Comic books May 1950

In order of appearance: "The Gloved Hand" reprinted as "The Hand of Crime..." in Shocking Mystery Cases (1952) #56; "The Kidnapping Trio" art by Pete Morisi, reprinted as "The Trio of Terror" in Shocking Mystery Cases (1952) #55; and "The Singing Waiter" retitled and reprinted as "Song of Death...!" in All Famous Police Cases (1952-54) #15. "Slaves of the Sahara" text story reprinted from Captain Kidd (1949) #24. 36 pages. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 1, Issue 1 - April/May, 1950. Short-lived vintage men's interest magazine that focused entirely on tasteful amateur cheesecake pin-up pictorials. 8" x 10.5", 64 pages, B&W. -Recommended for ages 16+ Cover price $0.25.

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"Vanguard of the Lost" a novelette by John D. MacDonald.

Volume 12, Issue 5 - May, 1950. Cover by H. J. Blumenfeld. Science Fiction and Adventures stories. This issue features "The Mental Assassins" by Gregg Conrad. Softcover Pulp, 7-in x 10-in, 162 Pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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May 1950. Softcover Pulp, 7-in. x 9-in.; 130 Pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Canadian Edition says "The World's Most Unforgettable Fiction" on cover Cover price $0.25.

Volume 1, Issue 1 - May 1950. Stories include; "She Said 'Take Me if You Can'" by Theodore Roscoe, "Speak to Me of Death" by Cornell Wollrich, "The Flying Eye" by Robert Arthur and "The Ghost and Captain Lawrie" by Richard Sale. Squarebound, 5" x 7.5", 128 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Volume 3 - Issue 3, May 1950. Pulp magazine devoted to exploring the paranormal. This issue features "The Shaver Mystery", "How to Practice Telepathy", "The House That Spirits Built", and a look at "Buddhism Today". Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 7 1/2-in., 130 page, Text (with B&W Illustrations and Photos). Cover price $0.25.

