Comic books 1953 w/ month not specified

Cover by Dick Moores. Stories by unknown. Pencils by Ken Champin and Riley Thompson. Featuring four untitled tales, plus an activity page on the inside front cover and a 1-page story on the back cover. Starring Chip 'n' Dale, Donald Duck, Pinocchio, Wicked Witch, Brer Rabbit, Brer Bear and Pluto! 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is "RIVETS, No. 518." Dog Daze; Rivets is let in the house during a storm; A burglar breaks in, but Rivets cluelessly helps him collect all the valuables. The Boner; Rivets is accused of stealing a dinosaur bone after visiting the Museum of Natural History with his owners. Scents and Nonsense; While on a picnic with his owners, Rivets and his master, Stevie, a young boy, get sprayed by a skunk. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "Milton Caniff's STEVE CANYON, No. 519." Painted cover art. South American Spy Caper, script by Paul S. Newman, art by William Overgard and Milton Caniff; Steve Canyon is sent on an undercover mission to a communist-infiltrated South American country; The task is complicated when the owner of the plane Canyon is to fly down decides to go along for the ride, and to take his kid brother along. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "WILD BILL ELLIOTT, No. 520." Photo cover of Wild Bill Elliott. Famous Marksmen; Short anecdotes about Buffalo Bill Cody, Wyatt Earp, and Annie Oakley's expert marksmanship. Wild Bill Elliott and Death on Black Mesa, art by Cary; Bill finds a Hopi Indian, apparently dead from a rattlesnake bite; Upon investigation, he discovers a plot by white men to attack a wagon train disguised as Hopis. Wild Bill Elliott and the Lone Wolf Killer, art by Cary; Three days before Christmas, Bill is summoned by Sheriff Conner of Stirrup Gulch to help him capture a lone wolf killer there. Photos of Bill patting his horse, lifting a hay bale, and cleaning his six-gun. Posed studio photo of Bill leaning on a saddle that is draped over a fence. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "BEETLE BAILEY, No 521." Cover pencils by Mort Walker. The New Major; A new major is assigned to this battalion; Beetle is assigned to clean up his room, but is mistaken for the major by two lieutenants, who Beetle cons into cleaning the room for him. The Librarian; A librarian puts Killer in his place when he gets fresh with her. Always Room for One More; Capt. Scabbard leaves his apartment at the Bent Arms for a week and asks Sarge to keep an eye on it. Beetle Bailey Gets Promoted; Sarge absent-mindedly puts Beetle on the list for promotion to Corporal; For this mistake, Sarge is demoted to private and Beetle runs him ragged. Scripts and pencils by Mort Walker, inks by Fred Rhoads. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "THE BROWNIES, No. 522." Cover art by Don Gunn. The Brownies Blast Off Into Space; Brainy and Spindly attempt to reach the moon in a homemade rocket powered by a firecracker; They land on a watermelon in Farmer Brown's field instead. The Brownies Rescue Mrs. Ladybug; The Brownies fight a grass fire caused by carelessly tossed cigar. The Brownies Play a Benefit Show; When Farmer Brown's daughter is ill, the Brownies make a pretend television set out of a cardboard box and put on a variety show to entertain her. Trapped in a Bottle; The Brownies rescue Billy Beetle after the Badkins put him in a glass jar. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "TWEETY AND SYLVESTER, No. 524." Win a Bird, pencils by Pete Alvarado, inks by Vic Lockman; Sylvester chases Tweety around an amusement park. Wrecked by the Wrecking Crew, art by Pete Alvarado; Sylvester tries to catch Tweety while a building is being razed by a wrecking crew. Butch's Birthday Party, art by Vic Lockman; Tweety is on a ship in the harbor; Sylvester tries to catch him to give to a bully cat, Butch, for a birthday present. One of Us Has Got to Go; Sylvester rigs up a death trap for Tweety by tying him to an automobile wheel. The Flying Cat; Sylvester tries to catch Tweety, who is resting on the ledge of a tall building. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "SANTA CLAUS FUNNIES, No. 525." Painted cover art. Santa Claus and the Cuckoo Bird, art by Don Gunn; A cuckoo bird comes to the North Pole to visit Santa; The bird gets the best of Santa's mean cat and gets to live in Santa's cuckoo clock. The Kindly, art by Don Gunn; A kindly cobbler in a mountain village fixes poor children's shoes for free; He is behind on the rent and the landlord gives him one day to pay or be evicted. The End of the Christmas Ghost, art by Dan Noonan; Humphrey the mouse takes refuge from a snowstorm in an old house that is inhabited by a teddy bear and Sir George the ghost. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is "NAPOLEON, No. 526." Cover art by Roger Armstrong. He Who Laughs Last!; Susie dresses up Napoleon to be "Daddy" while playing house. The Talking Birds; Uncle Elby brings home a series of talking birds, who each manage to disrupt the household in a different way. The Cat Costume; Uncle Elby dresses up in a cat costume for a masquerade party and disrupts the neighborhood. Fetch the Stick; Napoleon keeps pestering Uncle Elby to play "fetch the stick." The Dinosaur Skelton; Napoleon digs up a dinosaur skeleton. Scripts and art by Roger Armstrong. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "CHARLIE McCARTHY, No. 527." Painted cover art. The Wax Museum; While visiting a wax museum, Mortimer accidentally finds a string of pearls in the dummy of Napoleon; Mortimer and Charlie give the guard the pearls, only to later find out he is part of a jewel-smuggling gang. Baby-Sitting a Gorilla; Charlie and Mortimer have to baby-sit a lady's pet gorilla for an afternoon. The Lunch Wagon; Mortimer trades a cow for a broken-down lunch wagon. All art by Harvey Eisenberg. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "QUEEN OF THE WEST DALE EVANS, No. 528." Dale Evans photo cover. Dale gives Linda "just a sample" of some of her famous cooking, includes Evans and Linda Rogers photo. Dale Evans and the Heiress; Dale's neighbor Jacques Redeau, the lace maker, is ill and Dale brings him some soup; Redeau tells Dale the story of how he had lost contact with his daughter Violet when the relatives she was staying with in Belgium had gone to America and taken her with them. Dale Evans and the Man in the Red Suspenders; Bandits rob the bank as Dale is depositing the café's money for the day. The bandits get away, but not before Dale observes that the leader has red suspenders. Afterward she befriends a lonely orphan who has been sent from Europe to live with his uncle. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

