Fawcett Movie Comic (1950 Fawcett) comic books 1938-1955

Photo cover features Allan "Rocky" Lane and Eddy Waller. Numbering continues from Singing Guns (1950) Fawcett Movie Comic #1, actually Fawcett's sixth movie comic. Story by Otto Binder, from the screenplay by M. Coates Webster. Art by Bob Powell. Fawcett presents adaptations of popular movies of the 1950s in comics form. This issue is based on Gunmen of Abilene, a 1950 Republic B-movie Western starring Allan "Rocky" Lane. No one knows why outlaws are terrorizing the town of Abilene. But when Rocky Lane arrives, he soon learns that the town itself is right over a gold deposit, and the gunmen of Abilene were hired by a familiar face. Featuring art by Bob Powell. Plus photo stills from the film. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Photo cover features Lash LaRue. Story by Leo Dorfman, from the screenplay by Jack Lewis and Ira S. Webb. Art by Bob Powell. Fawcett presents adaptations of popular movies of the 1950s in comics form. This issue is based on King of the Bullwhip, a 1950 Republic B-movie Western starring Lash LaRue. Lash tracks the masked outlaw El Azote, who is Lash's match with a bullwhip. Lash impersonates El Azote, leading to a climatic whip duel, which is a rare thing indeed. Featuring art by Bob Powell. Plus photo stills from the film. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Photo cover features Monte Hale. Story by Leo Dorfman, from the screenplay by Robert Creighton Williams. Art by Bob Powell. Fawcett presents adaptations of popular movies of the 1950s in comics form. This issue is based on The Old Frontier, a 1950 Republic B-movie Western starring Monte Hale. A town doctor is accused of murder, but the marshal suspects that he's been framed. He sets out to prove that prescription-addicted "Pills" Fowler is the real killer. Featuring art by Bob Powell. Plus photo stills from the film. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Photo cover features Monte Hale. Story by Leo Dorfman, from the screenplay by Arthur E. Orloff. Art by Clem Weisbecker and Sheldon Moldoff. Fawcett presents adaptations of popular movies of the 1950s in comics form. This issue is based on The Missourians, a 1950 Republic B-movie Western starring Monte Hale. Bandits ride out of Missouri to attack the Texas town of Dorado. Marshal Blades sets out to save the town and its church-building fund. Plus photo stills from the film. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Photo cover features Lash LaRue. Story by Leo Dorfman, from the screenplay by June Carr and Ira S. Webb. Art by Pete Riss and Stan Campbell. Fawcett presents adaptations of popular movies of the 1950s in comics form. This issue is based on The Thundering Trail, a 1951 B-movie Western starring Lash LaRue. When the US President appoints a new territorial governor to deal with outlaws, Lash LaRue is chosen to escort him to his inauguration. But the territory's outlaws want to make sure he never arrives. Plus photo stills from the film. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Photo cover features Allan "Rocky" Lane and his horse Black Jack. Story by Leo Dorfman, from the screenplay by Richard Wormser. Art by Werner Roth. Fawcett presents adaptations of popular movies of the 1950s in comics form. This issue is based on Rustlers on Horseback, a 1950 Republic B-movie Western starring Rocky" Lane. Marshal Rocky Lane goes undercover with an outlaw gang to get evidence against its leader, who is disguised as a mild-mannered salesman. But his plan is complicated by the son of one of the gang's victims, who has his own plan for vengeance. Plus photo stills from the film. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Photo cover features Edmond O'Brien. Story by Leo Dorfman, from the screenplay by Frank Gruber. Fawcett presents adaptations of popular movies of the 1950s in comics form. This issue is based on Warpath, a 1951 Paramount Western starring Edmond O'Brien. Learning that the outlaws who murdered his fiancee have joined the Seventh Cavalry, John Vickers joins up as well. During military actions in the West, he sets out to determine which of his fellow cavalrymen are the killers he seeks. Plus photo stills from the film. