Comic books November 1938

Stories and art by Roy Crane, J. R. Williams, Norman Marsh, Irwin Myers, Al McWilliams, Merrill Blosser, Ray Thompson, Charles Coll, Martha Orr, Sol Hess, Wallace Carlson, Gene Ahern, Al Lewin, Frank V. Martinek, Leon A. Beroth, Abe Martin, Virginia Krausmann, Sylvia Sneidman and Ken Ernst. Crackajack Funnies presented original stories and reprints of classic comic strips, including Roy Crane's influential Wash Tubbs & Captain Easy. Buck Jones and Dave track Del Arano's outlaw gang to their hideout in Crooked Butte. Captain Easy becomes a sensation in the boxing ring after he accidentally knocks out a circus tiger. Dan Dunn knows that Scarfone is running an illegal lottery, but he can't prove it. Dan Dunn; Captain Frank Hawks, Air Ace; Freckles and His Friends; Myra North, Special Nurse; Jaragu and the Lost Islands; Wash Tubbs; Out Our Way; Apple Mary; The Nebbs; Our Boarding House; Clyde Beatty; Don Winslow of the Navy; Tom Mix; Boots and Her Buddies; Tom Traylor, G-Man X32: Against the Spy Ring; Flapper Fanny; Annibelle; Buck Jones: Killers of Crooked Butte. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Leo O'Mealia. The Glass of Poison starring Speed Saunders, script by Gardner Fox, art by Fred Guardineer. Larry Steele story, script and art by Will Ely. Bullet Trap starring Buck Marshall, script and art by Homer Fleming. Spy story, script by Jerry Siegel, art by Joe Shuster. Dr. Fu Manchu story, script by Sax Rohmer, art by Leo O'Mealia. The Crime In Stone text story by Gardner Fox (as Paul Dean). The Song of Death (Part 2) starring Bruce Nelson, art by Tom Hickey. Crimson Avenger story, art by Jim Chambers. Steve Malone story, script by Gardner Fox. Slam Bradley story, script by Jerry Siegel, art by Joe Shuster. 68 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 1, Issue 1 - November, 1938. 6.75" x 9.75", 116 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Emery Clarke. "The Green Death" by "Kenneth Robeson", "Law of the Sea" by Wallace Brooker; and "Red Gold Death Trail" by Harold F. Cruikshank. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 128 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.10.

Official organ of the International Society of Junior Magicians, containing news and tips. 16 pages on newsprint.

Cover by Norman Saunders. Stories and art by Ralph Powers, Ronald Flagg, Vance Leighton, Cliff Howe, Lorne Balsley, Clint Douglas, Eric Lennox, Norman Daniels, Rexton Archer and Dennis Storm. Classic pulp fiction featuring horror and mystery of the type called Weird Menace. There's no improving on the magazine's original blurbs: "A sinister being - more horrible than the werewolf, more terrifying than the Minotaur - the Carnivorous Bubble!... Manhattan is chilled by the ghastly spectacle of a man without a brain... Her rare beauty destines her to a doomful pose!" Action-girl art cover by Norman Saunders. When It Rained Corpses; Satan's Ante-Chamber; The Carnivorous Bubble; Executioner's Playday; The Three from Nowhere; Song of the Spectre; Homicide House; The Robot's Revenge; Modeled in Death; Skull and Double-Cross Bones. 112 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Vol. 13, No. 18. November 4, 1938. Hedy Lamarr cover. Full-page B&W ad for Ritz Crackers. 8.5" x 11.5". 20 pages. Black and white.

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Vol. 13, No. 20. November 18, 1938. Full-page B&W ad for Snowdrift Shortening, Ritz Crackers, and Edward's Coffee. 8.5" x 11.5". 20 pages. Black and white.

Victor E. Pazmiño Halloween cover. Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Mescal Ike" by S. L. Huntley and Art Huhta; "Jitter" by Arthur B. Poinier; "Goofie Gags" by Victor E. Pazmiño; "The Gay Thirties" by Hank Barrow; "Roy Powers, Eagle Scout" by Paul Powell; "Buck Rogers" by Philip Francis Nowlan and Rick Yager (as Dick Calkins); "Such Is Life" by Walt Munson; "Dumb-Bells" by Charles J. Dunn (as Gar); "Dizzy Dramas" by Joe Bowers; "Skyroads" by Dick Calkins and Russell Keaton; "Hairbreadth Harry" and "High-Gear Homer" by F. O. Alexander; "Life's Like That" by Fred Neher; "War on Crime" by Rex Collier and Hammon; "Jitter" by Arthur B. Poinier; "Big Chief Wahoo" by Allen Saunders and Elmer Woggon; "Dickie Dare" by Milton Caniff; "Adventures of Patsy" by Mel Graff; "High Lights of History" by J. Carroll Mansfield; "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "Animals in the News" and "The Frog Pond Ferry" by M. E. Brady; "Oaky Doaks" by Ralph Briggs Fuller; "Seaweed Sam" by Victor E. Pazmiño; "Olly of the Movies" by Julian Ollendorff; "Scorchy Smith" by Noel Sickles; "Somebody's Stenog" and "The Back-Seat Driver" by A. E. Hayward; "Above the Crowd" by Benjamin D. Allen (as Stookie Allen); "Mescal Ike" by S. L. Huntley and Art Huhta; "There's A Town" by M. E. Brady; "Babe Bunting" by Roy L. Williams; "Punky" by Fred Balk; "Connie" and "The Wet Blanket" by Frank Godwin; "Queenie" by S. M. Iger (as Bob Bliss); "Homer Hoopee" by Fred Locher; and "Butty and Fatty" by M. E. Brady. "The Ghost of Devil Key" text story by Connye M. Hyatt. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 68 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Ed Cronin. Stories and art by Will Eisner, Rube Goldberg, Art Pinajian, Ed Wheelan, Lank Leonard, Ham Fisher, Mo Leff, John Hix, Russell E. Ross, J. H. Striebel, George Brenner, Bernard Baily, Bob Zuppke, R. W. Depew, Monte Barrett, J.P. McEvoy, Charles Driscoll, H.J. Tuthill, John J. Welch, George Marcoux, Ed Reed, Al Zere, and Vernon Henkel. An early comics anthology published by Harry Chesler, featuring reprints of newspaper comic strips. Pioneering masked hero The Clock begins a new phase of his career after his secret identity is revealed. Will Eisner's spy hero Black X learns that foreign companies want to sabotage a new transatlantic airline. Gallant Knight Sir Neville must settle his differences with Sir Borat in single combat. Plus the early Eisner strip Archie O'Toole and the early strip Lala Palooza by Rube Goldberg. Joe Palooka; They're Still Talking; Jane Arden; Mickey Finn; Off the Record; Gallant Knight; Lala Palooza; Strange As It Seems; Espionage Starring Black X; The Clock Strikes; Slim and Tubby; Reynolds of the Mounted; Flossie; Toddy; Pirates Ahoy; Ned Brant; Big Top; Dixie Dugan; Bungle Family; Lena Pry; Clip Chance at Cliffside. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 69, Issue 595 - November, 1938. Humorous captions paired with movie stills and models. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 84 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.20.

