Comic books October 1951

Cover by C.C. Beck. Stories by Otto Binder and unknown. Art by C.C. Beck and unknown. New and exciting adventures of the World's Mightiest Mortal! Captain Marvel (Billy Batson) stars in: "The Return of the Ancient Villain" with story by Otto Binder and pencils by C.C. Beck; "The Dilemma of the Double Identity" by Otto Binder and C.C. Beck (Sivana appearance); and "The Mechanical Man Mystery" by Otto Binder and C.C. Beck. Plus: Captain Kid in "The Self-Made Hero"! And: Jon Jarl in the 2-page text story "The Ice World" by Otto Binder (as Eando Binder). 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Bud Thompson. Stories by Otto Binder, Bill Woolfolk, and Art Helfant. Art by Joe Certa, Art Helfant and Bud Thompson. Superhero action with Freddy Freeman, who gains the same powers as his hero Captain Marvel, better known these days as Shazam. Captain Marvel Jr. sets out to extinguish the southwestern forest fire known as Big Smoky. Marvel Jr. gets on the wrong side of a powerful genie. CMJ meets aliens and battles a Jabberwocky-sized monster, to get to the truth about The Truthful Lie. Captain Marvel Jr. Battles Big Smoky; Rubbernose Randolph; The Angle Kid; The Truthful Lie; Kanvasback: The Battling Buffoon!; A Slave of the Genie! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Tex Blaisdell and Vince Napoli. Sci-fi adventure from Youthful Magazines. An alien scientist warns Captain Science and the gang that the military forces on his dying world have taken control, and plan to invade Earth next. Humanity is conquered by giant space-ants, until a resistance movement can form, in a war that lasts until the far-off year of 2052. Interplanetary private eye Brant Craig investigates the murder of the solar system's most famous actor and discovers a Martian secret agent - "a Red spy" - in a story featuring some good-girl art, possibly by Bill Molno and Rocco Mastroserio. Plus an article about real-life magician Harry Houdini, ghost sightings, and fake mediums. Classic girl-tied-to-rocket bondage cover by an unknown artist. Spawn of Pathor; Brant Craig: The Red Devils of Mars!; Do You Believe in Ghosts?; Invisible Tyrants of Calot III; World War III with the Ants. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by George Evans and Martin Thall. Early TV superhero Captain Video comes to comics, an electronics wizard from an era when technology was just starting to change the world. Landing on The Dark Side of the Moon, Captain Video learns that the lunar sphere is infested with aliens who are using it as a staging ground for an invasion of Earth. Western-movie hero Rod Cameron investigates mysterious killings and is targeted for death himself. Sinister Dr. Pauli uses sophisticated new guided-missile tech to hold the US Capitol hostage, unless Cap and Ranger can intervene. Art by future EC legend George Evans. Plus an anti-bigotry PSA, and a vintage ad listing the "Dumont Stations" where readers can watch Captain Video on TV. And photos of TV's Captain Video, Al Hodge, including a color photo on the back cover. The Dark Side of the Moon; Rod Cameron: Sudden Death; The Treasure of Asteroid K; Pilot Pete; The Missiles of Doom; Airfield Al. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Al Avison. Stories and art by Bob Powell, Lee Elias, Pierce Rice, Vic Donohue and Rudy Palais. Sometimes listed as Chamber of Chills (1951 Harvey) #3. Harvey Comics joins the parade of pre-Code horror comics pioneered by EC in the 1950s. The recipient of an eye transplant is haunted by horrifying visions. A meek accountant pushed too far turns to murder, in a story with possible inks by comics legend Leonard Starr. Scientists discover the legendary lair of the Minotaur, but soon regret it. Arctic explorers accidentally unfreeze an evil temple and its inhabitants. Walking Dead; Hall Of Horror!; Trip To Terror; Brain Operation!; Strange Customs; Death In The Desert!; Monster's Maze; Scientific Oddities; The Doom of Living Ice; Weird Worlds. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 23, Issue 3 - August 1951. Children's Playmate Magazine features creative stories, poems, rebuses, recipes, activities, crafts, science experiments, and health articles for children. This issue is Spring themed. 52 pages. Cover price $0.20.

