Comic books May 1953
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Black Magic (1950-1961 Prize/Crestwood) Vol. 3 #6Tags: Pre-Code Horror
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Cover by Jack Kirby. Art by George Roussos, Mort Meskin, Al Eadeh, Harry Lazarus, Bill Draut, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby present their own contribution to the horror comics trend of the 1950s, featuring tales of ghosts and the paranormal. Issue # 24 on cover; listed as Vol. 3, issue #6 in indicia. A farmer trades his infant for a changeling, which grows into a monstrous being. A man is haunted by a female ghost. The Changeling; His Own Business; After I'm Gone; Strange Predictions; The Lady Is a Ghost; Stars of Fate; The Shadow; Bring Back the Dream!; As Real As Life! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Published May 1953 by Marvel/Atlas.
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Two-Gun Kid apperance Cover price $0.10.
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$37.50
View scans- Oxidation.
Cover by Reed Crandall. Stories by Paul Gustavson and unknown. Art by Paul Gustavson, Reed Crandall and unknown. From the underwater kingdom of the demon Massacar, here come..."The Flying Submarines!" with art by Reed Crandall. Blackhawk is also featured in "The Legion of the Doomed!" and "The Ghost of Blackhawk Island!" Plus: Chop Chop in an untitled back-up story by Paul Gustavson. And: 1-page text story "Top Secret"! 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Published May 1953 by City Magazines Ltd..$40.00
View scans- Staple rust: Slight.
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Published May 1953 by City Magazines Ltd..$23.00
View scans- Staple rust: Slight.
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36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.
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Tags: Pulp AdventurePublished May 1953 by McCall Company.$86.00
View scansVolume 97, Issue 1 - May 1953, 8.25" x 11", 132 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.
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Published May 1953 by Lev Gleason.$30.00
Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Norman Maurer and Charles Biro. An anthology title from publisher Lev Gleason and his primary creator, Charles Biro, featuring teen hero Crimebuster and his nemesis Iron Jaw. A convict just released schemes to claim the loot that's been hidden since his arrest, and frame his double-crossing girlfriend in the bargain. Sniffer & the Deadly Dozen flee from a dangerous Iron Jaw aboard a runaway roller coaster. After suffering heavy losses, the Rocketeers take on the alien invasion force, only to learn it comes from the planet of space villain the Claw. Also featuring Lev Gleason Comics Picture Trading Cards. Crimebuster: He Got What Was Coming; Sniffer & the Deadly Dozen: Iron Jaw's Biggest Bite; Little Wise Guys: The Four Musketeers; Rocky X: The Return of the Claw. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Published May 1953 by Lev Gleason.
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Stories by unknown. Art by Myron Fass, Charlie Tomsey, Robert Martinott? and Al Luster. He wasn't her man...but she wanted him! Read..."Star for a Night," A True Love Story! Also featuring these A True Love Story tales: "No Love Songs for Me"; "My Paris Romance"; and "Jungle Love"! Plus: "Do You Need Advice?" letters page by Agnes Holmes. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.
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Vol. 48 #5
Published May 1953 by British National Newspapers.This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
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Published May 1953 by Dell/Gold Key/Whitman.$6.40
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Cover pencils by Tony Strobl. Stories by Don R. Christensen and various. Art by John Carey, Tony Strobl, Fred Abranz and various. Featuring the tales "The Smoke Smeller," "Beefy Bunny's Muscles," "The Loco Locomotive" and more! Starring Bugs Bunny, Petunia Pig, Horton (Horty) Hare, Beefy Bunny, Porky Pig, Sylvester Pussycat, Cicero Pig and Elmer Fudd! 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Stories by Harry Sahle and unknown. Art by Harry Sahle and unknown. Candy in an untitled story co-starring Ted Dawson, Agnes O'Connor and Tim O'Connor. Candy also stars in two untitled reprint stories. Plus: 1-page untitled Jonesy story starring Marvin and Marvin's dad; Ezra in an untitled reprint story co-starring Rollo Grant, Dean Dilsbury, Myrna Moore, Emily Smoehauser and Mrs. Harris; 1-page reprint text story "Look Closely" starring Skip Adair, Wilma Payson, Teenie Morton, Patsy Winters and Sophie Conrad; and Lala Palooza in 1-page untitled story co-starring Vincent Doolittle. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.
