Motion Picture Comics (1950) comic books 1955 or before

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Allan "Rocky" Lane photo cover. Stills from the movie on the inside front cover. "Vigilante Hideout," art by Bob Powell; An adaptation of a Republic Picture starring Allan "Rocky" Lane, Eddy Waller, Roy Barcroft, and Virginia Herrick; Rocky, a Range Detective, arrives to help Nugget with rustlers; When he learns Nugget owns only three cows, he stays on anyway and soon becomes involved in Benson's attempt to blow open the banks's safe; When Rocky upsets his plans, Benson supposedly gets rid of him by having him declared an outlaw wanted dead or alive; Then Benson takes a load of explosives into an old mine located directly under the bank vault. Stills from the movie on the inside back cover. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Photo cover features George Montgomery. Story by Leo Dorfman, from the screenplay by Frank Gruber. Fawcett presents adaptations of popular movies of the 1950s in comics form. This issue is based on The Texas Rangers, a 1951 low-budget Columbia western starring George Montgomery and Gale Storm. In the 1870s, Texas is terrorized by outlaw Sam Bass and his gang. Reformed outlaw Johnny Carver is asked by the head of the Texas Rangers to go undercover with the Bass gang. But as the gang plans the robbery of a gold train, is Johnny working with the outlaws, or the Rangers? 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Photo cover features Allan "Rocky" Lane. Story by Leo Dorfman, from the screenplay by M. Coates Webster. Art by Pete Riss. Fawcett presents adaptations of popular movies of the 1950s in comics form. This issue is based on Frisco Tornado, a 1950 Republic B-movie western starring Allan "Rocky" Lane. Rocky Lane is a US marshal investigating a scam involving "outlaw insurance." He survives an ambush, but loses his ID in the process. The outlaws use his ID to frame him as the brains behind the outlaw gang and their insurance scam. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Photo cover features Richard Derr and Barbara Rush. Story by Leo Dorfman, from the screenplay by Sydney Boehm. Art by George Evans and Al Williamson. Fawcett presents adaptations of popular movies of the 1950s in comics form. This issue is based on George Pal's 1951 science fiction epic When Worlds Collide. When scientists discover that a "rogue star" is on a collision course with Earth, humanity faces the coming destruction with blind panic. However, an experimental rocket ship may be able to carry a select group of survivors to a new world. This adaptation features art by comics and science-fiction legends George Evans and Al Williamson, who even provide themselves a cameo in the comic. Plus photo stills from the film. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Photo cover features Lash LaRue. Story by Leo Dorfman, from the screenplay by Maurice Tombragel and June Carr. Fawcett presents adaptations of popular movies of the 1950s in comics form. This issue is based on The Vanishing Outpost, a 1951 Monogram Western starring Lash LaRue. Marshal LaRue and his sidekick Fuzzy meet Walker, a Pinkerton detective, while disciplining the rowdy barflies in a saloon. Walker enlists their help in tracking down the outlaw gang that murdered his partner. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Photo cover features George Montgomery and Karin Booth. Story by Leo Dorfman, from the screenplay by Richard Schayer. Fawcett presents adaptations of popular movies of the 1950s in comics form. This issue is based on Cripple Creek, a 1952 Columbia Western starring George Montgomery. Federal agents go undercover in gold-rush town Cripple Creek to discover who is smuggling gold out of the country. They learn that the gold is being disguised as lead for export. But before they can discover that the local sheriff is corrupt, he uncovers their true identities. Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.