Painted cover by Ernest Nordli. Art by Bob Jenney. The Cisco Kid rode the range as the Robin Hood of the Old West with his corpulent sidekick Pancho, earning a permanent place in 20th-century pop culture. Cisco and Pancho try to help Laura and her hot-tempered brother Tommy run their father's ranch while he is Back East. But outlaws who want the ranch plan a disastrous stage accident for Laura and Tommy. Cisco and Pancho pursue bank robbers, and are mistaken for the robbers by the posse from town. Plus fun facts about longhorn cattle and bighorn sheep. Longhorns... Known and Unknown; Cisco Helps a Friend; The Gold Hungry Senors; Rodeo Roughriders. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Issue 52 - Australian Edition. Circa early to mid 1950's. Reprints "Joan of Arc" in abridged form with new cover art. 6.5 x 8.5, color covers with b&w interior, 24 pages-all newsprint.

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Men of Iron, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. (HRN 89, with 10/51 date). Into the intrigue of a medieval castle comes Myles Falworth, who develops into a dashing, gallant knight with but one desire - to avenge his father's wrongs. Cover price $0.15.

Men of Iron, 2nd Printing, Painted Cover. (HRN 154). Into the intrigue of a medieval castle comes Myles Falworth, who develops into a dashing, gallant knight with but one desire - to avenge his father's wrongs. Cover price $0.15.

Painted cover. Contains original and reprinted material as noted. In order of appearance: "Target for Men's Kisses"; "Steppingstone Girl Friend"; "Yours for a While"; and "The Other Girl in His Life" reprinted from Love at First Sight (1949) #10 and reprinted in Love Experiences (1949) #38b. Illustrated text stories: "Half-Remembered Fiancé" by Gloria Colby, "The Very Wife for Jim" by Mary Paige, and "Her Puzzled Heart" by Jean Higgins. 52 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Last issue with the title Coo Coo the Bird Brain. Cover by Chad Grothkopf. Stories by unknown. Art by Chad Grothkopf, Ellis Chambers, Don Gunn, Milton Stein and Ralph Wolfe. Featuring Coo Coo in "Part Time Pirate" with art by Chad Grothkopf. Also in this issue: Buster Bunny in half-pager "Roller Skate Race" with art by Ellis Chambers; Butch and Buttercup in "Engine Trouble" with art by Don Gunn; Coo Coo in 1-page text story "The Whispering Canary" (cover story; with illo by Chad Grothkopf); Coo Coo in "Wet Paint" with art by Milton Stein; the super-adventures of Supermouse in "In Bad with Sinbad" with art by Milton Stein; Robert Rabbit and Oliver Owl in 1-page text story "No Place Like Home" (by Peter Nelson, which is a house name, with illo by Ralph Wolfe); and "Puzzle Page" with art by Ralph Wolfe. Also: Adventures of the Dubble Bubble Kids half-page comic ad with art by Ray Thompson. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 1, Issue 12 - October, 1951. Cover Girls Models Magazine was an early men's interest publication distributed between November, 1949 and December, 1955 that focused mainly on bathing suit pin-up photography, but also included the occasional Hollywood tabloid human-interest story. 8" x 10.5", 68 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Gene Colan, Frank Bolle, Claude Moore, Fred Guardineer, and Charles Biro. A companion series to Crime Does Not Pay from the same publisher, slightly less violent and with more emphasis on police work. Members of a heist gang wait fifteen years for the loot that is buried in a coffin, and that's a lot of time to double-cross each other. A seemingly innocent tea made of the foxglove plant turns out to be a man's way of eliminating his invalid wife, in a story with early art by comics legend Gene Colan. A comic that dares the reader to figure out a murder during a white-water rafting trip, in a whodunit with multiple clues and an upside-down panel for the answer. Also featuring a vintage ad for Lev Gleason Comics Picture Trading Cards. The Secret of the Coffin; The Foxglove; Caught Red-Handed; Jungle; How They Were Trapped; The Moosehorn River Mystery. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Painted cover by Bob Fujitani. Stories and art by Bob Fujitani, Fred Guardineer, Carl Wessler, Dick Rockwell, and Charles Biro. The title that launched the crime comics genre, Crime Does Not Pay was noted for its violent pre-Code content and lurid tales of underworld life. Tough private eye Chip Gardner tries to figure out who's trying to kill a beautiful woman, featuring one last action-packed painted cover by Bob Fujitani. A suburban family debates whether to testify after they accidentally witness a gangland killing. A story that dares the reader to figure out who threw a man down an elevator shaft at a luxury hotel. Also featuring a vintage ad for "Lev Gleason Comics picture trading cards." Chip Gardner: The Rabbit-Punch Murder Case; Material Witness; The Corpse Came Back!; The Fruits of Crime; Who Dunnit?: The Dead Don't Talk. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

