Comic books April 1954

36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 1, Issue 4 - April 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 C. H. Moore, Ben Brown, Jay Scott Pike, Ralph Mayo, 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's new face is revealed, and it's even more horrifying than his previous one. A comics retelling of the famed 1938 rematch between heavyweight champion Joe Louis and German boxing legend Max Schmeling. Their space battles over, Rocky and Simpy are reassigned the Korean peninsula as the Korean War heats up. Crimebuster: One Second To Zero; Conquer Any Worlds Lately?; Sniffer and Iron Jaw: Riot; Famous Eccentrics; Crimebuster: They Called Him Crazy; Rocky X: Planet To FBI - Over; Best Fights Of The Century: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

A racy pageant of peppy cartoons, girls, and giggles. 98 pgs, B&W. 5 1/2" x 7 1/2". Cover price $0.25.

Volume 2, Issue 2 - April, 1954. Men's interest digest with stories of war, science, and crime, as well as many full pages dedicated to tasteful pin-up photography. Softcover Digest, 5" x 7.5", 130 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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An offbeat comic presenting short, often risque humor stories in a sort of comics version of vaudeville. Each "sketch" is presented as if it's on a vaudeville stage, complete with footlights. A cop helps a drunk man break into his own house, but it's the wrong house. Before his death, a man creates the first "video will" with his motion-picture camera - much to his family's surprise. When two men learn they're dating the same woman, they find a way to settle the dispute with a gun that fires blanks. One Too Many; The Last Will and Testament; Best Friends; The New Dress; The Triangle; It's a Bet; The Pickpocket; The Lost Key; The Dead Duck; The Love Seat; Peppermint Candy; Two Timer; Once a Ham...; Broken Hearted; The Hearing Aid; Time Out; Trapped. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories by Colin Allen and unknown. Art by Colin Allen and unknown. Featuring: "Salami and the Seven Nails"; What a Family! newspaper strip "Cheap Freeze" (by Colin Allen); "The Thing in the Window"; and "Strife With Father"! Plus: 2-page text story "Dropsy-Turvy"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories by unknown. Art by unknown. Featuring Buster Bear in: "The Unhappy Wolf"; "Willie Is All Washed Up"; and "The Gold Rush"! Plus: Buzzy Rabbit in "Mr. Fixit" co-starring Sammy Skunk, Betty Bunny and Witty Fox. Also: Rollo Raccoon in an untitled story co-starring Picklefoot Pig, Rufus Rabbit and Mr. Bear. And: 1-page text story "The Eager Beaver"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Alex Toth, Mike Peppe, Pete Morisi and Mort Leav. Adventures in space, the Wild West and the jungle with actor Buster Crabbe, famed for playing Flash Gordon. Sometimes listed as The Amazing Adventures of Buster Crabbe #3. Buster investigates reports of a radioactive tiger in South America, and discovers a secret facility developing atomic weapons. Buster crashes into a flying saucer that abducts him to Callisto, where he is forced to compete in savage gladiatorial chess games. At a logging camp, Buster Crabbe encounters pirates who frame him for the murder of...Buster Crabbe. Featuring art by comics legend Alex Toth. Strange Case of the Radioactive Tiger; Science Lore; Invisible Monsters of Callisto; Lore of the West; Pirates of the Timberland. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Warren Kremer and Marty Taras. The well-meaning but misunderstood Casper becomes one of Harvey Comics' best-known stars. After seeing Shetland ponies, Casper travels to Scotland, where he meets the ghost horse Nightmare, in Nightmare's first appearance. Casper and Nightmare visit a ghost town, where they meet Two Gun Gus. Then Spooky rides Nightmare to the moon and back. Casper the Friendly Ghost; Horse Laughs; Let's Dance; Herman and Katnip; The Ghosts Go West; Spooky: The Spaceman; Casper's Diary Buzzy: Right Eyes; Baby Huey: The Baby Duck-tor. 36 pages, four color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 2, Issue 3 - April 1954. Men's interest magazine featuring War, Hunting, and Adventure stories, along with cartoons, and in later issues Pictorials. This issue features "The Snatchers" by Lionel White, and When Conan Doyle Played Sherlock Holmes to Trap a Vicious Murderer!" by Alan Hynd. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 84 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Volume 1, issue 1 - April 1954. Men's interest magazine focusing on celebrities, athletes, and pin-up models. 4-in. x 5 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W Cover price $0.15.

