Comic books February 1952

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Stories and art by Joe Certa, Frank Bolle, Max Elkan and John Martin. Western adventure featuring one of the most popular heroes of the mid-20th century, star of TV, film and radio. A crooked lawyer masterminds a plan to spring two outlaws from jail with dynamite, then hide their identities with plastic surgery! Hopalong is trapped underground while investigating a mine cave-in. Pistol Packing Pattie points out that Sloppy Joe's shirt explains why they call him "Sloppy Joe." Murder Pays the Price; Hill Billy; Whitey Whiskers: Man of the Sea; The Mine Disaster; Pistol Packin' Pattie; Six-Gun Silence; Quiz; The Assassin's Treachery. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Maurice Whitman. Western adventure stories told from the perspective of the first Americans. The horse named Orphan of the Storm goes on his first buffalo hunt with the Cheyenne; The true story of legendary chieftain Crazy Horse; An illustrated text article on Tribes of the Mid-West. Marvelous Crazy Horse cover by Maurice Whitman. Manzar the White Indian; Warriors of the West; Orphan of the Storm; The First Americans; Long Bow. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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"The People Who Couldn't Exist," "The Spaceman," "Don't Kill Me Twice," "Beyond Time," "The Four Walls" (art by Joe Sinnott), and a two-page text story, "House of the Vampire." Cover price $0.10.

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"Orphans of the Congo," art by Maurice Whitman; Kaänga, Ann, and Zulu rescue the kidnapped parents of a pair of lost white children. Untitled story, art by Henry Kiefer; Wambi grows bored with Tawn and Ogg and goes to play with the monkeys; He builds a kite and his pulled off his feet into a crocodile pool; His cries for help reach the ears of Tawn and Ogg who rescue him and chide him for playing with monkeys. "The Big Ghost of Simbah," art by Robert Webb; Terry exposes a plot to loot an underwater temple by white jewel thieves, using a mechanical octopus while lion cultists keep away outsiders. "Dangers in the Big Cage" text story by Clyde Beatty. Untitled story, art by Ralph Mayo; Treasure hunters kidnap the Nambuma princess and extort labor from her warriors for their radium mine; Camilla discovers this and frees the princess and leads the warriors in rebellion. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Hy Eisman. Stories and art by Harold Knerr, Chic Young and EC Segar. A collection of reprints of popular comic strips of the time, including the Katzenjammer Kids, Blondie, Dagwood, Henry, Popeye, and Felix the Cat. Star Fun; Daisy and Her Pups: Safari Daze; How to Make a Paper Popgun; Daisy and Cookie: Not Every Four Legged Animal Pays Interest; Daisys Fishing Game; Tall Timber; Proud Princess; The Tad that Lost His Tail. Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Ken Shannon in "Corpse That Wouldn't Sleep" (art by Reed Crandall), "The Case of the Butchered Butcher," and "One Day I'll Kill You!" Back-up story, "Angles O'Day" (art by Jack Cole). Crandall/Cuidera cover. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Allen Saunders and Alfred Andriola. Reprints of Alfred Andriola's detective comic strip Kerry Drake and other adventure tales. This issue features reprints from Feb. - May 1949. Western star Skipalong Hotspurs and Cricket McCall are threatened by the hairy, hairy hitman, Wooly Wilde. Plus a look at forensic science of the 1950s. Bondage cover. Kerry Drake: The Case of the Mystery Mine!; Science in Investigation; Death Collects Insurance; With the F.B.I.; Murder Is the Payoff! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Lulu Goes Skating one-page story. Mumps; Lulu figures out a way to get the West Side gang out of the Fellers' clubhouse. The Apple Watcher; The Fellers find out Lulu is going to be watching Joe's fruit stand all alone. The Merry-Go-Roundup; Lulu tells Alvin about a merry-go-round horse that came to life. Riding the Pookle; Tubby impresses the West Side gang by pretending to swim through a pipe. Tubby Plays Football one-page story. Two-page text story, Lulus Diry ("Diary"). Back cover has advertisement for Dell Comics Club. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Warren Kremer and others. Joe Palooka's speechless sidekick from the popular Ham Fisher boxing strip gets his own comic, noteworthy for early versions of Little Dot and other Harvey characters. Max dreams himself into the story of Alice Through the Looking-Glass, with himself as the Cheshire Cat, in a retelling with fun artwork by Warren Kremer. Humphrey soon regrets agreeing to babysit Baby Gooberfooful. Plus solo stories featuring Rags Rabbit and Little Max. Little Max in Wonderland; Humphrey: Babysitter Jitters; Waisted Energy; Hide and Seek; Cat-Tale; Little Max Rhymes with Reason; Room on Top; Rainy Day Puzzles; Wouldn't It Be Funny?; Little Max Visits Storybook Land. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Painted cover art. Plains Indian Homes; Full-page article with four black and white photos about various Indian dwellings. The Range War, art by Alberto Giolitti; A ranch foreman who desires his boss's daughter provokes a range war between cattlemen and sheep herders. The Trespassers, art by Alberto Giolitti; Crow braves trespass on Stone Bear's land, capture a young boy, and battle Tonto. The Eskimo; Full-page article with three black and white photos about the Eskimo. Indian Basketball; Full-page article with one color illustration about an ancient Mayan ball game similar to soccer and basketball. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Dick Briefer, Dick Rockwell, Al McWilliams, Al Wenzel and Eloise Taylor. From the publisher of Crime Does Not Pay, Lover's Lane offered somewhat edgier, more lurid tales than other romance comics of the era. A woman feels she's living in the shadow of her mother, who left her father for another man. Wendy is torn between steady Don and ex Paul, who both want to marry her. Anne and Bill are unpleasantly surprised when Bill's ex Dora shows up at the hotel where they are spending their honeymoon. The Doctor's Secret; Test of a Love-Time; I Belong to You!; Honeymoon Merry-Go-Round; Love Problems. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Chesley Bonestell. Fantasy and science fiction stories by H. B. Fyfe, L. Sprague DeCamp & Fletcher Pratt, Jan Struther, L. Major Reynolds, R. Bretnor, Mildred Clingerman, John R. Pierce (as J. J. Coupling), Walter B. Gibson (as Edward S. Sullivan), John Wyndham, W. B. Ready, Ray Bradbury, Kenneth H. Cassens, Edward Everett Hale, James Thurber, and Margaret St. Clair (as Idris Seabright). Softcover. 5.5-in. x 7.5-in. 132 pages, black and white (all text). Cover price $0.35.

