Comic books August 1947

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Mysteries, 1st Printing, Line Drawing Cover. (HRN 40, 8/47). Edgar All Poe stories: "The Pit and the Pendulum", "The Adventure of Hans Pfall" and "The Fall of the House of Usher". Art by August M. Froelich, H.C. Kiefer & Harley M. Griffiths. Cover price $0.10.

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Mysteries, 3rd Printing, Line Drawing Cover. (HRN 75). Edgar All Poe stories: "The Pit and the Pendulum", "The Adventure of Hans Pfall" and "The Fall of the House of Usher". Art by August M. Froelich, H.C. Kiefer & Harley M. Griffiths. Cover price $0.15.

August 16, 1947. The classic weekly magazine featuring news and fiction. Article on the Library of Congress, a profile on actor William Powell and more. Full page color ads include Plymouth, Dodge, Mercury, Hudson, TWA, 7-Up, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Blatz Beer and Martin Aircraft are standouts. 10.75" x 13.75", 72 pages, PC/B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Bernard Dibble. Stories and art by Bernard Dibble and John Hix. An anthology series from St. John, reprinting the runs of classic comic strips. This issue focuses on super-powered baseball player Iron Vic. A rare United Features character who originated in comic books (rather than strips), Iron Vic's superpowers were downplayed in favor of sports drama by this point in his series. Iron Vic shows four juvenile delinquents how they can change their lives, both on and off the field. Plus reprints of the Ripley-like Strange As It Seems. Strange as It Seems; Iron Vic; The Kids' Idol. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Art by Pat Adams, Ellis Chambers and Jim Regan. Cosmic Catnip Capsules turn an ordinary feline into Cosmo Cat, who lives on the moon and uses a rocket to travel to Earth and fight evil. An evil genie released from a lamp threatens to destroy the world unless Cosmo Cat can stop him. Lil Pan, son of the Greek god, visits the lost city of Atlantis in the second part of a multi-part story. The would-be galactic conqueror Horroface threatens to destroy Earth with a tidal wave, in the fifth part of Cosmo's multi-part adventure serial; the story concludes in issue #9. Cosmo Cat and the Evil Genie; Cosmo Cat and the Smiling Martian; Percy and the Spanish Treasure; Threatening Flood; Li'l Pan in Atlantis; Cosmo Cat Cut-Outs; Tidal Wave (Chapter 5). 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ellis Chambers. Stories and art by Ellis Chambers. Numbering follows Captain Flight Comics (1944) #11. Kids' comics from Ajax-Farrell. Superfox, who is...a superpowered fox, battles bank robber Needle Noggin, whose head is a narrow point. The annual Rabbit-Turtle Race gets even wackier than usual when they both go airborne in different ways. Buddy follows a rainbow into Rainbowland. Superfox Versus Needle-Noggin; Jumps Rabbit; Buddy; The Clock; Bonzo the Monster; Goofy Gator. Final issue under this title; numbering continues with Brenda Starr Vol. 1 (1947 Four Star) #13. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Jack Burnley and Charles Paris. Stories by unknown. Art by Jim Mooney, Ray Burnley, John Daly, Lee Harris, Curt Swan and Steve Brodie. The Penguin invents a songbird society, then attempts to get famed singers to donate to its cause or risk losing their voices in the Batman and Robin tale "Case of the Silent Songbirds!" with art by Jim Mooney and Ray Burnley. Plus: Slam Bradley in "The Perilous Puppets!" with art by John Daly; Air Wave in "Felons in Furs!" with art by Lee Harris; and The Boy Commandos in "D-Day on the Boulder!" with art by Curt Swan and Steve Brodie. Also: Tubby, the Happy Tramp half-pager by Phil Berube; Chief Hot Foot 1-pager by Henry Boltinoff; 2-page text story "Blackboard of Death" by Rex Drake; and Shorty 2-pager. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 49, Issue 4 - August, 1947. 7" x 10", 98 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

July 1947. "The Monkey Suit" by Kenneth Robeson; "The Woman in the Attic" by Thorne Lee; and "Design in Red" by William Brandon. Digest size, 5-5/8" x 7-3/4"; black and white; 162 pages. Cover price $0.25.

