Comic books January 1949

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Stories and art by Vic Herman, Marjorie Maxwell, Edd Ashe, Marguerite Aspinwall, M. Hodge, Mickey Klar Marks, Paula Wells, Virginia Greene Millikin, Paul Carruth, Jean Madelon, Kay Wambold, Patti Cooke, Elise Gibbs, and Marie Cummings. A magazine for girls from the producers of Parents' Magazine, with stories, fashion and advice as well as comics. A detailed feature on the Campfire Girls; Tizzie breaks all her New Year's Resolutions, but stopping a fire and a burglary makes up for it; A comics biography of teenaged journalist Mary Travers. The Pigtail Club; The Secret in Stone; Landlubber's Laugh; Cub Reporter; Tizzie's New Year's Resolutions; Copy Cat; The Camp Fire Story; On Stage, Everybody; Hobbies; Polly Puzzle; Happy New You; Like Mother, Like Daughter; Wake Up Your Wardrobe; Pigtailers Talk Things Over; Polly Prefers; Needle Play; Club News; Polly in the Kitchen. 40 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $6.30 View scans Paper: White Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 15%. Staple rust: Slight. Discounted from $7.00.

February 1949. Mechanical science and technology magazine. Includes: "Debut for the "49 Chevrolet". 6.75" x 9.5". 336 pages. B&W. Cover price $0.35.

Issue 10 - January, 1949. Softcover Digest, 5" x 7.5", 120 pages, B&W, text only. Cover price $0.25.

Published by Hugo Gernsback, considered the father of science-fiction. This issue is centered around the new medium of television with Gernsback's editorial, "The Television Age". 8.5" x 11.5". 128 pages. Black and white. Cover price $0.30.

Cover by John Stanley. Stories and art by Walt Kelly, John Stanley, Mary Greenwalt, and Dan Noonan. Johnny Gruelle's famous doll characters have adventures and learn lessons, featuring early art from Walt Kelly. In a story by legendary Pogo artist Walt Kelly, the Brownies encounter a vacuum cleaner. John Stanley of Little Lulu fame debuts in Raggedy Ann comics, with a story about Peterkin Pottle. Raggedy Ann and Andy venture a little too far into the deep, dark woods. Plus activity pages. The Raggedy Way; The Hair-Raising Adventures of Peterkin Pottle; Raggedy Ann; More Brownies; Do You Know; Bob and Sue; Billy and Bonny Bee; Egbert Elephant. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Fourth annual Rasin Bowl progaram, January 1, 1949 Cover price $0.50.