UK Reprint Series. Cover by Dick Briefer. Reprints Cover from Frankenstein Comics (1945 Prize) #28. Reprints stories from Frankenstein Comics (1945 Prize) #28, Airboy Comics (1945-1953 Hillman) Vol. 9 #8, and Astonishing (1951 Marvel/Atlas) #22. 7 1/4" X 3/4".

UK Reprint Series. Cover by Dick Briefer. Reprints Cover from Frankenstein Comics (1945 Prize) #29. Reprints stories from Frankenstein Comics (1945 Prize) #29, Airboy Comics (1945-1953 Hillman) Vol. 9 #9, and Mystic (1951 Atlas) #29. 7 1/4" X 3/4".

Cover by L. B. Cole. Stories and art by Pat Adams, Saul Kessler and Ellis Chambers. Holiday Comics becomes Fun, featuring classic funny-animal antics. Marty Monk is showing off his new car to Hedy when he crashes into a police officer. Senor Tamale (a parrot, not a tamale) dreams he's hit it big as an actor, but he's just passed out in his agent's office after hitting his head. After Miss Moneybelt crashes her car while taking Marty for a ride, she asks if he wants to see her new jet plane. Easy Cartooning; Ivan The Terrible: Oh My Gosh!; Hedy Hippo; The Lil Pan Band; Senor Tamale: A Bright Idea; "Red" Kamphor; Marty Monk; Catsy and Barko. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Pinup magazine. 4-in. x 5 1/4-in., 24 pages, B&W. Mature readers.

1st printing. Photo cover. Illustrated children's book. Art by Samuel Armstrong. Hardcover, 5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 28 pages, full color.

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11" x 14.5", 64 pages, B&W.

