Comic books 1951 w/ month not specified

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Cover art by Bob Montana. "The Famous Archie Series Characters"; Portraits in an art gallery format. "A Creep in the Deep," art by Bob Montana; The gang plans to have a picnic on Archie's new boat, the Droopy Sloop. "Taking the Phone Out of Life," art by Bob Montana; Pop Tate is sick and tired of the phone booth in the Chok'lit Shop and has it removed. "Better Never Than Late"; Annoyed by Jughead's lateness, Miss Grundy wants him to check in to school using a time clock. "Indian Wear Dance"; Veronica has a party where everyone has to dress like an Indian and the best dressed wins a wooden store Indian. "Dinner at Ate"; Jughead has an eating contest with Chowhound McGuirk. Archie's Pal Jughead house ad. "Nothing but the Tooth"; Fred, Archie and Veronica all have to go to the dentist. "Country Cousin," art by George Frese; Jughead's Ozark cousin Juniper visits Riverdale. "Uses His Head"; Archie tries out for the football team, much to the Coach's annoyance. "Puck Luck"; Reggie and Betty decide to pretend to have a crush on each other to make Veronica Jealous and go with Reggie to the dance instead of Archie. Archie Puzzle Fun. Archie's Rival Reggie house ad. "Death on Wheels" text article. "Hollywood Scream Test"; Jughead's uncle Max from Hollywood is in town and Archie and Jughead have created a beauty contest. "Bustin' Out All Over"; Mr. Weatherbee hates the bust of Timothy Wiggins that's displayed on campus, but he can't get rid of it until he has a replacement, so the gang has a bust of Mr. Weatherbee made. "All in One"; Mr. Weatherbee thinks Archie is wasting his time going after girls and tries to get him a hobby. "Gals and Pals"; Jughead gets a part-time job putting letters in envelopes and mailing them. "Pane in His Neck"; Reggie buys a replacement pane of glass when he breaks one Archie and Jughead are carrying. "Pardon My Pup Tent," art by Bill Vigoda; Archie and Jughead try to put up a pup tent. Adventures of the Dover Boys house ad. "The Foul Fowl"; For their Home Economics class, Betty and Veronica must prepare a dinner for four. "All Tarred Out," art by Bob Montana; Archie and Jughead have to repair a hole in the garage roof. 116 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.25.

