Comic books May 1969

Vintage men's interest magazine focused entirely on erotic adult short fiction stories accompanied by photographs. 8" x 10.5", 70 pages, B&W. -MATURE READERS- Cover price $0.50.

Vintage men's interest magazine that focuses on adventure short fiction stories, true crime, war updates, and pin-up photography. 8.5" x 11", 82 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

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Last 12-cent cover price. "Muscle Bound"; Miss Grundy shows Betty how to take advantage of Reggie and Archie's belief that men are superior. Archie Club News. "The Gallstone Ghost!"; Archie tries to show the girls that there are no ghosts in Gallstone Manor. "Sheer Fear"; Reggie is afraid of black cat's crossing his path. "The Wise Guy"; Reggie gets hurt by a mouse trap in his pocket. "Bumped"; Reggie bumps into Mr. Weatherbee, knocking him down. "Play Daze," script and art by Joe Edwards; Despite all the toys and games Li'l Jinx has she has nothing to do. "The Incredibility Gap," script and pencils by Al Hartley, inks by Jon D'Agostino; Jughead shows Reggie how easy it is to ask Midge out without getting punched by Moose. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.12.

Harvey's flagship title featuring the adventures of Richie Rich, the richest kid in the world. While visiting Paris, Richie gets amnesia from a blow to the head, and joins a gang of street kids run by master criminal Arachnid. When his true identity is revealed, Arachnid decides to hold Richie hostage. Cadbury and Richie must escape, leading to a chase through the Paris sewers, in a multi-part story. Arachnid, the Spider of Paris; The Danger Grows; The Spiders Web; Not So Sweet; Richie Richs Dollar Sense; Little Dot: Uncle Flub. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.12.

Untitled one-page story; Reggie removes a danger sign on the beach, in the hopes that Richie will have some "bad luck." Untitled one-page story; Dot punches the tickets of friends coming to see a movie at her house. "Cadbury Fired!"; A prospective butler drops by to leave his card; Mr. Rich politely refuses, saying that they already employ Cadbury, who is an excellent butler. "The Butler Did It!"; "Slippery" Elmore takes Cadbury's place as butler, but Richie suspects he may be up to no good. "Movie Struck"; Cadbury is invited to play a part in a Hollywood film, and once there can do just about anything once he sets his mind to it. "Instant Traveling"; Richie tries out a suit which allows its wearer to instantly travel to a preset destination; He uses it to befuddle some hoodlums and to surprise a stage magician. "The Good Skate" text story. "Going, Going, Gone!"; Richie accidentally pushed the wrong button on his travelling suit and wound up in a river in the jungles of Borneo. "Journey to Nowhere"; Richie wishes there was someplace to go on his vacation that he hasn't already been, and soon gets his wish when he and Gloria are abducted by spacemen. "This Is Magna"; Richie and Gloria discover they are on a planet that parallels Earth, where Richie's and Gloria's fathers are at war with each other. "Home Again"; Richie and Gloria meet their doubles and return to Earth. "Little Dot and Branes' Timepiece" text story. "Daddy's Boy"; Dot thinks her father would be happier with a son. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.25.

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Untitled one-page story; Richie improves the effectiveness of the estate gardener's scarecrow. "The Hidden City"; Richie brings $20 million to Italy to fund the excavation of an ancient town near Mt. Vesuvius, while mobsters plot to steal the money. "Richie Rich and the Lava Monsters"; Mobsters dress up as lava monsters as a ploy to steal the cash that Richie is using to fund an excavation near Mt. Vesuvius. "Look Out! There Are Real Monsters"; Richie has a few tricks up his sleeve for the mobsters who are interfering with an excavation he is funding. "Farm Refinement"; Cadbury relates a tale of a time when he was briefly employed as a farm hand. "Badly Jarred" text story. "The Pelican and the Crow" text story. "Hoop-EEE!"; Dot plays with a hoop of lightweight metal invented by Uncle Branes, and she inadvertently foils some bank robbers in the process. "Money Matters Not"; Richie shows a new classmate around the estate while trying to avoid showing off his wealth. "Feeling Low in High Places"; Richie cures his new assistant chauffeur, Fenwick, of vertigo. "Little Dot and Laughing Boy"; Dot meets a boy who laughs at everything. "Sleepyhead" text story. "Quite Quiet!"; A bully thinks he's going to take over Lotta's neighborhood until he sees her catch a horse and rider in mid-air. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.25.

