Pirates Comics
#v1#2
(May-June 1950)
Hillman,
1950 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Hillman Periodicals Inc.
- Brand
-
A Hillman Publication
- Editing
- Ed Cronin (editor)
Most Notorious Buccaneers of the Seas
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Mike Suchorsky
- Inks
- Mike Suchorsky
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?; typeset
- Genre
- historical
- Reprints
-
in Pirates Comics (Streamline, 1950 series) #[nn] ([circas 1951-52]) -
in Pirates: A Treasure of Comics to Plunder, Arrr! (Clover Press, 2020 series) (March 2020)
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Indexer Notes
Faces and inking points to Suchorsky.
Cusack the Pirate
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- John Prentice (signed)
- Inks
- John Prentice (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- historical
- Characters
- Cusack (pirate); Captain North
- Synopsis
- Cusack and several men manage to break out of prison and take over a ship to turn pirates. Based on a true story.
[no title indexed]
Alpha the Slave Pirate / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It was the year 25 A.D....
- Genre
- historical
- Characters
- Alpha; Gaius; Caractus (Alemanni)
- Synopsis
- Alpha and his mates encounter Germanic tribesmen.
- Reprints
- in Pirates Comics (Streamline, 1950 series) #[nn] ([circas 1951-52])
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Indexer Notes
Suchorsky's fine drawings can be recognized by the faces with many lines, and rounded lower lips and ears.
Script credit suggested by Bails' Who's Who.
Pirate on Wheels
comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- historical
- Characters
- Oleg (Rus viking of Kiev)
- Synopsis
- Swedish vikings from the Rus kingdom of Kiev sail down the River Dnieper to get to Constantinople for a plunder.
- Reprints
- in Pirates Comic (Streamline, 1950 ? series) ([1950])
- in Pirates Comics (Streamline, 1950 series) #1 (1950 ?), #[nn] ([circas 1951-52])
-
Indexer Notes
Dressler drew Howard Pyle's "Men of Iron" and Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Master of Ballantrae" for Classics Illustrated, and some westerns for Hillman. He can be recognized by his inklines and bright eyes in close up.
Pirate Poison
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- historical
- Characters
- Bey of Tunis; Commodore Preble
- Synopsis
- In the year 1803, a squadron of American Navy ships fights the pirates of the Barbary Coast of Tunis.
[no title indexed]
Philip Ashton Boy Pirate Fighter of the Old World / comic story / 9 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Allen Ulmer (signed)
- Inks
- Allen Ulmer (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Philip Ashton was a 15th century English boy...
- Genre
- historical
- Characters
- Philip Ashton; Don Ivitzco (Spanish nobleman and Philip's uncle); El Sac [The Sack] (pirate)
- Synopsis
- Philip meets Columbus at the Spanish court and captures the pirate El Sac.
- Reprints
- in Pirates Comics (Streamline, 1950 series) #[nn] ([circas 1951-52])
-
Empty Sock
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; historical
- Characters
- Captain Pork-Chop; Pirate
- Synopsis
- They dig and find the treasure of Captain Blackbeard, but it is not to be opened until Christmas.
- Reprints
- in Pirates Comics (Streamline, 1950 series) #[nn] ([circas 1951-52])
-
2,000 Pirates at Once
comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- historical
- Synopsis
- When the American colonies are forbidden to trade with foreigners, they take up trade with the pirates instead.
- Reprints
- in Pirates Comics (Streamline, 1950 series) #[nn] ([circas 1951-52])
-
Indexer Notes
Reinman credits from "Saltarella" via the GCD Error Tracker (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10789), 2016-12-12.
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Table of Contents
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0.
Most Notorious Buccaneers of the Seas
-
1.
Can You Solve This Crime?
Institute of Applied Science -
2.
Cusack the Pirate
-
3.
["It was the year 25 A.D...."]
Alpha the Slave Pirate -
4.
Pirate on Wheels
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5.
Amazing All-Over Rain-Cover Bargain
Surplus Sales -
6.
Pirate Poison
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7.
["Philip Ashton was a 15th century English boy..."]
Philip Ashton Boy Pirate Fighter of the Old World -
8.
Mail Order Guide
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9.
Empty Sock
-
10.
2,000 Pirates at Once
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11.
["Gee whiz! Just look at this Hopalong Cassidy western steerhide belt"]
Foster Products -
12.
["Which of these 2 one time weaklings paid only a few cents..."]
Jowett Institute -
13.
Bad Skin?
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14.
Reduce Fat!
American Healthaids Co.
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