Auctions: comic books 1937-1939, graded by CGC
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Item #61143262
Published Aug 1937 by David McKay Publishing.Ace Comics (1937) 5 CGC 2.5
Paper: Cream to off white
Label #4427457003
Starts Jul 22 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, 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. Comedy legends Laurel and Hardy are featured in celebrity strip Seein' Stars. 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; Just Kids; Tim Tyler's Luck; Blondie; Timberline Tales; The Stamp Spotlight; Curley Harper at Lakespur; Teddy and Sitting Bull; Barney Google; Etta Kett; Krazy Kat; Room and Board; Doc Winner's Daffy Doodles. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #61152637
Crackajack Funnies (1938-1942 Western) 3 CGC 4.0
Paper: Off white to white
Label #4427656025
Starts Jul 22 68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #61152402
Published Dec 1938 by Harry A. Chesler.Feature Funnies (1937) 15 CGC 2.0
Paper: Cream to off white
Label #4427656020
Starts Jul 22 Cover by Ed Cronin. Stories and art by Will Eisner, Rube Goldberg, Art Pinajian, 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, Al Zere, and Vernon Henkel. An early comics anthology published by Harry Chesler, featuring reprints of newspaper comic strips. Will Eisner's spy hero Black X learns that a pirate submarine is sinking American ships, in an attempt to goad the (then still neutral) US into joining WWII. Far from home, Gallant Knight Sir Neville defends a lonely castle from strange invaders. In the early Eisner strip Archie O'Toole, King Archie goes to America to seek a loan for his country, Pyromania. Plus the early strip Lala Palooza by Rube Goldberg. Joe Palooka; They're Still Talking; 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; Reynolds of the Mounted; Flossie; Toddy; Pirates Ahoy; Ned Brant; Big Top; Dixie Dugan; Bungle Family; Lena Pry; Clip Chance at Cliffside. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #61131023
Tags: Pulp AdventurePublished Aug 1938 by Postal Publications.Marvel Science Stories (1938-1939 Postal Publications) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 1 #1 CGC 3.0
Paper: White
Top edge trimmed. Bottom and right edge of cover trimmed.
Label #4419776007
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Starts Jul 6 Aug 1938. Cover by Norman Saunders. Science Fiction stories by Arthur J. Burks, Henry Kuttner "Avengers of Space", Robert O. Kenyon, James Hall, Stanton A. Coblentz, and Leon Byrne. Illustrations by Paul. 7" x 10"; black and white; 128 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.
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Item #61131030
Published Dec 1939 by Western Fiction Publishing Co..Marvel Tales (1939-1940 Western Fiction) Pulp Vol. 1 #6 CGC 3.0
Paper: Cream to off white
All 3 edges trimmed.
Label #4419776014
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Starts Jul 6 See Marvel Science Stories (1938-1939 Postal Publications) Pulp for earlier issues. Cover price $0.15.
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Item #60953156
Published 1939 by United Features Syndicate.Single Series (1938) 9 CGC 7.0
Paper: Cream to off white
Label #4363506001
Starts Jul 6 Cover by John Hix. Stories and art by John Hix. United's anthology series presented a different comic-strip character in every issue. This issue features the Ripley's Believe It or Not-like comic strip Strange as It Seems by John Hix. Freaks of nature, whimsical facts, historical oddities, persons of unusual habits, hero pets, wonders of the animal kingdom, strange foods, medical trivia, and pure plainspoken hokum. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.