Comic books May 1940

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Cover art by Joe Musial. The Phantom strips, script by Lee Falk, art by Ray Moore. Pete the Tramp strips by Clarence D. Russell. Jungle Jim strips, art by Alex Raymond. Katzenjammer Kids strips, art by H.H. Knerr. Barney Google strips, art by Billy DeBeck. Tim Tyler's Luck strips, art by Lyman Young. Just Kids strips by A.D. Carter. Blondie strips, art by Chic Young. Prince Valiant strips, art by Hal Foster. Tillie the Toiler strips, art by Russ Westover. Curley Harper at Lakespur strips, art by Lyman Young. Teddy and Sitting Bull strips, art by Joe Musial. Room and Board strips, art by Gene Ahern. 68 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart FR 1.0 $399.95 or Best Offer View scans Near full length spine split with splitting to interior wraps. Centerfold detached. Oxidation. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover art by Jon L Blummer. Mystery of Spott Field starring Red, White and Blue, script by Jerry Siegel, art by William Smith; Red's stuck in the hospital so Doris and the boys have to handle a case without him. Mutt and Jeff strips by Al Smith (as Bud Fisher). Believe It or Not by Robert L. Ripley. Is Silas Cross Hop's Guardian? starring Hop Harrigan, script and art by Jon L Blummer; Now that Hop is famous Silas Cross tries to assert his guardianship and take control of him. The Great Discovery starring Ben Webster, script and art by Edwin Alger. The Infra Red Destroyers [Part 2]--Adventures in the Unknown, script by Carl H Claudy, art by Stan Aschmeier. The Dude Ranch starring Scribbly, script and art by Sheldon Mayer; Mr. Macklin sends Scribbly to report on a dude ranch. The Miasma of Death! starring Gary Concord, the Ultra Man, script and art by Jon L Blummer. 68 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Fine $6.00 View scans Paper: Off white Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $2.65 View scans Paper: Light tan to Cream Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 20%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.

May 18, 1940. Cover by Rudolph Belarski. Stories include "Blockade" by Robert Carse, "Watered Guns" (part 1) by Walt Coburn, "Where Wild Goats Drink" by Jim Kjelgaard, "Death Under Water" (part 2) by William Du Bois, "Dynamite by Air" by Louis C. Goldsmith, "The Flying Eye" by Robert Arthur, and "Men of Daring" by Stookie Allen. 7-in. x 9.5-in.; black and white; 112 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $7.00 View scans Paper: Off white Front cover detached 25%.

Add to cart Poor $2.50 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Front cover detached 10%. No Back Cover. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

"Watered Guns" inclusion of the cereal by Walt Coburn.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $37.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Back cover detached 10%.

May 1940. Volume 25, Issue 3. Illustrations by Gilmore, E. Hatcher, R. Isip, W. Kolliker, F. Kramer, and H. Rogers. Trimmed pulp, 6.5-in. x 9.5-in.; black and white; 160 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.20.

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May 12-18, 1940. In-house program for films shown at the Bartlett Theatre in Highwood, Illinois. This week included: "Black Friday" with Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi; "Zanzibar"; and "Swiss Family Robinson". 3.25" x 5". 4 pages. Single-color printing.

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Digest sized Spanish language translation of Bill Barnes Air Adventures published by Editorial Molino in Argentina.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $18.00 View scans Trimmed Paper: Off white Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

Vol. 71, No. 1 - May 1940. 6.5" x 10", 196 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Vol. 8, No. 1, Issue 43 - May 1940. 5.25" x 7.5", 144 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $9.00 View scans Spine split 15%. Staple rust: Slight.

Agriculture and farming magazine. Includes articles, fiction, and humor. 11" x 14", 102 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.05.

Add to cart Very Good $32.00 View scans Trimmed Paper: Off white Front cover detached 15%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight.

Add to cart Fair $9.00 View scans Paper: Tan to Cream Front cover detached 70%. Back cover detached 70%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

Vol. 160, No. 1 - May 1940. 6.75" x 9.75", 130 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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

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Vol. 4 - Issue 3. May, 1940. Photography Magazine Features: "I braved the Jungle Terrors for Pictures" by William Cotlow, Exposure Tricks for Sudden Shots, Photographing the Group, Catching Daredevils in Action, Capturing Humor on Film and more! 60 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart Very Good $145.00 View scans Front cover detached 30%. Back cover detached 5%.

Volume 2, Issue 5 - May 1940. Cover by Stockton Mulford. Science Fiction and adventure magazine. Features "The Whispering Gorilla" by Don Wilcox, "Lanceleot Biggs: Master Navigator" by Nelson S. Bond, and complete stories by Ed Earl Repp, Peter Horn, and Milton Kaletsky. 8-1/2 in. x 11-3/8 in.; black and white; 96 newsprint pages; mostly text with a few illustrations. Cover price $0.20.

