Comic books October 1954

36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $14.00 View scans

Vol. 16 #12 - Oct. 1954. Cover by Leo Politi. Magazine for children featuring activities, articles and text stories. 6 3/4-in. x 10-in., 68 pages, B&W with single and full color illustrations. Cover price $0.25.

Men's interest humor digest with cartoons, jokes and tasteful pin-up photography. 5" x 6.5", 98 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

One Track Mind; Carol wants Jonesy to enter a track meet. Untitled Jitters story; a cute story about preconceived notions as Jitters takes a square-dancing queen from Kentucky to a formal jitterbugging dance. Rags to Riches starring Jonesy. Fan Clubbed starring Jonesy. Goofing the Roofing starring Gabby. Dance Date text story starring Ossie and Sandy. Good Skate starring Jonesy. Charles Atlas back cover ad. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $245.00 View scans Moisture damage.

"The Man Who Went Back!," art by Pete Tumlinson; A man is pursued through time by tax collectors. "Hate Is the Master" text story. "The Hidden Man!," art by Ed Moline; A mysterious sniper who has shot seven people in the city park turns out to be a monkey in the nearby zoo who somehow acquired a gun. "He Wouldn't Stay Dead!," art by Bill Walton; A man conducts rites that reincarnate his shrewish wife's spirit into a figurine, but the new person, whom he names 'Jolie', is a kind and supportive ideal wife. "The Swami!," art by Mort Lawrence; A crook forces his stepson to commit crimes for him but one victim is a swami who turns the man's greed against him. "The Worst Thirst," art by Ed Winiarski; Two brothers are incensed that their neighbors have put down a well that has dried up the well on their property so they lay pipe to divert the water back down to the well on their property. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

