Comic books September 1939

Cover art by Joe Musial. Jungle Jim strips, art by Alex Raymond. Seein' Stars strips, art by Feg Murray. Katzenjammer Kids strips, art by H.H. Knerr. Curley Harper at Lakespur strips, art by Lyman Young. Elmer strips, art by Doc Winner. Etta Kitt strips, art by Paul Robinson. Barney Google strips, art by Billy DeBeck. Tim Tyler's Luck strips, art by Lyman Young. Prince Valiant strips, art by Hal Foster. Blondie strips, art by Chic Young. Tillie the Toiler strips, art by Russ Westover. Krazy Kat strips, art by George Herriman. The Phantom strips, script by Lee Falk, art by Ray Moore. Teddy and Sitting Bull strips, art by Joe Musial. Room and Board strips, art by Gene Ahern. 68 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Fred Guardineer. Superman story, script by Jerry Siegel, art Joe Shuster. Pep Morgan story, script by Gardner F. Fox, art by Fred Guardineer (as Gene Baxter). Adventures of Marco Polo story, art by Sven Elven. Clip Carson story, script by Bill Finger, art by Bob Kane. Tex Thomson story, art by Bernard Baily. Chuck Dawson story, art by Homer Fleming. The Terror from Saturn starring Zatara Master Magician, script by Gardner F. Fox, art by Fred Guardineer. 68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

The Three Sandmen starring The Sandman, script by Larry Dean, art by Bert Christman; Wes joins up with two of his former service buddies to discover if Teeter Sneed has a hand in the killing of several of their old chums and threatening to do the same to several others. The Suicide of Major Duval: Part 5 starring Barry O'Neill, script and art by Ed Winiarski. Cal Grant's Payroll Robbery starring the Federal Men, script by Jerry Siegel, art by Wayne Boring. The Fiddler and the Bank Robbers: Part 2 starring Jack Woods, script and art by Jim Chambers. The Flying Dutchman: Part 3 starring Socko Strong, script and art by Joseph Sulman [signed as Koppy]. Professor Doolittle humor two-pager by Bob Kane. Revolt of the Thugs: Part 2 starring Captain Desmo, script and art by Ed Winiarski. Admiral Cato's Underwater Base--Anchors Aweigh!, script and art by Bart Tumey. Kidnapping in the Orient starring Skip Schuyler, script and art by Tom Hickey. The Menace of Chen Fu: Part 2 starring Rusty and His Pals, script and art by Bob Kane. In the Pit of Dagan starring Cotton Carver, script by Gardner F. Fox, art by Ogden Whitney. 68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Sheldon Mayer. The Diversion Dam's Gone Out! starring Red, White and Blue, art by William Smith; A sinister oriental and his gang blow up a dam to hurt America's prosperity. Mutt and Jeff strips by Al Smith (as Bud Fisher). Believe It or Not by Robert L. Ripley. Good Work Goes On starring Ben Webster, script by Jay Jerome Williams [as Edwin Alger], art by Calvin Fader. Mystery Men Of Mars [Part 6]--Adventures in the Unknown, script by Carl H. Claudy (signed), art by Stan Aschmeier; Back in the ship, the boys bring Elmer with them back to Earth, but the Professor is still on Mars. The American Way [Part 2], script by John B. Wentworth, art by Walter Galli. Gerry is Kidnapped starring Hop Harrigan, script and art by Jon L. Blummer. Boy Cartoonist starring Scribbly, script and art by Sheldon Mayer. 68 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Bill Everett. Amazing Mystery Funnies ad. "Origin of Amazing-Man," script and art by Bill Everett (as W. B. Everett); After being raised for 25 years by the Council of Seven in Tibet, Aman is tested and sent out into the world; Of the council members, Nika exhorts him to do good and gifts him with invisibility, while the Great Question plots to bend Aman to his will. Untitled The Cat Man story, art by Tarpe Mills; Barton Stone finishes his 20-year jail sentence and seeks revenge on his former partners who let his wife die in poverty while he took the rap for all of their crimes; A year later, each partner is visited by a strange old lady with a cat who scratches them. "River Subs," art by Larry Riley; Rhodes is sent to investigate suspicious submarine sightings. Untitled story, art by Carl Burgos; The Iron Skull thwarts a scientist's plans to use robots to carry out crime, and mechanized spiders to terrorize the town and extort cash from the local government. Untitled Stranger Than Fiction story, script and art by Walter Galli. "The Tragic Note" text story by Matty Point, art by Frank Thomas. "The Congo War Drum" Part 1, script and art by Paul Gustavson; "Sandy" Thorne of the Congo patrol and his servant Labu go in search of the source of the Congo war drums, knowing they mean trouble. Untitled story, art by John F. Kolb; The mad scientist Barmell, who had already shrunk two people so small that they can fit in his hand, seeks to use Minimidget to kill his brother in order to inherit his fortune; Thwarted by his brother's will, he sends Minimidget out again and again to kill everyone who inherited his brother's fortune in his stead. "The Land Beneath the Sea," script and art by Frank Thomas; Divers Chuck and Jerry are swept through a crack in the sea floor to an underground land populated by strange creatures. "Mystery of the Kidnapped Heir," art by Dick Hayes; Ranger Slim Bradley has to rescue a captured millionaire's son while a forest fire rages. "Origin of Mighty Man," script and art by Martin Filchock; Sunny brings the Professor to the giant valley he found with the Professor's map; They're pursued by bandits, but the giant man they find in the valley rescues them and agrees to come with them into the outside world. 68 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Vol 2 # 9. "The Fantom of the Fair" by Paul Gustavson; "Air-Sub DX" by Carl Burgos; "The Inner Circle"; "Don Dixon and the Hidden Empire, Part 2" by Bob Moore and Carl Pfeufer; "Speed Centaur" by Martin Kildale; "Daredevil Barry Finn" by Tarpe Mills; "Knuckle Down" by Martin Filchock; plus a two-page text story, "Rocketship Race" by Lloyd Victor. Gustavson cover. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Robert Fuqua. Science fiction stories by Alexander M. Phillips, Bertrand L. Shurtleff, Don Wilcox, Thornton Ayre, Robert Moore Williams, Richard O. Lewis. Illustrations by Robert Fuqua, Julian S. Krupa, W. T. Barnes. 7-in. x 10-in., 146 pages, black and white (text with illustrations). Cover price $0.20.

