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Stories and art by George McManus (credited) and Wally Wood. Humor comics based on the popular newspaper strip Bringing Up Father by George McManus. Wealthy rogue Jiggs tries to escape his dish-hurling wife Maggie and her plans to reform him. Jiggs must face his wife's latest party and her vacation plans. Half-Pint Hogan goes on a snipe hunt. Also featuring stories from Bringing Up Father's topper strip, Snookums, and spot illustrations by comics legend Wally Wood. The Life of the Party!; Snookums: The Jailbird!; Jiggs Steps Out!; Vacation Daze!; Half-Pint Hogan: The Snipe Hunt!; Gus Goes to the Beach; Revenge Is Sweet!; Family Man!; Dream Man! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by George McManus (credited). Stories and art by George McManus (credited), George Swanson and Otto Soglow. Humor comics based on the popular newspaper strip Bringing Up Father by George McManus. Wealthy rogue Jiggs tries to escape his dish-hurling wife Maggie and her plans to reform him. Jiggs' plans to get a little peace and quiet and stay up late are violently opposed by Maggie. Plus adventures of The Flop Family and The Little King. The Night Owl!; The Little King: Mt. Yoodle; Life With Jiggs!; Rest Cure!; The Flop Family: The Runaround; A Good Try!; Nobody Home!; Music Has Its Charms; The Nervous Wreck!; Peace and Quiet! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

"Luck Of The Irish!"; Maggie is going to clean out Dinty Moore's!; mixture of newspaper strip reprints with new splash panel. "The Worm Turns!" featuring Bringing Up Father; reprinted newspaper strip dailies with new splash page. "The Doghouse Blues!" featuring Bringing Up Father; newspaper strip reprints with a new splash page. "Safe At Home!" text story. "Hero's Holiday!" starring Half-Pint Hogan; Beauty is trapped. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by George McManus (credited), George Swanson and Otto Soglow. Humor comics based on the popular newspaper strip Bringing Up Father by George McManus. Wealthy rogue Jiggs tries to escape his dish-hurling wife Maggie and her plans to reform him. Jiggs must endure a high-society party. Half-Pint Hogan goes to a dog show. Also featuring stories from Bringing Up Father's topper strip, Snookums. Snookums: Bye-Bye Baby; Fun and Frolic!; Snookums: Cry Baby!; Life With Maggie!; High Society; On the Ball!; Jiggs Pays Off!; The Flop Family: Merry-Go-Round!; Half-Pint Hogan: The Dog Show! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by George McManus (credited), and George Swanson. Humor comics based on the popular newspaper strip Bringing Up Father by George McManus. Wealthy rogue Jiggs tries to escape his dish-hurling wife Maggie and her plans to reform him. The theatre becomes yet another avenue for Maggie's pretensions to disrupt Jiggs's peace of mind. Half-Pint Hogan chases a thief. Also featuring stories from Bringing Up Father's topper strip, Snookums. Stage Struck!; Snookums: Harmonica Player!; Jiggs Can't Win!; Half-Pint Hogan: Stop, Thief!; The Close Call; If You Don't Weaken!; Grand Uproar!; The Flop Family: Talking Parrots. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by George McManus (credited) and George Swanson. Humor comics based on the popular newspaper strip Bringing Up Father by George McManus. Wealthy rogue Jiggs tries to escape his dish-hurling wife Maggie and her plans to reform him. Half-Pint Hogan seeks the crook who stole the Boys Club Thanksgiving Day dinner money. Papa goes out the window while playing hide-and-seek with Snookums. Uncle Hugo buys a lot of toys for Willie Flop of the Flop Family. What's Cooking?; Snookums: Pipe Dream!; Music Hath Charm; Half-Pint Hogan: Birds Of A Feather; Stormy Weather!; Snookums: Fast Getaway; The Cardboard Cave; The Flop Family; Man About Town. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by George McManus (credited), and Vic Herman. Harvey takes over publication of the comic book based on the popular newspaper strip Bringing Up Father by George McManus. Wealthy rogue Jiggs tries to escape his dish-hurling wife Maggie and her plans to reform him. Maggie takes the wheel of the family ship and parks it firmly on the rocks. Plus an early Little Dot story, where she has yet to develop her Harvey look or her dot-obsession and is known as "Li'l Dot": Li'l Dot disappears after getting a puppy for her birthday. Also featuring vintage ads for the Daisy Air Rifle and Jetex Javelin model plane. Maggie the Artist; The Bungling Butler; Silly Sailin'; Flossie; Li'l Dot: The Birthday Gift! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by George McManus (credited), and Vic Herman. Humor comics based on the popular newspaper strip Bringing Up Father by George McManus. Wealthy rogue Jiggs tries to escape his dish-hurling wife Maggie and her plans to reform him. Plus an early Little Dot story, where she has yet to develop her Harvey look or her dot-obsession and is known as "Li'l Dot": Li'l Dot annoys her father by making noise while he's trying to fish. Also featuring a vintage ad for the "Cracker Jack Jet Propelled Railroad Engine." Jiggs and Maggie; Li'l Dot Goes Fishing. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by George McManus (credited), and Vic Herman. Humor comics based on the popular newspaper strip Bringing Up Father by George McManus. Wealthy rogue Jiggs tries to escape his dish-hurling wife Maggie and her plans to reform him. Plus an early Little Dot story, where she has yet to develop her Harvey look or her dot-obsession and is known as "Li'l Dot": Li'l Dot makes mud pies. Jiggs and Maggie; Li'l Dot Has a Party. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by George McManus (credited). Stories and art by George McManus (credited), Colin Allen, Bill MacLean, Ted Shearer and Charles Kuhn. Humor comics based on the popular newspaper strip Bringing Up Father by George McManus. Wealthy rogue Jiggs tries to escape his dish-hurling wife Maggie and her plans to reform him. Jiggs makes trouble for himself when he notices (through his spyglass) that the new neighbors include four beautiful women. Also featuring a note from the publisher on the new Harvey "H" logo, which remained for another 30 years. Man of Steel!; Blown Over!; Sedan-dy; Eyeful of Trouble!; Snookums; Dishing It Out!; Flying High!; The Big Joke; What a Family!: The Looneys Lose by a Lockout; Double Trouble; Little Stuff; Grandma. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