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Stories by Otto Binder and unknown. Art by C.C. Beck, Pete Costanza and unknown. Holy Moley! Is this some horrible nightmare? The World's Mightiest Mortal becomes the world's weakest man when Sivana steals his powers in a 3-part tale by Otto Binder and C.C. Beck: "Captain Marvel and the Stolen Shazam Powers Chapter One: Sivana's Sinister Scheme"; "Captain Marvel and the Stolen Shazam Powers Chapter Two: The Smashing of Captain Marvel"; and "Captain Marvel and the Stolen Shazam Powers Chapter Three: Sivana's Victory"! Captain Marvel (Billy Batson) also stars in "Captain Marvel Fights the Fatal Fogs" with story by Otto Binder and inks by Pete Costanza (Red Crusher appearance). Plus: Captain Kid in "The Intrepid Inventor!" And: Jon Jarl in the 2-page text story "Interplanetary Tenements" with script by Otto Binder (as Eando Binder). 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #66
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Issue #67
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Issue #68
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Issue #69
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Issue #70
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Volume 1, Issue 4 - May 1953. Men's interest magazine featuring War, Hunting, and Adventure stories, along with cartoons, and in later issues Pictorials. This issue features articles on Having a Way with Women, Getting Rich with a Geiger Counter, and the King of Gamblers! 8 1/2-in. x 11-in. 90 Pages B&W. Cover price $0.25.
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- 4" cumulative spine split, cover detached at one staple.
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$89.00
View scan- Interior complete. Near complete spine split. Glue at spine. Staple rust with migration. Oxidation and chipping.
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Cover by Lee Elias. Stories and art by Warren Kremer, Howard Nostrand, Joe Certa and Moe Marcus. Harvey Comics joins the parade of pre-Code horror comics pioneered by EC in the 1950s. An amnesiac rediscovers his evil past. The ghost of a murdered mobster haunts the gangsters who killed him. A hunter is stalked by his own magical double. Amnesia!; Cold Type; Chiller Dillers!; Big Fight!; Bridge!; Jealousy; The Collector. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.
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Vol. 8 #10
Published May 1953 by Jayhawk Press.This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
5 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 64 pages, Text, (with B&W Illustrations and photos) Cover price $0.35.
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Published May 1953 by Parents' Magazine.$7.00
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Published May 1953 by Ayers & James.
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Issue 71 - Australian Edition. Circa early to mid 1950's. Reprints "The Adventures of Kit Carson" 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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Published May 1953 by Classics Illustrated.$3.30
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King of the Khyber Rifles, 1st Printing, Painted Cover. (HRN 108, with 5/53 date). Cover price $0.15.
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Published May 1953 by Classics Illustrated.$2.50
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King of the Khyber Rifles, 4th Printing, Painted Cover. (HRN 158). Cover price $0.15.
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Vol. 1 #3
Published May 1953 by MacFadden Publications.This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
Volume 1, Issue 3 - May 1953. Men's interest magazine focusing on war and adventure stories, along with buxom beauties. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in. 98 pages B&W. Cover price $0.25.
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Published May 1953 by Crowell-Collier Publishing.$48.00
View scans- Staple rust: Moderate.
May 9, 1953. The classic weekly magazine featuring news and fiction. Articles include: "He Tarzan - You Fan" (4 page article on Tarzan's success, with photos), "Should the Navy and the Air Force merge?", "Can Eisenhower End Segregation in Washington?", and more. Full page color ads include Kelly Tires, Nash, Seagrams, Kodak. 10.75" x 13.75", 74 pages, PC/B&W. Cover price $0.15.
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Three untitled Combat Kelly stories, plus "Cookie Cops a Cutie!" (scripts by Hank Chapman, art by Dave Berg). Two-page text story, "Bazooka Brigade." Cover price $0.10.
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68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.15.
