Comic books October 1953

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Cover by Joe Kubert. Stories and art by Joe Kubert, Russ Heath and Norman Maurer. Numbering continues from One Million Years Ago (1953 St. John) #1. Comics legend Joe Kubert won fans early in his career with his tales of Tor, a caveman struggling for survival in a world where humans co-exist with dinosaurs. Kubert and St. John push the envelope with some of the earliest 3-D comics. Three versions of issue #2 exist; all are called Vol. 1 #2 in the indicia. This version is standard Silver Age size and includes the same contents as #2B. Tor aids an underground tribe in their battle with a Cave Snake. Then he battles a giant turtle, escapes a forest fire, and witnesses a dinosaur battle. Plus illustrations of dinosaurs by legendary artist Russ Heath. Tor; 1,000,000 B.C. History of Prehistoric Animals: Triceratops, Brontosaurus; Wizard of Ugghh; Danny Dreams. Standard size: 7 1/2-in. x 10-in. 36 pages, B&W with 3-D effects. Cover price $0.25.

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Cover art by Al Plastino. Superman's Million-Dollar Photos!, starring Al Plastino. The Hidden City! starring Congo Bill, script by Jack Miller, art by Ed Smalle. Give Your Pet All the Breaks! starring Binky, script by Jack Schiff, art by Win Mortimer. The Cosmic Jigsaw Puzzle! starring Tommy Tomorrow, art by Jim Mooney. The Treasure of Get-Rich Creek! starring Vigilante, art by Bob Brown. 44 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Win Mortimer. Superboy's Lost Costume, art by John Sikela; three people find Superboys costume. Give Your Pet All the Breaks! public service announcement starring Binky, script by Jack Schiff, art by Win Mortimer. Secret of the Sea Monster starring Aquaman, art by Ramona Fradon. Thunderbolts on Mount Olympus starring Johnny Quick, art by Ralph Mayo. The Three Shots That Green Arrow Missed, art by George Papp. 44 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Add to cart PR 0.5 $150.00 View scan Interior is complete. Extensive water damage, full length spine split (taped). Cover and centerfold detached and taped into place. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Contains a lingerie panel in "Serpent of Doom", story page two, panel four. In order of appearance: "Serpent of Doom" reprinted in Snake Tales: The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics HC (2016 IDW) #1-1ST; "The Spectral Sergeant"; "Horror's Scrapbook: The Breeder of Crime, Ship of the Dead..."; "The Living-Dead of Kulatum" art by Gene Fawcette; "Weird Maze" activity page reprinted in Haunted Horror (2012 IDW) #27; "Conspiracy with Death"; "The Last Dance"; "The Gypsy Curse"; and "Nightmare Island" art by Gene Fawcette. "Shanghai Ship: A Bucko Mate Learns an Important Fact About Kidnapping Sailors..." illustrated text story by John Marvin. 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Owen Fitzgerald. Written by Cal Howard, Martin Naydel and unknown. Art by Owen Fitzgerald, Martin Naydel and Bob Oksner. Bob Hope, famous American motion picture director, stars in an untitled 3-part story by Cal Howard and Owen Fitzgerald. Plus: Teen Teasers activity page by Martin Naydel; A Bit of Disc and Data article; and Rusty back-up story, with art by Bob Oksner. 40 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Edited by Whitney Ellsworth. Cover by Irv Novick. Stories by Robert Kanigher, Irv Novick, Joe Giella, Bill Woolfolk, Gene Colan, Henry Boltinoff, Ed Herron, Jerry Grandenetti, Sy Barry, Ed Herron, and Bernard Sachs. Adventure tales of war and the military, including some humor—go into combat with All American Men of War! 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Issue #11 - Oct. 1, 1953. Includes four-page comic strip of Romeo and Juliette. 8 1/4-in. x 11 1/4-in., 12 pages, printed using a purple ink instead of black. NOTE: French language publication.

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Volume 5, Issue 4 - October, 1953. Art Photography Magazine was a men's interest publication produced from July, 1949 to December, 1958 that focused heavily on photographing the nude female form, as well as a fair amount of "cheesecake" pin-up style photography. Included are articles on how to take better photographs, product reviews of different photography equipment, and diving deeper into what makes photography a legitimate form of art. 8.5" x 10.5", 50 pages, B&W. -MATURE READERS- Cover price $0.50.

