Comic books May 1944

Volume 15, Issue 12 - May 1944. Features creative stories, poems, rebuses, recipes, activities, crafts, science experiments, and health articles for children. 6-in. x 9-in. 52 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $0.15.

Contains funny animal stories. In order of appearance: "Supermouse" story by Richard E. Hughes, art by Milton Stein; "Cracker the Fire Dog" art by Gene McGregor; "Jerry the Wolf" art by Gordon Sheehan; "Grandpa Scotty and the Terrors" art by Rube Grossman; "Honey Bear"; "Mr. Zoot" art by Roy Burke; and "Mortimer Magic" by Victor E. Pazmiño. "The Patriotic Mother Goose" features nursery rhymes about war bonds, by Alexander Samalan. "Country Cousin, A Rib-Tickling Story: Sandy and Rover Learn to Understand Each Other!" illustrated text story by Uncle Jerry. 52 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 116, Issue 5 - May, 1944. Cover by Bradshaw Crandell. Fiction by Dorothy Kilgallen, Alec Rackowe, Vina Delmar, Mary Nowell Frost, Michael Foster, Margaret Cousins, Katherine Albert, and Lt. Wells Lewis. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 188 pages, B&W with spot color and full color ads. Cover price $0.35.

Volume 5, Issue 3 - May, 1944. 7" x 10", 102 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Rudy Palais, Dick Wood, Dick Briefer, 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. A woman is dubbed a "female Bluebeard" after doing away with her husbands, in a story with art by Dick Briefer. The story of Nolan the Notorious features early art by pioneering African-American artist Alvin Hollingsworth. The murderer of Mary Lawson is revealed by a burnt match, in a tale with art by Dick Briefer. Also featuring a vintage PSA for wartime paper drives, an early recycling program. Career of Carrington Hill; Four Crooks and a Coffin; Female Blue Beard; Murder Master; Angel Face of Crime; The Case of the Missing Monster; Nolan the Notorious; Whodunnit? Who Murdered Beautiful Mary Lawson?; A Crimebuster Special. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Norman Maurer, Dick Wood, Bob Wood, Dick Hall, and Dick Briefer. This early superhero title was one of the comics that made publisher Lev Gleason a major player during the Golden Age. Daredevil and The Little Wise Guys investigate a series of traumatic murders at Punch and Judy puppet shows. The Pirate Prince's pal Droopy falls in love, in a story by Dick Briefer. A PSA for WWII paper drives, an early recycling program, featuring Daredevil and the Little Wise Guys, as well as creators Lev Gleason, Bob Wood and Charles Biro. Also featuring an over-the-top pre-Code cover by Charles Biro, with a Punch and Judy show opening fire on the audience - surely one of the most bizarre Golden Age covers ever. Daredevil: The Punch and Judy Murders; Sniffer; Dickie Dean: Magnetic Magician; On the Road to Stalingrad; The Pirate Prince: Droopy Falls in Love; The Claw; A Daredevil Special. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

The Penguin guest stars in the Batman and Robin story, "The Man of a Thousand Umbrellas," Air Wave in "Professor Long Sells Air Wave Short" (art by George Roussos), Three-Ring Binks, the Crimson Avenger in "Smugglers' Song," Slam Bradley in "Tuition Free," and the Boy Commandos in "King Brooklyn the Foist" (not by Simon and Kirby, despite the listed credits). 60 pgs. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 29, 1st Printing - "Death Over Hollywood". Softcover, 5" x 7.5", 128 pages, B&W, text only. Cover price $0.25.

Volume 27, Issue 2 - May, 1944. 6.75" x 9", 86 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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May 1944. Western adventure novels "Beyond the Scalp Frontier" by Cliff Farell and "Gun-Angel of Showdown River" by Tom Roan. Novelettes "Last of the Range-War Outcasts" by Walt Coburn and "Greenhorns' Gun-Medicine" by William R. Cox. Short stories by Tom W. Blackburn, Bart Cassidy, and C. Williamson. A few illustrations. 7-in. x 9 1/2-in.; black and white; 82 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.10.

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May 1944. Cover by Modest Stein. Stories include "The Three Devils," a book-length novel by "Kenneth Robeson"; "Special Performance" by Thomson Burtis; and "Scarlet Justice" by Robert C. Blackmon. 5.5-in x 7.75-in.; black and white; 128 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

