Comic books November 1949

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Benjamin Franklin, 1st Printing, Line Drawing Cover. (HRN 64, 11/49). Cover price $0.10.

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Benjamin Franklin, 2nd Printing, Painted Cover. (HRN 131). Cover price $0.15.

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The classic weekly magazine featuring news and fiction. 10.75" x 13.75", 76 pages, PC/B&W. Cover price $0.15.

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I just come to show ya me pieces of bread! starring Fox and the Crow, art by Jim Davis. The Reward starring Blabber Mouse, art by Rube Grossman. The Squeeler starring Raccoon Kids, art by Otto Feuer. Winning a Car starring Goofy Goose, art by Rube Grossman. Danny Dummox starring Roly and Poly, art by Rube Grossman. Carmen Round The Mountain starring Dodo and the Frog, art by Otto Feuer; loosely based on the opera. I'll take you for a ride in my new boat starring Ozzie Owl, art by Rube Grossman. Treasure Map starring Sweeney and Willie. The Gorilla Who Changed His Mind starring Giggle-Toons, art by Howie Post. Be A Ventriloquist. Buy a Dummy starring Nutsy Squirrel, art by Rube Grossman. 76 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.15.

Cover by Ernie Bushmiller. Stories and art by Ernie Bushmiller and Ed Dodd. Comics on Parade features Fritzi, star of Ernie Bushmiller's good-girl strip Fritzi Ritz, and her more famous niece, Nancy. Nancy believes a magician has turned Sluggo into a cat. Sluggo has a dilemma after he finds a wallet with $1000 in it. Nancy seeks a way to beat the heat. Fritzi Ritz; Stamp Tips; Nancy; Back Home Again. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Contains two Frank Frazetta illustrations. Frazetta illustrations appear in seventeen consecutive issues of Coo Coo Comics (1942) (#34-50). Contains funny animal stories. In order of appearance: "Supermouse, 'Super-Sandman"; "Chester Mouse"; "Bizzy and Dizzy, 'Pickle Ice Cream!'"; "Fisty, 'Captain Kitty'" art by Jack Bradbury; "Munchy, 'The Eagle's Nest'"; "Butch and Buttercup, Easy Come, Easy Go!'" art by Jack Bradbury; and "Phineas the Parrot". Illustrated text stories: "The Foolish Spider: Lazy Skinny Refused to Spin Any Webs!" by Mickey Klar Marks, illustration by Frank Frazetta; and "The Head of the School: Ambitious Sonny Salmon Wanted to Be a Leader!" by Uncle Andy, illustration by Frank Frazetta. 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories by Al Hartley and Bob Wickersham. Art by Al Hartley and Bob Wickersham. Teen hijinks featuring Cookie and his pals, created by legendary animator Dan Gordon. Pop OTooles lucky horseshoe brings nothing but bad luck; Jitterbuck dresses as a girl to trick his way into the dance, but it backfires; Pickles is intrigued by Binkies lifelike replica of movie star Lizabeth Scott, in a story with art by Archies Al Hartley. Cookie: Danger Curves Ahead; Pickles; Debbie: The Girl Friend; Jitterbuck Jones: Conscience Trouble; Cookie, Typical Boy; Our Kid Sister. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 1, Issue 1 - November, 1949. Cover Girls Models Magazine was an early men's interest publication distributed between November, 1949 and December, 1955 that focused mainly on bathing suit pin-up photography, but also included the occasional Hollywood tabloid human-interest story. 8" x 10.5", 66 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Stories and art by Al Carreno, H. W. Kiemle, and Joseph Millard. For those who love a little horse opera with their soap opera, Fawcett presents tales of romance and heartbreak on the Western frontier. 12-mule-team borax driver Sally is chagrined to know that the handsome stranger that saved her from a runaway mule train is actually her competition. Rancher Nellie secretly longs for handsome neighbor Brad, but she's got to win him away from Sherry, the beautiful blonde singer as Brad's dude ranch. Ranch foreman Buck is torn between rancher's daughter Kim from "back East" and her cowgirl sister Annelle. The Rivals!; Guns and Girls; The Female Brand; Melody Ames, the Prairie Minstrel: Saddle Justice; Rendezvous on the Range. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Paul Gustavson. Stories by Joe Millard and unknown. Art by Charles Sultan, Paul Gustavson, Reed Crandall, Harry Anderson and unknown. Two-Gun Lil's father has been killed by a bushwacker and she will make them pay in an untitled story. Plus: Arizona Ames in "War of the Renegade Rails"; Dead Canyon Days story "The Battle of the Paper Bullets"; Frontier Marshal in "The Golden Ghost"; and 1-page text story "Gun Trouble"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Bob Fujitani, C.H. Moore, Fred Guardineer, Joseph Gagliardi and Charles Biro. A companion series to Crime Does Not Pay from the same publisher, slightly less violent and with more emphasis on police work. Sam Denta turns the fixed-fight game into his own personal income-generator, until the fighter called The Ape meets a terrible fate. Savvy seamen sink smugglers' schemes after a shoreside sortie. A police lieutenant doggedly pursues two cop killers, but their fellow crooks may do them in first. Sam Denta, King Of The Fix!; The Case Of The Overboard Gems!; On the Level; Science Vs. the Criminal: Book Worms!; Mobsters - C.O.D.!; This'll Kill Ya!; Our Police Hall of Fame; Laff These Off!; Death Without Warning!! 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

