Comic books September 1945

Volume 28, Issue 2 - September, 1945. 6.75" x 9.75", 98 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Cover by Walter Johnson. Stories and art by Ray Gill, Pam Robinson, Kenneth Fitch, Jim Wilcox, Walter Johnson and B. Gordon Guth. Sometimes listed as 4Most #16. Four different stories featuring clean-cut teen heroes of the 1940s from Novelty Press. Dick Cole is assigned to get snobbish Waldo Prigg III a job at the lumber yard so he can learn some real-world skills, but that's not going to be a simple task. Amateur photographer Candid Charlie's experiment with car-mounted flashes results in his accidentally saving the governor's life and capturing a notorious gangster. Edison Bell's pal Jerry gets stuck with a broken leg while exploring an abandoned coal mine - but it's not really abandoned. Edison Bell tells young readers how to set a broken leg. The usual note from the Editors about wartime salvaging includes a mention of V-E Day, then a recent memory. Dick Cole; Edison Bell: The Caverns of Death; The Apple Tree; Candid Charlie; The Voice; The Cadet. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Joe Musial. The Phantom strips, script by Lee Falk, art by Ray Moore. Tim Tyler's Luck strips, art by Lyman Young. Daffy Doodles strips, art by Doc Winner. Katzenjammer Kids strips, art by H.H. Knerr. Pete the Tramp strips by Clarence D. Russell. Jungle Jim strips, art by Alex Raymond. Private Breger Abroad strips by Dave Breger. Barney Google strips, art by Billy DeBeck. Blondie strips, art by Chic Young. Teddy and Sitting Bull strips, art by Joe Musial. Tillie the Toiler strips, art by Russ Westover. Prince Valiant strips, art by Hal Foster. They'll Do It Every Time strips, art by Jimmy Hatlo. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Joe Shuster and John Sikela. The Adventure of the Stingy Men starring Superman, pencils by Joe Shuster. The Clue of the Crazy Rhyme starring Hayfoot Henry, script by Al Schwartz, art by Stan Kaye. Darts of Death starring Congo Bill, art by Edwin Smalle. Of Cops and Robbers starring Vigilante, art by Mort Meskin (as Mort Morton Jr.). Pranks and Parrots starring Zatara, art by W. F. White. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Pen Shumaker. He Doodled It starring The Sandman, script by Joe Samachson, art by Pen Shumaker; Innocent doodles left behind in a phone booth used by Wes Dodds tips off the Sandman and Sandy to two rival gangs: one involved in robbery, the other in counterfeiting. New Shoes For Victory starring the Shining Knight, script by Joe Samachson, art by Louis Cazeneuve. My Fortune For a Star starring Starman, script by Joe Samachson, art by Emil Gershwin. Mechanical Murder starring Genius Jones, script by Whitney Ellsworth, art by Stan Kaye. Compliments of Honorable Mikado starring Mike Gibbs, Guerilla, script by Joe Samachson, art by Maurice Del Bourgo. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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UK bi-weekly magazine focusing primarily on WWII era aircraft, but covering the whole history of flight. 8" x 11.5", 12 pages, B&W

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UK bi-weekly magazine focusing primarily on WWII era aircraft, but covering the whole history of flight. 8" x 11.5", 12 pages, B&W

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Origins of the Heap and Skywolf retold. Edited by Ed Cronin. Cover by John Giunta. Stories by John Giunta, John Belfi, Tony DiPreta, Jack M. Greene, Bill Fraccio, Ed Cronin, and Dan Barry. Heroic action stories of war and airborne adventure—these are Air Fighters Comics! Paper drive feature with the Waste Paper Giant, art by Tony DiPreta. 52 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Aviation magazine featuring pictorials of featured designs; model and hobby information. 10.25" x 13", 104 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Fall 1945. The Justice Society of America battle robots (robot cover) from outer space in "Vampires of the Void!" Script by Gardner Fox. Art by Joe Gallagher and Martin Naydel, plus individual chapters featuring Hawkman (art by Joe Kubert), the Atom (art by Gallagher), Green Lantern (art by Stan Aschmeier and Naydel), Dr. Mid-nite (art by Aschmeier and Naydel), Flash (art by Gallagher and Naydel), and Johnny Thunder (art by Aschmeier). Wonder Woman cameo. Two-page text story, "Hurricane Orders" by Jim Robinson. Tootsie Roll back cover ad, "Captain Tootsie and the Hand Grenade" by C.C. Beck and Pete Costanza. Cover art by Gallagher and Naydel. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Written by Gardner F. Fox. Art and cover by Martin Naydel. While watching through a telescope one evening, Jay Garrick notices something weird about a certain painting he is viewing, but that doesn't hold a candle to the world the Three Dimwits land on after studying the mysterious art of "Yogism." The Three Dimwits acts as intermediaries between a crook named Curly Carson and a scientist who has discovered the secret to the "Fountain of Youth"! Mutt and Jeff humor story by Al Smith (as Bud Fisher). 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

One of the best ever Alex Schomburg covers! Weird little green space aliens on a moonscape with a spaceship in the background! Scarce in any grade!