"Nothing But the Tooth," art by Harry Lucey; Jughead tries to talk himself out of being afraid of the dentist. "Getting Hindu Trouble," pencils by Bill Vigoda; In an effort to soothe Betty's heartbreak over Archie, Jughead gives her what he calls a "Hindu love potion." "Time to Retire," script by Frank Doyle pencils by Bill Vigoda, inks by Harry Lucey; Jughead is sleep-walking through the day and everyone goes to great pains not to wake him up. "Stuck Up," art by Joe Edwards; Mr. Dripwaite tries to settle a dispute between Wilbur and another student. "Tunnel of Love," art by Harry Lucey; The gang buries Jughead in the sand to keep him from the hamburger stand. "Riddle Me This," script by Frank Doyle, art by Bill Vigoda; Reggie's prank on Jughead backfires when Jughead passes it on to Moose. "The Eyes Have It," script and pencils by Bob Montana, inks by Joe Edwards; Jughead gives Betty the wrong idea about the impending prom. "Smashing Success," pencils by Bill Vigoda; Jughead and Betty conspire to trick Archie and Reggie into thinking she can shatter glass with her voice. "Book of the Week," script and pencils by Bob Montana, inks by Joe Edwards; Miss Grundy asks Jughead to organize the books in the library. "Strange Things Are Happening" text story, art by George Frese; Reggie plants disappearing ink in Archie's ink well, getting him into trouble with the administration. "Gift Rapped," pencils by Bill Vigoda; Jughead agrees to tutor Moose for his first aid course; Reggie overhears and gets the wrong idea. "Fed Up," inks by Samm Schwartz; Ferdie asks Suzie out, but Suzie has the wrong impression about their destination. "Nothing Ventured Nothing Gained," script and pencils by Bob Montana, inks by Joe Edwards; Jughead tries to pass off a blank page as art. "First Class Male," art by Samm Schwartz; Veronica tries to force Jughead to play "post office" with Betty. "Soda Pop?", script and art by Joe Edwards; Jughead offers to guess Pop's age for a free soda. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover Joe Maneely. "The Trail of Sudden Death!", script by Don Rico, art by Joe Maneely; Tharn stops uranium smugglers with the help of the pygmy Matubi tribe and the bull elephant Gata. "Survival of the Mighty!", script by Don Rico, art by Paul Hodge; The gorilla Man-Oo protects the fawn Wabbi from the lion Numa and in his turn Tando the antelope saves Man-Oo from a snake. "Survival of the Mighty!", script by Don Rico, art by Paul Hodge; The gorilla Man-Oo protects the fawn Wabbi from the lion Numa and in his turn Tando the antelope saves Man-Oo from a snake. "Elephant Boy" text story. "The Skulls of Bleak River!", script by Don Rico, art by John Forte. "The Snake Ring!", script by Don Rico, art by Al Hartley; Danning, "America's top con man", and his daughter swindle $5000 from Peter, but Leopard Girl tricks them into confessing with the threat of some (supposedly) man-eating snakes. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Marvin Stein. Art by Marvin Stein and others. Pioneering crime comic Justice Traps the Guilty was produced by the studio of comics legends Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, creators of Captain America. A long-running feud between two families escalates into murder. A two-fisted cop gets busted for police brutality, but it's all an act to nail a gambling kingpin. A killer thinks he's found the perfect way to get rid of a body. Also featuring a vintage PSA on "Polio Facts" that includes discussion of the polio vaccine then being tested - a real piece of medical history. Tough Cop; Polio Facts; Feud!; Closeups; Once a Cop -- Always a Cop; Two in the Grave. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Joe Maneely. Untitled story, art by Jack Keller; As Kid Colt passes a Native American village, Kid Colt decides to stop by and visit his friend chief Powa-Hatu; When he arrives he finds that he is about to make a deal with two crooked traders named Dupres and Conway; When he tries to call them out on their crooked dealings, both men drawn on Kid Colt but the Kid easily disarms him. Untitled story, art by Jack Keller; An outlaw named Verne Fargo comes to get revenge against a local blacksmith fatally shooting him and running away; When the blacksmith's son Dave, rushes to his father's aid but it is too late, as he dies the blacksmith tells his son to get Kid Colt to avenge his death. "Man of the Family" text story. "Dust of Destiny," art by Syd Shores; The Black Rider is out looking for Bobby Lathrop when he spots a Comanche warrior named Bear Paw walking with the boy's horse; The Black Rider asks where Bear Paw found the horse and learns that it was found in a nearby stream; The pair go back and the Black Rider finds that the boy was digging around the stream and that some men dismounted around them; the Black Rider then finds their trail and decides to follow it. Untitled story, art by Jack Keller; One evening Kid Colt witnesses some men moving some cattle and find it suspicious, but is hit over the back of the head with the butt of a gun before he can wonder further; He comes around at dawn and is found by a wealthy female rancher named Cora Williams; When he tells her about what happened she tells him that the cattle were likely stolen from her neighbor by rustlers and asks if she can hire him for protection to insure that nobody steals her cattle. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

9.25" x 12.25", 44 pages, B&W with some color. NOTE: All text in French.

Add to cart Fair $6.00 View scans Spine split 10%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Moderate.

8.5" x 11", 80 pages, B&W Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Warren Kremer and Steve Muffatti. Cover by Warren Kremer. Harvey Comics presents the adventures of Little Audrey, mischievous star of movie cartoons. Audrey panics when the baby she's watching gets mixed up with an organ grinder's monkey. Little Audrey dreams she has a flying carpet, but flies so high that she encounters aliens from outer space. Melvin, Audrey and Tiny pretend to be bullfighters, but a goat and a fleeing crook create some confusion. Little Audrey; Monkey Shines; Carpet Bagger; Tiny: Throwing the Bull. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $2.50

36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $4.30 Tape.

