Comic books June 1945

Volume 27, Issue 3 - June, 1945. 6.75" x 9.75", 98 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Cover by Walter Johnson. Stories and art by Ray Gill, Jim Wilcox, Walter Johnson and B. Gordon Guth. Sometimes listed as 4Most #15. Four different stories featuring clean-cut teen heroes of the 1940s from Novelty Press. While canoeing in the woods, Dick Cole and pal Simba get caught up in the intrigue over a mysterious letter they were asked to deliver. When the Daunton academy baseball team plays the state prison team, Kit Carter gets caught up in a jailbreak and bank robbery. The search for a missing dog leads Edison Bell and his pals to the house of the Horrible Hermit. Edison Bell tells young readers how to build a Mouse Trap Cannon. Dick Cole; Edison Bell: The Case of the Dognapped Collie; Make Edison Bell's Mouse Trap Cannon; Candid Charlie; Murder on Record; The Cadet. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Joe Musial. The Phantom strips, scripts by Lee Falk, art by Ray Moore. Pete the Tramp strips by Clarence D. Russell. Jungle Jim strips, art by Alex Raymond. Katzenjammer Kids strips, art by H.H. Knerr. Tim Tyler's Luck strips, art by Lyman Young. Blondie strips, art by Chic Young. Teddy and Sitting Bull strips, art by Joe Musial. Tillie the Toiler strips, art by Russ Westover. Prince Valiant strips, art by Hal Foster. Private Breger Abroad strips by Dave Breger. Curley Harper at Lakespur strips, art by Lyman Young. Barney Google strips, art by Billy DeBeck. Just Kids strips by A.D. Carter. Captain Tootsie ad, script by Rod Reed, art by C. C. Beck. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Jack Burnley and Stan Kaye. The Puzzle in Jade starring Superman, script by Don Cameron (signed as Jerry Siegel), art by Ed Dobrotka (signed as Joe Shuster). Old Wyoming starring The Vigilante, script by Joe Samachson, pencils by Mort Meskin (as Mort Morton Jr.). The Hungry Hare starring Hayfoot Henry. Secret of the Rug of Tezan starring Congo Bill, script by Joe Samachson, art by John Daly. The Magician's Apprentice starring Zatara, script by Joe Samachson, art by William F. White. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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UK bi-weekly magazine focusing primarily on WWII era aircraft, but covering the whole history of flight. 8" x 11.5", 12 pages, B&W

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UK bi-weekly magazine focusing primarily on WWII era aircraft, but covering the whole history of flight. 8" x 11.5", 12 pages, B&W

