Comic books April 1937

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Volume 35, Issue 10 - April, 1937. 6.75" x 9.75", 66 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Cover by Joe Musial. Edited by Ruth Plumly Thompson. Stories and art by Robert L. Ripley, Feg Murray, Clarence D. Russell, H. H. Knerr, Ed Anthony, Doc Winner, Jack Sords, Russ Westover, A. D. Carter, Lyman Young, Nat Edson, Chic Young, Rutherford G. Montgomery, Jack King, Jack Welch, Joe Musial, Billy DeBeck, Romer Grey, Allen Dean, Paul Robinson, Gene Ahern, George Herriman, Don Moore and Alex Raymond. Pioneering comics publisher David McKay presents an anthology series featuring reprints of King Features Syndicate comic strips. Includes Alex Raymond's Jungle Jim and George Herriman's beloved Krazy Kat. The cover features Snuffy Smith and the Katzenjammer Kids interacting with lesser-known characters, like Elmer and Pete the Tramp. Tex Thorne; Ripley's Believe It Or Not; Jungle Jim; Seein' Stars; Pete the Tramp; Katzenjammer Kids; Pussycat Princess; Elmer; Sports in Pictures; Tillie the Toiler; Nicodemus O'Malley & His Whale, Palsy-Walsy; Dream Land; Just Kids; Tim Tyler's Luck; Blondie; Timberline Tales; The Stamp Spotlight; On Our Block; Curley Harper at Lakespur; Teddy and Sitting Bull; Barney Google; Etta Kett; Krazy Kat; Room and Board; Doc Winner's Daffy Doodles. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Vol. 65, No. 6. April 3, 1937. Includes: "Young Love in Paris" Part 1 by May Christie; "Forget Everything But Love" by Ann Gay; "Tall, Dark Man" by Beverly Crane; "Love Witch" by Emery St. John; "Auction Bride" by June Elder; "Sophisticated Lady" by Dorcas Davis; "Sparrow into Peacock" by Robert Meredith; "I'll Wear a Turban" by Eula Sealey Bull; and "The Town's Bad Boy" Part IV by Mrs. Harry Pugh Smith. 7" x 10". 144 pages. Cover price $0.15.

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Vol. 66, No. 1. April 10, 1937. Includes: "Heart Line vs. Head Line" by Lucile Welch; "Romance by Command" by Vina Lawrence; "Love Does Not Die" by Adrienne Escousse; "The Town's Bad Boy" Part IV by Mrs. Harry Pugh Smith; "Never, Never Pity Me" by Shirlie Norton; "Bride for a Minute" by Edythe Seims Fisher; "Cupid Is a Sailor" by Mary Frances Morgan; "Troubles Fixed" by Omerea Denison; and "Young Love in Paris" Part 2 by May Christie. 7" x 10". 144 pages. Cover price $0.15.

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Vol. 66, No. 2. April 17, 1937. Includes: "New Moon Through a Window" Part 1 by Maysie Greig; "Unknown Blonde" by Jean Francis Webb; "Husband Hunter" by Dorothy Kostka; "Be Yourself, Alice" by Marie Dunbar; "Don't Lean on Love" Florence Stonebraker; "Take Me Back" by Carolyn Shreves; and more. 7" x 9.75". 144 pages. Black and white. Text with occasional illustrations. Cover price $0.15.

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Vol. 66, No. 3. April 24, 1937. Includes: "Children of Disaster" by Nowell Carr; "Wendy Walks the Plank" by Pearle Botsford; "Lovers Can Be Liars" by Lynn Ellsworth; "Want to Buy an Airplane?" by Grace Stark; "Anything Can Happen" by Elsa Nichols; "Jilt Me, My Dear" by Faith Parker; and more. 7" x 9.75". 144 pages. Black and white. Text with occasional illustrations. Cover price $0.15.

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Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $76.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart GD 2.0 $16.00 View scans Full length spine split (glued). Front and back covers glued to interior along spine.

