Comic books April 1953

No. 4, April 1953 - German language reprint. 32 pages, full color.

No. 4, April 1954 - German language reprint. 32 pages, full color.

Art by Art Bartsch, Jim Tyer and Connie Rasinski. The world's mightiest mouse defends Mouseville from danger - mostly cats - in the comic-book adventures of the Terrytoons animated superhero. 100-page giant. In a double-length story that reflects contemporary fears around "juvenile delinquents," The Claw and Professor Ohm raise an orphaned mouse and turn him into an instrument of crime in Mousetown. Oil Can Harry traps Pearl in a block of ice, and Mighty Mouse ventures into the Arctic to thaw her, in an adaptation of the 1949 Mighty Mouse cartoon "A Cold Romance." The Big Bad Wolf is released from prison and faces life on the outside, in an adaptation of the 1947 Terrytoons cartoon "The Wolf's Pardon." The Hoodlum Gang; Underground Tyrants; The Perils of Pearl Pureheart; The Wolf's Pardon; Shamus the Leprechaun; Terror in the Tropics; Dinky; Chesty; Farmer Gray; Sourpuss; Little Roquefort; Terry Bears: Let's Be Kind; Gandy Goose: Squirrel Rescue; At Grips with the Lava Men. 100 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $100.00 View scans Staple rust: Moderate.	Add to cart Very Good $65.00 View scans Staple rust: Moderate.	Add to cart VG- 3.5 $2.50 View scans Spine split 5%.	Add to cart Good $32.00 View scans Spine split 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.
Add to cart Good $32.00 View scans Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

Articles, schematics and photos on the latest available flying models. 8.5" x 11", 60 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart VG 4.0 $39.00 View scans 1/2" spine split from bottom of comic. Interior residue. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Vol. 2, No. 10. April 1953. Vintage Men's magazine featuring articles, pictorials, and pin-ups. This issue features "He Whipped Gene Tunney", "Roll Me Over on the Midway", "Paris Quiz Tease", and more. Cover by Zoltan Glass. MATURE. Cover price $0.50.

Vintage celebrity gossip tabloid with a focus on Hollywood during the golden-age of cinema. 8.5" x 11.5", 130 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.20.

Monte Hale and Pardner cover photo. Spooky Shots text story by Walter Farmer. Counterfeiter's Holiday, art by Edmond Good; Monte is determined to seek out the counterfeiters and give them a long vacation in jail. The Kindest Man in Town!, art by Edmond Good; Some money from a bank robbery is put into Monte's pocket when asleep, and he is jailed by the sheriff. Tonsorial Twosome! starring Colonel Corn and Jawbones Jeffers. Rustler's Haven, art by Edmond Good; Texas ranchers call Monte for help to catch the two ruthless gang leaders of the rustlers, and in the showdown, he uses a Gatling Gun. The Plot on Rattler's Trail!; A mail clerk is ambushed and robbed by an insurance swindler. Spooky Shots text story by Walter Farmer. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Mel Keefer. Stories and art by Mel Keefer, Mell Lazarus and Jack Sparling. US Marine Monty Hall (no relation to the game-show host) fights for America during the Korean War. While guarding Korean POWs on Monju Island, Monty gets a message from one who says he's a deep-cover agent...but is he really? Monty has some explaining to do after he loses his dog tags while taking a swim. Marine "Pin-Up Pete" discusses women he has known, an excuse to present three full-page pin-ups featuring good-girl art by Jack Sparling. A unique episode of Pin-Up Pete, this one combines cheesecake poses by Jack Sparling with a comic story in Mell Lazarus' distinctive style. Plus a tale from the Korean front by Staff Sergeant Charles F. X. Houts, a "Marine Corps Correspondent." Monju Island; The Swat Parade; The Case of the Missing Dog-Tags; Targets for a Tank; The Lieutenant Is Chicken; Big Mike; Pin-Up Pete. Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Photo cover of Judy Schneider (Debbie Reynolds) and Melvin Hoover (Donald O'Connor). "Debbie Reynolds, All American Girl" article with photo. "I Love Melvin," art by Harold LeDoux; Adaptation of the 1953 movie; Melvin Hoover, a photographer for Look magazine, offers to do a photo spread of a young actress named Judy LeRoy; He wants to marry Judy, but her father would rather she marry boring Harry Black. Leslie Caron; Gene Kelly; George Hormel II; Claude Caron; Margaret Caron. Donald O'Connor bio with photo. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $7.00 1.25" Spine split from top. Water damage.

