Comic books May 1947

1st printing - Published by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Written by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Art by John Coleman Burroughs. While serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II, John Clayton, a.k.a. Tarzan, is shot down in Japanese occupied territory. Using his jungle skills, Tarzan saves himself and the lives of his allies. Plus, the secret to Tarzan eternal youth is revealed in this very tale! Hardcover, 5-in.x 8-in., 314 pages, Text (with B&W Chapter Illustrations).

No Dust Jacket - 1st printing - Published by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Written by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Art by John Coleman Burroughs. While serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II, John Clayton, a.k.a. Tarzan, is shot down in Japanese occupied territory. Using his jungle skills, Tarzan saves himself and the lives of his allies. Plus, the secret to Tarzan eternal youth is revealed in this very tale! Hardcover, 5-in.x 8-in., 314 pages, Text (with B&W Chapter Illustrations).

Theatre Arts Monthly. TAM is legendary for its thorough and insightful coverage of the stage, both in American and England. Less well-known is the fact that TAM also provided some outstanding coverage of motion pictures. Broadway and Hollywood. 8.5-in. x 11-in., printed on a nice heavy stock. Cover price $0.50.

Volume 41, Issue 2 - May, 1947. 6.75" x 9", 114 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

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Edited by Raymond C. Krank. Funny-animal antics from Magazine Enterprises. Itchi the ape wants to be Tom-Tom's bodyguard, but he's out of his element on the ground; Judy flees a giant after climbing a beanstalk (in a story including a connect-the-dots puzzle); Termites trap the Pixies in a bottle and shove it in the river. Shoe Fits; Koko and Kola; Catchy and Scrapps; Tom-Tom the Jungle Boy; Judy and the Magic Chalk; Trixie Pixies. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Rudolph Dirks. Stories and art by Al Capp, Ernie Bushmiller, Rudolph Dirks, Sam Leff, Bernard Dibble, Ernest Hix, Raeburn Van Buren and Dick Moores. Sometimes listed as Tip Top Comics Vol. 11 #10. Tip Top Comics presented color reprints of United Features newspaper comic strips. Bathless Groggins faces a deadly conundrum involving the carnivorous Flink bird, in an Abbie an' Slats strip with fine art by Raeburn van Buren. Phil Fumble learns about Fritzi Ritz 's crazy initiation rituals for the "Jolly Girls Club." Curly Kahoe's bout with Dynamite Dunn results in a double knockout! Mr. Biltybux gets Bombo to be his replacement in a club fight, in a story featuring a cameo by real-life boxing champ Jack Dempsey. Plus a Li'l Abner storyline by Al Capp. Li'l Abner; The Captain and the Kids; Stamp Tips; Curly Kayoe; Abbie an' Slats; El Bombo; Back Home Again; Windy and Paddles; Nancy; Fritzi Ritz; Strange as It Seems; How It Began. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Will Elder and Carl Wessler. A funny-animal comic presenting multi-chapter adventures and featuring work by pioneering cartoonists such as Will Elder. Mertie and Gertie Mouse encounter a sabre-tooth tiger while on a picnic. An 8-page story featuring early art by legendary MAD artist Will Elder and starring Rufus De Bree, a modern-day garbageman who's a cross between Don Quixote and Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee. After escaping a rainstorm of cats and dogs, Rufus and Mac are captured by the tiny Smithereenes and King Wunfoot, their 12-inch ruler. Atomic-carrot-powered baby superhero Upan Atom encounters a foe who looks just like him. Wordless Waddles; Puzzles; Upan Atom; Roscoe; Toytown Puzzle Page; Wiggles The Wonderworm Comes Through!; Rufus De Bree: Blown to Smithereenes; Wordless Waddles Gives the Alarm; Mertie Mouse; How to Draw Animated Cartoons. Final issue under this title; there was no issue #8, and the series resumed as Wanted Comics (1947) #9. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

May 13, 1947

Cover by Malcolm Kildale. Stories by Bill Berry, Irene A. Daly, Albert J. Nevins, Jeanne M. Lawson, F. J. Evers and Stamaty. Presenting fiction and non-fiction stories, many of which are religious in nature—a Treasure Chest of fun and facts! 32 pages, full color.

