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  • Item #65265394
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    Comics on Parade (1938) #1 Coverless
    Tags: Comic Strip Reprints
    Published Apr 1938 by United Features Syndicate.

    Comics on Parade (1938) 1 Coverless

    Comic is complete other than being coverless. First wrap and two center wraps detached.

    Starts Oct 3

    Stories and art by Hal Foster, Al Capp, Ernie Bushmiller, Bill Conselman, Charlie Plumb, Bernard Dibble, Fred Methot, Rudolph Dirks, Harry Lee, Winfield Meggs, Becky Sharp, Laverne Harding, Harry O'Neill, H. E. Homan, Dudley T. Fisher Jr., Robert Dickey, R. M. Brinkerhoff, J. Carver Pusey, Paul Berdanier, Frank Owen and Raeburn Van Buren. Sometimes listed as Comics on Parade Vol. 1 #1. Early in the transformation of comic strips to comic books, United Features Syndicate published Comics on Parade as a showcase for its most popular strips, including Tarzan, Li'l Abner and Nancy. This issue features the debut comic-strip adventures of Tarzan (by future Prince Valiant artist Hal Foster), Al Capp's Li'l Abner, and Raeburn Van Buren's Abbie and Slats. In the latter, country spinster Abbie meets her orphaned cousin Aubrey for the first time. She knows he's a city boy, but she's not prepared for the rough-and-tumble teen who calls himself "Slats." Shipwrecked on the African coast, the infant son of Lord Greystoke is raised by great apes to become Tarzan. Plus an illustrated biography of screen legend James Cagney. Terrific cover features a parade-float's worth of classic 1930s comic-strip characters, the familiar mingling with the forgotten. Danny; Abbie an' Slats; The Captain and the Kids; Tarzan of the Apes; Wayne Webster of Waverly Prep; Roads of Romance; Jest di-Jest; Cynical Susie; Broncho Bill; Looy Dot Dope; Colonel Wowser; How to Make It; For Junior Readers; Joe Jinks; Fritzi Ritz; Billy Make Believe; Mr. and Mrs. Beans; Bucky and His Pals; Little Mary Mixup; Benny; Opportunity Knox; If You Want to Know; Ella Cinders; Danny Dingle; Dub Dabs; Li'l Abner; Jasper. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #65225845
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    Detective Novels Magazine (1938-1949 Better Publications) Pulp #Vol. 1 #1 FR 1.0
    Tags: Pulp Adventure
    Published Feb 1938 by Better Publications.

    Detective Novels Magazine (1938-1949 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 1 #1 FR 1.0

    4" Cumulative spine split. Cover detached. Water saturation. Mold.

    Starts Aug 31

    Volume 1, Issue 1 - January/February, 1938. 6.75" x 9.75", 116 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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    Mechanics and Handicraft (1934 Better Publications) #Vol. 5 #2 VG 4.0
    Published Mar 1938 by Better Publications.

    Mechanics and Handicraft (1934 Better Publications) Vol. 5 #2 VG 4.0

    Moisture damage. Staple rust.

    Starts Aug 31

    Vol. 5 #2 - Mar. 1938. 6 1/2-in. x 9 1/2-in. 98 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.