Comic books March 1949

52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ken Bald. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Tales of romance from legendary early independent comics publisher ACG, one of the earliest of the romantic comics genre of the postwar era. Scientists discover an immortal lost race in the jungles of Peru, but when the king offers to make Gloria his queen, she must choose between him and handsome scientist Andrew; A woman chasing a wealthy husband finds herself more attracted to handsome valet Bob; A romance told from the male viewpoint, as inventor Ed tries to choose between sexy but heartless Sylvia or nice-girl secretary Judy. Romance Can Be Risky; The Star and the Starlet; My Heart Went Astray!; The Real Thing; Man in Love!; Strange Marriage Customs; Love of a Government Girl. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Joe Musial. Edited by Margery McKay (sometimes credited as G. Whiz). Stories and art by Lee Falk, Phil Davis, Fran Striker, Charles Flanders, Robert Storm, Mel Graff, Carl Anderson, Clayton Knight, Chic Young, Bob Dunn, and Joe Musial. Lee Falk's adventurer Mandrake the Magician gets top billing in this anthology series featuring reprints of King Features Syndicate comic strips. Mandrake faces witch doctor Dr. Congo and his Finger of Doom; Secret Agent X-9 pursues an enemy agent on a runaway roller coaster. Mandrake the Magician; Heroes on Wings; Tweedy; Secret Agent X-9; Buckshot Blackie Returns; Henry; Blondie. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Otto Binder, Bill Woolfolk, Al Liederman, Kurt Schaffenberger, Jack Binder, Pete Costanza and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. The Marvel Family tries to help out a hermit family...but they don't want to be helped, and just ask to be left alone, like hermits do. Mary Marvel tries to secretly help when her family butler Jives must impersonate a jockey to smoke out a gang of crooks. Plus a plethora of vintage comics-format ads, including a hair-cream ad featuring detective Sam Spade. The Hermit Family; The Haunted House; Boxcar Benny; Lazy Lee; Headline Harry: The Haunted House; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Mary Marvel: Jives Becomes a Jockey; Capt. Marvel Jr.: The Sleeping People; Captain Kid: No Tanks; Death on Deck; Captain Marvel: The Fate of the Time Capsule. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Kurt Schaffenberger. Stories and art by Joe Certa, Carl Pfeufer, John Jordan, and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's showcase for comics covers the humor, Western, adventure and superhero genres, featuring Captain Marvel Jr., Bulletman and Bulletgirl. Capt. Marvel Jr. investigates the mystery of a haunted building. Nyoka tries to help Annabelle in her romance with Randy, who works on a snake farm, but her father is against the match until his own encounter with a snake convinces him otherwise. Bulletman and Bulletgirl try to figure out the secret behind a new wonder drug. Plus a PSA about polio featuring many of the Fawcett characters including the original Captain Marvel (Shazam), Captain Marvel, Jr., Mary Marvel, Tom Mix, Ozzie, and Golden Arrow, a real sign of its times. Capt. Marvel Jr.: The Ghost Building; Colonel Corn & Korny Kobb: Fire Fighters; Nyoka: The Snake Plantation; Dizzy Daisy: Short Witted; Bulletman: The Mystery of the Wonder Drug; Zuzu the Zoo Keeper: Sickly; Whitey Whiskers: Dangerous Sleep; Bloobstutter's Secret Weapon; Muscle Hedd: Questionable; Tom Mix: The Impossible Odds. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Reed Crandall. A Diet of Justice starring Blackhawk, pencils by Crandall, inks by Chuck Cuidera. Miss Quiz Radio Show starring Dogtag, script and art by Bart Tumey. Untitled stories starring Torchy (script and art by Bill Ward), Will Bragg (script and art by Paul Gustavson), Ezra (script and art by Harry Sahle), and Choo Choo (script and art by Gill Fox). Fuzzy gag page, script and art by Jack Cole. Jet-Propelled Puzzle text story starring Blackhawk. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Vol. 38 #4 - Mar. 1949. Articles on Ginger Rogers, Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Audie Murphy, Rosalind Russell, Hedy Lamarr. News, reviews, movie ads and gossip. 8 1/2-in. x 10 3/4-in., 116 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

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Stories and art by Gil Kane and Leonard Frank. Movie cowboy Monte Hale wanders the frontier, cleaning up the West one outlaw at a time. Outlaw Bankroll Barr hires Monte's old enemy The Gravedigger (formerly the Undertaker) to help him get rid of Hale. A sheriff needs Monte's help capturing outlaw Luke Cleaver, who's disguised as a "prairie peddler" or traveling salesman, in a story featuring early art by future Marvel legend Gil Kane. Grizzled sidekick Gabby Hayes experiences his own version of the famous jumping-frog story. Gunbarrel Justice; Bronko Betsy; Gabby Hayes and the Jumping Frog; Prairie Peddler; Vultures of the Buffalo Range; Gray Hawk: Trail by Fire; Big Bow and Little Arrow: Surrounded; Desert Raiders. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Gladys Parker. Stories and art by Gladys Parker and Connie Williams. One of the first female-centric comic strips, by pioneering female artist Gladys Parker, Mopsy combines an Ever Meulen art style with pantomime-style gags and good-girl art. Mopsy wants to be a fashion model, but she's more interested in the talent agent who hires her, the handsome Mr. Bowers. Mopsy finds a way to keep from falling down while skiing. Photographer Pat Daley needs a picture of reclusive Gordon Goldbrick to get a job at the World Herald. Plus "Mopsy Modes" paper dolls, showcasing the fashions of the era. Mopsy; Mopsy Modes; Penny Glamor; Pat Daley; Winter Fashions; Susan Goes Hollywood. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 77, Issue 2, March, 1949. Film magazine famous for being the 1st ever fan magazine. In this issue: Elizabeth Taylor. 8.5" x 11", 84 pages, B&W and color Cover price $0.10.

