Comic books November 1944

Cover pencils by Arturo Cazeneuve, inks by Steve Brodie. Roll Out the Barrels starring Newsboy Legion, art by Arturo Cazeneuve. Diabolical Diabetics starring Penniless Palmer, art by Stan Kaye. Bargain Rates for Robbie starring Robotman, art by Jimmy Thompson. Pat Dugan Turns Crook starring Star Spangled Kid, art by Jon Small. Battle for America starring Liberty Belle, script by Don Cameron, art by Chuck Winter. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Vol. 34, No. 2 - November 1944. 7" x 9", 130 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Cover art by Alex Schomburg. Pyroman story. The Fighting Yank story, pencils by Ken Battefield, inks by Everett Raymond Kinstler; The Fighting Yank fights Nazis dressed up as vultures in America. Snow Signal text story by Jackson Cole. Captain Future story. Outlaw Tracks text story by Tex Mumford. Four Comrades story, art by Maurice Gutwirth. Merit Badge text story by Henry Hale. The Oracle story. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

November 1944. Phil Courtois Photo Cover. Strength & Health was one of the earliest magazines devoted to fitness and bodybuilding. Features photos of various physiques, instructional illustrations of exercises, and articles focusing on fitness. Through the early 1960s, it was the most popular weightlifting magazine in the United States. 8 1/2" X 11 1/2". 52 pages. Cover price $0.15.

Cover by Walter Berndt. Stories and art by Chester Gould, Harold Gray, Dale Messick, Stanley Link, Frank Willard, Walter Berndt, Ed Leffingwell, Martin Branner, Al Posen, and Carl Ed. An early comic book from Dell, featuring reprinted newspaper comic strips alongside new material. Working with a medicine-show doctor, Tiny Tim winds up getting arrested for fraud. Freed from Professor Squell's grasp, Brenda Starr gets back to business, fighting owner's niece Daphne just to keep her job. Joining a Marine squad, Clyde uses his trained cats against Axis soldiers in the Pacific islands. Also featuring popular strips Little Orphan Annie and Dick Tracy. Moon Mullins; Dick Tracy; Tiny Tim; Smitty; Brenda Starr; Winnie Winkle; Harold Teen; Little Orphan Annie; Sweeney & Son; Clyde Beatty; The Ripples. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

"Blackstone Uncovers Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot," "Red Dragon," "Blackstone Does Magic and Tells You How," the Avenger in "The Smiling Dog," and "Blackstone Uncovers Smuggler's Cove!" Cover price $0.10.

#24 in a series of 90. Superman-Tim is a boys' clothing catalog, activity book, and comic book all rolled into one, featuring Superman illustrations throughout. All issues are 16 pages unless a Superman story is inserted (bringing page count to 24 or 36 pages). Every issue encourages boys not to be a "Whoo-Shoo" -- a boy who reads "Superman-Tim" but doesn't buy clothes from the Superman-Tim Store. Copyright 1944 by National Comics Pub., Inc., under license to Tim Promotions, Inc. 16 pages, B&W with a single color, 5 1/2 in. x 8 in.

Cover by L. B. Cole. Stories and art by L. B. Cole and others. Airborne adventure produced during the height of World War II. Aviator hero Firebird sets out to shoot down the German female air ace known as The Valkyrie (no relation to the Airboy character). The governor of Pennsylvania champions fishing kits for inflatable life rafts issued to the US military. Also featuring many illustrations of planes used by U.S. forces and the Allies during World War II. Plus a PSA for war bonds. Whistlin' Willie; A Real Hero of Aviation!: Frank Luke Balloon Buster; The Valkyrie!; Gen. Claire L. Chennault; Tweedy Triumphs!. Target for Today; Trouble Shooters; Breadbasket of the Sea; The Navy Takes Off; Fighting Allies. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Bill Allison. Cadet story. Target story. Speck, Spot, and Sis story, script and art by Milt Hammer. Dan'l Flannel humor story, art by B. Gordon Guth. Dark Vigil text story. Chameleon story, art by Bill Allison; Chameleon is on his way home to America. Bull's-Eye Bill story. Candid Charlie story, art by B. Gordon Guth. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by L. B. Cole. Stories and art by Tom Van Buren, Nina Albright, Ed Wheelan, George Appel, Rudy Palais, and Bob Fujitani. An anthology of adventure and suspense comics. Ex-boxer Kid Terrific and orphan Jimmy get jobs with a touring company and find adventure in the Florida Keys. The hero Juggernaut investigates after a ship carrying gold is torpedoed. Comics McCormick, "the world's #1 comics fan," boards a carnival rocket ride and jets into space, where he meets the Buck Rogers-like Inspector Cosmic. Kid Terrific: Cuban Holiday; The 12th Juror; Comics McCormick; Molly O'Moore and Scoop Scanlon: Murderer's Holiday; Nat Greene Mystery: Turn The Wheel; Juggernaut: Death Beneath the Sea!; The Reckoner and Chipper: Treachery Stalks in the Tropics; Buck 'n' Broncho: The Crimes That Came From the Grave. Final issue of the series. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Theatre Arts is legendary for its thorough and insightful coverage of the stage, both in American and England. Less well-known is the fact that TAM also provided some outstanding coverage of motion pictures, Broadway and Hollywood. 8.5" x 11", 76 pages, B&W with spot color. Cover price $0.35.