One 3-D story (four pages). Cover price $0.10.

Cover by George McManus (credited). Stories and art by George McManus (credited). Humor comics based on the popular newspaper strip Bringing Up Father by George McManus. Wealthy rogue Jiggs tries to escape his dish-hurling wife Maggie and her plans to reform him. Jiggs dodges flying dishes, but somehow Maggie always manages to find some more. The cover features Maggie and Jiggs overcome by a dog who looks exactly like Jughead's mutt Hot Dog, from Archie comics. Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Dick Moores. Stories and art by Dick Moores, Reg Greenwood, Mo Leff and Fred Methot. St. John reprints the classic comic strips Jim Hardy and Dynamite Dunn, plus adventures of early superheroes Triple Terror and The Mirror Man. Jim Hardy and two-fisted action girl Mollie investigate the mysterious criminal "Black Goggles" who's causing crashes at the auto racing track. The heroic brothers known as The Triple Terror battle the criminal mastermind The Glove, who steals radium to create a death-ray. The Mirror Man uses his invisibility powers to battle mad scientist Gregg. But to save troubled youth Corky from Gregg, he has to risk the costume that gives him those powers. Jim Hardy; The Triple Terror; Dynamite Dunn; The Mirror Man. 128 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.25.

Jim Hardy Ace Reporter (1940 Saalfield BLB) #1180, Dick Moores

Volume 1 - 1st printing. By Dick Moores. Featuring Jim Hardy comic strips collected from the first dailies from 1936. Jim Hardy, ex-con, decides to go straight and is met with stiff resistance from his old cronies in the mob whose motto is "Once a crook, always a crook!" Softcover (Horizontal Format), 10 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 160 pages, B&W.

Outer Space Coloring Book by Jim Solar Space Sheriff (1966) was published by the C. Popper Company. Take a rocket ship into outer space and travel the solar system with Jim Solar Space Sheriff. He'll show you wonderful sights to fill your imagination and wow your senses. You'll visit the moon, the Red Planet, Mars; traverse the rings of Saturn, and more. Learn why it's important to wear a special space suit while traveling in space. Learn all this while also enjoying the coloring fun. 16 pages, B&W, newsprint, 6.75-in. x 10-in.

Jimmie Allen's Air Battles (1935) is a promotional comic book for the Jimmy Allen radio show. Distributed by Skelly Aromax Gasoline and the additive K-27, both products of the Skelly Oil Co. The comic book is large-sized and opens like a calendar with five full pages of comics that are used to advertise the K-27 gasoline additive. The first two pages have game rules and a game board for the Jimmy Allen's Air Battles game. Comics include: "Speed and Jimmy Chase the Bandits," "K-27 Downs Demon Twins," and "How Carl Copped the Customers." 10.75-in. x 8.5-in. when folded, 12 pages, B&W.

