Comic books October 1948

Cover by Harry Sahle. Stories by unknown. Art by Harry Sahle and unknown. Candy stars in four untitled stories. Plus: Rims in an untitled story co-starring Emerson Griggs and Mr. Bennett. And: Jitters in an untitled story co-starring Bugs, Mr. Kroft, Mrs. Green and Mrs. Haggles. Also: Pixy in 1-page untitled story co-starring Tuffy O'Toole and Uncle Louie. Plus: Candy in 2-page text story "The Witch of Sark"! 48 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Comic strip reprints. 52 pages. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by C.C. Beck. Stories by Bill Woolfolk, Otto Binder, Al Liederman and Frank Bolle. Art by C.C. Beck, Pete Costanza, Al Liederman and Frank Bolle. The living embodiment of Fear causes trouble for Captain Marvel by stirring up a panic with rumors about an atomic bomb in the city in "Captain Marvel Faces Fear!" by Bill Woolfolk, C.C. Beck and Pete Costanza. Also in this issue: "Captain Marvel's Melancholia!" by Bill Woolfolk, C.C. Beck and Pete Costanza; "Captain Marvel and the Pride of Mr. Morris" by Otto Binder, C.C. Beck and Pete Costanza; and "Captain Marvel Fights Silent Sound" by Otto Binder, C.C. Beck and Pete Costanza (Sivana appearance). Plus: Captain Kid in "The Big Clean Up" by Al Liederman; Freshman Freddy tale "The Glassy Approach" by Frank Bolle; Jon Jarl in the 2-page text story "World of Titans" by Otto Binder (as Eando Binder); and 1-page Tootsie Roll ad "Captain Tootsie Traps Killer Bear with Invisible Light" with art by C.C. Beck and Pete Costanza. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Kurt Schaffenberger. Stories by Howard Boughner and Art Helfant. Art by Bill Ward, Bud Thompson, Art Helfant and Howard Boughner. Superhero action with Freddy Freeman, who gains the same powers as his hero Captain Marvel, better known these days as Shazam. Freddy is beaten by hooded riders after his newspaper prints an expose of a mayoral candidate, in a story featuring early art by legendary good-girl artist Bill Ward. Sivana Jr. creates a Captain Marvel Jr. disguise to discredit CMJ, but then is mistaken for Captain Marvel Jr. by other criminals. Marvel Jr. figures out the connection between a disabled girl and acts of sabotage at a racetrack. Plus a vintage Tootsie Roll ad, Captain Tootsie Traps Killer Bear with Invisible Light, by CC Beck and Pete Costanza. The Hooded Horrors!; The Return of the Gremlins; Capt. Marvel Jr. and the Walking Tree; Rubbernose Randolph; Boxcar Benny; Judge Smudge; Sivana, Jr.'s Perilous Predicament; Kanvasback: Gridiron Goof; Droopy and Reddy Fox: Sky High; The Black Cat; Vita Min; Captain Marvel Jr. Fights Terror on the Speedway! 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 13, Issue 1 - October, 1948. Quarterly collection of work by featured cartoonists, focused on interaction between men and women. 8.5" x 11", 100 pages B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Issue 16 - Australian Edition. Circa early to mid 1950's. Reprints "Robin Hood" in abridged form with new cover art. 10" x 7 1/2" horizontal format, color covers with b&w interior, 24 pages-all newsprint.

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The House of Seven Gables, 1st Printing, Line Drawing Cover. (HRN 53, 10/48). Cover price $0.10.

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The House of Seven Gables, 2nd Printing, Line Drawing Cover. (HRN 89). Cover price $0.10.

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The House of Seven Gables, 4th Printing, Painted Cover. (HRN 142). Cover price $0.15.

