Comic books 1942 w/ month not specified

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Sheet music from the song "Cow Cow Boogie" from the Walter Lantz cartoon, Swing Symphony. Cover art by Alex Lovy. 9-in. x 12-in., 6 total pages, B&W.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Dick Briefer, Woody Hamiilton, Norman Maurer, Richard Norman, Bob Montana, Carl Hubbell, Alan Mandel and Charles Biro. Issue #22 was mistakenly listed as #23 on cover; this issue features issue #23 on both the cover and indicia. The title that launched the crime comics genre, Crime Does Not Pay was noted for its violent pre-Code content and lurid tales of underworld life. The FBI plants a trap for notorious outlaw John Dillinger outside a Chicago movie theater. Dillinger's cohort Baby Face Nelson is part of the gang that robs the First National Bank in Mason City, Iowa. In 1903, religious leader Edmund Creffield starts a religious cult among the women of Corvalis, Oregon that soon spirals into a series of notorious murders. Crime Kings: The True Story of John Dillinger; Cop Hero of the Month; Baby Face Nelson and the Mason City Bank Robbery; Pancho Villa; The Ridiculous Riddle of the Murdered Major!; The White-Masked Terror; Three Isolated Murders; Two-Legged Rats; The Monster of Munsterburg; The Fire Fiends of Missouri! 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Dick Wood, Bob Wood, Dick Briefer, Norman Maurer, Alan Mandel, Dan Barry and Charles Biro. The title that launched the crime comics genre, Crime Does Not Pay was noted for its violent pre-Code content and lurid tales of underworld life. Dutch Schultz was done in by his own cronies when the heat got too hot, but thanks to a buried treasure and some cryptic last words, his legend only grows after his death. After Schultz's murder, his attorney Dixie Davis takes over the lucrative numbers racket. Female gunfighter Belle Starr becomes a legend in the Old West. The True Life Story of Dutch Shultz; Dixie Davis; So Mean Hed Kill His Own Mother; The Uncanny Mystery of the Jewel of Death; Belle Starr; The Deadly Fox of the Mohawk; Death in Dreamland; The Mailbox Thief; The Oklahoma Prison Break. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Dick Wood, Mike Roy, Norman Maurer, Bob Wood, Alan Mandel and Charles Biro. The title that launched the crime comics genre, Crime Does Not Pay was noted for its violent pre-Code content and lurid tales of underworld life. Lucky Luciano created modern organized crime as we know it, but was still able to cut a deal for his freedom. In 1880s England, John Lee manages to elude the reaper despite being falsely accused of murder, in a story with art by Dick Briefer. Old West outlaws the Dalton Brothers gain a reputation for bank and train robberies. The True Life Story of… Charles Lucky Luciano; The Elusive Corpse; The Man Who Couldnt Be Killed; The Boy Detective and the Butchered Corpse; The Mystery of the War Bond Drive; Death Gives a Lesson; Thisll Kill You; The Case of the Cross-Eyed Killer; The Dalton Boys. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Dick Wood, Jack Alderman, Sam Burlockoff, Norman Maurer, Alan Mandel, Bob Wood, Dick Briefer and Charles Biro. The title that launched the crime comics genre, Crime Does Not Pay was noted for its violent pre-Code content and lurid tales of underworld life. The story of notorious real-life gunman Pretty Boy Floyd. An angel frees a wrongly convicted man from Hell, and he becomes the skull-faced Mr. Destin while tracking down the real killer. Crack marksman Marty Durkin uses his sharpshooting skills to aid his career in crime. Crime Kings: Pretty Boy Floyd; The Dead-Eye Romeo; Thisll Kill You; The Strange Saga of Rafael Red Lopez; Two-Legged Rats: Dimiran the Demon; Cut-Throat Cassie; The Weird Tale of Mister Destin; The Terrible Touhys; A Voice From the Grave Cheated the Chair. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Dick Wood, Norman Maurer, Sam Burlockoff, Dick Briefer, Jack Alderman, Bob Wood and Charles Biro. The title that launched the crime comics genre, Crime Does Not Pay was noted for its violent pre-Code content and lurid tales of underworld life. Early gangster Kid Dropper helps create New York's Prohibition underworld, but doesn't live to see it prosper. Irish-American mob boss and prohibition-era bootlegger Roger Touhy gets set up for a crime he actually didn't commit. Wild Bill Longley was considered one of the deadliest and most ruthless gunfighters in the Old West. Crime Kings: Kid Dropper; Touhy Mob Captured; Wanted: Husband Who Wont Object to Being Murdered; Mad Murders in Minnesota; Hex Horror; Dodging Death with Big Bill Longley; Whodunnit? The Catnip Club Murder. 60 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 1 -1st Printing. Story, art and cover by E. Simms Campbell. A collection of single-panel cartoons featuring good-girl art with a military theme from pioneering African-American cartoonist/illustrator E. Simms Campbell. His work appeared in Esquire, The New Yorker and Playboy, among others. Campbell has been called "the Jackie Robinson of commercial art and cartooning," but attitudes of the time may explain why there is no artist bio or info in the book. Hardcover, 7-in. x 8-in., 96 pages, B&W. Cover price $1.00.