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Vol. 26, No. 179. March 1949. Shirley Temple cover. Movie magazine that includes films in story form. Includes "The Dark Past", "John Loves Mary", "Baltimore Escapade", and more. 8.5" x 11". 88 pages. Black and white. Cover price $0.15.

Canadian Series. Reprints material from Mr. District Attorney (1948 DC) #6. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Art by Chuck Miller and others. One of the more notorious pre-Code crime comics. Ned Brown is dubbed 'The Mad Bandit' for his Ohio crime spree in 1932; Bill the Butcher is a founder of the Bowery Boys street gang and a leader of the Know-Nothing political movement in mid-19th century New York City; Monk Eastman and his Eastman Gang become one of the most powerful street gangs in old New York City. Mentioned in the legendary anti-comics tome Seduction of the Innocent. Tiger of the South; Coke & Giles: Partners in Death; Buddies in Life, Crime, and...Death!; Bill the Butcher: Battler Extraordinary; Crime Does Not Pay; Gang Leaders. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Art by Vernon Henkel and Warren Broderick. Fox Feature Syndicate presents the third romance title to launch the romance comics craze, following Crestwood's "Young Romance" and Timely/Marvel's "My Romance". A reporter bends the facts to help his actress girlfriend's career, and loses his job over it; Linda wants to steal her sister Beth's man through trickery, and when that doesn't work, she tries to do Beth in; Nell tries to lure lawyer Sam away from her polio-stricken sister Wilma, then causes an auto wreck. Plus love advice to readers. I Broke Her Heart and Laughed About it; Kill for Love; Facts You Wouldn't Believe; May I Tell You About Anne?; I Was a Love Thief. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 8, Issue 2 - Spring, 1949. 6.75" x 9.75", 164 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Nifty Gals & Gags is a humor digest published by Dearfield Publishing Company. 96 pages, color cover with B&W illustrations, 5 1/4-in x 7 1/4-in. Cover price $0.25.

Stories and art by Larry Steinfeldt and Howard Boughner. Raised in the jungle by her scientist father, Nyoka faces its dangers like no man ever could. In a three-part story, Nyoka sets out to investigate Jungle Mountain. Her helicopter lands on top of a dinosaur, and then she finds a lost tribe of Alley Oop-style cavemen. In a two-part story, a famed composer travels to the jungle, but his latest tune enrages the elephants and causes a stampede. Plus Comix Cards (like the later Marvel Value Stamps) featuring Western heroes (and Fawcett Comics stars) Hopalong Cassidy, Tom Mix, Gabby Hayes, Monte Hale and their horses. The Lost Civilization, Part I: Man or Myth; Trader Tom; Ballyhoo Barney: Professor Itchy's Flea Circus; Part II: The Jungle Mountain Dwellers; Nyoka's Jungle Quiz; Egbert the Explorer; Headline Harry: Flower of Youth; Part III: The Scalding Death; Jungle Treachery; The Tobey Twins; The Jungle Rhythms of Death, Part I: The Stampede of the Pachyderms; Part II: All Reet. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Louis Schroeder. Stories and art by Graham Ingels, Louis Schroeder, Frank Bolle, Leonard Starr and Tex Blaisdell. Shoot-outs and showdowns between the outlaws and lawmen of the Old West, from DS Publishing. Bandito "El Diamonte" terrorizes a border town, until he pushes his luck too far. Historical articles on the history of the saddle and the gun trigger. An honest politician takes on a Western town's political boss and risks his own life, in an early story illustrated by future EC legend Graham Ingels. El Diamonte Outshines Himself; Bridles and Saddles; Frontier Front Page; The Story of the Trigger; The Betrayal of Tucson McHugh; Backfire; Red-Letter Rodeo; Hoss Laffs; Dynamite for Boss Cavitt. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

"The Romantic Attic"; Ozzie wants to know who Babs thinks is the most romantic man in history. "Short Call"; Dolores and Janet wait in line for an hour to make a phone call. "Horsing Around"; Ozzie decides to become a veterinary and takes in every stray animal in Winkleville. "Auto Stop"; Wise Guy Alex borrows a flashy convertible car. "Help Wanted," art by Al Liederman; Capt. Kid applies for a job as a plumber's assistant. "Camera Cuckoos"; Babs and Glitter compete for the title of Miss Camera Belle of 1949. "Blowhard Cracks a Safe-Cracker" text story by R. R. Symes. "A Cute Little Cookie!"; Algie wins a car in a raffle and the whole family butters up to him. "The Big Campaign"; Babs wants a car of her own and Ozzie figures a scheme to get her parents to buy her one. Two Comix Cards of Bulletman and Bulletgirl from Master Comics to cut out and paste on cardboard. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Vintage humor digest magazine that pokes fun at the relationships of men and women of the time. Digest, 5" x 7", 96 pages, B&W. -Recommended for ages 16+ Cover price $0.25.