Comic books August 1951

52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by C.C. Beck. Stories by Otto Binder and Al Liederman. Art by C.C. Beck, Pete Costanza, Al Liederman and unknown. Captain Marvel (Billy Batson) stars in: "Captain Marvel and the Dinosaur Dilemma" by Otto Binder and C.C. Beck; "Captain Marvel Battles the Joy Killer" by Otto Binder and Pete Costanza; and "Captain Marvel and Mr. Tawny, Fighting Mayor" with story by Otto Binder and pencils by C.C. Beck. Plus: Captain Kid in "Too, Too Hot!" by Al Liederman. And: Jon Jarl in the 2-page text story "The Ice Man of Space" by Otto Binder (as Eando Binder). 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Kurt Schaffenberger. Stories by Bill Woolfolk and Howard Boughner. Art by Howard Boughner and Joe Certa. Superhero action with Freddy Freeman, who gains the same powers as his hero Captain Marvel, better known these days as Shazam. Sivana Jr.'s latest invention puts snow in the tropics and threatens to freeze the world, in a three-part adventure. Boxer Kanvasback tries to explain why he doesn't want to get on a plane for his next bout in Oskalooska. Sivana, Jr.'s Cold War; Four-Legged Side-Kick; Kanvasback: Plane Crazy!; Judge Smudge; Wide Awake Walker. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Joe Orlando and Wally Wood. Stories and art by Joe Orlando and Wally Wood. Sci-fi adventure from Youthful Magazines. Captain Science learns that Plutonians may one day conquer Earth, unless he can stop them now. Captain Science and Rip travel to the Sahara Desert to battle a powerful wizard with a yen for world conquest. Captain Science art and cover by legendary artists Joe Orlando and Wally Wood. Interplanetary private eye Brant Craig battles the Shark Pirates of Pisces, who look as you might expect, but have perhaps one of the coolest names in early sci-fi comics. Plus an article about real-life scientific fakes through history. Time Door of Throm; The Flower of Death!; Scientific Fakers; Science vs. Sorcery; Brant Craig: Shark Pirates of Pisces. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by George Evans and Martin Thall. Early TV superhero Captain Video comes to comics, an electronics wizard from an era when technology was just starting to change the world. While testing the agency's security system, Captain Video is picked up by a foriegn spy ring who thinks he's on their side. Western-movie hero Rod Cameron learns that owlhoots are targeting two tenderfeet who have struck gold, literally. A mysterious message on an ancient stone leads Cap and Ranger into a confrontation with Dr. Pauli and a race of gigantic, lizard-like aliens. Art by future EC legend George Evans. Plus photos of TV's Captain Video and Ranger, Al Hodge and Don Hastings. And moral lessons from Captain Video. School for Spies; Saddlehead; Pilot Pete; The Invincible Athlete; Rod Cameron: The Phantom Mine; The Ring of Orgon; Airfield Al. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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St. John presents the earliest issues of what eventually became Harvey's long-running series about the friendliest of ghosts. Tired of staying in chilly haunted houses, Casper decides to visit the warm Wild West. Casper decides he doesn't want to "live" in a gloomy old haunted house. Casper helps a boy win a fox hunt; luckily, the fox and the hounds stop to have tea time together. Tomboy Trouble; Casper the Friendly Ghost: The Disguise; Beautyfied. Final issue of the series; Numbering continues with Harvey Comics Hits (1951) #61, also considered Casper the Friendly Ghost #6. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Al Avison. Stories and art by John Giunta, Manny Stallman, Vic Donohue and Rudy Palais. Sometimes listed as Chamber of Chills (1951 Harvey) #2. Harvey Comics joins the parade of pre-Code horror comics pioneered by EC in the 1950s. A ferry captain provides corpses to a mad doctor in an island castle for his evil experiments. An unhinged artist creates a portal to a horrific world, bringing a hapless art student along with him. Profiles of infamous monsters: Frankenstein's Monster; Dracula; The Mummy; The Werewolf; Jack the Ripper. The Vault of Living Death; Portrait of Fear; Creatures of the Swamp; Men from Mars; Strange Customs; Caught!; House of Horror; Ferry of the Dead; The Snake Man; Chambers of Chills; Weird Worlds. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 23, Issue 3 - August 1951. Children's Playmate Magazine features creative stories, poems, rebuses, recipes, activities, crafts, science experiments, and health articles for children. This issue is Spring themed. 52 pages. Cover price $0.20.

