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April 10, 1958. Edited by Joseph G. Schaller. Cover by Graham Hunter. Stories by Bill Berry, Lloyd Ostendorf, Ed Thursland, Max Pine, Frank Borth, Floyd Anderson, Ruth Geller, and P. Karch. Presenting fiction and non-fiction stories, many of which are religious in nature—a Treasure Chest of fun and facts! 32 pages, full color.

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Edited by Joseph G. Schaller. Cover by Lloyd Ostendorf. Stories by Frank Huffman, Lloyd Ostendorf, Frank Borth, Frank Moss, Sydney Walter, Syl. Sowinski, Max Pine, Father Jack, and Bill Berry. Presenting fiction and non-fiction stories, many of which are religious in nature—a Treasure Chest of fun and facts! 36 pages, full color.

Stories based on actual people and events: Chinese Hero No. 1 (part 1); The story of Chaing Kai-Shek's life from birth until leaving of China after failing to stop Yuan Shih-Kai from declaring himself Emperor. A Forgotten Woman in History; The story of Deborah Sampson. Death Fighter; Biography of Dr. Robert Koch, the "Father of Bacteriology" who discovered germs and how they work. Billy Bishop, Canadian Air Ace; Biography of Canadian WWI Ace "Billy" Bishop. Frontier Fighter; The life story of Daniel Boone. Baseball's Hall of Fame. Unsung Hero; How Captain Jouett helped Thomas Jefferson and other patriots escape cature from British forces. Land War; History of tank warfare. The Town that Can't Be Licked: Ware, Massachusetts. The Battle of Lake Erie: Oliver Hazard Perry. 68 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Stories based on actual people and events: Vice Admiral Richmond K. Turner: Commander of the Crocodile Fleet. Origins of nursery rhymes. Therese Bonney: Photo-Fighter; 3-panel, 3-page sequence shows a Nazi concentration camp. Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Round the World Gift--National War Fund. Builders of the Alaska Highway. Rube Waddell: Magnificent Screwball bio on baseball pitcher. The Battling Borie; Aging U.S. destroyer fights German submarines. The Fearless Five; Five U.S Marines in the South Pacific stop a Japanese attack. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories based on actual people and events: General Walter Krueger: Return Trip. Harry S. Truman. Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Army's Navy; U.S. Army's Air-Sea Rescue Squadron. Lt. Maurice B. Wells: Third Escape. United Nations: A Third World War Can Be Prevented Now! New Stars; Problem getting stars for MacArthur when 5-Star rank was created. Emmy Fix!; Eskimo girl helps soldiers build an airport. Arnold Furst: Out of a Hat!; A magician entertains troops. Vernon Gomez: El Senor Goofy baseball pitcher bio. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories based on actual people and events: The Secret Warriors--Office of Strategic Services. Tom J. Smith: Smoking Fists; Abilene's new marshal won't carry a gun. Bangor, Maine; How It Got Its Name. The Sultan and the Emperor Come to Cambridge--Great Hoaxes. Joseph Palmer: Battle of the Beard; the right to whiskers in 1830s Massachusetts. Cavalcade of England, script by Joseph H. Park; Chapter 8: British history 1930 to 1946 AD. Josef Haydn: Farewell Symphony. Rube Marquard: Sizzling Southpaw. Lucie Aubrac: Lucie to the Rescue; French underground in WWII. Captain Frank Lillyman: Heaven on the House. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Jack Sparling, Edd Ashe and Humphrey Bogart. Biography and history stories in comics form, part of a trend in non-fiction comics in the 1940s. The story of a polar bear in the Bronx Zoo; Baseball star Joe DiMaggio; Hollywood legend Humphrey Bogart recalls filming the Treasure of the Sierra Madre on location in Mexico with director John Huston. The Case of the Disguised Bandits; Vote for President Contest; The Motion Picture Industry; Joe DiMaggio the Yankee Clipper; You're the Detective; Bear Barrel Polka; My Most Interesting True Experience; Truly Comic! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Jack Sparling, Edd Ashe, Phil Berube, Adolph Rupp and Jane Wyman. Biography and history stories in comics form, part of a trend in non-fiction comics in the 1940s. The history of the U.S. State Department; Legendary bandleader Tommy Dorsey; Journalist Floyd Gibbons reports on the sinking of his own ship in WWI. Oddities in Sports; The Story Behind the U.S. State Department; Youre the Detective; The Case of the Barefoot Bandit; Are You a Quiz Whiz?; King of Reporters; My Most Interesting True Experience; Tips on Championship Basketball; Truly Comic!, Sentimental Gentleman. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Arthur Peddy, Richard G. Waite and Floyd Torbert. Biography and history stories in comics form, part of a trend in non-fiction comics in the 1940s. Suffragist pioneer Victoria Woodhull fights for rights of women; A French detective uses new tools to solve crimes; Pirate and freedom fighter Jean Lafitte. Handicap Hurdlers; Patriot or Pirate?; Desperate Kidnapper; France's First Detective: Eugene Francois Vidocq; Captain of the Team; Victoria Woodhull; Youre the Detective; Truly Comic! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

"Stan Musial," "The FBI's First Bank Robbery Case," "Cagliostro, Master Rogue," and "Gen. Lucius D. Clay." Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Sam Glankoff, Henry C. Nicholas, Ernest Schroeder and Jack Sparling. Biography and history stories in comics form, part of a trend in non-fiction comics in the 1940s. Allan Pinkerton, founder of the Pinkerton Detective Agency and pioneer of private investigation; Henry Hudson explores the North American continent; Wyatt Earp and the shootout at the OK Corral. Sizzling Southpaw; First American Detective; Sheriff's Secret; Great Military Bluffs; Henry Hudson; King of the Buccaneers; The Deadly Phone Call. Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. NOTE: #80-84 are all newsprint editions that were distributed by mail only to subscribers (no newstand distribution). Cover price $0.10.