Add to cart CGC 5.5 $169.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Label #3712147014 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Pre-Code war comics, speculating on atomic warfare, from the nervous early years of the Cold War. During the nuclear war between UN and Soviet forces in far-off 1977, an intelligence agent warns authorities of a game-changing new atomic-weapons system located on a Pacific island. During the Korean War, helicopter pilot Jack proves that his aircraft can go where jet planes can't. When tough Sgt. "Bull" Whip is in trouble, his buddy Pete has to be even tougher to save him. The Island That Disappeared; Blood and Guts; The Attack; Expedition Chopper; Heroes Are Born, Not Made. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Jack Kirby. Art by George Roussos, Mort Meskin, Al Eadeh, Harry Lazarus, Bill Draut, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby present their own contribution to the horror comics trend of the 1950s, featuring tales of ghosts and the paranormal. Issue # 26 on cover; listed as Vol. 4, issue #2 in indicia. A strange little man gives petty hood Archie everything he dreams of. An eerie astrologer warns a woman to beware of Scorpio. A wind summoned by natives threatens to destroy colonial island settlements. Fools Paradise; The Beast in You!; The Wish; The Sting of Scorpio; The Strange Antics of the Mystic Mirror; The Voice; Demon Wind! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $49.00 View scans Water damage. Cover oxidation. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Stories by Dick Wood, Paul Gustavson and unknown. Art by Paul Gustavson and unknown. Featuring Blackhawk in: "The Conference of the Dictators" with story by Dick Wood; "The Cyclone From Hell"; "The King of the Iron Men"; and 1-page text story "No Clue of Danger," reprinted from Modern Comics (1945) #99. Plus: Chop Chop in an untitled back-up story by Paul Gustavson, reprinted from issue #44. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Fine $37.00 View scans Edge damage. Soiling.

Volume 97, Issue 9 - October 1953, 8.25" x 11", 132 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by William Overgard, Ben Brown, Ralph Mayo and Charles Biro. An anthology title from publisher Lev Gleason and his primary creator, Charles Biro, featuring teen hero Crimebuster and his nemesis Iron Jaw. Sniffer and the Deadly Dozen make millions with their new super-toothpaste, but Iron Jaw wants to swindle them out of it. Crimebuster and his explorer pal John seek a lost treasure in the jungles of Colombia. After helping the antlike Kallaxians fight off the surface-dwelling Vulgaxx, Rocky X sets out to return their planet to its proper orbit. Also featuring a vintage PSA for public school improvement. Sniffer and Iron Jaw: Sniffer and the Super-Toothpaste; Schools Need You; Rocky X: The City Beneath the Surface; Little Wise Guys: Haunted House; Crimebuster: The Dangerous Jungle. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $1,010.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Label #2134553001

Cover by Matt Fox. Stories and art by Harry Harrison and Steve Kirkel. Tales of pre-Code horror from Youthful Magazines. A horror story based on the classic Sir Walter Scott story, "The Strange Case of Wandering Willie." Two other stories are adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe classics. In "The Tell-Tale Heart," a killer's guilt drives him to madness, or maybe it's the other way around. In a story based on Poe's "MS Found In a Bottle," a shipwrecked sailor is taken aboard a ghost ship. Cover art by noted artist Matt Fox, better known for his covers of pulp magazines such as Weird Tales. Strange Case of Wandering Willie; The Secret of Life and Death; The Tell-Tale Heart; Doomsday Ship; The Evil Eye. Final issue of the series. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Painted cover by Richard Cardiff. Stories and art by Frank Thorne, Bernard Sachs and Jack Abel. St. John took over publication of this influential romance title, originally published by Ziff-Davis. Filling in for her cab-driving father, Peggy meets wealthy passenger Peter, but his snobbish fiancee insults Peggy, in a story with early art by good-girl artist Frank Thorne. Mail carrier Faith rescues amnesiac Jon and they fall in love, until Jon's fiancee Nadine shows up. A strange twist of fate allows Janet to start over in a new city as Ann, but when she falls in love with Roger, should she reveal the truth about her past? Taxi Sweetheart; One Wonderful Night; The Romance of Engagement Rings; Barrier to My Love; Truth Was My Heart's Only Weapon; Be a Good Guest; My Chance for Happiness. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Art by Bob Jenney. The Cisco Kid rode the range as the Robin Hood of the Old West with his corpulent sidekick Pancho, earning a permanent place in 20th-century pop culture. Cisco and Pancho get involved in a dispute over who's carrying the mail to towns on the remote frontier. That leads to a tense dogsled run through a raging blizzard. Cisco and Pancho set out to run a reverse scam on a crooked real-estate broker. Plus fun facts about the cowboys in Old California. Another nice painted cover, likely by Ernest Nordli. California Vaquero of 100 Years Ago; White Fury; Two-Way Frame-Up. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Adventures of Kit Carson, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. Art by Rudy Palais. (HRN 113, with 10/53 date). Cover price $0.15.