Untitled story, pencils by Reed Crandall (?); Stunt Man Stetson has a new admirer, Ann Joyce, who wrote the screenplay for his new movie. Minx is not amused. A has-been actor turned criminal disrupts filming, but Nipper saves the day. "Look, Emerson!", script and art by Harry Sahle; Rims' scheme to raise money for a date backfires. Untitled Lala Palooza story, script and art by Bernard Dibble; Vincent tries to dress younger, and then has to get a birthday present for Lala. "Roland's Horn"; Swing Sisson buys Roland's horn, which has the power to turn back armies; Rugg, a crime boss, has other plans for it. Untitled story, script and art by Bernard Dibble; Shenanigan has to deal with a new judge, and an uncle with a weakness for pulling beards. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Otto Messmer and Joe Oriolo. Comics adventures of the popular, long-running cartoon character. Felix goes on another of his flying-carpet adventures. A scary radio show has Felix on edge, and his nephews are practicing their shadow animals at the same time. Felix investigates a sudden racket. Shadow Shudders; Felix Comes Through; Vegetaria; Felix Spruces Up; Monty Monk. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Jack Kamen and others. Edited by Joseph V. Daffron and Jerry Iger. Stories and art by Robert Webb, Bill La Cava, John Forte, and David Heames. A combat-themed anthology from Fiction House that featured early work from many future comics legends (often uncredited) in the Eisner-Iger Shop. A colonial official promotes intertribal warfare to benefit his trading scheme, but first he must get rid of Tiger Girl; Hooks Devlin and Peaches get involved in a power struggle over a Balkan nation; Senorita Rio's trapeze skills come in handy when she goes undercover at a circus (complete with leopard-print leotard) to track a smuggling gang. Tiger Girl; Risks, Unlimited starring Rip Carson; Kayo Kirby; Wild Life in Tiger Girl's Jungle; The Invisible Enemy: Conclusion; Hooks Devlin; Senorita Rio; Captain Fight. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Photo cover features Lizabeth Scott and Robert Cummings. Stories and art by Kenneth Fitch, Milt Hammer, Ken Battefield, Jay Disbrow and Bernard Baily. A combination of romance comics and celebrity gossip from L. B. Cole's Star Publications. Actors find themselves faced with the choice between stardom or romance. Sheriff Ed falls for Sylvia, but his old childhood rival Wilson makes trouble for them both. A comics biography of movie legend Douglas Fairbanks Sr., plus mini-bios of Lizabeth Scott and Robert Cummings, stars of the 1950 film "Paid in Full." Love or Box Office; Hammertoons; The Bitter Medicine; Lizabeth Scott; Robert Cummings; Douglas Fairbanks; Shadows; The Beauty Scar. Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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 go West to help Willy save her dude ranch from a conniving cowhand. Jingle Dingle the weather elf, another popular icon from the early days of television, has an Old West adventure when his "telebell" leads him to bank-robbing outlaws. Escaped convicts get ahold of the remote for Foodini's new robot. Magic tricks submitted by readers. Plus an illustrated feature on the creators of the puppets, Hope and Morey Bunin. Meet the Bunins, Hope and Morey; Foodini Finds an Island; Sand Drifters; Foodini's Great Magic; Reptile Rhapsody; Jingle Dingle: The Little Man Who Is Always There; Westward Ho With Pinhead; Robot Trouble; Foodini's Predicament; Jingle Dingle: Things You'll Never See; Foodini's Magic. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "Walt Disney's DONALD DUCK in ANCIENT PERSIA, No. 275." Cover art by Carl Barks. Donald Duck in Ancient Persia, script and art by Carl Barks; The ducks are kidnapped by a mysterious scientist and flown to Persia, where they dig into an ancient city, Itsa Faka. Jet-Job Joes, art by Paul Murry; The nephews want to enter their racer in a race, but Donald doesn't want them to go very fast. Rules 'n' Regulations, art by Paul Murry; Tired of the nephews messing up the house, Donald makes a set of rules that they have to follow; To escape the regulations, the nephews build a houseboat. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is "UNCLE WIGGILY, No. 276." Cover art by Dan Gormley. The Frog Pond Fright; Uncle Wiggly and Uncle Butter build a boat, but when they launch it into the Frog Pond, they run into the Scillery Scallery Alligator. The Woodland Circus; Fuzzy Fox and Shaggy Wolf disguise themselves as clowns to get into Uncle Wiggily's Woodland Circus. The Prize Pumpkin; Wiggily takes his prize pumpkin to the county fair; On the way he has to elude the Pipsisewah and the Skeezicks. The Pie Snatcher; Wiggily sets a trap to catch whoever is stealing Nurse Jane's pies from her window sill. Wiggily the Baby-Sitter; The Bad Chaps pretend to be a mother and her son so they can hire Wiggily as a baby-sitter. Scripts by Roger Garis, art by Francis Kirn. Reprinted from Uncle Wiggily (Bell Syndicate) newspaper strips. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Indicia title is PORKY PIG in DESERT ADVENTURE, No. 277. Desert Adventure, art by Fred Abranz; As part of a plan to evict Porky and keep his first month's rent, landlord Squire Squeeze puts an ostrich in Porky's house; Porky and Sylvester take the ostrich to the desert to dump it, but Porky's car gets hooked by a runaway hot air balloon and they end up lost in the middle of the desert. The Lost Look, pencils by John Carey; After frightening Petunia as a joke and causing her to spill ink on her new dress, Porky has to find a way to get the ink spots out. Super-Strength, art by Gil Turner; Porky borrows Cicero's Hercules play suit to wear to a masquerade party. