Comic books 1944 w/ month not specified

NOTE: Covers and interior vary from copy to copy. Double Comics consist of pairs of remaindered comics from most publishers. There is no pattern to what comics are paired under what cover. Covers vary within the same year. Cover price $0.10.

1944. Gil Elvgren pin-up art of a young lady in a yellow dress. 8.5" x 11", 1 page, full color.

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12 months of stunning pin-ups by Alberto Vargas.

Program for the 1944 American Baseball season. 24 Pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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Music and lyrics to "Ev'ry Time" by Gordon Jenkins. 9 in. x 11.75 in.; black and white; 6 pages.

This comic is a Fox Giant Comics Edition (50c cover price) which contains four remaindered Fox comics without their original covers. The first page of the first story for each remaindered comic may be missing as in Fox comics, the first story page was often on the inside front cover. Such missing story pages are not considerted a defect. Cover price $0.50.

Arcade humor card produced by the Exhibit Supply Company for distribution through vending machines in hotel lobbies. Cards featured comic strips, war humor, pinup girls, sports stars, movie stars, and more. 3" x 5", cardstock.

Arcade humor card produced by the Exhibit Supply Company for distribution through vending machines in hotel lobbies. Cards featured comic strips, war humor, pinup girls, sports stars, movie stars, and more. 3" x 5", cardstock.

Arcade humor card produced by the Exhibit Supply Company for distribution through vending machines in hotel lobbies. Cards featured comic strips, war humor, pinup girls, sports stars, movie stars, and more. 3" x 5", cardstock.

Arcade humor card produced by the Exhibit Supply Company for distribution through vending machines in hotel lobbies. Cards featured comic strips, war humor, pinup girls, sports stars, movie stars, and more. 3" x 5", cardstock.

1944 giveaway. Cover art by Walt Kelly. "Bababumbo" text story, art by Walt Kelly. "The Gingerbread Man," pencils by Walt Kelly; The gingerbread man can outrun everyone, but can he outrun a wiley fox? "The Magic Garden," art by Walt Kelly; Wee folk grow food in a garden but a witch tries to steal it all. Back cover art by Walt Kelly. 16 pgs., full color. No cover price. Cover price $0.10.

Reprint of pulp serial novel "South of the Pass". Written by Johnston McLewlley. Softcover (squarebound), 5 1/2-in. x 7 1/2-in., 128 pages, Text Only Cover price $0.25.

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Reprint of pulp serial novel "Ghost Bullet Range". Written by Johnson McCulley. Softcover (squarebound), 5 1/2-in. x 7 1/2-in., 128 pages, Text Only Cover price $0.25.

Reprint of pulp serial novel "Prairie Pinto". Written by Lynn Westland. Softcover (squarebound), 5 1/2-in. x 7 1/2-in., 128 pages, Text Only Cover price $0.25.

UK hardcover annual featuring characters and stories for the Golden age of cinema. Hardcover, 8" x 10", 100 pages, full color.

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Produced by Reed & Associates, this punch-out paper toy assembles into a "flying Captain Marvel" (sort of a Captain Marvel paper airplane). 1944, full color, 7 x 10 in. Comes in a color envelope. NOTE: Grade given is for overall condition of both the envelope and toy. Cover price $0.10.

Folies Bergere - Un Soir De Folie programme. Text in French.

