Comic books October 1948

"A Hiking We Will Go"; Babs insists on going on a hike with Ozzie and the boys. "The Dough Boy"; Mr. Forester teaches Algernon the value of money by having him earn it, which proves to be a very costly lesson. "Ups and Downs!"; Meathead and friends discuss seeing a movie. "That's Gratitude"; Dippy's new jacket has a loose seam and Ozzie makes it worse. "Oo! La! La!"; Babs and Glitter are once again at each other, this time over the new French teacher. Two Comix Cards of Tom Mix, Hopalong Cassidy and Monte Hale from Real Western Hero to cut out and paste on cardboard. "The Tricky Gift"; Ace plays a practical joke on Freshman Freddy. "Hot Prescription" text story by R. R. Symes. "In My Flying Machine"; Ozzie and Dip fix up a crashed helicopter, then proceed to crash into Mr. Forester's prized garden. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $395.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: Tan to off white Only graded copy. Label #1488634013 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Cover by Al Camy. Stories and art by Al Camy, Bob Butts, Louis Dresser, and Bob Jenney. Like many of DS Publishing's crime comics, Pay-Off transformed slowly from violent pre-Code gangster stories to milder mysteries featuring heroic detectives. Reporter Margo Mason investigates "The Mystic Eye" when a wealthy jeweler is targeted by a fortune-teller because of his well-known superstitions. After a disfiguring accident ruins her career, a fashion model gone mad targets other models for murder. Joe and his partner go on a robbery-murder spree, but one thing sets Joe apart from smarter crooks: he keeps a diary. The Mystic Eye; Case Of the Missing Bullets; Killer Dillers; Carbon Copy Death; Double Identity; The Tell-Tale Nails; The Hat Box Murders; The Pennsylvania Bluebeard. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

October 1948. Digest-sized humor magazine, one cartoon per page. 5.5" x 7.5". Black and white. Mature. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $1,699.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Label #4111999014 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Add to cart CGC 2.0 $1,065.00 View scans Restored: B1 Paper: Off white to white Restoration Includes: Tear Seals to Interior, Piece Re-attached to Cover. Label #4387061002 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Cover art by Matt Baker. Bullets For Ballots! starring Phantom Lady, art by Matt Baker. Ace of Spades! starring Phantom Lady, art by Matt Baker. Booked for Murder! text story. Willy Vogel, the Gray Phantom—A True Crime Story. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Jack Cole. The King of Crime starring Plastic Man, art by Jack Cole. Honeybun story, script and art by Paul Gustavson. Candy story, script and art by Harry Sahle. Spirit story, script by Bill Woolfolk, art by Lou Fine. The Secret Dungeon text story starring Plastic Man. Strangling Hand starring Manhunter. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $8.50 View scan

Stories and art by Vic Herman, Naunerle C. Farr, Leonard Suib, Pat Cherr, Carl Henry Rathjen, Kay Wambold, Patti Cooke, Elise Gibbs, and Marie Cummings. A magazine for girls from the producers of Parents' Magazine, with stories, fashion and advice as well as comics. A profile of child film star Peter Miles, brother of the better-known actress Gigi Perreau; Tizzie and her friends explore the haunted house at the edge of town on Halloween; The Pigtail Club gets a guide dog for their teacher's blind husband. The Pigtail Club; Sugar and Spice; The Ghost Who Couldn't Haunt; Leading Man; Jim-Jam; Tizzie Meets a Ghost; Going Places; A Wish for Katrina; Polly Comes to Life; Ghost, Goblin or Witch?; Fancy Figuring; Scene About Town; Inside Outside; Piggy Bank Buys; Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?; Pigtailers Talk Things Over; Needle Play; Club News; Polly in the Kitchen. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.15.

Cover art by Bud Sagendorf. Scripts and art by Bud Sagendorf. A Chart Showing the Travels of Popeye the Sailor in the Story of "Ghost Island"! Ghost Island!; Popeye travels to Ghost Island to rescue Swee'Pea. "Smash!" or "You Can Tell She's My Girl, Because She's Wearing Two Black Eyes!!"; Popeye wanders around town hitting everybody he comes across. "Okay, here's a nickel. Go git an iced cream cone"; Popeye gives Swee'Pea money for an ice cream cone. "Ahoy, Swee'Pea, the postman jus' brang ya a package"; Swee'Pea doesn't want to play with his new doll. Based on the classic cartoon and comic strip character. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $120.00 View scans Paper: White Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $17.00 View scans

October 1948. Mechanical science and technology magazine. Featured articles in this issue include The Atomic Pile, How To Watch a Football Game, More Food From Light and lots more. 6 3/4-in. x 9 1/2-in. 340 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart Good $8.00 View scans Paper: Off white Spine split from top of comic. Heavy Foxing. Soiling. Water damage.