Cover by Pete Costanza. Stories and art by Otto Binder, Pete Costanza and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. The Marvel Family must prevent the Sivana family from capturing the Rock of Eternity, and hence the universe, in an issue-length, multi-part adventure. During the family fracas that results, the wizard Shazam reveals that the Rock of Eternity is the Keystone of the Universe, and the universe itself cannot survive without it. The Capture of the Universe, Chapter One: The Raid at the Rock; Post the Host!; Double for Murder; Lazy Lee; Chapter Two: Sivana's Triumph!; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry: The Crazy Assignment; Chapter Three: The Rightful Ruler Rules. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Published from 1950-1959, this Belgian publication reprinted various Disney comics and strips in a magazine-sized format with half the pages in color and half in black and white on newsprint pages. Each issue had 20 pages. In addition to comic stories, issues featured puzzles, editorials, and letters columns. The stories, including ones by Carl Barks, were serialized and often printed one page per issue, but each issue ended with one complete story. As a result, many stories were resized to five or six lines per page. French Language

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Published from 1950-1959, this Belgian publication reprinted various Disney comics and strips in a magazine-sized format with half the pages in color and half in black and white on newsprint pages. Each issue had 20 pages. In addition to comic stories, issues featured puzzles, editorials, and letters columns. The stories, including ones by Carl Barks, were serialized and often printed one page per issue, but each issue ended with one complete story. As a result, many stories were resized to five or six lines per page. French Language.