The Cisco Kid in "The Mystery of the Screaming Senorita" and "The Robbers of Black Boot." Painted cover. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Issue 50 - Australian Edition. Circa early to mid 1950's. Reprints "Mr. Midshipman Easy" in abridged form with new cover art. 6.5 x 8.5, color covers with b&w interior, 24 pages-all newsprint.

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Under Two Flags, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. Comic book adaptation of the classic Ouida story about Bert Cecil and his adventures after he flees his country and birthright and spends his life in the service of a foreign country. Issue also has a text biography of Ouida and text stories on "Pioneers of Science," "Famous Operas," and "Dog Heroes." (HRN 87, with 8/51 date). Cover price $0.15.

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Under Two Flags, 3rd Printing, Painted Cover. Comic book adaptation of the classic Ouida story about Bert Cecil and his adventures after he flees his country and birthright and spends his life in the service of a foreign country. Issue also has a text biography of Ouida and text stories on "Pioneers of Science," "Famous Operas," and "Dog Heroes." (HRN 139). Cover price $0.15.

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Under Two Flags, 4th Printing, Painted Cover. Comic book adaptation of the classic Ouida story about Bert Cecil and his adventures after he flees his country and birthright and spends his life in the service of a foreign country. Issue also has a text biography of Ouida and text stories on "Pioneers of Science," "Famous Operas," and "Dog Heroes." (HRN 158). Cover price $0.15.

Larger digest sized French language magazine with fiction, nude photos, and cartoons. Title refers to the Place Pigalle district in Paris.

