Comic books August 1955

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Cover art by John Stanley. The Case of the Mysterious Noise; Tubby finds out what made the big noise in Lulu's house. The Two-Timer; Tubby tricks Lulu into thinking her doll is sick so that he can take Gloria to the movies instead. Santa in the Summertime; The Fellers put a Christmas tree in the clubhouse to feel cool in the summer. Little Itch's Spell; Lulu tells Alvin about Itch's spell over the poor little girl who says she is sick and tired of everything. Girl Bites Boy; Lulu and Gloria are competing by selling kisses to the boys. The Ghost; Tubby thinks of everything to try to get the ghost out of his bedroom. All scripts and pencils by John Stanley, inks by Irving Tripp. One-page text story, Lulus Diry ("Diary"). 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Warren Kremer and Al Avison. Joe Palooka's speechless sidekick from the popular Ham Fisher boxing strip gets his own comic, noteworthy for early versions of Little Dot and other Harvey characters. Little Max gives new meaning to counting sheep when you can't sleep. Humphrey digs a new well after drinking the old one dry. Sleepy-Time Gal; Good Skate; Tricky Television; Nobody's Nickel; Shoeshine Boy; Humphrey: Well Well Well; Humphrey's Joggerfy Quiz; The Show Must Go On; Brain Storm in the Rain; A Poem for Alice. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 9, Issue 2 - August 1955. Cover by Edward Emsh. Fantasy and science fiction stories by Henry Kuttner, C.L. Moore, Poul Anderson, Gordon R. Dickson, Elisabeth Sanxay Holding, and Mildred Clingerman. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 7 1/2-in., 128 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

Add to cart Very Good $33.00 View scans Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

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Volume 5, Issue 8 - August 1955. Adventure stories, articles and nude photos. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in. 98 Pages B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Rock Murdock in an untitled story, plus "Night Patrol" (art by Dick Ayers), Boot-Camp Brady in "For Boots Only," "One-Man Mission" (pencils by Bob Forgione, inks by Jack Abel), and a two-page text story, "Burma Adventure." Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.5 $395.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: Off white to white Label #1197184001 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $84.95 or Best Offer View scans Cover detached at one staple and coming loose at the other. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Lost...One Robot, pencils by Bob Forgione, inks by Jack Abel; A scientist attempts to build a robot companion but becomes jealous of its abilities; The machine can even read his mind and when the scientist thinks of dismantling the device, the robot falls apart in despair. Courage text story. The Door That Wouldn't Stay Shut!, art by Bob Powell; A landlord replaces a tenant's door with a door that continues to open of its own volition, so the man nails it shut for the night; When a fire breaks out, the door still opens itself, despite the nails. King of the World; A physicist wants his youth back so he can use his knowledge to lord it over people and drinks a youth serum that regresses him to infancy. He Came From Nowhere, art by John Forte; A man down on his luck is helped out by a 'dog' who is actually an angel. A Jinn Named Joe; An office employee gets a Jinn who helps him achieve material success, but then he becomes unpopular around the office. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 59, Issue 236 - August, 1955. Digest-size UK men's magazine. Articles, humor, and pin-up photos. 5" x 7.25", 152 pages, B&W with color.

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Published from 1950-1959, this Belgian publication reprinted various Disney comics and strips in a magazine-sized format with half the pages in color and half in black and white on newsprint pages. Each issue had 20 pages. In addition to comic stories, issues featured puzzles, editorials, and letters columns. The stories, including ones by Carl Barks, were serialized and often printed one page per issue, but each issue ended with one complete story. As a result, many stories were resized to five or six lines per page.

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Published from 1950-1959, this Belgian publication reprinted various Disney comics and strips in a magazine-sized format with half the pages in color and half in black and white on newsprint pages. Each issue had 20 pages. In addition to comic stories, issues featured puzzles, editorials, and letters columns. The stories, including ones by Carl Barks, were serialized and often printed one page per issue, but each issue ended with one complete story. As a result, many stories were resized to five or six lines per page.

