Comic books May 1953
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Published May 1953 by HE Publications.$16.00
Volume 1, Issue 2 - May 1953. Vintage Men's interest magazine focusing on sports, music, hunting, celebrities, models, and showgirls. 4-in. x 6-in., 68 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.
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Published May 1953 by Famous Funnies.$130.00
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- Label #0912247009
$24.00
View scanPainted cover by Henry Kiefer. Stories and art by Ed Moore, John Belfi, Ben Thompson, Bill Walton, Sid Couchey, Mike Roy and Sam Glanzman. Non-fiction comics featuring true tales of heroism from everyday people and courage on the battlefield. A teen saves lives on two separate occasions during the same summer; A WWII soldier likewise makes heroism a habit; A soldier risks his life to re-establish communications with the front lines. Medals for the Marine; War on the Elements; Night Raid; Grenades; But Not in Vain; We Gave Them "L"; The Bravest Man I Ever Met (Part 1); 4 Unforgettable Days (Part 2); The Heroism of Sergeant Amico; Getting to be a Habit; He Came Through. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Hit Parader (1942 Charlton) Magazine May 1953Published May 1953 by Charlton Publishing.$40.00
View scans- Spine split 40%. Staple rust: Slight.
$15.00
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$7.60
$6.40
Western adventure featuring one of the most popular heroes of the mid-20th century, star of TV, film and radio. A testimonial dinner to Hopalong is interrupted by news a of a deadly underground blaze that could wipe out the town. Hoppy investigates a murder at a traveling carnival. The town of Wheel Hub isn't sure what to think when hypnotist Doctor Demon brings his show to town. Hold Me Up!; The Underground Inferno; Hill Billy; Whitey Whiskers: The Deep Freeze; Murder at the Carnival; Colonel Corn and Jawbone Jeffers: The Bull Story. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.
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Published May 1953 by Quinn Publishing Co..$2.50
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May 1953. Science fiction stories by Arthur C. Clarke, William Campbell Gault, Alan E. Nourse, Kris Neville, James McKimmey Jr., Mark Clifton, Gene Hunter, Richard E. Stockham, Frank W. Coggins, and Gavin Hyde. Kelly Freas illustration. Cover by Ken Fagg. 5.25-in. x 7.5-in.; black and white; 120 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.35.
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Published May 1953 by Greenleaf Publishing.$2.50
View scans- Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight.
May, 1953 Volume 4, Issue 4. 5-3/8 in. x 7-5/8 in; black and white; 162 pages. Cover price $0.35.
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Jack and Jill (1938 Curtis) Vol. 15 #7$9.00
View scansVol. 15 #7 - May 1953. Children's magazine featuring articles, activities and text stories. 6 3/4-in. x 10-in., 68 pages, B&W with single and full color illustrations. Cover price $0.25.
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Jest (1941-1964 Humorama) Digest Vol. 4 #7$37.00
View scansVol. 4 #7 - May 1953. NOTE: this is the correct information in the indicia, even though the listed volume and issue number is out of order. Humor Digest featuring adult cartoons and Pin-Ups. Bill Ward and Basil Wolverton art. Anita Ekberg back cover. Digest, 5 1/2-in. x 7-in., 98 Pages, B&W, Mature Readers 18+. Cover price $0.25.
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$7.50
View scanWhole number # 72. Early science fiction zine of fans offering to trade books. 8.5-in. x 11-in.; black and white; 24 pages; no cover price.
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Published May 1953 by National Periodical Publ.$24.00
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Published 1953 (est.) by Amalgamated Press.
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Published 1953 (est.) by Amalgamated Press.$105.00
View scans- Spine split 5%. Staple rust: Moderate. Foreign edition: UK.
$32.00
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$22.00
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Published 1953 (est.) by Amalgamated Press.$160.00
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$26.00
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Published 1953 (est.) by Amalgamated Press.$160.00
View scans- Staple rust: Slight. Foreign edition: UK.
$26.00
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Published 1953 (est.) by Amalgamated Press.$22.00
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$16.00
View scans- Spine split 80%. Staple rust: Slight. Foreign edition: UK.