Cover by Mac Raboy. Stories and art by Dick Ryan, Fred Schwab and Ken Battefield. An early comics anthology published by Harry Chesler, featuring superhero and adventure stories. Dynamic Man faces the Sea Horror, an ancient ghost with a suspicious interest in Nazis and an even more suspicious link to Baron Von Zeil. When ordinary men suddenly lose their minds, Mr. E and his magical imps track down a mad scientist working in a sanitarium. The Echo faces a mad scientist who wants to transform women into deadly attack cats - but who can control cats? Blazing-guns cover by legendary Captain Marvel Jr. artist Mac Raboy. Yankee Boy; Pokey Forgets to Remember; Dynamic Man; Smoke!; Lucky Coyne; Tenderfoot Joe; Master Key; One in a Million; The Echo; Mr. E; Sticklers. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 5, Issue 16 - May 1944. Digest, 5" x 7.5", 132 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Buck Rogers" by Philip Francis Nowlan and Rick Yager (as Dick Calkins); "Invisible Scarlet O'Neil" by Russell Stamm; "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "Dickie Dare" by Milton Caniff; "High Lights of History" by J. Carroll Mansfield; "Scorchy Smith" by Noel Sickles; "Chief Wahoo" by Allen Saunders and Elmer Woggon; "Oaky Doaks" by Ralph Briggs Fuller; "Jitter" by Arthur B. Poinier; and "Olly of the Movies" by Julian Ollendorff. "Hiding Place!" text story by Ray Berry. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 52 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Chad Grothkopf. Stories and art by Chad Grothkopf, Joe Oriolo and Bill Brady. Funny-animal comics from Fawcett, featuring Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, who has the same powers and power-word as his hero (Shazam!). Hoppy goes fishing and gets caught by Perch the Pirate and taken aboard his underwater pirate ship. In a story told entirely in rhyming verse, Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear are transported to a city on the moon. In a story that is also a wartime PSA, Marvel Bunny explains the importance of recycling paper for the war effort. Hoppy the Marvel Bunny; Millie's Song Page; Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear; Billy the Kid and Oscar; Willie the Worm and Sammy; Uncle Don: Railroadiacs; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck Solve the Case of Mr. X!; Hoppy the Marvel Bunny and the Paper Dolls of Victory!; Willie the Worm and Sammy Go to the Front of Their Class; Brain Twisters; Billy the Kid and Oscar; Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear; Hoppy the Marvel Bunny. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Al Bryant. "Fear," art by Rudy Palais; Doll Man (Darrel Dane) vs. The Knife and Mike Sarto. "Swing Sisson On the Swing Shift," script and art by Vernon Henkel; Sagotage in the bomber factory, and a good aluminum man dead. "Action At the Auction," art by Tony DiPreta; Blimpy (aka Rufus Rastas Sassafrass O'Brien) vs. Van Filcher, Gunner and Max. "San Francisco Mission"; Spin Shaw and his squadron capture a Japanese carrier. Untitled Mickey Finn story, script and art by Lank Leonard. "The Home of the Winds" starring Perky, script and art by Sid Lazarus. "Captured By the Japanese Underground," pencils by Mort Leav; Rusty Ryan is to be taken prisoner and presented as a slave to the Japanese emperor. 60 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 5, Issue 4 - May 1944. Men's pulp magazine featuring western tales featuring "Guns of Owlhoot Stage" by Tom W. Blackburn! 130 pages, Text (with B&W illustrations) Cover price $0.15.