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Aviation magazine featuring pictorials of featured designs; model and hobby information. 10.25" x 13", 104 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Stories in this issue include: Genius Jones in "Twins Who Were Nobody's Relatives" (Stan Kaye artist); Hamilton and Egbert in "Sleep Machine" (Jimmy Thompson artist); Tinkerman Tad in "Pandemonium ? and Police"; Two-Gun Percy in "No Noose is Good Noose" (Jimmy Thompson artist); Sadface Charlie in "What the Doctor Ordered" (Emil Gershwin artist); Dover and Clover in "Museum Manhunt" (Henry Boltinoff writer/artist); and Penniless Palmer in "Dead Heat With Danger" (Ken L. Fitch writer, Thurston Harper artist). Cover art by Stan Kaye. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Summer 1945. The Justice Society of America stars in "The Mystery of the Forgotten Crime." Script by Gardner Fox. Art by Martin Naydel plus individual chapters featuring Hawkman (art by Joe Kubert), Green Lantern (art by Stan Aschmeier), the Atom (art by Joe Gallagher), Dr. Mid-nite (art by Aschmeier), Johnny Thunder (art by Aschmeier), and the Flash (art by Gallagher and Naydel). Two-page text story, "Lead in His Shoes" by Jay Marr. Tootsie Roll back cover ad, "Captain Tootsie Captures Red the Terror" by C.C. Beck and Pete Costanza. Cover art by Gallagher and Naydel. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Alex Schomburg. The Fabulous Racket! starring Sub-Mariner, art by Allen Simon; Namor substitutes as a speedboat for one of Betty Dean's newspaper friends on a surfboard when suddenly the man's board explodes, killing him; Namor soon realizes that the board has been treated with a chemical which becomes explosive when left in the sun for long periods of time. Dead Man's Shoes starring Captain America, art by Vince Alascia; Cap and Bucky come across the scene of a gang striping a dead man of his clothes, and soon learn that the murdered man is a night watchman at the Woolsey Museum, and that the gang was intending to strip the musuem of its art and jewel collections. Meteor III starring The Whizzer, art by Louis Ferstadt. Ad for the May, 1945 issue of Miss America Magazine. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Paul Reinman. The Soles of Manhattan starring Green Lantern, script by Alfred Bester, art by Paul Reinman; A pair of shoes, claiming to be the shoes of the god Mercury, radically change the lives of four persons who wear them. The Walking Bomb starring Dr. Mid-Nite, script by Joe Greene, art by Stan Aschmeier. The First Shots of the Revolution--Picture Stories from American History, script by M. C. Gaines, art by Don Cameron. Right Here in Uncle Sam's Backyard starring Red, White and Blue, script by John B. Wentworth, art by Dennis Neville. Secret Weapon of the Great Kyushi starring Hop Harrigan, script and art by Jon L. Blummer. Mutt and Jeff strips by Al Smith [signed as Bud Fisher]. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Written by Gardner F. Fox. Art and cover by Martin Naydel. The Three Dimwits accidently become involved in a shady rest home operation, and only the Flash can sort out the details in time to protect the innocent victims. A petty sneak thief robs the Garrick home of a seemingly worthless book, not realizing that it contains a map that will lead him and the Flash to the Andes Mountains in Chile to unravel the secret of a mysterious tapestry. Mutt and Jeff humor story by Al Smith (as Bud Fisher). 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Alex Schomburg. The China Wall Mystery starring Captain America, pencils by Vince Alascia, inks by Al Bellman; Steve Rogers and Bucky are stationed at the Great Wall of China when they come across a Jap plot to bypass Chinese garrisons by using hollowed out interior tunnels within the wall; Cap and Bucky meet a mysterious old Chinese man who gives them aid against the Japanese troops. Death Cargo starring Human Torch, pencils by Al Bellman, inks by Jack Binder. Air Base starring Jap Buster Johnson, pencils by Al Bellman, inks by Don Rico. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 19, Issue 2 - June, 1945. Science fiction stories by Richard Shaver with the second of the "Shaver Mystery" stories, "Thought Records of Lemuria," plus Chester S. Geier, Edmond Hamilton, Frances M. Deegan, Don Wilcox, William Lawrence Hamling, and Berkeley Livingston. Also an "Open Letter to the World" by Shaver. Illustrations by Virgil Finlay, Malcolm Smith, Ned Hadley, Bob Richmond, James Devereux, Arnold Kohn, and Rod Ruth. Cover by Robert Gibson Jones. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 212 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

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Cover by Alex Schomburg. Stories by unknown. Art by Ed Moritz and unknown. In this issue: untitled The Black Terror story (vs. The Master, introduction) with art by Ed Moritz; The Fighting Yank in "The Case of the Extra Nazi Prisoner" (vs. Baron Karl Mannfred Von Khill, introduction); untitled Doc Strange story; and untitled American Eagle story (vs. Dr. Amoto, introduction). Plus: 1-page text stories "Good Neighbor" (by Charles S. Strong; credited as William McClellan), "The Young Reporter" (by Johnston Craig) and "Deserted Cabin" (by Buck Benson). Also: untitled Bobby Bear 3-pager (by Thurston Harper). 48 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Bill Vigoda. Stories by unknown. Art by Bill Vigoda, Bill Woggon, Bob Montana, Terry Woik Szenics and Stan Borack. Archie beats Reggie in a bicycle race, but has no money to repair his now broken bike. So, Archie decides to open a baby-sitting business in "The Little Things In Life"! Plus: Archie decides to contribute to the war effort by getting a job at Floogle's Department Store in "The Patriot"; a tale starring Dotty and Ditto; Betty and Veronica contribute to the war effort by becoming waitresses; Archie attempts to fix the radiator and sets off a chain of painful events in "All Steamed Up"; and after Archie catches Corporal Brent with Veronica, he is challenged to a duel at the Academy the next day in "The Gay Young Blade"! Also: When Archie has Jughead go to the dentist to postpone his appointment, Jughead ends up getting two teeth pulled in the 2-page text story "A Friend In Need" by Harry Kames. And: Archie's Hobby Page story "How Not To Fly a Kite!" 48 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 35, Issue 4 - June, 1945. Cover by William Timmins. Science Fiction and adventure stories, this issue features "Pandora's Millions" by George O. Smith. 5.5-in. x 7.5-in., 160 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Issue 19 - "The Corpse Comes Ashore" written by John Mersereau. Softcover Digest, 5" x 7.5", 128 pages, B&W, text only. Cover price $0.25.

