Comic books 1953 w/ month not specified

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Cover by Carl Burgos. Stories by Stan Lee and unknown. Art by Bill Everett, Manny Stallman, Tony DiPreta, Bill Benulis, Jack Abel and unknown. "How Many Times Can You Die???" with art by Bill Everett - A man is double-crossed by his partner-in-fraud who leaves the police a note framing him for murder by the riverside. Their deal was to fake a suicide, but the partner decided to take all the money and frame the fall guy. The man gets out of the stir and guns down his old partner figuring they can't put him on trial for killing the same man twice, but since the man was living under a new identity, they try him for killing a separate person and send him to the gas chamber. Also in this issue: "The Living Mummy" with art by Manny Stallman - When a man brings a mummy back to life, the mummy kills him in order to wrap up the body and substitute it back in the museum exhibit; 2-page text story "Dreams of Death"; "When Grugg Goes to Sleep!" by Stan Lee and Tony DiPreta - This story asserts that you are an alien who has to look into a mirror when you read this story; "Where There's Smoke" - A miser hides his money in the stove and his wife burns it; and "Don't Turn Your Back" with art by Bill Benulis and Jack Abel - A collector of trophies turns the tables on a vampire who was stalking him. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover inks by Christopher Rule. Stories by Carl Wessler, Stan Lee and unknown. Art by Ed Goldfarb, Tony DiPreta, Art Peddy, Sid Greene and Bill Benulis. The coffin...is empty! But not for long in "The Empty Coffin" by Carl Wessler and Ed Goldfarb. Also in this issue: "Never Trust a Woman" by Stan Lee and Tony DiPreta; "The Madman" by Stan Lee and Art Peddy; "Watch the Birdie" with art by Sid Greene; 2-page text story "Voodoo Vengeance"; and "The Hypnotist" by Stan Lee and Bill Benulis. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Russ Heath. Stories by Stan Lee and unknown. Art by Paul Reinman, Tony DiPreta, Russ Heath, Sam Kweskin, Louis Zansky and unknown. "On the Spot" with art by Paul Reinman - An actor kills the man who directs the spotlight on stage when he finds out his girlfriend is seeing him. He gets condemned to the chair and escapes, but the spotlight pins him to the wall and the cops open fire. Only after his lifeless body slumps to the ground do the cops realize that there is no one at the spotlight. Plus: "My Friend the Ghost" with art by Tony DiPreta - A doctor and his friend cook up a plot to acquire the family fortune by the doctor declaring the man dead and then he pretends to return as a ghost and scare the remaining members to death. But the doctor wants all the money and betrays the man by injecting poison into him rather than a drug to make him appear dead, and so he realizes at the end of the story that he actually is a ghost. He kills the doctor. Also in this issue: "What Happened to Mister Snively?" by Stan Lee and Russ Heath - During an atomic war, grocer Snively hoards food in his bomb shelter...however, he starves to death after the bombs fall because he forgot to bring a can opener; 2-page text story "M'Batu -- Giant Jelly Fish"; "The Diet of Donald Moore" with art by Sam Kweskin - A man uses a chlorophyll spray as a health tonic until he develops plant-like qualities; and "The Gas Man" with pencils by Louis Zansky. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Carl Burgos. Stories by Stan Lee and unknown. Art by Jim Mooney, Bob Brown, Pete Tumlinson and unknown. "Let's Face It!" - When a man develops pills that can take twenty years off one's age, an older actor threatens him with violence unless he hands them over. The man tells the actor not to take any of the pills because he is only "half finished," but the actor doesn't listen, and winds up with a face that is half aged and half young. Also in this issue: "The Dead Men" with story by Stan Lee; "The Death of a Puppet!" with art by Jim Mooney - A puppet master is apprehensive when his performances of a puppet murder mystery seem to coincide with real killings; 2-page text story "The Devil Dog" - An American man returns to his hometown to settle old scores, accompanied by his pet dog, whose body is host to the spirit of a Ugandan witchdoctor; "The Pitchman!" by Stan Lee and Bob Brown - A gag story about a conman who actually does sell the Brooklyn Bridge; and "A Sight for Sore Eyes" with art by Pete Tumlinson - A man is taken to an unorthodox surgeon who transplants a second pair of eyes into his forehead in order to correct his vision. