It's been 60 YEARS...show us your books from 1956!

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What a great thread!

 

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A thread that is not look at my key book worth X amount (Besides the SC 4) is something this board needs more of! This thread is for people who enjoy old funny books! 1956 was a kick azz year!

What a great thread!

 

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A thread that is not look at my key book worth X amount (Besides the SC 4) is something this board needs more of! This thread is for people who enjoy old funny books! 1956 was a kick azz year!

I agree 100%! The year 1956 had a plethora of titles not often seen let alone posted including several DC funny animal titles. 1956 also featured a riot of comic book genres including some such as jungle girl that would soon completely disappear from the stands. Moreover the western and war comics that companies such as Atlas, Charlton and Quality were publishing in 1956 were far grittier and thus more interesting than the ones that were still being published later in the Silver Age.

It was a great year for anyone who truly likes comics and not just the business of comics.

Whoa! I better post another book.

Kid Colt Outlaw #57. Chock full of Jack Keller stories (one of the few artists I just don't care for) but it does have an awesome one by Al Williamson. And a mighty Heath cover.

What a great thread!

 

You have some great eclectic comics from the fifties! I've always admired the ones you've posted.

Thanks. There are a lot of good 50s books.

Thanks. There are a lot of good 50s books.

You bet there are! Including this otther one you posted:

I wish I had some of those Real Screen Comics!

Here are scans of the five comics in my collection cover dated April 1956:

Oof. I've been slacking.

I'm not crazy about this cover, but it does have a Bill Benulis story. Strange Tales of the Unusual #4.

Kid Colt Outlaw #57. Chock full of Jack Keller stories (one of the few artists I just don't care for) but it does have an awesome one by Al Williamson. And a mighty Heath cover.

 

I didn't know Russ Heath did any Atlas covers! Yet another reason to add more of those fabulous Kid Colt Outlaw and other Atlas westerns to my collection if and when I can.

And that's a really nice one too!

Kid Colt Outlaw #57. Chock full of Jack Keller stories (one of the few artists I just don't care for) but it does have an awesome one by Al Williamson. And a mighty Heath cover.

 

I didn't know Russ Heath did any Atlas covers! Yet another reason to add more of those fabulous Kid Colt Outlaw and other Atlas westerns to my collection if and when I can.

 

And that's a really nice one too!

 

Russ drew approx 205 Atlas covers, always good, many superb. Most were in the war, horror and Western genres but he contributed to others as well.

Russ drew approx 205 Atlas covers, always good, many superb. Most were in the war, horror and Western genres but he contributed to others as well.

Joe Maneely was the fellow best known for Atlas covers including this marvelous one that you posted above:

The #5 also had the best cover of the short run.

Here are the half dozen comics cover dated April 1956 that I'd most like to add to my collection:

Yes! Sock it to them Reds!

Beautiful cover featuring the great Kid Colt Outlaw!

Mmmmmm! Good girl art by Vince Colletta!

Hey, just like Cassius Clay! And I'd never even heard of this Charlton title.

I need at least one comic in my collection with Bambi's friend Flower on the cover.

How can you go wrong with an Oswald the Rabbit dachshund cover?

From Dec. 1956

Nice! I've never seen that one.

Mmmmm, nice one!

Aug 56 Heath

one of his best in this genre imho

That is a beauty

That is a beauty

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Anytime Russ drew horses or something Western he wanted it to be good enough to gain the approval of his father, a former ranch hand.

While technically a 1957 cover date...... this was actually on the stands in November 1956. They just don't make them like this anymore..... I always thought that this title was the point where Stan and Jack started getting the urge to do something "different". GOD BLESS....

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)