Comic books April 1950

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Volume 43, Issue 172 - April, 1950. Digest-size UK men's magazine. Articles, humor, and pin-up photos. 5" x 7.25", 132 pages, B&W with color.

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April 15, 1950. Weekly magazine published every Friday in London. Features comic strips, text stories, jokes, articles, and activities. 10 3/4-in. x 15-in., 12 pages, PC/BW.

Cover by Mike Arens. Stories and art by Howard Larsen and Mike Arens. "Midget" refers to the digest size of this anthology title from St. John. All of these stories feature "cowboy marshal" Tex West. Tex may have driven the Yaeger Gang out of Buffalo Bend, but he suspects some of the townspeople are still involved with the Yaegers. The mysterious masked head of the Yaeger gang arranges a death trap for Tex West. A showdown at the bank reveals the real bad guys; now all Tex has to do is survive it. Plus a vintage ad for poster-sized "wall charts" featuring "Indians of North America" or the "American Cowboy." Hell-Bent for a Funeral; The Rustlers Lookout; Flames at Midnight. Final issue of the series; Tex West appeared in Slash-D Doublecross (1950) #0 the same year. 6-in. x 8-in., 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Art Bartsch. Art by Art Bartsch, Jim Tyer and Connie Rasinski. The world's mightiest mouse defends Mouseville from danger - mostly cats - in the comic-book adventures of the Terrytoons animated superhero. A bird sanctuary is infiltrated by a hungry vulture. Oil Can Harry and a sailor pal try to trap Pearl Pureheart at the Coney Island Amusement Park, and at sea on a yacht. Home invaders Hammer Head Louie and Stupid meet their match in Mighty Mouse. Edgar Runs Again; The Bird Sanctuary; Sourpuss; The Perils of Pearl Pureheart; Gandy Goose: Uncle Herbie Comes To Town; Mighty Mouse Meets the Toughest Dog in the Whole World; Dinky; Dimwit. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories by Stan Lee and unknown. Art by Dan DeCarlo and unknown. Laffs galore! Millie the Model in: "Storm Over Smooch Street!" by Stan Lee and Dan DeCarlo; "Love that Gal!" with art by Dan DeCarlo; "Can Ya Tie That?" with art by Dan DeCarlo; and an untitled? tale. Plus: 2-page text story "Off the Record"; Hedy De Vine in "Ah, Love!" with story by Stan Lee; and Nellie the Nurse in "Nellie Gets a Ring!" 48 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Articles, schematics and photos on the latest available flying models. 8.5" x 11", 68 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Cover pencils by Reed Crandall, inks by Chuck Cuidera. Untitled stories starring Blackhawk and Spectra, Torchy (script and art by Gill Fox), Ezra (script and art by Harry Sahle), and Will Bragg. Dinner For Blackhawk text story starring Blackhawk. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Al Feldstein. Stories by Gardner Fox and Al Feldstein. Art by Wally Wood, Graham Ingels, Harry Harrison and Al Feldstein. EC's entry to the romance comics genre, in the early Bill Gaines years. Babs wants to focus on her career rather than finding a man, and her boss Don is just a little too grabby. Another early entry from the Harry Harrison-Wally Wood art team, as a woman is torn between her blind husband and the handsome doctor who can save his sight. Redheaded Sherry is engaged to Glenn, but she hasn't gotten over her secret affair with Scott, who's dating Sally. Second Wife; Career Girl; Meant for Each Other; The Love That Might Have Been. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Vintage celebrity gossip tabloid with a focus on Hollywood during the golden-age of cinema. 8.5" x 11.5", 130 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