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Vol. 48 #7 - Aug. 1969. Boxing magazine. Features articles, departments, ratings, fight reports around the world and more. 8 1/4-in. x 11 1/4-in., 66 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.50.

Cover by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez. Stories and art by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez, Charles Nicholas, and Vince Alascia. Tales of secret love, heartbreak, unrequited love, and reconciliation. Clint and Rosalie fall in love at the beach, but will their romance survive a summer apart? Francesca is charmed by the change that has come over Neil since the last time she saw him, in a story with early art (and cover) by future DC artist Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez. The Long Lovely Summer; Reborn; Change for Me, Darling. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.12.

Men's interest humor digest loaded with jokes, cartoons and nude pin-up photography. 5" x 6.5", 98 pages, B&W. - MATURE READERS- Cover price $0.35.

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36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.

36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.15.

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36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.

68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.25.

Men's interest magazine focusing on Western adventure stories. 8.5" x 11", 98 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.50.

Annual 1970 - Based on the popular TV series starring Roger Moore. Featuring full color photos of the cast. Includes games, puzzles, and a comic adventure. Hardcover, 8-in. x 10 1/2-in., 64 pages, full color.

Screen Stars Magazine was one among many of the supermarket celebrity tabloids that focused heavily on the day to day lives of the Hollywood elite, during the golden-age of cinema. This publication is filled cover to cover with typical fodder such as candid celebrity photos (some of which are in color), gossip columns, reader's letters to the editor, and the latest motion picture advertisements. 8.5" x 10.5", 74 pages, mostly B&W with a few color photos. Cover price $0.15.

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Cover art by Jack Sparling. Eye for an Eye starring Tiger Force, Crimson Dawn, King Savage, August Durant, Carlo Di Rienzi, Lili De Neuve, Mario, and The Syndicate, script by E. Nelson Bridwell and Joe Gill, art by Jack Sparling; when a new Syndicate boss summons a well-known Mafia hitman to get Tiger Force, the Mafioso recognizes a former victim: Carlo Di Reinzi. 36 pgs. $0.12. Cover price $0.12.

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"Sex to Sexty: Skin Rock!" Men's Magazine with adult jokes and cartoons. 64 pages, text, with B&W illustrations Cover price $1.00.

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"Liberty Rides the Underground!" Script by Gary Friedrich, pencils by Dick Ayers, inks by John Severin. Cover price $0.12.

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Cover by Bernard Baily. Stories and art by Bruce Hamilton, Sal Trapani, S. Finocchiaro, Petrizza, and Tony Mortellaro. Another horror magazine from Stanley Morse Publications, featuring tales of maniacs, monsters and the undead. A woman seeks revenge after her husband kills her father with voodoo. Three elderly women destroy other people's lives with their gossip, but victims driven to suicide rise from the grave for revenge. Honeymooners passing through Salem, Massachusetts are stalked by the creatures summoned by a witch's ghost. Voodoo Dolls; The Gossips; Eternal Death; Last Supper!; His Final Choice; Cremation; The Witches' Curse; Out of Focus; Premonition. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 48 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

