Comic books June 1959

Add to cart FN 6.0 $5.60 View scan

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

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $7.30 View scans Staple rust: Slight.

Volume 43, Issue 6- June, 1959. TAM is legendary for its thorough and insightful coverage of the stage, both in American and England. Less well-known is the fact that TAM also provided some outstanding coverage of motion pictures. Broadway and Hollywood. 8.5-in. x 11-in, 80 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.75.

Add to cart Fair $7.00 View scans Front cover detached 80%. Back cover detached 20%. Staple rust: Moderate.

Men's adventure magazine with articles, fiction, and humor. 8.5" x 11", 152 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $0.35.

Add to cart Very Fine $30.00 View scans

Add to cart Very Good $29.00 View scans Front cover detached 20%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.

Add to cart VG 4.0 $29.00 View scans 1" Spine split from bottom.

Volume 28, Issue 2 - June 1959. Formerly New Detective Magazine. Adventure articles, stories and photos. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in. 82 pages B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart Very Good $26.00 View scans Front cover detached 5%. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart Very Good $32.00 View scans Back cover detached 5%.

8.5" x 11", 76 pages, B&W Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart VG 4.0 $30.00 View scan Water damage.

Add to cart GD 2.0 $8.80

Painted cover. Turok in "Secret of the Giants" in which Turok and Andar discover a tribe of giants living in the hidden valley and "The Living Decoy" in which Turok must kill a deadly dinosaur before he can obtain herbs which will cure Andar's illness. Issue also has backup feature "Young Earth - First Feathers," a one-page text feature "Return of the Hunter," and one-page strips. No art/story credits given. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $6.40

36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 7.5 $72.00 View scans Paper: White Label #0002057-AC-014

Cover art by Bob Brown. The Stunt Man of Space, art by Nick Cardy. Dissection of Planet Earth, art by Howard Purcell. The Giant With My Face, art by Ruben Moreira; a space explorer comes across a giant with his look and name. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart PR 0.5 $5.20 Incomplete: Missing pages.

Volume 3, Issue 1 - June 1959. Men's interest magazine focusing on adventure tales, military articles, and burlesque models. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 100 pages, B&W Cover price $0.35.

Add to cart Fair $2.50

Add to cart Fair $2.50

#225, June 1959, 10c. Issue has Donald Duck, Scamp, and Chip ?N' Dale in untitled stories and Mickey Mouse and Goofy in the conclusion of "Alaskan Adventure." Issue also has one-page and half-page gag strips and a one-page text feature "The Band Concert." The Donald Duck story is by Carl Barks. Art and story credits on other stories: unknown. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Good $2.50

Add to cart GD 2.0 $2.50

Walter Lantz' Woody Woodpecker. Stories by unknown. Art by unknown. Featuring the tales "Trick Or Treaty" and "The Abominable Birdman"! Also: Homer Pigeon in "The Weak Hero"! And: Chilly Willy in the 1-page text story "A Tale of a Whale"! 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $3.70

The Illustrated Story of the Navy. Painted cover art by Gay Welker. The Illustrated Story of the Navy, art by Gerald McCann. "The First Hero," art by Gerald McCann; John Paul Jones rises to captain in a seafaring career, then joins the infant America navy; Through a series of brilliant single-ship actions, he becomes that service's first great hero. "The First Fleet" one-page story; Congress orders the first naval vessels for the Revolutionary War, the war with the Barbary Pirates, and the War of 1812. "They Shall Fight Today," art by Gerald McCann; Oliver Hazard Perry fights and wins the Battle of Lake Erie, sinking or capturing the opposing British fleet. "A Bet Is Paid," art by Everett Raymond Kinstler; Friends in peacetime, Captains Dacres ("Guerriere") and Hull ("Constitution") bet a hat as to which ship would win in a battle; When they meet in the War of 1812 Hull wins decisively, and takes his opponent's hat, rather than his sword, in surrender. "Learning to Lead"; Farragut rises to high rank without an education, but succeeding generations of officers need more; Shocked by an attempted mutiny, Congress establishes the US Naval Academy. "Fighting Words," one-page story, art by Gerald McCann; Lawrence ("Don't give up the ship") and Mason ("Sighted sub, sank same") coin phrases that live in naval tradition. "The Navy in War: An Impossible Task"; Farragut fights his ships past forts and flotillas to capture New Orleans. The "Navy in War: Battle After Breakfast"; Dewey decisively wins the Battle of Manila Bay against a Spanish fleet. "The Navy in War: The Unseen Enemy"; The American and British navies work out weapons and tactics to defeat the German u-boat campaign in World War I. "The Navy in War: Full Speed Ahead!", art by Sam Glanzman; The US and Japanese navies fight each other hard around Tulagi, Savo, and Guadalcanal; Admiral Dan Callaghan wins a major victory after ordering full speed toward the enemy. "The Navy in War: The Wonderful Blunder," art by Sam Glanzman; Six destroyers expose themselves to shellfire in the narrow channel of Inchon, thereby discovering the position of North Korean batteries. "Cheese-Box on a Barrelhead" text article; Three participants describe the battle between "Monitor" and "Merrimack" (or "Virginia"). "The Navy in Peace"; The navy's many peacetime functions include exploration; Wilkes, Peary, and Byrd conduct polar expeditions over a period of a hundred years. "The Fleet Below," art by Gerald McCann; Development of submarines from the American Revolution through the nuclear-powered "Nautilus," which made the first submerged journey through the Arctic Ocean and under the North Pole. "The Good Old Days"; Humorous comparison of naval life in 1778 and 1958. "Mission to Mindanao," art by Sam Glanzman. 84 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $7.00

"Indian Sundown" and "The Reputable Rustler." Back-up story, "A Taste of Justice." Photo cover and inside front cover. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.