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Indicia title is "BILL ELLIOTT COMICS, No. 278." Cover photo of Bill Elliott. Inside front cover photo of Bill Elliot. The War on Spider Creek, art by Cary; Bill is summoned by Clay Fielding to Marin County; There he finds that Fielding is in a conflict with Martin West and the Drag-W over the water rights to Spider Creek; Fielding needs the water for his paper mill. The Ghost of Poco Loco Ridge, art by Cary; Bill saves a man from quicksand in a river; He finds that the man and his partner had struck gold earlier and that his partner threw him into the quicksand so that he could register the claim in his name only. Drive to Thunder Butte, art by Cary. Bill Elliot back cover photo. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Wally Wood. Jungle adventure based on real-life big game hunter Frank Buck, famous for coining the phrase Bring 'em back alive. Buck investigates reports of an island of giant lizards; Fun facts about giraffes, crocodiles, rhinos, zebras and baboons; A legend of deadly tigers brings Buck to India's Forbidden Jungle. The Graveyard of the Devil Lizards; African Game; The Ghost Tigers of Assam; Safari's Bribe; Behind the Granger Falls. 32 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. A mistake with hair dye leads to Gabby being mistaken for the fearsome outlaw Bluebeard. Gabby gets new glasses that make him more nearsighted than before, just in time to ruin a fancy-dress dinner. Gabby tries to prove that he's a rodeo trick-rider. Favorite line this issue: "It ain't fair to match an ole mustang like me against sech iggerant youngsters!" Chief Gray Matter; Bluebeard; Young Falcon: Death Rides the Present; The Spectacular Spectacles; Buck Desmond: Star Witness; Trick Rider; Loco Lew. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Vol. 9 #3 - May/June 1950. Single-panel gag cartoons. 10 1/2-in. x 13-in., 40 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Cover art by Nick Cardy. You Sue 'Em--I Serve 'Em, script by Phil Evans, pencils by Ruben Moreira. The Ten Million Dollar Graveyard, script by Phil Evans, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Stan Kaye. The Men behind the Prowl Car, art by Howard Sherman. The Case of the Stolen Plot, pencils by Joe Certa, inks by John Guinta. The Four Sons of Crime, art by Nick Cardy. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Photo cover of Gene Autry. Stories and art by Jesse Marsh, Mike Arens, 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. Gene foils an outlaw's ambush, and wants to find out what Jim Russell has done that people want to kill him. He goes undercover as a ranch hand to find rustlers. Gene confronts river pirates. Panhandle Pete tells the tale of the Lost Galleon. No Sale; The Lost Galleon; Hop Sings Outlaw Trap; The River Pirates. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Canadian Edition. Photo cover of Gene Autry. Stories and art by Jesse Marsh, Mike Arens, 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. Gene foils an outlaw's ambush, and wants to find out what Jim Russell has done that people want to kill him. He goes undercover as a ranch hand to find rustlers. Gene confronts river pirates. Panhandle Pete tells the tale of the Lost Galleon. No Sale; The Lost Galleon; Hop Sings Outlaw Trap; The River Pirates. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories by Dan Gordon and Don Christensen. Art by Dan Gordon, Don Christensen, Bob Wickersham and Ken Hultgren. Cover by Dan Gordon. Funny-animal mayhem from Creston, an imprint of independent publisher ACG, with art by cartooning legend Dan Gordon. When Superkatt develops amnesia after a blow to the head, Humphrey shows him a copy of Giggle Comics to remind him who he is; Former circus elephant Bungle returns to the jungle and tries to teach the other animals about showbiz, so they can escape hunters in the wild by joining the circus; The Dope confuses a giant gorilla in a monster movie ("Mighty Moe Mung") with a real escaped gorilla, with tragically comic results. Superkatt; Colorful Chameleon; The Bees and the Bear; The Duke and the Dope; The Squire and the Chip; Ozzie the Ostrich; Toddy Bear; Monty, the Miracle Mouse; Bungle of the Jungle. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Eddie Robbins, Robert Webb, Helen Lane and Alden McWilliams. Fawcett flirted with romance comics in the early days of the genre, resulting in short-lived, photo-covered experiments in melodrama. Marge becomes a diner waitress and falls for owner Larry, but she's used to disappointment and doesn't think that will work out either. Leslie gets a job at a five-and-dime and falls for manager Jack, but she still dreams of Hollywood stardom. Joan resents her family's dependence on the wealthy Lowey family, even though she's dating Bob Lowey herself. Destination: Heartbreak; The World of Romance!; Lost Illusion; Flowers in the Sun; Rejected Rapture. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Don Lynch and others. A magazine for girls from the producers of Parents' Magazine, with stories, fashion and advice as well as comics. Aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart dares new boundaries and disappears into history; Disney's Cinderella used as a guide to makeup and fashion; ; A comics biography of opera legend Patrice Munsel, who at 17 was the youngest singer ever to star at the Metropolitan Opera. Parents Are Particular; Tizzie; One Touch of Magic; Amelia Earhart; The Secret Treasure; Make It Yourself; Curtain Call; Just Desserts. 40 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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How much heartache they would have been spared had the lovebirds revealed to them the secret of becoming..."Partners in Romance," the cover-featured 8 page story. Plus: 8 page story "My Other Life"; 8 page story "Stand-in for Glamor"; 8 page story "Close to My Heart"; 1 page Daisy's Diary story "Movie Talking"; 2 page text story "You'll Just Know"; 12 page story "Love Letters" pencilled by Carmine Infantino; 1 page poem "Seeing Stars." Cover photo by Ted Koepper. Cover price $0.10.