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Bill Everett. Stories by Stan Lee and unknown. Art by Ed Winiarski, Fred Kida, Joe Maneely, Russ Heath and unknown. "The Saddest Story Ever Told!" by Stan Lee and Ed Winiarski - A scientist discovers a cure for baldness which he claims will "grow hair on a billiard ball". When the men who try the formula remain bald, the scientist loses everything and ends up sleeping rough in a park. Telling his story to a policeman, the scientist claims that the cure DOES work, but not on men. To prove it, he produces a handful of billiard balls -- all covered in hair! Plus: "Close Shave!" with art by Fred Kida - A shrew wife finds an electric razor annoying so she demands her husband use a straight razor. She demands he kiss her before he leaves for work, but each time he attempts to do so, she complains of beard stubble and sends him back into the bathroom to shave again. Ultimately, he cuts off his face with the straight razor. Also in this issue: "Love Story" by Stan Lee and Joe Maneely - The wife of an African guide plots with a doctor to murder her husband; 2-page text story "The Whirlpool of Gairloch" - A jewel thief ignores local superstitions to cross a haunted strait but finds that his disastrous voyage was only a dream when he wakes up with police at the door; "The Revolt of Wilbur Bixby!" - A man becomes free of his shrew wife when they travel to Greece and he drinks from a fountain that transforms him into a centaur so he can eat grass and no longer has to depend upon her favor to buy him meals; and "The Heat's On!" by Stan Lee and Russ Heath - A succubus uses a mirror to blind a sea captain on leave as he attempts to push his homely wife out the top story window so that he tumbles out instead and winds up in Hell stoking the flames the way he used to torture his men. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Carl Burgos. Lover Beware, art by Joe Sinnott. The Idiot text story. Give Him Enough Rope, art by Tony DiPreta. Get Out of My Graveyard! The Miracle!, art by Chuck Winter. The Living Dead, script by Stan Lee, art by Carmine Infantino. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Russ Heath. Stories by Carl Wessler, Stan Lee and unknown. Art by John Forte, Vic Carrabotta, Bill Everett, Russ Heath, Joe Sinnott, Matt Fox, Jack Abel and Joe Maneely. "Only a Rose!" by Carl Wessler, John Forte and Matt Fox - A woman suspects her husband of cheating on her and so she follows him during the evenings where he is seen giving flowers to young girls. She becomes enraged and sends poisoned candy to her victims. After several deaths reported in the newspaper, her husband reveals that he was delivering flowers to make extra money to buy her a gift. His wife is stricken by remorse for the poisonings, and eats a few of the chocolates the husband has left on the table, which turned out to be poisoned. Plus: "Too Human to Live!" with art by Vic Carrabotta and Jack Abel - A human-looking robot employed to work in a factory of mechanical robots resents the conditions of his employment as he doesn't know he's a robot. When he meets a pretty young lady and makes a date with her, he tries to escape the factory, but the other robots take him back to his workstation. He makes a dash for the fire escape but the other robots pursue him and he falls from an open window to smash to pieces on the ground below. The robot supervisor says that it is unfortunate when robots come to think of themselves as different from other robots merely because they look different. Also in this issue: "When You Believe" with art by Bill Everett - An escaped con goes after his defense lawyer on Christmas day with the intent to murder him and his wife and child...the boy got a disintegrator gun as his present and he aims it at the convict which provokes fits of laughter...the boy pulls the trigger and disintegrates him; "A