Picture Show Annual HC (1926-1960 Amalgamated Press) UK Edition comic books 1940-1949

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Picture Show Annual for 1940. Cover of Madeline Carroll and Fred MacMurray. Articles include "Favourite Stars of Yesterday and Today" covering the silent era to 1939, "Characters You Can't Forget," "Favourite Films Screen Again" delving into remakes of earlier classics, "You Always Found 'Em Fighting" about James Cagney, John Wayne, Buster Crabbe and many more, "Series and Sequels," "Personalities in British Pictures," "Is There an Awkward Age," "They Sang Their Way to Fame" and much more. Full-page movie star portraits include Barbara Stanwyck, Ronald Colman, Joan Crawford, Charles Boyer, Laurence Olivier, Rosalind Russell, William Boyd, Jean Arthur, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Alice Faye, Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Errol Flynn, Vivian Leigh and many more. Profusely illustrated with tinted photographs. Excellent layout and design. Hardcover, 8-in. x 10 1/2-in., 160 pages, B&W.

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Picture Show Annual for 1941. Cover of Bette Davis and Errol Flynn. Articles include "Popular Pictures Filmed Again," "The Class Screened" is about filming classic books, "The New Westerns," "The March of Walt Disney's Pen-Puppets" with stills from Pinocchio, "British Comedy Teams," "Newcomers of Note," "Edward G. Robinson - Art Connoisseur," "Dreams, Romances and Realities Collected in British Studios," "Are They Better When They're Bad," "The Grimmer Side of Life," "Gone with the Wind," "Men Who Have Made History" profiles historical movies, "It Runs in the Family," "The First Six Months" about films related to World War II, "Comic Strip Characters" on screen and much more. Full-page movie star portraits include Rex Harrison, Paulette Goddard, Tyrone Power, Greta Garbo, Ray Milland, Ann Sothern, Melvyn Douglas, David Niven, Lana Turner, Robert Preston, Ginger Rogers, Bette Davis and many more. Profusely illustrated with tinted photographs. Excellent layout and design. Hardcover, 8-in. x 10 1/2-in., 160 pages, B&W.

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Picture Show Annual for 1942. Articles include "The Film Plays Its Part," "The Romance of the Pioneers," "There'll Always be a Western," "Stars in Exile," "This Amazing Century," "There's Magic in Music" about Fantasia and other musicals, "Young Players of Promise," survey of movies from different parts of the British Empire like Australia, South Africa, India, "Men With Wings" and many more. Full-page movie star portraits include Bette Davis, Conrad Veidt, Merle Oberon, Robert Taylor, Douglas Fairbanks, Carole Lombard, Henry Fonda, Katharine Hepburn, William Powell, Judy Garland, Greer Garson, Mickey Rooney, Spencer Tracy, Dorothy Lamour, Cary Grant, Margaret Sullavan, Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, John Wayne and many more. Profusely illustrated with tinted photographs. Excellent layout and design. Hardcover, 8-in. x 10 1/2-in., 160 pages, B&W.

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Picture Show Annual for 1947. Cover of Stewart Granger and Jean Kent. Articles include "Flashbacks," "The Little More" is a survey of actors, "New Trails on the Old Wild West," "The Charm of Youth," "Family Fame," "It's No Help, It's a Handicap," "Dancing Time," "Glamour Girls Make Lovely Mothers," "Notable Newcomers" and many more. Full-page movie star portraits include Cornel Wilde, Dorothy Lamour, Ginger Rogers, Joseph Cotten, Lana Turner, John Mills, Ingrid Bergman, Ida Lupino, Susan Hayward, Fred MacMurray, Errol Flynn, Veronica Lake, James Mason, Alan Ladd, Frank Sinatra, Hedy Lamarr, Paulette Goddard and many more. Profusely illustrated with photographs. Excellent layout and design. Hardcover, 8-in. x 10-in., 160 pages, B&W.

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Picture Show Annual for 1948. Cover of Linda Darnell. Articles include "21 Years of Talkies," "Stories That Never Die," "Walt Disney Still Experiments," survey of the Academy Awards from 1928 to 1946, "They Grow Lovelier," "Still Going Strong," "The Spirit of Dickens on the Screen," "With Songs in Their Hearts," "Little People With Great Gifts," "Inside British Studios" and many more. Full-page movie star portraits include Ingrid Bergman, David Niven, Maureen O'Hara, Danny Kaye, Bob Hope, June Allyson, Gene Kelly, George Sanders, Roy Rogers, James Stewart, Bing Crosby, Clark Gable, Rita Hayworth and many more. Profusely illustrated with photographs. Excellent layout and design. Hardcover, 8-in. x 10-in., 160 pages, B&W.