Comic books December 1947

Cover by Sheldon Mayer (credited as Bud Fisher). Stories and art by Al Smith (credited as Bud Fisher), Ted Udall, Pete Costanza and C.C. Beck. DC reprints the comic strip that defined the comic strip, featuring the original tall-and-short comedy duo. Also featuring the "topper" strip Cicero's Cat, and other strips from bygone days. Every night Jeff talks in his sleep in Chinese, and Mutt wants to know what he's saying. Jeff wants to be an actor. Jeff gets fired. Plus a vintage ad for a Genuine Dick Tracy Wrist Radio, featuring Junior, Diet Smith, Influence and other Dick Tracy characters, and a Tootsie Roll ad, "Captain Tootsie and the Radar Rescue," with art by Shazam creator C.C. Beck. Mutt & Jeff; Cicero's Cat; Everything Happens to Harry; So Long, Whitey. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

"Murder in Mind" a short story by John D. MacDonell

Cover art by Al Bryant. Belinda, the Bearded Lady starring Barker, script and art by Klaus Nordling. Talking Dog starring Granny Gumshoe, script and art by Gill Fox. Untitled stories starring Anthrop (script and art by Michael Senich), Sally O'Neil Policewoman, and Lassie (script and art by Bernard Dibble). Ahoy! starring Steve Wood, art by Al McWilliams. Top Floor--All Out For Murder starring Quicksilver, art by Dan Zolnerowich. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

10.5" x 13.5", 24 pages, B&W Cover price $0.15.

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Stories by unknown. Art by Morris Weiss and unknown. Nellie the Nurse stars in: "The Sinister Stranger"; "The Prudent Student"; "Fish Dish"; and "Moose on the Loose"! Also in this issue: Millie the Model in "Picnic Panic"; 2-page text story "Dog Story"; and Tessie the Typist in "Her Gown Goes to Town" with art by Morris Weiss. 48 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 24, Issue 49 - December 6, 1947. 8.5" x 11", 56 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 24, Issue 50 - December 13, 1947. 825" x 11", 56 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Fair $2.50 View scans Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Slight.

Volume 24, Issue 51 - December 20, 1947. 825" x 11", 56 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 24, Issue 52 - December 27, 1947. 825" x 11", 56 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Nifty Gals & Gags is a humor digest published by Dearfield Publishing Company. 96 pages, color cover with B&W illustrations, 5 1/4-in x 7 1/4-in. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $56.00 View scans Paper: Off white Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 5%. Staple rust: Slight.

Volume 16, Issue 3 - Winter, 1947. 6.75" x 9.75", 130 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.20.

Cover by Bert Whitman. Stories and art by Bernie Krigstein and Howard Boughner. Raised in the jungle by her scientist father, Nyoka faces its dangers like no man ever could. In a three-part story featuring early art by future EC legend Bernie Krigstein, Nyoka realizes that a deadly plague is loose in the native population. But a shaman is threatened by the arrival of modern medicine, so he has Nyoka and Dr. Thompson attacked on their way into the jungle with the vaccine. The Witch Doctor's Madness! Part I: The Jungle Epidemic; Trader Tom; Boy Scout Bob; Muscle Hedd; Part 2: The Lajos Cure; Whipper Snappers; Lion-Hearted Leo, the Animal Trainer: The Bear Hunt; The Striped Demon; Part 3: Bewitched; Nyoka's Jungle Quiz. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Tom Hickey. Stories and art by Walt Kelly, Tom Hickey, Gil Turner, Veve Risto and Charles Hedinger. Based on the popular movie shorts also known as Little Rascals, Dell's Our Gang Comics featured early work by Pogo's Walt Kelly and other cartooning greats. In a story written by Kelly, the gang explores a lost cave on a cliffside and encounters a hostile hermit. Jerry and Tuffy finally got rid of Tom, but now Rowdy Rat Jr. looks at moving into the house and kicking the mice out. Barney Bear and his neighbor Mooseface contend over their Thanksgiving turkeys. Our Gang; Flip 'n' Dip; Tom and Jerry; Barney Bear and Benny Burro; No Place Like Home; Wuff the Prairie Dog; Pictopranks. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

"It's a Dirty Deal!; Babs enters the Best Dressed Girl in Town contest up against rival Glitter Gaye. "Can You Take It?; Ozzie is a contestant on a radio quiz show. "Just for Kicks!; Ozzie is locked in his room but still manages to cause a chain reaction of chaos. "Bloobstutter Always Rings Once text story by Rod Reed. "Buy-Buy Babs; Babs takes a job at the lingerie counter of Lacy's Department store. "Mr. Fixit; Mr. Fixit. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Winter 1947. Digest-sized humor magazine, one cartoon per page. 5.5" x 7.5". Black and white. Mature. Cover price $0.25.

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Cover art by Matt Baker. "An Army of Walking Dead!", art by Matt Baker; Doctor Crime ships zombies around the country, getting them ready to use when he attempts to take over the United States. "Fish for Small Fry" text story by J. L. Keene. "World's Meanest Crook!"; The Phantom Lady looks into a racket that is being run by a crook named Foreclose that sells property to a person, then makes sure the person can't make the first payment and forecloses on them. "The Red Rain!", art by Matt Baker; Phantom Lady must stop the Vulture and his minions who are using a red rain to foretell the death of a famous person. Article on customs in North Africa, the Island of Bali, and New Zealand. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 32, Issue 1 - December, 1947. Hollywood magazine. Cover Photo features Joan Caulfield taken by Paul Hesse. Includes articles on Greer Garson, Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Hedy Lamarr, Rita Hayworth, and Fred MacMurry. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 114 pages, PC/PB&W Cover price $0.25.

