Comic books June 1953

Summer 1953. Cover by J. George Janes. Detective and mystery stories by Norman A. Daniels "Warmer than a Corpse, Bruce Elliot, Dorothy Dunn, Alan Payne, Charles Beckman Jr, Dale Armstrong, Jonathon Craig, Theodore J. Roemer, and Tedd Thomey. Illustrations by Orban. 7" x 9 1/2"; black and white; 114 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart Very Good $7.00 View scans Paper: Off white Staple rust. Foxing. Soiling. Water damage.

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June, 1953. Cover by Walter Popp. Stories by Wallace West, R.J. McGregor, Chad Oliver, J.W. Groves, Kris Neville, John Christopher, and Murray Leinster. Three Virgil Finlay illustrations. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 148 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

UK Reprint Series. Reprints material from a variety of western publications. 7-in x 9.75-in, 100 Pages, Full Color.

Cover by Ernie Bushmiller. Stories and art by Ernie Bushmiller, Rudolph Dirks, Dick Van Buren, and Bob Lubbers. Tip Top Comics presented color reprints of United Features newspaper comic strips. After discovering the secret of the Hunter's hold over the natives, Tarzan is sentenced to be sacrificed to the man-eating "devil tree." But Tarzan demands a trial-by-combat against the Hunter himself. Nancy's dime-a-bottle perfume offends Sluggo and even scares off the skunks at the zoo. Plus a comics PSA promoting the Junior Safety Institute, "Bill Wins a Medal." Nancy; Strange as It Seems; How it Began!; The Captain and the Kids; Stamp Tips; Tarzan. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $27.00 View scans Spine split 10%. Staple rust: Moderate.

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Volume 9, Issue 6 - June 1953. Cover by Peter Driben. Humorous pin-up magazine with photos and cartoons scattered throughout. This issue has Bettie Page in a two-page pictorial and a single page photo. 8 1/2-in. x 1 1/2-in., 50 pages, B&W. MATURE READERS Cover price $0.25.

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Stories by unknown. Art by unknown. Featuring: Tom & Jerry tale; Adventures of Tom tale; Barney Bear & Benny Burro tale; Big Spike & Little Tyke tale; Bertie Bird text story "The Search"; Wuff the Prairie Dog tale; Jerry & Tuffy 2-pager; Fuzzy & Wuzzy tale; Flip 'n' Dip 2-pager; and Droopy 1-pager. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $23.00 View scans Paper: Off white Spine stress. Corner Damage. Creasing. Denting. Edge damage. Scuffing. Soiling. Moisture spotting.

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Volume 13, Issue 1 - June, 1953. 6.75" x 9.75", 146 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Volume 68, Issue 5 - June 1953. Cover by Ozzie Sweet. Photos and articles focusing on the American life. "High School Thrill Marriage," "How To Dress Your New Baby." 132 pages. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in. B&W. Cover price $0.20.

Issue #1 - Summer 1953. Cover price $0.25.

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June, 1953. Television centric magazine. Feature on Marilyn Monroe. Softcover magazine, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 76 pages, B&W Cover price $0.25.

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June, 1953. Fan magazine with a focus on the lives of celebrities during the Golden-Age of television. This issue includes stories about the lives of Lucille Ball, Jerry Lewis, Perry Como and more. Softcover Magazine, 8.5" x 10", 82 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Summer 1953. Vol. 1, No. 9. Featuring "The Wanton of Argus" by Kilian Houston Brunner and "Mission To Marakee" by Bryan Berry. Softcover Pulp, 6 1/2-in. x 9 1/2-in.; B&W, 96 Text Pages. Cover price $0.25.

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Cover by Wally Wood. Stories by Harvey Kurtzman and Jerry De Fuccio. Art by John Severin, Bill Elder, Joe Kubert, Wally Wood, and Jack Davis. Harvey Kurtzman's legendary series enlisted top EC artists for gritty tales of war and adventure. A Signal Corps soldier learns why his outfit was issued firearms during a sudden skirmish. A sea captain encounters sharks and treachery while diving for pearls, in a rare art collaboration between two legends of comics, Kurtzman and Joe Kubert. In a Wally Wood story, a Japanese POW in Russia doesn't know his home in Nagasaki has been razed by the atomic bomb. Action-packed cover by Wally Wood. Signal Corps!; Outpost!; Indian Sign; Pearl Divers!; Atom Bomber! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart FR 1.0 $33.00 View scan Cover-to-cover hole punches with impact to story. Cover oxidation.