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Adventures of Kit Carson, 3rd Printing, Painted Cover. Art by Rudy Palais. (HRN 141). Cover price $0.15.

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Adventures of Kit Carson, 6th Printing, Painted Cover. Art by Rudy Palais. (HRN 167) Cover price $0.15.

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"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," script by Mayer A. Kaplan (adapter) and Brothers Grimm (adapted from their original story), art by Alex A. Blum; Snow White flees a wicked Queen to live in the forest with the Seven Dwarfs; When the Queen poisons Snow White, she falls into a death-like sleep until a Prince awakens her with love's first kiss. "The Farmer in the Dell," art by Alex A. Blum; Nursery rhyme about a farmer and the people and animals in his life. Article about the lion, art by William A. Walsh. Dot-to-Dot Puzzle, art by Alex A. Blum. Snow White back-cover pinup by Alex A. Blum. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $3.49 Centerfold detached at one staple. Water damage.

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. NOTE: We do not currently differentiate between HRN 576 copies and other HRN #'s of Classics Illustrated Junior reprints. Cover price $0.15.

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84 pages. Movie tie-in. Clyde Beatty in "The Floating Jungle," "Circus Killer," "Big Magic," "The Man From Hollywood," and "The Tamed Killers" (art on all by Mel Keefer). 12-page photo feature, Clyde Beatty's "The Pit of Umangi." Also "Big Bear and Lenny Lion," "Battling Bingo," "True Tales From the Big Top," and "The Gooflesnoof." One page Ed Nofziger cartoons. Photo cover. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart FN+ 6.5 $6.00 View scans Staple rust: Slight.

Oct. 16, 1953. The classic weekly magazine featuring news and fiction. 10.75" x 13.75", 118 pages, PC/B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart FR 1.0 $240.00 View scans Water saturation. Staple rust, rust migration. Heavy pencil on cover. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Cover art by Al Feldstein. "The Killer," script and art by Reed Crandall; Jonathan worked hard at his work, never wanting to follow in the footsteps of his father. Then he met Elsie, whom he intended to marry after he had established himself; However, because Jonathan's father was not a member of a guild, Jonathan was denied his opportunity to make a living, and reluctantly accepted doing his father's line of work. "Wined-Up!", script by Bill Gaines (plot) and Albert B. Feldstein (plot, script), art by George Evans; Charles, in a wheelchair since an auto accident, learns that the accident was no accident at all, and that his wife Laura wanted to kill him because she was sick and tired of living with him; She now informs him that is going to try again by wheeling him out on a pier, attaching a wire to it so that she can pull the chair into the lake as she goes swimming. "Rendezvous!" text story, script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Marie Severin. "Murder May Boomerang," script and art by Johnny Craig; Nearly inseparable, a father and son did everything in life together until that one day when a prisoner from a nearby penitentiary discovers the pair's cabin, where he steals clothing and nearly beats the father to death. "About Phase," script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by George Evans; 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Doug Wildey and Vince Colletta. Tales of love and heartbreak, with a twist: in-story appearances by real-life musicians of the era. Scheming star Carla tries to break up the romance between her understudy Terry and TV director Ted, until real-life singer Julius LaRosa intervenes, in a story with early art by Doug Wildey. Denny wants to get her family out of the horse-racing business, but her dangerous actions get her jockey boyfriend Pete blackballed instead. Reformed juvenile delinquent Lucille is afraid her past will catch up with her and ruin her romance and job with department-store manager Will. Cover features a photo of Julius LaRosa. Julius LaRosa!; Bet Love To Win; My Sister and I; Finger of Shame. Final issue of the series. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Bernard Baily. Stories and art by Steve Ditko and Sal Trapani. A standard romance comic of the 1950s, notable for publishing Steve Ditko's earliest work. Redhead Lani struggles to tell her soldier boyfriend, stationed overseas, that she's breaking up with him. Bill wants to marry Abby, but she's already married...to her job. Liza is dating farmboy Seth, but wants to meet someone more sophisticated, in the first published story by Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko. Slightly saucy pre-Code cover by Bernard Baily. Dear John; Career Girl!; Love...and Obey!; Cold Cash!; My Sister's Keeper!; Paper Romance! Final issue under this title; series continues as Radiant Love (1954) #2. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $299.95 or Best Offer View scans Water damage, staple rust/migration. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