Stories and art by Tom McNamara and others. 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. Don explores the ocean floor in an experimental submersible, and soon finds himself under attack by an angry octopus. Don and Red investigate after saboteurs cause the Navy's newest ships to sink upon launch. Don realizes that a phony news photographer is actually an assassin, because he's never heard of any newspaper called "The Daily Bugle" (!). Plus a vintage Tootsie Roll ad, Captain Tootsie Saves the School Party, with art by Shazam co-creator CC Beck, and a hair-cream ad featuring detective Sam Spade. Maelstrom of the Deep; Don Winslows Crossword Puzzle; Death at High Noon; Denizens of the Deep; Whipper Snappers; Jetsam Joe; Flatbush Foley's New Career; Dippy Detours; Warriors of the Sea: Battle of the Nile; Bell Bottom Bill; The Camera Fiend! 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 14, Issue 1 - August, 1947. 7" x 10", 114 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

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Vol. 4, No. 1 - August, 1947. Men's magazine with humor and pin up pictorials, including one depicting a cat fight and another spanking. Peter Driben cover. 8.5" x 11.5", 68 pages, Black and white. Cover price $0.25.

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Volume 8, Issue 6 - August, 1947. Cover by Virgil Finlay. "Minimum Man, or, Time to Be Gone" by Andrew Marvell, and "Boomerang" by George Whitley. Interior Illustrations by Lawrence, Bok, and Austin. 7-in. x 9 1/2-in.; 134 Pages, B&W. Published by Popular Publications Cover price $0.25.

Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Buck Rogers" by Philip Francis Nowlan and Rick Yager (as Dick Calkins); "Invisible Scarlet O'Neil" by Russell Stamm; "Steve Roper and Wahoo" by Allen Saunders and Elmer Woggon; "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "Dickie Dare" by Milton Caniff; "Scorchy Smith" by Noel Sickles; and "Oaky Doaks" by Ralph Briggs Fuller. "Slab-Wagon Tony" text story. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 52 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Fantasy Advertiser Vol. 2 #2 (August 1947, no date on cover), published by Gus Willmorth. Cover by Joe Gibson. In this issue: Forrest J Ackerman - The Fantasy Marker. WA Liebscher - Of Nova Tomes. With general editorial content, and ads from the era. 32 pages. Cover price $0.10.

Vol. 1, No. 3. August 1947. UK science fiction story magazine. 5.5" x 8.5". 96 pages. Black and white. Text with occasional illustrations.

Cover art by Al Bryant. "Doll Man Meets the Highwayman," art by Al Bryant; Sheriff Thomas Dane, the great-grandfather of Darrel Dane, had once caught a highwayman named Erik Drum; Erik then possessed his descendant, John Drum, who becomes the masked Highwayman that Doll Man must stop once and for all. "Rodeo Show" starring Roscoe. "A New Song By Stephen Foster" humorous detective-mystery story starring Swing Sisson. "Welcome To Naughty Land" starring Perky, script and art by Sid Lazarus. Untitled Mickey Finn story, script and art by Lank Leonard. "Escape From Behind Bars" starring Blimpy, script and art by Al Stahl. "Cap'n Bragg the Pirate" starring Rusty Ryan, script and art by Paul Gustavson. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Featuring the origin of Tiger Girl; as well as art by Jack Kamen and Matt Baker. Cover by Joe Doolin. Edited by Jack Byrne and Jerry Iger. Stories and art by Jack Kamen, Lily Renee, Robert Webb, John Forte and Matt Baker. A combat-themed anthology from Fiction House that featured early work from many future comics legends (often uncredited) in the Eisner-Iger Shop. Tiger Girl's origin is retold, as she's trapped by bounty hunters who know she's actually an Indian princess; An opera star plans to frame the woman who spurned him for his own suicide; Good-girl art aplenty as Senorita Rio must free a dictator's widow from a South American prison. "Reverse bondage" cover featuring Tiger Girl rescuing a bound male captive, her sidekick Abdola. Tiger Girl; Risks, Unlimited starring Rip Carson; Kayo Kirby; Jungle Terror; Hateful Herman; Hooks Devlin; Senorita Rio; Captain Fight. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Alex Schomburg cover. 52 pages. Cover price $0.10.