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May 5, 1950. "America's First Motion Picture Trade Journal." Variety-like magazine covering the movie news of the week. 9.25 in. x 12.25 in.; black and white; 12 pages.

Issue #63, 1950. Humorous single-panel cartoons and some text stories. 8-in. x 11-in., 48 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Frank Frazetta text illustration(s)

Contains three Frank Frazetta illustrations. Frazetta illustrations appear in eighteen consecutive issues of Happy Comics (1943) (#20-#37) and in sixteen consecutive issues of Goofy Comics (1943 Nedor/Standard) (#20-#35). Contains funny animal stories. In order of appearance: "Happy in 'The Masquerade!'" by Vincent Fago; "Bruno Bear"; "Sandy"; "Tex"; "Happy"; "Little Billy Bear" art by Lynn Karp; "Whitey in 'The Magic Drink'" art by Bob Wickersham; "Samuel Spaniel in 'Locked Out!'" by Lynn Karp; "Hubert in 'Out in the Cold!'"; and "Professor Ripp...and Peter..." art by Don Christensen. Illustrated text stories: "Woodland Olympics: Little Tom Frog Enters the Broad-Jumping Contest!" by Donald Bayne Hobart, illustration by Frazetta; "Jerry for President: Candidate Giraffe Reaches for a High Office!" by Uncle Andy, illustration by Frazetta; and "Nibby: This Poor Little Kitten Wanted a Good Home!" by Betty Cummings, illustration by Frazetta. 52 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.

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Painted cover by Alex Toth. Stories and art by Ed Moore, H. G. Peter, Phil Berube, Jerry Fasano, Bill Everett, Mo Weiss and Sam Glanzman. Non-fiction comics featuring true tales of heroism from everyday people and courage on the battlefield. An African-American sailor risks his life to save an injured man aboard another ship; The Coast Guard uses a "rocket gun" to rescue a stranded chimneysweep; A bus driver avoids an icy accident and saves a boys basketball team. Painted cover by comics legend Alex Toth. Hero of the High Seas; Quagmire!; Bus Driver Hero; River Rescue; Crack-Up!; Courage Cheats the Smoke; The Crippled Crime Buster; Potomac Rescue; Gravel-Pit Pool Hero; Heroic Mailman; Arlene Bailey; Steeplejack; Lucky Hunch; Supreme Sacrifice; City Hero; Dockside Rescue; Match Fire; A Present for Mother; Night of Terror; Pete Summers and the Runaway Bus. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Art by Jack Fisk and Jo Hogan. Numbering continues from My Love Story (1949 1st Series) #4. Western stories featuring early movie cowboy Hoot Gibson and other heroes of the range. How Hoot Gibson went from teen cowpoke to Western movie star; Sharp-shooting Cactus Nell helps her sheriff husband battle outlaws in Scrub Oaks; The true story of Wild Bill Hickok's death and the legendary Dead Man's Hand. Cowboy's Cowboy; Polka Dot Gang; Cactus Nell: Clue of the Red Clay; Death Was the Joker; Dry Gulch Trail. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Western adventure featuring one of the most popular heroes of the mid-20th century, star of TV, film and radio. Hopalong tries to figure out how a band of outlaws disappeared after he and Mesquite had them cornered in a shack. The townspeople give Hoppy a golden revolver as a token of thanks, but it just attracts owlhoots who want the gun for themselves. Sulky plots to get out of a $500 debt with some mail fraud, but accidentally causes the Pony Express rider to plummet off a high cliff - along with the evidence. The Disappearing Desperadoes!; The Golden Gun; Hill Billy; Mesquite's Hobby Horse; Country Schoolmarm; Big Bow and Little Arrow: The Square-Heads Square Dance; Ronnie and Johnnie; Whitey Whiskers: The Big Holdup!; The Missing Mail. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

UK Edition. black and white; 24 pages.