Comic books 1942 w/ month not specified

The Case of the Advertised Murders by Minna Bardon. 5.5" x 7.5", 128 pages, text. Cover price $0.25.

The Clue of the Red Carnation by Burton Stevenson. 5.5" x 7.5", 128 pages, text. Cover price $0.25.

July 1942 Volume 2, No. 8. Photo cover. Timely Detective Magazine published by Martin Goodman. True crime articles, stories and photos. California's Lady Bluebeard, Killer "on the Make". 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 66 p, B&W Cover price $0.15.

Volume 2, Issue 9 - September, 1942. Photo cover. Timely Detective Magazine published by Martin Goodman. True crime articles, stories and photos. Amazing expose, "I Was a Come-On-Girl", "Time Out for Murder", "Case of the Devil Doctor", more. Softcover, 8.5" x 11.5", 66 p, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Cover by Bill Holman. Stories and art by Bill Holman. Dell's Large Feature Comic reprinted classic comic strips. This issue reprints one-panel domestic-comedy gag strips from Bill Holman, the legendary cartoonist behind Smoky Stover. Even this strip is not safe from his running "foo" gag that populated every Smoky Stover strip. A man buys a catfish for his fishbowl, to "keep the mice in their place." A skydiver comes in to complain about a defective parachute. A husband buys boxing gloves for his wife to use as potholders. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in, 48 pages, B&W.

Promotional U.S. Savings Bond booklet, circa 1942 (back cover states "Today our country is at war," also the B-17 bomber pictured is the early model without the iconic large tail model that was introduced later in 1942). Cover and interior are printed with red and blue ink, no black ink used. Coverage of weapons, vehicles, aircraft, insignia and more from the United States land, sea and air armed forces. This booklet was aimed at children but has a lot of solid information. Scarce. 7 3/4-in. x 5 1/4-in., 24 total pages including covers.

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Half-size color booklet detailing the insignias and equipment of the U.S. military. Distributed by J.C. Penny stores. Tom Hickey cover.

Our Gang on the March (1942 Whitman BLB) #1451, flip pictures, Vallely

Reprint edition. Written by Perry Linday. Romance novel, unabridged from its original publication. 5 1/4-in. x 7 1/4-in., 132 pages, B&W text only. Cover price $0.25.

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The Free Bonus in this copy is a 4-color Kodachrome fold-out of a female nude. Cover price $0.50.

Picture Show Annual for 1942. Articles include "The Film Plays Its Part," "The Romance of the Pioneers," "There'll Always be a Western," "Stars in Exile," "This Amazing Century," "There's Magic in Music" about Fantasia and other musicals, "Young Players of Promise," survey of movies from different parts of the British Empire like Australia, South Africa, India, "Men With Wings" and many more. Full-page movie star portraits include Bette Davis, Conrad Veidt, Merle Oberon, Robert Taylor, Douglas Fairbanks, Carole Lombard, Henry Fonda, Katharine Hepburn, William Powell, Judy Garland, Greer Garson, Mickey Rooney, Spencer Tracy, Dorothy Lamour, Cary Grant, Margaret Sullavan, Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, John Wayne and many more. Profusely illustrated with tinted photographs. Excellent layout and design. Hardcover, 8-in. x 10 1/2-in., 160 pages, B&W.

Story by Carl Barks, Jack Hannah, and Nick George. Art by Bruce Bushman. Pluto Saves the Ship. This issue of Dell's Large Feature Comic is significant for several reasons. It is one of the first American Disney comic books that was not composed of material reprinted from newspaper comic strips. It is Pluto's first comic book. And it represents the first comics work of future Disney comics legend Carl Barks. Barks contributed to the story for this issue (not the art), based on two Pluto cartoons that Barks worked on at Disney studios, Bone Trouble (1940) and The Army Mascot (1942). The art is by Disney animation layout artist Bruce Bushman. The WWII-era story has Pluto encountering Nazi saboteurs on a Navy cruiser. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in, 48 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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Booklet prepared by the Army for the War and Navy Departments. It was intended for use by servicemen sent to China, "this gallant ally," to aid in their fight against "her enemy and ours--the Japanese." Illustrations by Milton Caniff, who also illustrates an eleven-page story, "How to Spot a Jap" mini-comic. 4.25-in. x 5.25-in.; partial color; 80 pages; 1942. NOTE: A later version of this booklet exists that does not contain the "How to Spot a Jap" mini-comic. Both versions have the same cover.