April 1937. Cover and illustrations by Leo Morey. Science fiction stories by Walter Rose, Neil R. Jones, Eando Binder, and "Shifting Seas" by Stanley G. Weinbaum. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 144 newsprint pages Cover price $0.25.

April 17, 1937. Cover by V. E. Pyles. Stories include "Graveyard of the Gods" by Donald Barr Chidsey, "The Limite" by Frank Richardson Pierce, "Locusts from Asia - part 1 of 2" by Joel Townsley Rogers, "Revolution - part 2 of 5" by Eustace L. Adams, "Spin Down, Spin in" by Richard Sale, "Doomed Liner - part 4 of 6" by Garnette Radcliffe, "Men of Daring" by Stookie Allen, "The Madness of Captain Jonas" by Albert Richard Wetjen, and "Carnival Queen - conclusion" by Richard Wormser. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 144 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 272, Issue 1 - April 3, 1937. 6.75" x 9.75", 144 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $33.00 View scans Trimmed Paper: Off white Water damage: Slight.	Add to cart Very Good $19.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Foxing. Soiling. Moisture spotting. book length crease	Add to cart Very Good $19.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.	Add to cart Very Good $24.00 View scans Paper: Cream Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.
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Volume 272, Issue 3 - April 17, 1937. 6.75" x 9.75", 146 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart FN+ 6.5 $105.00 View scans Paper: Off white Water damage: Slight.	Add to cart Fine $42.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Water damage: Slight.	Add to cart FN- 5.5 $41.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Staple rust: Slight.	Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $40.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight.
Add to cart Very Good $14.00 View scans Paper: Off white	Add to cart VG 4.0 $8.00 View scans 1 1/2" Cumulative spine split.	Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $6.00 View scan 3" Cumulative spine split.	Add to cart Fair $9.40 View scans Paper: Off white Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Moderate.

Volume 272, Issue 4 - April 24, 1937. 6.75" x 9.75", 144 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Fine $32.00 View scans Paper: Off white Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart Good $22.00 View scans Paper: Cream Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

Volume 19, Issue 2 - April 1937. Science Fiction and Adventure stories. This issue features "Water for Mars" by Ross Rocklynne. 160 pages, B&W Cover price $0.20.

April, 1937. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart Fine $43.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.	Add to cart Fine $43.00 View scans Paper: Off white	Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $35.00 View scans	Add to cart Very Good $22.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
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April 1937. Fiction by William L. Chester (Kioga in "One Against a Wilderness" part 2), Leland Jamieson, H. Bedford-Jones, Robert R. Mill, Arthur K. Akers, Capt. L.B. Williams, Raymond Camp, Walter Wilwerding, James Francis Dwyer, and Anthony Rud. Illustrations by Austin Briggs (5) and others. 6.5-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 144 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart Good $95.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white 4 1/2" Cumulative spine split. Foxing. Soiling. Water damage.

Volume 48, Issue 1 - April, 1937. 6.75" x 9.75", 132 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.20.

Volume 36, Issue 2 - April, 1937. Digest sized, male oriented magazine filled with cartoons and jokes usually based around the relationships of men and women of the time. 5" x 7", 128 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart Good $21.00 View scans Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Moderate.

Volume 4, Issue 4 - April, 1937. Cover sculpture by Bill Baird. Short fiction stories by Stanley Paul, Charles Norval and Jacob Yezbak, Illustrations by Earl Oliver Hurst, John Holmgren and Nicholas F. Riley. 8.5" x 11", 66 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Volume 102, Issue 4 - April 1937, 8.5" x 11.5", Color and B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Known as Farm & Fireside until February 1930, the title was changed to The Country Home to compete with Better Homes and Gardens, and was aimed at families living the farm life in America by offering articles on horticulture, harvest, beef production and anything else needed to run a successful farm. 8.5" x 11.5", B&W with some color illustrations. Cover price $0.05.