Cover by Jerry Fasano. Stories and art by Jimmy Thompson, Ruth Atkinson, Phil Berube, Dave Tendlar and Jerry Fasano. Teen comedy in the Archie tradition from Famous Funnies. Dreamboy imagines himself with a bodybuilder's physique. Ben and the rest of the town are snookered by a con man with fool's gold. Female news photographer Clickety gets the story on a woman who hates all men. Helpful Hank; Heavens to Betsy; Angela; Dreamboy; Clickety!; Ginger and Snap; Bungling Ben; Since They Were Two; Jug the Hillbilly Hot-Shot. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Bob Fujitani, Fred Guardineer, C.H. Moore, Charles Nicholas, Mike Roy, John Belfi 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. Fred Goetz, aka "Shotgun" George Ziegler, works for Capone's Chicago Outfit and winds up on the right side of the barrel in 1929's Valentine's Day Massacre. Elmer Henry Pierce goes on a spree of crime after killing his niece in cold blood. George Barrett, car thief and killer, is the reason it's a capital offense to kill a federal agent. Fred Goetz, Alias "Shotgun" George Ziegler; On the Level; Barry Feder; Buff Higgins; Elmer Henry Pierce, the Terror of Two Cities!; The Mad Houdini; George Barrett. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Dan Zolnerowich. Stories and art by Mike Suchorsky, Clem Weisbecker, Charles Raab, John Belfi and Tony DiPreta. Tales of crime and mobsters, both true and fictional, a prime example of the genre that thrived in the years before the Comics Code. The true story of notorious 19th-century British burglar and killer Charles Peace. The Gopher Gang terrorizes Hell's Kitchen in the early 1910s, even masquerading as policemen. In 1920s London, insurance investigator Leopold Harris turns to arson for hire. The Man from Angel Court; The Can Openers; Something for the Ladies; The Torch; The Greedy Cane; The Student; The Stolen Ship. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by George Tuska, Fred Guardineer, Claude Moore, Tony DiPreta, John Belfi 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. Mr. Crime narrates the tale of Hymie Nabosco, the holdup man whose penchant for pretty scents makes him easy for witnesses to identify. Fast-shooting showgirl Belle Shirley becomes a gambler and gunslinger in the Old West. A story that dares the reader to figure out the killer before a Mountie does in 1899 Canada. Little Hymie Nabosco; Belle Shirley, The Angel-Faced She-Devil; On the Level; This'll Kill Ya!; Marvin and Selma Burgess; Edward Corwin; Who Dunnit? Arctic Assassin. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Canadian reprint series. Reprints material from Crime Does Not Pay (1942-1955 Lev Gleason) #68. Cover by George Tuska (credited as Charles Biro). Stories and art by George Tuska, Fred Guardineer, Bob Fujitani, 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. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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"The Rise and Fall of the Four Genna Brothers," "Charlie Birger, Ruler of the Rackets," "Thomas Dun...Fiend of a Thousand Forms!", "Comicrimes," "Henry Plummer, Virginia City Renegade," and "William Garner, The Florida Fox!" Two page text story, "Murderer's Mirth!" Astute collectors seek pre-code comics featuring transvestism, hypodermic needles, "injury to eye" panels, and other oddball story devices. In this issue, a double dose of transvestism occurs. In "Thomas Dun," Dun dresses up like a woman a couple of times to trick his intended victims. And in "William Garner, The Florida Fox," Garner dresses like a woman in an attempt to evade police. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Matt Baker and Ray Osrin. Stories and art by George Tuska and Paul Gattuso. Mystery and adventure comics from St. John featuring heroic reporters. Jinx Jordan investigates the murder of wealthy Diana Von Kyll, and the killers abduct his girlfriend Ginny. Rod Holmes uses his X-ray vision and powerful eyebeams to search for a missing heir. Ventrilo and his allies - his sister Cora and his scientist brother, "Dr. Doom" - battle a snake cult in a small town. Lawson Hunt must save a key witness before a trial, in a story with art by future Marvel legend George Tuska. Another stunning cover by good-girl art legend Matt Baker. Jinx Jordan: Gang Victim Avenged by Crime Reporters; Blue Monk: Dynamite Switch Foils Payroll Loot Payoff; Lawson Hunt, Newsman Balks Scheme to Kill Key Witness; Pseudo-Murder; Ventrilo: Murder Unmasks Snake Cult Chiefs Swindle; Rod Holmes: Poison Death Linked to Fake Heir Fraud; Mock Murder. Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover text quoted in Fredric Wertham's "Seduction of the Innocent". In order of appearance: "Yvonne Ravenal, The Parisian Panther"; "Gladys Behmer Plans Murder"; "Daughter of the Devil, Rosa Harte"; "Gang Leaders, Owney Madden"; "Gang Leaders, Big Bill Lingley and Freddie Muehfeldt" reprinted from Murder Incorporated (1948 1st Series) #3; and "Don Wan". "White-Hot Murder" text story reprinted in Murder Incorporated (1950 2nd Series) #5. 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Art by Edmond Good and others. Cover by Jack Kamen. Dagar the Desert Hawk, aka Bart Benson, is a Lawrence of Arabesque hero who lives and fights in the Arabian desert. A greedy wildcatter wants to drill for oil in a mysterious lost valley beyond the big dunes, but somehow doesn't foresee the presence of cave men and dinosaurs; The Nomad Queen targets a village under Safari Cary's protection; A corrupt chieftain poisons a watering hole and tries to blame jungle warrior Tangi. Valley Prehistoric!; The Million Dollar Face!; Stranger Than Fiction; Nomad Queen!; Strange Justice; The Scarlet Guilt! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Charles Biro. The Reno Brothers - The Four Horsemen of Horror!, art by Bob Fujitani [as B. Fuje]. Hank Plummer, art by Fred Kida; The lead-slinging ruler of one of the most vicious gangs ever to prey on innocent prospectors. Doc Halliday, art by Ed Moore; Doc reached a fame that few gun-toters of the old west have equaled. Joe Rock - He Kept the Gravediggers Busy text story, art by George Tuska. Wes Hardin, art by Fred Guardineer. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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1st appearance of the Riddler. Cover by Win Mortimer. Stories by Bill Finger, Otto Binder and unknown. Art by Dick Sprang, Charles Paris, Jimmy Thompson, Howard Sherman, Curt Swan and Steve Brodie. Having grown up an expert and a cheat when it came to solving puzzles, Edward Nigma decides to use this capacity to mystify the police and Batman...as the Riddler! Don't miss Batman and Robin in "The Riddler" by Bill Finger, Dick Sprang and Charles Paris. Plus: Robotman in "Robotman's Double Trouble!" by Otto Binder and Jimmy Thompson; Slam Bradley in "Dog for a Day!" with art by Howard Sherman; and The Boy Commandos in "The Dictator from Alcatraz!" with art by Curt Swan and Steve Brodie. Also: 2-page text story "To the Moon and Back." 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 40, Issue 3 - October, 1948. 6.75" x 9", 134 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Stories and art by Chester Gould and Bill Ely. Dell reprints the original comic-strip adventures of legendary tough cop Dick Tracy and his rogues gallery of freakish enemies. This issue reprints strips from April 12 - May 26, 1935. After battling wildcats at Cutie Diamond's cave hideout, Tracy figures out how to smoke out the fugitives Boris and Zora Arson - literally. The backup feature by Bill Ely stars tough cop Jim O'Brien, a plainclothes detective nicknamed The Iron Man. Dick Tracy; Dick Tracy Reports to You; The Iron Man. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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"My Husband Dies Slowly" a novelette by John D McDonald.