November 1949. Volume 9, No. 8. Photo cover. True crime articles, stories and photos. 8 1/2-in. x 10 3/4-in., 98p, B&W Cover price $0.25.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by George Tuska, Fred Guardineer, Claude Moore, 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. Mr. Crime narrates the tale of patrolman Al Drews, who goes up against Matt Cornish, The Scourge of the Fishing Fleets, and winds up clinging to a buoy for dear life. Police investigate a series of suspicious suicides and uncover a car-theft ring. The "Tear Gas Killers" try to escape the city by hijacking a boat, but a ham-radio operator manages to outsmart them. Cover and first page feature a photo endorsement from Detective Walter Clancy, approving of "this magazine as a strong moral force for youth." Deadly Matt Cornish, The Scourge of the Fishing Fleets!; On the Level; It Looked Like Suicide!; The Tear Gas Murders!; Our Police Hall of Fame; Who Dunnit? 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Johnny Craig. Stories by Al Feldstein and Johnny Craig. Art by Al Feldstein, Ed Waldman and Johnny Craig. E.C.'s Pre-Trend crime title started as adventure, changed to grisly crime stories and eventually metamorphosed into straight-up horror. Early forensics investigation, including a tire track and a stray thread, lead police to the Mad-Man Gang after a bank robbery. Detective-Lieutenant Craig Dixon investigates after a body is found in the harbor, in an early Al Feldstein story. When one brother becomes a police detective, and the other a criminal, it's only a matter of time until brother faces brother. Three Clues to Terror; Inside Job!; The Maxwell Brothers; Out of the Frying Pan; The Case of the Floating Corpse! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Dale Evans stars in "Gobblers and Gold Dust," "The East Goes West," and "Oil is Where You Find It!" Sierra Smith Western Detective stars in "The Case of the Five-Cent Fortune!" (art by Alex Toth). Captain Tootsie stars in a one-page Tootsie Roll ad, "Captain Tootsie Saves the Day!" (by C.C. Beck). Photo cover. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Norman Maurer, Virginia Hubbell, and Carl Hubbell. This early superhero title was one of the comics that made publisher Lev Gleason a major player during the Golden Age. The Little Wise Guys get trapped in the house of the world's greatest practical joker. A band of gypsies swindles Sniffer out of his car, but he gets the last laugh. The Little Wise Guys help a scientist who's trying to remember the formula for the ultimate truth serum. Daredevil and the Little Wise Guys: The Mystery of the Practical Joker!; The Know-How on Place Kicking; Daredevil: The Truth Serum and Its Missing Formula!; Crimebuster: The Crimebuster Clubs First Case; Famous Eccentrics; Sniffer. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Pat McElroy photo cover. "I Was Jilted!"; Office worker Laura is dumped by her boyfriend Alan because shes a poor orphan; Laura gets a job in rural Long Island as companion to elderly Miss Barnes; Miss Barnes urges Laura not to shut herself away, giving herself as an example of a lonely spinster. "Two Loves Have I"; Aspiring actress Ellen meets art student Dean and they fall in love; Deans older brother Steve runs the family ranch in Colorado; Steve demands Dean drop his studies and help run the ranch, and calls Ellen a gold-digger. "Rascal Heart" text story. "Your Handwriting" article by Handwriting Analyst Ellyn Lee. "I Was Branded Bad"; Dorothy dates bad boy Nicky to escape her familys poverty; Tricked into participating in a robbery, Dorothy is sent to prison while Nicky is killed. "I Married for Revenge" text story. "I Lied for Love," art by Pen Shumaker; High school student Lorna pretends she has a college boyfriend; Attending a fraternity party with her brother Hank, Lorna meets David. "The Darling Bandbox" text story by Miss Darling. "Star-Lights" article. "Too Wise for Love!!"; Edith, editor for a chain of magazines, falls in love with free-lance writer Mark; They wed, but he makes little money from his writing. "Reminiscence" text story by May Richstone. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories by unknown. Art by unknown. Radio's famous coast-to-coast favorite! In this issue: Four untitled A Date with Judy stories. Plus: A Date with Judy 2-page text story "Judy Makes Ready"; untitled Liz story; and untitled Randolph story. Plus: What's Your Name? half-pager by Martin Naydel, and In the Groove 2-pager. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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100 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.25.