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Vol. 53, No. 2 - November 1944. 6.75" x 9.75", 82 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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Fall 1944. Cover by Rudolph Belarski. Murray Leinster, Paul MacNamara, Frank Belknap Long, Alfred G. Kuehn, Richard Tooker, Ray Cummings, and John Russell Fearn. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 112 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

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Cover by Ernie Bushmiller. Stories and art by Al Capp, Ernie Bushmiller, Rudolph Dirks, Gus Mager, Dick Moores, Fred Methot, Paul Berdanier, Hal Forrest, Bernard Dibble, John Hix and Gus Arriola. Sometimes listed as Tip Top Comics Vol. 9 #5. Tip Top Comics presented color reprints of United Features newspaper comic strips. Phil tries to keep Fritzi away from handsome guys, in a strip featuring Ernie Bushmiller's rendition of a gorilla. Windy and Bess must decide what to do after a baby is left in Paddles' stable. Plus a Li'l Abner storyline by Al Capp. Li'l Abner; The Captain and the Kids; The Triple Terror; Jim Hardy; Tailspin Tommy; Stamp Tips; Gordo; Bill Bumlin; Nancy; Fritzi Ritz; How It Began; Strange as It Seems. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 2, Issue 1 - November, 1945. Painted cover by Billy Devorss. Vintage men's interest magazine focused entirely on amateur lingerie pin-up pictorials. 8.5 x 11.5", 64 pages, B&W. -MATURE READERS- Cover price $0.25.

Stories based on actual people and events: Thomas E. Dewey: Dewey; campaign bio. Sidney Franklin: Bullfighter from Brooklyn. Shark Bait; Survivors in a lifeboat catch a shark. Railroads on the March. Superfortress; B-29 bomber. Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Marie Anne Lagimoniere: Frontier Wife; Red River Settlement. Back-Yard Lifesaver; Milkweed division of War Hemp Industries, Inc. Paul Johnson: Lesson Learned; Pilot Paul Johnson habitually buzzes airfields, main streets, etc. Sea Furies; British Torpedo Boats off North Africa in WWII. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Overseas Edition. Volume 42 - Issue 2, November 1944. Stories include; "The Great Battleship Mystery", "The Incredible Secret", "Bye-Bye, Chuckie Boy!", "The Pinkertons and the Poisoner", "One Chance in Ten Thousand", "The Yellow Kid Races Black Fonso", "Chinatown Death", "Hanky-Panky Franky" and "Detectives of the Airwaves". 8.5" x 11", 112 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Trade-Mark 410,156 from the United States Patent Office from Nov. 7, 1944 to the Northwest Automatic Candy Corporation for Black Beauties candy. 7.34-in. x 11.25-in.; black and white; one-side paper.

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Cover by Walt Kelly. Stories and art by Carl Barks, Floyd Gottfredson, Dick Moores, Bill Walsh, Bob Karp, Hubie Karp, Carl Buettner, George Waiss, Manuel Gonzales, Sylvia Holland, Bill Wright, and Al Taliaferro. Sometimes listed as Vol. 5 #2. The long-running vehicle for Disney character comics featured work by Carl Barks, Floyd Gottfredson, and Pogo's Walt Kelly. In a classic Floyd Gottfredson story from the Mickey Mouse comic strip, Mickey helps refugee children escape WWII. In a story by Barks, Donald accidentally gives the kids a rare dime worth five hundred dollars, and after they buy ice cream with it, he has a hard time getting it back. In another story, Jose Carioca and Panchito visit Donald Duck for a Caballeros reunion, but a police officer is watching them. Donald Duck; Bucky Bug; Mickey Mouse; The Three Caballeros; Dog Watch; The Strange Catch; Sporting Blood; Hush Money; The Wearing of the Grin; Quack Doctor; High But Not Dry; Mickey Mouse and the War Orphans. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 50, Issue 4 - November 1944. "A Magazine for Boys and Girls." Stories, poems, and activities designed for kids. 7-in. x 10-in., 36 pages, PC,PB&W Cover price $0.15.

