Comic books January 1920

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Vol. 65, No. 5. January 31, 1920. The classic weekly magazine featuring news and fiction. Cover by Frederic Stanley. 10.75" x 14". 42 pages. Black and white. Cover price $0.05.

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Issue #1 - first half of Jan. 1920. NOTE: German language text. Der Orchideengarten or The Orchids Garden is considered the first magazine of the macabre and fantastic. Weird Tales, its nearest competitor, was first published in 1923, four years later. Subtitled Phantastische Blatter, loosely translated to Fantastic Pages. Edited by World War I correspondent Karl Hans Strobl and Alfons von Czibulka. Overall, the magazine published a selection of new and reprinted supernatural and horror stories from both domestic and foreign authors (Dickens, Pushkin, Maupassant, Poe, Valtaire, Wells, Hugo). The Orchids Garden is more well known as being one of the most beautiful fantasy magazines ever published. Artists included Heinrich Kley, Alred Kubin, Karl Ritter, Gustave Dore, Tony Johannot, Otto Linnekogel, Rolf von Hoerschelmann and many others. Extremely scarce. 8 3/4-in. x 12-in., 24 pages on rough book paper, black and white.

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Volume 7, Issue 22 (Serial Number 194) - January 1, 1920. Department of Travel. In this issue: "Scenic Wonders of South America" by Anne S. Peck. Includes Mentor Gravures of: The Harbor Of Manaos - Lake Titicaca - Scene On The Transandine Railroad - Mount Aconcagua - Iguassu Falls - Harbor Of Rio De Janeiro. Each gravure also has educational text on the back. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 12 pages on white paper plus card-stock gravures. Cover price $0.20.

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Volume 7, Issue 23 - January 15, 1920. In this issue: "The Art of the Vatican" by A.A. Hopkins. Includes Mentor Gravures of: Head Of Apollo Belvedere - New Sculpture Gallery - Madonna Di Foligno - The Disputa - Ceiling Fresco, Sistine Chapel, Altar End and Entrance End. Each gravure also has educational text on the back. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 12 pages on white paper plus card-stock gravures. Cover price $0.20.