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Add to cart GD- 1.8 $140.00 View scans 1" Spine split from top. Cover detached. Water damage. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by TheGoodOlDays

Cover by Hy Fleishman. Stories and art by A.C. Hollingsworth, Jon D'Agostino and Hy Fleishman. A pre-Code horror series that is not as well-known other horror comics, but makes up for it with grue. A man snaps and disposes of his wife in a cement mixer, but her hands somehow survive to come after him. Redheaded Karen is saved from drowning by a skeleton whose whispered message seals his killer's doom. A convict successfully escapes prison by hiding in a coffin; too bad it's headed for the crematorium. Fingers of Doom; The Skeleton's Revenge; An Eye for an Eye?; Terror of the Boa Constrictor; Escape to Death! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Paul Murry. Stories by Carl Fallberg and unknown. Art by Jack Bradbury. Donald Duck is featured in "Vacation Work," plus the back-up stories "Bean Counting" and "Cousin Botcho"! Also: 1-pagers "Parachute Bread," "On the Job" and "Wrong Paint"! 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Add to cart FR 1.0 $10.00 Near full length spine split.

Art by Fred Guardineer and Fred Meagher. Cover by Fred Guardineer. Sometimes listed as Charles Starrett as the Durango Kid #25. Western adventure based on the popular masked hero played in the movies by Charles Starrett. Durango Kid gets blamed after stagecoaches mysteriously disappear with all on board; DK investigates counterfeiters by passing a few phony bucks of his own; Dan Brand seeks the hunter who wounded the rare white wolf who befriended him, Balu. The Disappearing Stagecoach; The Hot Money; Gold Madness; Hear the Owl Hoot; The Revenge of Balu. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $300.00 View scans 1" Spine split from top. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by TheGoodOlDays

Add to cart PR 0.5 $199.95 or Best Offer View scan Interior is complete. Full length spine split (partially taped). Brittle. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover by Alvin C. Hollingsworth. Edited by Sol Cohen. Art by Norman Nodel, Harry Lazarus, and Vince Alascia. Tales of horror from the era just before the Comics Code was introduced. A big-game hunter learns the horrifying secret of the white gorilla (its man); A stray postage stamp proves to be the clue that traps a murderer; A couple discovers the ancient Egyptian secret of eternal life, but of course it includes a horrible twist. Third cover appearance of the gasping girl from issues #5 and #9. The Light That Lured!; The White Gorilla!; The Steps in the Cellar; The Spectre at the Opera!; Stamp Murder!; Help Us to Die! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart FN- 5.5 $69.00 View scans Spine split 5%.

Add to cart Very Good $35.00 View scans Spine split 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Vintage men's interest magazine full of adult humor comics and tasteful pin-up pictorials. This issue with two pages of Bettie Page photos. 8.5" x 11.5", 52 pages, B&W. -MATURE CONTENT- Cover price $0.25.

