Comic books November 1941

Volume 3, Issue 2 - November, 1941. Cover by Robert C. Sherry. "Pendulum" by Ray Bradbury (first professional published work) and Henry Hasse. Other stories by Lyle Monroe, Charles R. Tanner, Henry Kuttner, Alfred Bester, and Ray Cummings. Illustrations by Hannes Bok, Leo Morey, Thorp. 6.75" x 9.75", 148 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.20.

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Cover art by Fred Ray. Untitled Superman story, script by Jerry Siegel, pencils by Joe Shuster (layouts) and Leo Nowak (finishes) [as Shuster], inks by Leo Nowak [as Shuster]; Superman must battle Lex Luthor who is disguised as The Light, a criminal who kidnaps prominent men from many different fields, hypnotizes them with colored lights, and makes them do his bidding. Superman versus The Archer, script by Jerry Siegel, art by Leo Nowak [ghosting for Joe Shuster]; A new villain hits the front pages of Metropolis' newspapers, a villain who prefers hunting human beings for profit rather than animals. Sailor's Shawl text story, script by Gardner F. Fox, art by Cliff Young. Jerry the Jitterbug two-pager by Henry Boltinoff. 68 Pages, Full Color. Jimmy Olsen appears in this issue as a blonde, last name not yet used. Cover price $0.10.

Long-running men's interest magazine featuring articles, fiction stories, adult cartoons, and nude photography. 8.5" x 11", 74 pages, B&W/Color. -MATURE READERS- Cover price $0.25.

Cover art by Sid Greene. A scoop that isn't a scoop plunges a young newsreel reporter... starring Target, art by Sid Greene. Kit Carter and Winn Gerrish are struck by the full impact... starring Cadet, script by Jordan, art by Art Gates. White Streak is alive... starring White Streak and Red Seal, script by Ray Gill, art by Emil Gershwin. Business goes on as usual at Target Ranch... starring Bull's-Eye Bill, art by John Daly. Everything is swell in Speck's life now! starring Speck, Spot, and Sis, art by Alonzo Vincent. Chameleon story, script and art by Bob Davis. Treasure Island [Part 8]--Fantastic Feature Films, art by Harold DeLay. Death At Out Doors starring Lucky Byrd, script and art by Harry Campbell. The Secret Stratosphere Ships starring Spacehawk, script and art by Basil Wolverton. 68 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Theatre Arts Monthly (November, 1941). TAM is legendary for its thorough and insightful coverage of the stage, both in American and England. Less well-known is the fact that TAM also provided some outstanding coverage of motion pictures. Broadway and Hollywood. Includes: Tallulah Bankhead cover; "Designing for the Screen" by Harry Horner; photo of Fred Astaire and Robert Benchley from "You'll Never Get Rich"; much more. 8.5-in. x 11-in., printed on a nice heavy stock. Cover price $0.35.

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Cover by Jack Binder. Edited by Ned Pines. Stories by Max Plaisted, Richard Hughes, Dan Gormley, Charles S. Strong, August M. Froehlich, Kin Platt, and Leo Morey. Chock full of action and adventure, these are Thrilling Comics! 68 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Al Capp. Stories and art by Al Capp, Ernie Bushmiller, Rudolph Dirks, Gus Mager, Dick Moores, Fred Methot, Reg Greenwood, Hal Forrest, Bernard Dibble, Ed Dodd and R. M. Brinkerhoff. Sometimes listed as Tip Top Comics Vol. 6 #7. Tip Top Comics presented color reprints of United Features newspaper comic strips. The Triple Terror superhero team investigates suspiciously sudden crop failures in New England. Fritzi disapproves of Phil's date ideas, in a strip that showcases Ernie Bushmiller's good-girl art. The Yokums agree to look after a hot-air balloon that crash-landed in Dogpatch. Li'l Abner; The Captain and the Kids; The Mirror Man; The Triple Terror; Jim Hardy; Stamp Tips; Looy Dot Dope; Tailspin Tommy; Iron Vic; Phil Fumble; Fritzi Ritz; Little Mary Mixup; Back Home Again. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Al Camy. Edited by Harry Shorten. Stories by Harry Shorten, Al Camy, Warren King, Bob Montana, Ed Smalle, and Paul Reinman. Heroic tales of action and adventure—these are Top Notch Comics! 68 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by George J. Hecht and others. Biography and history stories in comics form, part of a trend in non-fiction comics in the 1940s. Female sharpshooter Annie Oakley becomes a legend doing Wild West shows; New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia sets the standard for mayors to follow; Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin vanishes in search of the Northwest Passage. Doesn't It Give You a Thrill?; Man of Action; Girl Sharpshooter; Loneliest Island in the World; The Little Flower; Lost in the Arctic; What You Can Do to Aid in the National Defense; The World's Fastest Human; Powder Boy; World Series; The Capture of Aguinaldo; Dollar Pullers. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Lil Abner Sadie Hawkins Day half-page ad for Cream of Wheat by Al Capp. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 114 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