Very Grave Matter" by Stan Lee and Russ Heath - Two brothers get hired as watchmen for a cemetery...one falls in a grave and calls for help...a bystander tries to dig him out and the other brother thinks he's grave robbing and shoots him...a month later, the buried brother returns as a zombie and strangles his brother; "Behind the Door" with art by Joe Sinnott - A wealthy old man builds a viewing device so powerful that it even displays Death approaching him...he hires bodyguards and builds a vault to hold Death once the beam reveals its presence; and 2-page text story "Werewolf Village" with illo by Joe Maneely, reprinted from Strange Tales (1951-1976 1st Series) #5 (original title: "Welcome to the Werewolves"). 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories by Jules Feiffer and Will Eisner. Art by Jim Dixon and Al Wenzel. Reprints of the later years of the Spirit strip, when Will Eisner's crimefighter was being run by other cartoonists in his studio. This issue includes Spirit strips #566, 588, 607, and 621. Jules Feiffer seeks to convince Eisner to use the end of the world as a plot device in The Spirit; Humbolt Weepy tries to send a man to the Moon using only the power of his mind; A mysterious figure who may be the Devil himself plagues The Spirit, but is no match for Ellen Dolan. The Last Prowl of Mephisto; Design for Doomsday; The Sword and the Savage; The Great Galactic Mystery. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by L. B. Cole. Stories and art by Wally Wood and others. Pre-Code horror comics from L. B. Cole's Star Publications. Baroness Eloise Wagner-Bousquet declares herself the Pirate Queen of Galapagos in the 1930s, just before a strange series of murder and disappearances, featuring art by comics legend Wally Wood. The real-life story of the Homicidal Hit-Runner of Donelson, Tennessee. A mask is created from a synthetic rubber that has strange new properties. The pirate story in this issue is mentioned in the text of the infamous anti-comics classic Seduction of the Innocent, p. 182 - 183. Macabre cover by L. B. Cole. The Mummy's Curse; Spook Diary; Mad Demon of the Grave; Death Teaches a Lesson; The Ghost Returns; The Weird Mask of Death. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by L. B. Cole. Stories and art by Rudy Palais and Vern Henkel. Pre-Code horror comics from L. B. Cole's Star Publications. A crook ill-advisedly enters the door that has been sealed with a curse, despite the warnings, and pays the price. Buck Kelly and his cohorts have a robbery and murder spree across 1927 San Francisco. Treasure hunters trick natives by masquerading as a long-dead chieftain, at least until Jungle Lil gets wind of it. Also featuring vintage ads for the "New! 1953 Space Commander Vibro-Matic Walkie Talkies" and All Live Rubber Giant Beach Ball. Horror Beyond the Door; Death at Midnight!!; The Kill-Crazy Monster; Jungle Lil: The Lurking Ghosts. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by L. B. Cole. Pre-Code horror comics from L. B. Cole's Star Publications. A sailor learns he has signed aboard a cursed Ship of Dread filled with sinister spirits. Two Sgt. Spook stories, including one where the ghostly cop turns the tables on a would-be poisoner. After helping an elderly man attacked by ruffians, Charles "Lucky" Rogers is protected by guardian spirit. Ship of the Dead; Jungle Ghost; Sgt. Spook: The Spook; Guardian Angel; Sgt. Spook: Ghost Town. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories by Matt Curzon and Kate Kellogg. Art by Frank Carin and Matt Curzon. Cover by Frank Carin. Funny-animal hijinks with Spotty the Pup and other characters. Western hero Sparky Smith pursues the outlaw Jesse Jim; a Pixie Puzzle page from Matt Curzon. Also featuring retellings of classic folk tales running alongside the Peter Rabbit stories. Hopalong Spott!; The Capture of Jesse Jim; Snow White and the Magic Mirror; Dream World; Pixie Puzzle Adventures; Speedy Rabbit: Carnival Daze; The Country Mouse and the City Mouse; Puss in Boots; Big Business; A Spring Story; Bull's Eye Boob!; All Aboard! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Coloring book published in 1953. 8 1/4-in. x 11-in., 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

