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  • Issue #42
    Marmaduke Mouse (1946 Quality) 42
  • Issue #43
    Marmaduke Mouse (1946 Quality) 43
  • Issue #63

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  • Issue #1
    Math at General Electric (c. 1953 General Electric) 1

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    Explains how mathematics is used at General Electric in different kinds of jobs. 12 pages, B&W.

  • Issue #1
    Mazie (1953 Comic-Sized) 1

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    See Mazie (1950 Miniature size). Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #2
    Mazie (1953 Comic-Sized) 2

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  • Issue #3
    Mazie (1953 Comic-Sized) 3

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  • Issue #4
    Mazie (1953 Comic-Sized) 4

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  • Issue #5
    Mazie (1953 Comic-Sized) 5

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  • Issue #6
    Mazie (1953 Comic-Sized) 6

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  • Issue #7
    Mazie (1953 Comic-Sized) 7

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  • Issue #9
    Mazie (1953 Comic-Sized) 9

    Stories and art by Warren Kremer and others. Teen comedy featuring Mazie and her group of friends, similar to the Archie gang. Knocked unconscious by snow, Mortie dreams he is on a tropical island with his friends - but they turn out to be cannibals. Jeanie signs Mazie up for ice-skating, knowing she's a terrible skater. Mazie and the gang try to think up a slogan for the new riding stables. Ice-Scream; A Horse of a Different Cola; Mortie: Pot Luck; Stevie: Sym-phoney; Love's Old Sweet Boing! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #10
    Mazie (1953 Comic-Sized) 10

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    Teen comedy featuring Mazie and her group of friends, similar to the Archie gang. Flat-top finds a sinister use for Mortie's new phone-tapping device. Jeanie and Mazie face a head-to-head contest to determine the best baseball pitcher. Stevie dreams himself into a pirate story with Mortie as the strait-laced captain. Southern Bell; It Can't Bee; Mortie: Yeaaaa-Mazie!; Stevie: It's S'nooze To Me; Common Scents. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #11
    Mazie (1953 Comic-Sized) 11

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    Teen comedy featuring Mazie and her group of friends, similar to the Archie gang. The guys and the gals try to out-prank each other to impress the new school principal. The gang throws a "come as you are" party and the results are ridiculous. Mazie competes in a baby photography contest. Q Tea; Watt's S'matter Baby; Mortie: Roller Skatin'; Stevie: Sweat-er Boy; Fashion Shmoe. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Vol. 1 #1
    McCall's Children's Annual (1953 McCall's) Vol. 1 #1


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  • Issue #19
    Men's Adventures (1951 Marvel/Atlas) 19

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  • Issue #20
    Men's Adventures (1951 Marvel/Atlas) 20

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  • Issue #21
    Men's Adventures (1951 Marvel/Atlas) 21

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  • Issue #22
    Men's Adventures (1951 Marvel/Atlas) 22
    • Paper: Off white
    • Label #4417842001
  • Issue #193

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  • Issue #194

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  • Issue #195

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  • Issue #2
    Merry Mouse (1953) 2

    Art by Frank Carin and others. Cover by Frank Carin. Funny-animal stories for kids from publisher Avon, featuring Merry Mouse and his friends. A magic beanstalk takes Merry and Mazie into a giants kingdom; Merry dreams that he and Mazie have traveled back to medieval England; Merry is sent to cover a wedding for the society page and winds up foiling a kidnapping. First Prize Winner!; Merry Mouse Uses His Bean!; The Wizard!; Poppa's Stand-In; Stop the Press!; The Little Ham!; Quick Change Artist!; A Very Pressing Matter! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #0
    Mighty Mouse Adventure Stories (1953) 0

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    St. John presents a mammoth, omnibus-sized compilation of Mighty Mouse comics, a rare thing in the 1950s. At 384 pages, this is the largest Mighty Mouse comic ever produced. Among the stories included: Cat spies steal an experimental metal "sensitive to radio-rays" and use it to build an army of evil-cat killbots. Mighty Mouse must defend Mouseville from the invading robot army. In another story, Mighty Mouse enters a boxing tournament secretly staged by The Claw and Professor Ohm, part of their plot to steal uranium for their evil deeds. Adventure of the Steel Slaves; Denizens of the Deep. 384 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.50.