Paper doll set featuring characters from United Features Syndicate's comic strip, "Lil Abner". Dolls are pre-cut and include 6 pages of outfits for them to wear. Softcover, 10.5" x 15", 6 pages, full color.

Set of 3 collectible trading cards from Lev Gleason featuring cards for Slugger, Gruesome Jones, and Iron Jaw. 2 1/2-in. x 3 1/2-in., full color.

Set of 3 collectible trading cards from Lev Gleason featuring cards for Little Wise Guys, Crimebuster and Squeeks, and Reliapon. 2 1/2-in. x 3 1/2-in., full color.

Set of 3 collectible trading cards from Lev Gleason featuring cards for Rocet-X, Bumper, and Curly. 2 1/2-in. x 3 1/2-in., full color.

Set of 3 collectible trading cards from Lev Gleason featuring cards for Scarecrow, Simpy Smith, and Dilly Duncan. 2 1/2-in. x 3 1/2-in., full color.

Set of 3 collectible trading cards from Lev Gleason featuring cards for Black Diamond and Reliapon, Squeeks, and The Vacuum. 2 1/2-in. x 3 1/2-in., full color.

Collectible trading card from Lev Gleason featuring Boy Comics character "Gruesome Jones". 2 1/2-in. x 3 1/2-in., full color.

Collectible trading card from Lev Gleason featuring Boy Comics character "Iron Jaw". 2 1/2-in. x 3 1/2-in., full color.

Collectible trading card from Lev Gleason featuring Daredevil Comics character "Slugger". 2 1/2-in. x 3 1/2-in., full color.

Collectible trading card from Lev Gleason featuring Boy Comics "Crimebuster and Squeeks". 2 1/2-in. x 3 1/2-in., full color.

Collectible trading card from Lev Gleason featuring Black Diamond Western's "Reliapon". 2 1/2-in. x 3 1/2-in., full color.

Collectible trading card from Lev Gleason featuring Daredevil Comics "The Little Wise Guys". 2 1/2-in. x 3 1/2-in., full color.

Collectible trading card from Lev Gleason featuring Black Diamond Western character "Bumper". 2 1/2-in. x 3 1/2-in., full color.

Collectible trading card from Lev Gleason featuring Daredevil Comics character "Curly". 2 1/2-in. x 3 1/2-in., full color.

Collectible trading card from Lev Gleason featuring Boy Comics character "Rocket X of the Rocketeers". 2 1/2-in. x 3 1/2-in., full color.

Collectible trading card from Lev Gleason featuring Boy Comics character "Dilly Duncan". 2 1/2-in. x 3 1/2-in., full color.

Collectible trading card from Lev Gleason featuring Daredevil Comics character "Scarecrow". 2 1/2-in. x 3 1/2-in., full color.

Collectible trading card from Lev Gleason featuring Boy Comics character "Simpy Smith". 2 1/2-in. x 3 1/2-in., full color.

Collectible trading card from Lev Gleason featuring Black Diamond Western Comics characters "Black Diamond and Reliapon". 2 1/2-in. x 3 1/2-in., full color.

