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Auctions: comic books 1939

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    Air Adventures (1939-1945 Ziff-Davis Publishing) Pulp Vol. 1 #1 VG/FN 5.0

    Starts Jul 6

    Volume 1, Issue 1 - December, 1939. Pulp magazine with a focus on aerial war combat fiction stories. 6.5" x 9", 178 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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    Amazing Stories (1926-Present Experimenter) Pulp Vol. 13 #1 VG 4.0

    3" cumulative spine split.

    Starts Jul 6

    January, 1939. Cover by Robert Fuqua. 1st app. Adam Link. Stories by Eando Binder ("I Robot"), John Russell Fearn, Ed Earl Repp, Stanley A. Coblentz, Manly Wade Wellman, and R.R. Winterbotham. Illustrations by Julian S. Krupa and Robert Fuqua. 7" x 10"; black and white with color cover; 150 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.20.

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    Amazing Stories (1926-Present Experimenter) Pulp Vol. 13 #10 VG/FN 5.0

    Starts Jul 6

    October 1939. Cover by Robert Fuqua. Stories by Robert Moore Williams, Eando Binder, Lee Laurence, Frederic Arnold Kummer Jr., Nelson S. Bond, and John Beynon. Illustrations by Stanley Kay, Julian S. Krupa, Alec Gorey, Hugo Wolfe, and W.T. Barnes. 7" x 10"; black and white with color cover; 144 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.20.

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    Amazing Stories (1926-Present Experimenter) Pulp Vol. 13 #11 VG 4.0 (R)

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    TRIMMED.

    Starts Jul 6

    November 1939. Cover by H. W. McCauley. Science fiction stories by William F. Temple, Ralph Milne Farley, Miles Shelton, Don Wilcox, Frederic Arnold Kummer, Jr., and Robert Moore Williams. Illustrations by Julian S. Krupa and H. R. Hammond. Back cover by Howard M. Duffin. 7" x 10"; black and white; 146 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.20.

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    Astounding Science Fiction (1938-1960 Street and Smith) Pulp / Digest Vol. 23 #6 VG/FN 5.0

    Starts Jul 6

    August, 1939. Volume 23, Issue 6. Cover by Virgil Finlay. Trimmed pulp, 6.5-in. x 9.5-in.; black and white; 160 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.20.

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    Cosmopolitan (1886 Hearst) Vol. 106 #2 PR 0.5

    Interior is complete. Full length spine split. Missing back cover.

    Starts May 6

    Volume 106, Issue 2 - February 1939, 8.5" x 11.5", 172 pages, B&W with spot color. Cover price $0.25.

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    Dynamic Science Stories (1939 Western Fiction Publishing) Pulp Vol. 1 #1 VG 4.0

    Starts Jul 6

    Volume 1, Issue 1 - February 1939. Cover by Frank R. Paul. Stories by Stanton Coblentz ("Lord of Tranerica"), Lloyd Eshback ("Mutineers of Space"), and more. 7" x 10", black and white with color cover. Cover price $0.15.

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    Marvel Science Stories (1938-1939 Postal Publications) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 1 #5 VG 4.0

    Starts Jul 6

    Aug 1939. Cover by John W. Scott. Science Fiction stories by Frederic Arnold Kummer, Jr, R. DeWitt Miller, Lloyd Arthur Esbach. 7" x 10"; black and white; 128 newsprint pages. NOTE: Title becomes Marvel Tales (1939-1940 Western Fiction) Pulp with Vol. 1 #6 Cover price $0.15.

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    Phantom Detective (1933-1953 Standard Magazines) Pulp Vol. 29 #1 FN 6.0

    Starts Jul 6
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    Science Fiction (1939-1941 Blue Ribbon/Columbia) Pulp Vol. 1 #1 VG/FN 5.0

    Minor edge chipping.

    Starts Jul 6

    Volume 1, Issue 1 - March, 1939. Science Fiction and adventure stories pulp magazine. This issue features "Under the White Star" by Edmond Hamilton. 7-in. x 10-in., 132 pages, Text) Cover price $0.15.

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    Strange Stories (1939-1941 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 1 #1 GD 2.0

    Starts Jul 6

    Volume 1, Issue 1 - February, 1939. 6.75" x 9.75", 130 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

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    Strange Stories (1939-1941 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 2 #1 GD 2.0 (R)

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    RESTORATION. Color touch and TRIMMED. 4.5" Cumulative spine split (partially taped).

    Starts Jul 6
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    Street and Smith's Unknown (1939-1941 Street & Smith) Pulp Vol. 2 #4 VG/FN 5.0

    Starts Jul 6
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    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 34 #6 GD/VG 3.0

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    Starts Jul 6

    Volume 34, Issue 6 - December 1938. Edited by Edwin Baird. Horror and Fantasy stories in the pulp style. 6.75-in. x 10-in.; 128 newsprint pages, text (with B&W illustrations). Cover price $0.15.