Cover art by Maurice Whitman. Bride of Horror, pencils by Bill Benulis, inks by Jack Abel; A curse runs in the Marsden family; Winthrop seems to be afflicted by a werewolf strain. But when his wife Pamela investigates, she discovers a sinister family scheme. The Demon of Devonshire; Police inspector Langdon is haunted by ghostly apparitions. When Dead Rogues Ride, art by A. Albert; Rogue nobleman Clement Warwicke poses as highway robber Black Bart, supposedly long dead. The Gallows Ghosts, art by Bill Discount; Wife killer Cass Jarman pretends to be insane to avoid execution. Who Called Us Back?, art by John Belcastro [as Johnny Bell]; A gang of criminals open the graves of evil Sir Brooke and his "gypsy" witch wife. They hope to find valuables, but only meet their doom. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Maurice Whitman. The Curse of the Mist-Things, art by John Belcastro [as Johnny Bell]; In his youth, Sir John killed a man and kidnapped a gypsy woman; A ghostly gypsy caravan arrives at Belfast manor--to claim the lords daughter who is the result of that mating. The Face in the Shroud, pencils by Bill Benulis, inks by Jack Abel; When a seance goes wrong and Helen's husband Jim is killed by a ghostly apparition, she is held for murder. Return Engagement, art by Bill Discount; Deceased marionette performer Zucardo invites his criminal wife Mae to an abandoned theatre. The Soul Stealer; Careless tourists David Fleming and Ann Jordan come into contact with a voodoo ritual. The Last of Glanamores; When Hugh Glanamore comes visiting his inherited castle in Scotland, he is confronted by ghosts from the past. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Maurice Whitman. The Devil Seeds, art by John Belcastro [as "Johnny Bell"]; Egyptologists use a farmers field to plant ancient seeds from a tomb in the desert. The Thing That Walked At Night, pencils by Bill Benulis, inks by Jack Abel; Fred and Alice adoopt a child only to learn that the child has a terrible secret. The Throwback, art by Bill Discount; Deformed man gets a job posing as a Neanderthal man in a cave. Monster Fang!, art by Jack Abel; Climbing a mountain, a group of climbers meet ghosts of their criminal past and die one by one. The Monster of the Sea, art by A. Albert; Young boy Tommy comes into possession of a magic compass; An old captain and his monster friend, a Loch-Ness snake, grant him three wishes. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Canadian Reprint Edition. Cover art by Maurice Whitman. The Sleepers in the Crypt; Gangster returns to the scene of his crime to recover hidden loot; His henchmen are frightened by ghosts and ironically turn on their boss, accidentally killing him. Zandini Did It!, art by A. Albert; Zandini comes back from the dead to wreak revenge on Dan Kramer, the man who caused his death years ago. Payoff Blues, art by Jack Kamen; Triggerman and train robber Chopper Mack is driven insane by a tune he keeps hearing over and over again. He also sees ghosts everywhere. Two Must Die, pencils by Bill Benulis, inks by Jack Abel; Two mine owners inquire about ghostly apparitions in their mine in Mexico. Not believing in ghosts, they enter an accident-prone shaft and perish. 36 pages, full color.

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(A-1 Comics #80) Cover by Dick Ayers. Art by Dick Ayers and Ernie Bache. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) #75. Western horror with the original Ghost Rider, a marshal who uses special effects to make outlaws think he's an otherworldly avenger. A witch summons demons to terrorize a town after her father's murder, but something doesn't add up; A killer is tormented by the disembodied hand of the man he buried alive; A reporter thinks he's figured out the secret identity of the Ghost Rider. The Beautiful Witch; Tales of the Ghost Rider: Hand Wrenched from the Grave; Assignment: Ghost Rider; Tales of the Ghost Rider: Tortures of the Damned; The Haunted Portrait! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Dick Ayers. Art by Dick Ayers and Ernie Bache. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) #80. Western horror with the original Ghost Rider, a marshal who uses special effects to make outlaws think he's an otherworldly avenger. Zombies bring hapless victims to the devil for murder, but Rex Fury suspects the killer is all too mortal; A woman shopping for a wedding dress meets a spidery old lady in a shop that's been closed for a decade; A Scotland Yard detective chases a cursed gem around the world and right to the Ghost Rider's doorstep. The Devil Deals In Death; Tales of the Ghost Rider: A Web For Her Wedding Dress; Gunfire at Death Cavern; The Man From Scotland Yard; Tales of the Ghost Rider: Concerto for Horror. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

(A-1 Comics #84) Cover by Dick Ayers. Art by Dick Ayers and Ernie Bache. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) #84 or Tales of The Ghost Rider #13 (the title on the cover). Western horror with the original Ghost Rider, a marshal who uses special effects to make outlaws think he's an otherworldly avenger. Ghost Rider meets man-eating ants with his own army of ants, and faces a death-trap while buried up to his neck; Prehistoric monsters and a living skeleton inhabit Dead Man's Cave, but GR senses a con job; Ghost Rider faces off against his Native American counterpart, The Spectral Warrior. The Ghost Ants of San Pedro!; Play of Death!; The Horror of Dead Man's Cave!; The Spectral Warrior! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Korean-era war comics from Ajax-Farrell showcase the ideologies of the Cold War. Captain Law suspects treachery while delivering a typhoid vaccine to North Korean guerilla leaders. Private Martin's talent for singing saves his unit from a Korean advance. Reporter Ken Cross learns of an upcoming military maneuver and must decide if publishing will endanger American troops. Flaming Coffin; Red Trap; General Orders; Battle Song; Land Thunder. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 63, 1st Printing - "Kidnapped" by Robert Luis Stevenson. Softcover Digest, 5" x 7.5", 254 pages, B&W, text only.

Volume 64, 1st Printing - "Toby Tyler" written by James Otis. Softcover Digest, 5" x 7.5", B&W, text only.

Volume 71, 1st Printing - "Famous Fairy Tales" written by Various Authors. Softcover Digest, 5" x 7.5", B&W, text only.