Volume 24, Issue 3 - August 1952. Children's Playmate Magazine features creative stories, poems, rebuses, recipes, activities, crafts, science experiments, and health articles for children. 6" x 9", 52 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.20.

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Painted cover by Ernest Nordli. Art by Bob Jenney. The Cisco Kid rode the range as the Robin Hood of the Old West with his corpulent sidekick Pancho, earning a permanent place in 20th-century pop culture. Runaway goats during a sandstorm lead Cisco and Pancho to Anna, who has found gold on her land. But outlaws Roby and Wes want to jump her claim, by force if possible. Cisco and Pancho set out to help an old friend find out if the man engaged to his daughter is only after his lands and fortune. Plus fun facts about cattle brands. Lively painted cover by Ernest Nordli. Brands and Branding; The Cisco Kid and the Petticoat Marker; The Cisco Kid and the Fiesta Cover-Up. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Rob Roy, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. (HRN 119, with 4/54 date). His father's papers mysteriously stolen, young Francis Obaldistone rides up into the wild Highlands of Scotland in search of them. Suddenly, he finds himself in the midst of the plotting, treachery, heroism and drama of a fiery Scottish rebellion. And suddenly, and strangely, he meets the many-sided robber, Rob Roy, outlaw to the authorities, hero to the clans. Cover price $0.15.

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Painted cover art by Dik Browne. "Jack and the Beanstalk," script by William Godwin (adapted from his original story), art by Alex A. Blum; Jack exchanges the family cow for a few beans; His mother is furious and tosses the beans out the window; The next morning, Jack finds a beanstalk growing to the clouds and climbs it; In the clouds, he discovers a land dominated by a cruel Giant; On several trips up and down the beanstalk, Jack steals the Giant's bags of gold, his magic hen, and his talking harp; The Giant attempts to pursue Jack down the beanstalk but falls to his death; A good fairy restores Jack's long-lost father, a knight who has been serving for many years in the wars. "My Shadow," script by Robert Louis Stevenson, art by Alex A. Blum; Poem from "A Child's Garden of Verses" about a child's shadow. Article about the gorilla, illustrated by William A. Walsh. Jack and the Beanstalk pinup on back cover by Alex A. Blum. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.15.

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

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Jack and the Beanstalk. NOTE: We do not currently differentiate between HRN 576 copies and other HRN #'s of Classics Illustrated Junior reprints. Cover price $0.15.

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The classic weekly magazine featuring news and fiction. 10.75" x 13.75", 106 pages, PC/B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Issue 19. April, 1954. Australian Edition. Fighting Fronts! cover logo. Tales from the Korean conflict include: "Operation T.N.T., "Suicide Alley", and "Flaming Coffin". 7-in. x 10 3/4-in., 24 pages, black and white.