Cover art by Alex Schomburg. The Tick-Tack-Toe Murder starring Captain America, pencils by Vince Alascia; Crooks hold an old man hostage for ransom but he smuggles out a code written in tick tack toe games; Steve Rogers and Bucky come across gangsters accosting a garbage collector and they change to their costumes and make short work of them until one of them spooks the garbage collector's horse and the horse takes off with Bucky on top of the wagon. Black Marketeers of Death starring the Human Torch, art by Jimmy Thompson. Kito, Japanese Fighter Pilot starring Jap Buster Johnson, pencils by Al Bellman. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Sept 1945. Science fiction stories by Richard Shaver with the third of the "Shaver Mystery" stories, "Cave City of Hel," plus Frances M. Deegan, Don Wilcox, William Lawrence Hamling, Lee Francis, Leroy Yerxa, Elroy Arno, and Richard Casey. Illustrations by Brady, Robert Fuqua, Clifford McClish, Malcolm Smith, Julian S. Krupa, Arnold Kohn, and Rod Ruth. Cover by Robert Gibson Jones. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 176 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

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Cover by Walt Kelly. Stories by H.R. McBride, Roger Garis, and Walt Kelly. Funny Animal Comics featuring such characters as Uncle Wiggily, Chilly Goose, Albert and Pogo, Blackie, and Hector the Henpecked Rooster Two-page text story, "Matilda and the Fox." Elephunnies back cover. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 322, Issue 1 - September, 1945. 8" x 11", 144 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

September, 1945 - Volume 4, Issue #12.

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Volume 36, Issue 1 - September, 1945. Cover by William Timmins. Science Fiction and adventure stories, this issue features "World of A: Part Two" by A.E. Van Vogt. 5.5-in. x 7.5-in., 160 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Cover by Dick Sprang. "Back To the Big House!", script by Don Cameron, art by Dick Sprang (as Bob Kane); No matter what jobs the Penguin plans and tries to carry out, Batman and Robin are always there to stop him, but, in the end, it's one of the Penguin's own umbrellas that sends him back to the big house! "While the City Sleeps!", script by Bill Finger, art by Dick Sprang (as Bob Kane); Batman decides to take Robin out on the town late at night to illustrate to him all of the people who are up and at work; Unfortunately, a group of criminals are hard at work also and the Dynamic Duo have to go to work... on them! "The Pointed Pistol" text story by Jesse Merlan. "Alias the Baron!", art by Jerry Robinson; Alfred is mistaken for a crook who has double-crossed gang leader, Ed Rocket. "Ally Babble and the Fourteen Peeves!", script by Bill Finger, art by Dick Sprang (as Bob Kane); Ally Babble is hired by a wealthy man to take care of 14 of his pet peeves, and if he successfully does so, he will be given $5000, which creates a mountain of headaches for Batman. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 4, Issue 5 - September, 1945. Painted cover by Billy Devorss. Vintage men's interest magazine focused on lingerie pin-up pictorials. 8.5" x 11.5", 68 pages, tinted B&W. -MATURE READERS- Cover price $0.25.

Stories and art by Ham Fisher, Frank Tinsley, Alfred Andriola, J. P. McEvoy, John Striebel, Frank Beck and Mart Bailey. Big Shot featured reprints of McNaught Syndicate humor and adventure strips, alongside original characters like Skyman and The Face. The "last Nazi," an escaped war criminal, hijacks a plane to escape justice, and Skyman takes wing in pursuit. Sparky and Slap Happy battle escaped outlaws while on vacation at Mr. Hodgers' ranch in Texas. Charlie Chan tries to prove a man is innocent of killing his wife, despite the evidence suggesting otherwise. Sparky Watts; Charlie Chan; Captain Yank; Joe Palooka; Bo; Dixie Dugan; The Face; Skyman; Brass Knuckles; The Man Who Stole the Sixth Avenue L. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Fall, 1945. The Black Bat in "Murder Among the Dying" by "G. Wayman Jones" (Norman Daniels); "Poisoned Hearts" by Ted Coughlan; "Protective Armor" by Norman A. Daniels; "Welcome Home, Sucker" by Joe Archibald; and "The Big Money Man" by Wayland Rice. Pulp magazine format; black and white; 80 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Everett Raymond Kinstler. "Case of the Insured Corpse," art by Irv Novick; Reporter Barbara Sutton accidentally cracks a murder case that's seven years old. The trouble is--she might be the next victim. "The Gourmet Strikes Again," art by Irv Novick; The Gourmet has escaped prison and wants to serve the Black Hood's last meal. "The Strange Case of Michael Dean" text story. "The Plumbers" starring Gloomy Gus and St. Pete, art by Red Holmdale. "Trouble's Troubles," script and art by Burton Geller. "The Case of the Book of Death," art by Irv Novick; Black Hood vs. James Hawes and Denver Joe Carroll. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

