Comic books March 1954

Cover pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Ray Burnley. The Indian Chief from Oxford starring Tomahawk, pencils by Bruno Premiani, inks by Ray Burnley. Ad for DC's new Hopalong Cassidy series, pencils by Gene Colan, inks by Joe Giella. The Trap at Tupper's Ferry starring Tomahawk, pencils by Bruno Premiani, inks by Ray Burnley. Behind the Rodeo, art by Morris Waldinger. The Legend of the River Maker--Tales of the Arrow Maker, art by Jim McArdle. Red Man on Horseback text article by Raymond Perry. Chief Hot Foot humor page by Henry Boltinoff. Tomahawk Runs the Gauntlet, pencils by Bruno Premiani, inks by Ray Burnley. 44 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Lee Elias. Stories and art by Manny Stallman, Sid Check, Bob Powell, Howard Nostrand, and Jack Sparling. Tomb of Terror was one of Harvey Comics' notorious pre-Code horror comics. Space explorers encounter an advanced, hostile alien race, leading to interstellar war. An imprisoned scientist tries to convince a reporter that a strange organism threatens to take over humanity, but the reporter already knows all about it. A boy with a synthetic face is ostracized by the other children. End Result; Assignment Africa; Sky Sight/Moon-Struck; Death Sentence; The Harder They Fall; Trip Upstairs; Climat-Mosphere/Nature - The Man Killer; The Outcast. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Final issue. L.B. Cole cover. All stories reprinted from Popular Teen-Agers (1950) #12. In order of appearance: "Portrait of Love" art by Jay Disbrow; "My Summer Romance"; "He Didn't Want Me"; and "Love's False Dream" originally retitled and reprinted from "Only a Pick-Up!" in My Past (1949 Confessions) #8. "My Hungry Heart" text story originally retitled and reprinted from "Love was My Bodyguard" in My Love Life (1949) #6. 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 1, Issue 1 - March, 1954. Short-lived vintage men's interest magazine that features articles for bachelors, pin-up photographs, jokes, and cartoons. 8" x 10.5", 66 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Volume 1, issue 1 - March 1954. Digest sized news, and gossip magazine. Gina Lollobrigida cover, and articles on a new test for Cancer, and the "Jekyll-Hyde of Comics" William Gaines, accompanied by a Wally Wood illustration. 4-in.x 5 1/2-in., 64 pages, B&W Cover price $0.15.

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Volume 14, Issue 5 - March, 1954. 8" x 11", 70 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.50.

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March 11, 1954

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March 25, 1954

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True stories from around the world. 8 1/4-in. x 11 1/4-in., 120 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Cover by Lee Elias. Stories and art by Bill Draut and others. Torrid tales of love and heartbreak dressed up as advice to the lovelorn from Harvey. Redheaded social worker Marion is torn between reporter Rick, who doesn't believe in her work, and down-and-out Steve, who really needs her help. Widow Lisa gets a job singing in her brother-in-law's nightclub, but that life gives her a low opinion of men. Sally thinks she'll be happy if she can just find her birth parents, but her man Cy warns her that may not be the case. My Cheating Heart; Hasty Heart; Jane Learns: What Every Girl Should Know About Skin Care; Tempted; Love Life; Running Wild; Return to Love; Love's Decision! 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Issue #4 - Spring 1954.

36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Spring 1954. Vol. 1, No. 11. Final Issue. Cover by Frank Kelly Freas. Science Fiction by Don Wilcox "Tombot!" and Bryan Berry "World Held Captive". Illustrations by Freas. 6 7/8" x 10"; black and white; 132 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

