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Issue #1 - Rex Morgan M.D. Talks About Your Unborn Child

Issue #2 - Dennis the Menace Takes a Poke at Poison

Issue #3 - Where There's Smoke . . . There's DANGER

Issue #4 - Capt. Veedee-O and Ms. Wanda Lust in VD CLAPTRAP

Issue #5 - Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids in BUZZY'S REBOUND

Issue #6 - A Message about Sniffing for Young People

Issue #7 - Madonna: Who's that Girl? On AIDS

Issue #8 - Yogi Bear D.A.R.E. / Archie F.B.I. / Nancy Reagan

Issue #9 - Dennis the Menace returns for Child Abuse and Neglect

Issue #10 - Alpha the Robot in The Marijuana Mystery

Issue #11 - TWO DIABETES COMICS

Issue #12 - Charlie Brown and Sally in Security is an Eye Patch

Issue #13 - THE INCREDIBLE COMING of CAPTAIN AL COHOL

Issue #14 - Household Dangers: Guns and Computers

Issue #15 - Spiderman Has a Secret

Issue #16 - SPECIAL MYSTERY PROBLEM ISSUE

Issue #17 - 1956/1962 Planned Parenthood comic on Birth Control

Issue #18 - "USERS are LOSERS!" (1970 Drug Abuse Comic)

Issue #19 - Gov. George C Wallace on Segregation (1962)

Issue #20 - DANGEROUS PLAYGROUNDS (1955)

Issue #21 - CAPTAIN AWARENESS: SEXUAL ASSAULT ON CAMPUS

Issue #22 - BOBBY GETS HEP (1946)

Issue #23 - MILITARY COURTESY: Don't Ask, Don't Tell

Issue #24 - ANIMAL COURTESY: Don't Bruise That Pig

Issue #25 - Treat Your M-16 Rifle Like a LADY

Issue #26 - Extremely Obscure 1969 Pap Smear Gynecology Comic Book

Appendix Item: 1965 Venereal Disease Comic, "Johnny Gets the Word"

Issue #27 - Two Faces of Communism (1961)

Issue #28 - Homosexuality: Legitimate Alternate DEATHSTYLE (1986)

Issue #29 - THE MONKEY by Al Feldstein and Joe Orlando (1953)

Issue #30 - Dick Hafer was an Asshole Part Two - Conclusion (see issue #28)

Issue #31 - DANNY AND THE DEMON-CYCLE (1972)

Issue #32 - FISCAL WHINERS DEPT: Alice In Blunderland (1952)

Issue #33 - 1978: Introducing Pip! The Poison Prevention Elephant

Issue #34 - Early and undocumented NAACP Comic Book History (1960 and 1964)
Supplement item of equal value: 1956 MLK comic in English and Spanish

Appendix Item: 1949 Children's Hospital Fundraising Comic Strips
 Rarest known art by Al Capp

Issue #35 - Crackpot Comics - AMERICA UNDER SOCIALISM (1950)

From elsewhere: Bruce Banner escapes rape attempt at the YMCA (images 1 - 2 - 3)

Bonus Items / Roe v. Wade Decision Comics:
"Who Killed Junior" and "Abortion Eve"

Issue #36 - CRISIS AT THE CARSONS (1958)

Issue #37 - Learn Cherokee with Blondie and Dagwood (1975)

From elsewhere: Our friends at Erowid present
MICKEY AND GOOFY SELL SPEED IN AFRICA (1951)

Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane is Curious (Black!)

Issue #38 - RARE DOCUMENT:
The U.S. Army's official Don't Ask Don't Tell homosexual policy comic book (2001)

From elsewhere, Instantly perfect: Foreskin Man, The Pippy Protector

Issue #39 - Postscript issue to DADT comic:
X-MEN SEVERE BURN VICTIM UNIT / POPEYE P.T.S.D.

