Comic books August 1946

Cover art by Ron Santi. "Playing with Dynamite!" starring The Three Mouseketeers, art by Ron Santi; King Looey sends a shipment of exploding cigars to his enemy King Size of Sizonia. And then sends the boys to get them back. "Two Gun Blackie," art by Saul Kessler; Blackie Bear accidentally gets his picture on a reward poster and is mistaken for Two-Gun Tugger; Unfortunately Blackie has amnesia and can't correct the error. U.S. Royal rubber ad, art by Al Plastino. "Bumps on a Bicycle!" starring J. Rufus Lion, art by Ron Santi; Rufus accidentally gets himself entered in a blindfolded bicycle race. Untitled The Walrus and the Rooster story, art by Stan Green; The Rooster finds two tickets to a costume party. Untitled Bulldog Drumhead story, art by Ron Santi; Bulldog takes Oliver's gun away and gives him a camera instead. Ol' Judge Owl text story by Martin Naydel (as Martin Nadle). "Meet Shoe Shine Badgers" Who's Who in Zooville story, art by Ron Santi. "One Sandwich... Roastbeef!" starring McSnurtle the Turtle, art by Martin Naydel; McSnurtle tries to deliver a roast beef sandwich but ends up teaching a class full of delinquents by mistake. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Canadian series. Featuring Commander Steel, Dr. Destine, Red Rover, and more. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Sam Singer cover. Contains teen antics stories in the style of Archie Comics. In order of appearance: "Hap Hazard, The Naturalist"; "Hap Hazard, A Fish Story"; "Hap Hazard, So Now They Tell Me"; "Slug, Fan Mah Brow"; "Flophead"; "Hap Hazard, All Tied Up"; "Hap Hazard"; "Hap Hazard, Blind Bargains"; "Hap Hazard, The Grocery Boy"; "Zippermouth"; and "Hap Hazard, At the Country Club". "Chasing Criminals Can Be Very Costly" text story by Joe Blair. 52 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Vintage supermarket tabloid magazine full of high profile true crime stories of the FBI and the CIA, some with testimonials from those involved in, or close to the cases themselves. 8.5" x 10.5", 66 pages, B&W. Recommended for ages 16+. Cover price $0.15.

Aug-Sept 1946. Volume 4, Issue 9. Humor Digest featuring jokes and cartoons. Two cartoons by Vic Herman and two by Henry Boltinoff. Softcover Digest, side-stitched, 5 1/4-in. x 7 1/4-in., 64 Pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Volume 4, Issue 10 - August 1946, 8.5" x 11", 38 pages, B&W. Long running magazine that features song lyrics, celebrity gossip, articles, and fan letters. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Ross H. Davis, Don Rico, Milt Hammer, A. W. Nugent and Jack Warren. Kids' comics from Novelty Press. The mayor of Boomville decides the broken-down, ramshackle Jerkwater Line train can no longer pass through town - but luckily, the governor is an old friend of Aunt Tillie. The Hermit of the Woods shows Mickey Starlight the classic tale of hubris and heartbreak, the last flight of Icarus. The story of how Butch got his Magic Wishing Cap. Plus puzzle and activity pages. Another action-packed, impressively detailed cover, possibly by Al Fago. Speck, Spot and Sis; Kids Is Kids; Mickey Starlight: The Story of Daedalus and Icarus; Stingers; Initiated; Dink; The Jerkwater Line; Humdinger Humor; Humdinger Fun Page; Butch: How Butch Got His Magic Wishing Cap; Hero Stuff. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