"Crime Gusher," "The Number King's Crimson Payoff," "300-Grand Triple Cross," and "Joe Jenkin's Golden Sepulcher." Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Johnny Craig. Stories by Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein and Johnny Craig. Art by Johnny Craig, Jack Kamen, Graham Ingels, and Jack Davis. EC's New Trend crime title featured top-notch art and writing, barrier-pushing graphics and pre-Code violence. Mrs. North's fear turns to murderous paranoia when she suspects her maid is the axe-murderer stalking the neighborhood. A Texas oil millionaire's wife falls for an oilfield worker, and they plot to murder her husband. Strange circus murders result after a human cannonball's wife has an affair with a trapeze artist. Hatchet-Killer!; Revenge!; Inches; Phonies; Horror Under the Big Top! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Norman Maurer, William Overgard, Claude Moore and Alden McWilliams. This early superhero title was one of the comics that made publisher Lev Gleason a major player during the Golden Age. The Little Wise Guys have a Jonny Quest-style adventure in the African jungle. Ace pilot "Hot Rock" Flanagan makes a hotshot maneuver right when a visiting senator is conducting a base inspection. The Little Wise Guys are trapped on a runaway hot-air balloon that drifts out to sea, and only Daredevil can save them. One of the final Daredevil appearances in the series. Also featuring a vintage ad for Lev Gleason Comics Picture Trading Cards! Little Wise Guys: Danger in Dark Africa; Air Devils Starring "Hot Rock" Flanagan, Part 10; Little Wise Guys: The Runaway Balloon; Crimebuster: Gordy and the Gorham Ghost; Deny It - If You Can! 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Last 48-page issue. Cover by Win Mortimer. Stories by Bill Finger, Jerry Coleman and unknown. Art by Dick Sprang, Leonard Starr, Frank Bolle and Ruben Moreira. The strangest trial on record! Batman and Robin face a jailbird jury in "The Underworld Crime Committee!" by Bill Finger and Dick Sprang. Plus: Pow-Wow Smith, Indian Lawman in "Grass from the Sky!" with art by Leonard Starr; Robotman in "The Testing of Robotman!" by Jerry Coleman and Frank Bolle; and Impossible -- But True! tale "The Man Who Was 300,000 Years Old!" (featuring Roy Raymond) with art by Ruben Moreira. Also: Casey the Cop 1-pager by Henry Boltinoff; Cartoon Criss-Cross activity page by Martin Naydel; Private Pete 2-pager by Boltinoff; 2-page text piece "Vigilantes of the Air Waves" by Ben Banks; and Quick Quiz activity page by H.T. Elmo. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 48, Issue 3 - October, 1951. 6.75" x 9", 116 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Cover art by Joe Simon (as Chester Gould). Warfront house ad. "Case of the Mouthwash Murderer," script and art by Chester Gould; Tracy tracks down Gargles; app. by Christmas Early, Pat Patton, and Themesong. "Closing In," script and art by Chester Gould; Themesong goes on Christmas Early's radio show and begs her mother's killer to give himself up. "Final Battle," script and art by Chester Gould; Tracy corners Gargles, who falls from a stack of glass panels; Gargles is impaled by a large shard of broken glass. House ads for Dick Tracy Comics Monthly and Kerry Drake. "Methods Of Crime Detection"; article on forensic techniques. Crimestoppers Handbook; Tips on different criminal techniques: false teeth, burglar alarm, burie clothes, and fingerprints. "The Hot House Murder" text story. Daisy and Her Pups house ad. "How Well Do You Know the Law?" activity page; A quiz on knowing the law. Dick Tracy Minute Mystery activity two-pager; You try to discover the killer of Mr. Playhard. "The Buckley Case," pencils by Manny Stallman, inks by John Giunta; The story of a Detroit killing spree. House ads for Little Max and Humphrey. Untitled one-page story; On a rainy day, Sparkle Plenty decides that she will make candy with B.O. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Death Trap In the Deep starring Doll Man, Captain Torger, Vornich, and Matty, art by Ross Andru. Brush Your Teeth With Britto starring Torchy, art by Gill Fox. Secret Six starring Doll Man, art by Ross Andru; Darrel wanders into Chinatown and is nearly captured by a strange group called "The Secret Six," who plan to assassinate a Judge Benton. Doll Man Versus Elmo; Knowing that the Doll Man often uses Darrel Dane's lab, a group of gangsters intend to eliminate the Doll Man by substituting a vicious look-alike mutt for the domesticated dog owned by Dane. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Stories by Buford Tune and Matt Murphy. Art by Buford Tune, Art Helfant and Matt Murphy. Cover by Buford Tune. Reprints from the Dotty Dripple daily and Sunday comic strip. Dotty and husband Horace face domestic squabbles similar to those of Blondie and Dagwood, right down to the drawing style; the long-running family strip also featured tween daughter Taffy and dog Pepper. Dotty figures out how to keep Horace from sliding down the bannister; Horace demonstrates the difference between "book smart" and "street smart"; Pepper the dog relishes having a human family that does whatever she wants. The Long End of It; Cooked Goose; Double Crossed; Finders Keepers; Emergency Call; Free Show; Book Learnin; Bargain Day; You Cant Win; Growing Up; Surprise Date; No Fun; Sleep Talking; Surprise Dish; A Dogs Life; All Washed-Up; Mechanical Genius; Home Entertainment; How to Make a Cork Face Pin; A Little Training; The Riddle; Dangerous Talk. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories by Gardner Fox and others. Art by Joe Certa, John Belfi and Frank Frazetta. Cover by Joe Certa. Sometimes listed as Charles Starrett as the Durango Kid #13. Western adventure based on the popular masked hero played in the movies by Charles Starrett. An amnesiac Civil War veteran seeks clues to his past; The Kid gives rustlers a second chance to escape with a warning, and soon regrets it; Dan and Tipi pursue a British spy, in a "White Indian" story by legendary artist Frazetta. Show Em No Mercy; The Trail of the Traitor; Showdown!; Hangmans Law; The Death I Almost Died! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Vol. 2 #26 -Oct. 5, 1951. Contents include Dan Dare, P.C. 49, Riders on the Range, Eagle cutaway centerfold, Adventures of TinTin, Harris Tweed Extra Special Agent, Patrick, Fighter for Truth. Plus text stories and articles. 10 1/2-in. x 14 1/2-in., 14 pages, B&W and full color.