Cover by Dick Ayers. Edited by Raymond C. Krank. Stories and art by Dick Ayers and others. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) #18. Part of A1 Comics, an anthology from Magazine Enterprises with content that varied from month to month. This issue featured wacky stories and publicity stills featuring the famed comedian, whose career spanned vaudeville to television. The stories include some of the first published art by future Marvel legend Dick Ayers. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Edited by Raymond C. Krank. Stories and art by Dick Ayers and Raymond C. Krank. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) #20. Part of A1 Comics, an anthology from Magazine Enterprises with content that varied from month to month. This issue featured wacky stories featuring the famed comedian, whose career spanned vaudeville to television. Publicity photos of Durante, who was famous for his nose; Jimmy has athletic misadventures on the scrimmage field. The stories include early art by future Marvel legend Dick Ayers. Pose and Prose by the Nose; Jimmy Durante; Drip Meets Drip; Footballed-up. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Jimmy Skunk's Justice (1933 Whitman) #518, written by Thornton Burgess, small size. NOTE: originally sold in Wee Little Books boxed set.

Promotional booklet produced by Western Printing for K.K. Publications and distributed through toy stores. Includes stories, puzzles, activities, magic tricks, and more. 7-1/4 in. x 5-1/8 in.; full color; 32 newsprint pages.

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WRITTEN BY HOWARD CHAYKIN AND DAVID TISCHMAN; ART AND COVER BY MIKE MCKONE AND JIMMY PALMIOTTI ELSEWORLDS. In an Elseworld where Clark Kent has lead a clandestine group of super-heroes against super-villains for some thirty years, brash new members of the team threaten to undo all the Man of Steel has tried to accomplish. Prestige Format. FC, 48 PG. (1 OF 2) Cover price $5.95.

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Mike McKone art. Cover price $5.95.

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Con Edison Presents JLA Starring Batman is a promotional comic prepared for the Con Edison Electric Company by DC Comics. "Power Drain" written by Bob Rozakis & Laurie Rozakis, Ph.D. with art by Trevor Von Eeden. Back cover features a picture puzzle and word search. Full color, 8 pages, standard paper stock. SEE ALSO: Energy And Safety Adventures (2005) and Energy And Safety Adventures Superman And Friends (2006)

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A new story starring the JLA's most tragic member! Learn the secrets of Tomorrow Woman, the synthetic member of the JLA who sacrificed herself to save the League in JLA (1997) #5. See how the tortured creation of Professor Ivo and T.O. Morrow won the League's confidence in this never-before-told tale, as Tomorrow Woman must prove herself worthy of League membership in the battle against the subversive alien conspiracy known as the Sole Jurisdiction. But how will her mighty powers defeat an evil that uses the Earth's children as super-powered pawns? Written by Tom Peyer. Art by Yanick Paquette and Mark Lipka. Cover by Leonard Kirk and Karl Story. FC, 32 pg. Miraweb Format. Cover price $1.95.

Jo-Joy is a yearly Christmas giveaway comic book distributed by the W. T. Grant Co. department store chain. iPublished annually every Christmas from 1945-53. Each issue features a Jo-Joy story with Santa Claus, and illustrates many, many Jo-Joy toys that were manufactured and sold thru Grant's because the Jo-Joy jack-in-the-box character became wildly popular! Full color, 16 pages, 7-1/16-in. x 10-1/4-in., slick cover.

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Jo-Joy is a yearly Christmas giveaway comic book distributed by the W. T. Grant Co. department store chain. iPublished annually every Christmas from 1945-53. Each issue features a Jo-Joy story with Santa Claus, and illustrates many, many Jo-Joy toys that were manufactured and sold thru Grant's because the Jo-Joy jack-in-the-box character became wildly popular! Full color, 16 pages, 7-1/16-in. x 10-1/4-in., slick cover.

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Jo-Joy is a yearly Christmas giveaway comic book distributed by the W. T. Grant Co. department store chain. Published annually every Christmas from 1945-53. Each issue features a Jo-Joy story with Santa Claus, and illustrates many, many Jo-Joy toys that were manufactured and sold thru Grant's--the Jo-Joy jack-in-the-box character became wildly popular! Full color, 24 pages, 7-1/16-in. x 10-1/4-in., slick cover.