Canadian Edition. Cover by Wally Wood. Stories by Harvey Kurtzman and Jerry De Fuccio. Art by John Severin, Bill Elder, Joe Kubert, Wally Wood, and Jack Davis. Harvey Kurtzman's legendary series enlisted top EC artists for gritty tales of war and adventure. A Signal Corps soldier learns why his outfit was issued firearms during a sudden skirmish. A sea captain encounters sharks and treachery while diving for pearls, in a rare art collaboration between two legends of comics, Kurtzman and Joe Kubert. In a Wally Wood story, a Japanese POW in Russia doesn't know his home in Nagasaki has been razed by the atomic bomb. Action-packed cover by Wally Wood. Signal Corps!; Outpost!; Indian Sign; Pearl Divers!; Atom Bomber! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Canadian Edition. Cover by Jack Davis. Stories by Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Davis, Wally Wood, and Jerry De Fuccio. Art by George Evans, John Severin, Marie Severin, Wally Wood, and Jack Davis. Harvey Kurtzman's legendary series enlisted top EC artists for gritty tales of war and adventure. An outlaw takes over a Western town but doesn't reckon on an elderly homesteader. (This story was written and drawn by Jack Davis while Harvey Kurtzman was busy shaping the early MAD.) French pilot Georges Guynemer becomes a legendary fighter ace during World War I. During feudal times, a charge of murder leads to a duel, with art by Wally Wood. Action-packed cover by Wood. Betsy!; Trial by Arms!; Salty Speech; En Crapaudine!; Guynemer! NOTE: This issue was reprinted by East Coast Comics with a $1 cover a 1970's copyright date (see E.C. Classic Reprints #9). These and other changes make the reprint easy to distinguish from the original which has a 10-cent cover price and a 1950's publication date. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Bill Everett. Stories by unknown. Art by Reed Crandall, Al Eadeh, Bill Everett, Manny Stallman, Myron Fass and Harry Anderson. "Like a Chicken without a Head!" with art by Reed Crandall - A doctor recommends a surgical procedure whereby the head is removed from the body and the heart is kept beating by artificial means so as to lengthen the time available for surgery. No one listens to him though, and being tired of being mocked, he destroys his formula. As he removes his head from his torso, he says to himself "The world isn't ready for us." Also in this issue: "Rudolph's Racket" with art by Al Eadeh - An innkeeper keeps two large wolves in the cellar which devour curious guests so he can claim their valuables; 2-page text story "The Upside-Down Room" with illo by Bill Everett; "Propaganda" with art by Manny Stallman; "The Executioner" with art by Myron Fass - A story told from the point of view of a turkey on Thanksgiving day; and "Time Marches On!" with art by Harry Anderson - A man attempts to build a clock that can run forever by repairing itself, but no one understands why and mocks him, until he runs out of time and the undertaker pulls by his clothes to reveal he had replaced his inner organs with a clock mechanism. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Bill Woolfolk and Jess Cole. Classic pre-Code crime comics from Fawcett. Police are unable to topple the masked and mysterious Black Hand gang, but lone citizen John Stephens wages a one-man campaign of vengeance to bring them down. Ace and Killer agree to take the rap for a warehouse job in exchange for a cash payoff, but a cop goes undercover in prison to see if he can get Killer to crack. Moonshiner Poison Mike has souped-up the roadster he uses to escape the Feds on winding mountain roads, to deadly effect. Cover, possibly by Edd Ashe, contains elements of bondage and the ol' injury-to-the-eye motif. Two Bullet Holes; The Man Who Broke The Black Hand; Muscle Hedd; Careless Clara; Trapped!; Surgeon Sturgess; Important Man Manners; The Saga of "Poison" Mike McCroy. Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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June 1953. Science fiction stories: "Stowaway"by Mack Reynolds, "Constant Reader" by Robert Bloch. 5-1/4 in. x 7-1/8 in.; black and white; 128 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.35.