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Published May 1953 by Dell/Gold Key.$12.00
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The Fright Racket; The Fellers tell Lulu she can join the club if she goes into Carson's haunted house at night. Sawdust Trail; Lulu keeps rescuing the cat Tubby and Willy are trying to lose. The Comedian; Tubby wants to hit Lulu in the face with a sour custard pie. The Outing; Lulu wakes Tubby up after she is locked out of her house in the middle of the night. Cuffed Customer; Lulu finds out why Tubby has a pair of handcuffs in his shoeshine box. Luluson Crusoe; Lulu tells Alvin about a little girl who was cast up on a desert island. The Manhunter; Tubby is looking all over town for a robber named Barry Burgle. Two-page text story, Lulus Diry ("Diary"). 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.
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$13 LITTLE LULU #59 (1953) - 3.0 GOOD/VERY GOOD (DELL) 6 days left Auction Marge's Little Lulu #59 1953 Dell Golden Age Cartoon VG 3 days left Auction 1953 DELL Comics MARGE'S LITTLE LULU #59 Scarce Golden Age Pre-Comic Code FN/VF Clicking on the links to the eBay listings shown above and then making a purchase may result in MyComicShop earning a commission from the eBay Partner Network.
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Published May 1953 by Superior Comics.$40.00
View scanWestern comics featuring the masked hero Lone Rider and other champions of Old West justice. In the forests of the Northwest, Lone Rider and Bright Feather walk into a deadly feud between rival timber outfits. Lone Rider tries to prove a man innocent of killing the sheriff before the angry townspeople hang him. Swindlers think there's oil on the Hermit's land and scheme to get rid of him, but he's one step ahead. Guns of Vengeance; The Hermit: Slick Oil; Black Rider: The Phantom Troops; Lynch Lawyer; Swift Arrow: Bloody Trails. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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$25 The Lone Rider #13 - (1953) - Ajax-Swift Arrow appears-Custer's Last Stand - GD Clicking on the links to the eBay listings shown above and then making a purchase may result in MyComicShop earning a commission from the eBay Partner Network.
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$3.00
52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.
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$3 Looney Tunes Merrie Melodies #139 (1953) GD 2.0 $4 Looney Tunes And Merrie Melodies:#139 GD Dell Comics D7 23 hours left Auction Looney Tunes #139 (May 1953, Dell) - Fair Clicking on the links to the eBay listings shown above and then making a purchase may result in MyComicShop earning a commission from the eBay Partner Network.
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Published May 1953 by Superior Comics.$100.00
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Other items consigned by Bud Plant
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Male (1950-1981 Male Publishing Corp.) Vol. 2 #7$105.00
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Volume 2, Issue 7 - May 1952. Adventure stories, articles and nude photos. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in. 100 Pages B&W. Cover price $0.25.
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Male (1950-1981 Male Publishing Corp.) Vol. 3 #5$50.00
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$29.00
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Volume 3, Issue 5 - May 1953. Adventure stories, articles and nude photos. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in. 100 Pages B&W. Cover price $0.25.
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Published May 1953 by Picture Magazines.$69.00
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Published May 1953 by Crestwood Publ..$16.00
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Stories and art by Otto Binder, Kurt Schaffenberger and Howard Boughner. Fawcett's most popular heroes, the original Captain Marvel (Shazam) and family, in solo and shared adventures. While visiting Pa Potter, Billy, Mary and Freddy discover an old treasure map and go in search of lost treasure. This Goonies-style adventure takes a left turn with the appearance of the Scarlet Skull and his army of zombies, something only the Marvels can handle. Headline Harry's hand-grenade joke gets him assigned to the underworld beat. The Flying Skull; FBI Triumphs; Lazy Lee; Boxcar Benny; The Marvel Family Puzzle Page; Headline Harry: The Handy Hand Grenade; Wilbur the Waiter; Rubbernose Randolph; The Marvel Family Battles Chief Thundercloud. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Mechanix Illustrated (1928 Fawcett) Vol. 49 #1$2.50
View scans- Paper: Cream to off white
- Front cover detached 20%. No Back Cover. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
May, 1953. Mechanical science and technology magazine. 6 1/2-in. x 9 1/4-in., 192 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.20.
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Published May 1953 by Dell/Gold Key.$20.00
View scanNo ads in book. Entire issue from cover to cover is comic stories and one page strips. Mickey Mouse and Goofy investigate strange happenings in their town and Mickey's ham radio leads the two to an adventure on an island. Both stories are untitled. No art/story credits given. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.
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4 days left Auction Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Dell Comic Books Issues 55 and 30 Clicking on the links to the eBay listings shown above and then making a purchase may result in MyComicShop earning a commission from the eBay Partner Network.
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Published May 1953 by Air Age Inc..$115.00
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View scansArticles, schematics and photos on the latest available flying models. 8.5" x 11", 60 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.