Indicia title is "SMOKEY STOVER, No. 35." Cover art by Bill Holman. Several untitled Smokey Stover strips, scripts and art by Bill Holman. Hotfoot Hogan hooks up two miles of fire hose to a hydrant so he can have running water at home. Smokey is quarantined for measles in a phone booth. Smokey finds a goat, but it eats the cans from a case of tomato soup and leaves the soup. Smokey introduces the Chief to a hair tonic salesman. Smokey tries to carry a player piano to the fourth floor, but it ends up in the basement. Smokey and the Chief deal with firebug Arson Nick; The Chief tries to grow hair and settles for a toupee. Smokey takes dancing lessons. Reprinted from Smokey Stover (News Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1938-1941. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is "SMILIN' JACK, No. 36." Several untitled Smilin' Jack strips. Just when Jack is set to marry Mary, his former fiancee Dixie Lee returns, now widowed and blind. Mary and Jack fly Dixie to a specialist to check her eyes; On the way Dixie leaves the plane, not wanting to come between Jack and Mary. While saving Dixie and Mary in the wind tunnel, Jack's legs are badly burned by a steam pipe. While he's recuperating in the hospital, his roommate is Downwind, who was roughed up by all the girls he was stringing along. Jack opens his pilot training classes for college students, one of whom is afraid of planes. Madam Mongoose gathers a group who all have had trouble with the law. Madam Mongoose and Longdrink sabotage Jack's plane before he demonstrates some maneuvers for his class. Reprinted from Smilin' Jack (News Syndicate Co.) newspaper strips from 1938-1940, and from Popular Comics (Dell, 1936 series) #91 (September 1943). 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is "BRINGING UP FATHER, No. 37." Several untitled Bringing Up Father strips, scripts and art by George McManus. Jiggs and Maggie try to get away from a boring couple, but meet them again at the movies. Jiggs uses construction equipment to sneak out of the house. Jiggs sneaks into the house after staying out late. Jiggs and his pals get a poker game together in a construction office hoisted high in the air by a crane. The men at a party go out to the garden, where Jiggs has started a dice game. Jiggs' doctor prescribes a trip to the mountains, but Maggie goes instead. After spending much effort opening and unpacking a barrel, Jiggs discovers it was delivered to him by mistake. Jiggs and Maggie to a quiet cottage in the country, which is quickly overrun by relatives. Jiggs sets the gossips talking when he's seen talking to a tramp--Maggie's brother. Reprinted from Bringing Up Father (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strips from the late 1930s and early 1940s. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is "WALT DISNEY'S SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS, No. 49." Cover art by Walt Kelly. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, script by Merrill de Maris, pencils by Hank Porter, inks by Bob Grant; Jealous Queen Grimhilde orders her huntsman to take beautiful Snow White to the forest and kill her, so that the Queen would be "the fairest one of all"; The huntsman can't do the deed and tells Snow White to flee through the forest; She finds the home of the Seven Dwarfs, who eventually accept her as one of the household. Untitled story; The Seven Dwarfs are lonesome after Snow White goes to live in the Prince's castle. She sends them a magic wishing lamp and they wish for someone to take Snow White's place so they won't be lonely. On cue, Dumbo is blown by a strong wind through the window. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is "FAIRY TALE PARADE, No. 50." Cover art by Walt Kelly. The Magic Garden, art by Walt Kelly; Wee folk grow food in a garden but a witch tries to steal it all. The Nightingale, script by Hans Christian Andersen (original story), art by Arthur E. Jameson; The Emperor of China cages a beautifully singing nightingale. The Stolen Princess, art by George Kerr; A royal wedding amongst the wee folk is interrupted by an evil sorcerer. The Fourth Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor; Sinbad is married in the far east and when his wife dies, he is buried alive with her. The Brave Little Tailor, script by The Brothers Grimm (original story), art by Arthur E. Jameson; A brave tailor defeats giants and captures a unicorn in order to win half a kingdom. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is "BUGS BUNNY FINDS THE LOST TREASURE, No. 51." Cover art by Carl Buettner. Bugs Bunny Finds the Lost Treasure, art by Carl Buettner; Bugs buys an old sea chest at an auction; In it is a sailor's diary is which he tells of the Zazztec treasure on Happy Pappy Island. A Statue Comes to Life, art by Carl Buettner; Bugs buys some powerful perfume; While visiting the museum he sprays a statue of Hercules, not knowing that a crook is impersonating the statue. Back cover Bugs Bunny strip by Tom McKimson. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is "WASH TUBBS, No. 53." Cover art by Roy Crane. Untitled Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy stories, scripts and art by Roy Crane. Wash and Easy are sent by McKee Industries to the remote South Seas island of Hippa-Hula, to find out the secret of how the women there preserve their beauty. The ship makes its way to Hippa-Hula, where the mysterious Mr. Squeege demands they land at night. Wash and Easy try to find the secret of the island's women's beauty. After shooting Squeege, Ruby demands that Van Scamp get the Hippa-Hula beauty secret from his wife. Ruby gets the hotel proprietor to admit the beauty secret he sold them was a fake. Ruby and Van Scamp follow the disguised Wash and Easy before discovering they've been tricked. After being scared by a classmate, Fauntly Gilroy bets he can make any man in town run just as easily--even if the man is Captain Easy. Reprinted from from Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy (NEA Service) daily newspaper strips 1939 and 1940. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "ANDY PANDA, No. 54." Cover art by Dan Gormley. The Ghostrider, art by Dan Gormley; Charlie and Andy take a vacation out West and end up in the rundown town of Grimy Gulch; When the Ghost Rider appears after a ten-year absence and robs the bank, Andy and Charlie are made deputies and trail him; They get lost and end up in a ghost town, where Miranda Panda and Wally Walrus are held captive by a gang of "ghosts." The Magic Hat, script by John Stanley, art by Dan Gormley; Andy and Charlie go into a magician's hat and find themselves in Hocus-Pocus Land, the place things go when magicians make them disappear. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is "TILLIE THE TOILER, No. 55." Untitled Tillie the Toiler story, script and art possibly by Russ Westover; Tillie joins the WAACs. Reprinted from Tillie the Toiler (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strips, mostly from 1942-1943, with a few earlier strips. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "DICK TRACY, No. 56." Untitled Dick Tracy strips, scripts and art by Chester Gould. A girl with amnesia gets a job as a nightclub singer. Later she leads Tracy to the body of a man in a stream; Tracy confronts the dead man's business partner, but as he's questioning him, the partner is shot. The evidence points to Rudy Seaton as the killer of Fred Mason. Trohs has his gang grab Tracy and bring him to his hideout, where he crushes Tracy's right hand in a vise. Trohs uses the St. Bernard to escape from Tracy. Trosh decides to buy the tourist camp as a hideout. Reprinted from Dick Tracy (News-Tribune Syndicate) newspaper strips (1940?). 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

