Comic books November 1950

Sweethearts was the first monthly romance title. Small-town girl Nora dates boy next door Ray and works at her family's boarding house, until the night she meets the handsome stranger in room 23. Ann and Nat move from their small town to Chicago, planning to marry, but once Ann gets a taste of city life, she changes in a big way. Lorine is bored with jock Chuck, and then she meets handsome poet "Jan St. George" at college. Temptation!; No Greater Folly; So Easy to Love; Spring in My Heart! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Vol. 1, No. 11 - November 1950. Men's interest magazine with articles, humor, and pin-up photos. 10.5" x 13", 42 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Art by Frank Carin and others. Cover by Frank Carin. Funny-animal hijinks with frontier kid Sparky Smith and other characters. Sparky is thrilled when a Shakespeare troupe comes to his little Western town, but the actors turn out to be snobs; Speedy Rabbit investigates the legend of a ghost on the far side of the mountain; Retellings of classic Pecos Bill folk tales running alongside the other stories. The cover features a truly disturbing image of Sparky Smith, and the fact that hes a puppet doesnt help. The Way of the West; Speedy Rabbit: The Cannonball Ghost; Adventures of Pecos Bill; Pecos Bill's Life with the Coyotes; Spotty the Pup: The Great Sherlock; Pecos Bill and the Rattlesnake; Sparky's Puzzle Page; The Secret Cave. Final issue of the series. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

St. John presents the comics adventures of the characters of animator Paul Terry's studio. A television appearance by Mighty Mouse plays right into Professor Ohm's hands. Heckle and Jeckle cause chaos after finding magic wishbones. Sourpuss decides to start a business as an interior decorator for the wealthy, even though he knows nothing about decorating. Gandy Goose; Mighty Mouse: The Mysterious Disappearance; Dinky: The Eggspert; Heckle and Jeckle; Sourpuss; Heckle and Jeckle: The Magic Wish Bones; A Job for Dimwit; Gandy Goose: The Interior Decorators; Dinky. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 34, Issue 11 - November, 1950. Boris Karloff cover. 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, 100 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.50.

