Motion Picture Magazine (1911-1978 MacFadden/Fawcett) comic books

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Vol. 17, No. 1. February 1919. Cover of Mary Miles Minter by Leo Sielke Jr. Regarded as the first film fan magazine. Includes: "The Fairbanks Scale of Americanism" with photos of Douglas Fairbanks from many rolls. Full-page color ad for Helmar Turkish Cigarettes. 8.75" x 12". 112 pages. Black and white. Cover price $0.20.

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Vol. 17, No. 3. April 1919. Cover of Anita Stewart by Leo Sielke Jr. Regarded as the first film fan magazine. Full-page color ads for Palmolive, Bonnie-B Hair Net, and Helmar Turkish Cigarettes. 8.5" x 11.5". 112 pages. Black and white. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart Very Good $35.00 View scans Staple rust. Rust migration. 20% Cumulative spine split with clear tape to ends. 2" of clear tape along fore-edge of front cover. Corner Damage. Creasing. Denting. Edge damage. Foxing. Residue. Scuffing. Soiling.

Vol. 30 #4 - November 1925. Movie magazine with gossip, news, reviews and features. May McAvoy cover. Articles on Chaplin, Our Gang, and much more. Movie portraits include Colleen Moore and a host of other silent screen stars. 8.5" x 11.5", 122 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Volume 30, Issue 6 - January, 1926. 8.5" x 11.5", 124 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart Very Good $24.00 View scans Staple rust. Rust migration. Damage to spine wrap, one inch top and base. Corner Damage. Foxing. Soiling. Tape repair back cover tear. Tear in last four pages.

Volume 35, Issue 3 - April, 1928. Movie magazine from the classic, or golden-age, of all things Hollywood. 8.5" x 11.5", 124 pages, B&W and tinted B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Volume 37, Issue 2 - March, 1929. Coverage of the film industry and Hollywood personalities. 8.5" x 11.5", 134 pages, B&W and tinted B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart Very Good $22.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Staple rust. Rust migration. 1" Cumulative spine split. Corner Damage. Creasing. Denting. Edge damage. Foxing.

Vol. 38 #3 - October 1929. Movie magazine with gossip, news, reviews and features. Cover by Marland Stone of Sue Carol. Movie portraits include Janet Gaynor and a host of other silent screen stars. Full-color image from cover of Sue Carol on heavy stock. 8.5" x 11.5", 124 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart Fair $89.00 View scans Front cover detached 30%. Back cover detached 25%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Moderate.

Vol. 38 #4 - May 1929. Movie magazine with gossip, news, reviews and features. Cover by Marland Stone of Phyllis Haver. This issue includes an article with several photos of Fay Wray in "The Lady of Shallot", prior to her appearing in "King Kong". 8.5" x 11.5", 124 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $44.50 View scans Back cover detached 5%. Staple rust: Slight.

Volume 41, Issue 1 - February, 1931. Magazine with coverage of Hollywood films and personalities. 8.5" x 11.5", 124 pages, B&W and tinted B&W with spot color. Cover price $0.25.

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Volume 41, Issue 4 - May, 1931. Magazine with coverage of Hollywood films and personalities. This issue with a two-page Walt Disney article. 8.5" x 11.5", 124 pages, B&W and tinted B&W with spot color. Cover price $0.25.

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Dec. 1932 - Vol. 44 #5. Cover by Marland Stone. Featuring a career retrospective of Jean Harlow, articles on Ronald Colman, Charles Laughton, Barbara Stanwyck, Dick Powell, Norma Talmadge and more. Plus reviews, movie portraits and departments. Full color ad by N.C. Wyeth on the back cover. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 90 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

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Vol. 45 #5 - June 1933. Cover by Marland Stone. Features include Marlene Dietrich, Mae West, Franchot Tone, Gloria Swanson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Maurice Chevalier and more. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 98 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

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Vol. 49 #3 - April 1935. Movie magazine with news, reviews, gossip, profiles and articles. Profiles of Greta Garbo, Claudette Colbert, Helen Hayes, Marlene Dietrich, Jean Harlow, child actors including Jane Withers and Shirley Temple, Carole Lombard fashion portfolio, Maureen O'Sullivan. Full-page movie ads include Wallace Beery in West Point of the Air, Marlene Dietrich in Carnival in Spain, Jack Ahoy starring Jack Hulbert. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/4-in., 82 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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Vol 50 #2 - Sept. 1935. Movie magazine featuring articles, personality profiles, photographs, gossip, reviews and news. Article on making Cecil B. De Mille's The Crusades. Feature profiles on Greta Garbo, Nelson Eddy, William Powell, Jean Harlow, Bette Davis, Irene Dunn, Shirley Temple, W.C. Fields, Joan Bennett, Leo McCarey, Cesar Romero. Full-page movie ads include Clark Gable and Jean Harlow in China Seas, Shirley Temple in Curly Top, Henry Fonda in The Farmer Takes a Wife. Full-page movie star portraits include Margaret Sullavan, Marion Davies, among others. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/4-in., 90 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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Vol. 56 #1 - Aug. 1938. Movie magazine with gossip, news, reviews, personality profiles, articles and more. Profiles on Freddie Bartholomew, Jean Arthur, Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Daryl Zanuck, Loretta Young, Merle Oberon, Bob Hope. Full-page movie ads include Robert Taylor in The Crowd Roars, James Cagney in Boy Meets Girl. Movie portraits include Norma Shearer, Ginger Rogers, among others. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/4-in., 74 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 57, Issue 3 - April, 1939. Movie magazine with gossip, news, reviews, personality profiles, articles and more. 8.5" x 11.25, 92 pages, B&W with spot color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 58, Issue 2 - September, 1939. 8.5" x 11", 92 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 58, Issue 6 - January, 1940. Priscilla Lane photo cover. This issue includes a complete story version of "Broadway Melody of 1940" starring Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell. Celebrity pictorials include stars such as; Ingrid Bergman, Deanna Durbin, Don Ameche, David Niven, Jane Bryan, Rita Hayworth, Doug Jr., and Robert Taylor. 8.5" x 11", 92 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 61, Issue 1 - February, 1941. Vivian Leigh and Clark Gable from "Gone With the Wind" on cover. Special Edition 30th Anniversary Issue celebrating the 1st anniversary of "Gone With the Wind". Other celebrity stories include; Constance Moore, Ginger Rogers, Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Charles Boyer, and Norma Shearer. Softcover Magazine, 8.5" x 11", 90 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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Dec. 1941. Douglas Fairbanks is appointed special emissary to South America. Features on Tyrone Power, Greta Garbo, Red Skelton and many more. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 92 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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Vol. 47 #2 - Mar. 1944. Movie magazine featuring gossip, news, articles and photographs. This issue features Victor Mature, Ginger Rogers, Claudette Colbert, Lum and Abner and more. 8 1/2-in. x 10 3/4-in., 124 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