Cat Tale; Lulu tells the Fellers that she can speak cat language. Wild Animal in the House; The wild animal Tubby tells Lulu is in her house turns out to be a sponge. Kissing Game; Tubby tells the Fellers he can get Lulu to kiss him. Ol' Witch Hazel and the King's Beard; Lulu tells Alvin about when Hazel made her cut off the king's beard. Rich Kid; Tubby tries to make Gloria think he is rich. Two-page text story, Lulus Diry ("Diary"). 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Art Helfant and others. Joe Palooka's speechless sidekick from the popular Ham Fisher boxing strip gets his own comic, noteworthy for early versions of Little Dot and other Harvey characters. Max dreams himself into the fairy tale of Little Red Riding Hood while Joe Palooka reads to him. Joe takes Max and Alice to the carnival, where Max isn't sure if the "Fun House" is really all that fun. Humphrey ill-advisedly agrees to let the members of his fan club practice first aid on him. Max-imum Visibility; Little Max in Little Red Riding Hood; Chicken Soup; Rumpus; Sweet Treat; Soda Sale; Just for Laughs; Secret Formula; Hector the Director; Humphrey: Let's Play Doctor; How to Make Your Very Own Talking Hand; The Brush Off; Little Max's Zoo Quiz; Circus Quiz. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Painted cover art by Hank Hartman. Facts about Indian wampum (money made from shells). The Fight Over Death Gorge, script by Paul S. Newman, art by Tom Gill; Bandits rob a town, then hijack a railroad train to make their getaway. Silver Gets Through, script by Paul S. Newman, art by Tom Gill; Apaches attack Fort Mills. Silver (without the Lone Ranger) must carry a message to get help at Fort Hammer. The Flood, script by Gaylord Du Bois, art by Jon Small; A flood on the Little Missouri River forces Young Hawk and Little Buck to take refuge on an island; After that island is submerged they float downstream to another island where they find a baby who has been lost in the storm. Promo for Dell giant comic "The Lone Ranger's Western Treasury" #2. Based on the popular Western TV series. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Don Spaulding. Full-page, inside front cover, illustrated article about Indian hunting arrows. The Old Warrior's Wisdom; Cunning Hand and Tonto escape a band of Crow. The Prospector; Tonto traps a gang of outlaws in a mine shaft. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

"Silver's First Swim," "Silver Strikes Back," and "The Lost Child." 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Good $2.50

Add to cart Good $2.50

36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

"Was He the Boy For Me," "I Distrusted Him," "Jealous of His Ex-Girlfriend," and "My Wedding Dreams." Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $125.00 or Best Offer View scans Water damage. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $150.00 View scans Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by Bud Plant

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $95.00 View scans Centerfold detached at one staple. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Cover by Harvey Kurtzman. "The Hound of The Basketballs!", art by Bill Elder; Shermlock captures the hound that has cursed the Basketball family; Parody of Sherlock Holmes mystery. "Newspapers!", art by Jack Davis; Various fake newspaper stories and ads. Ad for Piracy comic book. "Restaurant!", art by Bill Elder; The deprivations the Sturdleys suffer at a "typical" Sunday restaurant outing. "Wreck of The Hesperus," script by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, art by Wallace Wood; Relates the wreck of the ship Hesperus on the reef at Norman's Woe; Text of the famous poem accompanied by humorous illustrations. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by the Iger Shop. An attempt to duplicate the humor of MAD from Ajax-Farrell and the anonymous talents in the Iger Shop. Ghosts try to get rid of the Beatniks that have moved into their haunted house, in a story with surreal imagery and hilarious pseudo-Beat dialogue. The new sheriff in town confronts outlaw Dan McGoon. In a spoof of detective movies, the trail of missing dancer Annie Body leads to danger. Crazy Mixed Up Arizona; Annie Doesn't Live Here Anymore...She's Gone Man!; Flat Foot Floogie; Going-Going-Real Gone!; Pssst - Confidential (My Eye!) The Uncensored Lowdown of Joe Blow's Rise to Fame! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $2.50 View scans Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Slight.