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Sept-Oct 1953. Science fiction and fantasy stories by Walter M. Miller Jr., Ralph Robin, William P. McGivern, Richard Matheson, Jerome Bixby, Robert Sheckley, Mack Reynolds, Phillip Latham, and Ivar Jorgensen. Bernard Krigstein illustration. Cover by Leo Summers. 5.5-in. x 7.75-in.; black and white; 148 pages. Cover price $0.35.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $9.60 View scan 1/2" Cumulative spine split.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $6.40

Cover by Chad Grothkopf. Stories and art by Chad Grothkopf, Bill Woolfolk and Walter Farmer. Funny-animal comics from Fawcett, featuring Hoppy the Bunny, Bobby Bantam and Kenny Kangaroo. Kenny Kangaroo is such a bad boxer, he loses a shadow-boxing match. Skeezel's latest scheme goes so wrong that Teddy falls off a building into a tomato truck, plastering passersby in tomato puree. Hoppy gets jealous when Millie makes eyes at carnival strong man Herman Hare, but his superhero days are long behind him. Ambitious Cat; Slinky Stinky: The Stolen Swimming Pool; Teddy Bear and Skeezel the Weasel: All Washed Up; Hoppy the Marvel Bunny: Muscle Tussle; Kenny Kangaroo; Bobby Bantam: Bailing, Bailing; Buzzy Bee. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Add to cart Very Good $43.00 View scans Corner Damage. Creasing. Denting. Foxing. Scuffing. Soiling.

Add to cart Good $30.00 View scans Staple rust. Rust migration. Spine stress. Water damage.

Volume 6, Number 5 - October 1953. Vintage men's interest magazine full of pin-ups and glamour photos paired with humorous text stories and adult comic strips. 8" x 11.5", 54 pages, B&W. -MATURE CONTENT- Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart PR 0.5 $2.50 Interior complete. Front cover missing with back cover attached with tape. Cover oxidation.

Indicia title is "UNCLE WIGGILY, No. 503." Cover art by Bill Weaver. Finding a Job for Shaggy Wolf; Wiggily tries to help Shaggy Wolf get a job and become successful; but Shaggy gets fired as quickly as he's hired. Contests for Rights to the Turtle Pond; Pokey Turtle and his cousin Trundle go through a series of contests to settle who has rights to the turtle pond. A Fortune in the Stove; Wiggily sells an old stove, not knowing that's where Nurse Jane hid her life savings. All art by Bill Weaver. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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The Sword and the Rose (Disney movie adaptation). 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG 4.0 $25.00

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $6.20 3 3/4" Cumulative spine split (chew).

Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Art by Dan Gordon and Bob Wickersham. Funny-animal comics from independent publisher ACG, featuring the Itchy & Scratchy-like Puss an Boots, misguided inventor Blunderbunny, owl detective Whoo-Dunnit, and Western dog marshal Alkali Ike. Sometimes the characters break through the fourth wall and into the laps of the kids who are watching their cartoons. Puss fears hes lost his touch when his jokes on Boots start backfiring; Blunderbunny drills for oil in the house, but only finds the landladys water heater; Hector the Specter gets a job with a duck whos running a scam selling chicken eggs to owls. Puss an' Boots; Blunderbunny; Muttsy; Hector the Specter; Dog Gone; The Booby Trap; Whoo-Doodit; Bill an' Coo. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Otto Feuer. "Space Dodo Rides Again," art by Otto Feuer; Dodo and the Frog appear as actors in a science fiction story. "Get a Horse!" starring Nip and Chip, art by Otto Feuer. Comicode puzzle page by Martin Naydel. Untitled Biggety Bear story, art by Rube Grossman; Willy tries to convince Biggety that Biggety isn't Biggety but really Elmer Hassenpfeffer and thus can't stay in Biggety's house any longer. "Buzzy Asks: How Safe Is Your Driving?" public service announcement by Jack Schiff, art by Win Mortimer. "Gyp Ahoy!" starring Custer Cat and Cheesy the Mouse, art by Rube Grossman. "The Autographed Tortoise" text story. Peter Panda ad. Untitled story, script and art by Sheldon Mayer; Skinny sells Bo a "magic wishing bean". 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart FN+ 6.5 $32.00 View scans Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart Very Good $9.00 View scans

October 1953. Cover by Emsh. Stories: "The Caves of Steel" (Part 1 of 3) by Isaac Asimov, "At The Post" by H. L. Gold, "The Model of a Judge" by William Morrison, "The Carnivore" by G. A. Morris, and "With a Vengeance" by J. B. Woodley. Non-Fact Article: "Origins of Galactic Etiquette" by Edward Wellen. Softcover Pulp Digest, 5-in. x 7-in.; 160 Pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.