Flash stars in "The Peddler's Pipedream," written by Gardner Fox, art by Martin Naydel. Also includes: Ghost Patrol in "Salvaging Waste Paper" with art by Frank Harry; Johnny Thunder in "Sabotage in Berlin" by John B. Wentworth and Stan Aschmeier; The Whip in "Hunting a Story" with art by Homer Fleming; "Terrors of the Big Top" by Ed Wheelan; an ad for the Junior Justice Society; Justice Society March of Dimes public service announcement; and Hawkman in "Simple Simon Met the Hawkman" by Fox and Sheldon Moldoff. Cover art by Moldoff. 60 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "TERRY AND THE PIRATES, No. 44." Untitled Terry and the Pirates strips, scripts and art by Milton Caniff. Connie and Big Stoop get a $5,000 reward from Mr. Smythe-Heatherstone and hire servants to do their work for Pat and Terry. After a confrontation with Baron De Plexus and his bodyguard, Pat decides to leave Hong Kong and take Terry, Connie, and Big Stoop to see Smythe-Heatherstone. At the plantation, Pat and Terry meet April Kane, the young sister of Dillon Kane, who has disappeared. Pat and Connie find Dillon Kane being held captive in the cave. Sanjak shows up at De Plexus' airstrip with a hypnotized April. De Plexus and his thugs try to get information on Sanjak in Yankuk, but the populace, even the underworld, refuses to give them any information. Reprints Terry and The Pirates (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1938 and 1939. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is "RAGGEDY ANN, No. 45." Cover art by George Kerr. Untitled Raggedy Ann stories, art by George Kerr. A cuckoo from a clock falls and lands on Quacky Doodles; The Raggedys fix the cuckoo, while Quacky, miffed because nobody is paying attention to him, goes outside into the meadow. Marcella takes her toys to the beach, but leaves them on the beach overnight. Raggedy Ann falls in a bucket of mop water and the bleach turns her completely white. When food runs low in the middle of winter, the Raggedys take Grampie and Granny Fieldmouse to Cookie Land, where there is an endless supply of sweets. Dr. Stork loses his spectacles and the Raggedys help him make his deliveries of babies. The toys have a pillow fight and a stray pillow knocks open the door to Dicky Bird's cage. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Louis Ferstadt cover. In order of appearance: "Magno and Davey", "Captain Courageous", and "Unknown Soldier" art by Louis Ferstadt; and "Lash Lightning, 'Beggars Serenade". "Hell Riders of the Brazos" text story by Cliff Howe, reprinted in Hap Hazard Comics (1944) #1 and in Super Mystery Comics Vol. 4 (1944) #4. 52 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Canadian series. Story by Ted McCall. Art by Ed Furness. "Freelance and Big John Collins fight the Axis and the land of adventure and romance - Burma". 8" x 10.5", 56 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Vol. 3 #5 - May 1944. Mostly single-panel cartoons and some text jokes. 10 1/4-in. x 13 1/2-in., 40 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Stories by Patricia Haigh, Bill Martin, and T. S. Ott. Art by Jim Tyer, Lynn Karp, Victor Pazmino, Bill Hudson, Ted Hudson and Ken Hultgren. Cover by Ken Hultgren. Funny-animal mayhem from Creston, an imprint of independent publisher ACG, with art by cartooning legend Dan Gordon. Spooky and Pop try to haunt the new tenant of their house, but hes un-scarable because of his ill-behaved children; Charley Crow fails admission to the Grouch Club when he laughs at an unflattering caricature of Hitler; A robot plumber tries to fill the jobs left by the WWII manpower shortage, but he has all of the same failings as a human plumber. Spooky; The Duke and the Dope; The Fastest Fireman; Blinkey Bloodhound and Artemus; Tingle and Tangle; Dopey Dogg; Doc Katz Supp; Mario and the Caramel Mouse; Scram; Grouch Club; Wammie Woodchuck Whistler; Short-Circuit the Robot Plumber. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Canadian series. Reprints material from U.S. publications as well as WECA "Canadian Whites" with reworked art and scripts. Includes reworked art and scripts of Captain Marvel Jr. (1942-1953 Fawcett) #11. 64 pages, B&W.

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Cover by Alex Schomburg. Stories and art by Jerry Robinson, Marv Lev, Bob Powell, Art Helfant, and Arturo Cazeneuve. The first comic to feature The Green Hornet, the radio-turned-movie superhero from the creator of the Lone Ranger. Nazi saboteurs enlist American hoboes to target a dam, in GH stories with art by Joker co-creator Jerry Robinson. The Twinkle Twins meet Mike the Muscle's nephew Mikey, a juvenile delinquent in the making, and try to set him straight. The clue to a million-dollar robbery is a crate of oranges, in a story that promotes War Bonds, a WWII fundraising drive. Bondage cover by comics legend Alex Schomburg references the Hornet's success in radio and movie serials. Green Hornet: The Society of the Swastika!; Spirit of 76; Mighty Midgets: Invisible Paint; Youngun and Tagalong; Green Hornet: Dam of Death!; The Story Behind the Cover; Twinkle Twins: The Lad Who was Bad!; Zebra: The Mystery of the Pink Drake Brand; Green Hornet Buzzers. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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May 7, 1944. The Grit "Story Section" was originally issued weekly as part of the Grit newspaper. Fiction stories by Allan Vaughan Elston, Richard Sale, William MacHarg, Doris Hume, and Allan F. Herdman. 8 1/4-in. x 11 1/2-in., 28 pages, black and white text with illustrations.

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May 14, 1944. The Grit "Story Section" was originally issued weekly as part of the Grit newspaper. "First Officer Sue" by Peggy O'More Blocklinger (as Jeanne Bowman) begins. Other fiction stories by Charles Boeckman (aka Beckman) Jr, Richard Sale, Ellen Newman, Margaret McCulloch, Dorothy Collett, and William MacHarg. 8 1/4-in. x 11 1/2-in., 28 pages, black and white text with illustrations.

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May 21, 1944. The Grit "Story Section" was originally issued weekly as part of the Grit newspaper. Fiction stories by Peggy O'More Blocklinger (as Jeanne Bowman), Hope Dahle Jordan, Richard Sale, Cyril Plunkett, Roy Wheeler, and Stanley B. Wilson. 8 1/4-in. x 11 1/2-in., 24 pages, black and white text with illustrations.

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May 21, 1944. The Grit "Story Section" was originally issued weekly as part of the Grit newspaper. Fiction stories by Richard Sale, Peggy O'More Blocklinger (as Jeanne Bowman), Ora T. Stewart, Louis L. Jacoby, B. N. Richardson, and Robert C. Dennis. 8 1/4-in. x 11 1/2-in., 24 pages, black and white text with illustrations.

May, 1944. Volume 3, Issue 4. Humor Digest featuring jokes and cartoons. Softcover Digest, saddle-stitched, 5 1/2-in. x 7 1/2-in., 68 Pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.