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Published from 1950-1959, this Belgian publication reprinted various Disney comics and strips in a magazine-sized format with half the pages in color and half in black and white on newsprint pages. Each issue had 20 pages. In addition to comic stories, issues featured puzzles, editorials, and letters columns. The stories, including ones by Carl Barks, were serialized and often printed one page per issue, but each issue ended with one complete story. As a result, many stories were resized to five or six lines per page.

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Volume 53, Issue 2 - August, 1955. Articles, schematics and photos on the latest available flying models. 8.5" x 11", 60 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

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August 1955. Movie magazine featuring gossip, news and articles. Heavily illustrated with posed and candid photographs. 8 1/2-in. x 10 3/4-in., 82 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Stories and art by Richard Doxsee and Kurt Schaffenberger. Pre-Code tales of horror and the supernatural from Story Comics. Failed artist George stumbles on a Tahitian "voodoo paint" that causes the subject of a painting to die if the painting is destroyed. Department-store worker Laura learns all the mannequins are secretly alive, and falls in love with her handsome mannequin captor, in a story featuring art by Superman artist Kurt Schaffenberger. Jack and Jill's always-filling pail is revealed as the source of Victoria Falls, in a revisionist version of the classic nursery rhyme. Paint the Town Red; Strange Adventure; Whos the Dummy?; A Date with Destiny; Bal Masque; Mother Shmoo's Nursery Tales: Jack and Jill. Final issue of the series. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $93.00 View scans Staple rust with migration. Moisture damage. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Cover art by Carl Burgos. The Bridge to Nowhere, art by Sid Greene. The Green Hat text story. The Strange Seeds, art by Pete Tumlinson. The Unhappy Lions!, art by Paul Reinman. The Stranger!, art by Ed Winiarski. Factory in the Sky!, art by Mort Lawrence. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.5 $143.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Label #4395236017 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

"Captain Izzy and Washt Upps" (Captain Easy parody with art by Bill Elder), "A Star is Corn" (A Star is Born parody with art by Jack Davis), "Punch Lines" (art by Bill Elder), and "Foreign Movies" (art by Jack Davis). Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 11, Issue 4 - August 24, 1955. Nejla Ates cover, article, and centerfold. Pocket-sized, 4" x 6", 68 pages, B&W. MATURE READERS Cover price $0.15.

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Volume 1, Issue 19 - August 13, 1955. Pictorial digest featuring models, actor gossip, and interesting news stories. 4-in. x 6-in., 68 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

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MATURE READERS. Cover price $0.50.

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Comic book starring the Warner Bros. cartoon character Porky Pig. Porky Pig and "Geronimo, the Genie" Porky Pig and Cicero make wishes with a magical lamp they discover, Porky Pig and "The Great Arctic Discovery" A freak twister transports Porky Pig and Petunia to the arctic where the meet two fellows on an expedition, Porky Pig in "A Ferry Tale", Porky and Bugs Bunny ferry their car across a river and run into a wild man living on an island, plus Porky Pig in four short untitled stories. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $19.00 View scan Water damage. Store stamp. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by TheGoodOlDays

Cover art by John Severin. American Eagle and the Renegades, pencils by John Severin. Roundup text story. The Remuda Rustlers, art by Marvin Stein. Captives in the Wolf Country starring American Eagle, art by Rocco Mastroserio. Pistols of the West. The Weakling starring American Eagle, pencils by Marvin Stein. T. C. Henry text story. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $100.00 View scans 1.5" Cumulative spine split. Cover detached at one staple. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Cover by Jack Kamen. Stories by Dan Keyes and Robert Bernstein. Art by Marie Severin and Jack Kamen. One of EC Comics' late New Direction titles, a response to the new Comics Code. Perhaps the strangest comic of that line, if not of all time, this features ordinary people Freddy, Ellen and Mark as they undergo Freudian analysis to find the root of their neuroses. Definitely one of a kind. Featuring some stories by Daniel Keyes, later the author of the science fiction classic Flowers for Algernon. Freddy is unusually insistent that he is not reading the sports pages. Ellen remembers the time she was happy - her weeks on the farm with Ted. Case No. 101 Male Session 3: Freddy Carter; Case No. 102 Female Session 3: Ellen Lyman; Your Life Is In Your Dreams; Case No. 103 Male Session 3: Mark Stone. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Softcover magazine, 8 1/2" x 10 3/4", 90 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