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Movie cowboy Monte Hale wanders the frontier, cleaning up the West one outlaw at a time. Lobo Long sets up an outlaw encampment inside a reservation, where they are supposed to be outside US law, and Monte is determined to stop it. Monte tries to figure out how highwaymen are targeting stagecoaches carrying gold shipments. The governor hears Gabby bragging about how brave he is, and sends him to negotiate a peace treaty with a dangerous tribe. Plus a cowboy song and a vintage Tootsie Roll ad featuring Captain Tootsie. Outlaw Clean-Out; Gabby Hayes: The Perilous Pipe of Peace; Earthquake City; The Telegraph Goes Through; Old Slick; Bronko Betsy; Big Bow and Little Arrow: Dish Night; Gray Hawk: Peril Passage (text); Road Agent Roundup; Monte Hale's Cowboy Songs: Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Howard Purcell and Sheldon Moldoff. Stories by Phil Evans, Stookie Allen, Henry Boltinoff and unknown. Art by Howard Purcell, Charles Paris, Nick Cardy, George Roussos, Stookie Allen, Henry Boltinoff and unknown. Brand-new adventures of radio's No. 1 hit! Mr. District Attorney in: "The Innocent Man in Murderers' Row!" with art by Howard Purcell and Charles Paris; "The Alibi King!" by Phil Evans, Purcell and Paris; and "Murder at Ceiling Zero!" by Evans, Purcell and Paris. Also in this issue: Fred Tate "S.S. Ace" 1-pager by Stookie Allen; A Police at Work Feature "Bridge Cop" with pencils by Nick Cardy; Stanley Gilkins "Ideal Cop" half-pager by Allen; A Casebook Mystery "The Clue of the Housekeeper's Cold!" with pencils by George Roussos; The Crime File 2-page text article; and Casey the Cop 1-pager by Henry Boltinoff. 48 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Sheldon Mayer (credited as Bud Fisher). Stories and art by Al Smith (credited as Bud Fisher), Jack Schiff, and Al Plastino. DC reprints the comic strip that defined the comic strip, featuring the original tall-and-short comedy duo. Also featuring the "topper" strip Cicero's Cat. Jeff gives the life of a jockey a try. Mutt and Jeff dream that they are an ant and an elephant competing in a race. Jeff's book offers secret schemes to husbands...which makes their wives want the book more. Plus a PSA featuring Superman, promoting the buddy system. Mutt & Jeff; Cicero's Cat; Superman's Code for Buddies; All American Nuts. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Tales of the rocky road to romance from Fox Feature Syndicate. Sometimes listed as My Desire #4. Lolly does not accept her widowed mother's new husband, or her new step-sister Kathy; Don suspects the worst when his wife Lora won't tell her the truth about her past; Josephine resists falling for her father's handsome new employee. Plus love advice to readers and advice on overcoming shyness. Sultry cover by an unknown artist. I Hated Him; My Secret Haunted Me; Love's Mailbox; It's Personal: Are You Shy?; I Tried Not to Love Him. Final issue under this title; numbering continues with Murder Incorporated (1950 2nd Series) #5, oddly enough. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

In order of appearance: "I Didn't Have a Name"; "Honeymoon Without Love"; and "My Two Wedding Rings..". "For Heart's Sake" and "To the Girls! A Miss and Her Man" text articles retitled and reprinted as "Love Cues" and "Charm Cues, A Miss and Her Man" in Popular Teen-Agers (1950) #18. Numbering continues with Will Rogers Western (1950) #5. 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Final issue of the series (continues as Two Gun Western). "Kiss Me," "I Was Engaged To a Puppet," "Deception," and a two-page text story, "Love Comes Quietly." One-page Tootsie Roll ad, "Captain Tootsie Nabs Counterfeiter" by Bill Schreiber. Bettie Page photo cover. Cover price $0.10.