Cover art by Otto Feuer. The Championship Match starring the Raccoon Kids, art by Otto Feuer; Muggsy brags he comes from a long line of expert Hockey players, so the boys make him prove it. Plumber's Helper starring Doodles Duck, script and art by Sheldon Mayer; Gus says he can fix Doodles's sink for half what the plumber charges. Come to Sunny South America, art by Rube Grossman; Pinky and Winky book a cruise on a cargo ship. Good Neighbor Spirit public service announcement featuring Leave It to Binky, script by Jack Schiff, art by Win Mortimer. Hypnosis Sure Packs A Wallop starring Fraidy Cat, art by Otto Feuer. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 8.0 $150.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: Off white to white Label #1566286006 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Cover by Win Mortimer. Stories by Henry Boltinoff, Morris Waldinger and unknown. Art by Howard Purcell, Charles Paris, Ramona Fradon, Henry Boltinoff and Morris Waldinger. Brand-new adventures of TV and radio's favorite! Mr. District Attorney in: "The Case of the Bad Luck Clues!" with art by Howard Purcell and Charles Paris; "The T.V. Gang" with art by Purcell and Paris; and "Shoot -- Like a Camera" with art by Purcell and Paris. Also in this issue: A Casebook Mystery "The Killer's Accomplice" with art by Ramona Fradon; Casey the Cop half-pager by Henry Boltinoff; "Reprieve from Death!" half-pager by Morris Waldinger; and The Crime File 2-page text article. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Sheldon Mayer (credited as Bud Fisher). Stories and art by Al Smith (credited as Bud Fisher), Jack Schiff, and Win Mortimer. DC reprints the comic strip that defined the comic strip, featuring the original tall-and-short comedy duo. Also featuring the "topper" strip Cicero's Cat. Jeff finds a surefire way to stay warm during the winter. Jeff tries to fix Mutt's TV set. Jeff gets a job selling flypaper. Plus a PSA starring Superman about fighting racism. Mutt & Jeff; Cicero's Cat; Superman Says: People Are People!; The Launching. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Scripts by Stan Lee, art by Dan DeCarlo Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Dick Beck. Pre-Code tales of horror and the supernatural from Story Comics. A man likes to marry women and murder them for their money, but his latest bride has a taste for blood. The "true" story of Tituba, the Haitian servant who was accused of witchcraft during the infamous Salem witch trials. A mortician collects body parts, but the woman he loves gets too close to his trophy room. Death Comes in Small Pieces; Life's Blood; Witches Never Die; The Living Dead. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Dick Beck, Bill Savage, and Ross Andru. Pre-Code tales of horror and the supernatural from Story Comics. Thieves are stealing bottles of something from around the city - but what, and why? A couple visits their Bavarian relative during a series of werewolf attacks. A doctor and a mortician have a murderous business together, in one of two stories in this issue by future Marvel legend Ross Andru. Revenge; Werewolves; Terror in the Stars; The Coffin; Bank Night. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

"Signboard in Space," "The Hothouse World," "The Toy Earth!" (pencils by Gil Kane, inks by Bernard Sachs), and "The Planet Nobody Wanted!" (art by Murphy Anderson). Mort Drucker art. Superman stars in a one-page public service announcement, "People Are People!" 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

"What Happened to Harry" (script by Stan Lee, art by George Tuska), "The Door," "Too Lucky to Live," "The Phony," "The Killer," and a two-page text story, "Bride of Death." Bill Everett cover. Cover price $0.10.

