Comic books May 1920

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $9.00 View scans Spine split 5%. Water damage: Slight.

Agriculture and farming magazine. Includes articles, fiction, and humor. 10.5" x 14", 68 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.05.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $48.00 View scans

Issue #9 - first half of May 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.

Add to cart FN/VF 7.0 $195.00 View scans Staple rust: Slight. Foreign edition: NonEnglish.

10.5" x 13.75", B&W with some color.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $7.00 View scans Spine split 10%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Moderate.

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Volume 8, Issue 6 (Serial Number 202) - May 1, 1920. Department of Art. In this issue: "Titian - His Life and Art" by A.A. Hopkins. Includes Mentor Gravures of: Assumption Of The Virgin - Pesaro Madonna - Portrait Of Charles V. - Portrait Of Philip II. - Portrait Of Himself - Madonna, Child And Saints. 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 8, Issue 7 - May 15, 1920. In this issue: The Story of Chemistry. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 12 pages on white paper plus card-stock gravures. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart Very Good $18.00 View scans Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

Women's magazine with emphasis on needlework and homecrafts. 10.25" x 14", 60 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.20.

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Women's magazine with stories, humor, and recipes. 10.25" x 13.5", 52 pages, B&W Cover price $0.10.