untitled story (art on all by Jack Keller). Back-up story, "The Promise!" (script by Stan Lee, art by Reed Crandall). Joe Maneely cover. Cover price $0.10.

9.25" x 12.25", B&W with some color.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $15.00 View scan Cover detached at one staple.

"Up-Set"; Reggie pulls away the ladder from Archie and Jughead while they're fixing the TV antenna for Veronica. "Nothing to Sneeze At"; Mr. Lodge's prize flower causes Archie to sneeze. "Struck Out"; Veronica sets Reggie up on a blind date. "A Few Arrangements"; Laurie seems like she's getting ready to host a party but is just getting ready for Wilbur to come over and help her study. Katy Keene Star Fashions (two pages of art). "The Horrible Truth"; Archie and Reggie criticize Betty and Veronica for exaggerating. "Tasty Examination"; Pat the Brat plays doctor. "Service with a Smile"; Pat the Brat eats all of the ice cream sundaes. Archie Club News. "In a Lather," script by Joe Edwards, pencils by Joe Edwards; Hap carves up soap for a contest and Jinx uses it to wash her hands. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Classic weekly news/photo magazine. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 186 pages. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart Good $6.40

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $5.10 2" spine split. Water damage.

Cover by Frank Johnson. Stories and art by Frank Johnson and others. Ollie Orwell is as much trouble as his better-known counterpart, Dennis the Menace. Ollie tries to make sense of his friend's new baby sister. Ollie gets a visit from his cousin Li'l Tomboy, who is exactly as much trouble as him, but in girl form. Ollie is a terror while visiting his mother's friend Mrs. Brown. Plus a note from Alfred Fago, the Executive Editor of Charlton, attesting to the "good taste" and so forth of Code-approved comics. New Baby; On Wings of Song; Wicky Burke: Wicky Sees Stars; Li'l Genius and Li'l Tomboy; Li'l Buck. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG 4.0 $9.00 Water damage.

Cover by Frank Johnson. Stories and art by Frank Johnson and others. Numbering continues from Fawcett's Funny Animals (1942-1956 Fawcett/Charlton) #91. Li'l Tomboy is exactly as much trouble as her cousin Lil Genius, but in girl form. LT's dad and his neighbor compare raising a boy with raising a Lil Tomboy. A bully thinks he can lick any kid in the neighborhood… and then he meets Lil Tomboy. Li'l Tomboy goes out for ballet, and wrecks the whole school. Sleep Walker; We Love Her Just As She Is; Girls Will Be Girls; Tubby Makes a Catch; Patsy The Porcupine and the Funny Animals; The Ballet Lesson; A Girl on the Team; The Dress. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG 4.0 $8.40

Clubhouse Blues; Some of the clubhouse is on a piece of land that Mr. Moppet has just bought. Attacking the Attic; Lulu tries to trick the Fellers into cleaning her attic. The Flying Carpet; The Fellers think Lulu and Annie have a flying carpet. Little Itch's Jolly Games; Lulu tells Alvin about when Itch makes the poor little girl play three games. Fiddles Away; Tubby shows Professor Cleff that he can earn money playing his violin. One-page text story, Lulus Diry ("Diary"). 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Warren Kremer. Stories and art by Vic Herman and others. Joe Palooka's speechless sidekick from the popular Ham Fisher boxing strip gets his own comic, noteworthy for early versions of Little Dot and other Harvey characters. Max dreams himself into the fairy tale of the Three Little Pigs. Plus solo stories featuring Joe Palooka and Humphrey. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Don Spaulding. The Lone Ranger Unmasked, script by Paul S. Newman, art by Tom Gill; The Lone Ranger infiltrates the gang of "Rembrandt" Smith, a bad man with a knack for drawing. The Ghost Town Sheriff, script by Paul S. Newman, art by Tom Gill; The Lone Ranger and Tonto trail stage robbers to a ghost town named Mile High that is still guarded by its last sheriff. Spirit Bear, script by Gaylord Du Bois, art by Jon Small; After arriving in the Onondaga village, Young Hawk helps their Mohawk allies build a dugout sailing canoe to fight the Mohicans. Based on the popular Western TV series. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $8.00

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $4.80

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $4.80

Cover art by Don Spaulding. Article with one black and white illustration about the construction and use of an Indian dugout canoe by Red Thundercloud. Flood Water, script by Paul Newman, art by Alberto Giolitti; Tonto helps a doctor cross a raging river during a storm to treat settlers suspected of having contracted typhoid. The Hero Worshipper, script by Paul Newman, art by Alberto Giolitti; Fourteen-year-old Tonto is followed about by a hero worshipping boy called Thunder Cloud; Crow youths attempt to steal horses from Stone Bear's camp. The Valley That Shook, script by Paul Newman, art by Alberto Giolitti; The herd enters an unknown valley and is threatened by an earthquake; The Painted Pony and the Mustang Leader guide the herd to safety. The Fabulous Hunter, script by Paul Newman, art by Alberto Giolitti; Tonto and Scout rescue an English aristocrat from outlaws holding him in the badlands for ransom. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

"The Burning Cliffs," "The High Trail," and "The Yellow Mule." Midnight untitled back-up story. One-page text story, "Wild Freedom." 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Fine $10.50

Add to cart PR 0.5 $2.50 INCOMPLETE. Piece missing from interior and back cover, interrupts art or story. Cover detached at one staple.