Cover by George Frese. "Date Bait," art by George Frese; Jughead comes up with a plan to make Betty seem very popular. Archie Annual #3 ad. "Oui, Oui, Fifi!," art by George Frese; The new girl from France, Fifi, has the attention of all the boys in the school except for Archie. "Pardon My Punch," art by George Frese; Betty and Veronica decide that Jughead should be on a sports team; The only one with an opening is the boxing team. "Too Scent-sitive," art by George Frese; Archie breaks a date with Betty to finish his homework; Betty is upset and decides to drown her sorrows with a big radish, scallion, and onion sandwich. Ginger Comics ad. "Cat and Moose"; Betty tries to get Moose to ask Veronica to the dance so that Archie will be too scared to ask Veronica; Moose ends up deciding to take Betty instead, which wasn't part of the plan. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Bill Vigoda. "A Model Date," art by George Frese; Veronica persuades Archie to take Betty to a dance so she can go with Jughead's visiting cousin, who works as a model. Veronica Fun Page. "Girls Will Be Boys," pencils by Bill Woggon; Betty & Veronica play baseball. "The Big Fix," pencils by George Frese; Betty tries to get Moose to scare Archie away from Veronica. "No Picnic," pencils by Dan DeCarlo; Archie and Veronica go on a disastrous picnic; DeCarlo's first work on an Archie title. "As You Were," pencils by Dan DeCarlo; Archie hosts a Come-As-You-Are party. Don't Let It Puzzle You activity page with Betty. "Fish For Dinner," pencils by Dan DeCarlo; The gang go fishing. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Bill Vigoda. "For Whom the Bar-Bells Toll," script by Frank Doyle, pencils by George Frese; Archie and Reggie are spending all their time at the gym trying to build muscles so Betty and Veronica tell them that they're going steady with Jughead. "Southern Comfort," script by Frank Doyle, pencils by George Frese; After complaining about the lack of chivalry in today's men a Southern gentleman approaches Betty and Veronica and charms them with his Southern drawl and manners. "It's in the Bag!", script by Sy Reit, pencils by George Frese; After spilling all of the items from Veronica's purse and being unable to stuff them back in Veronica tells Archie to put everything into his pockets; That creates one problem after another when he pulls his hand out of his pockets to shake Mr. Weatherbee's hand and gets lipstick all over them. "Ladies in the Dark" one-page story, script and art by Dave Berg; Comic story with instructions on how to change a fuse. "Telaphoney"; The phone stops ringing before Betty or Veronica can get it and they can't stop wondering about who it might have been so they call up all of their friends in the middle of the night to see if one of them had called. "My Merry Old-Mobile," script and pencils by Joe Edwards; Veronica gets a new car from her father after passing her driver's test. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Canadian series. Archie Series #4. Reprints Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica (1951 Archie) #1. Cover art by Bill Vigoda. Circus Daze, art by George Frese; Betty's Uncle Oscar gives her his clown car, which he can no longer afford to keep; Veronica offers to drive her home, but the car proves to be unmanageable on the open road. The Rainmaker, art by George Fres; Archie and Jughead are afraid that Betty intends to shoot them, because she's carrying her father's shotgun home from the repair shop. What's Cookin'?, art by George Frese; Betty has been leaving pastries for Archie in a fire bucket in school. Poor Little Rich Girl!, art by George Frese; Veronica breaks a date with Archie to spend the night at home with Betty. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Art by Wally Wood, Vince Alascia, Carmine Infantino and Joe Kubert. Cover by Gene Fawcette. An unacknowledged adaptation of Ray Cummings' vintage science fiction novel "Tarrano the Conqueror. The leaders of Earth, Venus and Mars are assassinated by a mysterious being known only as Tarrano. A reporter and a scientists beautiful daughter undertake a desperate race to the North Pole to find the answers. Tarrano Strikes; Princess of the Electronized Tower; Space-Thief; Fugitives From The Warlord; Welcome Home; Attack On Mars; It Roams These Hills. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Matt Baker. Stories and art by Matt Baker, Ray Osrin, Ralph Lane and Michael OMalley. Pre-Code crime comics from St. John with an above-average lineup of artists. Army investigators gather evidence against a post-WWII black market profiteer, in a story with art by good-girl art legend Matt Baker. In another Baker story, Detective Logan sets out to capture a mob hitman who has never been seen or identified. Private eye Vic Flint is hired to solve a 20-year-old murder and prevent a new one. Cover by Baker. No Alibi for Cicero Sam; Army Crime Busters Corner Black Market Racketeer; Vic Flint: The Still Murder; Police Dragnet Traps the Phantom Fingerman. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Matt Baker. Stories and art by Matt Baker, Bert N. Dean, Ralph Lane and Michael OMalley. Pre-Code crime comics from St. John with an above-average lineup of artists. Police set a trap for the burglar known as the Tarantula, who "scrambled on all fours, spiderlike," and his redheaded accomplice, in a story with art by good-girl art legend Matt Baker. Everyone believes Red Vance is dead after he disappears while escaping from Alcatraz, but Sergeant Daniel O'Connor knows better. Inspector Growl tells private eye Vic Flint that he's a suspect after his latest client turns up dead at the bottom of his building's elevator shaft. Cover by Baker. Odds against the Outlaws; The Trail of the Human Tarantula; Vic Flint: Pearl of Sorrow; The Killer Who Broke Alcatraz. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Matt Baker. Stories and art by Matt Baker, Ray Osrin, Ralph Lane and Michael OMalley. Pre-Code crime comics from St. John with an above-average lineup of artists. Inspector Joe Ballard tracks a diamond-smuggling ring, in a story with art by good-girl art legend Matt Baker. Cop Vince takes a dangerous undercover assignment to get inside the waterfront crime gangs. Private eye Vic Flint knows that gangster Nifty Felix has fixed Battler Denver's next fight, but how can he stop it? Cover by Baker. The Killer Who Trapped Himself!; Diamonds, C.O.D. (Care of Death); Vic Flint: The Fight Fix; Police Smash Waterfront Crime Gangs. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Matt Baker. Stories and art by Matt Baker, Ray Osrin, Enrico Bagnoli, Ralph Lane and Michael OMalley. Pre-Code crime comics from St. John with an above-average lineup of artists. Bad girl Molly Stamm is the brains behind an international market in stolen "wonder drugs," in a story with art by good-girl art legend Matt Baker. A major gang figure who was going to testify to a Senate committee is murdered in broad daylight on Millionaire Beach by men in scuba gear wielding spearguns. Private eye Vic Flint is hired to find out who is blackmailing wealthy industrialist AJ Mogul. Cover by Baker. Trapping the Triangle Gang; Death on Millionaires Beach; Vic Flint: Blackmailers at Work; Racketeering in Drugs. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Matt Baker. Stories and art by Gene Colan, Matt Baker, and Enrico Bagnoli. Pre-Code crime comics from St. John with an above-average lineup of artists. Believing that "juvenile delinquency must be stamped out!" patrolman Bob goes undercover in the city's teen gangs, in a story with early art by future Marvel legend Gene Colan. Crooked contractors commit murder after murder to conceal the truth about the sub-standard houses they're selling to veterans, in a story with art by good-girl art legend Matt Baker. Blonde bad girl Millie has a scheme to get her hands on the money from the bank job, even if it means turning her companions against each other, in the sort of story that a young Frank Miller's parents might have read to him at bedtime. Cover by Baker. Mystery Man of the Death House; The Moll Who Gambled on Murder; Teen-age Gangs Tangle With Cops!; Cover Up For Murder; Hit-and-Run Killer!; The Killer Who Played CORPSE. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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1951. Service Bulletin No. 4, produced by Auto-Lite Spark Plugs for parts dealers and repair technicians. 8.5" x 11". 4 pages. Printed in red two-color.

