Comic books September 1955

Vol. 6 #37 - Sept. 16, 1955. Contents include Dan Dare, P.C. 49, Riders on the Range, Eagle cutaway centerfold, Luck of the Legion, Jack O'Lantern, Harris Tweed Extra Special Agent, Storm Nelson, Lincoln of America. Plus text stories and articles. 10 3/4-in. x 13 1/2-in., 14 pages, B&W and full color.

Vol. 6 #38 - Sept. 23, 1955. Contents include Dan Dare, P.C. 49, Riders on the Range, Eagle cutaway centerfold, Luck of the Legion, Jack O'Lantern, Harris Tweed Extra Special Agent, Storm Nelson, Lincoln of America. Plus text stories and articles. 10 3/4-in. x 13 1/2-in., 14 pages, B&W and full color.

Vol. 6 #39 - Sept. 30, 1955. Contents include Dan Dare, P.C. 49, Riders on the Range, Eagle cutaway centerfold, Luck of the Legion, Jack O'Lantern, Harris Tweed Extra Special Agent, Storm Nelson, Lincoln of America. Plus text stories and articles. 10 3/4-in. x 13 1/2-in., 14 pages, B&W and full color.

Mexican Series. 7-in. x 10-in. 32 Pages, full color. Spanish Language. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 26, Issue 3 - September, 1955. 5.5" x 7.5", 148 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

Volume 8 - Number 9, September 1955. Pulp magazine devoted to exploring the paranormal. This issue takes you into the Temple of Mithras, and profiles the healer Mahatma Ghandi! Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 7 1/2-in., 130 page, Text (with B&W Illustrations and Photos). Cover price $0.35.

Cover by Charles Nicholas and Vince Alascia. Stories and art by Sid Check, Bill Molno, Charles Nicholas and Vince Alascia. Charlton's long-running series focused on the miliary exploits of the US Marines throughout the 20th century. Marine "Skinny" keeps re-enlisting throughout the conflicts of the early 20th century, no matter how many times he promises himself it's the last time. A Marine sergeant explains to his superiors exactly why he went AWOL. Tired of hearing Pvt. Clark complain about the way he runs the company, a colonel puts Clark in charge of things for a day. One Hitch Gyrene; The Bluff That Worked; A.W.O.L.; Have a Hill?; Let's Get Casey; C.O. for a Day!; A Wing and a Prayer. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Teen comedy featuring Mazie and her group of friends, particularly the wacky guy whose haircut gives him his nickname. Flat-Top decides to make Mortie's new 3-D movie even more realistic by releasing a live tiger into the auditorium. Mazie falls for a carnival barker who knows all the trendy slang words of "bebop" 1950s culture. Flat-Top's attempt to sabotage a football game with itching powder backfires in a big way. Also featuring profiles of popular TV and radio stars of the era. Plus a vintage ad for Wildroot Cream-Oil featuring Fearless Fosdick, with art by Al Capp. Reckless Drive-In; Disc-ussion with Mr. Music; Carney Blarney; Itch a Touchdown; Stevie; Hi-School Hi-Spots; Sally and The Gang; Holly of Hollywood; Delbert Dibble; Hollywood Tell-Tales; Flat-Top's Favorite Jokes; Drippy and The Gang. Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Photo cover of Jock Mahoney. Stories and art by Tony Sgroi and others. The Range Rider and his sidekick Dick patrol the West; based on the classic 1951-1953 TV series. Range Rider and Dick go after an escaped convict and get ambushed by his cohort. But the trail leads to a dead end at a waterfall. Range Rider suspects that powerful rancher Judson is changing the course of a creek with explosives, to steal land from hardscrabble neighbor Shep. Hangmans Moon; Trickery at Mule Creek. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Eugene E. Hughes, S. Finocchiaro and Sal Trapani. Aerial combat adventure in World War II. A bomber pilot prepares for his first mission over Berlin. An American pilot shot down over enemy territory has an encounter that hearkens back to his father's experiences as a World War I aviator. Lt. Geyer has one more mission before he can retire as a bomber pilot. The Gentleman!; Big Bomber; Combat Tour!; One More Mission; Big B. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 5, Issue 9 - September, 1955. Men's interest magazine featuring Athletes, True Crime, Starlets, and Pin-ups. 4-in. x 6-in., 64 pages, B&W Cover price $0.15.

