Cosmopolitan (1886 Hearst) comic books 1929 or before

Add to cart Fine $29.00 View scans Paper: White Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Vol. 22, No. 1 - November 1896. 6.75" x 9.75", 160 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Fine $29.00 View scans Paper: White Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Vol. 22, No. 3 - January 1897. 6.75" x 9.75", 160 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Fine $29.00 View scans Paper: White Staple rust: Slight.

Vol. 22, No. 4 - February 1897. 6.75" x 9.75", 160 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Fine $29.00 View scans Paper: White Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Vol. 22, No. 5 - March 1897. 6.75" x 9.75", 160 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $24.00 View scans

Vol. 24, No. 5 - March 1898. 6.75" x 9.5", 180 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $8.00 View scans Cover Wrap Detached.

Vol. 24, No. 6 - April 1898. 6.75" x 9.5", 180 pages, B&W.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $22.00 View scans Water damage: Slight.

Vol. 25, No. 1 - May 1898. 6.75" x 9.5", 180 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $22.00 View scans Staple rust: Slight.

Vol. 25, No. 2 - June 1898. 6.75" x 9.5", 180 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $22.00 View scans

Vol. 25, No. 5 - September 1898. 6.75" x 9.5", 180 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $22.00 View scans Staple rust: Slight.

Vol. 26, No. 1 - November 1898. 6.75" x 9.5", 180 pages, B&W.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $22.00 View scans

Vol. 26, No. 2 - December 1898. 6.75" x 9.5", 180 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $14.00 View scans Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

Vol. 26, No. 3 - January 1899. 6.75" x 9.5", 180 pages, B&W.

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $24.00 View scans

Vol. 26, No. 4 - February 1899. 6.75" x 9.5", 180 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart FN+ 6.5 $32.00 View scans Paper: White Staple rust: Slight.

Vol. 26, No. 5 - March 1899. 6.75" x 9.75", 160 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $14.00 View scans Paper: White Back cover detached 30%. Staple rust: Slight.

Vol. 26, No. 6 - April 1899. 6.75" x 9.75", 180 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Fine $29.00 View scans Paper: White Staple rust: Slight.

Vol. 27, No. 1 - May 1899. 6.75" x 9.75", 200 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Fine $29.00 View scans Paper: White Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Vol. 27, No. 4 - August 1899. 7" x 9.75", 170 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Fine $29.00 View scans Paper: White Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Vol. 27, No. 5 - September 1899. 6.75" x 9.75", 170 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Fair $210.00 View scans Paper: White Back cover detached 90%. Back Cover Detached. Staple rust: Moderate.

Cosmopolitan is a long-running fashion and entertainment magazine focused on women. Cover by Frederick Lincoln Stoddard. This issue includes: First publication of an essay by H. G. Wells, "The Things that Live on Mars", with four full-page illustrations by William Robinson Leigh, about the habitability and possibility of life on Mars, ideas that Wells had previously explored a decade earlier in his science fiction novel "The War of the Worlds". Also, "Story of the Mars Expedition", an essay by American astronomer David Peck Todd describing the 1907 Lowell expedition to Chile, an attempt to capture images of the purported Martian canals; and "Small Contributions" a regular column to the magazine by Ambrose Bierce. 7" x 10", 130 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.