Comic books March 1954

Adventures of funny animals with alliterative names, plus a puzzle page. Billy Bunny wants to be famous, until he gets his wish. Jocko and Junior find themselves in a scary situation. An Eddie the Elephant story possibly by "Hi-Ho" artist Holly Chambers. Billy Bunny; Jocko and Junior; Eddie Elephant; Smelly Skunk; The Wandering Rabbit. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Art Helfant and Charles Kuhn. A Western adventure comic that turns the notorious real-life outlaw into a folk hero wandering the Old West. Billy the Kid heads for Silver City, gunning for Simon Black, who "dry-gulched" his pal Al Morgan. Billy encounters female prospector Katie O'Donnell, who looks like Granny Goodness, and is just as tough. Prospector Pete takes his gold with him to the laundromat. The Gun-Fight!; The Murderer and the Lady; Billy Spoke First; I Am Black Bear!; Prospector Pete; The Good Old Days. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Dick Dillin and Chuck Cuidera. Stories by Dick Wood, Paul Gustavson and unknown. Art by Dick Dillin, Paul Gustavson and Chuck Cuidera. Featuring Blackhawk in: "Plan of Death" by Dick Wood, Dick Dillin and Chuck Cuidera; "The Blackhawks Wanted for Murder" with art by Dillin and Cuidera; and "The Sky Sleds" with art by Dillin and Cuidera. Plus: Chop Chop in an untitled back-up story by Paul Gustavson, reprinted from issue #37 (with a page cut and content changes). And: 1-page text story "The Obvious Clue," reprinted (and retitled) from Plastic Man (1943 Vital/Quality) #35. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Vince Fodera. Stories and art by Jack Petrazzo and Eugene Hughes. Tales of war and adventure in the Old West. Dade McQueen and Running Bear must find a document that authorizes the local sheriff to shut down an outlaw-run town. The Utah Kid goes on a dangerous one-man mission to palaver with a Native chieftain and end a war on the frontier. A soldier rescues a stranded Cree warrior, despite the inclinations of his squad. The White Redskin; Lawless Town; Redskin Justice; A Day's Work; The Mark of the Gunfighter; Wheel of Misfortune. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 1, Issue 3 - March 1954. Men's interest magazine focusing on sports, celebrities, war, and glamour girls. 4-in. x 6-in., 62 pages, B&W Cover price $0.15.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Chic Stone, William Overgard, Ben Brown 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. Iron Jaw decides to get plastic surgery to get a new face, but Sniffer and the Deadly Dozen have a trick up their sleeves. A one-page comedy strip by future Marvel legend Chic Stone. Rocky X and the Rocketeers race to free Earth from the alien paralysis gas that leaves it vulnerable to invasion. Crimebuster: Spectators Also Die; Little Hank; Sniffer and Iron Jaw: The High Cost of Skin; The Turtle's Secret; Death Was Out to Lunch; Rocky X: D-Day From Space. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Ralph Heimdahl. Stories by Don R. Christensen and various. Art by Tony Strobl, Phil de Lara and Ken Champin. Featuring several untitled tales starring Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig and Yosemite Sam! 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cameo Books reprints romance books, slightly altered, by famed authors. "Shanty Girl" by Joan Tucker. Cover price $0.35.

Stories and art by Warren Kremer and Marty Taras. Cover by Warren Kremer. The well-meaning but misunderstood Casper becomes one of Harvey Comics' best-known stars. Casper, reading a Mother Goose book, tells some fairy tales of his own: The Three Little Pigs-like story of the Kittens' Mittens; Spooky's adventures in Mother Goose Land; Baby Huey takes the Fox to Fairyland. Casper the Friendly Ghost; Mother Ghost; Mother Goose: Rhyme and Reason; Herman and Katnip: Quick Lunch; The Kittens Mittens; Spooky: Well Spooken; Laugh Parade; Buzzy: Ups and Downs; Baby Huey: The Foxy Fairy. 36 pages, four color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 3, Issue 2 - March, 1954. Irma the Body cover. Men's interest vintage magazine that dives deep into the history of Burlesque from it's roots to it's future. Issues include celebrity testimonials, jokes and LOTS of tasteful pin-up photography. Softcover Magazine, 8" x 11", 52 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.50.

