Comic books March 1948

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Saxie and Peaches story. Delinquents And Criminals Can Change article by J.M. Master. Gretchen Merrill--Unusual Sports Stars. Fangs the Wolf Boy story, art by Sid Greene. Chuck story, art by Gus Jud. A Great Broadway Detective--True Dramatic Crime. Sid Tannenbaum--Unusual Sports Stars. Ralph Beard--Unusual Sports Stars. Magic Tricks story, pencils by A. W. Nugent. Flying the Freight, art by Ed Moore. Greatest Actress of the World featuring Sarah Bernhardt. Love and Laughter text story. Alib Baba Saves Pasha Kasha's Head. Paula Kann--Unusual Sports Stars. Ham 'n' Eggs story starring Ham and Red Rooster. Lank Strong story. 68 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Reed Crandall. Untitled Spirit story, pencils by Lou Fine, inks by Lou Fine and the Quality shop. Untitled Spirit story with Rogoff. Untitled Spirit story with Cousin Dora's Little Egbert, pencils by Lou Fine, inks by Lou Fine and the Quality shop. Untitled Spirit story featuring the Moorish Section of Central City. Untitled Spirit story featuring Man O' War. Untitled Flatfoot Burns story, script and art by Al Stahl. Untitled Jonesy story, script and art by Paul Gustavson. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Robin in "Rajah Robin," Robotman in "Tops in Crime," Handy Andy, the Star-Spangled Kid in "The Pin-Ball Crimes," and Tomahawk in "Secret of the Stockade." Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Alex Schomburg. Phalanx of Fear starring Tygra. The Scourge of the Dark Seas! starring Sea Eagle. The White Elephant text story starring Tygra by Charles Strong. The Amoeba Men! starring Lance Lewis, Space Detective. The Joneses story. The Longest Arm text story by Edward Hassett. Jefferson Jones story, art by Hal Sherman. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

March 1948. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Wesley Long, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Frank Belknap Long, Henry Kuttner, James Blish, Carter Sprague, and R.C. W. Ettinger. Four Virgil Finlay illustrations. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 148 pages. Cover price $0.20.

Cover pencils possibly by Mike Sekowsky. Firebrand, the Scourge of the Pacific starring Sub-Mariner, Namora, and Firebrand, art by Ken Bald. One Way Ticket text story. Murder Through the Mind starring Sub-Mariner, Namora, and Dr. Macabre. You Can't Get Away With Murder starring the Blonde Phantom and Miss Armanda. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

#64 in a series of 90. Superman-Tim is a boys' clothing catalog, activity book, and comic book all rolled into one, featuring Superman illustrations throughout. All issues are 16 pages unless a Superman story is inserted (bringing page count to 24 or 36 pages). Every issue encourages boys not to be a "Whoo-Shoo" -- a boy who reads "Superman-Tim" but doesn't buy clothes from the Superman-Tim Store. Copyright 1948 by National Comics Pub., Inc., under license to Tim Promotions, Inc. B&W with a single color, 5 1/2 in. x 8 in.

Stories by Ed Gruskin and George Marcoux. Featuring the adventures of Supersnipe, Ulysses Q. Wacky, and Trouble. Two-page Supersnipe text story. 52 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by L. B. Cole. Cadet story, art by Nina Albright; Kit Carter and Dan Merry go on a scavenger hunt. Target story, art by Ken Battefield. Midnight Fiddler text story. Bull's-Eye Bill western story, art by Joe Certa. The Candy Bar starring Speck, Spot, and Sis, art by Alonzo Vincent; Kids dress as the Shadow and Roy Rogers at a masquerade. Targetoons humor page by Milt Hammer. Candid Charlie story, art by Robert Sale (as Bob Q. Siege). Heathcliff the Hobo story, script and art by Art Helfant. Gary Stark story, art by Don Rico. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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"Tarzan and the Captives of the Thunder Valley." Tarzan battles a lion, a crocodile, and a great ape, and then proceeds to destroy one million dollars owned by a slaver. Includes part two of Jesse Marsh's adaptation of Burroughs' Ape-English Dictionary. Script by Gaylord DuBois, art and cover by Jesse Marsh. Cover price $0.10.