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Ajax-Farrell's horror series Voodoo managed to stand out in the crowded field of pre-Code horror comics by dint of its sheer weirdness. A murder plot is undone by overzealous and underfed guard dogs. A man purchases a cursed rug in a plot to kill his wife with demon power. A woman learns the hard way not to toy with the affections of a voodoo mage. Blood and Old Bones; Beast of Baghdad; Death's Shoes; Torture Travelogue. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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#153, 6/53, 10c. Donald Duck, the Li'l Bad Wolf, Pluto, Little Hiawatha, Grandma Duck in untitled stories and Mickey Mouse and Goofy in part two of "The Last Resort." The Donald Duck story is by Carl Barks. Issue also has one-page and half-page gag strips, and a two-page text feature "The Spring Bazaar." Story and art credits: unknown. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Lee Elias. "In Dedication" text article; Short article dedicating this issue to war correspondent Ernie Pyle. "Timid Hero"; A soldier thinks about his past life before he goes into battle. "Submarine" article. Sad Sack ad. "The Frogmen" one-page story. "Torpedo," art by George Roussos; A frogman tows a torpedo into enemy waters and uses it to start an explosive chain reaction. Harvey 1953 Calendar. "Fight for Life," pencils by Lee Elias, inks by Warren Kremer; When a boxer and his manager tour the Korean fighting front, they do not anticipate encountering enemy soldiers. "Black and White" text story. "Our Army" one-page story, art by Pete Morisi; Summaries of the duties of six different groups of military personnel. "Crossfire!", art by Jack Sparling; Americans and Koreans battle each other near a small village. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Mell Lazarus and Art Helfant. The strange little creatures from the classic Li'l Abner comic strip have adventures with their young human friend, Washable Jones. It was only inevitable that the result of a shmoo comic book would be Super Shmoo; this issue features his origin. Washable Jones and his friends the shmoos set out to save Dogpatch from a termite invasion. P. J. Paunchby tries to one-up Turnip Towers by opening his own grand hotel. Super Shmoo: Shmoos and Saddles; Little Miriam; Terrible Termites; Philo and the Flying Carpet; Sheriff O'Shay; Shmooms Fo' Rent. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Joe Kubert. Stories and art by Joe Kubert, Ben Brown, David Gantz, Al Tyler and John Belfi. Classic pre-Code horror from St. John. During WWII, an American soldier has flashbacks of a horrifying past life in medieval England, in a story with early art by comics legend Joe Kubert. A magical painting gives an invalid nobleman the chance to visit his ancestral castle, but it also reveals to him his wife's infidelity. Treasure hunters ill-advisedly steal a sacred mask from a native temple, and soon learn they should have listened to the warnings. Cover by Kubert. Bloody Yesterday; The Castle in the Wall; Gag Bag; Queen Moll's Justice; The Road to Nowhere; Comedy Column; The Golden Mask. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Bernard Baily. Stories and art by Basil Wolverton, Edd Smalle and Walter Palais. Pre-Code tales of horror from Stanley Morse Publications. A scientist creates a solution that can dissolve anything. Beset by gambling debts, Pete plots to murder his wealthy aunt, who is terrified of bats. An escaped convict fleeing through a swamp has an encounter that turns him into a monster, in a story by comics legend Basil Wolverton. Weird "monkey brain" cover by Bernard Baily. Swamp Monster; Mind Over Matter; Mad Money; Still Life; The Old Bat. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Bernard Baily. Stories and art by John Romita, Les Zakarin and Eugene E. Hughes. Pre-Code tales of horror from Stanley Morse Publications. A woman seeks revenge after her husband kills her father with voodoo. A serial husband-killer makes a pact with the devil that he will free her if she will live with the man he chooses, but that man turns out to be Jack the Ripper. A man makes a deal with the devil and thinks he's come out with the upper hand, in a story by future Spider-Man artist John Romita Sr. Voodoo Dolls; Live With a Man; Life Insurance; The Door; Rat-Trap; Cremation. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 17, Issue 1 - June, 1953. 6.75" x 9.75", 134 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Cover art by Howard Sherman. Death to Fort Danger starring the Wyoming Kid, script by Gardner Fox, art by Howard Sherman. The Man Who Killed Nighthawk starring Nighthawk, script by Don Cameron, art by Ruben Moreira. The Magic Medicine Tree starring Rodeo Rick, script by Gardner Fox, art by Tom Cooke. The Girl Sheriff of Gila Gap starring Cowboy Marshal, art by Ed Smalle Jr. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by C. C. Beck. Stories and art by Bill Woolfolk, Otto Binder, Pete Morisi and Kurt Schaffenberger. The Fawcett comic that introduced the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) to the world. In his final adventure in Whiz Comics, Billy Batson investigates mysterious disappearances and discovers the "human deep-freeze" maintained by the intelligent, many-tentacled Kraken of legend. Like any Lovecraftian hero, a temporarily Shazam-less Billy responds, "No - No! I'll go gibbering mad!" In another horror-themed tale, war hero Jaspar's spirit pursues his murderer. When archaeologists unleash evil spirits from the tomb of Pharaoh En-Tep, only Ibis knows how to contain them. Captain Marvel: The Legend Horror; Doc Sorebones; Lance O'Casey: Undercover Warfare; Dr. Death: The Heros Spirit; Wicky and O'Shawnessy; Sacrifice Play; Wilbur the Waiter; Ibis the Invincible: The Guardians of the Tomb. Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Issue 661 - July, 1953. A collection of true stories from all over the world. 180 Pages, B&W.

Kary Keene back-up story by Bill Woggon. Cover price $0.10.