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Published from 1950-1959, this Belgian publication reprinted various Disney comics and strips in a magazine-sized format with half the pages in color and half in black and white on newsprint pages. Each issue had 20 pages. In addition to comic stories, issues featured puzzles, editorials, and letters columns. The stories, including ones by Carl Barks, were serialized and often printed one page per issue, but each issue ended with one complete story. As a result, many stories were resized to five or six lines per page. French Language

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Published from 1950-1959, this Belgian publication reprinted various Disney comics and strips in a magazine-sized format with half the pages in color and half in black and white on newsprint pages. Each issue had 20 pages. In addition to comic stories, issues featured puzzles, editorials, and letters columns. The stories, including ones by Carl Barks, were serialized and often printed one page per issue, but each issue ended with one complete story. As a result, many stories were resized to five or six lines per page. French Language

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $54.00 View scans Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Moderate.

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Articles, schematics and photos on the latest available flying models. 8.5" x 11", 60 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Vintage celebrity gossip tabloid with a focus on Hollywood during the golden-age of cinema. 8.5" x 11.5", 130 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.20.

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Volume 5, Issue 1 - February, 1962. 8" x 10.5", 76 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.50.

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Stories and art by Edmond Good, Dick Kraus and Leonard Frank. Movie cowboy Monte Hale wanders the frontier, cleaning up the West one outlaw at a time. Monty must stop a prison break after convicts manage to smuggle a shipment of Army rifles into Cayungo Penitentiary. Monte is hired to protect a gold train from outlaw Gopher Graham. Forger "Scribble La Forge" fakes a letter convincing sidekick to the stars Gabby Hayes he's lost his job as ranch foreman, so Scribble can forge with impunity. The Killers of Cayungo; Gray Hawk: Trapper's Ambush; Old Slick; Bronko Betsy; Guns Against the Gold Train; Fitch and Chippes; Gabby Hayes Gets Fired; Land Above the Sky. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Sheldon Mayer (credited as Bud Fisher). Stories and art by Al Smith (credited as Bud Fisher), Jack Schiff, Win Mortimer, 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. Mutt and Jeff are competing sidewalk Santas for Christmas. Mutt creates a super-vitamin and tests it on Jeff. Jeff invents electric underwear. Plus a Tootsie Roll ad, "Captain Tootsie Saves the Sailplane," with art by Shazam creator C.C. Beck, and a PSA about manners and self-confidence. Mutt & Jeff; Cicero's Cat; Buzzy Says: Be Yourself: Your Best Self!; What's Your IQ? 40 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Bill Fraccio. Stories and art by A. C. Hollingsworth, Lou Cameron and Tony Tallarico. Pre-Code tales of horror and the supernatural from Story Comics. While vacationing in a town celebrating a historical festival, a woman dreams that she was tried for witchcraft in a previous life. A bank robber on the run finds refuge in a remote swampland house, where the residents are only too eager to have him over for dinner. A mad scientist uses Peruvian mineworkers for his reanimation experiments. Terror of the Burning Witch; Bride of the Dead; Little Apples Spell Horror; The Phantom of Lonesome Swamp; The Corpse Springs Alive! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Andy Panda, Oswald the Rabbit, Woody Woodpecker, and Homer Pigeon. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Vol. 4, No. 2 - February 1952. "America's Picture Magazine of Entertainment". This issue with an article on Miami as the hot vacation spot. 10.5" x 13", 42 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Volume 4, Issue 4 - February 13, 1952. Pocket-sized celebrity gossip magazine. 4-in. x 6-in., 68 pages, B&W. MATURE READERS Cover price $0.10.

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Final issue of the series. Syd Shores art on interior front cover. "Toots Garboli and his Fight Racketeers," "George Krowl and the Big City Murder Mob" (art by Gerald McCann?), "Boss of the Death Gang" (art by Mike Becker/Vince Alascia), and "Donald Roberts...The Tough Guy" (art by Mo Marcus/Rocco Mastroserio). Two one page text stories, "Murder in the Kitchen!" and "Escape!" Cover price $0.10.