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Australian Edition. Reprints in black and white. Warfront cover logo. 7-in. x 10 3/4-in., 24 pages, black and white.
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Tags: Comic Strip ReprintsPublished May 1953 by United Features Syndicate.
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Published May 1953 by Ace Periodicals.
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Photo cover. In order of appearance: "Come-On Girl"; "Casual Kisses" reprinted in Real Love (1949-56 Ace) #62; "First Prize, Love!"; and "Slave Sweetheart". "For a More Glamorous You: How to Be a Charming Companion, When You Write That Letter, You're in Love If..." text article reprinted from "The Charm Corner..." in Real Love (1949-56 Ace) #30 and reprinted as "Don't Be a One Date Girl..." in Ten Story Love Vol. 35 (1955) #2. 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.
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Vol. 8 #5
Tags: Pulp AdventureThis item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
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Cookie (1946) #42Published May 1953 by Michel Publishing.$7.20
Stories and art by Ben Brown and David Gantz. Teen hijinks featuring Cookie and his pals, created by legendary animator Dan Gordon. Cookie and Jitterbuck go out into the country to rescue a stranded Angelpuss and her pop, but they get lost; Jitterbuck convinces Cookie to open a dog laundry; The Brain invents a flame-thrower to help Cookie clear snow off the sidewalk. Cookie; Clumsy Oaf; Girl Trouble; Too Old for Measles!; Buster; Cookie: There Was a Crooked Man! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Vol. 134 #5
Cosmopolitan (1886 Hearst) Vol. 134 #5This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
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Published May 1953 by Models Publishing Co., Inc..$27.00
View scans- Spine stress. Soiling. Water damage.
Volume 2, Issue 9 - May, 1953. 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", 70 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.
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$24.00
View scanCover by Paul Gustavson. Stories by Robert Bernstein and unknown. Art by Edmond Good, Paul Gustavson, Charles Sultan & unknown and Reed Crandall. Managing Lucy as a singer is only Pollard's front -- he's actually an outlaw and murderer holding Lucy in slavery in the Two-Gun Lil story "The Kissing Monster"! Plus: Sharp Stenger and his band of big-city desperados are threatening to massacre the town of Broken Creek if they don't surrender to them in the Arizona Raines story "The Revolt at Broken Creek!" Also: Once the outlaw world unmasked the Whip and knew his secret, he was as good as dead in "Unmasked"! And: Bob Allen, Frontier Marshal in "Five Against the Law"! Plus: Arizona Ames in 1-page reprint text story "The Other Gun"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.
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Cover by Lou Morales. Stories and art by Lou Morales, John Belfi, and Bob Forgione. Pre-Code crime comics from Charlton, sometimes published under its short-lived Capitol or Law and Order imprints. Nick and Nora-like Mr. and Mrs. Chase stumble into Ragud Bey's plot to steal the Holy Mace, and are threatened with torture when they find it first. Tired of Paul and Larry fighting over her, Sheila challenges them to play Russian roulette to settle it (!), in a story with some weird Mardi Gras art by John Belfi. A wealthy invalid suspects her nurse is plotting her murder, and leaves a telltale clue. Mr. and Mrs. Chase: Death's Mace; Russian Roulette!; Half Way Alibi; The Judge Tells a Story; The Soliloquy of Death; The Dead of Winter; Radio Patrol: Riot! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Published May 1953 by Lev Gleason.
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Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Al Luster, Ken Landau, Al Wenzel, 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 quartet of convicts prepares a prison break. In Morocco, two gamblers try to resolve their longstanding feud with knives and bullets. Star quarterback Teddy gets in over his head with gambling debts, so mobsters try to get him to throw a game. Also featuring Lev Gleason Comics Picture Trading Cards. The Big Crashout; Where Loser Takes All; Strange Criminals; Play Ball, or Play Dead. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Vol. 13 #2
Published May 1953 by Crime Detective, Inc..This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
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Published May 1953 by Lev Gleason.