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1st appearance of Roy Raymond TV Detective; origin of the Human Fly. Cover by Dick Sprang. Stories by unknown. Art by Dick Sprang, Charles Paris, Carmine Infantino, Jimmy Thompson, Ruben Moreira and unknown. The Batman takes to the air, like his namesake, on the trail of Slits Danton, all thanks to the creation of special "bat wings" created by a scientist...or so the Caped Crusader thinks! Don't miss Batman and Robin in "The Flying Batman!" with art by Dick Sprang and Charles Paris. Plus: Pow-Wow Smith, Indian Lawman in "The Revenge of Little Thunder Cloud!" with pencils by Carmine Infantino; Robotman in "The Second Robotman" with art by Jimmy Thompson; and Impossible -- But True! tale "The Land of Lost Years!" (featuring Roy Raymond) with art by Ruben Moreira. Also: Shorty half-pager by Henry Boltinoff, and 2-page text piece "Volcano Sleuths" by Ed Velarde. And: 1-page Tootsie Roll ad "Captain Tootsie Saves the Day!" with art by C.C. Beck. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Paul Gustavson & Bill Ward. Stories by unknown. Art by Bill Ward, Sam Citron & Ward, Art Peddy & unknown and Sid Greene. Featuring: "The Vengeance of Love" starring Meg Purdy, Jill Jackson and Van Carter; "Mexican Magic" starring Estrella Lopa, Myles Norton, Lois Evans, Maria, Mr. Lopa and Mrs. Lopa; "My Heart is Witness" starring Kay Orden, Mark Allen, Sondra Dale and Jip Monson; and "Betrayal of Love" starring Carol Anderson, Mark Barrow and Gregor Ernst. Plus: 1-page text story "Diary of Despair" starring Mary Morris, Dan Wade and Mr. Wade. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by L. B. Cole. Stories and art by Al McWilliams, A. Hewitt and Joe Certa. Boys' adventure with military cadet and sportsman Dick Cole, as Star takes over publishing from Curtis. Dick Cole and his rival, Bark, join forces to prove their merit to a bunch of skeptical cowboys. Bull's Eye Bill and Rawhide Ike are reunited with redheaded Dee Parsons as they all fight to save Target Ranch. A Pied Piper-like menace threatens Farr Military Academy. Dick Cole; Bull's-Eye Bill; Salmon Pirates; Dick Cole. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Dell presents new adventures of legendary tough cop Dick Tracy and his rogues gallery of freakish enemies. Tracy must act fast to save Pat from the killer known as Jukebox. The original, rarely reprinted story is in the style of Chester Gould, but the actual artists are unknown. Also, Dick Tracy's Rogue's Gallery featuring Itchy Oliver, a text story, a solve-it-yourself mystery, and a Sparkle Plenty humor strip. Dick Tracy's Rogue's Gallery; Dick Tracy Meets Jukebox; Dick Tracy's Minute Mystery; Sparkle Plenty. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Lord of Lightning; Darrel discovers a glowing meteor that amplifies electricity, which is promptly stolen by Mr. Thrawn, who fashions it into a weapon; However, the villain meets his end by the same weapon when it attracts a lightning bolt. Untitled Perky story, script and art by Gill Fox. Untitled Torchy story, script and art by Gill Fox. Doll Man; The Sultan is after Hakim Ali's "Secret of Truth." 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 17, Issue 2 - November, 1949. 6.75" x 9.75", 102 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

