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Help! #21 Oct 1964 Anniversary Issue
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30Apr2005
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Help Magazine 96 pages (magazine) |
Contents of this issue- Baby It's Occult Outside -- Tom Poston
- The Mariners by Algis Budrys -- Russ Heath
- Kissies -- Jessica Walters
- The Jackpot by Algis Budrys -- Henny Youngman
- The Ski Weekend -- Jim Hampton
- The Shopping Center -- Orson Bean
- Life in a Women's Dormitory -- Jim Hampton
- A Star Is Born -- Jack Carter
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| • And more. • All picture stories reprinted from previous issues.
| | Condition: Very light wear; BACK COVER: bottom left corner chip; PAGES supple, yellowed.<
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Help! #22 Jan 1965
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9Feb2005
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Help! Magazine , Inc. 40 pages (magazine)
Cover photo of the Beatles (retouched) |
Contents of this issue- Help's Public Gallery (cartoons) -- Skip Williamson, Jay Lynch, plus 2-page untitled Robert Crumb's Fritz the Cat
- Wonder Wart-Hog Meets the Merangsters (comic strip) by Gilbert Shelton
- Harlem (sketchbook report) by Crumb, 6 pages
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| • Plus fumetti, funny captions, cartoons, letters. • This is the relatively long-lived post-mad Kurtzman-edited James Warren-published humor potpourri. • Terry Gilliam is contributing editor
| | Condition: Very light edgewear, minor creasing; pages supple, lightly yellowing.
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Help! Mar 1965 (#23)
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23Aug2005
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Help Magazine 40 pages (magazine) |
Complete in this issue- Wonder Warthog (comics) by Gilbert Shelton
- The Man from Auntie (fumetti) by Algis Budrys
- The Monster Craze (cartoons) by Gahan Wilson
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| • Plus funny photo captions, cartoons by Jay Lynch, Skip Williamson, Jim Jones, Warren Sattler.
| | Condition: Very light overall wear; PAGES supple, light tan.
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Illustration #4 Aug 2002
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9Feb2005
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Illustration Magazine 48 pages (magazine)
Cover by Sam Savitt from Zane Grey's Shadow on the Trail (Dell #604, 1954) |
Contents of this issue- Sam Savitt: Painter, Author, Teacher & Horseman -- artist of numerous Dell comic-book horse covers.
- Stanley Meltzoff: Metamorphoses of a Picture Maker -- noted for his Signet Heinlein paperback covers.
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| • Plus book reviews, illustration ads.
| | Condition: Back cover: minor creasing; pages white, like new.
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Life Jan 17, 1949
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25Feb2005
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(magazine)
Cover photo for Resort Fashions |
Contents of this issue- Letters: pictures of Ray Bolger's courtship dance matched with sketches of whooping cranes; Charles Dickens'/David Copperfield's initials coincidence; adopting European orphans.
- General Electric Daylight Television ad with Morton Downey (Senior)
- Speaking of Pictures: Woman gets $1000 for keeping quiet one week (Art Linkletter) -- possibly inspiration for Twilight Zone episode?
- Storms Spread Death Through Midwest -- gruesome photo of frozen yearling steer.
- Democrats Take Over in Congress -- New Democratic Senators include Estes Kefauver, Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Russell Long.
- Chinese Gold Rush -- Inevitable victory by Communists over Chiang Kai-shek foreshadowed by run on Shanghai banks, photographed by Henri Cartier-Bresson
- State Department Gets a New Boss -- Dean Acheson replaces George C. Marshall
- Jeris Antiseptic Hair Tonic ad with John Garfield (Force of Evil)
- Cardinal vs. Reds -- Mindszenty arrested and jailed by Hungarian Communists
- Marjoe the Minister -- 4-year-old minister Marjoe Gortner performs a marriage and tries out a sermon
- Pacquins Hand Cream ad with Gertrude Lawrence
- Movie of the Week: Live Today for Tomorrow with Fredric March, Florence Eldridge and Edmund O'Brien.
- Two-page ad for forgotten Disney live action/cartoon feature So Dear to My Heart, with Burl Ives, Beulah Bondi, Harry Carey, Bobby Driscoll
- Rocket to the Moon -- predicts moon travel within 25 years! Beautiful illustrations by Noel Sickles
- Theater: Anne of the Thousand Days by Maxwell Anderson, starring Rex Harrison as Henry VIII, "high-bosomed Joyce Redman" as Anne, and John Williams as Duke of Norfolk
- Mussolini's Millions -- death photos of the Italian tyrant and his mistress.