Help Wanted!, art by Mort Lawrence; A cheap department store owner's toy demonstrator quits after receiving a Christmas bonus of only one dime, and so the owner attempts to save money by shortening the help wanted ad to "Demon. Wanted." Curse of the Mummy text story. Swamp Girl!, art by Vic Carabotta; A deserter becomes a werecat when he drinks water from the bayou. They Dive by Night!, art by Al Luster; A native warns a pearl diver not to dive by night so as to have enough light to see where to avoid the man-eating clams, but he doesn't listen. Fast Freight; A man escapes from prison and manages to hop onto a passing train, not knowing that the train is carrying freight right back to the prison. Bong!, art by Tony DiPreta; A man resolves to murder his rival for the affections of a beautiful girl, but ends up killing himself by falling into the bell-maker's molten vat. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 8.5 $350.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Crowley Copy. Label #1074815004 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Saddle River Comics

Cover features Kay Aldridge from the movie serial Perils of Nyoka. Stories and art by Howard Boughner and John Martin. Raised in the jungle by her scientist father, Nyoka faces its dangers like no man ever could. In a three-part story, oil is discovered on tribal lands. But that attracts the crooked Captain Pokoik, who turns the tribe against the chieftain, Kongi. Nyoka sets out to free Kongi and reveal the truth, but first she must survive the death trap Captain Pokoik has set for her. Little Thief; The Jungle Treasure, Chapter One: The Geyser of Death!; Trader Tom; Fizzy; Chapter Two: The Hostage; Forbidden Secret; Quiz; Egbert the Explorer; Gate to Doom; Chapter Three: Death Rides the Falls; The Whiskey Rebellion. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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April, 1953; Volume 5, No 4 / Issue 28. 5 1/4-in. x 7 1/2-in.; black and white; 162 pages. Cover price $0.35.

Cover art by Gene Colan. Undersea Raider, script by David Kahn, pencils by Gene Colan, inks by Joe Giella. Runaway Hero, script by Dave Wood, pencils by Jerry Grandenetti, inks by Bernard Sachs. Fatal Choice, script by Robert Bernstein, art by Eugene Hughes. Eyes of the Artillery, script by David Kahn, art by Bernie Krigstein. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Ken Bald. Numbered For Death, inks by George Klein. The Belt of Evil, art by Pete Riss. The Frozen Ghost, pencils by Al Camy. Case of the Horrible Hearse, Uncanny Experiences, art by Art Gates. Madman's Manor, pencils by Charles Nicholas. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Animator Paul Terry's Terrytoons featured Mighty Mouse, Heckle & Jeckle, and other classic cartoon characters of yesteryear. Heckle and Jeckle dive for pirate treasure, but an irate lobster wants the treasure for himself, and rallies the creatures of the sea against the magpies. Papa Bear gets a great deal on a house, only to learn that it's situated right on an earthquake fault when the ground suddenly opens beneath the Terry Bears. Rudy Rooster ignores Dinky's warnings about going around to Miss Leghorn's place. Terry Bears: Quaking Papa; Gandy Goose; Heckle and Jeckle: Dimwit Seeks Action; Dinky: Showing Off; Gandy Goose: Sourpuss Tries Hard; Dinky: It Must Be Love; Heckle and Jeckle: Davey Joness Locker. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 6, Issue 8 - April 22, 1953. Pocket-sized celebrity gossip magazine. 4-in. x 6-in., 68 pages, B&W. MATURE READERS Cover price $0.10.

Reed Crandall/Nick Cuidera cover. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 7, Issue 2 - April, 1953. Men's interest magazine focusing on true crime, and police cases. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 74 pages, Text, with B&W images throughout Cover price $0.25.