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Art by Jack Kamen and others. Adventures of the famed detective from Canadian publisher Superior, also featuring some early horror classics. A romantic weekend is interrupted by mystery, adventure - and the secret of The Crooked Mile. A beast-man stalks the unwary... or does he? Cover by an unknown artist is a crazy over-the-top mash-up of romance and horror comics cover tropes. The Case of the Seventh Raven; The Crooked Mile; The Werewolf. Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

A comic featuring Elsie and her husband Elmer Bull, the mascots for Borden Companys dairy and glue product lines, respectively. A chemistry mishap shrinks Elmer to the size of a mouse, where he is harassed by real mice. Included in Paul Gravetts 2008 book The Worlds Weirdest Comic Books. 36 pages. Cover price $0.10.

In order of appearance: "Harry Wells, The Texas Phantom!" retitled and reprinted as "The Bloody Phantom" in Startling Terror Tales (1952-53 1st Series) #5; "The Lone Wolf Killer" retitled and reprinted as "The Lone Wolf of Fear" in Startling Terror Tales (1952-53 1st Series) #13; and "Zack the Killer!". "Billy the Kid, A True Western Action Story" text story. 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 10, Issue 5 - November, 1949. 6.75" x 9.75", 100 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Cover by Steve Douglas. Stories and art by Lawrence Lariar, John Spranger, Allen Saunders, Elmer Woggon, Clifford McBride, Philip Francis Nowlan, Rick Yager (credited as Dick Calkins), Clark Haas, Claude Dunnagan, Rodlow Willard, Mabel Burwick (credited as Odin), Martha B. Links, and Ralph Briggs Fuller. The long-running series that introduced "comic books" to the world, featuring reprints of comic strips. Steve Roper gets involved with a famous starlet. Ben Friday tries to protect a valuable stamp from gangsters, so they abduct Linda instead. Dickie Dare fools an ancient civilization with a modern-day zipper. Ben Friday; Steve Roper and Wahoo; Napoleon; Buck Rogers; Scorchy Smith; Crash on Trouble Mountain; Dickie Dare; Bobby Sox; Yipee; Oaky Doaks. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 11, Issue 11 - November, 1949. Cover by Robert Gibson Jones. Stories by S. M. Tenneshaw "Queen of the Ice Men", Craig Browning, Peter Worth, Anthony B. Ott, Henry Gade, Lee Prescott, and Gilbert Mead. Illustrations by Julian S. Krupa, Leo R. Summers, Henry Thiede, and Bill Terry. 7-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 162 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

Volume 3, Issue 4 - November, 1949. Cover by Virgil Finlay. "Minos of Sardanes" by Charles B. Stilson, "The Living Portrait" by Tod Robbins, "The Elf-trap" by Francis Stevens, and "The White Gorilla" by Elmer Brown Mason. Illustrations by Finlay, Paul. Softcover Pulp, 7-in. x 9-in.; 130 Pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Fantasy Advertiser Vol. 3 #5 (November 1949), published by Gus Willmorth. 40 pages. Cover by Lin Carter. In this issue: Book reviews, John Campbell Jr.'s "Who Goes There?," L. Ron Hubbard's "Slaves of Sleep," Lin Carter "The Emperor of Dreams," Clark Ashton Smith, Malcolm Ferguson, Fantasy Book Plates, Fantasy Fan Field update, plus fanzine reviews, general editorial content, and ads from the era. Cover price $0.10.

Captain Blood. NOTE: The first five issues of Fast Fiction were reprinted under the title Stories by Famous Authors Illustrated. Except for the title change on the cover, the editions are identical. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 2 - Issue 4, November 1949. Pulp magazine devoted to exploring the paranormal. This issue features "The Snake Pit", "The Weeping Statue of Syracuse", "The Boy with the X-Ray Eyes", and Frank Patton examines "Iris, Goddess of Sex". Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 7 1/2-in., 130 page, Text (with B&W Illustrations and Photos). Cover price $0.25.