Volume 19, Issue 1 - October, 1948. 6.75" x 9", 116 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart GD 2.0 $9.00

The Wolf and the Seven Goslings, Raggedy Ann, None-Such Animals # 22: The Bliff, Egbert Elephant (art by Dan Noonan), The Brownies' Submarine Adventure (art by Walt Kelly, 9 pages), A Play For Halloween, and Billy and Bonny Bee, plus Animal Mother Goose by Kelly (2 pages). 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $20.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $17.00 View scans Paper: Cream Front cover detached 15%. Back cover detached 30%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Moderate.

Volume 147, Issue 4 - September 17, 1948. 6.75" x 9.75", 114 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $17.00 View scans Paper: Cream Front cover detached 15%. Back cover detached 30%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Moderate.

Volume 148, Issue 1 - October 1, 1948. 6.75" x 9.75", 114 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart Very Good $28.00 View scans Paper: Off white Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Volume 42, Issue 1 - October, 1948. 6.75" x 9", 98 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart VG 4.0 $66.00 View scans 1/2" Spine split from bottom.

Add to cart VG 4.0 $47.45 or Best Offer View scans Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover by Bob Lubbers. Edited by Jack Byrne. Stories and art by Bob Lubbers, Enrico Bagnoli, Ruben Moreira, and George Evans. Tales of adventure from pioneering comics publisher Fiction House. Outlaws target Firehair's tribe while seeking the treasure of San Sebastian; Jan of the Jungle tries to protect a baby albino elephant from hunters; Glory Forbes sets out to find who killed her uncle, a private eye. Action-packed Firehair cover by Bob Lubbers. Firehair; Jan of the Jungle; Sky Rangers; Danger Trail; I Confess; Glory Forbes; Tiger Man. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Dan Zolnerowich cover (signed as "Zolne"). "Policeman's Pledge," "Little Adam and the Duchess" (art by Mort Lawrence), "The Ghouls" (by Williams and John Belfi, we're not sure which Williams this is), "The Little Guillotines," "Louie's Dream Cottage" (also by Williams and Belfi), and "The Little Gunman's Debt" (art by Alfonso (?) Greene and Belfi). Two page text story, "There's Many a Slip." Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Bill Woolfolk and Al Liederman. Fawcett's tales of Western heroes from folklore and the movies. Sometimes the opening caption says it best: "Many are the fabled outlaws...but none was so cunning and elusive as the ruthless desert bandit Gopher Graham!" Monte Hale investigates a series of killings by "Billy the Hangman," and learns it's a vendetta against the perpetrators of a long-ago murder. Gabby Hayes winds up trapped between outlaw Grizzly Gus and an actual grizzly, but luckily, he has cookies containing horse tranquilizers. Plus a profusion of vintage comics-format ads, including a hair-cream ad featuring detective Sam Spade, and a Tootsie Roll ad, Captain Tootsie Traps Killer Bear with Invisible Light, by Shazam co-creator CC Beck and Pete Costanza. Hopalong Cassidy: Gopher Hole; Chief Gray Matter; Saddlehead; Young Falcon: Clawing Death; Li'l Buck; Monte Hale: The Hangman's Scroll; Muscle Hedd; Loco Lew; Red Roan: Cougar Challenge; Cowboy Cal; Gabby Hayes and the Kayo Cookies; Tom Mix: Bullets Can't Spell! 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $9.00

Red Ryder, Telecomics presents King of the Royal Mounted, the Kiyotee Kids, and Panamint Patty. Two-page text story, "Little Beaver's Slamp-um Party." 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

True stories of crime most foul fall victim to the pages of this short-lived vintage true crime magazine. Here, you will find tales of greed, jealousy, revenge, thievery, and murder....all true, all told in the words of the detectives who worked the cases. 8.5" x 11", 50 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $13.00 View scans

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $10.00 View scans Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.

Vol. 27 #12 - Jan. 1949. Boxing magazine. Features articles, departments, ratings, fight reports around the world and more. 8 1/4-in. x 11 1/4-in., 66 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Cover by Ernie Schroeder. Stories and art by Ernie Schroeder, Edmond Good, W. B. Smith, Leo Morey, Lawrence Dresser, and John Rosenberger. Lawmen battle outlaws to tame the Wild West in horse-opera tales from DS Publishing. Beautiful redheaded cowgirl Red is out to prove her brother Luke innocent of cattle rustling, in an early action-girl story. The tragic true story of the Osage Indian Murders. The horrifying true story of the Texas serial killer known as the "Alligator Man." Red's Last Chance; Wise Guy of the Prairie Gets a Lesson in Western Justice; The Osage Indian Murders; Mirror of Truth; The Invisible Reaper; Fate Takes a Hand; Hoss Laffs; The Alligators of Death. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Good $5.60

Add to cart GD 2.0 $5.60 View scans Cover detached at one staple. Tearing at top staple. 1 1/2" Cumulative spine split. Staple rust.