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November 1944. Cover by Matt Fox. "The Dweller in Darkness" by August Derleth, "The Bat is My Brother" by Robert Bloch, and "The Jar" by Ray Bradbury, plus other horror and supernatural tales by Allison V. Harding, Stephen Grendon, Thorp McClusky, Manly Wade Wellman, and Hannes Bok. Illustrations by Hannes Bok, Boris Dolgov, Irwin J. Weill, Andrew Brosnatch, A. R. Tilburne. 6 3/4-in. x 10-in., 96 newsprint pages, black and white (text with illustrations). Cover price $0.15.

Cover by C.C. Beck. Stories and art by Otto Binder, C.C. Beck, Charlie Tomsey and Harry Parkhurst. The Fawcett comic that introduced the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) to the world. Professor Staunchheart's latest invention is supposed to find missing people, but all it does is find trouble for Captain Marvel. Golden Arrow wants to help Katy find out who's turning loose the animals in her father's traveling circus. Spy Smasher investigates when scientists suspect they've found fabled Atlantis. Captain Marvel Tangles with the Missing Persons Machine; Boy Underground; Golden Arrow: Under the Big Top; Wicky and O'Shawnessy; Spy Smasher: The Lost Land; Ibis the Invincible: The Case of Too Many Ibisticks. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Issue 560 - November, 1944. The true adventure magazine for men. A collection of true stories from all over the world. 76 Pages, B&W Text Only. 6 1/2-in x 9 1/2-in.

Cover by Art Saaf. Edited by J.F. Byrne and Ruth Atkinson. Stories and art by Art Saaf, Ruth Atkinson, Alex Blum, and Robert Webb. Aviation-themed adventure, combat and history tales from pioneering comics publisher Fiction House. Action girl Jane Martin spots a hijacked passenger plane while patrolling Gibraltar airspace; Greasemonkey Griffin is the only American aboard a transport plane hijacked by Nazi POWs; Suicide Smith and his squad help insurgents battle Japanese forces in Burma. Skull Squad; Jane Martin; Clipper Kirk; Captain Wings; Suicide Smith; Wing Tips; The Way to Wings; Greasemonkey Griffin. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Jack Binder. Stories and art by Otto Binder, Jack Binder, Marc Swayze, and Harry Fiskshe. A Fawcett anthology with an emphasis on superhero adventure. Mary Marvel is taking a transcontinental flight when a fellow passenger's tall tales start coming true, and affecting the airplane's flight. Phantom Eagle follows the trail of the mystical Black Mace to the lost Arabian kingdom of Princess Mojud. Mr. Scarlet and Pinky face the sinister Dr. Promise, whose promise is that he will kill them within eleven hours. Plus a PSA for wartime paper drives featuring Mary Marvel. Mary Marvel; Commando Yank; Phantom Eagle: In the Hills of Araby; Penny Graves: The Mysterious Gunshot; Mr. Scarlet and Pinky. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Vol. 24, No. 12 - November, 1944. 6.5" x 9.5", 64 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Cover by Ken Battefield. Stories and art by Ken Battefield, Leo Morey, Jack Warren, Gus Schrotter, George Gregg and Rudy Palais. An early comics anthology focusing on Yellowjacket and other little-known superheroes of the Golden Age. Yellowjacket investigates when a doctor experiments on amputee soldiers to see if crab serum will regenerate their limbs, or just turn them into crab monsters. The moon goddess Diana leads a contingent of gods against a Nazi armada approaching Greece, including Hercules, Jupiter, Mercury and Discordia. The Filipino Kid leads his guerrillas into battle against the so-called "murder master of Manila." Plus, the early horror feature Tales of Terror adapts Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum. Yellowjacket: The Curse of the Broken Claw; Diana the Huntress; Killer; Famous Tales of Terror: The Pit and the Pendulum; Debunker; King of the Beasts; Harbor Lights; Bee Lines; Filipino Kid. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.