UK Series. Reprints material from Spy Smasher (1941 Fawcett). This issue reprints the cover from Spy Smasher (1941 Fawcett) #9 which features Spy Smasher whacking the heads of Hitler, Tojo, and Mussolini. 28 pages, B&W, 6D cover price.

Squirt Party Fun Book (1953) is a comic book promoting Squirt soft drinks.

Swedish series. Reprints material from various DC publications. 6 7/8" x 9 3/8", 36 pages, 2-color interior, Swedish language.

Cover by L. B. Cole. Pre-Code horror and crime comics from L. B. Cole's Star Publications. A temple idol in the jungle swears vengeance against any who violate its sanctity. The life and crimes of real-life bank robber Wilbur Underhill, known as "The Tri-State Terror." Harry Wells becomes known as the Texas Phantom. The Gruesome Demon of Terror; There Is No Escape; Tri-State Terror; The Bloody Phantom. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by L. B. Cole. Pre-Code horror and crime comics from L. B. Cole's Star Publications. Soldiers on the battlefield are aided by the spirit of a dead comrade. Clare Mangin uses poison to collect insurance policies on her hapless husbands. The so-crazy-it-must-be-true story of the stealing of the steamship SS Ferret from Scotland to Australia in 1880. Footprint of Death; Killer at Large; The Witch of Terror; The Weird Murder; The Saga of the Slaughter at Sea. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by L. B. Cole. Stories and art by Rudy Palais and others. Pre-Code horror and crime comics from L. B. Cole's Star Publications. A Foreign Legionnaire in the desert is pursued by a sandstorm and made part of a phantom brigade because of his love for a native woman. Johnny Socks Lazia rises to be the supreme gang boss in Kansas City of the late 1920s. Daring crook Fred Bell sets out to live up to his motto "the sky's the limit" by becoming the first person to hijack an airplane. The Curse of the Phantom Brigade; Facts About Crime; Monarch of Murder; Wanton Terror; Career of Terror. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by L. B. Cole. Stories and art by Rudy Palais and others. Pre-Code horror and crime comics from L. B. Cole's Star Publications. Gangster Steve Bory gets in over his head in eastern Europe when he dares to open the Forbidden Tomb. Don and Bud Hoover try to get away with murder. The Forbidden Tomb; The Forgers; Two Faces of Crime; Hideous M-U-R-D-E-R. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Teen comedy featuring Mazie and her boyfriend Stevie. The gang gets involved in a dispute over who has the best shoes. Mazie and friends head to an Old West town. The new student in school has everyone convinced that he's European royalty, but Stevie isn't fooled. It's a Shoe Thing; Stevie's Favorite Jokes; Guest of the West; Star Subjects from Hollywood; Mazie: The Fluke Duke; Who Nose; Mortie: Hustle Muscle. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Teen comedy featuring Mazie and her boyfriend Stevie. Mazie and her envious friends among the Greenview High gals plan to sabotage the pretty new student Jasmine with bogus fashion tips. Knocked out during a field trip, Stevie dreams of the gang back in the Flintstone Era, complete with leopard-skin bikinis. Mazie's dad finds the department store a battlefield while trying to buy Mazie a new dress. Oh, Brother; Stevie's Favorite Jokes; Clothes Shmoes; Star Subjects from Hollywood; Mazie: Sale Silly; Club Women; Flat-Top: Fooler Dueler. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stop and Go the Safety Twins (1953) is a promotional comic book from J.C. Penney Company. Stop and Go the Safety Twins (1953) was distributed by the J. C. Penney Co. in conjunction with the National Safety Council. Features play time safety tips along with comic book stories on the Oregon Trail, the French artist Paul Bonheur, plus other features. Full color, 16 pages, 7-1/8-in. x 10-in., white paper stock, no cover price.

Stop and Go the Safety Twins (1953) is a promotional comic book from J.C. Penney Company. Stop and Go the Safety Twins (1953) was distributed by the J. C. Penney Co. in conjunction with the National Safety Council. Features play time safety tips along with comic book stories on the Oregon Trail, the French artist Paul Bonheur, plus other features. Full color, 16 pages, 7-1/8-in. x 10-in., white paper stock, no cover price.

6.5" x 8", 32 pages, partial color.

Issue #3 - 1953. In association with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Written by Eugene Peterson, illustrated by Norman Hamilton. 7-in. x 10-in. 16 pages, full color.

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Written by Frances R. Horwich and Reinald Werrenrath, Jr. Illustrated by Ruth van Tellingen. 6.5" x 8", 28 pages, full color.

1st printing. Collects classic Superman stories. Hardcover, 7 1/2-in. x 10 1/2-in., 192 pages, B&W.