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Cover art by Joe Simon. The Monsters Are Coming starring Samson, art by Alex Blum. Sir Lucifer Attacks starring Flip Falcon, art by Don Rico. The Sport of Bdula Khan starring Golden Knight, art by Grieg Chapian. Case of the Sinking Subs [The Saboteurs], script and art by Fletcher Hanks [as Lance Ferguson]; Yank Wilson stops a spy ring that was responsible for sinking United States submarines. The Vacuumites starring Space Smith, script and art by Fletcher Hanks [as Hank Christy]. Dr. Martinious, Warlord of Mars starring Stardust, script and art by Fletcher Hanks. The Man Who Hated the World starring Sub Saunders. 68 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 6.0 $80.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Label #4553995014

Add to cart Very Good $19.00 View scans Corner Damage. Creasing. Denting. Foxing. Residue. Scuffing. Soiling.

Volume 71, Issue 613 - May, 1940. Enoch Bolles cover. Humorous captions paired with movie stills and models. 8.5" x 11", 50 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 35, Issue 2 - May, 1940. 8" x 11", 80 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart CGC 0.5 $125.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: Off white to white 6 center wraps missing. Label #4471846001 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Rex King of the Deep; John Carter; Capt. Easy

Stories and art by Roy Crane, V. T. Hamlin, John Coleman Burroughs, Gaylord Du Bois, Bob Jenney, Al McWilliams, Walt Spouse, Walker Harman, and Win Smith. The Funnies presented reprints of classic comic strips, including Roy Crane's influential Captain Easy, alongside original material. Appointed to the palace of the Jeddak of Zodanga after rescuing the Jeddak's cousin, John Carter uses the opportunity to track down Dejah Thoris. But believing Carter was dead, she has sworn to marry the son of her captor, in the official comic-strip adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' A Princess of Mars. John Carter art by John Coleman Burroughs, son of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Captain Easy and Wash Tubbs try to make ends meet with a traveling medicine show. John Carter Warlord of Mars; The Sky Ranger; Alley Oop; Bosko; What Would You Do?; Rex, King of the Deep; Oz; Captain Easy; The O'Malley Kids; Whitey Harrison; Mr. District Attorney; Speed Martin. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Gulf Oil Company giveaway comic. 7.5" x 10.5, 4 pages, full color.

Add to cart FN/VF 7.0 $18.00 View scans Spine split 10%. Staple rust: Extensive.

Cover by Victor Tchetchet. Fiction and non-fiction stories with illustrations. 8.5" x 11.25", 64 pages, B&W with spot color. Cover price $0.05.

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May 25, 1940. Fiction and non-fiction stories with illustrations. Cover by J.F. Kernan. 8.5-in. x 11.5-in.; black and white; 68 pages. Cover price $0.05.

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Add to cart Very Good $5.00 View scans Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Volume 17, Issue 40 - October 5, 1940. 8.5" x 11.5", 66 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.05.

Add to cart PR 0.5 $2.50 Interior is complete. Full length spine split. Back cover missing.

May 13, 1940. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: Wendell Wilkie; men of Sweden; shawls; Seabiscuit; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 120 pages. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart FN- 5.5 $1,860.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white

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Vol. 2, No. 1 - May 1940. Title becomes Marvel Stories (1940-1941 Western Fiction) Pulp with Vol. 2 #2. 6.75" x 9.75", 114 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $3,585.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: Off white 1 piece of tape on spine. Significant front/back scuff(s). Label #1041586005 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Add to cart Coverless $249.95 or Best Offer View scan INCOMPLETE. Pieces of first two wraps missing (detached, split at spine, damaged), affects Sky Wizard and Scorpion stories. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover by Ed Kressy and Norman Fallon. Stories and art by Emile C. Schurmacher, Ed Kressy, Norman Fallon, Jack Burnley, Hal Sharp, John H. Compton and Jack Alderman. The first comic book from publisher Hillman, featuring Sky Wizard, Dash Dixon and other embryonic superheroes. Adventurer Bullet Bob boards Professor Krug's experimental super-sub and discovers the City of Atlantis concealed in an undersea mountain, where he helps the beautiful Princess Tellura free her people from the city's invisible tyrant. The Sky Wizard battles bank-robbing remote-controlled robots, in a plot similar to a classic Superman cartoon released later that same year. The master of disguise known as the Veiled Prophet investigates Axis powers working against American interests in the Middle East. Sky Wizard; K-7; Dash Dixon; Bullet Bob: The Mystery of Atlantis; Scorpion; Veiled Prophet; Death at Sunset; One Minute To Live; Bill Colt, the Ghost Rider. Final issue of the series. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $11.00 View scans Front cover detached 15%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Moderate.