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1951. Service Bulletin No. 6, produced by Auto-Lite Spark Plugs for parts dealers and repair technicians. 8.5" x 11". 4 pages. Printed in red two-color.

No. 4 - 1951. "Grounds for Divorce" (Love at Last) by Jack Woodford. Digest-sized, 5.5" x 7.5", 128 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

Volume No. 6 - 1951. "Teach Me to Love" by Jack Woodford. Digest-sized, 5.5" x 7.5", 132 pages, text Cover price $0.35.

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November, 1948. "The Queen of the Black Coast!" Written by Robert E. Howard. Featuring work by Ray Bradbury, Algernon Blackwood, and 'The Temple" by H. P. Lovecraft. Softcover, 5-in. x 7 1/2-in., 132pages, Text with B&W illustations. Cover price $0.35.

1951. "The Black Kiss" Written by Robert Block. Softcover, 5-in. x 7 1/2-in., 132 pages, Text with B&W illustations. Cover price $0.35.

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1951. "Sapphire Siren" Written by Nictzin Dyalhis. 5-in. x 7 1/2-in., 132 pages, Text with B&W illustrations. Cover price $0.35.

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No. 1 - 1951. Science fiction stories by Murray Leinster, Edmond Hamilton, Frank Belknap Long, Wallace West, A. Merritt, Donald A. Wollheim, R.F. Starzl, Sewell Pleaslee Wright, Clack Ashton Smith and Jack Williamson. 5.25-in. x 7.5-in. 132 pages, text only. Cover price $0.35.

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Science fiction stories by Murray Leinster, Edmond Hamilton, Frank Belknap Long, Wallace West, A. Merritt, Donald A. Wollheim, R.F. Starzl, Sewell Pleaslee Wright, Clack Ashton Smith and Jack Williamson. 5.25-in. x 7.5-in. 132 pages, text only. Cover price $0.35.

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Volume 1, Issue 1 - 1951. Sensational crime stories illustrated with staged and candid photos and drawings. 8.5" x 11", 80 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Despite the cover photo, the stories are reprints from Women Outlaws (1948) #5. First page was not reproduced, as it appeared on the interior front cover of the original. 7-3/8 in. x 10-1/4 in.; full color; 32 pages. Cover price $0.10.

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(A-1 Comics #42) Cover by Fred Meagher, Joe Certa, Bob Powell and Frank Frazetta. Edited by Raymond C. Krank. Art by Fred Meagher, Joe Certa, Bob Powell and Dick Ayers. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) #42. Part of A1 Comics, an anthology from Magazine Enterprises with content that varied from month to month. This issue featured tales of Old West heroes. Straight Arrow faces gigantic Crow champion Pow-Tah-Kan in single combat; Durango Kid seeks outlaws targeting buffalo hunters; Bobby Bensons B-Bar-B Riders investigate missing logs at a lumber camp. Straight Arrow: Giant-Killer; Durango Kid: Death on the Buffalo Trail; Bobby Bensons B-Bar-B Riders: The Timber Rustlers!; The Ghost Rider Holds the Fort! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

(A-1 Comics #46) Cover by Fred Meagher, Joe Certa, Frank Bolle and Dick Ayers. Edited by Raymond C. Krank. Art by Fred Meagher, Joe Certa, Frank Bolle and Dick Ayers. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) #46. Part of A1 Comics, an anthology from Magazine Enterprises with content that varied from month to month. This issue featured tales of Old West heroes. Straight Arrow faces an Apache so ugly he becomes an outcast, Frankenstein-like monster; Durango Kid helps an orphaned boy targeted by his greedy uncle; Tim Holt, aka Redmask, faces the female villain Black Rider and her riverboat of death. The Face of the Devil; Never Say Die; Peril on the Paddlewheeler; The Monster in the Mist! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Published by Popular Publications Cover price $0.25.