Jo-Joy is a yearly Christmas giveaway comic book distributed by the W. T. Grant Co. department store chain. iPublished annually every Christmas from 1945-53. Each issue features a Jo-Joy story with Santa Claus, and illustrates many, many Jo-Joy toys that were manufactured and sold thru Grant's because the Jo-Joy jack-in-the-box character became wildly popular! Full color, 16 pages, 7-1/16-in. x 10-1/4-in., slick cover.

Jo-Joy is a yearly Christmas giveaway comic book distributed by the W. T. Grant Co. department store chain. Published annually every Christmas from 1945-53. Each issue features a Jo-Joy story with Santa Claus, and illustrates many, many Jo-Joy toys that were manufactured and sold thru Grant's because the Jo-Joy jack-in-the-box character became wildly popular! Full color, 16 pages, 7-1/16-in. x 10-1/4-in., slick cover.

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The Adventures of Jo-Joy and the Brilliant Idea is a yearly Christmas giveaway comic book distributed by the W. T. Grant Co. department store chain. iPublished annually every Christmas from 1945-53. Each issue features a Jo-Joy story with Santa Claus, and illustrates many, many Jo-Joy toys that were manufactured and sold thru Grant's because the Jo-Joy jack-in-the-box character became wildly popular! Full color, 16 pages, 7-1/16-in. x 10-1/4-in., slick cover.

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The Adventures of Jo-Joy and Gruffy Goat is a yearly Christmas giveaway comic book distributed by the W. T. Grant Co. department store chain. iPublished annually every Christmas from 1945-53. Each issue features a Jo-Joy story with Santa Claus, and illustrates many, many Jo-Joy toys that were manufactured and sold thru Grant's because the Jo-Joy jack-in-the-box character became wildly popular! Full color, 20 pages, 7-1/16-in. x 10-1/4-in., slick cover.

"The Adventures of Jo-Joy with the Wonderful Whale" Jo-Joy is a yearly Christmas giveaway comic book distributed by the W. T. Grant Co. department store chain. iPublished annually every Christmas from 1945-53. Each issue features a Jo-Joy story with Santa Claus, and illustrates many, many Jo-Joy toys that were manufactured and sold thru Grant's because the Jo-Joy jack-in-the-box character became wildly popular! Full color, 20 pages, 7-1/16-in. x 10-1/4-in., slick cover.

Jo-Joy is a yearly Christmas giveaway comic book distributed by the W. T. Grant Co. department store chain. iPublished annually every Christmas from 1945-53. Each issue features a Jo-Joy story with Santa Claus, and illustrates many, many Jo-Joy toys that were manufactured and sold thru Grant's because the Jo-Joy jack-in-the-box character became wildly popular! Full color, 20 pages, 7-1/16-in. x 10-1/4-in., slick cover.

Joan of Arc (1934 Whitman) #513, small size. NOTE: originally sold in Wee Little Books boxed set.

1st printing. Lost Joe Kubert artwork from the 1940s and early 1950s rediscovered and never-before reprinted! Horror, adventure, romance, and superhero artwork unseen for half-a-century. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 160 pages, B&W. Cover price $25.00.

Joe Palooka in Hi There (1949) is a promotional mini comic book featuring a story and artwork by Ham Fisher. Fisher's popular character Joe Palooka shows the reader the workings and the benefits of the Red Cross to the United States armed forces. 12 pages, full color, 4.75-in. x 6-in.

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Joe Palooka School Bus Safety Tips (1950) by Ham Fisher. This mini comic book was published in the interest of safer school transportation by Superior Coach Corporation in Lima, Ohio. Spine is glued with no stables. 16 pages, full color, newsprint, 5-in. x 3-in.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. By Ham Fisher. Introduction by Ron Goulart. Joe Palooka in his greatest adventure in the land of forgotten men - The Forgien Legion! Collecting comic strips from 1938. Softcover (Horizontal Format), 10 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 160 pages, B&W. Cover price $15.95.

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Cover by Ham Fisher (credited). Stories and art by Ham Fisher. Ham Fisher's boxer Joe Palooka joins the search for the Lost City, in this collection of the popular comic strip. At 164 pages (for the cover price of only 50 cents), this was the longest comics publication of its era, and a precursor to the book-length comics collections of the Modern era. Also featuring an illustrated profile of Joe Palooka creator Ham Fisher, and a good-girl art cover. 164 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.50.