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Vol. 69 #5 - June 1945. Movie magazine featuring gossip, news, articles and photographs. This issue features Lauren Bacall, Alfred Hitchcock, Joan Fontaine, Herbert Marshall, and more. Two-page full-color article for "A Thousand and One Nights" with Cornel Wilde and Evelyn Keyes. 8 1/2-in. x 10 3/4-in., 142 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $12.00 View scans Front cover detached 20%. Back cover detached 15%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Extensive.

Vol. 70 #3 - October 1945. Movie magazine featuring gossip, news, articles and photographs. 8 1/2-in. x 10 3/4-in., 142 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

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Volume 71, Issue 4 - May, 1946. 8.5" x 10.75", 140 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

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Vol. 75. No. 3. April 1948. Jeanne Crain cover. Articles on Humphrey Bogart, Dick Powell, and more. 8.5" x 11.25". 100 pages. Black and white with a few color pages. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 77, Issue 1, February 1949. Film magazine famous for being the 1st ever fan magazine. In this issue: "Shirley Temple's Baby" and "The Secret Behind the Robert Walker Headlines". 88 pages. 8.5 in. x 11 in. B&W Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 77, Issue 2, March, 1949. Film magazine famous for being the 1st ever fan magazine. In this issue: Elizabeth Taylor. 8.5" x 11", 84 pages, B&W and color Cover price $0.10.

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Test market variant cover with .15 cover price. Cover price $0.15.

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Vol. 79 #6 - July 1950. Movie magazine featuring news, gossip, reviews and feature articles. Feature articles about Ava Gardner, Jane Powell, Alan Ladd, Esther Williams, Tyrone Power, Janet Leigh, John Derek, David Niven, Dale Evans. Full-page movie ads include Caged with Eleanor Parker, Father of the Bride with Elizabeth Taylor and Spencer Tracy, The Men with Marlon Brando, My Friend Irma Goes West with Martin and Lewis. 8 1/4-in. x 11in., 72 pages, B&W and full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Incorrectly listed as Vol. 79 #7, should be Vol. 80 #1 - Aug. 1950. Movie magazine with news, reviews, gossip and articles illustrated with posed and candid photographs. Fascinating candid photograph of Robert Mitchum and Burt Lancaster in drag at a Friar's Frolic at the Shrine Auditorium. Articles about Bing Crosby, Shirley Temple, Burt Lancaster, William Holden, Betty Grable, Kirk Douglas, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Full-page movie ads include Duchess of Idaho starring Esther Williams, Bright Leaf starring Gary Cooper, Lauren Bacall, Patricia Neal, The Furies starring Barbara Stanwyck, The Admiral Was a Lady starting Edmund O'Brien. 8 1/4-in. x 11-in., 80 pages, B&W with some full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 80, Issue 6, January 1951.Film magazine famous for being the 1st ever fan magazine. "The Story of Clark Gable's Office Wife", "Men I Will Always Love" by Barbara Stanwyck. Features on Ricardo Montalban, Tony Curtis, Gloria Swanson, Lana Turner, Shelley Winters. 64 pages. 8.5 in. x 11 in. B&W Cover price $0.10.

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Vol. 81 #6 - July 1951. Movie magazine with reviews, news, gossip and articles. Feature articles about Elizabeth Taylor, June Allyson, Stewart Granger, Judy Garland, John Derek, Tony Curtis, Jerry Lewis, Full-page movie ads include Showboat starring Ava Gardner, Along the Great Divide starring Kirk Douglas, Ace in the Hole starring Kirk Douglas, The Prince Who Was a Thief starring Tony Curtis, His Kind of Woman starring Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell. Little Lulu Kleenex ad, Joan Crawford for Lux soap. 8 1/4-in. x 11-in., 80 pages, B&W with full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 82, Issue 4 - November 1951. Film magazine famous for being the 1st ever fan magazine. "Startling Expose: The Evils of Hollywood Gossip", "The Strange Case of Gardner-Sinatra", Janet Leigh, John Derek, Audie Murphy. 74 pages. 8.5 in. x 11 in. B&W Cover price $0.10.