True crime stories with illustrations and photos. 8.5" x 11.5", 112 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Canadian series. Contents are exactly the same as True Comics (1941 Parents' Magazine Press). Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Pierce Rice and Louis Cazeneuve. A patriotic hero in the Captain America tradition from Fox Feature, published during the lead-up to World War II. A mad scientist with green skin hijacks an early television broadcast to terrify the nation; Nazis steal a scientist's new ray weapon, and capture U.S. Jones in the bargain; In an ad, U.S. Jones asks young readers to contribute to the war effort by watching for fifth columnists, pledging to defend the nation, and sending off for the U.S. Jones Cadets Membership Kit. Death Over the Airways; Nazis Strike At Night; The Terror of the Hooded Torch Bearers; The Case of the One-Legged Death Bringers; Dirk Delancey; Submarine Salvage; The Topper; Peg Miller, Girl Detective. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

November, 1941 Cover price $0.15.

Edited by Joe Simon. "The Fiends of the Seas," art by Mike Suchorsky; Captain Terror "returns from the grave" to strike a chord for justice against the Black Claw, whose aim is to sink all American convoys and patrols that are aiding the English fighting the Germans. "The Island Menace," script by Phil Sturm, pencils by Syd Shores; After being shipwrecked by a Nazi sub, Major Liberty makes his way to an eerie castle called Headhunters Inn, a place run by an English traitor who loves to play sportsman...using his shipwrecked victims as prey for the kill! "Origin of the Vagabond," script and pencils by Ed Winiarski, inks by George Klein; Pat Murphy adopts a disguise in order to help break up an alien smuggling ring that the FBI is investigating. "The Fog-Gun Gun Runners," art by George Klein; The Defender and Rusty decide to look into the smuggling of guns across the border into Mexico, and discover the head of an American munitions firm is behind the tyranny. "When U.S.A. Heroes Meet" text story by Stan Lee. "The Killers of the Sea," script and art by Basil Wolverton; Rockman must stop the evil genius of a hypnotist named Zombo, a master of men's minds, who has devised a special submarine that he plans to use to sink all ships (especially American) venturing through a channel near his secret island in order to control a nation's wealth. "The Mechanical Octopus Pirates"; Jack Frost battles a group of modern-day pirates who use a mechanical octopus to chase people away from a beach where a fortune in gold is buried. "Murder At the Race Track"; The Whizzer gets involved when some criminals order a jockey to throw a race he is riding in or pay the penalty of death! Ad for the next issue of Captain America Comics, as well as a plug for readers to join Cap's Sentinels of Liberty. Ad for Marvel Mystery Comics. Ad for All-Winners Comics #2. Ad for The Young Allies Comics #1. 68 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Harry Anderson. Stories by Gilbert James, Harry Anderson, Nathaniel Nitkin, Edd Ashe, Jr., Joseph Piazza, Emil Gershwin, Jack A. Warren, Harry Campbell, Malcolm Kildale, Paul Quinn, Ed Winiarski, Kermit Jaediker, and George Mandel. Super-hero stories of action, adventure and war, starring such characters as The Conqueror, Bomber Burns, and Homicide Hank. 68 pages, full color. 68 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Al Taliaferro. Stories and art by Floyd Gottfredson, Ted Thwaites, Merrill De Maris, Bob Karp, Manuel Gonzales, and Al Taliaferro. Sometimes listed as Vol. 2, #2. The long-running vehicle for Disney character comics featured early work by Carl Barks, the legendary Good Duck Artist. In a classic Floyd Gottfredson story from the Mickey Mouse comic strip, Mickey and friends go camping. In another Gottfredson story, Mickey tests Goofy's new security system. Detectives Max Hare and Toby Tortoise track missing money at Miss Cottontail's school. Plus a text version of the Disney film classic Dumbo. Pluto to the Rescue; Beauty Was a Beast; Turn the Other Cheek; Fishy Symptoms; Just Plain Goofy; Goofy Has a Pull; Once Was Enough; Dumbo; Pluto Couldn't Navigate; Pluto Takes the Rap; Ya Can't String Pluto; Solved With a Bang!; Music Land; The Boarding School Mystery; On a Camping Trip; Remote Control; Bolivar Takes the Cure; False Alarm; Mickey's Amateurs; Hollywood Chatter; What Did the Artist Forget?; A Place for Everything; Doubtful Victory; Now It's Your Move; Goofy Overdoes It; It's a Vicious Circle; Pluto Gets It in the End. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 47, Issue 4 - November 1941. "A Magazine for Boys and Girls." Stories, poems, and activities designed for kids. 7-in. x 10-in., 36 pages, PC,PB&W Cover price $0.20.