Painted cover. Contains original and reprinted material as noted. In order of appearance: "A Man to Beware Of" art by Bob Peterson, reprinted from Glamorous Romances (1949) #44 and reprinted in Real Love (1949-56 Ace) #62; "Romance Intruder"; "My Sister's Reputation"; and "The Deception He Planned". Illustrated text stories: "A Menace to her Romance" by Lola Taylor, "Too Bold For A Lady" by Hagel Forman, and "They Forgot Their Promises" by Rachel Mallory. 52 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 18, Issue 4 - March, 1954. 6.75" x 9.75", 100 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Contains funny animal stories. In order of appearance: "Coo Coo in 'Viva Mexico'"; "Billy Bug"; "Butch and Buttercup in 'So This Is Fame'"; "Bill Bunny in 'Stop the Traffic'"; "Supermouse in 'The Enchanted Village'"; and "Custer Crocodile in 'Half Baked'" art by Ellis Chambers. Comic advertisement for Dubble Bubble bubble gum from Fleer. "Little Dogie: This Little Calf Didn't Want to Be Branded!" illustrated text story by Mickey Klar Marks. Indicia states COO COO, THE BIRD BRAIN". 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 1, Issue 11 - August, 1951. Cover Girls Models Magazine was an early men's interest publication distributed between November, 1949 and December, 1955 that focused mainly on bathing suit pin-up photography, but also included the occasional Hollywood tabloid human-interest story. 8" x 10.5", 66 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Keats E. Petree cover. In order of appearance: "Makers of the West, The Stagecoach" art by Mario DeMarco; "Wild Bill Hickok's Gunfight at Hayes City" art by Robert Forgione, reprinted in Cowboy Western Comics (1948) #58; "Pecos Bill, A Mess" by Clinton Harmon; "Annie Oakley, Queen of the Sharpshooters"; "Pancho Villa" art by Mario DeMarco; "Legends of Paul Bunyan", "Li'l Hootie", and "Legends of the Old West, The Double Justice" art by Clinton Harmon; "Jesse James, The Great Train Robbery"; and "Western Wonders, The Ghost Trail". "Western Misdirection" text story.36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Al McWilliams, Alex Kotsky, Fred Guardineer, and Charles Biro. A companion series to Crime Does Not Pay from the same publisher, slightly less violent and with more emphasis on police work. A detective is assigned to catch the escaped convicts who've been leading cops on a nationwide chase. Feuding street kids in Hell's Kitchen grow up to work on opposite sides of the law, and their feud turns deadly. A comic that dares the reader to figure out the mysterious connection between safecrackers and a master jewel thief, in a whodunit with multiple clues and an upside-down panel for the answer. Also featuring a vintage ad for Lev Gleason Comics Picture Trading Cards. Mission: Get 'Em!; Flight from Fury; A Time for Murder; The Cop from Hell's Kitchen; The Case of the Elusive Go-Between. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Painted cover by Norman Saunders. Stories and art by Leonard Starr and Carl Wessler. Listed as issue #10 on title and indicia. The adventures of Dr. Tom Rogers, prison psychologist. Dr. Rogers intends to put young Keller on the straight and narrow, even if he has to take down gangster Dolan himself. Along the way, Rogers tells Keller his origin story, starting out as a street kid with a record himself. Someone is killing prison guards and sending the warden threatening notes demanding he resign. Plus a one-pager about the dicey finances of famous gangsters. The Wages of Crime!; The Kid Gets His Chance!; Death in Prison!; Double Jeopardy; Cure for Crime!; Mad Dog of Manhattan: The Story of Vincent Coll; Smuggler's Tricks!; His Father's Shadow; Choppers, Rippers and Burners! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Painted cover by Bob Fujitani. Stories and art by Bob Fujitani, Fred Guardineer, Claude Moore, Dick Rockwell, Robert Q. Sale and Charles Biro. The title that launched the crime comics genre, Crime Does Not Pay was noted for its violent pre-Code content and lurid tales of underworld life. Tough private eye Chip Gardner investigates a beautiful femme fatale and stolen incriminating documents, featuring another action-packed painted cover by Bob Fujitani and a story possibly written by Walter Gibson, creator of The Shadow. Ernie and his brother Tom face an inevitable showdown after one becomes a gangster and the other a cop. Masked robbers become known as the Trenchcoat Trio, but one of them likes their new notoriety a little too much. Also featuring a vintage ad for " Lev Gleason Comics picture trading cards." Cain versus Abel; Chip Gardner: The Case of the Crooked Politician; Murder Bait; Murder Is a Stranger; How They Were Trapped!; On the Level; Who Dunnit?: Say it With Bullets! 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Yet another crime anthology from Fox Feature Syndicate. The true story of a daring (but failed) escape attempt from Alcatraz on April 14, 1943. Chic buys a college pal's letter sweater instead of earning one of his own, but his hilariously rapid descent into crime and murder gives him (and the reader) a heavy-handed lesson in the high moral integrity of the letter-sweater system. A beautiful blonde and a cab driver hatch a scheme to get hapless men drunk and then rob them. Escape from the Rock; The Clue Of The Telltale Scratch; The Crooked Letter; Symphony Of Death; June Joyce - The Taxi Bandit; Conscience Killed Him. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Johnny Craig. "A Toast...to Death!", script and art by Johnny Craig; A wife is fed up with her lazy, good-for-nothing husband who prefers to spend his time babying a special grape vine than spending time with her; So she poisons his favorite wine, buries him and then concocts an elaborate cover-up, living the life of Riley on her late husband's money. "Out of My Mind!", script by Bill Gaines (co-plot) and Albert B. Feldstein (co-plot, script), art by Jack Kamen; Betty hates her husband with a passion and decides to murder him by feigning fainting attacks over a period of months, then acting out in a murderous way when Bert's brother is present. "Air-Tight!" text story by Albert B. Feldstein. "The Switch," script by Bill Gaines (co-plot) and Albert B. Feldstein (co-plot, script), art by George Roussos; The Lamberts are fighting again, but one night Edwin over-hears Harry conversing with a person that Edwin believes is a killer being hired to kill Harry's wife. "Jury Duty!", script by Bill Gaines (co-plot) and Albert B. Feldstein (co-plot, script), art by Graham Ingels; Somehow Peter Kardoff survives the hangman's noose, then starts to take revenge by killing off the members of the jury that convicted him, convinced the law cannot do anything since he was legally pronounced dead. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Fox Feature Syndicate creates a pre-Code title guaranteed to provide lurid covers and art, as women both historical and fictional commit murder and other heinous acts. Tapped-out gambler Michele Durand becomes the pretty face of the Monte Carlo Gang in pre-WWII Europe; Beautiful hitchhiker Jo Ardway robs the men who pick her up, and sometimes she kills them too; Scheming Frankie Barrows makes an escaped embezzler into her personal slave, in perhaps the most lurid and bizarre tale in the entire series. Another action-packed cover by an unknown artist. Michele Durand in Lady of Intrigue; Bull's Eye Beatrice; Jo Ardway: Roadside Murderess; Murder Proceeds: $1.13; Frankie Barrows...Slave Master Unto Death; Minit Mystery. Final issue for three years. 32 pages, Full Color. In order of appearance: "Michele Durand in Lady of Intrigue"; "Bull's Eye Beatrice"; "Jo Ardway, Roadside Murderess" retitled and reprinted as "Roadside Murder..!!" in All Famous Police Cases (1952-54) #14; "Frankie Barrows, Slave Master Unto Death"; and "Minit Mystery" reprinted from Blue Beetle (1939 Fox/Holyoke) #36. "Murder Proceeds: $1.13" text story reprinted from Crimes by Women (1948) #6 and Crime Incorporated (1950) #2. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Norman Maurer, Alden McWilliams, C. H. Moore and William Overgard. This early superhero title was one of the comics that made publisher Lev Gleason a major player during the Golden Age. Pee Wee whittles a baseball bat out of an irradiated branch after an atomic accident, and the result makes the Little Wise Guys into national baseball stars. Ace pilot "Hot Rock" Flanagan discovers that enemy forces are smuggling weapons to prisoners of war. The Little Wise Guys get mixed up with a killer and his girlfriend, a gorgeous blonde femme fatale. Little Wise Guys: The Trick Baseball Bat; Air Devils Starring "Hot Rock" Flanagan, Part 8; Little Wise Guys: The Stable of Horror; Crimebuster: The Saga of the Sullied Skipper; Happy Daze. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Win Mortimer. Stories by unknown. Art by Bob Kane, Lew Sayre Schwartz, Bruno Premiani, Frank Bolle and unknown. What's this?! Batman knocked out? Or could he be throwing the fight? Read the amazing answer when Batman becomes..."The Park Avenue Kid!" with pencils by Bob Kane and Lew Sayre Schwartz. Plus: Pow-Wow Smith, Indian Lawman in "The Legend of the Stalking Ghost!" with art by Bruno Premiani; Robotman in "The Strange Bodies of Robotman" with art by Frank Bolle; and Impossible -- But True! tale "The Man with the Bullet-Proof Heart!" (featuring Roy Raymond). Also: Shorty 1-pager by Henry Boltinoff; Casey the Cop half-pager by Boltinoff; Casey the Cop 1-pager by Boltinoff; Quick Quiz activity page by H.T. Elmo; 2-page text piece "White Mystery" by F. Banks; and Varsity Vic 1-pager by Boltinoff. And: 1-page Tootsie Roll ad "Captain Tootsie and His Vacation-Time Pals" with art by Bill Schreiber. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Mexican series. Stories and art by Chester Gould. 36 pages, full color, 7.25" x 10.5", Spanish language.

