Life (1883-2000 Clair Maxwell/Life Publishing Company) Magazine comic books 1938-1955
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Published Jan 1939 by Clair Maxwell.$2.50
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January 9, 1939. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: Rumania; Winston Churchill; turbine locomotive; Frankie Brimsek; art of Reginald Marsh; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 60 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Jan 1939 by Clair Maxwell.$2.50
View scan- Centerfold detached and rusty staples.
January 16, 1939. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: Lucius Beebe; dentistry; Bible art; "Gunga Din" movie; fashion; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 68 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Apr 1939 by Clair Maxwell.$8.00
View scanApril 3, 1939. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: dolls; stained glass; Lindbergh; sandhogs photographic essay; white races of Europe; "Wuthering Heights" movie; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 80 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published May 1939 by Clair Maxwell.
May 15, 1939. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: child adoption; Queen Mary; short-wave radio; Lou Nova, Solomon's Temple; "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" movie; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 88 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published May 1939 by Clair Maxwell.
- Rusty staples and water damage.
May 22, 1939. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: Brazil photographic essay; golfer Patty Berg; Girl Guides at the World's Fair; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 88 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Aug 1939 by Clair Maxwell.$2.50
View scan- 4" spine split, rusty staples and centerfold detached at two of three staples.
August 14, 1939. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: Sandy Henville; Army photographic essay; national swimming meet (including Esther Williams); hay fever season; Oregon history murals; war in the Alps; Italy's German minority; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 68 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Nov 1939 by Clair Maxwell.$2.50
View scan- Water damage and rusty staples.
November 6, 1939. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: treaty with Turkey; Panama Canal wartime defense; Louis Eilshemius; fall fashion accessories; Mickey Rooney; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 108 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Dec 1939 by Clair Maxwell.
- Tears on two interior pages.
December 4, 1939. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: the Pope; Army tests at Wright Field; John Barrymore; Marx Brothers; cigarette smoking by women; Columbia University research laboratories; Chursh of Aphrodite in New York; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 108 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Dec 1939 by Clair Maxwell.
- Rusty staples.
December 18, 1939. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: Canada at war; David O. Selznick; the eye; porpoises; Green Bay Packers; Linda Darnell; knitting for British fighters; war toys; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 92 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Jan 1940 by Clair Maxwell.
- Rusty staples, tears and water damage.
January 8, 1940. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: Bowdoin houseparties; wartime Germany; badminton; Buddhism; William Steig; "Of Mice and Men" movie; American politics photographic essay; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 64 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Feb 1940 by Clair Maxwell.$8.00
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Febreuary 12, 1940. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: orchid valentines; Spain after the war; Justice Frankfurter; bobsledding; Yale School of the Fine Arts; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 96 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published May 1940 by Clair Maxwell.$2.50
- Interior is complete. Full length spine split. Back cover missing.
May 13, 1940. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: Wendell Wilkie; men of Sweden; shawls; Seabiscuit; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 120 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Jun 1940 by Clair Maxwell.$9.00
June 17, 1940. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: the War; National Guard photographic essay; Joe Louis; cancer; state birds in color; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 104 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Aug 1940 by Clair Maxwell.$7.49
August 12, 1940. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: Charles McNary; Wendell Willkie; piano sales; Philadelphia museum sculpture show; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 92 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Sep 1940 by Clair Maxwell.$7.49
September 2, 1940. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: the Dionne quintuplets; Henry A. Wallace; U.S. kennels; ferryboat; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 100 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Sep 1940 by Clair Maxwell.$9.00
- Water damage and rusty staples.
September 9, 1940. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: Carol Bruce; the Roosevelt family; Canada; college football; and more. Half-page Cream of Wheat ad with Li'l Abner art by Al Capp. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 136 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Oct 1940 by Clair Maxwell.$2.50
View scan- Water damage and rusty staples.
October 14, 1940. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: football flowers; New England Indian Summer; Japanese-Americans; bee hunt; experiments in the kitchen; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 128 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Nov 1940 by Clair Maxwell.$2.50
View scan- Water damage and rusty staples.