Cover by Ogden Whitney. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Art by John Rosenberger, Chic Stone, Charles Nicholas, and Kurt Schaffenberger. An anthology series featuring tales of fantasy and science fiction adventure from legendary early independent comics publisher ACG. An Earth scientist helps an alien race battle intelligent dinosaurs; Hypnosis somehow creates a double that tries to take over a mans life; A female reporter becomes smitten with an illusionist who has uncanny powers. Art by Superman and Lois Lane artist Kurt Schaffenberger. Pussycat on the Dog Star!; Picture of an Heir; The Hypnotic Trance!; The Master of Illusions! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "Luke Short's KING COLT, No. 651." Painted cover art. Full page reproduction of Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." King Colt, art by Everett Raymond Kinstler; An old prospector fakes his death after an ambush attempt, which sets in motion a complex struggle for control of Cosmos County as cattleman Major Fitz and corrupt sheriff Baily Blue face off against former deputy Johnny Hendry and his two sidekicks. Promo for Dell's Zane Grey's Stories of the West #27. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Ernie Bushmiller. Stories and art by Ernie Bushmiller, Charles Schulz, Ernest G. Osborne, and Leonard Sansone. The comic-strip adventures of aspiring model Fritzi Ritz, her boyfriend Phil Fumble, and her precocious niece Nancy. Phil and Fritzi watch a newsreel that has a little more "good girl art" than Fritzi is comfortable with. Phil is such a tightwad, he'd rather wade through a stream than pay a bridge toll. Fritzi's niece Nancy, future star of the strip, gets into misadventures. Plus early Peanuts strips by Charles Schulz, and the Dennis the Menace-like Willie. The Family Scrapbook; Fritzi Ritz; Willie; Peanuts; Nancy. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Sept 1955. Humor Digest featuring jokes and cartoons. Janet Leigh interior photo cover. Cover by Bob Tupper. Cartoons by Bob Tupper, Vic Martin, Stanley Rayon, Frank Beaven, Bill Wenzel, and others. Softcover Digest, saddle-stitched, 5 1/4-in. x 7-in., 100 Pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Vol. 6, No. 3. September 1955. Glamour and pinup magazine. This issue with a single-page Bunny Yeager pictorial. 8-in. x 10 1/4-in., 66 pages, B&W. MATURE. Cover price $0.25.

Cover art by John Prentice. I Belonged to the Undercover Squad, art by Bill Ely. The Sightless Sharpshooter, art by Ralph Mayo. The Invisible Clues, art by Win Mortimer. The Cop Who Shot 1,000 Crooks, pencils by Howard Purcell, inks by Ray Burnley. The Undersea Sleuth, art by John Prentice. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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"Portrait of Doom" and "Terror in the Canyon." Back-up story, "The Desert's Secret." 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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September 1955: Cover by Dick Dillin and Charles Cuidera; "Atomic Battleground," 9 pages; "Border Warfare," 6 pages; "Infantry Assault on Red Mountain," 7 pages; "Terror of the Panhandle," 1 page text story; "The Storming of Hostage Island," 6 pages. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

She and Dick had been sweethearts since childhood...yet, through all the years, the fear haunted her that somehow...somewhere...some way...she'd lose him! "My Love is Not Mine" is the cover-featured 8 page story drawn by Irv Novick, Bernard Sachs and ? Plus: 7 page story "Let Me Leave You" pencilled by Tony Abruzzo; 7 page story "Just for Today" drawn by Jerry Grandenetti and Bernard Sachs; 7 page story "Some Call It Love" pencilled by Mort Drucker; 2 page Julia Roberts' Romance Report letters page; 1 page poem "The Prophecy." Cover inks by Bernard Sachs. Cover price $0.10.

Issue #34 - Fall 1955. Jokes and single panel cartoons. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 50 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Vintage supermarket tabloid magazine full of high profile true crime stories of the FBI and the CIA, some with testimonials from those involved in, or close to the cases themselves. 8.5" x 10.5", 66 pages, B&W. Recommended for ages 16+. Cover price $0.25.