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Cover by Joe Kubert. 1st appearance of Nightmaster in "Some Forbidden Fate," script by Denny O'Neil, pencils by Jerry Grandenetti, inks by Dick Giordano; Jim Rook, lead guitarist of the Electrics, is performing at the Electric Band Aid, a club in the East Village; When the set is done, Jim is accosted by three thugs who did not like his music or his politics; They fight, and Jim manages to knock them out before the police arrive; He and his fiancée Janny Jones leave, when they come across an empty store called "Oblivion, Inc"; Jim is puzzled, as he thought that the store was a deserted lot the other day; Jim and Janny enter, and are transported to another world; Jim appears on the alien world called Myrra. He meets a small blue humanoid named King Zolto, the king of Myrra; Jim gazes into Zoltos mystic gem, and finds out that, ages ago, there were two warriors: Nacht and Brom; A magician, Farber, created the Sword of Night for Nacht and the Mace of Might for Brom; Brom became greedy, and with Farber, they plotted to slay the king and Nacht; Nacht defeated Brom, but Farber banished Nacht, leaving the Sword of Truth wedged in stone; Farbers rule corrupted Myrra for generations, transforming the humans into the blue dwarfs that now inhabit the world; Zolto has been seeking Nachts descendants to begin to wield the Sword of Night and free Myrra, and Jim Rook is that descendant. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.12.

Cover by Bruce Stark. Stories and art by Joe Simon, Charlie Rodrigues, Al Bare, Al Kaufman, Bernard Wiseman, Bill Majeski, Paul Laikin, Bill Robinson, Don Orehek, Bill Kresse, Robert Heit, and Fred Wolfe. Sometimes listed as Vol. 9 No. 3. One of the more successful MAD mimics, created by comics legend Joe Simon, featuring an array of comedic talent. A 9-page parody of celebrity gossip magazines, featuring art by Captain America co-creator (and Sick creator/editor) Joe Simon. Early cartoons from future National Lampoon cartoonist Charlie Rodrigues. A Sick look at the film classic Barbarella. The wit and wisdom of controversial Nixon vice-president Spiro Agnew. Whats Wrong With This Picture; Paste This in Your Funk & Wagnall; Snappy Comebacks; Wise Old Proverbs Are No Longer Wise; Movie Review: Barbarella; Dudd For the Expense; The Campers Scrapbook; Sicknificant News of the Week; A Nation of Child Worshippers; The Spiro Agnew Reader; Rodrigues on Television; Classic Fried Ads; Movie and TV Rumor Fan Magazine. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 48 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

Articles on sports, crime, and adventuring, plus pin-up photos. 8" x 10.5". 66 pages. B&W. -MATURE READERS- Cover price $0.75.

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Issue #170. May 3, 1969. Strips include Master of the Marsh, Erik the Viking, Nutt and Bolt, Percy's Pets, World-Wide Wanderers, Cursitor Doom, His Sporting Lordship, Bunsen's Burner, Janus Stark, Sergeant Rock Paratrooper, Rebbels on the Run, Swots and Blots, Battle of Britain, King of the Ring 9 1/4-in. x 12-in., 40 pages, black and white.

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Stories and art by Joe Gill, Charles Nicholas, Pat Boyette, Vince Alascia and Vince Colletta. Sometimes listed as Space Adventures #66. Sci-fi and super-heroics from Charlton Comics. A space criminal is punished by being jettisoned on a remote and deserted asteroid. Space forces battle the Fire Men of Pyro. Sandra battles computers that have taken on minds of their own. What Is This Space?; If You Love Me, Beep Twice; The Fire Men of Pyro; The First Answer; 2 Survive. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.12.

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Spooky - unlike his cousin, Casper the Friendly Ghost - loves to scare people, but his kindly ghost girlfriend Poil disapproves. Casper thinks a boy in a costume is a fellow ghost. Casper and Wendy meet a refugee couple who are looking for the home of the Uglykins, but that mystery has a surprising solution. Wendy tries to stop her witchy aunts from crashing a children's party. Plus a 1969 calendar featuring the Harvey characters. Noises in the Night; The Mad, Mad, Mad Inventor; Casper: The Uglykins; Lazy Andy; The Perfect Gentleman; Wendy: Party Problems. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.

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Volume 20, Issue 5 - May, 1969. Men's adventure magazine featuring articles on sports, hunting politics and crime. 10-in. x 13-in., 66 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.50.