  • Issue #18
    Mighty Mouse Comics (Australian 1950 Rosnock) 18

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    Circa 1953. Vol 1 No 18. Drawn by Jayar Studios. "Mighty Mouse and the Dragon", Gandy Goose in "Caddy Capers", Mighty Mouse in "The Perils of Pearl Pureheart", "The Bully Fighter" featuring Sourpuss (text story), Dinky in "Butting Bully", and Mighty Mouse and the "Reckless Rabbit". Oblong format, 10 1/2" x 7", b&w interior, 32 pages-all newsprint.

  • Issue #46
    Miss America Magazine Vol. 7 1952 (#45-93) 46

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    #46 is listed in the indicia as: VOL. 1 (7/52) Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #47
    Miss America Magazine Vol. 7 1952 (#45-93) 47

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    #47 is listed in the indicia as: VOL. 1 (9/52) Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #48
    Miss America Magazine Vol. 7 1952 (#45-93) 48

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    #48 is listed in the indicia as: VOL. 1 (11/52) Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #49
    Miss America Magazine Vol. 7 1952 (#45-93) 49

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    #49 is listed in the indicia as: VOL. 1 (1/53) Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #58
    Miss America Magazine Vol. 7 1952 (#45-93) 58
  • Issue #59
    Miss America Magazine Vol. 7 1952 (#45-93) 59
    • 3/4" Cumulative spine split. Chew. Water damage.
  • Issue #1
    Miss Curity Comic Book (1953 Kendall) 1

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    First aid awareness comic with coloring pages and activities for children. 16 pages, color/B&W.

  • Issue #48
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    • Staple rust. Rust migration. 1/2" Cumulative spine split. Corner Damage. Denting. Scuffing.

    Issue 48 - 1953. Danish Art Studies Magazine, each page with a full-page tastefully nude photo. 8.5" x 11". 16 pages. B&W. MATURE. NOTE: Text in Danish, some translated into English and French.

  • Issue #2
    Modern Man Annual (1952-1964 Publishers Development Corp) 2

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    Volume 2, 1953. Men's interest magazine featuring nearly equal sections on cars, guns and provocative pictorials. Annual publication. This issue features a full-page nude of Bettie Page. Spiral-bound, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 68 pages, B&W. Mature readers. Cover price $1.00.

  • Issue #1953
    Modern Sunbathing and Hygiene (1947-1965) Annual 1953


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    1953 Annual. Nudist lifestyle magazine. 8.5" x 11". Spiral binding, 64 pages, B&W Cover price $1.00.

  • Issue #1
    Monster (1953) 1
    Published 1953 by Fiction House.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Label #4170090003
    • Paper: Light tan to off white
    • Label #1488675016
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    Maurice Whitman cover. In order of appearance: "The Monster"; "The Mirror"; "Traitor's House" art by Tony D'Adamo, reprinted in Haunted Horror (2012 IDW) #27; and "The Secret Files of Dr. Drew", reprinted from Rangers Comics (1941) #48. 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

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    $2,000 Monster #1 CGC 8.5 (TRIMMED) 1953

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  • Issue #2
    Monster (1953) 2
    Published 1953 by Fiction House.

    Maurice Whitman cover. In order of appearance: "The Dark Abysmal" art by John Belcastro, reprinted in Haunted Horror (2012 IDW) #24; "Tiger Kiss"; "Where The Undead Roam" art by Bill Benulis and Jack Abel, reprinted in Zombies: The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics HC (2012 IDW) #1-1ST; "Kohnoori's Curse" art by Bill Discount, reprinted in Haunted Horror (2012 IDW) #27; and "The Deadman's Chest". Indicia states "The Monster". 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #2
    Monster (1953) Canadian Edition 2

    Canadian edition. Art by John Belcastro, Bill Discount, Art Peddy, Bernard Sachs, Bill Benulis and Jack Abel. Cover by Maurice Whitman. Reprints of Fiction House's pre-Code horror comic from Canadian publisher Superior. An explorer is cursed by an Indian tiger cult to transform into a were-tiger, which is unfortunate for his wife's would-be lover. A detective uncovers a plot to turn a young woman into a zombie. A treasure hunter pays a terrible price for violating the Tomb of Kohnoori. The Big 6; The Dark Abysmal; Tiger Kiss; Where the Undead Roam; Kohnoori's Curse; The Deadman's Chest. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #83
    Monte Hale Western (1948 Fawcett/Charlton) 83