May 1955. Humor Digest featuring jokes and cartoons. Anita Ekberg Photo inside front cover. Cartoons by George Troop, Joe Buresch, Vic Martin, and others. Softcover Digest, 5 1/4-in. x 7-in., 100 Pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Al Avison. Hidden Heartbreak; Kathie Thomas thought that her dreams had come true when she was hired as the personal secretary for Patricia Harlow, one of the top dress buyers in the city. My Untamed Heart, art by Tom Hickey; Parkville was a quaint New England town full of history; Some of the new history was the romance between Judy Dunn and Lee Sanders that was going great until Peter Byrnes arrived to write a book on the history of the town. Broadway Lights, art by Bill Draut; Jennie Traynor loved to dance, and dreamed of being on the big stage. Treacherous Kisses; Jean Davies is the daughter of the mayor's daughter and always in the public eye; too much so if you ask her father, who insists that she stop being the headline in Burt Medford's gossip column. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Stories by Richard Hughes. Art by John Rosenberger, Robert McCarty and Ogden Whitney.  Cover by Ogden Whitney. Tales of the Old West from legendary early independent comics publisher ACG, featuring the Hooded Horseman, a mysterious masked gunslinger with a secret identity.   The Hooded Horseman intervenes in a land dispute, and gets called a rip-snortin bear-cat;  A professor and his daughter come to Larijuna in India to investigate an ancient temple, and soon need Cowboy Sahibs help; The Apaches attack a train carrying weapons and ammunition. The Hooded Horseman; Rodeo Ruckus; Cowboy Sahib; Flash the Hooded Horseman's Miracle Dog!; The Old Timer; Johnny Injun. Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Gene Colan, Julius Schwartz, Ed Herron, Morris Waldinger, Tom Nicolosi, Ray Burnley, Jack Miller, Raymond Perry, and John Broome. Western adventure featuring one of the most popular heroes of the mid-20th century, star of TV, film and radio. The town is puzzled by mysterious coded messages suspended from airborne kites, in one of three stories this issue illustrated by future Marvel legend Gene Colan. Hopalong figures out how the town clock being off by an hour is connected to a payroll robbery. Plus fun facts from Old West history, written by legendary DC editor Julius Schwartz. Three Signs to Danger!; Western Animals!; The Time Bandits of Twin Rivers!; Range Round Up!; Treasure in the Desert; Strange Indian Beliefs!; The Man Who Knew Everything! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

UK Edition. black and white; 24 pages.

Cover art by Bill Ely. "The Stranger From Out There," pencils by Ramona Fradon, inks by Charles Paris; A stranger comes to a town that has cut itself off from the world and he appears to be from outer space. "The Ink That Mastered Men's Minds"; A man accidentally gets ahold of magic ink that will command anyone to do whatever he wants them to. 2/3-page Moolah the Mystic story by Henry Boltinoff. 2/3-page Professor Eureka story by Henry Boltinoff. "The Voice From 2,500 Years Ago," art by Jim McArdle; Archeologists dig up an ancient temple in Greece with a statue that knows everything that has happened. "The Mystery of Dreams" article by Jack Miller; Stories of famous people who solved puzzles in their dreams. "The Talking Toys of Lost Valley," art by Bill Ely; A man steals the plans to small toys that can act as though they are humans but he has trouble bringing the toys to market. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Distinguished Achievement Award--Dell Comics Pledge to Parents public service announcement. "The Missing Diamond," script by Edward Kean; The boys encounter an invisible genie. "Animal Tricks," script by Edward Kean; Dilly tries to train a chimp, while Captain Scuttlebutt tries to teach his dog, Windy, some tricks; A lion tops both animals by roller skating and playing a trombone; But the lion turns out to be Clarabell in disguise! Untitled Flub-a-Dub's Old-Time Silent Movie story. Untitled story, script by Edward Kean; Clarabell visits a fortune teller. Howdy Doody illustration on back cover. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 1, Issue 5 - September 1955. Cover by Jim Bentley. Men's magazine focusing on Hunting stories and articles. Illustrations by John Leone and Tom Ryan. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 100 pages, B&W Cover price $0.35.