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Photo cover features Ronald Reagan and Rhonda Fleming. Story by Leo Dorfman, from the screenplay by Winston Miller, Geoffrey Homes, George Worthing Yates and David Lang. Fawcett presents adaptations of popular movies of the 1950s in comics form. This issue is based on The Last Outpost, a 1951 Paramount Western starring Ronald Reagan in his pre-political Hollywood days. During the Civil War, brothers Jeb and Vance wind up fighting on opposite sides over a Union gold shipment in Arizona. After the war, they must work together when a civil war among the Apaches threatens nearby settlements. Plus photo stills from the film. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Story by Otto Binder, from the screenplay by Aubrey Wisberg and Jack Pollexfen. Art by Kurt Schaffenberger. Fawcett presents adaptations of popular movies of the 1950s in comics form. This issue is based on The Man from Planet X, a 1951 science fiction horror film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. A scientist studying a "rogue planet" on a remote Scottish moor witnesses the arrival of a visitor from Planet X. He and his cohorts and daughter struggle to understand what the alien wants and why it is on Earth. Plus photo stills from the film. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Photo cover features Burt Lancaster and Jody Lawrence. Story by Otto Binder, from the screenplay by Roland Kibbee, Frank Davis, James Warner Bellah and Willis Goldbeck. Art by Carl Pfeufer and Bob Laughlin. Fawcett presents adaptations of popular movies of the 1950s in comics form. This issue is based on Ten Tall Men, a 1951 Columbia adventure film. Soldiers in the French Foreign Legion become involved in the war between nearby tribal nomads. Things get personal when the bride kidnapped from a planned inter-tribal marriage begins to fall for one of the Legionnaires. Plus photo stills from the film. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Photo cover features Mala Powers and Jack Buetel. Story by Leo Dorfman, from the screenplay by Maurice Geraghty. Fawcett presents adaptations of popular movies of the 1950s in comics form. This issue is based on Rose of Cimarron, a 1952 20th Century Fox Western starring Mala Powers. Rose of Cimarron, a white woman raised by Cherokees, considers herself part of the tribe. When her adoptive parents are murdered by outlaws, Rose grudgingly accepts the help of a marshal in tracking down the killers. Plus sheet music for the movie's theme, "Cimarron Territory." 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Photo cover features Anthony Dexter and Jody Lawrence. Story by Leo Dorfman, from the screenplay by George Bruce and Jesse L. Lasky Jr. Art by Kurt Schaffenberger. Fawcett presents adaptations of popular movies of the 1950s in comics form. This issue is based on The Brigand, a 1952 Columbia adventure film starring Anthony Dexter and Jody Lawrence. Carlos, a criminal who bears a strong resemblance to the King of Mandorra, is pardoned by the King. After the King is injured in an assassination attempt, Carlos must impersonate the king, seeking the assassins while falling in love with the King's fiancee, Teresa. Plus photo stills from the film. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Photo cover features James Stewart and Jean Hagen. Story by Leo Dorfman, from the screenplay by Art Cohn. Art by Pete Costanza and Kurt Schaffenberger. Fawcett presents adaptations of popular movies of the 1950s in comics form. This issue is based on Carbine Williams, a 1952 MGM adventure film based on a true story. Bootlegger Williams is sentenced to decades in prison. While incarcerated, he develops the weapons systems that result in the invention of the M-1 carbine rifle used by US troops in WWII. Plus photo stills from the film. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Photo cover features Robert Taylor and Elizabeth Taylor. Story by Leo Dorfman, from the screenplay by Aeneas MacKenzie, Noel Langley and Marguerite Roberts. Art by Pete Costanza and Kurt Schaffenberger. Fawcett presents adaptations of popular movies of the 1950s in comics form. This issue is based on Ivanhoe, a 1952 MGM adventure film based, in turn, on the Walter Scott novel. Returning to England after the Crusades, Ivanhoe romances Rowena and becomes involved in the uprising against evil Prince John. When the struggle against John's forces escalates into violence, no less a personage than Robin Hood himself appears to join Ivanhoe in the conflict. Plus photo stills from the film. Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.