Comic books April 1939

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68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Fred Guardineer. Slam Bradley story, script by Jerry Siegel, art by Shuster shop. Steve Malone story, script by Gardner Fox. Back From the Dead (Part 3) starring Bruce Nelson, art by Tom Hickey. Crimson Avenger story, art by Jim Chambers. Disguise text story by Gardner Fox (Paul Dean). Larry Steele story, script and art by Will Ely. Dr. Fu Manchu story, script by Sax Rohmer, art by Leo O'Mealia. Cleo and Clancy humor page by Bob Kane. Cosmo story, art by Sven Elven. Spy story, script by Jerry Siegel, art by Joe Shuster. The Basketball Mystery starring Speed Saunders, script by Gardner Fox, art by Fred Guardineer. One-line notice that Batman will debut next issue. 64 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

April 1939. Cover by Norman Saunders. Stories by Eando Binder ("Prison of Time"), L. Sprague de Camp ("Ananias"), Manly Wade Wellman ("Insight"), and more. 7" x 10", black and white with color cover. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $41.00 View scans 3 1/2" Spine split from bottom. Cover detached. Staple rust. Water damage.

Victor E. Pazmiño cover. Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "Goofie Gags" by Victor E. Pazmiño; "The Gay Thirties" by Hank Barrow; "Roy Powers, Eagle Scout" by Paul Powell; "Nipper" and "Footprints on the Sands of Time" by Clare Victor Dwiggins; "Skyroads" by Dick Calkins and Russell Keaton; "Hairbreadth Harry" and "High-Gear Homer" by F. O. Alexander; "Buck Rogers" by Philip Francis Nowlan and Rick Yager (as Dick Calkins); "Life's Like That" by Fred Neher; "War on Crime" by Rex Collier and Hammon; "Jitter" by Arthur B. Poinier; "Big Chief Wahoo" by Allen Saunders and Elmer Woggon; "Dickie Dare" by Milton Caniff; "Adventures of Patsy" by Mel Graff; "High Lights of History" by J. Carroll Mansfield; "The Frog Pond Ferry" by M. E. Brady; "Oaky Doaks" by Ralph Briggs Fuller; "Seaweed Sam" by Victor E. Pazmiño; "Olly of the Movies" by Julian Ollendorff; "Scorchy Smith" by Noel Sickles; "Somebody's Stenog" and "The Back-Seat Driver" by A. E. Hayward; "Above the Crowd" by Benjamin D. Allen (as Stookie Allen); "Mescal Ike" by S. L. Huntley and Art Huhta; "There's A Town" by M. E. Brady; "Babe Bunting" by Roy L. Williams; "Punky" by Fred Balk; "Connie" and "The Wet Blanket" by Frank Godwin; "Queenie" by S. M. Iger (as Bob Bliss); "Homer Hoopee" by Fred Locher; and "Butty and Fatty" by M. E. Brady. "The Magic River" text story by Robert M. Hyatt. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 68 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Lank Leonard. Stories and art by Will Eisner, Rube Goldberg, Art Pinajian, Frank Frollo, Ed Wheelan, Lank Leonard, Mo Leff (credited as Ham Fisher), John Hix, Russell E. Ross, J. H. Striebel, George Brenner, Bernard Baily, Bob Zuppke, R. W. Depew, Monte Barrett, J.P. McEvoy, Charles Driscoll, H.J. Tuthill, John J. Welch, George Marcoux, Ed Reed, Bill Sakren, and Vernon Henkel. An early comics anthology published by Harry Chesler, featuring reprints of newspaper comic strips. Will Eisner's spy hero Black X must prevent enemy agents from taking over the Panama Canal. Captain Cook of Scotland Yard is summoned back to London to join the hunt for the Candy Killer. In a charming early Eisner strip, King Archie O'Toole is bitten by a jitterbug and can't stop swing-dancing, until they find Count Hackula and dispatch him with a record-needle. Plus the early strip Lala Palooza by Rube Goldberg. Joe Palooka; They're Still Talking; Captain Cook of Scotland Yard; Jane Arden; Mickey Finn; Off the Record; Gallant Knight; Lala Palooza; Strange As It Seems; Espionage Starring Black X; The Clock Strikes; Slim and Tubby; Richard Manners; Reynolds of the Mounted; Mortimer Mum; Toddy; Pirates Ahoy; Ned Brant; Big Top; Dixie Dugan; Bungle Family; Lena Pry; Clip Chance at Cliffside; The Outcast. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 32 Issue #1 - April 1939. Fiction, model-making articles, schematics, cartoons and factual essays make up every issue of Flying Aces. Cover by Alex Schomburg. Interior art by Al McWilliams. "Trip-Six Trap" by Donald Keyhoe, "Slaked Limeys" by Joe Archibald, "The Clue of the Breda Brood" by Arch Whitehouse comprise the stories. Articles include "If the New Caesar Raids Carthage", a look at the Italians in Africa, "Attack Formations are Ticklish" by Frank Lambert, and a scoop on the Curtiss XP-40, which looked very different from its production model. Bedsheet format 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 80 pages, black and white. Cover price $0.15.

