Series I: Eight Educational, Promotional, and Advocacy Comic Books, 1972-circa 2003
Box 1 Folder 1
Popeye and Public Service Careers (1972)
Box 1 Folder 2
Popeye and Marine Science Careers (1972)
Box 1 Folder 3
Popeye and Manufacturing Careers (1972)
Box 1 Folder 4
Popeye and Business and Office Careers (1973)
Box 1 Folder 5
Captain America Goes to War against Drugs (in cooperation with the FBI) (1990)
Box 1 Folder 6
Heroes Superman and Batman against Hunger (1986)
Box 1 Folder 7
Superman for the Animals (2000). Copyright by Doris Day Foundation. Not about vivisection or animal experimentations, but about children's direct cruelty to pets.
Box 1 Folder 8
Decision (in English and in Spanish, back to back), Dinkins was May or, undated, ca. 2003. This in an AIDS education and prevention story based on a series of subway ads built around the story of Julio and Marisol.
Series II: Three Christian and Fundamentalist Comics, 1976-1982
Box 1 Folder 9
"Primal Man" The Crusaders Vol. 6 (1976) [against-evolution]
Box 1 Folder 10
"The Godfathers" The Crusaders Vol. 14 ( 1982) [accusing Roman Catholic church of supporting Nazism and anti-Semitism?]
Box 1 Folder 11
Young Missionaries Archie's World (Spire Christian Comics, 1976) [notes the need for preventive shots for cholera, tetanus, smallpox, the plague, and yellow fever; besides spreading the gospel they are want to save Communist China].
Series III: Seven Early Issues of "True-Adventure" Comic Books, 1941-1947
Box 1 Folder 12
Calling All Boys 4 (May 1946).
Box 1 Folder 13
Real Heroes 1, rare 64-page first issue. (September 1941). Cover and first pages are moldy, but most of the book is solid.
Box 1 Folder 14
Real Heroes 13 (March-April 1946). Includes Helen Keller story.
Box 1 Folder 15
Real Life Comics 21 (January 1944). [This is the regular version of the title; the next item is an unusual variant.]
Box 1 Folder 16
Real Life Picture Magazine 6 (July 1942). Not clear why it has an unusual form of the title. This item's cover was separated, so to minimize further damage it's divided into three separate bags for book, front cover, and back cover.
Box 1 Folder 17
True Comics 49 (May -June 1946)
Box 1 Folder 18
True Comics 67 (December 1947).
Series IV: Seven Later Books, 1977-2004
Using characters from older comic books (some were promotional giveaways)
Box 1 Folder 19
Archie (Free Comic Book Day 2004).
Box 1 Folder 20
Pokémon the Movie 2000 Activity Book (Comfort Inn, 2000).
Box 1 Folder 21
Real Heroes (Pizza Hut, 1994). [No relation to the Real Heroes title from the 1940s.]
Box 1 Folder 22
Superboy, a new solo series 453 (October 1977).
Box 1 Folder 23
Superboy, a new solo series 455 (February 1978).
Box 1 Folder 24
Superman Meets the Motorsports Champions (1999).
Box 1 Folder 25
Zero Month, The Beginning of Tomorrow, A Sample (1994).
Series V: Thirty One Issues of Vidas Ilustres
Box 1 Folder 26 & 27
Full citations are indicated in red on a paper copy of Boaz Adler's article in the International Journal of Comic Art. (These books are in alphabetical order by the last name of the subject)
Series VI: Three issue of Vidas Ilustres
That are not in the article by Boaz Adler (as not people in the STEM fields)
Box 1 Folder 28
Arthur Evans, archeologist in Crete Vidas Ilustres 18:309 (April 30, 1973).
Box 1 Folder 29
Rabelais Vidas Ilustres 14:211 (June 1, 1969).
Box 1 Folder 30
Walt Whitman Vidas Ilustres 12:165 (July 1, 1967).
Series VII: Six Mexican Comics Other Than Vidas Ilustres
With heroes in the health professions
Box 1 Folder 31
[Naval Surgery.] "Cirugia en las olas," Aventuras de la Vida Real 9:88 (April 1, 1963).
Box 1 Folder 32
The Suez Canal Epopeya [Epic] 3:31 (December 1, 1960).
Box 1 Folder 33
Mary McLeod [Bethune] Mujeres célebres 1:12 (March 1, 1962).
Box 1 Folder 34
Nurse Kenny and Polio Mujeres célebres 2:24 (March 1, 1963).
Box 1 Folder 35
Elizabeth Blackwell Mujeres célebres 9:103 (October 1, 1969).
Box 1 Folder 36
Dr. Alexis Carrel Vidas Ejemplares 16:284 (January 1, 1969)
Series VIII: Ten Original Tijuana Bibles
[These little "8-pagers" are all stapled from the front except for Rex Morgan. It is not clear if any of these examples dates from the 1950s or if they are later replicas. All ten were flea-market purchases in the early 1990s]
Box 1 Folder 37
Alexander Smart Esq. in "Tit for Tat"
Box 1 Folder 38
Betty Boop in "Hot Pants"
Box 1 Folder 39
Cappo with Prof. O. G. Whattaschnozzle (includes homosexual buggery)
Box 1 Folder 40
Eclipse the Bell Hop
Box 1 Folder 41
The Fuller Brush Man
Box 1 Folder 42
Gasoline Alley, or Uncle Walt
Box 1 Folder 43
Greta Gabo No. 2
Box 1 Folder 44
Little Annie Rooney
Box 1 Folder 45
Rex Morgan, M.D. in Night Call 4 (saddle stapled)
Box 1 Folder 46
Wm. P. Mullins: Kayo and Mamie in "Juicy Stuff"
Seris IX: Seven Modern Imprints about Tijuana Bibles
Box 1 Folder 47
A 16-page sales catalogue for Starhead Comix 1995, including on p. 12 a listing of their volumes reprinting the "bibles" dating from the 1930s to the 1950s., 1930s
Box 1 Folder 48
Books 1 to 7 of The Tijuana Bible, a serial, of which at least 9 numbers were published between 1991 and 1995. Each issue reprints several complete "bibles." [Includes correspondence], 1991