Stories and art by Louis Wolfe and Jack Sparling. Biography and history stories in comics form, part of a trend in non-fiction comics in the 1940s. The use of hot-air balloons in warfare; The history of American clowns; Gladiatorial combat in Rome. The World's Funniest Clowns; Underground Fighter; Favorite Fiddler; Gunning for Balloons; Speedway Speed Demon; Butch the Bum; Loafer's Reward; Kill or Be Killed!; Cities of Destiny: Los Angeles; What Would You Do?; True's News from Hollywood; Truly Comic! 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

"$100.00 Reward for James kent," "Murder, Morphine and Me," "Demons Dance on Galloway Moor," "Boston's Bloody Gang," and "A Match For Satan." Jack Cole cover and art. Used in Seduction of the Innocent (pages 81-82) and Parade of Pleasure (page 105). Classic morphine story was used by the New York Legislative Committee to Study the Publication of Comics (1951). Cover price $0.10.

Volume 47, Issue 2 - May 1947, 8.5" x 11", 108 pages, B&W with spot color. Cover price $0.25.

Cover by ??. True crime stories. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 66 pages, black and white text with photos. Cover price $0.15.

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First title in a series of popular culture titles published in Marseille by the National Liberation Movement of France beginning on September 23, 1944. Publications included V, V Magazine, Voir Magazine, Voir, Magazine Illustré du MLN, and L'Hebdomadaire du Reportage. Each period of the publication had its own name and editorial line. Coverage included female celebrities, historical events, news articles, and interviews. 10.5" x 14" on newsprint.

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Mickey Mouse. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 52, Issue 10 - May 1947. "A Magazine for Boys and Girls." Stories, poems, and activities designed for kids. 7-in. x 10-in., 36 pages, PC,PB&W Cover price $0.15.

Ray Cummings. Cover price $0.15.

May 1947. Note: The May 1947 issue and July 1947 erroneously have the same volume and issue number. Cover by Matt Fox. Horror and supernatural stories by Allison V. Harding "The Place with Many Windows", Seabury Quinn, Carl Jacobi, William Tenn, Ray Cummings, Harold Lawler, Manly Banister, and Walter Harwood. Illustrations by Andrew Brosnatch, Lee Brown Coye, Irwin J. Weill, Boris Dolgov, Fred Humiston, M. N. Beale, and John Giunta. 6 3/4-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 96 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