Cover art by Joe Simon. "Murder by Mail," script and art by Chester Gould; Tracy captures Nilon and Rod and jails them while evidence against them is processed; Tracy handcuffs Nilon and Rod together and takes them to the spot where their aunt's mail-order groom is buried; Not wanting to go the electric chair, Rod drags Nilon into the path of an oncoming milk truck, which hits them and kills them both. "Pick-Pocket Racket," script and art by Chester Gould; Tracy captures two pickpockets that are using a child to create a diversion while they work the streets. Untitled story, script and art by Chester Gould; Roach and Shoulders devise a plan to keep their pickpockets on the street; Meanwhile, Tracy tracks Themesong to her home and finds that she has a sick mother. Dick Tracy Comics Monthly house ad. One-page Beware of These Rackets story; Brief descriptions of uniform scams, smuggled goods, contract movers, puncture fluid, and skin cream. Crimestoppers Handbook; Brief decriptions of crime-solving techniques. Untitled one-page story, script and art by Art Helfant; Hector the Director goes hunting in New Jersey. Untitled one-page story; Sparkle Plenty goes shopping. "The Chinatown Murder" text story. Sad Sack house ad. "Detective's Holiday"; Dick and Pat solve a murder. Ad: "Now! Get Genuine Walt Disney Masks on Wheaties Boxes!" 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 66, Issue 1 - August, 1951. 6.75" x 9", 116 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Digest sized Spanish language Doc Savage reprints published by Editorial Molino. Slick covers with newsprint interior.

