Comic books November 1947

Cover by Jack Binder. Stories by Otto Binder and Howard Boughner. Art by Jack Binder and Howard Boughner. Superhero action with Mary Marvel, long-lost sister of the original Captain Marvel, better known these days as Shazam. While taking an art class at the beach, Mary encounters a talking sea serpent and quickly gets wrapped up in its story. Freshman Freddy's professor is so absent-minded, he's the one who shows up for a test in his underwear. Mary tries to manage a pet shop full of mischievous animals. Plus a plethora of comics-format ads, including Bubbles and Yanks for Yanks Bubble Gum, and Captain Tootsie and the Secret-Play Touchdown, by CC Beck and Pete Costanza. And a vintage ad for Captain Marvel t-shirts. The Talking Sea Serpent!; Memory Test; Two of a Kind; The Absent-Minded Professor; Antics of a Pet Shop!; Vita Min; Dizzy Daisy; The Sinister Tropical Snow! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Issue #18 - Nov.(?) 1947. Assume reprints partial contents of Mary Marvel Comics #18. Canadian edition published by Anglo-American Publishing Company. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Bud Thompson. Crime on the Campus starring Captain Marvel, Jr., art by Bud Thompson. Wally Butts Wheaties ad. Past, Future and Presents starring Mighty Mickey. Death Rides the Waves!! starring Bulletman, art by Bill Ward; The Flying Detectives, in order to solve the murder of a contestant in the up-coming Wedgewood Sailboat Race, uses an old but effective trick to smoke out the killer. One-page Tootsie Roll ad, "Captain Tootsie and the Secret-Play Touchdown" by C.C. Beck and Pete Costanza. The Jungle of Fear! starring Nyoka the Jungle Girl, art by Harry Anderson. Comix Cards featuring Captain Midnight. Rural Rumblings starring Colonel Corn and Korny Kobb. The Protonic Bomb; Radar vs. Prof. Black. Yanks Bubble Gum ad Trapping an Atomic Saboteur! 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 36, Issue 143 - November, 1947. Digest-size UK men's magazine. Articles, humor, and pin-up photos. 5" x 7.25", 116 pages, B&W with color.

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Vol. 37 #5 - Nov. 1947. Articles, schematics and photos on the latest available flying models. 8.5" x 11.5", 80 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Cover art by Reed Crandall. The Plateau of Oblivion starring Blackhawk, script by Crandall, inks by Chuck Cuidera. Untitled stories starring Dogtag (script and art by Bart Tumey), Torchy (script and art by Bill Ward), Will Bragg (script and art by Paul Gustavson), Ezra (script and art by Harry Sahle), and Choo Choo (script and art by Gill Fox). 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Vintage celebrity gossip tabloid with a focus on Hollywood during the golden-age of cinema. 8.5" x 11.5", 132 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

November 1947 (4711) - Mountain Boys mini calendar/pamphlet from the year 1947. These were distributed by many different companies across the country. Each mini includes an illustration and caption featuring Paul Webb's Mountain Boys comic strip characters and opens to reveal a newspaper style centerfold giving news on the Boy's home and the colorful characters who reside there. On the backside is an advertisement to rebore your engine so that the pistons can run smoothly.

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Volume 24, Issue 163 - November, 1947. Hollywood coverage and dramatizations of films in prose, illustrated with stills. 8.5" x 11.25", 106 pages, B&W with spot color. Cover price $0.15.