Volume 58, Issue 2 - October, 1948. 6.75" x 9", 100 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Volume 37, Issue 3 - October, 1948. 6.75" x 9", 100 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

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October 1948. Western adventure novels "He Bought the Law'" by Thomas Thompson and "Beware the Boothill Drummer!" by John Jo Carpenter. Novelette "Here's Dirt in Your Face!" by Clifton Adams. Short stories by George C. Appell, Tom W. Blackburn, and Frank Bonham. A few illustrations. 7-in. x 9 1/2-in.; black and white; 98 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

During the 1940s, military hero Don Winslow was the star of a comic strip, a movie serial and a popular radio show in addition to this Fawcett comic. During WWII, Don matches wits with his old foe The American, an Axis agent educated in the US. Don gets some downtime during the war, in a story that includes an image of him water-skiing behind a battleship while avoiding enemy fire. Boxer Flatbush Foley returns, seeking to manage his own career, but he lacks the brain power. Plus a vintage Tootsie Roll ad, Captain Tootsie Traps Killer Bear with Invisible Light, with art by Shazam co-creator CC Beck, and a hair-cream ad featuring detective Sam Spade. The Return of the American!; Shipwreck Jones and Seaweed Sam: Singing Seamen; Don Winslow Takes It Easy; Don Winslows Crossword Puzzle; Warriors of the Sea: Sturdee's Revenge; Bell Bottom Bill; Foul Fisticuffs. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Contains young adult humor stories. In order of appearance: "Dotty, Magical Mania"; "Dotty, The Date Haters" art by Al Hartley; "Sorority Sue, Romance on the Run" art by Red Holmdale; "Jerry the Jinx, Football Folly"; and "Dotty, The Wrong Number for Love" art by Al Hartley. "Gags and Giggles" joke pages. 52 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 15, Issue 20 - October 6, 1948. Long running music magazine focusing on jazz and blues. 32 pages, B&W Cover price $0.25.