Collectible trading card from Lev Gleason featuring Boy Comics characters "Squeeks". 2 1/2-in. x 3 1/2-in., full color.

Collectible trading card from Lev Gleason featuring Boy Comics characters "The Vacuum". 2 1/2-in. x 3 1/2-in., full color.

Volume 1 - The United States Army and Airforce have a long and storied history of outfitting their units, uniforms, and vehicles with colorful insignia, and names that outside of the unit mean little. In the midst of World War 2 the Detroit Times, in conjunction with Robert Lash Robbins and Hearst Publications produced this series of beautiful stamp books, with spots to hold 50 limited edition stamps, along side a brief description of the exploits and history of the unit identified. 7 1/2-in. x 10 1/4-in., 16 pages, Text, with full color illustrations.

Stories featuring the U.S. military Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Chester Gould. Stories and art by Chester Gould. Dell's Large Feature Comic reprinted classic comic strips. This issue reprints Dick Tracy daily strips from 1938. An amateur detective finds a severed finger, and turns it in to Dick Tracy. The finger leads to Jojo and his gang of freight train-robbers. But a poison-gas trap leaves Tracy blinded, and at the mercy of the criminal chemist Karpse. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in, 48 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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Art by Chester Gould. Military postcard from a set issued in 1942. This one features Tracy and Pat. 3 1/2-in, x 5 1/2 -in. full color.

Art by Chester Gould. Military postcard from a set issued in 1942. This one features Dick Tracy and Junior. 3 1/2-in, x 5 1/2 -in. full color.

Stories and art by Coulton Waugh and Noel Sickles. Reprints of the classic adventure strip featuring a globetrotting kid and his tough-guy bodyguard in the tradition of Terry and the Pirates. Dickie, Dan and Dr. Murdock find sunken treasure, but get trapped on the ocean floor by the bad guys; Scorchy Smith gets involved in a Central American revolution and meets an expatriate German pilot. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Story by J. P. McEvoy. Art by John Striebel. Reprints of the long-running comic strip, featuring a former showbiz star who encounters adventure and, sometimes, romance. Dixie falls for an overseas military cadet through the mail - even though they've never met, or even seen each other's picture. But when a Hollywood actress makes time with him, Mickey convinces Dixie it's time to take a trip and meet him in person. A mistake over a $10,000 contest prize results in the Dugans losing all the furniture in their house. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Story by J. P. McEvoy. Art by John Striebel, John Devlin and Mart Bailey. Reprints of the long-running comic strip, featuring a former showbiz star who encounters adventure and, sometimes, romance. Mickey and Dixie join a fox hunt at Donna Debbs' Long Island estate, but their real goal is to free Miss Debbs from the sway of Reynaldo Richo. Mickey and Dixie stumble on a hidden valley whose master doesn't want them to leave. Dixie's brother Sammy parachutes onto the roof of the house, but the girls think he's a housebreaker. Plus V for Valor/ Angels of Mercy, a PSA about volunteer combat nurses of WWII. Dixie Dugan; Honey Dear; V for Valor. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories by Ed Gruskin, Thornton Fisher and unknown. Art by Jack Binder, Thornton Fisher and unknown. The Skull and Doc Savage in a fight to the death in "Death Traps of Hidden Valley" with story by Ed Gruskin. Story continues next issue. Also: Ajax the Sun Man in "The Sun Man Sets the 'Rising' Sun" with art by Jack Binder; Astron, Crocodile Queen vs. the Scorpionese Men (the villains' 1st appearance) in an untitled story; "Bob Fitzsimmons Who Held Three World Titles" by Thornton Fisher; The Avenger in "The Secret Formula" with art by Jack Binder; "The Mother of 'Baby Snooks,' Fanny Brice"; 1-page Stamps article "The Laughing Jackass" by Eugene Pollock; 2-page article "This Is Logistics" by The Sharpshooter; and Stamp Stories 1-pager "Pilgrim's Landing"! 64 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Don Winslow Navy Intelligence Ace (1942 Whitman BLB) #1418, flip pictures