Reader's Digest (1922 Reader's Digest) comic books

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Reader's Digest Vol. 34 Issue # 203 (1939) is published by The Reader's Digest Association. Articles from Harper's, Scribner's, the N.Y. Times Magazine, Atlantic, Collier's, the New Yorker Scientific American, and more. Topics include John Wilkes Booth, headaches, Hitler's air power, Emperor Hirohito of Japan, and more. 136 pages, all text (no illustrations), 5.5-in x 7.5.

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Reader's Digest Vol. 34 Issue # 206 (1939) is published by The Reader's Digest Association. Articles from Harper's, the N.Y. Times Magazine, the New Yorker, Fortune, Collier's, the Washington Post, and more. Topics include breast feeding, columnists debate war and peace, the Rockefeller Foundation, William Douglas on the Supreme Court, Pope Pius XII, ASCAP, and more. All text (no illustrations), 5.5-in x 7.5.

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Reader's Digest Vol. 38 Issue # 227 (1941) is published by The Reader's Digest Association. Articles from Harper's, New Yorker, the New Republic, and more. Topics include fire-bombing London, syphilis in Chicago, prayer, doing business with the Nazis, flu vaccine, aging, the air force, and more. 168 pages, mostly text (with a few spot illustrations), 5.5-in x 7.5.

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Reader's Digest Vol. 38 Issue # 228 (1941) is published by The Reader's Digest Association. Articles from Harper's, New Yorker, the New Republic, Forbes, Life, Popular Science, the Christian Science Monitor, and more. Topics include Hitler invading America, genius, chlorophyll, student movies, car inspections, and more. 152 pages, mostly text (with a few spot illustrations), 5.5-in x 7.5.

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Reader's Digest Vol. 39 Issue # 232 (1941) is published by The Reader's Digest Association. Articles from Harper's, the Nation, Atlantic, Forbes, Harper's Bazaar, Good Housekeeping, and more. Topics include radio repairmen scams, abortion, high blood pressure, Hitler's plans for a German Europe, labor movement in Germany, fluorescent light, International Lenin University, Batista, Reno, and more. 184 pages, mostly text (with a few spot illustrations), 5.5-in x 7.5.

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Reader's Digest Vol. 39 Issue # 234 (1941) is published by The Reader's Digest Association. Articles from Harper's, Time, Look, Life, the New Yorker, Forbes, Redbook, and more. Topics include New Yorker cartoons, divorce in Florida, the Panama Canal problem, F.D.R.'s unofficial cabinet, A philosophy for these times (by Bertrand Russell), and more. 168 pages, mostly text (with a few spot illustrations), 5.5-in x 7.5.

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Reader's Digest Vol. 40 Issue # 238 (1942) is published by The Reader's Digest Association. Articles from Harper's, Time, Life, the New Yorker, Forbes, Vogue, Atlantic, the Christian Science Monitor, Cosmopolitan, the New Republic, and more. 176 pages, mostly text (with a few spot illustrations), 5.5-in x 7.5. Cover price $0.25.

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Reader's Digest Vol. 43 Issue # 258 (1943) is published by The Reader's Digest Association. Fiction by Gene Fowler. Articles from Harper's, Time, Life, the New Yorker, Forbes, Vogue, Atlantic, the Christian Science Monitor, Cosmopolitan, the New Republic, and more. 126 pages, mostly text (with a few spot illustrations), 5.5-in x 7.5. Cover price $0.25.

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Vol. 50, No. 302. June 1947. 5.5" x 7.5". 176 pages. Black and white.

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Vol. 51, No. 307. November 1947. 5.5" x 7.5". 160 pages. Black and white.

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Vol. 51, No. 308. December 1947. 5.5" x 7.5". 160 pages. Black and white.

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Volume 62, Issue 374 - June 1953. Squarebound, 5.5" x 7.5", 168 pages, B&W.

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Volume 63, Issue 377 - September 1953. Squarebound, 5.5" x 7.5", 168 pages, B&W.

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Volume 63, Issue 380 - December 1953. Squarebound, 5.5" x 7.5", 180 pages, B&W.

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Reader's Digest Vol. 64 Issue # 385 (1954) is published by The Reader's Digest Association. This issue includes an excerpt from Fredric Wertham's famous (or infamous) book "Seduction of the Innocent" (which was a Reader's Digest Book-of-the-Month Club alternate selection). The article here, "Comic Books--Blueprints for Delinquency," runs six pages (including a Newsweek sidebar on the growing problem of juvenile delinquency). Also in this issue: "Newest Thunderer of Revival" (about exciting new preacher Billy Graham), "The Real Story of Lucille Ball," and "How to Entertain a Guest," a one-page text ad for Reader's Digest written by Groucho Marx! 184 pages, color cover with text stories and color illustrations, 5.50-in x 7.25.

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This issue with the comic related article, "For the Kiddies to Read" by T. E. Murphy. 5.5" x 7.5", 184 pages, B&W

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This issue with the comic related article, "The Face of Violence" by T. E. Murphy. 5.5" x 7.5", 172 pages, B&W

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Volume 66, Issue 394 - February 1955. Published by The Reader's Digest Association. Squarebound, 5.5" x 7.5", 168 pages, color cover with text stories and color illustrations, 5.50-in x 7.25.

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This issue with the comic related article, "Progress in Cleaning Up the Comics" by T. E. Murphy. 5.5" x 7.5", 212 pages, B&W

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Volume 70, Issue 422 - June 1957. Squarebound, 5.5" x 7.5", 252 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.50.

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Volume 72, Issue 433 - May 1958. Squarebound, 5.5" x 7.5", 252 pages, B&W.

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Volume 124, Issue 742 - February 1984. Cover price $1.50.

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Volume 135, Issue 808 - August 1989. Squarebound, 5.5" x 7", 224 pages, B&W. Cover price $1.89.

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Volume 151, Issue 907 - November 1997. Squarebound, 5.5" x 7", 228 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.25.

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August 1948 issue featuring an article titled "The Comics... Very Funny" by Fredric Wertham. "Do you think that books which stress murder, mayhem and blood-and-thunder are good fare for youngsters?" Article includes an inset that mentions three U.S. cities acting to ban the sale of comic books deemed harmful to youth. Cover price $0.25.