Volume 2, Issue 2 - March, 1954. Men's interest magazine featuring War, Hunting, and Adventure stories, along with cartoons, and in later issues Pictorials. This issue features "The Tiger's Wife" by Wade Miller, and asks the question "Are you a Sex Criminal?!" 8 1/2-in. x 11-in. 82 Pages B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Cover by Lee Elias. Stories and art by Jack Sparling, Howard Nostrand, Joe Certa, John Giunta and Manny Stallman. Harvey Comics joins the parade of pre-Code horror comics pioneered by EC in the 1950s. A disfigured man knows he must eventually show his face to the woman he loves. A fugitive criminal forces a scientist to use his reincarnation machine on him. Scientists discover a subterranean society and its sinister lottery. The Ugly Duckling; A Model Girl; Reincarnation; Lottery; Chilly Chamber Music: Songs from the Spook Box; The Satchel; The Skeptic! 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Will James, Wanda Gag, Laurence Housman, Bee Lewi, William D. Potter and Robert Louis Stevenson. A digest of fiction, fact and comics for children from the producers of Parents Magazine. A classic tale from Aesop's Fables; A comics version of the train story Casey Jones; A poem from the classic "A Child's Garden of Verse." The Story of Damon and Pythias; Riddles; Smoky and the Wolves; Why Don't Fish Drown?; The Crow and the Pitcher; Doctor Know-It-All; Young Night Thought; Some Fun; Custer Crocodile; What's the Good Word?; The Contest; The Magic Rocking-Horse; Casey Jones; Old One Eye; The Science Corner. 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 132 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.35.

Pudd'nhead Wilson, 3rd Printing, Painted Cover. (HRN 167, with 3/64 date). Treachery and murder come to arouse a sleepy town along the banks of the mighty Mississippi River in the days just before the Civil War. Here is a gripping story of the Old South, written by one of America's greatest story-tellers. Cover price $0.15.

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Captains Courageous, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. Art by Peter Costanza. (HRN 118, with 3/54 date). This is the exciting action-filled tale of the rugged life aboard a New England fishing schooner. It is the exciting and dramatic story of Harvey Cheyne, spoiled by wealth, who plunges into the sea from an ocean liner and is rescued by fishermen. Aboard the schooner, he is made to work under strict discipline until the end of the fishing season. Follow Harvey Cheyene's adventures as he changes from a weak boy into a strong and worthy man. Cover price $0.15.

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Painted cover art by Dik Browne (?). "The 3 Little Pigs," script by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (adapted from his original story); A hungry wolf waits for an opportunity to devour three pigs but his several attempts to capture them are thwarted. "I Saw a Ship A-Sailing," art by Alex A. Blum; Nursery rhyme about a ship manned by mice and captained by a duck. Article about the cheetah, art by William A. Walsh. 3 Little Pigs pinup on back cover. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.15.

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The 3 Little Pigs. NOTE: We do not currently differentiate between HRN 576 copies and other HRN #'s of Classics Illustrated Junior reprints. Cover price $0.15.

Three untitled Combat Kelly stories (art on all by David Berg), plus a back-up story, "Cookie, the Commie Collector" (art by Dick Ayers). Two-page text story, "Rescue." Joe Maneely cover. Cover price $0.10.

"I just love to get mail!" starring Fox and the Crow, script by Cecil Beard and Alpine Harper, art by Jim Davis; Both the Fox and the Crow read a book on How to Win Friends and decide to try it. "Hi Ya Bettin' Bill!" starring Dodo and the Frog, art by Otto Feuer. "Hippo My Dreams" starring Doodles Duck, script and art by Sheldon Mayer. "Switch-a-Roo" starring Dizzy Dog, script and art by Sheldon Mayer; Amster tries to convince Dizzy that HE's Dizzy and that Dizzy is Amster. "Boy! The ice sure looks good!" starring Bo Bunny, script and art by Sheldon Mayer. "Safari, So Good" starring Pinky and Winky, art by Rube Grossman. "Money, Money, Everywhere!" starring Nip and Chip, art by Otto Feuer. "Steak Dinner for $3" starring Custer Cat and Cheesy the Mouse, art by Rube Grossman. "Rescues! Rescues! Who wants a nice fresh rescue?" starring Bernard the Brave, art by Otto Feuer. "Flying Saucer Meeting" starring Nutsy Squirrel, script by Sy Reit, art by Rube Grossman; Nutsy invents the Galunk to repel Flying Saucers. 68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.15.

Australian Edition. Navy Combat cover logo. 7-in. x 10 3/4-in., 24 pages, black and white.