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Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Dick Rockwell 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. Dion O'Banion goes bullet-for-bullet with Johnny Torrio and Al Capone during the Chicago bootlegging wars of the 1920s. Revenue agent Jeff Parker descends into a smugglers' hangout, even though it's probably a trap, but undercover agent Margot is not far away. Safecracker Dennis Rankin, aka Magic Fingers, hatches a new plot that cops call The Fall Guy Case. Deadly Dion O'Bannion, the Czar of Mob Rule; Set for the Kill; Disciples of Deception; Delayed Justice; Once More for Good Measure. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Published May 1953 by Trojan Magazines.
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Cover by Harry Harrison. Stories and art by Richard Kahn, Mo Marcus, Al Gordon, Paul S. Newman, Tony Tallarico, Cerrone, Al Tyler, John Belfi, Ray McClelland and Pierre Charpentier. Crime and adventure comics featuring detective heroes. Dr. Lance Storm's arch enemy Professor Zarno gets his hands on an atomic bomb. A hunted man seeks help from Chinese-American scientist Dr. Foo and gets him involved in international intrigue. Sally the Sleuth uncovers the secret of the mysterious House of Death. Good-girl mummy cover by future sci-fi author Harry Harrison. Sons of Satan!; Dead at the Wheel!; The Fantastic Dr. Foo: The Case of China's Stolen Funds!; Terror in the Dark; Sally the Sleuth. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Published May 1953 by Westridge Publications Corp..$6.00
View scans- Front cover detached 10%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.
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Published May 1953 by Editorial Novaro.
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Mexican comic book series featuring stories from Walt Disney. Mickey Mouse in "La Tortuga Sagrada". 7 1/4-in. x 10 1/4-in., 36 pages, FC.
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36 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 Comic Media.
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Cover by Pete Morisi. Stories and art by Pete Morisi and Don Heck. Tales of men's adventure, similar to the magazines that were then becoming a burgeoning market unto themselves. Firefighters must extinguish a blaze at a nuclear power plant before a disaster is unleashed. An arson investigator discovers a murder at the center of his latest investigation. A rookie cop risks his life to save a suicidal man atop a suspension bridge. Featuring art by future Marvel legend Don Heck. Also featuring a Ripley's-style list of unusual rituals and rites around the world. Fire Fighter; Arson; Dangerous Practices; Uncanny Warning; High Bridge; Race with Death. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Dare (1953 Fiction Publications) Vol. 1 #5Published May 1953 by Fiction Publications.
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Volume 1, Issue 5 - May 1953. Men's interest magazine focusing on Military, Politics, celebrities and showgirls. 4-in. x 6-in., 68 pages, B&W Cover price $0.10.
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Published May 1953 by Lev Gleason.
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Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Norman Maurer, and William Overgard. This boys' adventure title was one of the comics that made publisher Lev Gleason a major player during the Golden Age. The Little Wise Guys head to scout camp and wind up entertaining troops with the USO. Dilly Duncan enlists his beautiful cousin Nancy to play a prank on his rival Gruesome Jones. The Little Wise Guys discover that their new pal Ronny is a pathological liar, and cheats on tests to boot. Also featuring Lev Gleason Comics Picture Trading Cards: Famous Fighting Planes. Little Wise Guys: Who's Excited; Dilly Duncan of Dorset High: Gruesome, the Great Lover; It's A Small World; Crimebuster: Killer-At-Large; Little Wise Guys: The Liar; Lev Gleason Trading Cards. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Cover by Joseph Szokoli. Stories and art by Doug Wildey, Stephen Kirkel and Vince Colletta. Tales of love and heartbreak, with a twist: in-story appearances by real-life musicians of the era. Terry fears her high-society boyfriend Larry will not appreciate her showbiz background, until real-life singer Alan Dale intervenes, in a story with early art by Doug Wildey. Spoiled heiress Barbara falls for safari guide Jim after he saves her from a lion attack. Roy breaks off his engagement to Elaine when he learns she used to be a gangster's moll. Plus a profile and photo of Hollywood and music legend Mario Lanza. Cover features a photo of Alan Dale. Alan Dale, Mr. Crooner; Jungle Love; The Mario Lanza Story; Shadow of the Past; Love Will Find a Way. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.