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    Cover by Stan Campbell. Stories and art by Edmond Good, Dick Kraus and Leonard Frank. First issue published by Charlton. Movie cowboy Monte Hale wanders the frontier, cleaning up the West one outlaw at a time. Cavalry troops still divided over the end of the US Civil War must put aside their differences when Sioux forces attack border settlements. An animal-cruelty activist doesn't want perennial sidekick Gabby Hayes to put horseshoes on his horse. Monte finally tracks down the swift-fingered gang known as Safe-Crackers Unlimited, but they get the drop on him and capture him. Pony Boy Pedro... Knows His History!; Old Smokey; Two Flags At Dawn; Indian Sign Language; Gabby Hayes and the Unlucky Horseshoes; Imagine That!; Old Slick; Rodeo Gun-Trail; Gray Hawk: Waterfall of Doom; Lucky Day; Safe-Crackers Unlimited; Pinto Pete. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #84
    Monte Hale Western (1948 Fawcett/Charlton) 84

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    Stories and art by Edmond Good, Dick Kraus and Leonard Frank. Movie cowboy Monte Hale wanders the frontier, cleaning up the West one outlaw at a time. Monte faces down the Mexican revolutionary El Leon and his followers, but beautiful gunrunner Carlotta Montez stops him in his tracks. When outlaw steals a fresh batch of Aunt Hester's fudge from the Bar Nothing Ranch, he arouses the ire of both Gabby Hayes and Aunt Hester herself. The range war between cattlemen and farmers comes down to the destruction of the Shanda Valley Dam, a plan that Monte must stop. Cactus Brain; The Gunrunners of Acatera; Dimwit Diddle; Bronko Betsy; Gabby Hayes: Fearless Fudgy; Grubstaker's Bargain; Gray Hawk: Wahita Mercy; Old Slick; The Building of Shanda Dam; Ten Gallon Tex; Molasses Mouth. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #14
    Mopsy (1948) 14
    Published 1953 by St. John.

    Cover by Gladys Parker. Stories and art by Gladys Parker and others. One of the first female-centric comic strips, by pioneering female artist Gladys Parker, Mopsy combines an Ever Meulen art style with pantomime-style gags and good-girl art. When Mopsy tips over her canoe, a guitar is the next best thing. Mopsy finds a new use for a Lover's Leap after the latest boyfriend dumps her. If Scarlett O'Hara can make a dress out of curtains, then Mopsy can do the same with a tablecloth. Have You Heard This One?; Mopsy; The Lighter Side. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #1A
    Mr. Peanut Presents Paint Book (1953) 1A

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    Printed in 1953 by Planters Nut & Chocolate Co. Very scarce promotional book from Planters Nut and Chocolate Co. Includes every president from Washington to Eisenhower and contains several pictures to paint on. Softcover. 16 pages. Colored. Planters Peanut ad on back cover. Includes original Planters Nuts and Chocolate Company envelope.

  • Issue #1B
    Mr. Peanut Presents Paint Book (1953) 1B

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    Printed in 1953 by Planters Nut & Chocolate Co. Very scarce promotional book from Planters Nut and Chocolate Co. Includes every president from Washington to Eisenhower and contains several pictures to paint on. Softcover. 16 pages. Colored. Planters Peanut ad on back cover. Does not include original Planters Nuts and Chocolate Company envelope.

  • Issue #3
    Mysteries (Canadian 1953 Superior) 3
    • Cover oxidation. Water damage.
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    • 3" cumulative spine split. Cover detached.
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    • Interior is complete. Full length spine split. Tape on interior back cover.
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    "Death in the Night"; A doctor who is a little crazy dresses up as the personification of the bubonic plague, and kills New Yorkers. A police lieutenant kills him. "The Avenging Corpse"; A professor's wife and her lover feed the professor to his newly bred barracudas; He is horribly disfigured, and finds his ex-wife who is poor and no longer beautiful; She kills herself. "The Unknown Horror" text story. "Shrinking Horror"; A crook squishes his scientist friend and steals his shrinking formula; He tries to rob a bank, is chased to a toy store, and makes a home in a doll's house. "Demons of the Swamp"; A man in charge of filling a swamp finds an unknown castle; He finds a woman who swamp creatures chained to a wall. He frees her; He takes her locket and she ages to 200 years. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #21
    Mystic (1951 Atlas) 21