November 25, 1940. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: fine furs; siamese fighting fish; nebulae; war at sea; land yacht trip; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 104 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Dec 1940 by Clair Maxwell.$9.00
December 9, 1940. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: Ginger Rogers; Christmas toys photographic essay; Premiere Konoye of Japan; skiing exercises; American painting at the carnegie Institute; antique jewelry; Christmas ornaments; Laurence Olivier; war surgery; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 136 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Dec 1940 by Clair Maxwell.$7.49
December 16, 1940. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: European children refugees; basketball; Boston congressman George Holden Tinkham; Elsa Maxwell; nightgowns; Christmas cards; California showgirl; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 116 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Dec 1940 by Clair Maxwell.$5.00
December 23, 1940. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: Christmas party; Lana Turner; Army morale; skater Erna Andersen; Cunningham's Comet; 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 72 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Feb 1941 by Clair Maxwell.$9.00
February 10, 1941. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: Lord Halifax; earthquakes; Christian university in China; 75-mm. field gun; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 92 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Feb 1941 by Clair Maxwell.$5.00
February 24, 1941. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: Miami Beach shops photographic essay; Navy's favorite ship the Destroyer; Ingrid Bergman; appendicitis; British war art; winter fog; 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 108 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Mar 1941 by Clair Maxwell.$2.50
View scan- Water damage.
March 3, 1941. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: manikin mold; Diego Rivera art; Veronica Lake; table tennis; New York night clubs; General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell; Australia's war effort; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 108 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Mar 1941 by Clair Maxwell.$2.50
- Interior is complete. Full length spine split. Cover detached.
March 24, 1941. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: Spring hats; Boston; Fighter Command; Annette Kellerman; "Flip" Wolfe; Army show at Ft. Myer; China's T.V. Soong; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 120 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Apr 1941 by Clair Maxwell.$7.49
April 14, 1941. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: New York City photographic essay; Hollywood producer Darryl Zanuck; Veronica Lake and Cadet fliers; childhood diseases; art hsow at University of Nebraska; sportswriter Bill Cunningham; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 116 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Jun 1941 by Clair Maxwell.$2.50
View scan- Water damage and rusty staples.
June 2, 1941. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: Sunday School; Belgium; exercises; sculptor Robert Laurent; Satchel Paige; world's smallest hippopotamus; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 100 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Aug 1941 by Clair Maxwell.$12.00
View scans- Spine split 10%. Staple rust: Moderate.
August 11, 1941. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. Cover of Rita Hayworth. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 88 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Jul 1942 by Clair Maxwell.$9.00
July 27, 1942. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: Atlantic convoy photographic essay; Chralie the seal; serving chicken and eggs; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 96 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Jan 1943 by Clair Maxwell.$9.00
- Water damage and centerfold detached.
January 4, 1943. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: James F. Byrnes; Lena Horne; art of Paul Sample; rabbit meat; warfare in New Guinea; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 76 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Feb 1943 by Clair Maxwell.$9.00
February 1, 1943. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: Casablanca; Aberdeen; Pacific Mission; Australian way of life; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 104 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Feb 1943 by Clair Maxwell.$36.00
View scans- Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Extensive.
Classic weekly news/photo magazine. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 112 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Feb 1943 by Clair Maxwell.$9.00
February 22, 1943. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: photo reconnaissance; William Jeffers; Booty at Buna; women in lifeboats; U.S. High Command strategy; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 112 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Jun 1943 by Clair Maxwell.$9.00
June 28, 1943. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: wartime souvenirs; troop train; British raid Burma; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 108 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Nov 1943 by Clair Maxwell.$20.00
View scans- Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Extensive.
Classic weekly news/photo magazine. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 136 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Nov 1943 by Clair Maxwell.$2.50
View scan- Water damage.
November 15, 1943. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: fur-lined coats; the Dukes of England; troops in Iceland; Chinese music; skip-bombing; and more. General Motors/Fisher ad with art by Dean Cornwell. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 132 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Nov 1943 by Clair Maxwell.$140.00
View scans- Staple rust: Slight.
November 22, 1943. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 136 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Dec 1943 by Clair Maxwell.$9.00
December 13, 1943. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: Sinkiang; psychological warfare; Harvard's Eateria; artificial breeding; rationing and price control; Alexis Smith; Miss London 1943; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 132 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Dec 1943 by Clair Maxwell.$5.00
December 20, 1943. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: kids in trouble; pilot's wife; Archbishop of Santa Fe; scrap sculpture; Irish Publican; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 12 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Apr 1944 by Clair Maxwell.$2.50
View scan- Rusty staples and centerfold detached.
April 3, 1944. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: oil drilling; city dogs; Floyd Davis painting; 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 132 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Apr 1944 by Clair Maxwell.$9.00
- Rusty staples and centerfold detached.