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Pocket-sized digest. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $17.00 View scans Staple rust: Slight.

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Pocket-sized digest. Cover price $0.10.

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Pocket-sized digest. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 57, Issue 1 - February, 1952. 6.5" x 9", 148 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

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Volume 9, Issue 1 - February, 1952. 6.75" x 9", 116 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Front and back photo covers. Article on how to spin a rope, art by August Lenox. The Toll Bridge Feud starring Rex Allen, Booter, Koko, and Hercules; at a state fair, Rex is challenged to stay in the ring 30 seconds with Hercules. Bad Medicine starring Rex Allen, Clara Barrows, and Bob Yaeger, art by Jesse Marsh. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Howard Boughner and others. Movie cowboy Allan "Rocky" Lane roams the West with a yen for justice. "Undercover Marshal" Rocky searches for outlaws in a boarding house, but a cup of tea is almost his undoing. Rocky tries to figure out how money disappeared from a locked safe. A couple of cowpokes set out to taunt Dee Dickens, but he has the last laugh. The Dangerous Cup; Sagebrush; Dee Dickens: If the Shoe Fits; The Closed Safe; Rustler's Gold; Gopherface; The Guilty Mind. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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"Trigger Tackles a Sidewinder" and "The Underground Railway." 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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February 1952. Volume 1, Issue 4. Cover by Milton Luros. "Three Worlds in Shadow" by Joe Gibson, "Rogue Princess" by L. Sprague de Camp, "Communicado" by Katherine MacLean, "Ordeal on Syrtis" by Milton Lesser, & "Intervention" by Michael Sherman. Interior illustrations by Milton Luros and Peter Poulton. Softcover pulp magazine; 7-in. x 10-in.; 132 pages; B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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British Edition of Science Fiction Quarterly #1. Cover by Milton Luros. "No War Tomorrow" by Wallace West, "Stopwatch on the World" by Daniel R. Gilgannon, and other science fiction stories by William Gray Beyer, Robert Abernathy, Lester Del Rey, George O. Smith, Walter Kubilius, William Tenn, Bryce Walton. 6 3/4-in. x 9 3/4-in., 132 pages, black and white (text with illustrations).

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Cover inks by Joe Giella. The Sinister Jack-In-The- Box, art by Frank Giacoia. The Last Dream!, script by John Broome, pencils by Carmine Infantino. Queen of the Snows! starring Johnny Peril, script by Robert Kanigher, pencils by Alex Toth, inks by Sy Barry; Johnny Peril finds his friend Lee Allen, who just before he dies swears he has seen Subara the Ice Queen, who the natives believe lives on frozen Mt. Subara. Share With Others public service announcement with Superboy, script by Jack Schiff, art by Win Mortimer. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Add to cart VG 4.0 $235.00 View scans Restored (see item notes) RESTORATION. Tear seals, edge rebuild, color touch, staples replaced, cover cleaned, TRIMMED. Colored pencil on back cover. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

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Cover art by Albert B. Feldstein. The Neat Job!, script by Bill Gaines (co-plot) and Albert B. Feldstein (co-plot, script), art by Jack Kamen; An abused housewife married to a neat freak snaps one day and neatly dices the sections of her husband's body into small jars. Yellow!, script by Bill Gaines (co-plot) and Albert B. Feldstein (co-plot, script), art by Jack Davis; A Colonel's son faces the firing squad for cowardice under fire, and is court-martialed and found guilty, sentenced to die by firing squad. Alibi! text story by Albert B. Feldstein. The Monsters!, script by Bill Gaines (co-plot) and Albert B. Feldstein (co-plot, script), pencils by Joe Orlando, inks by Joe Orlando; Aliens deposit their mutant births on Earth which, to them, appear as horrible monsters, but appear as regular human beings to the Earth men. The Rug!, script by Ball Gaines (co-plot) and Albert B. Feldstein (co-plot, script), art by Graham Ingels (as Ghastly); Conrad and his friend Reggie head up to the big woods for some relaxation, as well as going hunting for a grizzly bear. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.