BONUS BONUS BONUS HORRIBLE ITEMS BONUS BONUS BONUS
Hall of horreur ... Our Worst Item: TEA PARTY COMIX (2010) and
Hall of l'histoire ... Other Worst Item: HOW TO SPOT A JAP (1946)

Issue #40 - HUMOR ISSUE: A DAY WITH WHITEY

PDF: Being Friends, Being Safe, Being Catholic
(NYC Diocese coloring book on priest abuse, 2007)

Issue #41 - VINTAGE STRIP MINING / SURFACE MINING COMICS

Link: Support Labor in U.S. (1948 Joe Worker and the Story of Labor Comic)

PDF: Shinzuoka Prefecture Japanese Earthquake Survival Manual, 2011

MTV Switzerland Condom Comics: one - two - three (via adfreak)

Original Artwork to: "I JOINED A TEEN-AGE SEX CLUB!" Additional Item: Front Cover

Issue #42 - 1989 HALFWAY HOUSE COMIC BOOK

Issue #43 - VINTAGE BATSHIT U.S. AGITPROP, "DAFFY QADDAFI" (1986)

See also: 1984 Invasion of Grenada Comic Book

Appendix item: Hey, Let's hear it for comic book titles!
PDF: "What You Should Know About Diarrhea" (Guatemala, 1993)

People have been writing us for 5-10 years about referencing a Jack T Chick comic.
Okay, here's our first link to something about a Jack T Chick comic.

PDF: The world's one and only OFFICIAL
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION COMIC: "What's Happening to Grandpa?"

Issue #44 - INTRODUCING GOOD WILLY, THE GOODWILL INDUSTRIES MASCOT (1953)

Issue #45 - "YOUR FRIEND, THE POLICEMAN" (1963 and 1968, NYPD)

Issue #46 - "GET TOUGH!" (1942 military guide)

Issue #47 - HO HO HO - Fear of a Dead Newspaper - HOLIDAY EDITION

Vintage Pro-Pot Comic Book Ad, "The insult that made a NORML Man out of Mick!" (1975)

Issue #48 - DESERT STORM: SEND HUSSEIN TO HELL! (1991)

Issue #49 - Instant Classic: "MIKE & TOM" on BINGE DRINKING (1978)

Issue #50 - Complete Set of Phoenix AZ public school's new BICYCLE SAFETY comic books — Gruesome!

Issue #51 - THE PHANTOM RUNS FOR CITY COUNCIL IN ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIA

Repent Vigorously to this great selection of comic strips from the
1969 NEW SAINT JOSEPH BALTIMORE CATECHISM (Page One, Page Two)

PDF: Sam the Disaster Horse on TERRORISM AWARENESS

Single Panel Problem: The Archies' GROUP POOP (1970)

Issue #52 - FIRE POWER (1950 Ethyl Corporation comic on Gasoline)

Issue #53 - ELECTION DAY COMICS FROM 1960

Issue #54 - GOOD WILLY RETURNS FOR OUR HOLIDAY COMIC (1954)

Issue #55 - THREAT TO FREEDOM: A Picture Story Exposing Communism (1965)

Issue #56 - SEX AND AFFECTION (1974) - Our First Ever Censored Comic!

Cover to SPANISH VARIANT of Dennis the Menace on Family Stress (cwp #9)
Daniel el Travieso, "Como Manejar La Tension Familiar"

Issue #57 - Army issued "COMIC BOOK" on heroin abuse in Vietnam (1971)

Issue #58 - THE RUBBERS BROS in "Dance Team" (1990)

Issue #59 - 1974 Anti-EVOLUTION Comic asks "Have You Been...BRAINWASHED?"

- New - SINGLE PAGE PROBLEMS:
Mrs. Patricia Greene in "Her Robe Caught Fire!" (1981)
Unidentified Brunette in "She Wandered in a Daze!" (1984)
Mr. Silas Payne in "Flaming Gas Enveloped Their Father!" (1980)
Young Keith Lambert in "Slashed by a Glass Door!" (1980)
Michael Gaygo in "Fireworks Blew Off His Fingers!" (1984)

1958 Mail-Order Correspondence School Scam entitled "The Mailman"
(Learn Nuclear Engineering at home, even)

Issue #60 - RONALD McDONALD in ADVENTURES IN SCOUTING (1970s)

Issue #61 - Full set of Superman Bosnian War Landmine Awareness Comics (1996)

- New - Issue #62 - KID JUSTICE BATTLES AIDS! (1994)
And the story of MR HAPPY TOOTH GETS DOWN IN YOUR MOUTH (1996)