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September 23, 1939. Cover by Rudolph Belarski. Stories include "Lords of Creation" (part 1) by Eando Binder, "Little Rat, What Now?" by Donald Barr Chidsey, "Spurs for Sacatone" by Bennett Foster, "Ticket at Twenty" by Richard Howells Watkins, "Remember Tomorrow" (part 2) by Theodore Roscoe, "The Aztec Heart" by Brice Purcell, "The Long Journey" by Philip Ketchum, "You Can't Walk Home" by Clifford L. Alderman, "River Rogues" (conclusion) by Fred MacIsaac and C.F. Harkins, and "Men of Daring" by Stookie Allen. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 128 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.10.

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September 30, 1939. Satan cover by Rudolph Belarski. Stories: "The Devil's Diary" (Part 1 of 6) by William Du Bois, "The Blood Call" By Georges Surdez, "Big Gun from Texas" by Ralph R. Perry, "No Patriot There" by Richard Sale, "Women of Daring" by Stookie Allen, "Lords of Creation" (Part 2 of 6) by Eando Binder, "Savage Quest" by Walter C. Brown, "Remember Tomorrow" (Part 3 of 6) by Theodore Roscoe, and "Take 'em Away, McCoy" by Harry Bedwell. Softcover Pulp, 7-in x 10-in, 128 Pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

September 1939. Cover by Rogers. Stories: "Forces Must Balance" by Manly Wade Wellman, "The Last Hope" by Don Evans, "Atmospherics" by Victor Valding, "Masson's Secret" by Raymond Z. Gallun, "Ether Breather" by Theodore Sturgeon (his 1st published SF work), "The Other Side of Astronomy" by R.S. Richardson, and "General Swamp, C.I.C." (Conclusion) by Frederick Engelhardt. Illustrations by Isip, Koll, Mayan, Orban, Schneeman and Wesso. Trimmed pulp, 6 1/2-in. x 9 1/2-in, 162 Pages, B&W. Cover price $0.20.

Second Tony Quinn/Black Bat story (and first in-character cover appearance). "Murder Calls the Black Bat" by "G. Wayman Jones" (Norman Daniels); "Cab for a Corpse" by Donald Bayne Hobart; and "One-Man Police Force" by Bernard Breslauer. Pulp magazine format; black and white; 112 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.10.

September 23, 1939. The classic weekly magazine featuring news and fiction. Cover by Martha Sawyers. This issue includes fiction by Kathleen Norris, William MacHarg, Erich Maria Remarque, and more. 10.75" x 13.75", 70 pages, PC/B&W. Cover price $0.05.

Li'l Abner cover. Interior comic strips include Abbie an' Slats, The Captain and the Kids, Tarzan, Li'l Abner, Ella Cinders, Broncho Bill, Looy Dot Dope, Dynamite Dunn, Nancy, Billy Make Believe, Cynical Susie, Little Mary Mixup, Alice in Wonderland, Grin and Bear It, Danny Dingle, and The Boomers. Cover price $0.10.