Comic books April 1950

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Volume 6, Issue 5 - April, 1950. Men's interest magazine filled with stories about, and photos of pin-up models. This issue includes a two-page pictorial with Yvonne De Carlo. 8" x 11", 60 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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"Guardian Angel" and early short story by Arthur C. Clarke.

Volume 11, Issue 4 - April, 1950. 6.75" x 9", 134 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Volume 12, Issue 4 - April, 1950. Cover by Robert Gibson Jones. Science Fiction and Adventures stories. This issue features "The Face Beyond the Veil" by Franklin Bahl and the first two stories ever published by Mack Reynolds, "The Isolationist" and "He Took it with Him" (as Clark Collins). Softcover Pulp, 7-in x 10-in, 164 Pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Stories and art by Chad Grothkopf and others. Funny-animal comics from Fawcett, featuring Hoppy the Bunny, Bobby Bantam and Kenny Kangaroo. Bobby Bantam puts up with mischievous nephew Beep during a snow day. Buzzy Bee has his own approach to swimming. Kenny Kangaroo has trouble finding the right landscape to paint. Buzzy Bee; Bobby Bantam: Snow Fooling; Kenny Kangaroo; Buzzy Bee: One in a Million; Billy Goat: Close Shave; Good Gnus; Hoppy the Marvel Bunny: Whale of a Time; Kenny Kangaroo. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 2, Issue 4 - April, 1950. 6.75" x 9", 128 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Photo cover of John Payne (as Captain China). "Captain China," art by Jack Sparling; An adaptation of the 1950 Paramount film; Charles Chinnough, aka Captain China, washed ashore off his ship during a storm, is later rescued, but is relieved of duty when his former first mate, Brendensen (who thought he was dead), and two aides, testify falsely against him in a hearing concerning the loss of his ship; Hoping to clear his name, he books passage on a ship commanded by Brendsen; He and Brendensen fall for a female passenger. One-page Honey in Hollywood story by Henry Boltinoff. Ad for The Adventures of Bob Hope. One-page CinemAntics story by Harry Lampert. Ad for The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. Two-page On the Set story by Henry Boltinoff. "It's Fun to Be Healthy!" says Wonder Woman public service announcement, script by Jack Schiff, art by Irwin Hasen. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

A tale of gothic horror from Fox Feature Syndicate. Numbering continues from Women in Love (1949-50 Fox) #4. In an issue-length tale, vampiric Count Rorret makes beautiful maiden Elthena his undead slave, by tricking her into believing she can live eternally with the commoner she loves. But the scheme is Rorret's undoing when her lover Leopold refuses to play along. Fairly mild for a pre-Code horror comic, except for the vampires turning into gigantic black tarantulas when they attack their prey. The Black Tarantula; The Ghost Who Cried. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Al Avison. Stories and art by Lee Elias, Tom Gill, Sir Walter Scott, Bob Powell, Vic Herman and Jack Kamen. Harvey's entry in the romance-comic genre includes love poetry, advice to readers, and occasional pre-Code notoriety. Liz loves firefighter Tim, but is anxious about the dangers of his job. Telephone operator Nan doesn't realize the voice on the other end is the man she loves, in a story with fun details of mid-20th century culture and technology. Rich girl Louise convinces dentist Sandy that she's poor and unloved, but she can't keep up the pretense for long. Plus "true" reader tales of love, love poetry from classic authors, and vintage love advice. Too Hot To Handle; Love in the Saddle; Love Starved; Special Firsts; All's Fair in Love...; Diet for Love; Your Problem; Confessions of a Telephone Operator; Cupid's Corner; Love Laughs; The Man of Many Loves; Love Makes the World Go 'Round. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Bob Powell and others. Tales of love and heartbreak in 1950s America from publisher Harvey. Country housewife Ginny regrets not marrying her first love, wealthy Ed. Connie breaks up with nerdy Horace in search of a "real man," until she learns just how much of a real man Horace is. Ray and Mona want to marry, but her father's new assignment in Germany may cancel all of that. I Married a Farmer; Romantic Antics; My Love Scene; Strange Romantic Customs; Love Takes a Holiday; My Most Romantic Moment; Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow; Wait for Love; My Love Was Doomed! 