The Little Black Box, art by Joe Maneely; people kill for the secret of the little black box. Night of Horror, art by Werner Roth; When a pledge dies during a college initiation, the frat boy responsible for it continues to think up more sadistic rituals. Norman Was Right! Joe's Friend!, art by Pete Morisi. The Dungeon, art by Hy Rosen. The Murder Club, art by Gene Colan. The Thing in the Shadows, art by Allen Bellman. The Dead Witch! 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Russ Heath. Birdface!, art by George Roussos. The Tough Guy, art by Bill Everett. The Day That Never Ends, art by Tony DiPreta. The Labyrinth, script by Carl Wessler. Second Chance, art by Bob Fujitani. The Perfect Mate. The Growing Terror, art by Fred Kida. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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The Beast-Man starring Frankenstein's monster and William Frankenstein (grandson of the original doctor), script by Stan Lee, pencils by Werner Roth. Stranger in the House!, art by John Romita. The Pain in the Neck, art by Allen Bellman. Furnished Room with Corpse, art by John Romita. Fairy Tale!, pencils by Edward Goldfarb, inks by Bob Baer. Joe Bonomo's mini-gym ad, pencils by C.C. Beck. The Brute! The Oath! The Man with No Face, art by Dick Ayers. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Sweethearts was the first monthly romance title. Claire wants to tell all her friends and everyone she knows when her boyfriend Bernie accidentally catches a criminal, but by doing so she puts his life in danger. When Joyce sets out to sabotage a co-worker, Bob tries to convince Joyce that she must choose between her job and her happiness. Wealthy, spoiled Diane is sure she can win back ex Pete from Dorothy, who is strictly middle-class. Plus the winners of the third "Ideal Man" reader essay contest offer a glimpse of the '50s. My Boyfriend Captured Public Enemy #1; Glitter; Love Bait; It Takes A Broken Heart. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover photo features screen legend Marilyn Monroe and Richard Widmark. Sweethearts was the first monthly romance title. Learning she's failed her school exams, Vivian becomes despondent, breaks it off with Mark and thinks her life is over. Nola and Johnny work in the same factory, but Johnny is put off by Nola's ongoing feud with her supervisor. Joyce loves handsome doctor Rod, but he learns she's been lying about being wealthy because she wanted to impress him. I Failed My School Examinations!; The Conniver; The Mirror of Fate; No Love for Liars. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Mike Sekowsky and Daniel Sheldon. Sweethearts was the first monthly romance title. In a real curiosity, even by atomic-comics standards, Janie and Ben's relationship faces an existential crisis when an atom-bomb test outside their small town gives Janie horrifying visions of an atomic holocaust. May and Ted are engaged, but she gets mixed up in underhanded shenanigans at the carnival where she's working, and he gets dragged into her problems. Kate becomes jealous and manipulative of Magda, the beautiful exchange student who's living with her parents for a year. Plus a comics biography of screen legend Elizabeth Taylor. Big Experiment; I Lived in an Atom Blast Town!; Dream Girl of the Month: Elizabeth Taylor; The Defeated Heart; Dream Beau of the Month: Marshall Thompson; Love Me. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Swimming for Fun, Your Swimming Safety Handbook (1953) Produced under the direction of John R. Burkhart in cooperation with the National Physical Education Committee of the YMCA. A promotional comic book covering swimming tips, obeying the warning signs, getting into the swim, be a smart swimmer, safety and small boats, racing is a great sport, helping others, artifical respiration, and more. 16 pages, full color, standard comic book format, newsprint. Published by American Visuals Corp, New York.

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Chinese Edition - Swimming for Fun, Your Swimming Safety Handbook (1953) Produced under the direction of John R. Burkhart in cooperation with the National Physical Education Committee of the YMCA. A promotional comic book covering swimming tips, obeying the warning signs, getting into the swim, be a smart swimmer, safety and small boats, racing is a great sport, helping others, artificial respiration, and more. 16 newsprint pages, monochrome color, standard comic book format, text is in English with Chinese captions. 7" x 10", 16 pages, B&W