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Cover art by Joe Kubert. Death Takes No Holiday! Starring Enemy Ace, script by Robert Kanigher, pencils by Neal Adams, inks by Joe Kubert; Enemy Ace faces pilots attired like skeletons. Ad for DC Special #3 and The Flash #187, pencils by Neal Adams and Ross Andru, inks by Nick Cardy and Mike Esposito. Air Force Heroes and The Mechanic humor half-page pages by John Costanza. Ad for The Brave and the Bold #83, art by Irv Novick. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.12.

1970 - 1st printing. Featuring comicv strips, stories, and activities based on the classic sci-fi series! Hardcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 94 pages, full color.

Star-Studded Comics #15, May 1969. Format: Offset/Lithograph process. Wrap-around binding with staples in center. Original cover price: 75 cents. Color cover by Richard "Grass" Green features Xal-Kor the Human Cat. Back cover by Alan Weiss is of Dr. Weird. "Let's Talk It Over!" column features letters from Charles Schreck, Larry Bigman, Carl Gafford, Robert Bloch, Harry Warner Jr., David Brown, Al Kuhfeld, William Taylor Jr., Richard "Grass" Green, Ron Lightburn, Jon Jensen, George R.R. Martin, and Ronn Foss. There is also a note from Glenn Lord, the agent for the Robert E. Howard estate at that time, which explains the history of the Howard story "Gods of the North" (aka "The Frost Giant's Daughter"), which was adapted into comic book form in the previous issue. Stories: "Xal-Kor the Human Cat vs. The Glow Worm," (script by Richard "Grass" Green, art by Green and Landon Chesney); "King of the Hill" (script and art by Steve Kelez) - Note: This story was uncredited. In the next issue, it was revealed that Steve Kelez did the story and art. Many readers mistakenly believed that Buddy Saunders did this story. Also features Dr. Weird in "Death in the Skull-World!" (script by Larry Herndon, art by M. Schwoberow and Alan Weiss); "It's Wildman and Rubberoy the Fantastic Plasticy" (Their first appearance? Script and art by Richard "Grass" Green); "The Battle of...Credibility Gap" (script and art by Alan Weiss); The Defender in "The Coming of the Black Monster!" (Part One of a Two Part Story, script by Larry Herndon and art by Mickey Schwaberow and Stephen Stanley); issue also features a four-page portfolio of characters by Dave Cockrum. Cover price $0.75.

Cover by Jim Aparo. Edited by Sal Gentile. Stories by Wally Wood and unknown. Art by Charles Nicholas, Vince Alascia, Don Perlin and Hector Castellon. Four tantalizing Strange Suspense Stories! In this issue: "The Devil Cat" by Wally Wood, Charles Nicholas and Vince Alascia; "The Underground Horde" with art by Don Perlin; "The Burning Book" with art by Hector Castellon and Alascia; and 1-page text story "Snowslide"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Strange Unknown (1969) is a magazine with articles and short stories about the supernatural and the occult. Features articles about witchcraft, voodoo, hauntings, U.F.O.'s, Atlantis, vampires, and more. It's the X-Files before there was a X-Files. Photo cover. Cover price $0.50.

Auction Item: CGC 5.5 View scan Auction opens April 22 Paper: Off white to white Label #4061040015	Add to cart FN+ 6.5 $40.00 View scan	Add to cart FN+ 6.5 $40.00 View scan	Add to cart FN 6.0 $37.00 View scan
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"Death, Thou Shalt Die!" Written by Roy Thomas. Could death of someone close to him push the mighty Prince Namor over the edge? 32 pages, FC. Cover price $0.12.

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UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 1/- cover price. "Death, Thou Shalt Die!" Written by Roy Thomas. Could death of someone close to him push the mighty Prince Namor over the edge? 32 pages, FC.

Cover art by Sheldon Mayer. Stories starring Sugar & Spike: Poof! You're a Teen-Ager (with Bernie the Brain, S&S meet themselves grown up) and Future Finagling! (chap 2). Scripts and art by Sheldon Mayer. Pint-Size Pin-Ups paper dolls by Mayer. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.12.