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Issue 982 - Nov. 12, 1938. UK weekly comic. Featuring one-page comic strips of Laurel and Hardy, George Formby, Wheeler and Woolsey, Harold Lloyd, Joe E Brown, Claude Hubert and Max Miller. Also features text stories, usually running two pages. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/4-in., 24 pages, B&W.

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Issue 983 - Nov. 19, 1938. UK weekly comic. Featuring one-page comic strips of Laurel and Hardy, George Formby, Wheeler and Woolsey, Harold Lloyd, Joe E Brown, Claude Hubert and Max Miller. Also features text stories, usually running two pages. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/4-in., 24 pages, B&W.

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Issue 984 - Nov. 26, 1938. UK weekly comic. Featuring one-page comic strips of Laurel and Hardy, George Formby, Wheeler and Woolsey, Harold Lloyd, Joe E Brown, Claude Hubert and Max Miller. Also features text stories, usually running two pages. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/4-in., 24 pages, B&W.

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Issue 981 - Nov. 5, 1938. UK weekly comic. Featuring one-page comic strips of Laurel and Hardy, George Formby, Wheeler and Woolsey, Harold Lloyd, Joe E Brown, Claude Hubert and Max Miller. Also features text stories, usually running two pages. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/4-in., 24 pages, B&W.

Volume 30, Issue 4 - November, 1938. 8" x 11", 82 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Sheldon Mayer cover. Contains comic strip reprints, text articles, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Stranger than Fiction" by Richard W. Thomas and Walter Galli; "Heroes' Hall of Fame" by Benjamin D. Allen (as Stookie Allen); "Alley Oop" by V. T. Hamlin; "Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune" by Roy Crane; "The Comic Zoo" by George Scarbo; "Four Aces" by Hal Forrest; "Our Boarding House" by Gene Ahern; "Hold Everything" by Clyde Lewis; "Cicero's Cat" by Bud Fisher; "Home Magic" by A. W. Nugent; "The Worry Wart" by J. R. Williams; "Bronc Peeler" by Fred Harman; "Out Our Way" by J. R. Williams; "Reg'lar Fellers" by Gene Byrnes; "Ben Webster's Page" by Jay Jerome Williams (as Edwin Alger); "Scribbly" by Sheldon Mayer; "The Crime Busters" by Alden McWilliams; "Everybody's Playmate" by A. W. Nugent; "Wonderland of Oz" by Walt Spouse; "Curious Facts about Stamps" by I. S. Klein; "Bob Baker: Western Trails" film adaptation by Norton S. Parker and Richard Rogers; and "Be a Champ" by Ed Cronin. "Coast Guard Pinch-Hitter Part One" text story by H. T. Sperry. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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UK story magazine published by Amalgamated Press between 1907-1939, predominantly featuring the activities of boys at the fictional school St. Jim's. 6.75" x 9.5", 36 pages, B&W

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UK story magazine published by Amalgamated Press between 1907-1939, predominantly featuring the activities of boys at the fictional school St. Jim's. 6.75" x 9.5", 36 pages, B&W

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UK story magazine published by Amalgamated Press between 1907-1939, predominantly featuring the activities of boys at the fictional school St. Jim's. 6.75" x 9.5", 36 pages, B&W

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UK story magazine published by Amalgamated Press between 1907-1939, predominantly featuring the activities of boys at the fictional school St. Jim's. 6.75" x 9.5", 36 pages, B&W

Volume 1, Issue 2 - November, 1938. Pulp magazine focusing on historical adventures. This issue features "Bunyips in the Mulga" by Anthony M. Rud, "Coasts of Chance II" by H. Bedford Jones, and "Black Vulmea's Vengeance" by Robert E. Howard. 6 /2-in. x 9 1/2-in., 130 pages, Text (with B&W illustrations) Cover price $0.20.