Stories by Gardner Fox and others. Art by Frank Bolle and Dick Ayers. Cover by Frank Bolle. Western adventure starring movie cowboy Tim Holt. Tim Holt assumes his long-running secret identity of the Red Mask for the first time during his battle with El Terror. Outlaws use an animated skeleton to protect stolen treasure, but the skeleton turns out to welcome the Ghost Rider. An old foe tries to create a Tim Holt-killing task force of bandits, but it backfires. T-H Home Range; Red Mask of the Rio Grande; The Golden Coup!; The Ghost Rider: The Screaming Skeleton!; Owlhoot's Debt. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories by unknown. Art by Lynn Karp and unknown. Featuring: Two Droopy 1-pagers; Tom & Jerry tale with pencils by Lynn Karp; Jerry & Tuffy 2-pager; Adventures of Tom tale with pencils by Karp; Adventures of Jerry text story; Flip 'n' Dip tale; Wuff the Prairie Dog tale; Barney Bear & Benny Burro tale; and Fuzzy & Wuzzy tale. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Carl Pfeufer and others. Silent-movie cowboy Tom Mix became a pop-culture icon with his 1940s radio show and this tie-in comic. Tom's seen some lowdown skunks in his time, but the latest one has framed a sweet little old lady for two murders. Addy and Westrum are determined to finish their duel, despite Tom's objections and the threat of arrest. A runaway stagecoach is Tom's first warning that The Stagecoach Kid has returned. The Feast of Death!; Roundup Time With Tom Mix; Tumbleweed Jr.: Canine Capers; The Hanging at Hollow Creek; Fightin' Forbes: Sinister Squire; Tom Mix and the Unfinished Duel; Cowboy Cal; Saddlehead; Contented Claramay; Crestfallen Kress; Goofy; Tom Mix and the Return of the Stagecoach Kid! 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Fred Ray. Four Boys against the Frontier starring Tomahawk, art by Bruno Premiani. Frontier Editor starring Tomahawk, art by Bruno Premiani. The Legend of the Five Chiefs--Tales of the Arrow Maker, art by Leonard Starr. Texas Trailblazer, art by Frank Frazetta. The Second Son of Chief War Winner starring Tomahawk, art by Fred Ray. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 5, Issue 4 - November, 1950. True crime magazine with stories and article about women in the world of organized crime, murder, robbery, and debauchery. Softcover Magazine, 8.5" x 11", 74 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Cover photo of June Allyson. Stories and art by Jack Sparling, Mel Lazarus, Joan Robin, Elsa Branden, Lyle Stuart and Denny Shane. A movie magazine for teens by Toby Press. In a Peggy Dean comics story, Peggy and her pal Pat try to ingratiate themselves with a famous director by preparing a rare French meal. An article "written by" starlet Faith Domergue, and a health guide by Terry Moore (the Mighty Joe Young actress, not the comics artist). A discussion of honesty, featuring movie stars Peter (Rat Pack) Lawford and Piper (Carrie's mom) Laurie. Plus fun facts and gossip about Montgomery Clift, Betty Hutton, Audie Murphy, Esther Williams, and Faith Domergue. And a vintage ad for the William Holden thriller "Union Station." Hiya, Dollface!; Can Men and Women Be Honest With Each Other?; I've Got News for You; June Allyson's House of Dreams; Star Born; Feudin' for Fun; New Faces; Peggy Dean in Hollywood; Sadie Hawkins' Day; New Light on Monty Clift; First Lady of TV; Good Health for Teenagers. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Harvey Kurtzman. Stories by Harvey Kurtzman, Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein. Art by Al Feldstein, Wally Wood, Johnny Craig and Harvey Kurtzman. Numbering continues from Haunt of Fear (1950 #15-17) #17. Harvey Kurtzman's legendary series enlisted top EC artists for gritty tales of war and adventure. In the Spanish colonial era, Captain Alvarado arrives in the Americas with a license to search for gold and crush any who resist. Old friends Hill and Hunter run into each other while aiding a Central American conflict; unfortunately, they're working for opposite sides. Mutineers set their captain adrift while searching for a fortune in diamonds, but Captain Cutter isn't licked yet. Conquest; Hong Kong Intrigue!; Man-Trap; Rescue; Revolution!; Mutiny! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by John Buscema. "Massacre At Fort Madison!", art by John Buscema; An Apache war party converges on a wagon train of white settlers and begins slaughtering them; Among the travelers are Alan Krandal, Bill Gregory and Bill's sister Mary; Alan's mother protects the children while they escape and she is killed by the Apaches; Getting clear of the carnage, Alan realizes that he has a twisted ankle and tells Bill and Mary to flee while he keeps the Apaches at bay; With no choice, the Gregorys leave their friend behind. "He Was Branded Yellow!", art by Syd Shores. "Dead Ending" text story. "The Renegade!", art by John Buscema. "Boomerang!". 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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"The End of the World!" Venus manages to help a scientist with his love life and save the Earth from falling into the Sun. "Beyond the 3rd Dimension." A scientist dies, taking the secrets of dimensional travel with him. Also includes: "The Plot!" and "Perilous Patrol." With this issue, the title changes format, with "Stories of the Supernatural" appearing on the cover. Cover price $0.10.

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52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Mort Leav. Stories and art by John Buscema, Mort Leav, Bill Woolfolk, John Forte and Mort Lawrence. Bloody pre-Code crime comics, in imitation of Crime Does Not Pay - including a top-hatted, otherworldly narrator. The twist is that the publisher offers wanted posters (and rewards) for real-life criminals. In the new series "Action Unlimited," Tony Action is hired to find a millionaire's runaway son, but the real story is a bit more complicated. Another new feature invites readers to figure out for themselves how the detective solved the crime. Plus an early story by future Marvel and Conan legend John Buscema. His Name Is Death!; Wanted: Michael Consolo; Action Unlimited; The Dawn Patrol Gang!; Three Dimes; You're the Detective!: The Body In the Pool!; Wanted: John Oscar Pinson; Lee Emery Downs; The Corpse Laughed Last! 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