A handy guide to teach newly recruited pilots how best to regulate their fuel richness mixture, and get home with plenty of fuel, and properly running engine. 7 1/4-in. x 9 1/2-in., 28 pages, Text, With B&W and Green illustrations.

Volume 1 -1st Printing. Story, art and cover by Marge Buell. A collection of the original Little Lulu single-panel cartoons from pioneering comics publisher David McKay.  Before she starred in comic books, Little Lulu was the silent but mischievous star of cartoons in the famed weekly magazine Saturday Evening Post. This book collects these early gags by groundbreaking female cartoonist Marge Buell, as Lulu torments at opera singers, boy scouts and hapless neighbors. Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 7-in., 64 pages, B&W. Cover price $1.00.

Stories and art by Charlotte Becker, Joan Douglas, Marguerita Rudolph, Elizabeth Decker, George Corley, A. W. Nugent, Pete Costanza and C.C. Beck. Funny-animal comics and adaptations of classic literature from the publishers of Parents Magazine. An abused (landline) phone runs away and joins a gang of misfit appliances; Swarming bees are charmed into docility by a boy's harmonica; A cop's dog named Watson helps him solve crimes. Also featuring an ad for Tootsie Rolls, "Captain Tootsie and the Return of Dr. Narsty," from Shazam creator C.C. Beck. The Lonesome Telephone; Puffer and the Bees; Watson, the Detective's Assistant; Hocus-Pocus; Funny Paper; Puddle Muddle; Herkimer Jones Dreams Up a Fire; Tall Tale; The Bored Cuckoo; Toots' Tours; Dribble the Practical Jokester; Funny Movies; The Boastful Dragon; Roll a Ball of Meat; Otto, the Outcast Oyster. 56 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Orestes Calpini and Lavinia R. Davis. Funny-animal comics and adaptations of classic literature from the publishers of Parents Magazine. Hocus-Pocus teaches a turtle (and the reader) magic tricks; Funny Paper covers Humpty Dumpty's tragic accident; A cop's dogs help him track down an escaped convict. Featherbrain Freddy; Puffer; Watson, the Detective's Assistant; Hocus-Pocus; Funny Paper; Ditto; Magic for Everybody; Tall Tale; Mr. Cooper's Kite; Toots' Tours; Dribble; Croak Pond Mystery; Wipey the Window Washer. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

1st printing. Complete with dust jacket. Whitman Authorized Edition #2303. Photo Cover. By Bob Hamilton. Illustrated by Dan Muller. Hardcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 250 pages, Text, with B&W illustrations.

1st printing. No dust jacket. Whitman Authorized Edition #2303. Photo Cover. By Bob Hamilton. Illustrated by Dan Muller. Hardcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 250 pages, Text, with B&W illustrations.

Compiled by R.M. Barrows. Stories, gags and cartoons intended for the servicemen of World War II. 6-in. x 8 3/4-in., 64 pages, black and white with one spot color throughout.