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $8.40 View scan 1 3/4 " Cumulative spine split. Cover is loose at top staple. Staple rust.

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Photo cover of the famous singing cowboy, plus interior photos. War at Indian Creek, script by Gaylord DuBois, art by Albert Micale; Roy has gone to work for Cattlemen's Association and gets caught up between feuding families. Great Lawmen of the Old West--Arranged by the Rangers non-fiction. Untitled Chuckwagon Charley's Tales story, script by Gaylord DuBois, art by Harry Parks (Parkhurst). 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $22.00 View scans Centerfold detached at one staple.

Canadian Edition. Photo cover of the famous singing cowboy, plus interior photos. The Baron of Skull Mesa, script by Gaylord DuBois, art by Albert Micale; Roy battles superstition and outlaws. Lt. Lee Hall text story, script by Gaylord DuBois, art by Albert Micale. Untitled Chuckwagon Charley's Tales story, script by Gaylord DuBois. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Jack Kamen cover. All stories reprinted in Terrifying Tales (1953) #13. In order of appearance: "Rulah Jungle Goddess, Devil Ladies!"; "Red Sands, Some Pertinent Facts About the American Indian"; "Rulah Jungle Goddess, Stalking Death!"; and "Rulah Jungle Goddess, Plazma Peril!". "The Fetish of Kwana Nkabwa" text story. Indicia states "RULAH". 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Women's magazine with articles and fiction. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 82 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Wonder Woman stars in "Brain Pirates From the Inner Moon-World"; Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys star in "The Inventive Crooks!"; Sargon the Sorcerer stars in "Invitation to Danger!"; Willy Nilly stars in an untitled story; and Wildcat stars in "The Carnival of Mystery!" Cover price $0.10.

Street and Smith, October 1948, cover price 0.10, 52 pages. Cover by Bob Powell. The Shadow in "The Shadow in Danger!" adapted from the 1945 Shadow radio play by Stedman Coles. Art by Bob Powell. Nick Carter in "Mystery Comes to Market;" Doc Savage in "The Television Peril," art by Bob Powell; Nick Carter in "Nick Carter and the Radar Racket;" The Shadow in "Dream of Death," art by Powell; and the Shadow in a two page text story, "The Impossible Murder!" Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $35.00 View scans Paper: Off white Front cover detached 25%. Back cover detached 30%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $19.00 View scans Paper: Cream Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 25%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart Good $7.00 View scans Paper: Off white Spine stress. 2" Spine split from top of comic. Corner Damage. Creasing. Denting. Edge damage. Scuffing. Soiling. Water damage.

Volume 204, Issue 2 (Whole Number 1026) - October 25, 1948. 6.75" x 9.75", 144 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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 $0.15.

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Vol. 4, No. 1. October 1948. Articles on sports, crime, and adventuring, plus pin-up photos. 8" x 10.5". 66 pages. Black and white. Cover price $0.25.

Cover art by Jack Cole. Midnight story, art by Jack Cole; Prof Hangnail needs human guinea pigs to test his rocket ship; Doc and Sniffer qualify (barely). Citronella story, art by Gil Fox. Archie O'Toole story, art by Bernard Dibble. Black X story. Lady Luck story, art by Fred Schwab [ghosting for Klaus Nordling]. Batch Bachelor story, art by Bart Tumey. The Big Blowup text story starring Midnight. The Jester story. Daffy story. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Burne Hogarth, Al Capp, Ernie Bushmiller, Jack Sparling, Charlie Plumb, Bernard Dibble, Ed Dodd, Rudolph Dirks, J. P. Williams, Arnie Mossler and Raeburn Van Buren. United's anthology featured reprints of early comic strips, including Tarzan, Li'l Abner and Nancy. The Mohawks baseball team is convinced that batboy Dink O'Day is a "lucky charm" as they head for the pennant. Sue manages to convince Slats to kiss her, just when Becky walks back into his life. But Becky's brought her new husband, in an Abbie an' Slats strip with fine art by Raeburn van Buren. Nellie accidentally throws out the masterpiece that Hap Hopper sends her, leading to a madcap chase to recover the painting. Plus a Li'l Abner storyline by Al Capp, the strip's final appearance in Sparkler Comics. And a Tarzan strip with art by Burne Hogarth. Li'l Abner; Hap Hopper; Nancy; Captain and the Kids; Sparkler's Stars of the Air; Tarzan; Dink O'Day; Abbie an Slats. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.