Cover by Ernie Bushmiller. Stories and art by Ernie Bushmiller, George Jahns and Elsie Hix. Comics on Parade features reprints of Ernie Bushmiller's popular Nancy strip, featuring precocious Nancy and her streetwise pal Sluggo. Nancy celebrates New Year's Eve. Nancy finds an injured bird. Sluggo gets a job at the bank. Nancy; Stamp Tips; Strange as It Seems. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 19, Issue 4 - March, 1954. 6.75" x 9.75", 100 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Pioneering magazine by Robert Harrison featuring scandalous stories about the personal lives of celebrities and other well-known individuals. Orson Welles, Eartha Kitt, Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Leo Durocher photo cover. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 68 pages, black and white. Cover price $0.25.

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The Campus Stinkers; Cookie and Jittebuck compete in a treasure hunt. One-page That Boy's Delicate story starring Alfie, script and art by Al Hartley. Untitled Bebop Bobby story. Honeyboy Adams; Two cons mistake Jitterbuck for Honeyboy Adams. 1/2 page ad for the Kilroys comic book signed by Dan Gordon. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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March 1954. Stories: "Simpson" by Philip Latham, "Homecoming" by Irving Cox, Jr., "When The Five Moons Rise" by Jack Vance, "Survey" by John Jakes, "Who You Callin' A Monster? by Tom Beach, "Night On Horseback" by Winston K. Marks, and "Shadow Before" by Bertram Chandler. Softcover Pulp Digest, 5-in x 7-in, 128 Pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

Giordano-Alascia cover. In order of appearance: "Rip Ryan, Trigger Bait" art by Dick Giordano; "One Horsepower"; "Golden Arrow, The Ghost of Golden Arrow" and "Republic Pictures' Star Rocky Lane, The Terror, A Black Jack Story, The Stalking Terror!" reprinted in Star Western (2000) #2; and "Buffalo Bull...Australia Bound!". "Six-Gun Savvy" illustrated text story. Indicia states "COWBOY WESTERN". 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

(C) Joe Maneely (A) Al Hartley, Joe Maneely, Howard Post, Sol Brodsky. Parody/satire of I Love Lucy, Zombies, and others. FC, 36 pages. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Alex Toth. Stories and art by Alex Toth and Charles Biro. A companion series to Crime Does Not Pay from the same publisher, slightly less violent and with more emphasis on police work. All the stories in this issue attempt to simulate a 3-D effect (without glasses) through the use of page-wide panels with curved borders, a process called "Deep Dimension" in the promotional copy. More significantly, all the stories have art by comics legend Alex Toth. The new kid in a tenement slum soon becomes the dreaded "juvenile delinquent," and gets involved in a gang war. Nick Lugo is hunted by the police for murder and arson. Holdup men plot an armored car heist. War on the Streets; The Burner; Sucker Bait; The Armored Car Murders. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Digest-sized, 5.5" x 7.5", 128 pages, B&W Cover price $0.35.