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Official USC football program. 8" x 10.5", 32 pages, B&W Cover price $0.25.

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Winter 1947. Cover by Allen Anderson. "Black Priestess of Varda" by Erik Fennel, plus other stories by Carl Selwyn, Kenneth Putnam, Robert Abernathy, Vaseloes Garson, Basil Wells, Henry Guth, and John Foster West. Illustrations by Aiden McWilliams, Herman Vestal, Martin, Astarita, Sharp. 7-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 128 pages. Cover price $0.20.

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Cover art by Jack Cole. The Sands of Crime, script by Gwen Hansen, art by Jack Cole; While Woozy goes on vacation, Plastic Man must prevent Ali Krim from stealing an experimental supersonic rocket. Gangster's Vacation, script and pencils by Jack Cole, inks by Alex Kotzky. The Ballet Caper, script by Gwen Hansen, art by Jack Cole; Woozy Winks goes solo and takes in the ballet, with disastrous results. A-Hunting Woozy Goes text story with Plastic Man by Jack Cole. A Shock to the System, script and pencils by Jack Cole, inks by John Spranger; Plas and Woozy must face a synthetic woman who can eat red hot coals and produce electricity from her fingertips. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Jack Cole. Plastic Man story, script and art by Jack Cole. Specks story, script and art by Michael Senich. Honeybun story, script and art by Paul Gustavson. Candy story, script and art by Harry Sahle. Spirit story, script by Bill Woolfolk, art by Lou Fine. Manhunter story, art by Al Bryant. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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No. 23 - December 1947. 7.5" x 10.5", 52 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

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December 1947. Mechanical science and technology magazine. Includes: "Land of the Scooter and Cycle" modern two-wheel transportation. 6.75" x 9.5". 332 pages. B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Volume 151, Issue 6, December 1947. 6.5" x 9.5", 282 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Vol. 31, No. 12 - December 1947. 6.5" x 9.5", 160 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

Published by Hugo Gernsback, considered the father of science-fiction. This issue is centered around the new medium of television with Gernsback's editorial, "The Television Age". 8.5" x 11.5". 128 pages. Black and white. Cover price $0.25.

Stories and art by Walt Kelly, L. Bing (credited as Johnny Gruelle), W.J. Enright, Frank Jupo and Dan Noonan. Johnny Gruelle's famous doll characters have adventures and learn lessons, featuring early art from Walt Kelly. Legendary Pogo artist Walt Kelly adapts Mother Goose nursery rhymes, including The Little Piggies and One Misty Morn. Raggedy Ann and Andy try to protect the house from invasion by Eddie Elf and an army of elves. Stories from the infamous German children's cautionary tales, Struwwelpeter. Plus activity pages and "nonesuch" animals. Slovenly Peter; Cruel Frederic; Pauline and the Matches; Poor William; Flying Robert; Raggedy Ann; None-Such Animals: The Spaffle; Egbert Elephant and His Friends; The Raggedy Way; Johnnys Journey to Christmasland; Clever Gretel; Animal Mother Goose. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Joe Doolin. Edited by Jack Byrne. Stories and art by Bob Lubbers, John Celardo, Charles Sultan, and Walter Palais. Tales of adventure from pioneering comics publisher Fiction House. The Sky Rangers seek a missing plantation manager in Hawaii; In Vienna, Professor Broussard battles Madam Dante, who turns children evil so they will steal and kill for her; Jewel thieves on the run hijack a boat, unaware it belongs to action-girl Glory Forbes. Damsel-in-distress cover by Joe Doolin. Firehair; Tiger Man; Sky Rangers; Glory Forbes; Clive's Duel; Crusoe Island; The Werewolf Hunter. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Vol. 51, No. 308. December 1947. 5.5" x 7.5". 160 pages. Black and white.

Cover by Dan Zolnerowich. Art by Dick Wood, Bernard Sachs and Dan Barry. Another crime comic from the prolific studio of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, this one featuring crimes throughout history as well as the standard gangster tales. Sometimes listed as Real Clue Crime #22. No issue # on cover; Vol. 2, issue #10 in indicia. Stupid but tough Gyp takes on the cops with hand grenades. A parrot becomes a murder witness. Thomaso Malvini is the terror of Renaissance Rome. Also featuring an unusual vintage ad for gravestones (!) from the Rockdale Monument Company. Gyp The Blood; Full Payment At Death...; Corny the Salesman; A Racket Is Born; Case of the Killer Parrot; 40-Notch Hardin; Thomaso the Terrible. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Funny-animal comics featuring gunslinging Red Rabbit, bear cubs Willy and Nilly, Officer Mutt, and others in the classic mold. When Red Rabbit can't figure out Pecos Pete's latest rustling scheme that has cows vanishing into thin air, there's only one way to find out: a two-man cow costume. A gang of tough orphans (from "Hogan's Alley") sets clever traps in the alley for Officer Mutt, but he thinks they just need some direction and a better place to play. Petey Pinfeathers tries to beat Tuffy the bear cub in an ice-skating race on the frozen river. Looey the Lion: The Peeking Prime Minister; Red Rabbit; King Looey the Lion; Cubby Scouts; Stevie the Stork; Slappsy Squirrel; Petey Pinfeathers: Silver Skates Derby; Officer Mutt; Slappsy Squirrel: The Poor Fish.48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.