4th ISSUE in series (see note following) - Al Feldstein classic outer space cover. "The Last City" (art by Feldstein), "The Mysterious Ray From Another Dimension" (script and art by Harvey Kurtzman), "Second Childhood" (art by Jack Kamen), and "A Trip To a Star" (art by Wally Wood). Featured in Frederic Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent. NOTE: See 2nd Series for 1952 #16. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Al Feldstein. Stories by Harvey Kurtzman, Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein. Art by Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Kamen, Graham Ingels and Al Feldstein. NOTE: There are two issues in this series numbered 15. The issue pictured here, dated Nov/Dec 1950, although numbered 15, is the actual # 4 in the series. The one dated Nov/Dec 1952 is issue # 15 in the series. EC's influential New Trend title featured some legendary sci-fi and comics artists. An atom-bomb test dooms a couple, but their orphaned son is mutated by radiation into a super-genius, in a story by Harvey Kurtzman. A couple ignores the old man's warning not to open the back door, in the only sci-fi story from EC horror legend Graham Ingels. An alien-invasion radio drama causes a mass panic with a twist ending, in a story by Al Feldstein. Panic!; The Radioactive Child!; House, in Time!; Gargantua! 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Nov 1950. Cover by Frank Kelly Freas. Horror and supernatural stories by Fritz Lieber "The Dead Man", H. Russell Wakefield, Seabury Quinn, Harold Lawlor, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Margaret St. Clair, Murray Sanford, and H. S. W. Chibbet. Illustrations by Charles A. Kennedy, Lee Brown Coye, Vincent Napoli, Matt Fox, and Joseph R. Eberle. 6 3/4-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 100 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

UK edition, one shilling cover price. Vol. 43 #1 - Nov. 1950. Contents correspond to American edition. Cover by Frank Kelly Freas. Horror and supernatural stories by Fritz Leiber, H. Russell Wakefield, Seabury Quinn, Harold Lawlor, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Margaret St. Clair, Murray Sanford, and H. S. W. Chibbet. Illustrations by Charles A. Kennedy, Lee Brown Coye, Vincent Napoli, Matt Fox, and Joseph R. Eberle. 6 1/2-in. x 9 1/4-in., 96 pages, black and white. Cover price $0.25.

Snakes of the Range starring Fighting Bob Dale, art by Bill Zeller. Double For Death starring K-Bar Kate, art by Rex Maxon (signed R. Hayden). Rustlers Nemesis starring Six-Gun Smith, art by Fred Yates. Badman Barney Doon text story by Wayne D. Mote. The Old Indian Mine starring Wilma West, art by Don Tallant. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by John Prentice. Stories and art by John Prentice, Gerald McCann, Mike Becker, Bill Walton and Ross Andru. Outlaws, gunfighters, and tales of the Old West - some true, and others merely legends. An outlaw gang on the rampage runs afoul of the mysterious figure known only as the Calico Kid. Buckskin Benson and his sidekick Muskrat try to prevent a cruel scout and a greedy trader from starting a war with the Dakota tribe. A horse trader plays cat-and-mouse with a bandit gang in the high mountains, in a story with early art by Marvel legend Ross Andru. The Calico Kid; Buckskin Benson; Wylie's Wild Horses; War Belt Pony; Black Brand; The Hanging Tree. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Leonard Frank and Carl Pfeufer. Fawcett's tales of Western heroes from folklore and the movies. Tex Ritter catches up with a train in mid-robbery, thanks to his horse White Flash. Gabby Hayes encounters con man Will Fleece, who is disguised as a Treasury agent. Outlaws swindle a man out of his gold mine, but when it turns out to be fool's gold, they're not laughing. Tex Ritter: Range Robber; Monte Hale: Pardner's Hate!; Slim Carson: Decoy Trail; The Prisoners and the Penguins; Gabby Hayes: The Money Fraud; Li'l Buck; The Long and the Short of It; The Key of Honor; Big Bow and Little Arrow: The Grand Feast; Cactus Brain; Tom Mix: The Swindler's Revenge. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 4, Issue 3 - November 1950. Painted cover by Peter Driben. Men's interest magazine with articles, pin-ups, and glamour photos. 8" x 11.5", 60 pages, B&W. -MATURE READERS- Cover price $0.25.

Stories and art by Clem Weisbecker, Otto Binder, Bill Woolfolk and Kurt Schaffenberger. The Fawcett comic that introduced the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) to the world. Dr. Sivana's latest invention doubles the effect of gravity on everybody on Earth, except him. Lance O'Casey tracks gangsters to a remote island, and goes in commando-style to take them out on his own. Ibis and Taia follow the Black Wizard into the future, where witchcraft is the law and science is outlawed. Captain Marvel: Gravity Goes Wild!; Colonel Corn and Korny Kobb; Freshman Freddy: The Prize Package; Golden Arrow and the Gold Strike Swindle!; Wicky and O'Shawnessy; Doc Sorebones; Lance O'Casey: The Reign of Terror; Wilbur the Waiter; The Peak of Pikes... Patience; Ibis the Invincible and the World of Wizardry!; Warbling Wally. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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See Four Color # 278 for the first issue in the series. "Medicine Trail," "Robbers' Roundup," "A Race Against Odds," and "El Robardo (The Thief)." Photo covers. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.