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Photo cover. "My Heart's At Sea"; Jill Kane lives with her grandfather, a famous shipbuilder; Don Rowan gets a job with the company and he and Jill become friends; Wealthy Charles Becker commissions a new boat and romances Jill as well; Charles and Jill sail his new craft in the Tilton Race, with Don as their chief opponent in his own boat. "Men Were My Business"; Shelia Scott runs a male escort service and refuses to fraternize with her employees; She hires the brash college student Tom Weatherby; They fall in love but she becomes jealous of the women Tom is escorting, especially the wealthy Señora del Río. "Fruits of Promise"; Libby Armen and her adoptive mother and father Ma and Pa Bird are migrant farm workers; Foreman Matt Hardy hires them because he likes Libbys looks; Rex Cullen and Libby fall in love, which makes Matt jealous. "Spite Romance" text story. "Second Fiddle"; Evelyn is disappointed when Ken chooses her sister Barbara as his future wife; Evelyn tricks Barbara into thinking Ken is unfaithful and tries to nab Ken for herself; However, she repents and arranges for Ken and Barbara to reconcile. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Vol. 3, No. 2 - April 1950. Men's magazine with humor and pin-up pictorials. Peter Driben cover. 8.5" x 11.5". 32 pages. Black and white. Cover price $0.25.

Stories and art by Vic Martin and others. Based on a popular kids' puppet show broadcast on CBS from 1948-51 about a sinister but bumbling magician and his loyal but good-hearted assistant, Pinhead. Foodini and Pinhead attend a magician's convention. Jingle Dingle the weather elf, another popular icon from the early days of television, looks for a lost treasure at sea. Plus magic tricks submitted by readers. The Great Foodini Goes West; Foodini's Great Magic; On a Merry-Go-Round with Foodini; Jingle Dingle; Trail of the Pearls; Magic Merry-Go-Round; Gone to See; Jingle Dingle's Recipe for Good Living; Dilly Dolly Makes a Down Payment; A Blue Ribbon for Pinhead; Keeping Fit with Jingle Dingle; Foodini's Magic. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Vol. 1, No. 2 - April 1950. "Parade of People" with articles, humor, and pin-up photos. 10.25" x 13", 66 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Indicia title is "Walt Disney's CINDERELLA, No. 272." Cover art by Dan Gormley. Inside front cover and inside back cover; Ten stills from the movie, printed in monochrome bluish-black ink, with a line of text underneath. Cinderella, script by Chase Craig, art by Dan Gormley; Cinderella, after being tormented by her evil stepmother and step-sisters, gets to go to the Prince's ball with the help of her Fairy Godmother; Adapted from the 1950 Disney animated movie "Cinderella." 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "Walter Lantz OSWALD THE RABBIT, No. 273." Cover art by Dan Gormley. See-Saw, art by Dan Gormley; Floyd and Lloyd give Oswald a nasty spill when they hop off their side of a see-saw. Home Sweet Home, art by Lloyd White; When their rundown home finally collapses, Oswald and the boys have to find a new house; With no success at finding any suitable houses in town, they go to the woods to build a cabin. A Family Affair, pencils by Lloyd White, inks by Suzanne Seaborne; Oswald looks up his family tree and finds that he is the only heir to the McRabbit fortune; He and Toby go to the Red Ridge Mountain, only to find themselves in the middle of a feud between the Fatfields and the McRabbits. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "BUGS BUNNY, HAREBRAINED REPORTER, No. 274." Harebrained Reporter, art by Tony Strobl; A newspaper editor gives Bugs the assignment of finding out what happened to the town of Bleak Point, which has vanished; It turns out that the town never existed and the assignment was just a ploy to get Bugs out of the editor's sight. Bugs Bunny and The Mortals of the Sea, pencils by Roger Armstrong; Thinking they will bring good luck, the leader of an ocean expedition takes Bugs and Porky along. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Fun Parade (1950) is a digest published by Fun Parade,Inc. Fun Parade is a humor and satire digest that features jokes, and cartoons by America's leading cartoonist. Black Cat appears in a four page comic, A Day in the Life of the Black Cat, Command Performance!" 96 pages, color cover with B&W photos and illustrations in the interior, 5-in x 7-in. Cover price $0.25.

Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Art by Bob Wickersham and others. Funny-animal comics from independent publisher ACG, featuring the Itchy & Scratchy-like Puss an Boots, misguided inventor Blunderbunny, owl detective Whoo-Dunnit, and Western dog marshal Alkali Ike. Sometimes the characters break through the fourth wall and into the laps of the kids who are watching their cartoons. A pie fight between Puss an Boots gets out of hand and goes off the screen; Blunderbunny invents a machine that brings TV characters to life, but things soon go awry; Alkali Ike brings his water pistol to a gunfight. Puss an' Boots; The Ice-Maker; Bone Trouble; Blunderbunny in Person; The Great Nut Mystery; Two's a Crowd; Whoo-Doodit; Alkali Ike and His Horse Oatsie. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Rube Grossman. Untitled Nutsy Squirrel story, art by Rube Grossman; Nutsy tries to help a toy salesman who has no customers; What he needs is a Nutsy Squirrel doll! Fun an' Fact activity page by Martin Naydel. Untitled Nip and Chip story, art by Otto Feuer; Nip loses himself. Comic Cavalcade ad. Untitled Bernard the Brave story, art by Otto Feuer; Bernard discovers he has competition. Untitled Ozzie Owl story, art by Rube Grossman; Ozzie catches a big fish, and the boys try to get it away from him. Untitled Doodles Duck story, art by Howie Post; Doodles and Buttons try to help out at the grocery store. One-page The Dodo and the Frog story, art by Otto Feuer. Untitled Nutsy Squirrel story, art by Rube Grossman; Nutsy finds barber clippers at the dump. Superman's Code for Buddies public service announcement, script by Jack Schiff, art by Al Plastino. The Adventures of Bob Hope ad. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by George Marko and Dick Kraus. The legendary Gabby Hayes, the most famous of all Western movie sidekicks, takes the starring role for adventure and misadventure. Folks gather from miles around to see a living caveman discovered in the mountains, but Gabby isn't convinced. Gabby tries to get the goods on crooked boxing promoter Slick Gargoyle, and winds up in the boxing ring, with his hands coated in solid concrete. Elitist big-game hunter Otis Q. Coleslaw sets out to bag the legendary moose Big Bill, but a humiliated Gabby vows revenge. Favorite line this issue: "Ain't no cave critter here! I knew that palaver was all hogwash! The idea is plumb ridickerlus!" Whipper-Snappers; The Cave Man; Young Falcon: The Swindlers; Gabby Hayes Kayoes the Champ; Buck Desmond: Mountain Blindness; The Big Game Hunt; Dopey Danny Dee. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Photo cover of Gene Autry. Stories and art by Jesse Marsh, Elizabeth Beecher, and Nicholas Firfires. Singing cowboy Gene Autry was a multimedia star from the 1930s-1950s, in music, movies, radio, and television, as well as comic books. A telegram brings cowhand Larry some good news, but Mack overhears and plans an ambush. Gene arranges a surprise for the Rannigan Gang. Panhandle Pete tells the tale of the Unluckiest Prospector. Renegades of Gold Bar; The Unluckiest Prospector; The Final Payment; The Outlaws of Moccasin Bend. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Canadian Edition. Photo cover of Gene Autry. Stories and art by Jesse Marsh, Elizabeth Beecher, and Nicholas Firfires. Singing cowboy Gene Autry was a multimedia star from the 1930s-1950s, in music, movies, radio, and television, as well as comic books. A telegram brings cowhand Larry some good news, but Mack overhears and plans an ambush. Gene arranges a surprise for the Rannigan Gang. Panhandle Pete tells the tale of the Unluckiest Prospector. Renegades of Gold Bar; The Unluckiest Prospector; The Final Payment; The Outlaws of Moccasin Bend. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Johnny Craig. Stories by Gardner Fox and others. Art by Graham Ingels, Fred Peters, Harry Harrison, Wally Wood and Johnny Craig. The final issue of this Pre-Trend title from EC Comics, before it was rebranded as the more famous Haunt of Fear. Gunfighter and his new sidekick "Pancho" help a prospector and his beautiful daughter who have been targeted by bandits. An outlaw accuses The Buckskin Kid of killing a chieftain's son, and only the boy's return can save the Kid from burning at the stake. A Six-Gun Sisters story with art by future SF writer Harry Harrison and comics legend Wally Wood. Cover features early art by EC legend Johnny Craig. The Dead Mans Trail!; ….The Secret Strangler!; Hero...By Mistake; Ramseys Revenge!; Stage Money; Buckskin Kid: The Golden Killer! Final issue under this title; series continues as Haunt of Fear (1950 #15-17) #15. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Photo cover by Theda Hall and Emerson Hall. Stories and art by Mart Bailey and Mort Meskin. Headline Comics featured the lurid, hard-edged crime dramas then in vogue, many by Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. George Gabor swindles a fortune by forging checks and impersonating people; Two boys grow up together in Fort Worth, but one becomes a crook and one an undercover G-man; The photo cover may feature another appearance by artist Joe Simon. The Case of Joe Andrews; Counterfeit Winners; Justice Has Icy Fingers!; The Human Bloodhound; Inside Information; The Man of Many Faces. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Vintage supermarket tabloid magazine full of high profile true crime stories of the FBI and the CIA, some with testimonials from those involved in, or close to the cases themselves. 8.5" x 10.5", 66 pages, B&W. Recommended for ages 16+. Cover price $0.25.

Photo Cover. Stories by unknown. Art by unknown. Glamorous women reveal their secret longings and thrilling loves! In this issue: "Frozen Paradise"; "Heart's Decision"; "False Caresses"; and "Song of Desire"! Plus: Advice on Love Problems letters page by Marilyn Minton. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Bob Powell and others. A romance comic from Harvey, as the teens of the 1950s explore the new world of dating. Debbie falls for her buddy Russ, but finds herself trapped in the friendzone. Gloria is torn between handsome Kip and nerdy Mark, until a student council election forces her to make a choice. Naive Cindy feels the Earth move during a party game of Spin the Bottle, but she doesn't know the identity of the lucky boy she kissed. City girl Marion feels country boy Jack is too fresh when they meet in a haystack, but she warms to him after he works bare-chested in her family's yard. More Than A Pal; The Mystery Woman; I Flattered Men; A Change of Plans; Hi-School Hi-Spots; My Blue Dress Blues; A Kiss to Remember; Heaven On A Haystack. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 10, Issue 1 - April, 1950. 6.5" x 9.5", 132 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Photo cover features June Allyson. Something different from Crestwood/Feature: retellings of classic Hollywood movies using official film stills with added word balloons, creating fumetti with all-star casts. This issue includes Deadly Is the Female, better known as the cult classic Gun Crazy, and other film noir classics. Starring Peggy Cummings, John Dall, Robert Mitchum, Joan Fontaine, Gail Russell, Farley Granger, Peggy Ryan, Zachary Scott, John Payne, Lon Chaney Jr., Robert Ryan and Joan Leslie. Deadly Is the Female; Captain China; Bed Of Roses; Born to Be Bad; Side Street. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Photo cover of Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd). "The Arsenal Murders!", art by Joe Certa; An outlaw gang has stolen guns from military arsenals and killed the guards. "The Land Grabber," art by Charles Quinlan; Landgrabbers try to chase the Indians off their land. "The Elephant Hunter"; Whitey wants to go to Africa and catch an elephant for the circus. "The Unfortunate Flight," art by Charles Quinlan; Deputy Mesquite buys a pigeon for the pigeon race. "Silent Slim's Enemy" text story by R. R. Symes. "The Bad Egg" starring Big Bow and Little Arrow. "Dress up Just Like Hopalong Cassidy" Porter's ad. "The Return of the Dead!", art by Joe Certa; A fired drunk stage driver kills to get his job back. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.