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Modern Man (1951-1976 PDC) Magazine Vol. 2 #11Published May 1953 by Publisher's Development Corporation.$21.00
View scans- Staple rust: Slight.
$23.00
View scans- Staple rust. Rust migration. 2" Cumulative spine split. Corner Damage. Creasing. Denting. Edge damage. Foxing. Scuffing. Soiling.
Vol. 2, No. 11. May 1953. Vintage Men's magazine featuring articles, pictorials, and pin-ups. This issue features "Jet Car for Tomorrow", "Big Jungle Knife", Helen Westcott (Twilight Zone) pictorial, and more. Cover by M. Richard Marx. 8.5" x 11", 50 pages, B&W. MATURE. Cover price $0.50.
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Motor (1903 Hearst Publishing) Magazine Vol. 99 #5
- Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
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Published May 1953 by Superior Comics.$250.00
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"Witch Wolf Terror"; A man returns to Ireland to claim his ancestral home which he moves to the States; A curse was put upon the man's family by the Witch Wolf; The man's secretary plots to kill the man. "Isle of the Doomed"; Two honeymooners die at sea; Their bloated bodies wash up on shore and become animated; Each thinks the other is ugly. "Grim Masquerade" text story. "Club Horror"; A man who is bored with his life of gambling accepts an offer from Death to gamble using chips that represent years of his life. "The Stolen Brain"; A scientist kills an investor and removes his brain; He forces the brain to give him stock market tips; The brain gives the scientist a bad tip. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.
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$400 Mysteries #1 CGC GRADED 4.0 - skeleton cover - Mysteries Weird and Strange logo Clicking on the links to the eBay listings shown above and then making a purchase may result in MyComicShop earning a commission from the eBay Partner Network.
- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.
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Published May 1953 by Marvel/Atlas.$499.00
View scans- Paper: Off white
- Label #0305709013
- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.
- Paper: Cream to off white
- Label #4108562005
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Cover art by Russ Heath. The Witch and I; A Count has a witch for a mother and he forces her to use her black magic to gain advantage over the peasants; As she lays dying, she gives him a last doll and tells him that it is a figure of his greatest enemy; She dies before she can instruct him what to do with it. The Door that Never Opens; The constructor of the French Bastille tricks an abbot into serving as a prison guard, but the abbot gets back at him by locking him into the newly-opened Bastille and then setting the prisoners loose upon him. The Slaves!, art by art by Ed Win; This story is narrated by a strangler's hands who regret the actions their owner makes them do. Invitation to the Waltz text story. His Dead Wife!, art by art by Tony DiPreta; A Nazi spy marries a woman who hates them and he kills her and stashes a wireless set in the coffin which he leaves in the castle to warn the Nazi of raids. In the Wake of the Werewolf, art by Sam Kweskin; A man stumbles into a situation where two people accuse a girl of being a vampire and attack her. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.
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52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.
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$5 WALTER LANTZ NEW FUNNIES #195 (Dell:1953) Woody Woodpecker G/VG (3.0) Clicking on the links to the eBay listings shown above and then making a purchase may result in MyComicShop earning a commission from the eBay Partner Network.
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Published May 1953 by Clark Publishing Company.$9.60
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May, 1953; Volume 5, No 5 / Issue 29. Front cover by Malcolm H. Smith, back cover by Robert Gibson Jones. Science Fiction stories by S. J. Byrne, Boyd Ellanby, Gordon R. Dickson, T. P Caravan, L. Sprague de Camp, and Fritz Leiber. Interior illustrations by Charles Hornstein, Robert Fuqua, W. E. Terry, and Michael Becker. 5 1/4-in. x 7 1/2-in.; black and white; 164 pages. Cover price $0.35.
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- Interior is complete. Full length spine split.
- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
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$1,275 Patsy and Her Pals #1 CGC 9.0 OWTW Pages 4 days left Auction PATSY & HER PALS #1 [1953 VG-] ATLAS COMICS Clicking on the links to the eBay listings shown above and then making a purchase may result in MyComicShop earning a commission from the eBay Partner Network.