Cover by Ernie Bushmiller. Stories and art by Ernie Bushmiller and others. Comics on Parade features reprints of Ernie Bushmiller's popular Nancy strip, featuring precocious Nancy and her streetwise pal Sluggo. Sluggo traces Nancy's family back to the crowned heads of Europe. Nancy meets her new neighbor. Nancy and Fritzi try to make the back yard more private. Nancy; Stamp Tips. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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First issue with whole numbering in indicia (176). All reprints. Stories reprinted from All Love (1949) 31 and Real Secrets (1950) 5. Photo cover. In order of appearance: "Behind Our Wedding Vows"; "Her Reckless Pretense"; "I Was One Among Others"; and "I Woke Up Married". 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 2, Issue 12 - April, 1954. Cover Girls Models Magazine was an early men's interest publication distributed between November, 1949 and December, 1955 that focused mainly on bathing suit pin-up photography, but also included the occasional Hollywood tabloid human-interest story. 8" x 10.5", 66 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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(C) Carl Burgos (A) Joe Maneely, Dick Ayers, Howard Post, Mike Sekowsky. Parody/satire of Sinbad the Sailor, The Wolf Man, Censorship, and others. FC, 32 pages. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by George Tuska, Ralph Mayo, Al Wenzel, C. H. Moore 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. Charlie the Ape is ready to get the loot from a year-old bank job from beautiful Lili Ravell, but Lili is preparing to turn the gang against each other so she can keep the money for herself. Ex-convict Joyce is caught between the new scheme with the new boyfriend and violent old flame Nick, who wants her back at any cost. A convict tells his parole board how beautiful redhead Connie led him down the road to prison, in a story with classic bad-girl art by Ralph Mayo. Darkly amusing bad-girl cover by Charles Biro. The Murder Mad Gang of East City; Valentine in Lead; Hang on to Your Steam Shovel!; Cobra with Lipstick; Crazy to Kill!; On the Level. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Johnny Craig. Stories by Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein. Art by Bernie Krigstein, Marie Severin, Jack Kamen, Joe Orlando, and Reed Crandall. EC's New Trend crime title featured top-notch art and writing, barrier-pushing graphics and pre-Code violence. A couple's intricate plot to have the mistress impersonate the murdered wife is undone by a game show, of all things. A banker who swindles a fortune from an old woman is betrayed by his own guilt. An attempt at murder-by-fire becomes suicide-by-spouse instead. Severed-head cover is one of the most infamous in comics history, mentioned during Gaines' testimony before the US Senate. In Each and Every Package; Monotony; Cinder Block; Sight Unseen. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Jack Sparling. Stories and art by Jack Sparling, Ernie Schroeder and Mell Lazarus. Tales of adventure from Toby Press. An aging mountaineer dares a deadly climb up the north face of the mountain where his devoted nephew died. A trapeze artist attempts an impossible trick for the circus crowd, despite his sweetheart's misgivings. Plus an early cartoon by Mell Lazarus, creator of the Momma and Miss Peach comic strips. The Killer Mountain!; The Fatal Triple!; Four Hundred Miles of Danger!; Tell It to the Marines; The Wound; Stanley and the Football Game. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 1, Issue 12 - April 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.