April 10, 1944. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: air marshal Arthur T. Harris; dyslexia; Farouk I, King of Egypt; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 124 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Jul 1944 by Clair Maxwell.$7.49
July 24, 1944. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: Jennifer Jones in "Since You Went Away"; Andy Frain; war ravages Italy's art; scarf sun clothes; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 100 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Aug 1944 by Clair Maxwell.$9.00
August 7, 1944. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: Geraldine Fitzgerald in "Wilson"; movie illusions; Senator Byrd (Virginia); and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 100 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Sep 1944 by Clair Maxwell.$9.00
September 4, 1944. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: Cordell Hull; Korea; television ("the next great development in radio is ready now for its enormous postwar market"); Jeanne Crain; reunion class of 1886; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 116 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Sep 1944 by Clair Maxwell.$2.50
View scan- Rusty staples and cover detached.
September 18, 1944. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: 1944 campaign--Dewey vs. Truman; AnnCurtis; photographic essays on Japan and Kentucky; war poems; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 128 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Mar 1945 by Clair Maxwell.$9.00
March 12, 1945. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: Lt. Gen. William Hood Simpson; Eisenhower jackets; Crosby, Hope, and Sinatra do radio "Dick Tracy"; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 124 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Oct 1945 by Clair Maxwell.$2.50
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October 29, 1945. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: English country houses; weight lifting; light planes; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 148 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Nov 1945 by Clair Maxwell.$5.00
November 26, 1945. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: Secret Language of War; Walter Reuther; Hawaii photographic essay; President Truman's First Portrait; ship graveyards; 6-year-old Natalie Wood; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 144 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Jan 1946 by Clair Maxwell.$5.00
January 28, 1946. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: Jan Clayton; Winston Churchill; Cardinal-Designate Francis Joseph Spellman (part 2); Revolt in Java; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 116 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Feb 1946 by Clair Maxwell.
- Rusty staples.
Febreuary 11, 1946. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: Breakfast in Hollywood; Philip Murray; war surgery; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 100 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Apr 1946 by Clair Maxwell.$9.00
- Rusty staples and centerfold detached.
April 15, 1946. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: spring fashions; the Earth and Father Lynch; cancer; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 136 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Apr 1946 by Clair Maxwell.$9.00
- Rusty staples and centerfold detached.
April 29, 1946. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: Peiping photographic essay; Manolete, Mexico's bullfighting idol; school for southern gentlewomen; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 144 pages. Cover price $0.10.
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Published Jul 1948 by Clair Maxwell.$40.00
View scans- Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
Classic weekly news/photo magazine. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 92 pages. Cover price $0.20.
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Published May 1950 by Clair Maxwell.$6.00
View scan- Centerfold detached.
Classic weekly news/photo magazine. 10 1/2" x 13 1/4", 172 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $0.20.
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Published Apr 1951 by Clair Maxwell.$2.50
- INCOMPLETE. Chew. Interrupts art and story.
April 9, 1951. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: memoirs of Omar Bradley; Spanish village pictorial essay; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 160 pages. Cover price $0.20.
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Published Apr 1951 by Clair Maxwell.$2.50
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April 23, 1951. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: the Dalai Lama; mythological monsters; Douglas MacArthur. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 168 pages. Cover price $0.20.
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Published Apr 1951 by Clair Maxwell.
- Water damage.
$2.50
View scan- 8" total spine split and water damage.
April 30, 1951. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: General Bradley; cerebral palsy; Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 120 pages. Cover price $0.20.
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Published Mar 1952 by Clair Maxwell.$60.00
View scans- Spine split 5%. Staple rust: Moderate.
March 10, 1952. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 164 pages. Cover price $0.20.
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Published Mar 1952 by Clair Maxwell.$160.00
View scans- Spine split 10%.
March 31, 1952. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 114 pages. Al Capp interview about Lil' Abner getting married. Cover price $0.20.
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Published Aug 1953 by Clair Maxwell.$12.00
View scansClassic weekly news/photo magazine. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 100 pages. Cover price $0.20.
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Published Sep 1954 by Clair Maxwell.$2.50
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$36.00
View scans- Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Extensive.
September 17, 1954. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: Canada's hydrafoil; Washington diplomats; Cleveland Indians; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 162 pages. Cover price $0.20.
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Published Jan 1955 by Clair Maxwell.
- 1" Spine split.
January 3, 1955. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: food production and consumption in America. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 92 pages. Cover price $0.20.
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Published Apr 1955 by Clair Maxwell.$36.00
View scans- Spine split 10%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Extensive.
Classic weekly news/photo magazine. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 180 pages. Cover price $0.20.
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Published Aug 1955 by Clair Maxwell.$36.00
View scans- Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Extensive.
Classic weekly news/photo magazine. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 116 pages. Cover price $0.20.