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Edited by Stan Lee. Cover by Russ Heath. Stories by Al Eadeh, John Forte, Bob Powell, Ed Winiarski, and Vince Colletta. Tantalizing tales of suspense and horror, sometimes with science fiction elements. 36 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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No ads in book. Entire issue from cover to cover is comic stories and one page strips. Uncle Scrooge in an untitled book-length story in which he obtains the world's rarest coin but loses it. With Donald and the nephews, he journeys undersea to find it and discovers Atlantis. Story by Carl Barks. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Despite the US affiliation in the title, this was an original war comic from Canadian publisher Superior, focused on the then-new US Air Force. Pilots on a rescue mission realize they've flown right into an enemy trap. A US flier undertakes a mission in the nick of time. An airman makes a desperate bid for freedom in the skies over Korea. Death-Trap Rescue; Last-Minute Mission; Tailspin To Doom; Escape Flight; Good Shooting! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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March, 1954. Science fiction stories: "The Door" by Eric Frank Russell, "Alien Invasion" by Marcia Kamien. 5-1/4 in. x 7-1/8 in.; black and white; 128 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.35.

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52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

"The Walking Dead," pencils by Charles Nicholas; Show promoter Carl Lamont travels to an island in the Caribbean to capture the fabled giant zombie of Zaku, none other than Zog, king zombie; Lamont succeeds in luring Zog into a trap, hauling him to the US and putting him on display in his circus show. "The Uninvited Corpse"; Alice is married to John Carlton, but her lover, Guy, kills her husband; The evil couple rejoices and starts enjoying life, when dead Carlton drops by. "The Phantom Killer," pencils by Sam Citron; A demolition crew is ordered to tear down an old playhouse of horror; Some of the workers are attacked and killed in the process. "The Curse of Sika" text story. "The Shrunken Heads of Dr. Death," pencils by Edward Goldfarb; In the Amazon jungle, the suit-wearing crackpot Dr. Death lives with his pet monkey Bola and witnesses the crash landing of a passenger plane; The mad doctor kills off all survivors and adds them to his collection of shrunken heads. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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First issue of the series (continues from Weird Fantasy and Weird Science). Cover art by Wallace Wood. "The Children," script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Wallace Wood; Colonists on a new world have their children taken from them by the government. "Fish Story," script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Al Williamson (signed) and Roy Krenkel (underwater world panels); The fish life forms on a distant strange blue planet are faced with their fading sun soon going nova and exploding, only to leave their planet without life-sustaining oxygen; Then they see an alien vessel approaching and fill it with water and drown the crew inside. "Ninth Wonder" text story. "The Flying Machine," script by Ray Bradbury and Albert B. Feldstein (adaptation), art by Bernie Krigstein; When Emperor Yuan discovers that a villager has learned how to create a flying machine he has him killed so the secret won't fall into the wrong hands. "Fair Trade, script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Joe Orlando; After a nuclear holocaust, a tribe sells Manhattan Island to aliens. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.15.

Volume 46, Issue 1 - March 1954. Edited by Dorothy McIlwraith. Horror and Fantasy stories in the pulp style. 6.75-in. x 10-in.; 128 newsprint pages, text (with B&W illustrations). Cover price $0.35.

Cover by Don Heck. Stories and art by Ken Fitch, Ross Andru, Mike Esposito, Rudy Palais and Don Heck. Pre-Code horror comics by the talents at the Iger Shop. A mildly disturbed scientist transplants a human brain into an ape's body. A man tries to restore the memory of his amnesiac cousin. When three sisters fall for a handsome lawyer, one of them turns to witchcraft and murder to get her man. Also featuring a gorilla-man cover by future Marvel legend Don Heck. The Man-Ape; Nothing But the Best; Couple of Fishes; The Deep River; Death Kiss; Witch Girl. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 10, Issue 1 - March, 1954. 6.75" x 9.75", 100 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Vol. 7, No. 5. March 1954. This issue features a two-page Bettie Page pictorial. Articles in this issue include: "Are Sororities Sinful?"; "Wives on the Lam"; "They Strip for Charity"; and much more. 8.5" x 11". 50 pages. B&W. MATURE. Cover price $0.25.

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Issue #669 - Mar. 1954. A collection of true stories with photographs from all over the world. 7-in. x 9 3/4-in., 88 Pages, B&W.