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Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Irving Watanabe, 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. Slugger gets taken up in yet another runaway plane, this one a large-scale model radio-controlled aircraft. Dilly Duncan's prank war with Gruesome Jones escalates during April Fool's Day, until Gruesome winds up in court. The backup historical strip features true stories of people who were amazingly lucky. Also, a biography of baseball legend Lou Gehrig, and a history of the Aztec Empire. Little Wise Guys: The Racket Busters; The Little Wise Guys Scrap Book: More Than Muscle; Dilly Duncan of Dorset High: April Fool; Fortune's Favorites; Little Wise Guys: Up a Mysterious Tree; Little Wise Guys: Wise Guys vs Gravity; History in Our Backyard. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Skeleton cover by Hy Fleishman. Stories and art by A.C. Hollingsworth, Hy Fleishman and Jon D'Agostino. A pre-Code horror series that is not as well-known other horror comics, but makes up for it with grue. This issue is hosted by "The Old Gravedigger," a take-off on EC's Crypt Keeper and other horror hosts. In a typically boundary-pushing story, a vampire includes an infant in its list of victims. A ape-human hybrid terrorizes a city. Lady with the Mask of Death; Horror of the Fifth Corpse; Terror of the Man-Ape; Verdict of Terror. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Marty Elkin. "Tea with Terror," art by Marty Elkin; Harry talks his way into Terrys house by offering to do chores in exchange for a meal; Terry is impressed with the personable young man, but Harry gets nervous and hides when theres a knock on the door; The visitor is police detective Jim, who warns Terry about a maniac killer who leaves an "X" at the scene of his crimes. "This is the Story of a Dream House" text story. "Mountain Love"; Sally leaves the city to teach school in a rural hamlet, and is courted by farmer Johnsie; Dr. Jim warns Sally that that the rural people have certain attitudes that she must be aware of; At a community picnic, Johnsie and Sally wander off: when she starts to sun-bathe, Johnsie thinks shes offering herself to him. "I Laughed at my Love," art by Marty Elkin; Elsa has a romantic relationship via correspondence with Clint, and on the spur of the moment decides to visit his town; She discovers Clint is a wrestler called "The Monster," with a very misshapen face, and rejects him hysterically; Back home Elsa realizes she was unfair, and writes to apologise; Her letters are always returned "address unknown." "A Man Worth Loving"; Bobbie and her boyfriend, artist Jack, go on a skiing vacation; She refuses to give up her social life to marry him; Ski instructor Pierre makes a pass at Bobbie, but Jack intervenes; After Jack beats up Pierre and castigates Bobbie for her behavior, Bobbie agrees to marry him the next day. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Don Heck. Stories and art by Don Heck, Bill Discount and Pete Morisi. Violent, pre-Code tales of gunplay, outlaws and horsemanship in the Wild West. Identical twins use their resemblance to avoid prosecution for their crimes, but one blind woman isn't fooled. A young Mexican boy helps uncover a thief in a mining camp. Judge's daughter Eve elopes with outlaw Frank and rides a path of terror across North Texas, in a story with bad-girl art by Bill Discount. Featuring art and a cover by future Marvel legend Don Heck. Blameless Killer; Black Stallion; Killers Trail; Hemp Necktie; Killer in Skirts; Rodeo Champ. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Win Mortimer. The Trapper of Gotham City starring Batman and Robin, script by Bill Finger, pencils by Sheldon Moldoff, inks by Stan Kaye. Know Your Community! public service announcement starring Binky, script by Jack Schiff, art by Win Mortimer. The Case of the Slumbering Sleuth starring Sierra Smith, art by Frank Giacoia. Casey the Cop humor page by Henry Boltinoff. Wings of Danger starring Mysto Magician Detective, art by Leonard Starr. I Should've Been Dead text article by Jack Miller. The Nightmare World starring Roy Raymond TV Detective, art by Ruben Moreira. 40 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Joe Simon. "Dick Tracy and the Case of the Fiendish Photographers," script by Chester Gould, art by Joe Simon (splash) and Chester Gould; After getting thousands of letters, Dick and Tess accept the name a nurse gives their baby; A photographer convinces Dick to allow her to photograph the child; What Tracy does not realize is that the photographer plans to kidnap his child. "Part 2," script and art by Chester Gould; Kidnapping turns into murder as Crewy Lou and Sphinx attempt to steal the Knox baby. "Death of a Dog-Lover" text story; A dog helps Lt. McCall solve a murder. Ripley's Believe It or Not house ad. Untitled one-page Girl Friday story; Glenn and Myra solve a murder on a sailboat. "Murder at the Bar X-Y" text story. Dick Tracy house ad. Minit Mystery starring The Count; The Count solves the murder of a dancer. Science-Fiction Book Club ad. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Paul Murry. Stories by Carl Fallberg and unknown. Art by Dick Moores. Donald Duck is featured in "Scrooge's Birthday," "Nephews' Show" and "Can Opener Salesman"! Also: 1-pagers "Bumper Sled" and "Cats' Crossing"! Characters in this issue: Donald Duck, Huey, Dewey, Louie, Uncle Scrooge and Daisy Duck. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Art by Fred Guardineer and others. Cover by Fred Guardineer. Sometimes listed as Charles Starrett as the Durango Kid #28. Western adventure based on the popular masked hero played in the movies by Charles Starrett. Wagon trains are targeted by the outlaw band of Moro, who fancies himself Pirate of the Sands; The Kid races to intercept a stagecoach before a time-bomb on board detonates; Tipi lets himself get captured to save Dan Brand, and winds up in front of a firing squad. The Pirates of the Sands!; The Satchel Full of Death!; Night of Terror; Tipi's Treason; The Lady Loved the Killer! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Vol. 5 #14 - Apr. 2, 1954. Contents include Dan Dare, P.C. 49, Riders of the Range, Eagle Cutaway centerfold, Luck of the Legion, Great Escapes, These Men Live Dangerously, Harris Tweed Extra Special Agent, Storm Nelson, Alfred the Great. Plus text stories and articles. 10 1/2-in. x 13 1/2-in., 14 pages, B&W and full color.