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Cover by Louis Cazeneuve. Edited by Victor Fox. Stories and art by Louis Cazeneuve, Harry Lucey (as Sandra Swift), Pierce Rice, Alex Blum (as Alex Boon), James J. Royal, Nathaniel Nitkin (as N. N. Nathaniel), and Bob Keen. An anthology of science fiction, horror and adventure comics from Fox. This is as pulpy as it gets. The Dart must clear his own secret identity of murder; Marga the Panther Woman seeks a jewel thief in the African wild; Dynamo tries to prevent the destruction of a power plant. The Eagle and Buddy; Sorceress of Zoom; The Black Rider; The Dart and Ace; Marga the Panther Woman; Rome by Time Machine; Dynamo; Swoop Curtiss. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 36, Issue 2 - November 1941. Edited by Dorothy McIlwraith. Horror and Fantasy stories in the pulp style. 6.75-in. x 10-in.; 128 newsprint pages, text (with B&W illustrations). Cover price $0.15.

Volume 6, Issue 5 - November, 1941. 6.75" x 9.75", 118 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart Fine $32.00 View scans Paper: Tan to Cream Back cover detached 5%. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $15.00 View scans Paper: Cream Staple rust: Slight.

Vol. 195, No. 2 - November 1, 1941. 6.5" x 9", 130 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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Vol. 195, No. 3 - November 8, 1941. 6.5" x 9", 130 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Fine $37.00 View scans Paper: Off white Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

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Vol. 195, No. 4 - November 15, 1941. 6.5" x 9", 130 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $11.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $12.75 View scans Paper: Off white to white Staple rust: Slight.

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Vol. 195, No. 5 - November 22, 1941. 6.5" x 9", 130 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $19.00 View scans Paper: Off white Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 15%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $26.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $17.00 View scans Paper: Off white Front cover detached 15%. Back cover detached 25%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.

Vol. 195, No. 6 - November 29, 1941. 6.75" x 9.75", 130 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Cover pencils by C. C. Beck, inks by Pete Costanza. "The Secret of the Ring," art by C. C. Beck; Captain Marvel must rescue Whitey and Mr. Morris as well as secure the code message from Lulette's ring. Ad for Captain Marvel Adventures. "Free Press" starring Golden Arrow. "A Cop's Revenge" text story, art by Carl Formes. "Herr Gloobel's Tornado Gun" starring Spy Smasher. "Island of Cannibals" starring Lance O'Casey. Untitled Chubby story, script and art by Tom McNamara. "Trapped!" starring Dr. Voodoo, art by Mark Schneider; Hal and Nero battle Svenson's pirate crew but the wily pirate manages to escape the ship with Anita as his hostage. "Christmas with Half-Man" starring Ibis the Invincible, art by the Binder studio. 68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 149, Issue 5 (Whole Number 2037) - November 1, 1941. 6.5" x 9", 116 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.