One of many vintage supermarket tabloid magazines full of high profile FBI and CIA cases of the era, accompanied by black and white photographs and testimonials from those involved in, and close to the events themselves. 8.5" x 10.5", 58 pages, B&W, recommended for 16+. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Larz Bourne. Stories and art by George Carlson, Dave Tendlar, Allen Ulmer, Larz Bourne, Ben Levin, Jack Ehret, Mickey Klar Marks and Doug Anderson. Kids' comics featuring the whimsical fables of beloved artist George Carlson, praised by Harlan Ellison as a "comic of the absurd." Merry Ike the Savage Sailor steals a pond-lily of particular interest to the Filligree King, and only the Straight-Shooting Princess can set things right. Hortense has a dream she turns into a lawnmower. Princess Panatella Murphy buys a bag of extra-stinky cheese that looks exactly like the ransom bag The Pie-Faced Prince must give Rajah Razzo Razzh-Berri. Also featuring an ad for Pepsi-Cola starring "Pepsi the Pepsi-Cola Cop." Bingo and Glum in Fairytale Land; Chauncey Chirp and Johnny Jay; Jingle Jangle Tales: The Straight-Shooting Princess and the Filigree Pond-Lily; Pronto Pete; Hortense the Lovable Brat; Seminole Sam; A New Coat for Morty; Aunty Spry; Tapper!; Sailors Always Say 'Sir'; The Pie-Face Prince of Old Pretzleburg. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ham Fisher (credited). Stories and art by Ham Fisher (credited), Bob Barnes, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Ham Fisher's comic-strip boxer has adventures both inside and outside the ring. Back in the States after World War II, Joe is immediately caught up in a murder mystery involving a suspect who looks just like him. The Boy Explorers board a rocket for the moon, in a story by comics legends Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Plus an illustrated feature on Joe Palooka creator Ham Fisher going to the White House to meet President Harry Truman. Ham Fisher Visits the President; The Big Carnival Murder Mystery; Foul Play; Innocent or Guilty; Trapping the Killer; Fight To the Finish; ..About Ham Fisher; Tiara Temptation; Boy Explorers: A Trip To the Moon; Box Seats For Two; Cartoon Laughs. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Humor/funny animal comics: Bizzy Bee, Percy the Postman, Timothy and the Robot, Penny Penguin, Snub n' Bub, Herman, Slick and Slack. Nice art. 7.5-in. x 10.25-in.; color; 48 pages. Cover price $0.10.

In order of appearance: "Sheena, Queen of the Jungle" and "The Hawk" art by Robert Webb; "Stuart Taylor in Weird Stories of the Supernatural" art by Alex Blum; "Sky Girl" art by Matt Baker; and "ZX-5" and "The Ghost Gallery", reprinted in Ghost Comics (1951 Fiction House) #3, art by Jack Kamen. "Sheena and the Wailing Stones" text story. 52 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Classic bondage cover by Joe Doolin. "Salome of the Devil-Cats," art by John Celardo; Salome, a witch, convinces the rajah that she can make him young again; Kaänga determines to expose her as a fraud; Ann exposes Salome as a fraud and is taken prisoner; Salome prooceeds to torture her. Kaänga arrives, rescues Ann, and kills Salome. Untitled story, art by August Froehlich; Simba rescues a jerboa from a gorilla; Later, when Simba, wounded by a pygmy dart, is battling a leopard for the jungle kingship, the jerboa returns the favor and pulls the dart from Simba, enabling him to defeat the leopard. Untitled story, art by Richard Case; A pair of treasure hunters raid the village of the Kalembus and kill the king; Tabu places a curse on them and both die before they can get out of the jungle. Jungle Facts. Untitled story; A professor visiting the jungle goes mad, believing himself the king of the jungle with power over life and death for all inhabitants; Wambi and his jungle friends manage to rescue the professor just before he is killed by the villagers. "Curse of the Panther Queen" text story. Untitled story, art by Bob Lubbers; Konga, the woman leader of a gang of criminal traders, breaks into the post in order to free her gang. Untitled story, art by Fran Hopper; Camilla opens the bronze door in her temple and finds an underground civilization, called the Devils. The Devils have a prisoner, a village woman, that they intend to have killed by wild animals. Camilla rescues the woman and see to it that the Devils' leader is killed by a leopard. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Early science fiction zine of fans offering to trade books. 8.5-in. x 11-in.; black and white; 6 pages; no cover price.

Winter 1945. The Key, Dick Dash, Eskey & Mo, Death Takes No Holiday (Walter Johnson art), and Carmen. Johnson cover. Cover price $0.10.