Vol. 2 #27 -Oct. 12, 1951. Contents include Dan Dare, P.C. 49, Riders on the Range, Eagle cutaway centerfold, Adventures of TinTin, Harris Tweed Extra Special Agent, Patrick, Fighter for Truth. Plus text stories and articles. 10 1/2-in. x 14 1/2-in., 14 pages, B&W and full color.

Vol. 2 #28 -Oct. 19, 1951. Contents include Dan Dare, P.C. 49, Riders on the Range, Eagle cutaway centerfold, Adventures of TinTin, Harris Tweed Extra Special Agent, Patrick, Fighter for Truth. Plus text stories and articles. 10 1/2-in. x 14 1/2-in., 14 pages, B&W and full color.

Vol. 2 #29 -Oct. 26, 1951. Contents include Dan Dare, P.C. 49, Riders on the Range, Eagle cutaway centerfold, Adventures of TinTin, Harris Tweed Extra Special Agent, Patrick, Fighter for Truth. Plus text stories and articles. 10 1/2-in. x 14 1/2-in., 14 pages, B&W and full color.

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Cover by Wally Wood. Edited by Sol Cohen. Art by Mo Marcus, Rocke Mastroserio, Maurice Gutwirth, Ed Goldfarb, Bob Baer, Joe Kubert and Wally Wood. Tales of horror from the era just before the Comics Code was introduced. The hideous monster from an art-contest painting comes to life; A killer checks to make sure his victims corpse isnt coming back to life, and winds up trapped in the tomb with it; An ancient Egyptian mirror threatens to take over a modern-day woman and make her kill her fiance. The Case of the Painted Beast!; Was He Dead?; The Monster of the Storm; Kill a Witch; The Mirror of Isis! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 8, Issue 2 - October, 1951. Vintage men's interest magazine full of adult humor comics and tasteful pin-up pictorials. 8.5" x 11.5", 50 pages, B&W. -MATURE CONTENT- Cover price $0.25.

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Volume 12, Issue 6 - October, 1951. 6.75" x 9", 118 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Contains comic strip reprints and a text story. In order of appearance: "Bobby Sox" by Martha B. Links; "Steve Roper and Wahoo" by Allen Saunders and Elmer Woggon; "Oaky Doaks" by Ralph Briggs Fuller; "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "Scorchy Smith" by Rodlow Willard; "Dickie Dare"; and "Ben Friday" by Lawrence Lariar and John Spranger. "Monk McCoy" text story by Hy Gage. 52 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 2, Issue 3 - September/October, 1951. Short-lived vintage men's interest magazine that focused entirely on tasteful amateur cheesecake pin-up pictorials. 8" x 10.5", 64 pages, B&W. -Recommended for ages 16+ Cover price $0.25.