Tales of love and indiscretion from Fox Feature Syndicate. Dorothy learns her new husband Pat is hiding the truth about the woman in his past; Rosa is uncertain about her new fiancee when she learns he has been engaged before; Ann rejects Ron because she doesn't want to be tied down, but soon regrets it. Plus love advice to readers and Jane Manners advice on How to Be Popular. He Lied to Me; I Broke My Own Heart; Lover's Postoffice; From Jane Manners' Scrapbook; I Scorned His Love. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Romances beset by unlikely circumstances from Fox Feature Syndicate. Celeste's friend Sandra leads her into thrill-seeking and trouble, causing steady Ted to dump her; Janie's terror of the water causes her to lose the man she loves; Kristina changes herself to please Johnnie, then learns she's lost the things that made him love her. Plus love advice to readers and Glamour Hints. He Said I Was Frivolous; I Sunk to the Depths; Cupid's Mailbag; PostScript; I Toyed with My Happiness. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Art by Wally Wood and others. Tales of love threatened by the sins of the past. Bev falls in love with Tony, but her interfering mother wants her to keep working in the family factory; Vera elopes with Tom during a drunken party, but soon finds out he's an abusive jerk; Betty feels cramped when her husband's elderly parents move into the house. Plus love advice to readers and the question How About a New Face? My Mother Couldn't Hold Me; I Was a Slave to Love; Problems Of The Heart; Charm Corner; I Tortured My In-Laws. Final issue under this title; numbering continues with Crimes Incorporated (1950 Fox Giant) #12. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Art by Ken Battefield and others. Women confess their secret heartache. A woman falls for a man who orders her around like a servant; A couple's commitment is tested by a new arrival; A woman feels that the guilt in her past threatens her present romantic happiness. Plus love advice to readers. I Fought For My Man; Letters to Peggy; Beauty Tips; My Guilty Kisses. Final issue under this title; numbering continues with Pedro (1950) #18. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Art by Wally Wood and others. Tales of forbidden love from Fox Feature Syndicate. A woman plays the field, but soon finds her indiscretions coming back to haunt her; A couple seems happy enough, until the man turns up in another woman's arms; A fun-loving gal's whirlwind romance leads to something deeper. Plus love advice to readers. I Was Man Crazy; I Thought I Belonged to Him; Ask Trudy Lynn; Take It From Trudy; One Week of Fun. Final issue under this title; numbering continues with Martin Kane (1950) #4. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

The path to true love never did run smooth. Dot, who works for the Orioles baseball team, overlooks co-worker Dick when loutish star athlete Lefty makes a play for her; Redheaded Laura loves Fred, but her domineering mother is arranging her marriage with Eugene; Nina marries childhood sweetheart Jack, but soon becomes bored and longs for excitement. Plus love advice to readers and advice If You Trip the Light Fantastic. I Loved Blindly; He Scorned My Love; Heart's Desire; For Girls Only!; My Forbidden Rapture. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 21, Issue 3 - April, 1950. 6.75" x 9", 132 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Cover features Kay Aldridge from the movie serial Perils of Nyoka. Stories and art by Rod Reed 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 is taking the blonde Whitmore Twins on a tour of the South Pacific when they are captured by the piratical Island Scavengers. In a three-part story, mysterious raiders disguised as police begin abducting innocent civilians. When Nyoka tries to intervene, she's knocked unconscious and left to be torn apart by wild zebus. The Island Scavengers, Part I: The Burning Deck; Ballyhoo Barney: Ballet Laughs!; Part II: The Hollow Mountain; Egbert the Explorer; Part III: Spotlight on Death; Darting Death; The Jungle Raiders, Part I: Unfinished Assignment; Nyoka's Animal Quiz; Sandy the Strong Man; Part II: The Death Plot; Freshman Freddy: Unsuspected Hero; Part III: The Slave Revolt;' Famous Planes. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Pre-Code romance comic from Canadian publisher Superior, featuring torrid melodrama. A female reporter smells a story when millionaire Jack Platt finds his affections torn between two beautiful women. Redheaded waitress Virginia dreams of luring handsome, rich customer Paul away from his stuck-up fiancee. Wanda struggles to recover from her friend Paula's tragic suicide - only to learn her new boyfriend was behind Paula's death! The Strangest Love!; Kiss and Kill!; Three to Make Trouble!; I Loved the Man I Hated! 36 pages, Full Color.

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Digest-sized, 5.5" x 7.5", 166 pages, B&W Cover price $0.25.

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Large format French language magazine with a focus on nude photography. Tinted B&W with some color.

April 1950. Digest-sized humor magazine, one cartoon per page. 5.5" x 7.5". Black and white. Mature. Cover price $0.25.

"Cat and Mouse" (art by Bob Powell); "Murder Perfectly Disguised" (art by Cal Massey); "Crime Without Clues!"; "Murder With No Exit!"; "Double Entry" (art by Massey); "Frankie Janes"; and "The Vampire Bat Kill!" (art by Augie Scotto). Cover price $0.10.