Comic books June 1948

Cover by Allen Anderson. "Pillar of Fire" by Ray Bradbury and other stories by Henry T. Simmons, J. W. Pelkie, Gardner F. Fox, Damon Knight, William Brittain, Bjarne Kirchhoff, John & Dorothy de Courey, and J. Haravey Haggard. Illustrations by Alden McWilliams, Donel, Meilink, Vincent Napoli, Martin, Hardison. 7-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 128 pages. Cover price $0.20.

Cover art by Jack Cole. Plastic Man story with Woozy Winks and Eaglebeak. Specks story, script and art by Michael Senich. Honeybun story, script and art by Paul Gustavson. Candy story, script and art by P.D. Spirit story, script by Bill Woolfolk, art by Lou Fine. Manhunter story. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Men's interest magazine focusing on true crime, and police cases. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 76 pages, text, with B&W images Cover price $0.25.

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Stories and art by Vic Herman, Charles Spain Verral, Jan Wells, Elizabeth Eicher, Lee Harris, Leona Maughan, Mickey Klar Marks, Florence Tonjes, Nancy Williams, Elise Gibbs, and Marie Cummings. A magazine for girls from the producers of Parents' Magazine, with stories, fashion and advice as well as comics. A history of the circus; Tizzie decides to go fishing instead of just buying a fish at the market like her mother asked; An ad for movie stills from Irving Klaw, better known these days as the man who "discovered" pinup model Bettie Page. Also featuring a full-color comics ad for "The Margaret O'Brien Candy Kitchen" including images of the young movie star. The Pigtail Club; City Sister; 70 Years Under the Big Top; Suited for Sea; Tizzie Goes Fishing; 4 of a Kind; Sorry! No Dogs Allowed; Hobbies; Sea Fare; Almost Cinderella; Once a Pigtailer; Through the Looking Glass; Shore Duty; Riddle of Rose Hill; Pigtailers Talk Things Over; Polly Prefers; Needle Play; Club Round-up; Polly in the Kitchen. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.15.

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Cover by Art Gates. Stories and art by Al Wenzel, Al McLean and Art Gates. Tales of true crime inspired this violent pre-Code crime comic from DS Publishing. The real-life story of Norman "Red" Ryan, who led a double life as a reformed ex-con and radio host, while still running an armed-robbery gang. A woman offers to marry any man who will give her $1,000 for an operation to save her mother's life. In 1924, Felix Sloper is dubbed the "Lone Wolf" for his daring bank robberies in California. Plus an article warning readers about scam-artist tricks. Graduation for Murder; The Saga of Red Ryan; Love for Sale; Hi Lights; Massacre at Canon City Prison; Confessions and a Shave; The Man Who Wanted to Hang; The Luck of Felix Sloper. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Morris Gollub. Stories and art by Walt Kelly, W.J. Enright, Arthur Jameson, Morris Gollub, Frank Jupo and Dan Noonan. Johnny Gruelle's famous doll characters have adventures and learn lessons, featuring early art from Walt Kelly. Legendary Pogo artist Walt Kelly adapts Mother Goose nursery rhymes, including Sugar and Spice and Eeny Meeny. A tailor must find a golden apple to win the hand of the Sultan's daughter. Billy and Bonny Bee try to rescue a stranded ant colony. Plus activity pages and "nonesuch" animals. To a Pussy Willow Tree; A Very Special Pet; Raggedy Ann; None-Such Animals: The Plorn; The Raggedy Way; Hakim the Tailor; Animal Mother Goose; Egbert Elephant; Billy and Bonny Bee; The Little Red Hen. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 41, Issue 1 - June, 1948. 6.75" x 9", 100 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Cover by Bob Lubbers. Edited by Jack Byrne. Stories and art by Bob Lubbers, Ruben Moreira, Charles Sultan, and George Evans. Tales of adventure from pioneering comics publisher Fiction House. Firehair must stop tribal boys from betting the tribe's gold on a bear fight - but first, she fights a mountain lion while wearing nothing but a towel; Department store mannequins aid a cleaning woman who stumbles on would-be arsonists; Killers wracked by guilt reveal their stories to a radio-show host in "I Confess." Action-packed Firehair cover by Bob Lubbers. Firehair; I Confess; World Adventurers; Glory Forbes; The Werewolf Hunter; Sky Rangers; Tiger Man. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Dan Zolnerowich. Stories and art by C. W. Winter and others. Another crime comic from the prolific studio of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, this one featuring crimes throughout history as well as the standard gangster tales. Sometimes listed as Real Clue Crime #28. No issue # on cover; Vol. 3, issue #4 in indicia. A crook targets a traveling jewelry salesman, but he's only as smart as his dumbest cohort. The story of Verne Miller and the Kansas City Massacre. Identical twins complicate a murder investigation. Also featuring a vintage ad for reproduction WWII pistols - "German 9MM Luger and Italian 7.65 Brevettata" - for only $1.25 each. Follow the Ice Man; Cute With a Tommy Gun!; Some Money Don't Count; The Bullet That Lied!; The Last Bullet; On Deck in Rio; Menace of the Month; Mean Farm Boy; Room Service. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Red Ryder, Telecomics presents King of the Royal Mounted, the Kiyotee Kids, and Panamint Patty. Two-page text story, "Little Beaver Makes a Trade." 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

True stories of crime most foul fall victim to the pages of this short-lived vintage true crime magazine. Here, you will find tales of greed, jealousy, revenge, thievery, and murder....all true, all told in the words of the detectives who worked the cases. 8.5" x 11", 50 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Promotional magazine published by the Rexall Drug Company. This issue features a Walt Disney Johnny Appleseed cover. 7.5" x 10", 16 pages, B&W.