Volume 29, Issue 3 - July, 1951. 6.75" x 9", 114 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Published by Popular Publications Cover price $0.25.

Published by Popular Publications Cover price $0.25.

Stories and art by Harry Betancourt and others. Circus comedy and adventure (based on a TV series), as Topper the Boy Acrobat joins Ringmaster Jack and the cast of his traveling circus. New kid Jimmy runs off with the circus and becomes Topper the Acrobat, then must clear his name after he's accused of theft. The clown named Sawdust Trails tells "true" stories from the early days of the circus. A tale of clown intrigue, as Bongo, jealous of Laffy's success under the big top, resorts to dognapping Laffy's stunt dog, Poodles. The Big Top; The Circus Robbery; Laffy the Clown Goes On Safari!!; True Tales from the Big Top as Told By Sawdust Trails; Dude Ranche; What Makes Laffy Cry?; Laffy the Clown's Fun Page. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Jack Sparling and others. Circus comedy and adventure (based on a TV series), as Topper the Boy Acrobat joins Ringmaster Jack and the cast of his traveling circus. A series of accidents and disasters threatens to close down the Colonel's circus, and Topper overhears Steele and "Nails" scheming about it. The clown named Sawdust Trails tells "true" stories from the early days of the circus. Topper and Ronnie get roped into masquerading as part of the clown act - The Gooflesnoof - but Topper must play the back half. Laffy the Clown's Fun Page; The Sad Circus; The Space Ship; The Gooflesnoof; True Tales From the Big Top; Battling Bingo. Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Photo cover of Bill Boyd [William Boyd]. The Terror Trick; After a tornado some kids are made orphans, and are taken to Cy's spread until the folks decide what to do with them; But Cy aims to take over the ranch of one of the kids now that his parents are dead. Buzzing the Bee; Jack wants to get even on Windy for all his practical jokes. The Haunted Hotel (A Crowbait Story); Crowbait is witness to a hired murder. Rustler's Rugs; Cattle are rustled, but there are no tracks to show where they are taken. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Movie cowboy Bill Boyd, best known for playing Hopalong Cassidy, stars as himself in tales of Western adventure. In a three-part, issue-length story, cattle are not merely being rustled - they are disappearing completely. Bill sets out to find out what's happening to them, and almost ends up as hamburger himself. Windy Whopper tries to play a practical joke on a pal, but it backfires - twice! Plus a vintage ad for the "Hopalong Cassidy Savings Club" bank promotion. Vanishing Herds, Chapter 1: Thundering Hoofs; Runaway Team; Close Shave; Windy Whopper: Stung; Chapter 2: The Death Blade; Hammerhead; Brainy Buster; Chapter 3: The Roundup. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Rod Reed and Howard Boughner. Movie cowboy Bill Boyd, best known for playing Hopalong Cassidy, stars as himself in tales of Western adventure. Bill tracks murdering outlaws, but the trail becomes doubly dangerous when a tornado touches down nearby. Windy Whopper gets a job at a dude ranch and tries to impress a visiting tenderfoot with his wit. Bill tracks a fugitive killer across the desert, a pursuit that soon becomes a quest for water for both of them. The Howling Trail; The Rattler; Windy Whopper: Dude Ranch Rascal!; The Oil Well Mystery; Hammerhead; The Desert Trail; Pondering Ponton; Quiz. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Rod Reed and others. Movie cowboy Bill Boyd, best known for playing Hopalong Cassidy, stars as himself in tales of Western adventure. Bill fills in for an injured rider in the Baxter County Rodeo, and gets mixed up with outlaws who have a betting scheme around the rigged rodeo. Windy Whopper wears out his welcome when he stays at his cousin's house and only offers tall tales in return. Bill witnesses a body being thrown off a moving train, and follows the tracks to a murderous escaped convict. Six-Gun Stampede; Brainy Buster; Windy Whopper: The Permanent Guest!; The Bullet Hole Road; Hammerhead; Stab in the Dark; The False Papers. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Rod Reed and Howard Boughner. Movie cowboy Bill Boyd, best known for playing Hopalong Cassidy, stars as himself in tales of Western adventure. Bill wins a diamond-studded horseshoe in a contest and wants to sell it to build an orphanage, but bandits want the horseshoe for themselves. Windy Whopper matches wits with a passing tenderfoot. Bill investigates a strange Old West mystery involving missing gold, a missing coach and a missing house. The Diamond Horseshoe!; Brainy Buster; Windy Whopper: Farm Foolery; The Strange Funeral; Hammerhead; Kid Plunder; The Red Coach Mystery; Cabot the Cab Driver. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.