March 1948. Jim Hatfield stars in "The Black Gold Secret" written by Jackson Cole. Other western action stories by Joseph Chadwick, Tom Parsons, Allan K. Echols, and Ben Frank. 7" x 9 1/2"; black and white; 114 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

Volume 4, Issue 1 - March, 1948. Magic Periodical put out by Walter B. Gibson with help from Harry Houdini's brother, Hardeen that showcases the talent of magicians as well as teaching tricks to readers. 8.5" x 11", 48 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.50.

Art by Phil De Lara and others. Funny-animal antics from Magazine Enterprises. A rival circus owner steals Little Tops' animals and sells them to the zoo; A sleepwalking Tom-Tom falls into a plot to steal a sacred jewel; Catchy and Scrapps accidentally stow away on a freighter. The Pixie Flyer; Flying Freddy the Model Pilot; Little Tops of the Big Top; Koko and Kola; Tom-Tom the Jungle Boy; Catchy and Scrapps; Goofus the Gopher; The Pixies. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Tom Mix in "The Blaze of Death," "Doc Greene's Dilemma," "The Whip," and "Scales of Justice." Tumbleweed Jr. back-up story, "School Daze." Two "Comix Cards" feature Golden Arrow. Cover price $0.10.

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Spring 1948. Cover by Dreany. Three detective novels: "Tickets for Death" by Brett Halliday, "The Night before Murder" by Steve Fisher, and "Find my Killer" by Manly Wade Wellman. 7" x 10"; black and white; 194 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

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Stories based on actual people and events: The Case of the Seven Hunted Men. He Laughed at Rain; introduction of umbrellas to England. The Radio Industry [VI]--American Adventures in Industry. My Most Interesting True Experience article by Gary Cooper. A Lost World starring the Minoans. Scholar with a Punch about a boxer. Abraham Lincoln's Fighting about balloonist. The Last Stand of a Sea Wolf; German battleship Scharnhorst. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Syd Shores. First appearance of Two Gun Kid in "Introducing the Two Gun Kid," art by Syd Shores; The Two-Gun Kid and his horse Cyclone ride into the town of Sundown, Arizona; There a stray bullet zips by knocking off the cowboy's had; Suspecting trouble, Two-Gun rushes to the saloon where the shot rang out from and finds a man shot in the arm for refusing to take a drink with another. First appearance of Blaze Carson (unnamed) in "The Sheriff"; The Sheriff is spending his quiet day playing checkers with one of the locals when he hears someone beating up on a horse. "Two Hungry Hikers" text story. "The Code of the West," art by Syd Shores; Dry Gultch, Nevada has been plagued with a series of bank robberies that has kept the town living in fear, and the sheriff unable to catch the gang responsible; 20 minutes after the most recent robbery, Sheriff Winn gathers a posse to go out looking for the thieves and bring them to justice. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 53, Issue 8 - March 1948. "A Magazine for Boys and Girls." Stories, poems, and activities designed for kids. 7-in. x 10-in., 36 pages, PC,PB&W Cover price $0.15.

March 1948. 25th Anniversary Issue. Cover by Lee Brown Coye. Horror and supernatural stories by Edmond Hamilton "The Might-Have-Been", Allison V. Harding, H. Russell Wakefield, Manly Wade Wellman, Carl Jacobi, August Derleth "The La Prello Paper", Ray Bradbury "The October Game", Robert Bloch "Catnip", Clark Ashton Smith, Theodore Sturgeon "The Professor's Tidy Bear", Seabury Quinn, Algernon Blackwood, and H. P. Lovecraft (verse). Illustrations by Lee Brown Coye, E. J. Beaumont, Boris Dolgov, and John Guinta. 6 3/4-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 96 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.20.