Stories and art by Tex Blaisdell and David Gantz. Dolly and her dog Charlie have adventures in Dreamland. Eating from Dreamland's Pickles and Ice Cream Tree, Dolly and Charlie accidentally summon the Nightmares to Dreamland. When the Pie-Eyed Dragon attacks Dreamland, Dolly decides the only solution is to give it pie. Dolly invites Mr. Radio to her picnic with Charlie, then must chase Peter Peanut after he makes off with Mr. Radio's circuitry. Offbeat painted cover by an unknown artist. Dolly and Charlie; Dolly in Dreamland; Happy Birthday!; The Pie-Eyed Dragon!; The Polka-Dot Bear; Sergeant Toy: Danger on All Sides; The Big Radio Robbery. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories by Buford Tune and Matt Murphy. Art by Buford Tune, Art Helfant and Matt Murphy. Cover by Buford Tune. Reprints from the Dotty Dripple daily and Sunday comic strip. Dotty and husband Horace face domestic squabbles similar to those of Blondie and Dagwood, right down to the drawing style; the long-running family strip also featured tween daughter Taffy and dog Pepper. Horace manages to put off mowing the lawn all day, but the night is still young; Dotty turns Horace's sexist notions of "man's work" to her advantage; Hector the Director may be an ace on the set, but he's clueless when he's part of the audience. Night Work; Fooled Again; Quite a Feat; Wasted Efforts; Napping on the Job; What a Relief!; Changed Plans; Soap Story; Its a Mans World; Helpful Suggestions; Age Problems; A Busy Day; No Originality; Borrowing Trouble; Money Troubles; Looking Ahead; Man of His Word; A Dogs Life; Reward for Service; Book Learnin; Joe Gets a Surprise; How to Make a Puppet; The Costume. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories by Gardner Fox and others. Art by Joe Certa, John Belfi and Frank Frazetta. Cover by Joe Certa. Sometimes listed as Charles Starrett as the Durango Kid #12. Western adventure based on the popular masked hero played in the movies by Charles Starrett. The owner of a stagecoach line sabotages it so he can buy out his partner; The Kid seeks a killer who uses dynamite; During the Battle of Saratoga, Dan and Tipi battle an American deserter, in a "White Indian" story by legendary artist Frazetta. Shootin' Through!; Tough As They Come!; River Gauntlet!; The Star Badge; Dynamite Doom!; Charles Starrett, Star of Columbia's "Durango Kid" Western Movies. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Vol. 2 #17 -Aug. 3, 1951. Contents include Dan Dare, P.C. 49, Riders on the Range, Eagle cutaway centerfold, Adventures of TinTin, Harris Tweed Extra Special Agent, Patrick, Fighter for Truth. Plus text stories and articles. 10 1/2-in. x 14 1/2-in., 14 pages, B&W and full color.

Vol. 2 #18 -Aug. 10, 1951. Contents include Dan Dare, P.C. 49, Riders on the Range, Eagle cutaway centerfold, Adventures of Tintin, Harris Tweed Extra Special Agent, Patrick, Fighter for Truth. Plus text stories and articles. 10 1/2-in. x 14 1/2-in., 14 pages, B&W and full color.

Vol. 2 #19 -Aug. 17, 1951. Contents include Dan Dare, P.C. 49, Riders on the Range, Eagle cutaway centerfold, Adventures of TinTin, Harris Tweed Extra Special Agent, Patrick, Fighter for Truth. Plus text stories and articles. 10 1/2-in. x 14 1/2-in., 14 pages, B&W and full color.