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Photo cover. Distinguished Achievement Award presented to George T. Delacorte, Jr. Strange Heritage starring Rex Allen, Koko, Mrs. Grimson, Bert Clay, and the Sheriff, art by Sparky Moore. The Deluge Discovery starring Rex Allen, Koko (horse), Lane Wilson, Bull, and Mott. Koko Takes Charge starring Koko, Teddy, and Uncle Booter, art by Nat Edson. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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"The Barranca Trail" and "The Wall of Water" (art on both by John Buscema). Chuckwagon Charley's Tales back-up story. Photo cover. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $6.00 View scans Staple rust. Rust migration. Corner Damage. Creasing. Denting. Foxing. Residue. Scuffing. Soiling.

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Volume 2, Issue 2 - August 1955. Cover by Robert Doares. Men's interest magazine focusing on true-life jungle and hunting stories and articles. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 82 pages, Text with B&W photos Cover price $0.35.

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Stories and art by Mike Sekowsky and John Belfi. Crime and detection in the English capitol, featuring the intrepid Inspector Farnsworth. Farnsworth tracks Nazi double agent Martin Richards, who infiltrated England in the closing days of WWII. The Inspector investigates an attempted robbery and a suicide...or was it murder? Detective Hammish - who actually wears a Sherlock-style deerstalker cap and smokes a pipe - investigates a murder on stage at the opera. The Double Agent; The Big Question; Crime Tracks; Danger Ahead; Crime Fighting; Crime Clues; Mystery at the Opera. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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War comics from Charlton focusing on the US Marine Corps. Sergeant Harms and his squad are assigned to hold a hill overlooking a road in Korea. An embedded war correspondent causes trouble for a Marine squad, until a minefield and a captive village offer him the chance to be a hero. Plus military shenanigans with Quigley and Beals, the brawling, womanizing stars of Toby's Fighting Leathernecks (1952). Assigned to abduct a North Korean officer from behind enemy lines, Quigley and Beals face an additional challenge because of Quigley's spotty memory. The Occupation of Yongyang; Bell Bottom Bill; Wilbur the Waiter; Monty Hall: Henry the Fighting Leatherneck; The Lord of the Forbidden Interior; Quigley and Beals: Memory Lame. Final issue under this title; series continues as Fightin' Army (1956 Charlton) #16. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 6, Issue 8 - August 1955. Men's adventure magazine featuring articles on sports, hunting politics and crime. "Women Who Shocked America". 10-in. x 13-in., 98 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Art by Bob Powell and Fred Meagher. Cover by Fred Meagher. Rancher Steve Adams, a Comanche raised by white settlers, has a secret identity as the warrior Straight Arrow, a hero who first appeared on a popular radio show. Outlaw king Don Diablo seeks the hidden Treasure of Don Carlos; Red Hawk pursues the killer who stalks a crucial mountain pass; In the frozen north, Straight Arrow battles the Tyrant of the Snows and his trained polar bear. Classic cover by Fred Meagher. The Treasure of Don Carlos; Tyrant of the Snows; Red Hawk: Renegade Trap!; A Day for Straight Arrow. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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"The Ark From Planet X," "The Super-Athletes From Outer Space!" (pencils by Gil Kane), "Legacy From the Future!" (art by Carmine Infantino), and "The World That Vanished!" Kane cover pencils. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.0 $365.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: White Slab: Scuffing to inner well of case Label #3860398006 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Cover art by Sol Brodsky. "A Stroke of the Pen," pencils by Jack Katz; A miser who owns many pieces of Americana is surprised to learn that a pen which belonged to one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence has written a check by itself for a million dollars of his money to a charity benefiting refugees from tyranny around the world. "The Richest Man in the World," art by Mort Lawrence; A story that shares plot elements with Frederick Pohl's satire "Midas World." "Too Many Robots," art by Vic Carrabotta; A robot that is mistaken for human quells a potential riot against his kind. "The Hero" text story, art by John Romita. "Out of the Storm!", art by Dick Ayers; After sled dogs perish in a fire, their ghosts lead a stranded man in a blizzard to safety. "Don't Think So Loud," script by Paul S. Newman, art by Art Peddy; When a business tycoon gains the power to read the minds of others, he realizes that he is thought of poorly and changes his stingy ways. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $12.00 View scan Spine roll. Imminent cover detachment. 1" tear from edge.