Cover by C. C. Beck. Stories and art by Basil Wolverton, Bernie Krigstein, Kurt Schaffenberger and Bill Woolfolk. The Fawcett comic that introduced the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) to the world. Golden Arrow learns a murder was just an attempt to foment war between Dry Gulch and nearby Natives, in a story with early art by EC legend Bernie Krigstein. Captain Marvel tries to help earthquake-stricken San Lojardo rebuild its clock tower, but someone doesn't want it rebuilt. Plus a "Culture Corner" strip by legendary cartoonist Basil Wolverton, featuring useless but hilarious advice on "How to Eat Spaghetti without Getting Wetty." Captain Marvel: The Clock of San Lojardo; Wilbur the Waiter; The Culture Corner; Golden Arrow: The Dry Gulch Massacre; Wicky and O'Shawnessy; Doc Sorebones; Ibis the Invincible: The Golden Whale; Giggle Gags. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Bob Lubbers. Edited by J.F. Byrne. Stories and art by Bob Lubbers, Fran Hopper, Al Walker, George Evans, Howard Larsen, John Celardo and Maurice Whitman. Aviation-themed adventure, combat and history tales from pioneering comics publisher Fiction House. Jane Martin travels to the Antarctic in search of a modern-day Moby Dick and precious ambergris; Greasemonkey Griffin competes in an air race with a beautiful but dangerous woman; A bereaved pilot decides to sell out his country, so his ghostly wife sets out to stop him. Captain Wings; Jane Martin; Greasemonkey Griffin; Air Heroes of World War II; Phantom Falcon; Suicide Smith; Ghost Squadron. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Harry G. Peter. "Siege of the Savage War Maidens," script by William Moulton Marston (as Charles Moulton), art by Harry G. Peter; When the heroes of Valhalla refuse to fight, Odin orders his Valkyries to capture Amazons and transform them into Valkyries, surmising they'll be strong enough to handle the lazy men. Wonder Women of History: four-page Amelia Earhart bio, art by Robert Sale. "The Vanishing Mummy," art by Harry G. Peter; Wonder Woman and the Holliday Girls travel to Egypt, where Professor Chemico has been enslaved by a resurrected pharaoh bent on destroying the modern world with a deadly gas. "Grim Gamble" text story by John Broome (as John Osgood). Ton o' Fun cartoon by Harry Lampert. "Wonder Woman and the Coming of the Kangas," script by William Moulton Marston (as Charles Moulton), art by Harry G. Peter; Queen Hippolyte shows the Holliday Girls a home movie of Princess Diana on her 7th birthday, when she rallies the Amazons against an invasion by the Sky Riders of Nebulosta who are riding Kangas. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover pencils by Jack Burnley, inks by Charles Paris. Superman's Super-Self!, script by Don Cameron ? [as Jerry Siegel], pencils by Ira Yarbrough [as Joe Shuster], inks by Stan Kaye ? [as Joe Shuster]; In a bizarre battle, even against a statue of himself, the Man of Tomorrow must overcome Lex Luthor's "Ray of Life," which gives life to inanimate objects, which are then used by the arch villain to do his bidding. Case of the Crooked Champs! starring Green Arrow, script by France Herron, art by George Papp. School For Acrobats starring The Boy Commandos. Postage Stamp Plunder starring Zatara, art by William F. White. Each One Teach One starring Johnny Everyman, script by Jack Schiff, art by John Daly. Crime Under Glass! starring Batman and Robin, art by Bob Kane; Batman and Robin face a maniac that uses glass miniatures to kill. 76 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.15.

Art by Pat Adams and Jose Mendez. Kids' humor comics and funny-animal hijinks from Fox Feature Syndicate. Cosmo Cat travels through time; Senor Tamale (a parrot in a sailor hat) winds up in Texas; Percy tries to learn how to skate. Cosmo Cat: Lost in Time; Senor Tamale: Bear Hunter; Willy Wolf's Invention; Percy; Ivan the Terrible; Senor Tamale. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Jack Binder. Stories and art by Otto Binder, Jack Binder and Dick MacKay. A Fawcett anthology with an emphasis on superhero adventure. While touring the South Seas, Mary Marvel encounters two men who are engaged in a primitive duel to the death on a deserted island. Commando Yank investigates the deadly secret of the winged serpent in Central America. Phantom Eagle has a postwar adventure among the ancient ruins of "French Indo-China," aka Vietnam. Mary Marvel: Death Challenge; Boy Scout Bob; Mr. Scarlet: The Fly Man; Kanvasback: Flower of Youth; Whipper-Snappers; Phantom Eagle: The Curse of the Ruins; Richard Richard, Private Dick: The Canine Catastrophe; Muscle Hedd; Penny Graves: The Missing Floor; Commando Yank: The Winged Serpent. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Wayne Boring (credited as Jack Harmon). Stories and art by Jim Wilcox, H. Blair, E. J. Reeves, Janice Valleau, Nina Albright, Art Helfant and Harvey Fuller. Bespectacled, eccentric detective "King" Cole Jr. takes over his father's detective agency. King Cole and his detectives seek the secret of the mystery word "Rokom" that has repercussions for the international community. Toni Gayle invades a hotel kitchen while seeking a killer and finds a house full of suspects. Doctor Drew, who can talk to animals, must fend off alligators during a manhunt in the Florida Everglades. Toni Gayle action-girl cover by early female comics artist Janice Valleau. Young King Cole; Toni Gayle; Return Ticket; Heathcliff the Hobo; Dr. Drew the Zoo Man; Inspector Klooz; Boitram the Boiglar. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Vol. 6, No. 4. November 1946. Body building magazine. 8.25" x 11". 66 pages. Black and white. Cover price $0.25.