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Flash stars in "Stone Age Menace," written by Robert Kanigher, pencils by Lee Elias, inks by Joe Kubert. Also includes: Ghost Patrol in "The Case of the Extra Ghost" by John B. Wentworth and Carmine Infantino; Johnny Thunder in "The Black Canary" written by Kanigher, pencils by Carmine Infantino, inks by Joe Giella; Ton o' Fun by Harry Lampert; Coward text story by John Broome (as John Osgood); and Hawkman in "The Valley of the Purple Pilgrim" by Kanigher and Kubert. Cover pencils by Elias, inks by Kubert. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is "MARGE'S LITTLE LULU, No. 158." Little Lulu for President; Lulu and Tubby both decide they could grow up to be President; Tubby decides to copy George Washington's mythical feat of chopping down the cherry tree. Takes the Cake; Lulu goes with Tubby to the bakery; He buys a cake, but drops it on the way home;They take the cake to Lulu's house to try to repair it. Just a Gigolo; Lulu and a new girl, Dolly, try to bribe Tubby with candy and soda so he'll notice them. Lulu's Lamp; Lulu tells Alvin a story about when she was a poor girl who worked for a shoemaker; An old man gives her a magic lamp after she gives him some shoes; The lamp has a genie that can grant her any wish--except for one thing. Scripts by John Stanley, pencils by John Stanley (layouts) and Irving Tripp, inks by Irving Tripp. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "Walt Disney's DONALD DUCK IN THE GHOST OF THE GROTTO, No. 159." Cover art by Carl Buettner. Donald Duck and the Ghost of the Grotto; While the ducks are running a kelp-gathering boat in the West Indies, they are told of the mystery of an armored man who appears every fifty years to kidnap a small boy; This time, the armored man kidnaps Dewey, and the ducks fight to free him from the armored man's stronghold in a grotto in a coral reef, beneath a rotten old galleon guarded by an enormous octopus. Adventure Down Under; Donald is hypnotized into believing he is a kangaroo and buys airplane tickets to Australia for himself and the nephews; In Australia the ducks try to trap Mournful Mary, the "queen of the kangaroos," and this leads to Donald's falling into the hands of savage aborigines. Scripts and art by Carl Barks. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is "ROY ROGERS COMICS, No. 160." Roy Rogers photo cover. Pre-1947 candid-like shot of Roy and leading lady Dale Evans inside cover photo. Roy Rogers and the Guns of Mystery Mountain, script by Gaylord Du Bois, art by Albert Micale; Roy Rogers; Kay Roberts, a rancher's daughter; and Larry Parsons, the ranch's foreman, deal with cattle rustlers who operate out of an abandoned mine. Roy and Dale on original Trigger inside back cover. Roy sitting astride original Trigger back cover photo. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is "TARZAN AND THE FIRES OF TOHR, No. 161." Cover art by Jesse Marsh. Descriptions of Tarzan's animal friends. Tarzan and the Fires of Tohr; Tarzan and his friend Paul D'Arnot find Professor James Barton and his daughter Ruth alone in the jungle after their bearers had deserted them; The quartet is attacked by hostile natives and have to flee by canoe. Tarzan and the Black Panther; Tarzan and his friend Muviro battle the Arab slave trader Sidi Ben Yemlik, known as the Black Panther. List of Tarzan's names for the jungle animals. Scripts by Robert P. Thompson, art by Jesse Marsh; Tarzan and his friend Paul D'Arnot find Professor James Barton and his daughter Ruth alone in the jungle after their bearers had deserted them; The quartet is attacked by hostile natives and have to flee by canoe. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