Edited by Ruth Plumly Thompson (sometimes credited as Jo King). Stories and art by Chic Young, Fran Striker, Charles Flanders, Bob Dunn, Frank Miller, Bob Naylor, Lee Falk, Phil Davis, Bela Zaboly, George McManus, Austin Briggs, Jack Sords, Wilson McCoy, Otto Soglow, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Carl Anderson, and Alex Raymond. Pioneering comics publisher David McKay presents an anthology series featuring reprints of King Features Syndicate comic strips. The Phantom investigates a murder similar to one that occurred 20 years ago; Mandrake the Magician and Lothar seek the Fountain of Youth. Blondie; The Lone Ranger; Dun-Dums; Barney Baxter in the Air; Mandrake the Magician; Thimble Theatre; Bringing Up Father; Flash Gordon; Sords Sports; The Phantom; The Little King; Henry. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Olive Bailey. Stories by Isabel Manning Hewson, Al Chase and Robert Snedigar. Art by Olive Bailey and Saul Kessler. The comics adaptation of a popular children's radio show, from back when EC was still run by Max Gaines and called "Educational Comics." Isabel and Billy travel to a magical undersea kingdom after befriending Red Lantern, a talking fish. During Red Lantern's birthday, he accidentally cures Triton's blindness. In a story sanctioned by the American Museum of Natural History, Johnny Jackrabbit (who looks a lot like Bugs Bunny) explores life in the American desert. Flitty Flicker the bird runs away from home to find fun things to do, but the outside world is full of animals trying to eat each other. Plus ads for Picture Stories of the Bible and Picture Stories from American History, other early "Educational Comics" classics. Land of the Lost; The Hall of Lost Lamps; Mystical Meteorites; Desert Dawn; The Picnic in the Dell. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

August 17, 1946. Fiction and non-fiction stories with illustrations. 8.5-in. x 11.5-in.; black and white; 52 pages. Cover price $0.05.

August 24, 1946. Fiction and non-fiction stories with illustrations. 8.5-in. x 11.5-in.; black and white; 52 pages. Cover price $0.05.

August 31, 1946. Fiction and non-fiction stories with illustrations. 8.5-in. x 11.5-in.; black and white; 52 pages. Cover price $0.05.

Romance magazine published by Martin Goodman. Fiction illustrated with photographs. 8 1/2-in. x 10 3/4-in., 82 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

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Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies (1941-1962 Dell) is a comic book published by Dell Publishing Co. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Chic Young. Edited by Margery McKay (sometimes credited as G. Whiz). Stories and art by Lee Falk, Phil Davis, Fran Striker, Charles Flanders, Roy Crane, Robert Storm, Mel Graff, Carl Anderson, Chic Young, Bob Dunn, Joe Musial, Tom Sims, and Bela Zaboly. Lee Falk's adventurer Mandrake the Magician gets top billing in this anthology series featuring reprints of King Features Syndicate comic strips. The Lone Ranger rides again; Heroes on Wings focuses on airman Leon Crane. Mandrake the Magician; Jan and Aloysius; High Spots; Buz Sawyer; The Lone Ranger; Secret Agent X-9; Henry; Little Acorns; Popeye; Blondie; Dollar-A-Dither. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Issue 2 - May to August, 1947. The independent magazine for the amateur magician. In this issue: Dell O'Dell Queen of Magic, How to read your friend's minds, The secrets to misdirection, Tales and tricks by Robert Nelson, and more. 8" x 10.5", 24 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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August, 1946. Cover paintings by Arnold Kohn and Joe W. Tillotson. Includes "The Cuckoo Clock" by Milton Ozaki, "Last Lap" by Stan Knowlton, "Just For Luck, My Darling!" by Gerald S. Close, "Mary Dies Tonight" by A.J. Collins, and more. 7" x 9-1/2", black and white, 180 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

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Cover art by Vince Alascia. The Ventriloquist's Vengeance starring Human Torch, art by Al Bellman. Murder with Music starring Sub-Mariner, pencils by Allen Simon, inks by Al Bellman. Message from the Dead starring Miss America, pencils by Charles Nicholas, inks by Ken Bald. Hunt for Courage text story. Jeff Goes High Hat starring Young Allies. The Killer-Ghost of Harmon Castle starring Angel. 52 pages. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Jack Binder. "Leave of Absence," script by Otto Binder; When Mary Batson finds she cannot transform into Mary Marvel, Shazam appears to explain that for 24 hours once each 1000 years his powers don't work; Today is that day! "Has Time on Her Hands" one-page story, script and art by Howard Boughner. "Beauty and the Beast," script by Otto Binder; Mr. Beest gives Dangerous Dan a mask so he can impersonate Vanderpool, the millionaire. "Sand Trap" text story by Justin Dewey Triem. "Kindest Man in the World!", script by Otto Binder; A candy shop owner hides a stickup man from Mary in return for a promise he reform. "The Slaphappy Seals," script by Otto Binder; Gaylord's seals (Marmaduke, Sylvester, Lancelot, and Gwendoline) get him kicked out of the room he rented. Mary helps him find another. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.