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Booklet prepared by the Army for the War and Navy Departments. It was intended for use by servicemen sent to China, "this gallant ally," to aid in their fight against "her enemy and ours--the Japanese." Illustrations by Milton Caniff. 4.25-in. x 5.25-in. NOTE: This is the later version of this booklet that does not contain the "How to Spot a Jap" mini-comic. There is an earlier version featuring the mini-comic; both versions have the same cover.

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#8 - 5th Printing. Story by Janette Sebring Lowrey. Art by Gustaf Tenggren. Hardcover, 28 Pages, Full Color, 6.5" x 8".

Art by Segar. Military postcard from a set issued in 1942. This one features Wimpy and Popeye aboard ship. 3 1/2-in, x 5 1/2 -in. full color.

Porky Pig and Petunia (1942 Whitman BLB) #1408, All Pictures Comics, flip pictures, reprints Four Color #16 & Famous Gang Book of Comics

#5 13th Printing. Art by Rachel Taft Dixon. Hardcover, 42 Pages, Full Color, 6.5" x 8".

Cover by Clyde Lewis. Stories and art by Clyde Lewis. Dell's Large Feature Comic reprinted classic comic strips. This issue reprints the military strip Private Buck by Clyde Lewis. The hapless, childlike but cheerful Pvt. Buck (a play on "buck private") delivers military-themed humor, such as the uniform that fits Private Buck like a tent. Buck launches a campaign against the camp cook. Buck confuses a mine with a bowling ball. One-panel gags provide slices of life in uniform during the 1940s; most of these strips predate the US entry into WWII. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in, 48 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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Range Busters (1942 Whitman BLB) #1441, Henry E. Vallely

Ray Land of the Tank Corps USA (1942 Whitman BLB) #1447, flip pictures, Hess

Red Ryder and the Western Border Guns (1942 Whitman BLB) #1450, flip pictures, Harman

Red Ryder's Victory Patrol kit was free by sending in this postcard which was enclosed in loaves of Langendorf Bread between the years 1942 and 1944. The Victory Patrol kit consisted of a 32-pages comic by Fred Harmon, a secret decoder, secret handshake and secret greeting, a map of where Red Ryder lives. The postcard is extremely rare, given its age and the fact it was either tossed or used. 5 3/8-in. x 3 1/2-in. and is printed in dark blue ink on thin cardstock.

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One-shot. Uncle Sam cover. Jack Binder art. "Remember Pearl Harbor" full length comic book interwoven with text. Plus a five page comic story promoting buying war bonds "Johnny Remembers Pearl Harbor". FC, 68 pages. Cover price $0.10.

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Return of the Phantom (1942 Whitman BLB) #1489, flip pictures, by Falk & Moore

1942, with art and cover by Peter Arno. Cover price $0.15.

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U.S. Edition. Stories, art and cover by Clayton Knight. Pioneering comics publisher David McKay's Feature Book was the first US comic book to devote complete issues to a single character or subject. This issue covers the history of flight, including a list of aviation records and firsts, focus on pioneering aviators, and the use of flight during wartime. Also featuring 8 pages of photos of Jimmy Doolittle's then-recent bombing run over Tokyo, a reprisal for the Pearl Harbor attack that inspired the book and film Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo. Romance of Flying; Human Birds: Otto Lilienthal & Octave Chanute; Wright Brothers; Power Driven Flight, Famous Aces, War Birds; Air Aces; Admiral Byrd; We Bombed Tokyo; Charles Lindbergh; An Aerial Sortie From Shangri-La. 72 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Canadian Edition. Stories, art and cover by Clayton Knight. Canadian Edition of Romance of Flying, The (Feature Book) (1942) #33. This issue covers the history of flight, including a list of aviation records and firsts, focus on pioneering aviators, and the use of flight during wartime. Many of the featured stories are reprinted from the Magic Comics (1939) series. Stories /features include: Romance of Flying; Human Birds: Otto Lilienthal & Octave Chanute; Wright Brothers; Power Driven Flight, Famous Races and Flights, War Birds; The First Great War Ace, Captain Albert Ball; Georges Guynemer, French War Ace; An 'Ace of Aces', Major Raoul Lufbery; William Avery Bishop; The Flying Circus, Baron Manfred Von Richthoffen; A Wearer of the V.C., William Avery Bishop; American Aces, Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker and Lt. Frank Luke; Transatlantic Flights; First Non-Stop Flight Across U.S.A, John A. Macready and Lt. Oakley G. Kelly; The First Round-the-World Flight, Alford Williams; Wings over the North Pole, Admiral Richard E. Byrd; Lindy Conquers the Atlantic, Charles Lindbergh; Another Aerial Globe-Trotter, Diedonne Coste; From Golden Gate to Botany Bay, Sir Charles Kingsford Smith; Women Pilots Conquer the Air, Amelia Earhart; Master of Speed and Distance, Frank Hawks; Ferry pilots, Clyde Pangborn Another World War in the Air, Edgar 'Cobber' Kain; The R.A.F. Earns its Medals, Charles H. Dyson; Americans form the Eagle Squadron, Chelsy Gordon Peterson, G.A. Daymond, and Carroll McColpin; Second World War Crashes on Americans, Captain Colin Kelly Jr.; America's Flying Heroes, Jesus Villamor and Samuel Marett; War in the Air, A.G. Malan; American Volunteer Group in China, Claire E. Chennault; From Scrasdale to Burma, Jack Newkirk; A Veteran Army Pilot Leads the Way, Ralph Royce; An Aerial Sortie From Shangri-La, Jimmie Doolittle. Includes foreword and photo of from Air Marshall W.A. Bishop (Honorary Captain of The Air Cadets of Canada) Excludes the 8 pages featuring the then recent bombing of Tokyo by Jimmie Doolittle found in the U.S. Edition. Full Color.