    Zombie in the Streets, art by John Buscema. Dorothy's Doll, art by Gene Colan; A man buys a lifelike doll for his ill child unintentionally fooling Death into taking the doll and leaving the girl. The Honeymooners, art by Tony Mortellaro; A man strangles his new bride, and when confronted by a neighbor, is told to mind his own business because that is what she wanted; He is a ghost and now his wife is a ghost, too. Isle of no Escape text story. Homicide; Jim Lane kills a bothersome tramp, then tries to frame his neighbor, an inadvertent witness, for the murder. The Ghost Comes Back!, pencils by Dick Ayers; A woman fools a criminal into thinking that her returning husband is a member of the undead. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #22
    Mystic (1951 Atlas) 22

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    Cover by Russ Heath. Stories by Carl Wessler and unknown. Art by Joe Maneely, John Forte, Al Eadeh, Vern Henkel and Art Peddy. The most eerie stories ever told! In this issue: "Doom in the Tomb!" by Carl Wessler and Joe Maneely; "Boy Meets Ghoul!" with art by John Forte; "Man-Eater!" with art by Al Eadeh; "Nothing Else to Write" with art by Vern Henkel; "The Maiden in the Iron Mask" with art by Art Peddy; and 2-page text story "Ghost Ship," reprinted from Suspense (1950) #11 (original title: "Dog Watch Death"). 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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    $400 Mystic #22 Atlas Comics 1953 CGC 4.5 Cream Off White Pages

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  • Issue #23
    Mystic (1951 Atlas) 23
    • Paper: White
    • Label #2045585005
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    Cover art by Russ Heath. Don't Shrink Sam's Head; A man wants to go to Jivaro country so he can acquire a shrunken head for his collection of horror memorabilia but is afraid of having his head shrunk, so he hires a scientist to treat his head so that it is unshrinkable. Tribal Mask text story. The Perfect Planet, art by Ross Andru. Hugo, art by Pete Tumlinson. Mother Knows Best, art by Sol Brodsky; A mother tells her daughter that the man in the moon causes the tides but her daughter doesn't believe her. Afterward, the moon gets destroyed by a comet impact and the seas grow calm. Every Dog Has Its Day!; An old miser who is mean to the boys at a neighboring orphanage gets what's coming to him when he poisons one of the orphans' dogs. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #24
    Mystic (1951 Atlas) 24

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    The Gargoyle!; When the only person who is nice to him is murdered by gargoyles, Quasimodo is blamed and hanged. The Stranger from Space; When a spacecraft lands and a creature emerges, two scientists are at odds with each other on what to do with the being; One thinks it is a threat and should be destroyed but the other stops his attack and helps the creature back to his ship where the two of them blast off. The Mysterious Painting text story. Another Man's Shoes; A janitor has a witch cast a spell which will exchange bodies with a man whom he thinks is well off, but the man's beautiful wife divorces him, he finds out he's bankrupt, and finally he gets shot. His Wife Throws Things. How Many Times Can You Die?; A man has dreams about killing his wife but he gets arrested and executed the same way in the dreams and so loses his nerve. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #25
    Mystic (1951 Atlas) 25
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Label #0236060010
    • Paper: Off white
    • Label #4274001004
    • Puncture in front cover and first few pages, slightly affects one text bubble. Centerfold detached at one staple.
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    • 1" Cumulative spine split. Cover-to-cover puncture. Cover loose at one staple.
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    Vampire; A police chief of a village is revealed to be a vampire. The Couple Next Door; A henpecked husband is demanded by his wife to provide something bigger and better than what the neighbors have; When he goes to tell her the latest thing the neighbor's wife got, his wife tells him to shut up and just give her one bigger and better, so he picks up a shotgun and blows her head off. The Toy Train; An orphan boy is visited by a stranger who leaves him a train set. When the boy shrinks to actually be able to board the train, he thinks that he is dreaming, but when his cruel uncle wakes him, he finds the train is still there. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #0
    National Aircraft Show Program (1953 Dayton Chamber of Commerce) 0

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    Official program book for the National Aircraft Show in 1953. This was the sesquicentennial of Ohio and the 50th anniversary of the Wright Brothers first powered flight. Held on Sept. 5-7, 1953 at Dayton, Ohio. Gen. James Doolittle contributes an article entitled "Fifty Years that Changed the World." Air races also took place, including the prestigious Thompson Trophy. Also includes a daily schedule of events along with ads from all the major manufacturers like Boeing, North American, Westinghouse, Mobil and many more. 9-in. x 12-in., 72 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.50.