Volume 7, Issue 4 - October 1954. Cover by Chesley Bonestell. Fantasy and science fiction stories featuring Ward Moore, William Morrison, Robert Sheckley, and Lord Dunsany. Softcover, 5.5-in. x 7.5-in.; 128 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

Volume 4, Issue 10 - October 1954. Adventure stories, articles and nude photos. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in. 98 Pages B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Volume 1, Issue 7 - October 1954. Men's interest magazine. Features articles on Six Ways to Beat the Blues, and an article on sex in art titled "You Can't Censor Sex." includes pin-ups of Lilli St. Cyr, and centerfold of British Model Mara Lane. 4-in. x 6-in., 64 pages, B&W Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart Very Good $13.00 View scans

Volume 5, Issue 7 - October, 1954. 8" x 10.5", 68 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart FN+ 6.5 $3.50 View scans

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $2.50 View scan

Men's interest magazine focusing on adventure, hunting, and true crime articles, war stories and photos. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in. 82 pages. B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Iron Mike McGraw in "The Guns That Weren't There" (art by Bob Forgione). Also "Guadalcanal," "The History of the U.S. Marine Corps" (the Bonhomme Richard episode) (art by Jack Katz), "Forward," and a two-page text story, "Marine Combat Report." Russ Heath cover. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $105.00 View scans Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by Bud Plant

Vampires Also Die; A vampire is jealous of his brother's prowess and so he bargains with a witch to kill him; The witch gives him a powder to sprinkle on his brother's wings so that they will be unresponsive when he attempts to flee the mob. A Thing of Evil text story. Buried Alive!; A magician gets his romantically-minded assistant out of the way by locking her in a safe and dumping it in the river so that she drowns as water leaks in. He Walks through Walls; When a bank president receives a shock in his bathroom which renders his body intangible he decides to rob his own bank. Skrak's Secret!; An envious artist wishes to learn how a painter paints the grotesque figures that he does so he sneaks into the studio and surprises the man in his work. Gone is the Gargoyle; A gargoyle disguises himself as a policeman to marry a human girl. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $6.00 View scans

Volume 57, Issue 226 - October, 1954. Digest-size UK men's magazine. Articles, humor, and pin-up photos. 5" x 7.25", 180 pages, B&W with color.

Published from 1950-1959, this Belgian publication reprinted various Disney comics and strips in a magazine-sized format with half the pages in color and half in black and white on newsprint pages. Each issue had 20 pages. In addition to comic stories, issues featured puzzles, editorials, and letters columns. The stories, including ones by Carl Barks, were serialized and often printed one page per issue, but each issue ended with one complete story. As a result, many stories were resized to five or six lines per page.

Published from 1950-1959, this Belgian publication reprinted various Disney comics and strips in a magazine-sized format with half the pages in color and half in black and white on newsprint pages. Each issue had 20 pages. In addition to comic stories, issues featured puzzles, editorials, and letters columns. The stories, including ones by Carl Barks, were serialized and often printed one page per issue, but each issue ended with one complete story. As a result, many stories were resized to five or six lines per page.

Published from 1950-1959, this Belgian publication reprinted various Disney comics and strips in a magazine-sized format with half the pages in color and half in black and white on newsprint pages. Each issue had 20 pages. In addition to comic stories, issues featured puzzles, editorials, and letters columns. The stories, including ones by Carl Barks, were serialized and often printed one page per issue, but each issue ended with one complete story. As a result, many stories were resized to five or six lines per page.

Add to cart Very Good $8.40

Published from 1950-1959, this Belgian publication reprinted various Disney comics and strips in a magazine-sized format with half the pages in color and half in black and white on newsprint pages. Each issue had 20 pages. In addition to comic stories, issues featured puzzles, editorials, and letters columns. The stories, including ones by Carl Barks, were serialized and often printed one page per issue, but each issue ended with one complete story. As a result, many stories were resized to five or six lines per page.