Comic books March 1949

Stories and art by Carl Pfeufer and others. Silent-movie cowboy Tom Mix became a pop-culture icon with his 1940s radio show and this tie-in comic. Outlaw "Killer Reamer" escapes from jail, knocks out the sheriff, and proclaims himself the new law in town, with only Tom standing in his way. Tom goes to a friend's ranch for some rest and relaxation, but then the friend's son accidentally causes a horse stampede. Pistol Packing Pattie's wit is as sharp as her aim, and her fashion sense is pure Annie Oakley. The Masquerade of Death; Saddlehead; The Junior Menace; Fightin' Forbes Fights Fire; Masked Treachery; Pistol Packing Pattie; Tumbleweed Jr.: The Trouble-Maker; Round Up Time with Tom Mix; Kanvasback: Horse King; The Desert Maelstrom. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Final issue of the series. "Opening Night," "Kidnap Crisis," "Phony Fisticuffs," and "Murder on His Mind." Art by John Lehti. Cover price $0.10.

March 8, 1949

Volume 3, Issue 6 - March, 1949. True crime magazine with stories and article about women in the world of organized crime, murder, robbery, and debauchery. Softcover Magazine, 8.5" x 11", 74 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Canadian Edition. Cover by Syd Shores. Anti-Wertham letter in this issue. "The Rider of the Owlhoot Trail!", art by Syd Shores; Two-Gun Kid is riding the range when he spots a coach that appears to have been robbed; Going to the aid of the passengers and coach riders who have been tied up, he learns that they were attacked by someone calling themselves the Black Ride. "The Guardian" text story. "Guns Blast in Thunder Pass!"; In the Western Prairies Molly Prentice is riding her horse when somebody shoots the horse in the head. Thrown from the dying mare, Molly lands in the path of a rattle snake about to strike; Two-Gun Kid steps in. "Marvel Comics Group" article; Dr Jean Thompson, psychiatrist, is announced as an editorial consultant; This was to ensure that Marvel Comics "contain nothing that might meet with objections." "Annie Clicks in Politics" starring Arizona Annie. "Shotgun Justice" starring The Two-Gun Kid, art by Syd Shores; Two-Gun Kid rides into a western town to see an outlaw named Samson making the local sheriff dance under the shots of his six-guns. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Vol. 4, No. 9. March 1949. True Crime Magazine. 8.5" x 11". 64 pages. Black and white. Cover price $0.15.

Stories and art by Red Holmdale, Harry Anderson, Al Camy and Al McWilliams. Violent pre-Code tales of crime and horror from DS Publishing. Scotland Yard is called in to guard a cursed gem when it goes on display in a museum. Pat's modeling career is on the rise, until she crosses paths with a masked criminal and a jewel-smuggling ring. Five American treasure-hunters meet mysterious fates after violating a tomb in India. The Fatal Idol; El Mondo: The Master; Gems of the Ocean; Fate Plays Tricks; Medium's Revenge; When Thieves Fall Out; Revenge of the Dead. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Walt Kelly. Stories and art by Carl Barks, Floyd Gottfredson, Bill Walsh, Dick Moores, Bob Karp, Gil Turner, Merrill De Maris, George Waiss, Bill Wright, and Al Taliaferro. Sometimes listed as Vol. 9 #6. The long-running vehicle for Disney character comics featured work by Carl Barks, Floyd Gottfredson, and Pogo's Walt Kelly. In a classic story from the Mickey Mouse comic strip, Mickey assumes various disguises while tracking the Phantom Blot. In a story by Barks, Donald is supposed to guard a dude ranch from rustlers, but doesn't notice he keeps buying the same horses over and over again. The Big Bad Wolf tries to put one over on the Blue Fairy. Donald Duck; Bucky Bug; Li'l Bad Wolf; Mickey Mouse; Grandma's Valentine; Mickey Mouse Outwits the Phantom Blot. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Johnny Craig. Stories and art by Graham Ingels, Johnny Craig, and Al Feldstein. E.C.'s early Pre-Trend crime title featured gangsters, gunplay and femmes fatale. Betty works her way up from drugstore counter girl to crimelord and racketeer, in a story by Johnny Craig. A detective and a jewel thief intersect over a priceless Egyptian artifact in a museum, with art by EC horror legend Graham Ingels. A killer tries to outwit the law, in an Al Feldstein story. Little Miss Mob Marker; Curse of the Pharaoh; The Laws Revenge. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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March 1949. Cover by Matt Fox. Horror and supernatural stories by August Derleth "The Testament of Claiborne Boyd", Theodore Sturgeon "The Martian and the Moron", Robert Bloch "The Strange Island of Dr. Nork", Allison V. Harding, Arthur J. Burks, Stanton A. Coblentz, and Thorp McClusky. Illustrations by Fred Humiston, Vincent Napoli, Boris Dolgov, and Lee Brown Coye. 6 3/4-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 96 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.20.