Cover art by Ralph Heimdahl. Untitled story, script by Carl Fallberg, pencils by Tony Strobl, inks by Steve Steere; Bugs tries to get a free ride on a passenger train on which Elmer is the conductor. Untitled story, art by Phil de Lara; Porky is accidently locked out of his house during a night time thunderstorm; He meets Hedgerow Huppy, who is testing an invisible umbrella. Untitled story, script by Carl Fallberg, art by Phil de Lara; Daffy gets a job as a traveling hat salesman for Elmer's Used Hat Shop; He tries to sell a hat to the chief of the Schmohawk Indians. In the Pink text story, pencils by Tony Strobl, inks by John Liggera. Untitled story, script by Carl Fallberg, pencils by Al Hubbard; Jack Frost is trying to paint a portrait of Old King WInter, without much success. Untitled Tweety and Sylvester story, art by Tony Strobl. Untitled story; Tuffy Cat steals a chicken that Sylvester was supposed to deliver to Yosemite Sam. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

"Whom Shall I Marry," "Just an Old Maid," "Too Young to Make Plans," and "My Spendthrift Sweetheart." Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Fine $17.25 View scans Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart Fine $9.00

Add to cart Very Good $5.70

Volume 11, Issue 4 - October 1956. Cover by Mel Hunter. "The Door Into Summer" 1/3 by Robert A. Heinlein, plus more fantasy and science fiction stories by Ron Smith, Charles Beaumont, Zenna Hendeson, John Christopher Robert Bloch, and Jay Williams. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 7 1/2-in., 128 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $90.00 View scans Missing bottom staple (not manufacturing).

The Magic Bean The Story of Coffee (October 25,1956, Taldor Pub./National Coffee Association) was distributed at Thanksgiving by the National Coffee Association. An interesting promotional comic telling the history of coffee. Standard 7x10 comic size, 16-pages, full color, newsprint cover and interior.

Volume 5, Issue 4 - October 1956. Men's interest magazine focusing on celebrity gossip and pin-up models. 4-in. x 6-in., 64 pages, B&W Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart Fine $16.00 View scans

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Volume 7, Issue 3 - October, 1956. 8" x 10.5", 70 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Volume 2, Issue 2 - October 1956. Men's adventure stories with some model photo galleries. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 84 pages, B&W - Mature Readers. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart FN+ 6.5 $69.00 View scans Staple rust: Extensive.

Men's interest magazine focusing on adventure, hunting, and true crime articles, war stories and photos. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in. 84 pages. B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Volume 1, Issue 1 - October 1956. Men's interest magazine featuring Pin-up Girl Pictorials, and adventures stories. This issue with a four-page Bettie Page pictorial. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 66 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

Add to cart Very Good $72.00 View scans Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 5%. Staple rust: Slight.

Digest-sized, 5.5" x 7.5", 144 pages, B&W Cover price $0.35.

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Cover art by Bill Everett. Barely Human, art by Joe Orlando. Secret Weapon!, art by Paul Reinman; A scientist invents a mind control device to thwart an alien invasion and get the aliens to do some urban renewal projects to boot. A Phantom In the Sky!, art by Jay Scott Pike; A Nazi pilot crosses a dimensional barrier into another world pursuing a dirigible with the intent to capture it. Who Walks In the Ruins; A stamp collector attempts to steal the Midas stamp, which brings its owner great wealth. The Exchange text story. It's Alive, art by Bill Everett; Space explorers discover an Ego the Living Planet-type world. The Parasite!; Aliens intercede with the economic functioning of Earth when they show concern over a wealthy industrialist wishing a monopoly on space flight. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $2.50 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

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Cover by Ken Fagg. Article titles include "We A-Bombed Atlanta", "Shrimp Boat with Muscles" and "Wheelchair Car" plus the home improvement section and other regular departments like automotive, inventions, boating and photography. 6 1/2-in. x 9-in., 196 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Volume 32, Issue 2 - October 1956. Men's interest magazine focusing on crime, hunting, and war stories, and with pin-up pictorials. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 82 pages, B&W Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart Very Good $7.20

Published from 1950-1959, this Belgian publication reprinted various Disney comics and strips in a magazine-sized format with half the pages in color and half in black and white on newsprint pages. Each issue had 20 pages. In addition to comic stories, issues featured puzzles, editorials, and letters columns. The stories, including ones by Carl Barks, were serialized and often printed one page per issue, but each issue ended with one complete story. As a result, many stories were resized to five or six lines per page.

Add to cart Very Good $7.20

Published from 1950-1959, this Belgian publication reprinted various Disney comics and strips in a magazine-sized format with half the pages in color and half in black and white on newsprint pages. Each issue had 20 pages. In addition to comic stories, issues featured puzzles, editorials, and letters columns. The stories, including ones by Carl Barks, were serialized and often printed one page per issue, but each issue ended with one complete story. As a result, many stories were resized to five or six lines per page.

Add to cart Very Good $7.20

Published from 1950-1959, this Belgian publication reprinted various Disney comics and strips in a magazine-sized format with half the pages in color and half in black and white on newsprint pages. Each issue had 20 pages. In addition to comic stories, issues featured puzzles, editorials, and letters columns. The stories, including ones by Carl Barks, were serialized and often printed one page per issue, but each issue ended with one complete story. As a result, many stories were resized to five or six lines per page.

Add to cart Very Good $7.20

Published from 1950-1959, this Belgian publication reprinted various Disney comics and strips in a magazine-sized format with half the pages in color and half in black and white on newsprint pages. Each issue had 20 pages. In addition to comic stories, issues featured puzzles, editorials, and letters columns. The stories, including ones by Carl Barks, were serialized and often printed one page per issue, but each issue ended with one complete story. As a result, many stories were resized to five or six lines per page.