Cover by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon. Stories and art by Dan Barry, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Teen comedy from the unlikely duo of comics legends Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. House-Date Harrys souped-up date-mobile is portrayed in a full-page pin-up, possibly the first one published by Simon and Kirby. Cute Connie fights back when her sister Lulu keeps stealing her dates. Ultra Violet's daydream power gets her a date with a handsome star, but then the daydream wears off. Swifty Chase; Ginny; Second Best Girl; Ultra Violet; Date Snatcher; Unusual Dates. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 24, Issue 44 - November 1, 1947. 8.5" x 11", 58 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 24, Issue 45 - November 8, 1947. 8.5" x 11", 58 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 24, Issue 46 - November 15, 1947. 8.5" x 11", 58 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 24, Issue 47 - November 22, 1947. 8.5" x 11", 56 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 24, Issue 48 - November 29, 1947. 8.5" x 11", 56 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Claude Dunnagan and Howard Boughner. Raised in the jungle by her scientist father, Nyoka faces its dangers like no man ever could. In a three-part story, Nyoka and Bucko the Jungle Boy join forces to find the mysterious Black Orchid. But they accidentally anger the cult of the Leopard Men, and are marked for death. Now Nyoka must infiltrate the Leopard Men and expose their leader in order to survive. The Human Leopards, Part I; Trader Tom; Stolen Emeralds; Part II: Devil-Face Cliff; Whipper Snappers; Lion-Hearted Leo, the Animal Trainer: The Man-Eating Dog; Part III: Terror in the Tree. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Walt Kelly and Charles Hedinger. Based on the popular movie shorts also known as Little Rascals, Dell's Our Gang Comics featured early work by Pogo's Walt Kelly. In a story by Kelly, Feeney's gang conspires to keep Bucky from joining the school's cross-country running team. Tom decides to paint the spare room, but Jerry and Tuffy ensure that he paints himself into a corner. A vacationing bear rents a room on Flip 'n' Dip's houseboat. Our Gang; Flip 'n' Dip; Tom and Jerry; Barney Bear and Benny Burro; Wuff the Prairie Dog; Pictopranks. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Mort Leav. Stories and art by Richard Burdick, Mort Leav, Carl Wessler, B. Q. Siege, Bob Rogers, Terry Szenics, and Maurice Del Bourgo. Teen comedy with Patches and his friends getting up to wholesome mischief. Patches and Tubby meet radio and film comedian Red Skelton. A story tracing the progress of a Boy Scout from their joining the Scouts to their graduation to Eagle Scout. A non-fiction article in which comedian and screen legend Red Skelton recounts his career. Red Skelton; Sandy & Slim: Food for Thought; From Tenderfoot to Eagle Scout; Sandy & Slim: Down on the Farm, Tubby: 100% for Papa; Coming Up, Sir. Final issue of the series. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Al Jaffee. There Goes My Heart!, art by Al Jaffee. Ship A'hoy!, art by Al Jaffee. Where Art Thou, Buzzio?, art by Al Jaffee. Seein' Stars!, art by Al Jaffee. You Can't Win text story. Stop Thief! starring Willie, art by Mike Sekowsky. 2 Hey Look humor pages by Harvey Kurtzman. The Poor Fish! starring Margie, art by Morris Weiss. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Al Fagaly. Shield G-Man Club bulletin. "No Body's Dummy," art by Bill Vigoda; Archie gets a dressmaker's dummy for Veronica's sewing class, but several people mistake the manikin for a real girl, which leads to lots of problems. Untitled story, script and art by Bill Woggon; When Eddie Van Clacken invites Katy to a party, Katy Keene has to decide which reader-submitted design to wear. Katy Keene ad. "Death Takes No Holiday," art by Irv Novick; The Shield and Dusty investigate a series of accidents at a circus. "Man's Best Friend" text story starring Archie. Untitled story, art by Red Holmdale; Gloomy Gus and Gabby take over the bodies of a dead president and prime minister of a revolutionary country. Pep Comics Hollywood Quiz Page. Untitled Willy the Wise Guy story, art by Red Holmdale; Willy puts up a mirror which makes members of his family look fat. Pep Comics Puzzle Page. Untitled story, script and art by Joe Edwards; Li'l Jinx's dad gives her some pants to take to the tailor to be shortened. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 1, Issue 2 - November, 1947. 6.75" x 9.75", 116 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Official USC football program. 8" x 10.5", 20 pages, B&W Cover price $0.25.

Cover by Joe Doolin. Edited by J. F. Byrne. Stories and art by George Evans, Walter Palais, Joe Doolin, Frank Doyle, Murphy Anderson, and Maurice Whitman. The first true science fiction comic, Planet Comics featured classic space opera with square-jawed heroes, rockets, rayguns and bug-eyed aliens of every stripe. In the Lost World, Hunt and Lyssa face the caveman-like X-Adapts; Murphy Anderson's Life on Other Worlds strip speculates about life on Venus; Mysta battles space pirates who use a will-sapping gas. The Lost World; Futura; Mysta of the Moon; Auro Lord of Jupiter; A Day in the Life of the Planets; Life On Other Worlds: Venus; Space Rangers; The Star Pirate. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Jack Cole. Plastic Man story, script and art by Jack Cole. Honeybun story, script and art by Paul Gustavson. Specks story, script and art by Michael Senich. Spirit story, art by Lou Fine. Candy story, script and art by Harry Sahle. The Autographed Slug starring Manhunter. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Men's interest magazine focusing on true crime, and police cases. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 76 pages, text, with B&W images Cover price $0.25.

Men's interest magazine focusing on true crime, and police cases. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 76 pages, text, with B&W images Cover price $0.25.

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Stories and art by Vic Herman, Mickey Klar Marks, Roberta Saffron, Adrien Stoutenburg, Florence Tonjes, Phil Willcox, Nancy Williams, Anita McGee, and Marie Cummings. A magazine for girls from the producers of Parents' Magazine, with stories, fashion and advice as well as comics. A profile of child actress Natalie Wood, already a seasoned movie star at age 9; Tizzie gets a make-over at the beauty parlor, but nobody notices anything different; Young pilot Mary Glee Chesney gets her wings after passing her pilot's test at the age of 12. The Pigtail Club; Runaway Rescue; Polly's Pilgrimage; Josie and the Crown Prince; Tizzie Gets Beautiful; Lady Bird; One Take Wood; Pigtails 'Round the World; Hobbies; Meeting Come to Order!; Polly's Private Clothesline; Stocking Stuffers; Party Pretties; Two for the Money; Saturday Charmers; Did You Ever See a Coat Grow?; The Mystery of the Floating Village; Pigtailers Talk It Over; Polly Prefers; Fun With Fashion; Needle Play; Polly in the Kitchen. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.15.

Stories and art by Milton Caniff, Bill Holman, Frank King, and Zack Mosley. An early comic book from Dell, featuring reprinted newspaper comic strips alongside new material. To rescue Joy and Sadpan from the swamp, a carrier pigeon must outmaneuver a hawk using aerial dogfighting skills. Captured by Axis troops, Pat and Red take the opportunity of an air attack on the prison to make a desperate escape attempt in an Axis tank. Smokey makes breakfast for Cookie, but he doesn't know the difference between pancake make-up and pancake batter. Also featuring popular strips Gasoline Alley and Felix the Cat. Smilin' Jack; Terry and the Pirates; Felix the Cat; Thin Ice; The Case of the Jewel Thieves; Smokey Stover; Gasoline Alley; Gang Busters. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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"Silence is Golden" a short story by Ray Cummings.

Volume 33, Issue 3 - November, 1947. 6.5" x 9.5", 116 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.