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Stories and art by Bill Woolfolk, Stan Campbell, John Jordan, and Carl Pfeufer. Fawcett's tales of Western heroes from folklore and the movies. When counterfeit bills flood the West, the Treasury Department asks Hopalong Cassidy to get involved. Monte Hale finds his outlaw-bashing curtailed when a judge orders him not to fire his six-guns within city limits or risk violating the peace. The Butler Brothers, Dick, Evan and Fred, want revenge on the sheriff, Tom Mix. Plus a profusion of vintage comics-format ads, including a hair-cream ad featuring detective Sam Spade. Hopalong Cassidy: The Counterfeiting Ring; Cactus Brain; Big Bow and Little Arrow: Buckaroos; Young Falcon: The Mystery of Little Star; Monte Hale: Peace Bond; Li'l Buck; Red Roan: Captive Herd; Gabby Hayes: Bucking Wheels of Glory!; Tom Mix: The Infamous Revenge. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

In order of appearance: "Squint-Eye Dan Crosset and The Lady with the Golden Touch..."; "The Younger Brothers, Blood-Mad Killers of the Old West!"; "John Wesley Hardin, The Terror of the Texas Plains" art by George Peltz; and "Facts You Wouldn't Believe...Lion Skin!" by Arazio "Horace" Theodore Elmo. "The Courage of Armador Sanchez" text story reprinted in Wild Frontier (1955) #6 and Black Fury (1956 Charlton) #52. 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Art by Gerald Altman and others. Western tales from Fox Feature Syndicate. Ranger Tim Haley squares off against Silent Hickey and his gang during a stagecoach robbery in Grizzly Pass; Roughneck McTavish and his gang plan to crash a train by driving cattle onto the tracks; Stud Polka's scheme to get Mary Jane back by killing her new beau backfires, due to Lady Luck. Romance of Sombrero Flats; The Mankilling Horse of the Squared L; Slung-Shot Sidney; Dame Luck vs Stud Polka; The Devil Had a Double. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 1, Issue 2 - March-June, 1949. Western movie fan magazine featuring what all your favorite western stars are up to behind-the-scenes. Featuring articles, reviews, previews, and stories accompanied by tons of photographs. Softcover Magazine, 8.5" x 10.5", 98 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Volume 1, Issue 2 - March-June, 1949. Western movie fan magazine featuring what all your favorite western stars are up to behind-the-scenes. Featuring articles, reviews, previews, and stories accompanied by tons of photographs. Softcover Magazine, 8.5" x 10.5", 100 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

"Custer's Massacre" (art by Mort Meskin as "Mort Jr."), "Blazing the Chisholm Trail," "The Bogus Buckaroo," and "The Gambler and the Girl." Cover by Mort Lawrence. Stories by William Woolfolk, Mort Meskin, and Maurice del Bourgo. True tales from the Old West, starring such real-life characters as Nuggets Nugent, General George Armstrong Custer, Chief Crazy Horse, Clay Mason, Johnny Hobbs, Spurs Madden, Connie Ross, Rawhide Gilbert, Doc Yates, and Cynthia West. 52 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 2, Issue 6 - March, 1949. 8.8" x 11.5", 60 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Cover by C.C. Beck and Pete Costanza. Stories and art by Basil Wolverton, Kurt Schaffenberger and Louis Cazeneuve. The Fawcett comic that introduced the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) to the world. Captain Marvel learns of a strange social experiment where an Arctic tribe and a South Seas tribe want to trade locations, and face a different environment. Golden Arrow learns that the missing Doc Slocum is really outlaw Shorty Blake in disguise, but not before Shorty gets the drop on him. Plus a "Culture Corner" strip by legendary cartoonist Basil Wolverton, featuring useless but hilarious advice on "How to Cross a Busy Street." Captain Marvel: The Great Experiment; Doc Sorebones; Wilbur the Waiter; The Culture Corner; Golden Arrow: The Treacherous Masquerade; Wicky and O'Shawnessy; Lance O'Casey: The Lady Pirate; Freshman Freddy: Par Excellent; The Whiz Quiz; Ibis the Invincible: Labyrinth of the Lost! 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Two-Gun Kid in "Slaves of the Six-Gun Empire!" Blaze Carson in "Two-Gun Terror Rides the Range!" Tex Taylor in "Gun-Hungry Ghosts!" Kid Colt in "Gun Guilty!" Tex Morgan in "Buckaroo Badmen of Big Rock!" Two-page text story, "The Long Wait." One-page anti-Wertham editorial. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 11, Issue 5 - March, 1942. 6.75" x 9.75", 148 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.20.

Cover by Bob Lubbers. Edited by J.F. Byrne and William R. Shelton. Stories and art by Bob Lubbers, Cesare Avai, Joe Doolin, Frank Fermonetti, George Evans, John Celardo and Maurice Whitman. Aviation-themed adventure, combat and history tales from pioneering comics publisher Fiction House. Reporter Jane Martin spots communist activity while testing out new television tech in a helicopter; King of the Congo uses his plane to turn the tables after he's captured by cruel hunters; A temporarily dead woman helps her husband escape an Axis prison camp as a ghost, before being revived. Captain Wings; Jane Martin; King of the Congo; Air Heroes of World War II; Phantom Falcon; Suicide Smith; Ghost Squadron. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 4, Issue 5 - March, 1949. Cover by Peter Driben. Men's interest magazine with pin-up and glamour photography, plus Sweet Gwendoline Episode Eleven by John Willie. 8.5" x 11.5", 58 pages, B&W. -MATURE READERS- Cover price $0.25.