A Rookie in Crowder by Pvt. Ned Eller (1942) contains 13 newspaper-style daily strip pages concerning the experiences of an Army recruit during World Way II. Professional quality art and story. 13 daily strip pages (printed one side per page), plus cover, 13.5-in. x 3.75-in., B&W, no cover price. This publication has multiple cover variants beyond the one listed here. For all cover variants the content is the same, with "Crowder" replaced on the cover by the name of another camp or with the generic "camp" replacing a camp name. "A Rookie in .." 13-page comic booklet was sold at various WWII Army camps to the young recruits there for their basic training. The individual Rookie strips ran in various weekly camp newspapers around the country for about eighteen months, the run ending when Pvt. Eller was assigned to duty with the Army in the Pacific. As of 2010, Mr. Eller resides in Columbus, Ohio.

A Rookie in Roberts by Pvt. Ned Eller (1942) contains 13 newspaper-style daily strip pages concerning the experiences of an Army recruit during World Way II. Professional quality art and story. 13 daily strip pages (printed one side per page), plus cover, 13.5-in. x 3.75-in., B&W, no cover price. This publication has multiple cover variants beyond the one listed here. For all cover variants the content is the same, with "Roberts" replaced on the cover by the name of another camp or with the generic "camp" replacing a camp name. "A Rookie in .." 13-page comic booklet was sold at various WWII Army camps to the young recruits there for their basic training. The individual Rookie strips ran in various weekly camp newspapers around the country for about eighteen months, the run ending when Pvt. Eller was assigned to duty with the Army in the Pacific. As of 2010, Mr. Eller resides in Columbus, Ohio.

Roy Rogers Robinhood of the Range (1942 Whitman BLB) #1460, Hess (1st)

Stories and art by Walt Kelly, Stella Mead, Emile Poulson, Arthur Jameson, George Kerr, Bill Brady and Robert Graefa. Christmas stories featuring art from former Disney animator Walt Kelly, creator of beloved comic strip Pogo. Kelly tells the fable of a Fir Tree's journey to become a Christmas tree. In another Kelly story, Lord Octopus goes Christmas shopping. Comics versions of classic Christmas tales A Christmas Carol and The Night Before Christmas. Plus the lyrics to Jingle Bells, Silent Night, O Christmas Tree, and The First Noel. Santa's Workshop; Santa Claus in Trouble; Jingle Bells; The Night before Christmas; O Christmas Tree; The Fir Tree; Silent Night; A Christmas Carol; Lord Octopus Went to the Christmas Fair; The First Christmas Tree; The First Noel; Santa Claus and the Mouse. 64 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Martian Martyrs by John Coleridge. Booklet series, first advertised in Future. Cover price $0.10.

Valley of Pretenders by Dennis Clive. Booklet series, first advertised in Future. Cover price $0.10.

The Machine that Thought by William Callahan. Booklet series, first advertised in Future. Cover price $0.10.

The New Life by John Coleridge. Booklet series, first advertised in Future. Cover price $0.10.

The Voice Commands by Dennis Clive. Booklet series, first advertised in Future. Cover price $0.10.

Rhythm Rides the Rocket by Bob Olsen. Booklet series, first advertised in Future. Cover price $0.10.

1942 Annual. Cover price $0.25.