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Photo coversof the famous singing cowboy, plus interior photos. Roy Rogers Rides the River, script by Gaylord DuBois, art by Albert Micale; Roy gets ambushed trying to solve a mystery of a howler in a tunnel. William K. Breakenridge, The Straight Shooting Deputy, Part One--Great Lawmen of the Old West, script by Gaylord DuBois, art by Albert Micale. Untitled Chuckwagon Charley's Tales story, script by Gaylord DuBois, art by Harry Parks (Parkhurst). 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Canadian Edition. Photo cover of the famous singing cowboy, plus interior photos of Roy Rogers. "Badland Bullets," script by Gaylord Du Bois, art by Albert Micale; In the badlands Slick shoots Nella's horse. Nella takes Roy for Slick; He wins her trust; Using the riddle on a deerskin poke Nella seeks Grandpa's gold cache to pay the mortgage; Roy finds her a horse with saddlel They find three robbers' graves and a note. "Bat Masterson" text story by Gaylord Du Bois, art by Albert Micale; non-fiction story about the lawman. Untitled story, script by Gaylord Du Bois, art by Harry Parks (Parkhurst); Charley tells Pat how Lige brought Brownie in the house on a chain Christmas morning; Baby June rides off with Brownie; The family borrow hounds to search; Meanwhile, Brownie saves Baby June from two big Canada Lynxes, then lumbers off as the search party arrives. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Summer 1948 - Movie stars in this issue include Gene Autry, Lauren Bacall, Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, Bette Davis, Maureen O'Hara, Frank Sinatra, Robert Mitchum, Lana Turner and many more. 8 1/-in. x 11 1/2-in., 66 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Women's magazine with articles and fiction. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 82 pages, B&W.

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Cover art by Harry G. Peter. The Mistress of Masquerade starring Wonder Woman, art by Harry G. Peter. Crime Invades the Golf Links! starring Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys, art by Frank Harry. Willy Nilly story, art by Frank Harry. Ton O' Fun humor page by Harry Lampert. Dr. Mary E. Walker--Wonder Women of History, art by Paul Reinman. The Gravy Train text story. Wooden Nickles and Cancelled Stamps starring Wildcat, pencils by Arthur Peddy, inks by Bernard Sachs. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

June-July 1948. Stories include "Reign of Terror" by Maxwell Grant and "The Lock and Key" by Frank Gruber. Edd Cartier illustrations. 5.5-in. x 7.5-in.; black and white, 160 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

Vol. 204, No. 4 - June 10, 1948. 6.75" x 9.75", 144 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Vol. 204, No. 5 - June 25, 1948. 6.75" x 9.75", 144 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Volume 18, Issue 8 - June, 1948. Joan Fontaine photo cover. Vintage monthly published magazine with a focus on the film industry as a whole. First published in November of 1930, publication continued through the late 1970s. Priding itself as a source for exclusive behind the scenes stories about filmmaking, Silver Screen also contained a fair amount of articles about celebrities, their relationships, the latest in fashion, and film reviews. 8" x 11", 74 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Cover by Edmond Good. Stories and art by Edmond Good and Red Holmdale. Sheriff "Breeze" Lawson uses his light aircraft to track criminals, in stories likely inspired by the similar television series Sky King. Breeze pursues a vintage biplane someone has liberated from the flight museum. Blue-eyed, blonde South American Gaucho Vic Vanning, Rider of the Pampas, returns home after intelligence work in the war and encounters bandits, in the luridly titled Satan's Slaughterhouse. Sky Sheriff's beautiful blonde sidekick Tenny uncovers gangsters involved with kidnapping and plastic surgery. Meet the Stars of Sky Sheriff; Breeze Lawson, Sky Sheriff; Dungeon of the Deep; Flight into Fear; The Ghost of Silver Mesa; Sky Sheriff Series Aircraft Album; Vic Vanning, Rider of the Pampas: Satans Slaughterhouse; South Americas Scrapbook of Strange Facts; Two Gun Crowley; Disguise of Death. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Who Is Lilli Dilli? starring Midnight, art by Jack Cole. World Premiere of Growing Pains With Citronella starring Citronella. Black X story. Lady Luck story, art by Klaus Nordling. Batch Bachelor story, art by Michael Senich. Doc Lays an Egg--Maybe text story starring Midnight. The Jester story. Daffy story. 60 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Vol. 1, No. 1 - June 1948. 10" x 13.75", 50 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.50.

Stories and art by Burne Hogarth, Al Capp, Ernie Bushmiller, Jack Sparling, Charlie Plumb, Bernard Dibble, Ed Dodd, Rudolph Dirks, J. P. Williams, Arnie Mossler and Raeburn Van Buren. United's anthology featured reprints of early comic strips, including Tarzan, Li'l Abner and Nancy. The Captain and the Kids' Arctic adventure continues from the previous issue, as the Kids trick the adults into breaking into a prospector's cabin, a prank that could prove fatal. Notorious bandit Wild Bill Hickup faces Russian wannabe-gunslinger Stanislaus Krabbolowlsky in a final showdown, in an Abbie an' Slats strip with fine art by Raeburn van Buren. Plus a Li'l Abner storyline by Al Capp and a Tarzan strip with art by Burne Hogarth. Li'l Abner; Hap Hopper; Nancy; Captain and the Kids; Sparkler's Stars of the Air; Tarzan; Dink O'Day; Abbie an Slats. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.