1st appearance and origin of John Carter Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 2, Issue 4 - April 1939. Pulp magazine focusing on historical adventures. This issue features "Swords and Mongols" by Murray Leinster, and "The Queen's Mercy" by Victor Rousseau. 6 /2-in. x 9 1/2-in., 128 pages, Text (with B&W illustrations) Cover price $0.20.

Volume 28, Issue 4 - April, 1939. Bette Davis and George Brent photo cover from the motion picture, "Dark Victory". Articles include; "Do Girls Grow Up Too Fast in Hollywood?" Featuring Olivia de Havilland by Kay Proctor, "In Defense of Laziness" Featuring Bing Crosby by Jane Oliver, "Getting Away From it All" Featuring Shirley Temple by Jessie Henderson, "Eline Wins a Round" Featuring Eline Barrie Barrymore, and many others. Softcover Magazine, 8.5" x 11", 66 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.05.

Published by Popular Magazines, Inc. between December 1931 and December 1943, Hooey was a satirical humour magazine that included fake articles, cartoons that depicted social issues of the time and spoof ads in a similar vein as it's successor, Mad Magazine. 8.5" x 11", 32 Pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

One of many vintage supermarket tabloid magazines full of high profile FBI and CIA cases of the era, accompanied by black and white photographs and testimonials from those involved in, and close to the events themselves. 8.5" x 10.5", 58 pages, B&W, recommended for 16+. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 1, Issue 4 - April, 1939. 6.5" x 9", 64 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Cover by Will Eisner. Edited by Malcolm Reiss, Jerry Iger and Will Eisner. Stories and art by Will Eisner, Jerry Iger, Donald DeConn, Les Marshall, Lou Fine, Ed Laughlin, Mort Meskin, Bernard Baily, Dick Briefer, and Bob Kane. An influential anthology starring jungle hero Sheena, featuring early art by legendary comics artists in the Eisner-Iger Shop. Peter Pupp and King Riff Raff battle a giant invisible robot; Spencer Steel tries to halt Lucky Lucifer's deadly vendetta against those who crossed him; Sheena and Bob must fight their way to a plane and civilization. Peter Pupp; Hawks of the Seas; Bobby; Puzzle Phun; The Count of Monte Cristo; Spencer Steel; The Diary of Dr. Hayward; Uncle Otto; News Facts; Jest Laffs; Pee Wee; Sheena, Queen of the Jungle; Modern Planes and Model Building; Gilda Gay; Ken Hammond; The Hunchback of Notre Dame; The Adventures of Tom Sherrill; ZX-5 Spies In Action; Heroes of Sport; Stars on Parade; Inspector Dayton; Wilton of the West. 10 1/2-in. x 14 1/2-in., 48 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.