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Joe the Genie of Steel (1950) is a promotional comic book distributed by the U.S. Steel Corp. "Born many years ago inside a mountain of iron ore, Joe Magarac was the biggest, strongest, and best steelworker that ever passed throuh the gates of a steel plant." In this promotional comic, Joe Magarac, the magic spirit of the steel industry, teaches young Johnny the history of steel. See also: Return of Joe, the Gene of Steel (1951). 16 pages, full color, 7-in. x 10-in., newsprint, with no cover price.

Joe Worker and the Story of Labor (1946 1st printing), written by Nat Schachner with art by Jack Alderman, is a fascinating piece of American labor union history. Distributed by the National Labor Service and published by Commercial Comics. Full color, 48 pages, 7.25-in. x 10.5-in., newsprint cover and interior.

Joe's Dope Sheet Poster (1951) is a Korean War era poster produced for the U.S. Department of Defense by Will Eisner. 26-in. x 18-in.

Stories and art by John Hix. Reprints of the Strange as It Seems syndicated comic strip, a collection of odd facts and phenomena. The strip, by John Hix, was a lesser-known but still popular rival to "Ripleys Believe It or Not." Hix insisted that every outlandish claim be verified by at least three sources. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by John Hix. Reprints of the Strange as It Seems syndicated comic strip, a collection of odd facts and phenomena. The strip, by John Hix, was a lesser-known but still popular rival to "Ripley's Believe It or Not." Strange facts from every continent. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

1st printing. BY Giulia D'Agnolo Vallan. An exhaustive career retrospective about the groundbreaking revolutionary filmmaker, told through exclusive interviews with Landis as well as through essays, interviews and remembrances by his colleagues, contemporaries and members of the film industry and reviewers. Contributors include Joe Dante, Jack Arnold, Wes Craven, Rick Baker, Frank Oz, Jim Abrahams and others. Illustrated with many exclusive photographs from Mr. Landis' many films, some reproduced here for the first time from the director's personal collection of photographs taken on the set by Mr. Landis during production of his movies. Giulia D'Agnolo Vallan is a film journalist and serves as director of the Torino Film Festival hosted each year in Italy. John Landis has remained one of the most popular filmmakers of his generation since exploding on the cinema scene in the early 1970s. There has never been a major biography/autobiography of Landis. John Landis was recently a member of the Masters of Horror film series and has two new films in the works due for release in 2006 and 2007. Softcover, 8-in. x 11 1/2-in., 340 pages, Text (with full color and B&W photos). Cover price $29.95.

John Wayne in Cowboy Trouble Shooter (1950) is #4 of 6 in the Oxydol/Dreft mini-comic series. The six titles in the series are: 1) Li'l Abner in "The Mystery O' the Cave!"; 2) Daisy Mae in "Ham Sangwidges!"; 3) John Wayne in "Cowboy Trouble Shooter!"; 4) Shmoo in "Washable Jones' Travels!"; Archie in "Mask Me No Questions!"; and 6) Might Mouse in "Mighty Mouse. The complete set was originally available via mail order and could be had for one Oxydol or Dreft box top or two wrappers from Ivory Soap plus 15c (offer expired August 31, 1950). This promotional comic is full color, 32-pages including covers, 6-5/8-in. x 3-14-in., all newsprint, no cover price.

circa 1958. Joe Maneely cover and art. Promotional comic on Social Security education. Standard comic size and format, Newspaper stock cover. 16 pages.

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Stories by Peter DePaolo. Art and cover by Frank Frazetta. Reprints of the early Frazetta comic strip Johnny Comet, from 1952. Handsome, devil-may-car racecar driver Johnny Comet somehow always manages to find trouble, such as when femme fatale Raven Rockett and her hired thugs use strong-arm tactics to warn Johnny off a job. Reprinting strips from January to March, 1952. Somewhat typically for ACG, the cover logo misspells the characters name. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.95.

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Stories by Peter DePaolo and Earl Baldwin. Art and cover by Frank Frazetta. Reprints of the early Frazetta comic strip Johnny Comet, from 1952. Handsome, devil-may-car racecar driver Johnny Comet somehow always manages to find trouble. Master criminal Al Gore sets out to burn Jean Fargo's race car, and nearly finishes Johnny as a bonus. It's all part of a scheme orchestrated by the mysterious "Mr. Blue." Reprinting strips from March to April, 1952. Also featuring a backup story from Charltons Drag-Strip Hotrodders. Johnny Comet; Match Champ. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.95.