Motion Picture Comics (1950) comic books
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Issue #107
$2.50
Photo cover features Allan "Rocky" Lane. Story by Leo Dorfman, from the screenplay by M. Coates Webster. Art by Pete Riss. Fawcett presents adaptations of popular movies of the 1950s in comics form. This issue is based on Frisco Tornado, a 1950 Republic B-movie western starring Allan "Rocky" Lane. Rocky Lane is a US marshal investigating a scam involving "outlaw insurance." He survives an ambush, but loses his ID in the process. The outlaws use his ID to frame him as the brains behind the outlaw gang and their insurance scam. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #109
$36.00
View scan- Rust migration.
Photo cover features Allan "Rocky" Lane. Story by Leo Dorfman, from the screenplay by M. Coates Webster. Art by Werner Roth. Fawcett presents adaptations of popular movies of the 1950s in comics form. This issue is based on Rough Riders of Durango, a 1951 Republic B-movie western starring Allan "Rocky" Lane. Marshal Rocky Lane intervenes when a corrupt banker plans to foreclose on ranchers who have been targeted by outlaw raids. Rocky suspects that seemingly blameless harness-maker Blake is the secret head of the outlaw gang, working in cahoots with the banker. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #110
$95.00
View scans$36.00
View scan- 3" cumulative spine split. Cover detached at one staple.
Photo cover features Richard Derr and Barbara Rush. Story by Leo Dorfman, from the screenplay by Sydney Boehm. Art by George Evans and Al Williamson. Fawcett presents adaptations of popular movies of the 1950s in comics form. This issue is based on George Pal's 1951 science fiction epic When Worlds Collide. When scientists discover that a "rogue star" is on a collision course with Earth, humanity faces the coming destruction with blind panic. However, an experimental rocket ship may be able to carry a select group of survivors to a new world. This adaptation features art by comics and science-fiction legends George Evans and Al Williamson, who even provide themselves a cameo in the comic. Plus photo stills from the film. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