Vintage celebrity gossip tabloid with a focus on Hollywood during the golden-age of cinema. 8.5" x 11.5", 108 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Fine $37.00 View scans Staple rust: Slight.

Issue #73. May 1940. New films in story form plus the usual movie magazine content. This issue with a "Dr. Cyclops" full page ad and article. Dorothy Lamour and Tyrone Power cover. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 90 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $6.00 View scans Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Extensive.

10 3 /4-in. x 13 1/2-in., 48 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 7, Issue 10 - May, 1940. Vintage photo magazine featuring Reader submitted photographs, and pictorials focusing on Sports, Celebrities, Controversies, and Fashions of the time. 2 pages of Donald Duck sulking over not appearing in Walt Disney's Pinocchio movie. 10-in. x 13 1/2-in., 48 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 136, Issue 5 - May 1940. Features include "Fighting Wars for the Movies," "How Censors Scan the Mail" and more. Illustrated with period photos. 6.5" x 9.5", 240 Pages, B&W and color. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart Very Good $26.00 View scans Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

May 1940. Photographs of various dancers, starlets, models and strippers. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 64 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart Good $45.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 20%.

Volume 33, Issue 6 - May 15, 1940. 6.5" x 9", 114 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $46.00 View scans Trimmed Paper: Cream to off white Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart Very Good $81.00 View scans Paper: Light tan to off white Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart Good $41.00 View scans Paper: Brittle Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

May 1940. Cover by Howard V. Brown. Stories by Stanley G. Weinbaum, Manly Wade Wellman, Oscar J. Friend, and Raymond Z. Gallun. "Thrills in Science" column by Mort Weisinger. Two-page Thomas Edison bio in comic form. Nine Virgil Finlay illustrations. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 128 pages. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart Poor $23.00 View scans Paper: Off white Front cover detached 90%. Back cover detached 90%. Front and Back Cover Detached.

May 1950. Volume 1, Issue 2. Cover by Gabriel Mayorga. "Let There Be Light" by Robert Heinlen (as Lyle Monroe), "Juice" by L. Sprague de Camp. Other science fiction stories by Manley Wade Wellman (as Gabriel Barclay), Raymond Z. Gallun, James Blish, Ray Cummings, P. Schuyler Miller, C. M. Kornbluth (as S. D. Gottesman), & Donald A. Wolheim. Interior Illustrations by Hannes Bok. Softcover Pulp, 7-in. x 9 1/2-in.; 128 Pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

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Cover art by Claire Moe. The Gas Mask Disaster starring White Streak, script and art by Carl Burgos. The Counterfeit Lottery Ring starring T-Men, art by Joe Simon. Bomb-Sight Boomerang starring Lucky Byrd, script and art by Harry Campbell. The Garment District Diamond Smugglers starring City Editor, art by Harold Potter. The Music Monster--Fantastic Feature Films, script and art by Tarpe Mills. The Beautiful Baby Contest starring the Hi-Grass Twins, script and art by Jack Cole. The Coming of Cameron starring Bull's-Eye Bill, script and art by Bill Everett. 68 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Theatre Arts 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. 8.5" x 11", 88 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $21.00 View scans Trimmed Paper: Tan to Cream Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Extensive.

Volume 16, Issue 2 - May, 1940. Cover by Howard V. Brown. Stories by Nelson S. Bond, Henry Kuttner and Arthur K. Barnes, Edmond Hamilton, Eando Binder, Don Tracy, Paul Chadwick, and Bill Brudy. Scientifacts column by Mort Weisinger. Alex Schomburg illustrations. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 130 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart CGC 3.0 $2,950.00 View scans Conserved Paper: Cream to off white Conservation includes: leaf casting to cover and 1st wrap, centerfold reinforced, cover cleaned. Label #4411396001

Cover by Lou Fine. Edited by Victor Fox. Stories and art by Pierce Rice, Arturo Cazeneuve, Louis Cazeneuve, Don Rico, Fred Schwab, Bert Whitman, Allan Spectre, Arnold Mazos, and Phllips Judge. An anthology of science fiction, horror and adventure comics from Fox. This is as pulpy as it gets. Grant and Glenda are shipwrecked in mine-heavy waters until he calls on the power of Thor; Undersea explorer Typhon and his crew are captured by the hideous mermen; Bird Man battles giant reptiles that threaten the peace of a primitive canyon tribe. Thor; Sorceress of Zoom; Solar Plexis; Blast Bennett; Dr. Mortal; Voodoo Man; The Speaking Rock; Bird Man; Typhon. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.