September, 1945. Cover price $0.15.

Edited by Victor Fox. Cover by Otis. Stories by Otis, Art Allen, Don Drew, and Hal George. Tales of daring-do, with such colorful characters as Joan Mason, the Joy Family, and Blue Beetle, a super-hero who wears a special bulletproof costume and takes "Vitamin 2X" which gives him super-energy. The Tall Story. The Killer Ghost. The Threat From Saturn (Ch. 5): Adventure of the Sacred Elephant. 36 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Jim Wilcox. Stories and art by Joe Donohoe, Ray Gill, Jim Wilcox, Robert Pious, Bill Haywood, Jack Warren, Pam Robinson, and Tom Gill. Sometimes listed as Blue Bolt #59. Former superhero Blue Bolt soars as an aviator hero in WWII. Cap Hawkins tells the true story of George Ray Tweed, a US soldier who eluded capture for almost three years after Guam fell to the Japanese in 1941. Sergeant Spook helps Jerry and Pud when they seek missing people in a swamp haunted by a witch and a were-panther. Blue Bolt tests an experimental plane, but someone wants the flight to fail. Dynamic runaway-horse cover by John Wilcox. Dick Cole; Cap Hawkins True Tales: George Ray Tweed; Bluebolts & Nuts; Edison Bell; Make This Remote Control Set-up; Blue Bolt; Fearless Fellers; The Stupid Mistake; Sergeant Spook: Murder In Black Pond Swamp; Night Plane; Krisko & Jasper. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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World War II cover. Cover pencils by Joe Simon (signed as Jack Kirby), inks by Joe Simon. The Lesson of the Lotus!, art by Louis Cazeneuve [ghosting for Jack Kirby]; the commandos make a raid into China and expose a Chinese traitor. Brooklyn takes a stand for women's rights. Comic strip ad for General Mills Inc.'s Wheaties breakfast cereal, art by Roland Coe. Coast Guard Reconnaissance, script by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Joe Simon; a Coast Guard lieutenant wins a Silver Star during a reconnaissance mission on a Japanese-held island. Warriors Without Weapons!, art by Louis Cazeneuve [ghosting for Jack Kirby]; the commandos are wounded in a raid on a German mining town. Private Pete humor page by Henry Boltinoff. Captain Tootsie and the Hand Grenade Tootsie Rolls ad, pencils by C.C. Beck, inks by Pete Costanza. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by George Storm. Untitled story, script by Alvin Schwartz, art by George Storm; Mr. Gruff buys a book on hypnotism and experiments on Buzzy. Untitled story, script by Alvin Schwartz, art by George Storm; It's Buzzy's turn to hypnotize Mr. Gruff, who suddenly likes swing music. Jerry the Jitterbug humor page by Henry Boltinoff. Kafloppos humor page by Jack Callahan. Untitled Alix in Folly-Land story, art by Tom McNamara; Alix and his uncle observe a family with a young boy who doesn't like to wash behind his ears. Captain Tootsie Tootsie Rolls ad, pencils by C. C. Beck, inks by Pete Costanza. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Part text articles, part comics. Photo cover. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by L. B. Cole. Stories and art by Tony DiPreta, Paul Parker, Maurice Gutwirth, Maurice Whitman, Ann Brewster and Everett Raymond Kinstler. Aviator hero Captain Flight battles the Axis by air during World War II. Captain Flight finds a secret Nazi air base that survived WWII, in a story with art by Everett Raymond Kinstler. Black Cobra encounters danger at the ballet. Flight attendant Kitty Kelly battles Nazi saboteurs as Yankee Girl. Captain Flight; Korner Kids; The Black Cobra: The Dance of Death; Red Rocket: The Invisible Terror; Torpedo Eight; Trouble in Furnace No. 9; Trapped; Round-the-Clock Torture; Kitty Kelly Yankee Girl. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.