1945 Edition - 1st Printing. Edited by Lawrence Lariar. 300 of the best Cartoons featured in Colliers, the Saturday Evening Post, and Argosy. Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 128 pages, B&W

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Digest sized Spanish language translation of Bill Barnes Air Adventures published by Editorial Molino in Spain.

Summer 1945. The Black Bat in "Murder on the Loose" by "G. Wayman Jones" (Norman Daniels); "Murder Strikes Out" by John Gunderson; "Money to Burn" by David X. Manners; and "Death Pays Extra" by J. Lane Linklater. Pulp magazine format; black and white; 80 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.10.

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Digest-sized, 5.5" x 7.5", 120 pages, B&W Cover price $0.25.

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Cover by Everett Raymond Kinstler. "The Case of the Blood-Red Rubies"; The Ghost of The Grand Lama has murdered two men to get back his Blood Red Ruby. "The Case of the Beautiful Corpse"; $25.000 to win in contest to choose the handsomest man in U.S. "A Millionaire's Life," art by Red Holmdale; St. Peter wants substitutes for two dying tycoons to prevent a stock-market panic. "A Nickel's Worth of Murder" text story. "The Case of the Friendly Murder," art by Everett Raymond Kinstler; Kip is invited to the class of '39 reunion. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Edited by Victor Fox. Cover by E. C. Stoner. Stories by Otis, E. C. Stoner, Walter Egan, Hal George, Milt Hammer, Art Allen, Larry Page, and Tom Canby. Tales of daring-do, with such colorful characters as Sonny Boy, Joan Mason, the OBrine Twins, and Blue Beetle, a super-hero who wears a special bulletproof costume and takes "Vitamin 2X" which gives him super-energy. The Adventure Beneath the Sea. The Mystery of the Tolling Bell. The Threat From Saturn (Ch. 4): Revolt of the Zombies. 52 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Dick Briefer, Bob Montana, R.W. Hall, Rudy Palais, Alan Mandel, Dick Wood and Charles Biro. An anthology title from publisher Lev Gleason and his primary creator, Charles Biro, featuring teen hero Crimebuster and his nemesis Iron Jaw. Young Robin Hood encounters the original Robin Hood, Maid Marian and his Merry Men in a dream sequence. Yankee Longago explores The Planet of Past and Future Time, featuring art by Dick Briefer. Swoop Storm uses His Baby Buggy Plane to take on Axis forces during WWII, featuring art by Archie creator Bob Montana. Crimebuster; Swoop Storm; Boy Comics Hero of the Month; Daredevil Vs. Daredevil; Little Dynamite; Young Robinhood: The Clueless Killing; Yankee Longago. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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World War II Infinity cover. Cover pencils by Jack Kirby. The Men In the Mist, pencils by Louis Cazeneuve [ghosting for Jack Kirby]; in Tibet, the Commandos meet an ancient mystic. Repeat Performance, pencils by Louis Cazeneuve [ghosting for Jack Kirby]; on the Borderland of Burma and China, the bandits are aligned with the Japanese, but the Commandos have the traditional rulers on their side. Private Pete humor page by Henry Boltinoff. The Seal of the Spy, pencils by Louis Cazeneuve [ghosting for Jack Kirby]; Brooklyn uncovers a spy ring that uses trained seals to send coded messages. Big Bazooka Balloon Barrage starring Drafty and Tim. Red the Terror Tootsie Rolls ad starring Captain Tootsie, pencils by C. C. Beck, inks by Pete Costanza. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 55, Issue 6 - June, 1945. 6.75" x 9.75", 130 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Includes: Alex Schomburg cover art; The Crime Dictator, art by Vince Alascia; Horror In Room 1705 starring Human Torch, art by Al Gabriele; AWOL text story; The Monster of the Morgue, Pencils by Vince Alascia, Inks by Al Bellman. 52 pgs. Cover price $0.10.