Cover by Dan Zolnerowich. Art by Harry Anderson, John Belfi, Art Helfant and George Roussos. Another crime comic from the prolific studio of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, this one featuring crimes throughout history as well as the standard gangster tales. Sometimes listed as Real Clue Crime #35. No issue # on cover; Vol. 3, issue #11 in indicia. A master forger swindles thousands of acres of land in 1870s Arizona. Ex-con Benny and sharpshooter Stella fall in love and run off to rob banks together. Pickpocket Lena Kleinschmidt becomes Queen of Hackensack in the 1860s. Also featuring a vintage ad for the "Slide-o-Matic" combo lighter-cigarette case. Another amusing cover by Dan Zolnerowich. The Baron Of Arizona; The Rat's Nest; Fetlock Groans the Detective; Benny Loved Banks; Man-Buster; The Queen of Hackensack; The Handy Man. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Dick Sprang and Charles Paris. The Mystery Man of Tombstone featuring Billy Breckenridge and Johnny Ringo, pencils by Dick Sprang, inks by Charles Paris. Noah's Ark in New York! featuring the Bronx Zoo, art by Ed Smalle. Bazooka article, art by Irwin Hasen. It Conquered the Stratosphere! featuring Auguste Picard and Paul Kipfer (the first men to fly a balloon into the stratosphere). Sam Spade Wildroot Creme Oil ad, pencils by Lou Fine. The Greatest Athlete of All Time featuring Jim Thorpe. The King of Inventors featuring John Hays Hammond Jr. Scripts by Jack Schiff, Mort Weisinger, and Bernie Breslauer. 48 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Painted cover by Norman Saunders. Stories and art by Bill Woolfolk and Carl Pfeufer. Fawcett's tales of Western heroes from folklore and the movies. Needing money for groceries, solo sidekick Gabby Hayes joins a posse seeking outlaw Horrible Harry. Young Falcon regains the tribal token from the renegades that killed his father, but now he must escape from them. Tom Mix loans his horse to a boy, so he can enter a race and use the prize money to rebuild his fire-damaged home. Plus a profusion of vintage comics-format ads, including a hair-cream ad featuring detective Sam Spade. The first of a series of nice Norman Saunders painted covers that lasted after the title changed to Western Hero. Hopalong Cassidy: The Twin River Massacre; Cactus Brain; Loco Lew; Young Falcon: Captive; Monte Hale: Outlaw Town; Li'l Buck; Red Roan: The Bargain; Gabby Hayes: Posse Peril; Tom Mix: The Son of Tony. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Red Ryder, Telecomics presents King of the Royal Mounted, and the Kiyotee Kids. Two-page text story, "Little Beaver Bails Out a Friend." 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Vol. 28 #3 - Apr. 1949. Boxing magazine. Features articles, departments, ratings, fight reports and more. 8 1/4-in. x 11-in., 66 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Photo cover of the famous singing cowboy, plus interior photos. Riders for a Windmill, script by Gaylord DuBois, art by Albert Micale; Roy helps a child whose father is a rodeo rider who's been beaten and robbed. Pioneers of the Old West by Gaylord DuBois. Ginger and her Puppies--Chuck Wagon Charley's Tales, script by Gaylord DuBois, inks by Harry Parks. Back cover: Roy, Pat Brady, and Andy Devine color film still. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Canadian Edition. Photo cover of the famous singing cowboy, plus interior photos. Smuggler's Ford, script by Gaylord DuBois, art by Albert Micale; Roy comes to the aide of sheepherders again. Pioneers of the Old West, script by Gaylord DuBois. Brownie--Chuck Wagon Charley's Tales, script by Gaylord DuBois, art by Harry Parks. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Jack Kamen cover. "The First Americans" panel referenced in Fredric Wertham's "Seduction of the Innocent". Wertham lamented that educational pages served to rationalize comic book violence instead of counter it; see "The First Americans" panel six. All stories reprinted in Terrifying Tales (1953) #11. In order of appearance: "Rulah Jungle Goddess, Secret of the Leatherman!"; "Tropical Topics"; "The First Americans"; "Rulah Jungle Goddess, The Ghoul of Galhalla!"; and "Zago Jungle Prince, Queen of Simba Land!". "The Ranger's Best Shot" text story. Indicia states "RULAH". 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 40, Issue 2 - January, 1949. Movie Fan Magazine. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in. 80 Pages B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Cover art by Sheldon Mayer. The Big Game, script and art by Sheldon Mayer; Scribbly ends up playing football, when all he was doing was looking for a lost $5 bill. Bonny humor page by Hy Rosen. Scribbly's Intercom, script and art by Sheldon Mayer; Mr. Birdnest gives Scribbly an intercom and then leaves the radio on all afternoon. Untitled Littul Snoony story, script and art by Sheldon Mayer. How To Win Your Man, script and art by Sheldon Mayer; Clover Cooley writes to the paper asking how to get Scribbly to go out with her, but Scribbly has just been made the advice columnist for the paper. Dot humor half-page by Harry Lampert. Time Stands Still text story. O'Hara's Nightmare, script and art by Sheldon Mayer; O'Hara dreams that Scribbly and Red get married. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Women's magazine with articles and fiction. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 82 pages, B&W.

Cartoons and Text by Thos. W. Jackson - 96 Pages B&W 2 Color Cover Cover price $0.35.

Cover by Bob Jenney. Stories and art by Louis Schroeder and Bob Jenney. Mystery-detective tales from DS Publishing. In the early days of television, reporters Joe and Jane get an anonymous note from someone promising to steal a priceless necklace during a live TV broadcast. A struggling artist gets caught up in a racket forging classic paintings, despite his better judgment. A radio journalist is marked for death after threatening to reveal the names behind a banking scandal. The Television Trap; Gems of the Island; The Face in the Frame; Mystery of the Cross Adder; Behind the 8 Ball; Racket on the Radio; Assignment to Death; Death Turns the Dial. Final issue of the series. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD 2.0 $234.00 View scans 2" Cumulative spine split. Cover detached, centerfold detached at one staple. Discounted from $260.00.

Cover art by Harry G. Peter. The Girl Who Wanted To Be an Amazon starring Wonder Woman, script by Robert Kanigher, art by Harry G. Peter; Financier Gresham raises his daughter to be a boy, so he won't let her accept a scholarship to Holliday College until Wonder Woman intervenes. The Dead Man's Chest starring Lady Danger, pencils by Bob Oksner, inks by Bernard Sachs. Willy Nilly story, art by Frank Harry. Anna Pavlova--Wonder Women of History, art by Paul Reinman. The Secret Mine starring Wildcat, art by Arthur Peddy. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Vintage monthly published magazine with a focus on the film industry as a whole. First published in November of 1930, publication continued through the late 1970s. Priding itself as a source for exclusive behind the scenes stories about filmmaking, Silver Screen also contained a fair amount of articles about celebrities, their relationships, the latest in fashion, and film reviews. Cover price $0.15.

Articles on sports, crime, and adventuring, plus pin-up photos. 8" x 10.5". 66 pages. B&W. -MATURE READERS- Cover price $0.25.

36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.