Comic books April 1944

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52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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10.5" x 13.5", 36 pages, B&W Cover price $0.15.

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Volume 49, Issue 9 - April 1944. "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.

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Cover by C. C. Beck. Stories and art by Otto Binder, C. C. Beck, Al Carreno and Pete Riss. The Fawcett comic that introduced the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) to the world. In an amusing story, Billy Batson gets a night job in a munitions plant to aid the war effort, and works for a pushy Rosie the Riveter type. But Captain Marvel falls in love with her, resulting in conflict between the two identities! Golden Arrow suspects shenanigans when an animal trainer advertises a talking bear. Spy Smasher investigates when poisonous flowers are sent to military leaders. Plus a PSA on wartime paper rationing, Be a Junior Spy Smasher. Captain Marvel Falls in Love; Golden Arrow: The Talking Animals; Wicky and O'Shawnessy; Spy Smasher: The Flowers of Fear; Prince Ibis Pursues the Gay Nineties Gangster; Lance O' Casey: The Boy Beggar. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Art Saaf. Edited by J.F. Byrne. Stories and art by Robert Webb, Alex Blum, Lily Renee, Ruth Atkinson, Fran Hopper, Lee Elias, Ruben Moreira, and Graham Ingels. Aviation-themed adventure, combat and history tales from pioneering comics publisher Fiction House. Action girl Jane Martin gets a chance to capture a high-ranking Italian fascist who looks a lot like Mussolini; Suicide Smith is aided by a beautiful Norwegian spy and the spirit of ancient Viking explorer Eric the Red; Greasemonkey Griffin accidentally impedes a Luftwaffe attack on London. Featuring art by pioneering female artists Lily Renee, Ruth Atkinson, and Fran Hopper, plus EC legend Graham Ingels. Skull Squad; Jane Martin; Clipper Kirk; Captain Wings; Suicide Smith; Wing Tips; Ten Jerks and a Jinx; Yank Aces of World War II; Greasemonkey Griffin. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Jack Binder. Stories and art by Otto Binder and Dick MacKay. A Fawcett anthology with an emphasis on superhero adventure. Uncle Marvel returns to help Mary Marvel battle gangsters, in perhaps the only story where Uncle Marvel actually flies...thanks to a pocket-sized rocket. A little boy's fanciful story casts suspicion on Commando Yank among the Resistance. Mr. Scarlet and Pinky track gangsters who are hiding out in the country, and teach them the meaning of "roughing it." Mary Marvel: The Return of Uncle Marvel; Commando Yank Battles His Friends; Richard Richard, Private Dick: The Violin Case; Phantom Eagle: The Underground Oasis; Helpful Hugo; Penny Graves: The Death's-Head Horror; Mr. Scarlet Meet the Homesick Hill-Billys. 4856 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Classic decapitation story. Great Schomburg WW 2 cover!

Edited by Vince Fago. Cover by Alex Schomburg. Stories by Otto Binder, Mike Sekowsky, Dan Barry, Dick Briefer, Al Gabriele, Al Bellman, Frank Giacoia, Charles Nicholas, and Dan Barry. Super-hero tales featuring the Young Allies team, consisting of Toro (Thomas Raymond), Bucky (James Barnes), Knuckles (Percival Aloysius O'Toole), Jefferson Worthington Sandervilt, Whitewash Jones, and Tubby (Henry Tinkle). 60 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Harry Sahle. "Zombies," pencils by Clem Weisbecker, inks by Pen Shumaker; Steel Sterling has to solve the riddle of why policeman Clancy walks in his sleep and appears to be dead. "Ye Golden Beauty Shoppe," script by Ed Goggin and Harry Sahle, pencils by Harry Sahle, inks by Terry Szenics; Banana and Stencho open a beauty shop. Untitled The Slap Happy Applejacks story, script by Ed Goggin and Harry Sahle, pencils by Harry Sahle, inks by Terry Szenics; The Applejack boys are hired to find a missing husband. "Sweet Dreams of Death" text story by Pen Shumaker. Untitled story, script by Ed Goggin, art by Virginia Drury (as Ginger); Tommy gets jealous of Ginger's new dancing teacher. Untitled Red Rube story, art by Bob Vigoda; Reuben Reuben, a young orphan, finds the castle of his ancestors and discovers that the castle is full of the ghosts of those ancestors; The ghosts are all named "Reuben Reuben," and they grant him special powers, which he uses to fight crime. "So Save Your Scrap to Scrap the Japs!" public service announcement starring Red Rube. Untitled Chimpy story, script and art by Joe Edwards; Genie dreams he is eaten by pigs. Untitled story, script by Ed Goggin, art by Bob Vigoda; Wilbur is gone fishing. 60 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.