Adventure comic books issue 38

Promotional comic featuring stories, nautical facts, games and puzzles. Standard size comic, full color, 16-pages, all newsprint, no cover price.

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Volume 38 - 1st printing. Living Pharaoh Saga: Part 3 of 4 - "City of Dreadful Night!" Written by Emile C. Tepperman (as Grant Stockbridge). Art by John Fleming Gould. Painted cover by John Newton Howitt. Looting, murdering bands of desperadoes roamed the streets of New York like wanton jackals who destroyed what they could not devour. An underworld juggernaut had been unleashed upon Manhattan, turning it into a place of desolation and terror. The Thuggees of the East, those masters of murder, the cruel minions of Tang-akhmut, held the city in a state of siege. One man could save New York - Richard Wentworth, the avenging SPIDER, and Richard Wentworth, hunted by the police, hated by the underworld he fought, had been ordered to shoot on sight! Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 96 pages, Text (with B&W Chapter Illustrations). Cover price $10.00.

Mark Jewelers Advertisement Insert Variant. First 30-cent cover price. Cover pencils by Keith Pollard (signed) and Marie Severin (alterations), inks by Keith Pollard and Marie Severin (alterations). "Death's Dark Dreamer!", script by Keith Giffen (Co-Plot) and Bill Mantlo (Co-Plot, Script), pencils by Keith Giffen, inks by Al Milgrom; While traveling through the city of Miami on his own, Killraven is drawn into a giant dome which turns out to be the old Miami Museum of Cultural Development; He is lured there by an astronaut who, after a space mission to Mars in the year 1999, found himself bombarded with strange radiation and being put into a coma-like state; Stored in the museum, the dreaming astronaut sought to bring people to the museum in order to rouse him from his long slumber; In order to do so, he uses the building's holographic and virtual reality devices to create constructs from Earth's heroic age, and many of its now deceased heroes, and forcing Killraven to battle them; Killraven is able to battle off and defeat the collection of heroes which have been perverted into almost demonic-looking beings. Brief appearances by Iron Man, Man-Thing, Doctor Strange, the Fantastic Four, the Avengers, and Daredevil. 36 pgs, full color. $0.25. Cover price $0.30.

By Various. Storming action and adventure from the grim far future and the dark world of Warhammer! Action on the high seas in "Fell Cargo"! More Doom Eagle as the Space Marines blast enemies! A frozen tale of death in "The Sleep of the Dead"! Plus more "Tales from the Ten-Tailed Cat" and "Forever Loyal"! 68 pages, B&W. Cover price $6.95.

This is Magazine is a companion series to Doctor Who (1979-Present Marvel UK) Magazine. Each issue may feature posters, fact-files, previews, reviews, behind the scenes features, questions and answers, interviews, quizzes, puzzles, activities, fan letters, pictures and artwork.

Some issues also include comic strip adventures!

Slick full color cover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 34 pages, full color. All Ages

Story by Del Connell. Art by Al Hubbard. Peter Wheat is the inch-high hero of the Wheat Field, where he lives with his insect friends. The team of writer Del Connell and artist Al Hubbard continued the strip begun by Walt Kelly. The water supply of the Wheat kingdom is low, so Peter and Beetle investigate why the North Wind failed to give the mountains snow. They discover that the North Wind has been captured by a strange race of mushroom people. They must battle the mushroom people to steal back the key to the North Wind's cave. 16 pages, Full Color.

UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 10p cover price. Cover pencils by Keith Pollard (signed) and Marie Severin (alterations), inks by Keith Pollard and Marie Severin (alterations). "Death's Dark Dreamer!", script by Keith Giffen (Co-Plot) and Bill Mantlo (Co-Plot, Script), pencils by Keith Giffen, inks by Al Milgrom; While traveling through the city of Miami on his own, Killraven is drawn into a giant dome which turns out to be the old Miami Museum of Cultural Development; He is lured there by an astronaut who, after a space mission to Mars in the year 1999, found himself bombarded with strange radiation and being put into a coma-like state; Stored in the museum, the dreaming astronaut sought to bring people to the museum in order to rouse him from his long slumber; In order to do so, he uses the building's holographic and virtual reality devices to create constructs from Earth's heroic age, and many of its now deceased heroes, and forcing Killraven to battle them; Killraven is able to battle off and defeat the collection of heroes which have been perverted into almost demonic-looking beings. Brief appearances by Iron Man, Man-Thing, Doctor Strange, the Fantastic Four, the Avengers, and Daredevil. 36 pgs, full color.

Volume 38 - 1st printing. "Doc Doxey's Elixir!"

Written by Rene Goscinny. Art by Morris.

In the Old West, fake doctors may have to answer to the Lonesome Cowboy. In this early adventure of the famous cowboy, Lucky Luke is dealing with one of the plagues of the Old West: quacks. "Doctor" Doxey is a con man, a charlatan who brews up useless elixirs and sells them as miracle cures for every ailment known to man. But he doesn't stop at that and occasionally causes illnesses himself, the better to cure them, a behavior that does not sit well with Luke.

Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 48 pages, full color.

Cover price $11.95.

DC b&w reprints.

Mark Jeweler Advertisement Insert Variant. Cover price $0.60.

Red Falcon Adventures (1937 Sealright BLB) #038, Sealright Ice Cream, set of 50 books, circular in shape

#38 "Tom Mix Saves Betty Brown from the Indians." Text with illustrations. 2-3/8 in. x 2-3/4 in.; black and white; 8 pages. Promotional Tom Mix comic booklet distributed as a premium in 1934 by the National Chicle Company. These booklets were issued in a wrapper with a piece of gum and are rare in any condition.