- New Year's Eve in Hollywood -- Sam Spiegel's party guests include Lucille Ball/Desi Arnaz, Judy Garland/Vincente Minnelli, Cathy O'Donnell/Farley Granger, "Zsazsa Gabor Hilton", Louis Jordan, Shirley Temple, Hedda Hopper, Louella Parsons, Danny Kaye, Paul Stewart.
- It Ain't Hay -- Dutch cow lends new meaning to the term "omnivorous"
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| | Condition: Light rubbing, edgewear; address stamp back bottom right corner; pages like new.
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Manhunt Feb 1953 (Vol 1 #2)
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30Apr2005
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Flying Eagle 144 pages (digest) |
Serials- Everybody's Watching Me (pt 2) by Mickey Spillane
Complete in this issue- The Imaginary Blonde (Lew Archer novelette) by John Ross MacDonald
- So Dark for April (Paul Pine novelette) by John Evans (aka Howard Browne)
- Stabbing in the Streets (David Wiley story) by Eleazar Lipsky
- The Lesser Evil (Manville Moon story) by Richard Deming
- Sex Murder in Cameron by Michael Fessier
- Carrera's Woman by Richard Marsten
- Dirge for a Nude by Jonathan Craig
- As I Lie Dead by Fletcher Flora
- Attack by Hunt Collins
- Back cover Mugged and Printed -- author bios of Spillane (+sketch), Fessier, Evans (+sketch), MacDonald (+x-ray), Deming, Lipsky (+sketch).
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Manhunt Dec 1953 (Vol 1 #12)
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6Jan2005
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Flying Eagle 144 pages (digest)
Cover by Uppwall (? signed) |
Complete in this issue- The Icepick Artists (Johnny Liddell novelette) by Frank Kane
- Black Pudding (novelette) by David Goodis
- The Wife of Riley (novelette) by Evan Hunter
- Murder Marches On! (John J. Malone) by Craig Rice
- Richest Man in the Morgue (Scott Jordan) by Howard Q. Masur
- Killing on Seventh Street by Charles Beckman, Jr.
- Switch Ending by Richard Marsten
- The Quiet Room by Jonathan Craig
- Sucker by Hunt Collins
- The Coyote by David Chandler
- Wife Beater by Roy Carroll
- The Insecure by R. Van Taylor
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| | Condition: Light edgewear; staining at bottom half of spine in front, along spine in back; light soiling; year marked under "Goodis"; pages supple, barely browning, first few stained at top; contents page marked; cryptic marks every few pages, usually at top corner.
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Manhunt May 1954 (Vol 2 #3)
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6Jan2005
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Flying Eagle 144 pages (digest) |
Complete in this issue- The Old Flame (novelette) by James T. Farrell
- Lead Ache (Johnny Liddell novelette) by Frank Kane
- The Blonde in the Bar (novelette) by Richard Deming
- Broken Doll (novelette) by Jack Webb (no relation)
- Or Leave It Alone by Evan Hunter
- A Clear Picture by Sam S. Taylor
- You Know What I Did? by Charles Beckman, Jr.
- Murder of a Mouse by Fletcher Flora
- The Right One by Jonathan Craig
- The Woman on the Bus by R. Van Taylor
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| | Condition: Light edgewear and creasing; scuffed at middle of back cover; pages supple, browning; contents page marked; cryptic marks every so often, usually at top corner.
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Manhunt Jun 1954 (Vol 2 #4)
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16Jun2005
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Flying Eagle 144 pages (digest) |
Complete in this issue- Skip a Beat (Peter Chambers novel) by Henry Kane
- No Vacancies (John J. Malone novelette) by Craig Rice
- Double (novelette) by Bruno Fischer
- Butcher (Shell Scott story) by Richard S. Prather
- The Choice by Richard Deming
- Die Like a Dog by David Alexander
- Points South by Fletcher Flora
- My Enemy, My Father by John M. Sitan
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| • Plus features.
| | Condition: Light edgewear, top right staining, mid-top edges wrinkled from back; FRONT COVER: slight angled cut; PAGES supple, yellow.
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Manhunt Oct 1955 (Vol 3 #10)
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6Mar2005
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Flying Eagle 144 pages (digest) |
Complete in this issue- A Stranger in Town (Michael Shayne novel) by Brett Halliday
- Tell Them Nothing (novelette) by Hal Ellson
- The Spoilers (Police Files novelette) by Jonathan Craig
- Blonde at the Wheel (novelette) by Stephen Marlowe
- In Memory of Judith Courtright by Erskine Caldwell
- I Saw Her Die by Gil Brewer
- Field of Honor by Robert Turner
- The Hunter by John A. Sentry
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| • Plus features.
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