Art by Bob Powell and others. Cover by Bob Powell. Sometimes listed as A1 Comics (1944 Life's Romances) #134. An orphaned acrobat is raised by circus folk to become a strongman performer, using his abilities for crimefighting whenever the need arises. Spies accidentally deliver secret plans to Strong Man's dwarf pal The General; When a flood strikes Pineville, Strong Man rescues victims and battles escaped convicts; Strong Man must stop the gigantic clock in a town's clock tower before a bomb goes off. Too Many for Strongman; Muscle Building - The Two Hand Snatch; The Deluge; Muscle Building World Champs; Snowed In; The Deadly Hour. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 5.5 $995.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Label #4308126022 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Add to cart VG 4.0 $350.00 View scans Conserved TRIMMED. CONSERVATION. Archival tape on spine/around staples. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by Bud Plant

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $375.00 View scans Cover oxidation. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Namora appearance. Sub-Mariner battles commies on a cover by Joe Maneely. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $120.00 View scans Water damage.

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Add to cart GD- 1.8 $79.95 or Best Offer View scans 1.75" Cumulative spine split. Heavy cover oxidation. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover art by Al Plastino. The Camera Club Scoops starring Superman, The Midnite Gang, and The Candid Camera Club, script by Bill Woolfolk, art by Al Plastino. The 1,000 Lives of Superman starring Superman and Mona Miles, script by Bill Finger, pencils by Wayne Boring, inks by Stan Kaye. They Fight Fires From the Inside text story by John Mason. The Incredible Feats of Lois Lane, art by Al Plastino; Lois faces danger in her job as a reporter. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart FR 1.0 $39.00 View scan 5-1/2" Cumulative spine split. Cover detached at one staple. 1-3/4" Spine damage. Water damage.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $149.95 or Best Offer View scans 4" cumulative spine split. Water spotting. Cover oxidation. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Stan Kaye. The King of Magic!, script by Otto Binder, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Ray Burnley; Jimmy dresses up like a bellhop to get a story on a magician's convention at Hotel Metropolis. Family Projects can be Fun! public service announcement starring Buzzy, script by Jack Schiff, art by Win Mortimer. Jockey Olsen Rides Star Flash, script by Otto Binder, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Ray Burnley; Jimmy tries to lose weight to be a horse jockey. Jerry Jitterbug humor page by Henry Boltinoff. The White Menace text story by Jack Miller. Varsity Vic humor page by Henry Boltinoff. 100 Pieces of Kryptonite!, script by Otto Binder, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Ray Burnley. Third-page Wildroot Cream-Oil ad featuring Fearless Fosdick by Al Capp. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Painted cover art by Moe Gollub. "Tarzan and the Plague of Lions," script by Gaylord Du Bois, art by Jesse Marsh; Tarzan works with the people of the besieged kingdom of Lutor to acquire one hundred of Cathne's trained war lions to repel the Terrib and gorilla attackers. "Tarzan and the Jungle Changelings," script by Gaylord Du Bois, art by Jesse Marsh; Tarzan, with Boy, a pair of manganis, Jad-bal-ja, and Tantor, recovers cattle stolen from Buto's tribe. "The Rescue" text story starring Mabu. Untitled Brothers of the Spear story, script by Gaylord Du Bois, art by Russ Manning; The brothers search through the caverns of the Royal Mountain and find Tavane. The Gorilla illustration by Jesse Marsh. World Traveler illustration by Jesse Marsh; Portrait of a blackbreasted plover. Water illustration by Jesse Marsh; Portrait of gemsbok. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 5, Issue 5 - August 1st 1955. Celebrity gossip magazine. 4-in. x 6-in., 64 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.