Stan Musial cover and story, a photo story of the New York Yankees. Cover price $0.10.

Phillips 66 Oilers basketball team, baseball manager Connie Mack, spring training, and boxer Ezzard Charles. Most of issue (plus cover) drawn by Bob Powell. Cover price $0.10.

Classic kids' comics from Harvey, featuring characters familiar from TV cartoons of the time, including Casper, Little Audrey and Baby Huey. Casper and Lou join the living children in school, but when scare-happy cousin Spooky shows up, chaos soon follows. Little Audrey dreams herself into Wonderland, where she encounters Checkers Cat, a crazy hare and angry oysters. Tiny and Little Audrey accidentally sabotage a stage magician's act. North Pal; Spooks at School; Baby Huey: Little Red Riding Huey; Little Audrey: Dog-Gone; Little Audrey: Threes A Riot; Little Audrey: Blunderland; Treasure Haunt; Tiny: No More Magic. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.25.

68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.25.

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Classic kids' comics from Harvey, featuring characters familiar from TV cartoons of the time, including Casper, Little Audrey and Baby Huey. In a three-part story, Casper and the Ghostly Trio get a crystal ball that shows them when someone needs help, and track a mysterious pink cloud that grants wishes in the worst way. Witchella turns Spooky's hat invisible, but he tricks her into reversing the spell. Going, Going, Gone!; The Three Bad Wishes; The Surprise in the Swamp; Spooky: Now You See It - Now You Dont; Baby Huey: Hickory Dickory Duck; Herman and Katnip: Giggle - Youre on Candid Camel! 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.25.

Juan Gonzalez (Texas Rangers) cover. September 28, 1996. Inside: Ray Romano; "Friends"; baseball preview; Michael J. Fox article/interview; Alan Jackson; "Melrose Place." Cover price $1.19.

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Whitman edition. Cover price $0.35.

A "Serio-Comic" weekly addition to the New York Tribune, 12-3/4" X 8-1/2", colored, newspaper stock.

Victory in the Valley! (April 1997) is a trade paperback edition reprinting Gil Thorpe comic strip dailies by creator Jack Berrill. Features selected 1961 to 1991 football, basketball, and baseball storylines centering on Gil Thorp, the coach at Milford High School. Milford Hall of Fame also featured in this volume. Edited by Matt Shaughnessy. Published by Take Five Productions. 254 pages, black and white, 8.5-in. x 11-in., no cover price, but originally released as $9.95 suggested retail. Cover price $9.95.

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1st printing. By Willard Mullin. THE FIRST-EVER RETROSPECTIVE OF THE DEAN OF AMERICAN SPORTS CARTOONING. In Fantagraphics' ceaseless effort to rediscover every world-class cartoonist in the history of the medium, we turn your attention to a neglected part of the art form-sports cartooning-and to its greatest practitioner -- Willard Mullin. The years 1930-1970 were the Golden Age of both American sports and American comic strips, when giants strode their respective fields -- Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Hank Aaron in one, George (Krazy Kat) Herriman, Milton (Steve Canyon) Caniff, Walt (Pogo) Kelly in the other -- and Mullin was there, straddling both fields, recording every major player and event in the mid-20th-century history of baseball. Mullin was to baseball players what Bill Mauldin was to soldiers: advocate and critic, investing them with personality, humanity, dignity, and poignancy; Mauldin had Willie & Joe and Mullin had the Brooklyn Bum, his affectionate 1939 character representing the bedraggled figure of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Willard Mullin's Golden Age of Baseball: Drawings 1934-1972 collects for the first time Mullin's best drawings devoted to baseball-depictions of players like Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, Yogi Berra, and Sandy Koufax, legendary managers like Casey Stengel and George Steinbrenner, and events like Lou Gehrig's emotional retirement speech on July 4, 1939, for which Mullin not only drew a portrait but composed a poem (which he often incorporated into his cartoons). Mullin's fluid line and delicate but vigorous brushwork are shown to beautiful effect, with many drawings reproduced from original art. See why millions of baseball fans from the '30s to the '70s looked forward to Mullin's cartoons in their daily paper. Mullins was voted "Sports Cartoonist of the Century" upon his retirement by his peers, and his legacy has been summed up by New Yorker cartoonist Bob Staake, who wrote, "Mullin defined the modern sports cartoon by combining representative portraiture, cartoonish doodlery, and editorial commentary-part news account, part personal observation, his cartoons celebrated sport for its entertainment, cultural, and artistic value." Hardcover, 200 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $34.99.

Written by Chuck Dixon. Art by Butch Guice. Cover by Gerardo Zaffino. Chuck Dixon and Butch Guice take you deeper into the next ice age as Scully and Wynn find a refuge of sorts in the last place on Earth that's warm. It's a communal paradise of farmers and fishermen who have made heaven from hell. But is all what it seems to be or, as Scully believes, is it way too good to be true? 28 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $3.99.

Cover by Irv Novick. "Andy Gorilla - Prize Pupil!", script by Robert Kanigher, art by Harry G. Peter; Wonder Woman has to teach a gorilla how to play baseball. "Zero Hour For an Amazon," script by Robert Kanigher, art by Harry G. Peter; Once a year without any warning the special electronic device that gives Wonder Woman's special weapons their powers is turned off for an entire day. Women Warriors article. "The Million Dollar Mystery," script by Robert Kanigher, art by Harry G. Peter; Wonder Woman receives a million dollars to shoot a movie from a script composed entirely of blank paper. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.