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Cover by Vince Fodera. Stories and art by Paul Parker and others. Pre-Code crime comics from Timor, an imprint of Stanley Morse Publications. The true story of legendary New Orleans voodoo queen Marie Laveau. The reader is invited to solve a mystery before Detective Charlton does. A gang commits one of the biggest heists in history, but somehow it all goes horribly wrong. Marie Laveau – Queen of Voodoo; Stooge for No. 1; Pat Charlton of the Homicide Squad; The Bad Penny!; The Final Pay-Off. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by George Tuska, Ralph Mayo, Tony DiPreta and Charles Biro. The title that launched the crime comics genre, Crime Does Not Pay was noted for its violent pre-Code content and lurid tales of underworld life. Snookie Peters tries to control his gambling so he doesn't end up like his father, but a lucky streak puts him in Dutch to the mob. A cab driver finds a fortune in cash in his back seat, but unfortunately, it belongs to a gangster. The reader gets to decide a convict's fate as if they were a member of his parole board. Also featuring an action-girl cover by Charles Biro. Beginner's Hard Luck!; Finder's Weepers; This and Murder!; A Fat Tip for Murder; I Beg Your Pardon. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Reprints. A text summary of "Frisco Mary" appears in the 1955 US Senate Interim Report "Comic Books and Juvenile Delinquency". In order of appearance: "The Rise and Fall of the Four Genna Brothers" and "Charlie Birger, Ruler of the Rackets" reprinted from Crime Must Pay The Penalty (1948) #37; and "Frisco Mary" art by Warren Kremer, reprinted from Crime Must Pay The Penalty (1948) #3. "Night Encounter" text story. 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Alvin Hollingsworth. Stories and art by Doug Wildey, Myron Fass, Alvin Hollingsworth and Mo Marcus. Crime and horror comics featuring detective heroes. A monster is preying on female college students, which could have something to do with the giant leeches the school's biology teacher is growing in the nearby swamp. Inspector Bennet learns the horrifying truth behind the Jabberwocky poem, in a story with early art by Doug Wildey. Detective Brenn investigates after a woman is murdered by costumed characters near a TV studio, in a story featuring the line, "Your hillbillies just croaked a cupcake out in the alley!" Bondage cover by Alvin Hollingsworth. Dead Woman's Swamp; Curse of the Jabberwock; The Television Kill; The Strange Avenger; The Fantastic Dr. Foo: The Vanishing Jewels. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Don Heck. Stories and art by Pete Morisi, Ross Andru, Ken Fitch and Don Heck. Tales of men's adventure, similar to the magazines that were then becoming a burgeoning market unto themselves. Secret agent Duke Douglas tracks Soviet counterfeiters after they hijack a plane over the Alps. Army intelligence officer Paxton investigates pickpockets in Paris's red-light district, featuring bad-girl and bondage art aplenty by future Marvel legend Ross Andru (and maybe Mike Espsito). Duke kills his way through the Kremlin to free spy Greta from the communists, and later realizes one of his victims was Joseph Stalin himself! Featuring art and a cover by future Marvel legend Don Heck. Crash in the Alps; Dull Job!; Murder in the Rue Pigalle; Kill! Kill! Kill!; Bloody Seas. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 1, Issue 11 - March 1954. Men's interest magazine focusing on Military, Politics, celebrities and showgirls. 4-in. x 6-in., 68 pages, B&W Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Chuck Miller, Ben Brown, Robert Martinott and Tony DiPreta. This boys' adventure title was one of the comics that made publisher Lev Gleason a major player during the Golden Age. A scheduling mishap pits the Little Wise Guys in a game against an adult baseball team on the same lot. Dilly Duncan plays detective when he becomes convinced that a businessman is planning to swindle his father. The backup historical strip features stories of people surviving combat with animals. Little Wise Guys: What Rule Book?; Dilly Duncan of Dorset High: Sherlock Duncan Returns; Can a Man Kill a Lion Bare-Handed?; Little Wise Guys: The Yolk Is on You!; Little Wise Guys: Corn on the Slob. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories by Henry Boltinoff and unknown. Art by Henry Boltinoff and unknown. Television and radio's coast-to-coast favorite! In this issue: Three untitled A Date with Judy stories. Plus: A Date with Judy 2-page text story "Conscience Box"; Datewise 2-pager "Good Guesting!"; untitled Willy story; and untitled Jerry the Jitterbug 1-pager by Henry Boltinoff. Plus: Annie Gram activity half-pager, and Teen Teaser activity half-pager. 44 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Photo cover with Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Johnny Mack Brown, Bill Elliott, and Rex Allen. Roy Rogers photo. Cover-Up starring Roy Rogers, art by Mike Arens; Roy matches wits with two jewel thieves who are masquerading as bird watchers. Instructions for building a wigwam. Money Buys Trouble starring Trigger and Bullet, art by Sparky Moore. The Robin Hood Mystery starring Gene Autry, art by Nicholas Firfires. Race against Death starring Champion, art by Tony Sgroi. Brief biographies of Annie Oakley and Libby Collins. A Process of Elimination starring Johnny Mack Brown, pencils by Nat Edson. Wild Bill Elliott Plays a Hunch, art by Sparky Moore. The Rustler's Ruse starring Rex Allen, art by John Ushler. 100 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.25.

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Cover art by Win Mortimer. The Origin of the Batcave starring Batman and Robin, script by Bill Finger, pencils by Sheldon Moldoff (as Bob Kane), inks by Charles Paris. Start the Day Off Right public service announcement starring Buzzy, script by Jack Schiff, art by Win Mortimer. The Puzzle of the Blind Artist! starring Roy Raymond TV Detective, script by Jack Miller, art by Ruben Moreira. Casey the Cop humor page by Henry Boltinoff. Mission to Mystery! starring Captain Compass, script by Otto Binder, art by Joe Certa. Robot Detective article by Jack Miller (as Jack Mason). The Riddle of the Doomed Magicians! starring Mysto Magician Detective, script by George Kashdan, art by Leonard Starr. 44 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.