In order of appearance: "Hap Hazard in 'Baby Sitter'"; "Jerry the Jinx" art by Hal Lockwood; "Hazel of Hollywood in 'Oh, That Super Saleswoman!'"; "Introducing Curly" art by Gus Schrotter; and "Hap and Babs, 'Love at First Sight'". "It's a Joke, Son!" joke pages. 52 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Harvey Eisenberg. Stories by Joe Barbera and others. Art by Harvey Eisenberg. Funny-animal comics featuring Foxy the smart-aleck fox, his inventor pal Bobble, and assorted toons. Foxy takes a job testing a new pen that can write under any conditions, but that means lots of dangerous stunts for Foxy, in a story by Joe Barbera, half of the legendary Hanna-Barbera animation team.Bugsey Bear tries to make his own bubble gum rather than spend a few cents, but instead he creates the world's greatest adhesive. Tweet decides to do away with Pete once and for all, but he forgot that cats have nine lives. Foxy Fagan; Little Buck; Pete and Tweet; Bugsey Bear Family; Weaver the Beaver; Pancakes. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Dick Briefer and Alan Maver. Cover by Dick Briefer. The first incarnation of Dick Briefer's famed Frankenstein comic featured Addams Family-style dark comedy and monster hijinks. Chaos ensues after a wheel of cheese and a clock are mistakenly switched; Jerry Seagull and Joe Shoestring (spoofs on Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster) introduce the Monster to their comics creation, Blooperman; Frankenstein recalls a case of mistaken identity on a tropical island. The Zombies; The Musical Horse; The Pie-Eyed Piper; Blooperman by Seagull & Shoestring; Hector; Hail the King. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Written by unknown. Art by Ken Bald and unknown. Frankie, America's scream boy, stars in three tales: "One Gal Too Many!"; "Double Trouble!"; and "The Ghost!" Plus: Cindy in two tales with art by Ken Bald: "School Daze!" and "Fun at the Fountain!" And: 2-page text story "The Masterpiece"! 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Al Fago. Stories and art by Al Fago, A. W. Nugent, Mickey Klar Marks, Jim Adams, Harold Abbey, E. J. Reeves and Milt Hammer. Sometimes listed as Frisky Fables #20. Funny-animal hijinks in a cutesy style from Novelty Press. Kunda the Snake just wants to dance, but he has no legs. Mute Zany Giraffe tries to protect the smaller creatures from Spots the Cat. Icicle Ike invents a TV that allows the shows to talk back to the viewer, and soon realizes he's created a monster. Neddy Bear; Icicle Ike; Zany Giraffe; Pidgy and the Magic Paint; Tick, Tack and Toe; The Snake Who Wanted to Dance; Myrtle and Jocko; Dopsy Durvy: The Missing Tails!; Sniffy. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Otto Feuer. Mutt & Jeff ad. Untitled The Dodo and the Frog story, art by Otto Feuer; Fenimore runs for Garbage Collector. Wheaties ad featuring Luke Appling. Untitled J. Rufus Lion story, art by Rube Grossman; Mortimer tries to convince Rufus he's his cousin so he'll invite him to the party. Untitled story starring Blackie Bear, the Cubs and the Professor, art by Rube Grossman. All Star Comics No. 36 ad featuring the Justice Society of America. Untitled The Three Mouseketeers story, art by Harris Steinbrook; Aramouse tells the boys that he's building a garage because he loves music. Untitled Henry the Laffing Hyena story, art by Harris Steinbrook; Elmo hypnotises Harry into being a boxer. Untitled The Dodo and the Frog text story, art by Otto Feuer. Untitled The Dodo and the Frog story, art by Otto Feuer; Fenimore visits a fortune teller and gets stuck inside the crystal ball. Dick Tracy Rapid-Fire Tommy Gun ad. More Fun Comics No. 124 ad featuring Jimminy and the Magic Book. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.