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Issue #1
Published April 1939 by National Periodical Publ.This item is not in stock. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
64-pages featuring condensed movie stories told in comics panel format, but illustrated with photos from the movie. Movies featured in this issue are: "Son of Frankenstein" with Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, "Gunga Den" with Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, and Douglas Fairbranks, Jr., "The Great Man Votes" with John Barrymore, Peter Holden, Virginia Weidler, "Fisherman's Warf" with Bobby Breen, Leo Carillo and Henry Armetta, and "Scouts to the Rescue" with Jackie Cooper. Movie Make-Up page showing how the monster make-up is applied to Boris Karloff. Four pages f "Screen Scoops" featuring interesting facts about movie stars such as Boris Karloff (and his Frankenstein role), Bela Lugosi, Leo Carrillo, Cary Grant and Basil Rathbone. Also the Minute Movies and Movietown comics strips. Inside back cover features a full page ad for All-American Comics #1. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #2
Published May 1939 by National Periodical Publ.This item is not in stock. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
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Issue #3
Published June 1939 by National Periodical Publ.This item is not in stock. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
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Issue #4
No image availablePublished July 1939 by National Periodical Publ.This item is not in stock. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
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Issue #5
Published August 1939 by National Periodical Publ.This item is not in stock. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
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Issue #6
Published October 1939 by National Periodical Publ.This item is not in stock. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
Final issue of the series. Movie adaptations--combination photo/art: "The Real Glory" (starring Gary Cooper and David Niven), "In Old Monterey" (Gene Autry, Smilry Burnett), "The Phantom Creeps" (Bela Lugosi), "The Underpup" (Gloria Jean, C. Aubrey Smith), "Mutiny on the Black Hawk" (Richard Arlen, Andy Devine), "The Chumps at Oxford" (Laurel and Hardy), and the conclusion of "The Oregon Trail" (John Mack Brown). Also Movietown (by Harry Lampert) and Minute Movies (by Ed Wheelan). Half-page ad for All-American Comics # 8. Second robot cover. Cover price $0.10.