Cover pencils by Reed Crandall. Stories by unknown. Art by Dan Zolnerowich and unknown. In this issue: T-Man in "Terror in Tokyo" with pencils by Dan Zolnerowich - Trask is sent to Tokyo as a decoy with an ordinary Aspirin box to fool the communists, and sends the real message through with another agent; "The Fatal Ticket"; T-Man in "The Beast of Bulgaria" with pencils by Dan Zolnerowich - The Americans are sending supplies and weapons by submarine to guerrillas in the Balkans; 1-page text story "Explosive Sport"; and T-Man in "Operation Plague" with pencils by Dan Zolnerowich - Communist propaganda accuses the U.N. and the French of germ warfare and using poison gas in Indo-China...Trask is sent behind the lines to prove the propaganda false. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories by unknown. Art by Charles Sultan and unknown. Why do men confess to crimes they did not commit? What mysterious power do the Iron Curtain tyrants have over their victims? See T-Man in the action-packed story of the..."Mind Assassins"! Also in this issue: T-Man Brad Kendall in "The Ring of Doom" with art by Charles Sultan; T-Man in "The Code of Death"; 1-page text story "Boom Town"; and T-Man in "Red Murder Incorporated"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

First printing, 1953. Written by Jack Woodford and Gordon Greene. Erotic novel. 5 3/4-in. x 8 1/4-in., 190 pages, B&W text. Mature readers. Cover price $2.00.

Canadian Edition. Cover by Jack Davis. EC Artist of the Month article about George Evans (with photo) by Al Feldstein. "Fare Tonight, Followed By Increasing Clottyness...", script by Al Feldstein, art by Jack Davis; A cab driver has a dream that he is pursued by a Dr. Mueller into a basement filled with vampire-occupied caskets. "Curiosity Killed...", script by Al Feldstein, art by George Evans; A woman is convinced that her friend down the hall has been murdered by her husband and that he is disposing of her remains bit by bit via carrier pigeon to a local kennel. "Tight Squeeze" text story. "How Green Was My Alley," script by Al Feldstein, art by Jack Kamen; A bigamist is decapitated by his two athletic wives when they find they've been deceived; The golfer putts with his eyes and the bowler uses his severed head. "The Handler," script by Ray Bradbury and Albert B. Feldstein (adaptation), art by Graham Ingels (as Ghastly); A mortician avenges himself against perceived slights upon the closed-casket victims of his parlor by violating their bodies until a corpse who isn't quite dead yet overhears his gruesome doings and begs the dead to rise from their graves and stop this horrid man. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Canadian Edition published by Superior Comics. Cover art by Ernie Schroeder. The Curse of King Kala, art by Ernest Schroeder. Death from the Sea, pencils by Ben Brown, inks by David Gantz. The Man Who Imagined a Monster!, art by Ernest Schroeder. Who Shall Inherit the Earth?, pencils by Myron Fass. Everyone Was Very Lucky,--Especially 'Lil' Pepp. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Feldstei bondage/torture cover, issue #3. Ingels, Wood, and Kamen art. Horror, Crime, and shock books that appeared around 1952. Each E.C. Annual contains four complete books that did not sell on the stands which were rebound in the annual format, minus the covers, and sold from the E.C. Office and on the stands in key cities. The contents of each annual may vary in the same year. Cover price $0.25.

Tall Texan Herald (1953) is a promotional item produced by Sponsored Comics Inc. This Herald uses the movie character the "Tall Texan" in order to promote the upcoming film. 2 pages, color cover with a black and white photo on the back, 10.75-in x 15-in.

Whitman #670. Illustrated by Jesse Marsh. 8" x 10 3/4". Black and white. 32 pages. Cover price $0.10.

Coloring book featuring characters from Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Tarzan". Softcover, 8" x 10.5", 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

1953. Tarzan Frame-Tray Picture Puzzle produced by Whitman. Image of Lex Barker as Tarzan. 11.5" x 15". Color.

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Painted cover by Dawson. Stories and art by Ric Estrada and Hy Rosen. Tales of teen angst and amour. Farm girl Helen falls for hitchhiker Doug and follows him back to the city, where she learns how different they really are. Patty joins a sorority at her new college, but her initiation prank involves in a conspiracy to sabotage the football team. Cowboy Rance wants to join the professional rodeo circuit in New York City (!), forcing Vicki to choose between him and the ranch that she loves. Bewitched and Bewildered; What Every Girl Should Know; Love in Disguise; Lighter Side; Have You Heard This One?; A Colt Called Cupid. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.