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Stories and art by Mel Keefer and Vic Herman. Toby Press re-presents the adventures of Billy the Kid, a folk hero rather than a killer, as seen in such other Toby titles as Monty Hall of the U.S. Marines (1951) and Fighting Leathernecks (1952). Marines assigned to guard an idol on an island disappear, lending credence to the legend that the idol eats men. A Marine gets caught up in the battle for White Horse Hill. Marines Spike and Bat create a new version of an ancient battle tactic: the Trojan Camel. The Man-Eating Idol; Kangaroo Court!; Trojan Camel. Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Winslow Mortimer. Jor-El's Last Will starring Superman, pencils by Wayne Boring, inks by Stan Kaye; Jor-El's last will shows that Earth is doomed to explode like Krypton did; The location of Superman's secret mountain retreat is discovered by the world. Shorty humor page by Henry Boltinoff. The Junior Ghost Patrol starring Tomahawk, script by Dave Wood, art by Nick Cardy. The Matador with a Bow starring Green Arrow, art by George Papp. Sudden Death Valley starring Two-Gun Percy, art by Jimmy Thompson. The Seven Hills of Rome featuring Danger Trail, script by Dave Wood. Amazing Creatures of the Amazon text article by Jack Miller [as Jack Mabley]. Start the Day Off Right public service announcement starring Buzzy, script by Jack Schiff, art by Win Mortimer. The Man Who Wanted to Die With Batman, pencils by Bob Kane (Batman & Robin figures) and Lew Sayre Schwartz, inks by Stan Kaye; A dying man vows to take Batman with him, because Batman sent his father to the electric chair. 68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.15.

Volume 2, Issue 7. Whole number 13. Art by John Prentice, Bill Draut, and Bob McCarty Another spinoff of the Young Romance comics series, created and produced by Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Fred flips out when he learns Ellen has been accepting "hand-me-down" (secondhand) clothing from the neighbors. Marcy freaks out when her husband buys a negligee that's not her size. Cass falls for Janet, but isn't prepared to take on her three children. The Bride Wore Hand-Me-Downs!; The Other Woman; Fashion Notes; Little Coquette!; Good Manners; Pulse, Please; Revenge with Kisses! 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

"The Young Marvelman Foils the Asbestos Men". "Young Marvelman and the Monster Maker". 28 pages. 10" x 7". Color cover. B&W pages. UK edition. Published by L. Miller & Son Ltd London.

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Cover by Carl Burgos. Written by Joe Gill, Don Rico and unknown. Art by Carl Burgos, John Romita, Sr. and Bill Everett. In this issue: The Human Torch (Jim Hammond), Toro (Thomas Raymond) and the Vulture (Isidoro Scarlotti) in a story by Joe Gill and Carl Burgos; Captain America and Bucky in "Captain America Turns Traitor!" by Don Rico and John Romita, Sr.; the Sub-Mariner in a story with art by Bill Everett; and "Pursuit" text story. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

#67 on cover; Vol. 7 No. 7 in indicia. Cover by John Prentice. Stories by unknown. Art by unknown. Since the accident, he's had plenty of time to think -- about the two of them! He says he was never really in love with Anne! It was only kid stuff! But is he merely trying to be noble? And Anne -- she doesn't care if he never walks again! She loves him -- and vows to never leave him! But...has he fallen in love with another? It was a last, desperate plan to win the man she loved! Don't miss..."Little Troublemaker"! Also: More tales of young romance! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Al Fago. Stories and art by Al Fago and others. Charlton's second go at this funny-animal book, originally one of their first published titles. Gate the Gator joins the scouts and tries to out-merit Tubby the Scout for a merit badge. Leon the Lyin Lion tells his own version of the jumping-frog tall tale. Shorty Squirrel tries to sell Blackie Crow a book of household hints, but first he must convince him he needs it. Shadow: X Marks the Spot; Punchy and the Black Crow; There's a Word for It; Leon the Lyin Lion: Ah... Choo!!!; Tubby the Scout; Nip the Cat: Mouser Trouncer; Who's Who in Zoo. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.