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Volume 19, Issue 4 - October 1948 (whole number 114). 6 1/2-in. x 9 1/4-in., 228 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.20.

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Volume 5, Issue 2 - October, 1948. Vintage men's interest magazine full of adult humor comics and tasteful pin-up pictorials. 8.5" x 11.5", 68 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Two electrocution stories and injury-to-eye story used in Seduction of the Innocent. Art by Louis Ravelli and others. One of the era's notorious crime comics, presenting violent acts, some inspired by actual events, as cautionary tales. Escaped convict George Sitts kills two cops and gets the chair; Bobby Webb and his gang go on a murderous crime spree across Chicago; Teen hood Jack Hammer graduates to truck hijacking, but a scheme for revenge proves his undoing. This issue was mentioned in Seduction of the Innocent for its use of the notorious injury to the eye motif. Geo. Sitts: Killer on the Loose!; Bobby Webb: The Chicago Terror; Odds Can Be Even; Jack Hammer: The Handsome Hi-Jacker!; Rita Boone. In order of appearance: "Geo. Sitts, Killer on the Loose!" art by Louis Ravielli; "Bobby Webb, The Chicago Terror"; "Jack Hammer, The Handsome Hi-Jacker!" retitled and reprinted as "The Bloody Era...!" in Startling Terror Tales (1952-53 1st Series) #14; and "Rita Boone". "Odds Can Be Even" text story. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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"The Woman" a short story by Ray Bradbury, and "That Low" a short story by Theodore Sturgeon, plus "The Human Angle" another short story by William Tenn. Also, in the "Master of Fantasy" column Edgar Rice Burroughs this profiled.

Volume 10, Issue 1 - October, 1948. Cover by Lawrence Stevens. "The Women" by Ray Bradbury, plus other science fiction and fantasy reprints by C. T. Stoneham, William Tenn, and Theodore Sturgeon. Interior illustrations by Virgil Finlay, Ronald Clyne, Neil Austin, Lawrence Stevens. 7-in. x 9 1/2-in.; black and white; 130 newsprint pages. Published by Popular Publications Cover price $0.25.

Cover by Martha B. Links. Stories and art by Allen Saunders, Elmer Woggon, Clifford McBride, Philip Francis Nowlan, Rick Yager (credited as Dick Calkins), Claude Dunnagan, Rodlow Willard, Mabel Burwick (credited as Odin), Martha B. Links, and Ralph Briggs Fuller. The long-running series that introduced "comic books" to the world, featuring reprints of comic strips. Scorchy Smith tracks The Dragon to an illegal wrestling match, but Jo is injured in the chase. Morgana traps Oaky Doaks, but luckily his horse Nellie is nearby. Dickie Dare dons a disguise in the Philippines, but he isn't prepared for the local intoxicants. Also featuring a full-page ad for movie and celebrity stills from Irving Klaw, better known these days as the man who "discovered" pinup model Bettie Page. Steve Roper and Wahoo; Napoleon; Buck Rogers; Scorchy Smith; Potential Killer; Dickie Dare; Bobby Sox; Oaky Doaks. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 10, Issue 10 - October, 1948. Cover by Robert Gibson Jones. Stories include "This Way to Heaven" by Harold M. Sherman, "Ernest's Evil Entity" by Arthur T. Harris, "The Well-Wisher" by Bernie Kamins, and "The Pruning Man" by Robert Moore Williams. Illustrations by Robert Gibson Jones, Henry Sharp, and Julian Krupa. 7-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 154 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

Cover by Chad Grothkopf. Stories and art by Chad Grothkopf and others. Funny-animal comics from Fawcett, featuring Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, who has the same powers and power-word as his hero (Shazam!). Millie puts on a circus for the orphans, but Skinflint wants half the profits for using his property, until Captain Marvel Bunny intervenes. Billy the Kid and Sheriff Oscar the Ostrich travel to the big city, where things are much different than in their tiny desert town of Dry Gulch. When sinister magician Presto starts making the important people in town disappear, Hoppy becomes Marvel Bunny to get to the bottom of it. Hoppy the Marvel Bunny: Circus Capers; Billy the Kid and Oscar: Trouble in the Big City; Brother Troll: Peanut Sale; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck: There's Fight in Them Thar Hills; Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear: For Bed-Der or Worse; Hoppy the Marvel Bunny: A Box of Tricks. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.