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Art by Bud Hirson, Clint Harmon and Stan Borack. Western stories featuring female outlaws from Fox Feature Syndicate. Redheaded outlaw Roarin' Fanny Stuart hatches a plan to smuggle her gang aboard a gambling riverboat and pull a heist; Fun facts about Montezuma, the famed Aztec ruler; Naomi Shanes rides with the outlaw Devereaux, but she gets a chance to go straight after a handsome stranger joins the gang. Fun cover by an unknown artist. Roarin' Fanny Stuart, The Natchez Nightmare; Montezuma; Maverick Queen of the Bounty Hunters; A Wicked Western Woman; The Lady With the Smoking Sixes. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover pencils by Irwin Hasen, inks by Bernard Sachs. "The Mystery of the Rhyming Riddle Ch. 1: Deception Strikes Again," script by Robert Kanigher, art by Harry G. Peter; With an incomplete riddle as their only clue, Wonder Woman and Steve go on a search through time for the missing Holliday College, unaware they're being misled by the Duke of Deception. Miss Beverly Hills of Hollywood ad. "The Mystery of the Rhyming Riddle Ch. 2: The Phantasms of Deception," script by Robert Kanigher, art by Harry G. Peter; Wonder Woman travels to the planet Mars in pursuit of Holliday College, where she is lured to the arena by the Duke of Deception. Wonder Women of History: three-page Alice Freeman Palmer bio by Julius Schwartz, art by Paul Reinman. Two-page text article, "Holiday for Sweethearts" by Jules Black. "The Mystery of the Rhyming Riddle: Chapter 3," script by Robert Kanigher, art by Harry G. Peter; To find Holliday College, Wonder Woman must solve Mars' final riddle, or become his slave forever. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Win Mortimer. The Fatal Forecasts starring Superman, script by Edmond Hamilton, art by Al Plastino. Hall of Infamy starring Green Arrow and Greenface, script by Otto Binder, art by George Papp. Shorty two-pager by Henry Boltinoff. Make Way For Youth, art by John Daly. The Kid Who Hit The $60,000 Jackpot starring Boy Commandos, script by France Herron, pencils by Carmine Infantino. The Ghost Goes Wild starring Zatara, script by Joe Samachson, art by William F. White. How Basketball Began text article. The Conquest of Batman's Identity, art by Jim Mooney; author J.J. Jason, bored with detective stories, tries to solve the mystery of Batman's secret identity. Full-page ads for Superboy # 1 and Miss Beverly Hills of Hollywood # 1. 76 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.15.

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Cover pencils by Jack Kirby. "The Man I Loved Was a Woman-Hater!", pencils by Jack Kirby; Karen goes on vacation to Florida and meets artist Pete, who saves her from drowning but is otherwise hostile; Kay arrives, claiming to be his fiancé; Pete says she broke his heart but he now loves Karen. "The Plumber and Me," art by Bill Draut; Nina moves to New York to study art; She falls in with a pretentious crowd of would-be artists, but dates down-to-earth plumber Pete; Nina and her friends mock Pete and he vanishes. "Fickle," pencils by Jack Kirby; Marcia has a reputation for dating and then dropping her boyfriends; She goes out with Steve, a college classmate of her brother, and falls in love with him. "The Proper Thing to Do" text article, pencils by Jack Kirby. "Two Loves," art by Bill Draut; Psychiatrist Jim prevents Kit from committing suicide over a failed love affair; They become friends; Hes a widower and 20 years older than she, but asks Kit to marry him; Pat, the girlfriend of Jims son Paul, thinks Kit is a gold-digger like she is. "Lady Luck," art by Bill Draut; Ruth is engaged to oil driller Roy but finds herself attracted to his gambler friend Johnny; Roy says he lost his well to Johnny; Ruth dares Johnny to wager the oil well against her love: if he wins, he gets her and the well; If he loses, hell leave town and Roy and Ruth will marry. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

#10 on cover; Vol. 2 No. 4 in indicia. Cover by Jack Kirby. Stories by Jack Kirby? and unknown. Art by Bill Draut, Jack Kirby, Al Eadeh, Joe Simon, John Belfi and unknown. Joanie's parents are pressuring Don like they have all the others! She thinks he'll never date her again -- and Don is the one man she could really care for! Don't miss..."Husband Hunter!" Also featuring: "This Man I Loved Was a Mama´s Boy!"; "Shadows"; "Unwanted"; "Heart´s Desire!"; and the 1-page story "Hip! Hip! Away!" Plus: 2-page text story "Dr. Biggers Prescription"! 48 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Final issue of the series (becomes My Story with issue # 5). Zago in "The Red Witch," "The Boy Who Didn't Believe," and "Kansas Killer!" Back-up story, "The Girl Who Bribed Death!" Matt Baker cover. Cover price $0.10.