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Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series comic books 1943

  • Vol. 36 #9
    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 36 #9


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    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • 4" Cumulative spine split.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Paper: Off white
    • Back cover detached 80%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Trimmed
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 30%. No Back Cover. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Extensive.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    Volume 36, Issue 9 - January 1943. Edited by Dorothy McIlwraith. 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.

  • Vol. 36 #10
    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 36 #10


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    • Cover oxidation.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • 2" Cumulative spine split (partially taped).
    • 9" Cumulative spine split (partially taped on interior cover).
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front and Back Cover Detached. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

    Volume 36, Issue 10 - March 1943. Edited by Dorothy McIlwraith. 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.

  • Vol. 36 #11
    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 36 #11


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    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Water damage: Moderate.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 15%. Back cover detached 15%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

    May 1943. Cover by Margaret Brundage. "A Wig for Miss Devore" by August Derleth and "The Crowd" by Ray Bradbury, plus other horror and supernatural tales by P. Schuyler Miller, Frank Owen, Mindret Lord, Sylvia Leon Mahler, Harold Lawlor, Helen W. Kasson, Seabury Quinn, Maria Moravasky, and Stanton E. Coblentz. Illustrations by Hannes Bok, Margaret Brundage, Matt Fox, A. R. Tilburne, Boris Dolgov, Richard Bennett, Frank Utpatel, Tye Bloun, Fred Humiston, Irwin J. Weill, Andrew Brosnatch. 6 3/4-in. x 10-in., 112 newsprint pages, black and white (text with illustrations). Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 36 #12
    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 36 #12


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    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 50%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 15%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    July 1943. Cover by E. Franklin Wittmack. "The Scythe" by Ray Bradbury and "Yours Truly -- Jack the Ripper" by Robert Bloch, plus other horror and supernatural tales by H. Bedford-Jones, Allison V. Harding, Otis Adelbert Kline & Frank Belknap Long, Frank Owen, Alice-Mary Schnirring, James Causey, and Harold Lawlor. Illustrations by Hannes Bok, Boris Dolgov, Pete Kuhlhoff, A. R. Tilburne, Frank Utpatel, Fred Humiston, Irwin J. Weill, John Giunta, Andrew Brosnatch. 6 3/4-in. x 10-in., 112 newsprint pages, black and white (text with illustrations). Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 37 #1
    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 37 #1


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    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 25%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

    September 1943. Cover by A. R. Tillburne. Stories by H. P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch and Frederic Brown. Illustrations by Margaret Brundage and John Giunta. 6 3/4" x 10"; black and white; 128 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 37 #2
    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 37 #2


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    • 1.75" Cumulative spine split.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 30%. Back cover detached 60%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.
    • 4" Spine split from bottom.
    • 3" Cumulative spine split. Page color is tan.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 30%. Back cover detached 80%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.

    November 1943. Cover by A. R. Tilburne. "The Ducker" by Ray Bradbury, "A Thin Gentleman with Gloves" by August Derleth, and "Herbert West: Reanimator" by H. P. Lovecraft, plus other horror and supernatural tales by Edmond Hamilton, Allison V. Harding, Helen W. Kasson, Manly Wade Wellman, Greye La Spina, and James Causey & Bill Blackbeard. Illustrations by Hannes Bok, A. R. Tilburne, Boris Dolgov, John Giunta, Matt Fox, Fred Humiston, Irwin J. Weill. 6 3/4-in. x 10-in., 112 newsprint pages, black and white (text with illustrations). Cover price $0.15.