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Animator Paul Terry's Terrytoons featured Mighty Mouse, Heckle & Jeckle, and other classic cartoon characters of yesteryear. Heckle and Jeckle experiment with boomerangs, and find that the trouble they create comes right back to them. Papa Bear buys a new foam-rubber mattress, but it's an all-night bouncy-house as far as the Terry Bears are concerned. Sourpuss decides to start a business as an interior decorator for the wealthy, even though he knows nothing about decorating. Little Roquefort: Down With Cats; Heckle and Jeckle; Terry Bears; Gandy Goose: He Dood it Again; A Blackout; Heckle and Jeckle: Now You See It - Now You Don't; Dinky: The Working Contest; Dimwit; Terry Bears: Bouncing Boys. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Published May 1953 by N-E-W-S Publishing.$69.00
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$48.00
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Issue #12. Short-lived vintage men's interest magazine from the 1950's era that focuses heavily on tasteful black and white pin-up photography with short bios of the models and captions included with the photos. 9.5" x 12.5", 50 pages, B&W. -MATURE READERS- Cover price $0.25.
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Photoplay (1946-1982 MacFadden) 2nd Series Vol. 42 #6Published May 1953 by MacFadden Publications.$13.00
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Volume 42, Issue 6 - December 1952. Hollywood magazine. Doris Day Cover and Article. Choose Your Winner, and Hedda Hopper explains how "Hollywood Changes People!". 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 96 pages, PC/PB&W Cover price $0.25.
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Published May 1953 by Fiction House.$19.00
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- Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%.
"The Infinities a novelette by Philip K. Dick.
Cover by Allen Anderson. Kelly Freas, Ed Emsler Art. Stories by Philip K. Dick and Stanley Mullen. 7-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 112 pages. Cover price $0.25.
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Published May 1953 by Popular Mechanics Co..$90.00
View scans- Paper: Off white
- Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
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Published May 1953 by Cowles Magazines.$72.00
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View scans- Spine split 40%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
Pocket-sized digest. Cover price $0.10.
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Published May 1953 by Cowles Magazines.$53.00
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Pocket-sized digest. Cover price $0.10.
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Published May 1953 by Frank A. Munsey.$16.00
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Rangeland Romances (1935-1955 Popular) Pulp Vol. 52 #3Tags: Pulp AdventurePublished May 1953 by Popular Publications.$29.00
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Real (1952-1967 Excellent Publications) Vol. 2 #2Published May 1953 by Excellent Productions.$15.00
View scans- Corner Damage. Creasing. Denting. Foxing. Scuffing. Soiling.
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Vol. 2, #2 - May 1953. Adventure, sports and war fiction plus illustrated articles. Includes "Red Buttons: He's All Funnybone" by Mort Weisinger (Superman/Aquaman/Green Arrow). 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 98 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.
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Red Ryder stars in two untitled stories. Untitled Aunty Duchess and Little Beaver back-up stories. Cover price $0.10.
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Photo cover. Article on Nevada's Lost Diamond Mine. The Bonehead Bandits starring Rex Alle, Koko, Booter Sam, Mac, Tizzy Trimble, Jumbo, Dan Curtis, Tom Beamer, Meg Taylor, Rudie, Jed Evans, Hal, and Pete. Untitled Rex Allen story starring Koko, Spur, Abby Bainter, Rufe Bainter, Lasher Garrick, and Hank. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.
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Photo cover of the famous singing cowboy. The Mine at Ghost Gulch starring Roy Rogers, Bullet, and Trigger, art by Albert Micale; The Ware family has not showed up in town with their weekly gold dust delivery, so the Sheriff sends Deputy Roy Rogers up to Ghost Gulch to investigate. The Man with the Iron Hands starring Roy Rogers, Trigger, and Bullet, art by Albert Micale; bone hunters have dug up two dead human bodies killed by a man with very strong hands. The Hermit of Pullin's Pocket starring Roy Rogers, art by the Al McKimson team; a couple of renegade Yaqui Indians have busted out of the pen and are wanted for murder. The Twister text story. Chuckwagon Charley's Tales story, art by Ray Thayer. Argentine Gaucho text article. Back cover ad for Roy Rogers Deputy Sheriff Outfit. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.
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$8 Roy Rogers # 65 GD+ 2.5 $10 ROY ROGERS COMICS #65! PHOTO COVER! VG 1953 DELL $25 Roy Rodgers #65 (1953) FN/VF Clicking on the links to the eBay listings shown above and then making a purchase may result in MyComicShop earning a commission from the eBay Partner Network.
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Saga Magazine (1950 2nd Series) Vol. 6 #2Published May 1953 by MacFadden Publications.$17.00
View scansMen's interest magazine focusing on Western adventure stories. 8.5" x 11", 98 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.
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Published May 1953 by Future Publishing.