Comic books July 1938

Add to cart Good $12.00 View scans Staple rust. Rust migration. 1/4" Spine split from base of comic. Corner Damage. Creasing. Denting. Edge damage with two sets of staple holes along fore-edge. Foxing. Soiling.

Volume 37, Issue 2 - July 1938. Publication devoted to unusual and courageous stories, heavily in the vein of fiction, with some articles about celebrities of the time. Illustrated with tasteful pin-up photos. 7" x 10", 64 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Volume 1, Issue 3 - July, 1938. 6.75" x 9.75", 114 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Joe Musial. Edited by Ruth Plumly Thompson. Stories and art by Robert L. Ripley, Feg Murray, Clarence D. Russell, H. H. Knerr, Doc Winner, Jack Sords, Russ Westover, A. D. Carter, Lyman Young, Chic Young, Rutherford G. Montgomery, Jack King, Joe Musial, Billy DeBeck, Lee Falk, Ray Moore, 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. The Phantom battles the all-female air pirates known as the Sky Band; the famous weird-facts strip Ripley's Believe It Or Not. The Phantom; Ripley's Believe It Or Not; Jungle Jim; Seein' Stars; Pete the Tramp; Katzenjammer Kids; 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.

Cover art by Leo E. O'Mealia. Thrills! cartoon by Terry Gilkison. "Revolution in San Monte," script by Jerry Siegel, art by Joe Shuster; Clark Kent and Lois Lane are sent by editor Taylor to San Monte in South America to cover a war that is brewing; Besides saving Lois from being executed as a spy, Superman proves the war is being fomented by munitions manufacturers led by Emil Norvell. Superman ad. "The Shipwreck," art by Will Ely; A storm crashes a yacht onto a rocky reef and Scoop Scanlon helps the coast guard rescue the passengers. "Glass Arm" starring "Pep" Morgan, script by Gardner Fox, art by Fred Guardineer (as Gene Baxter). "Elmer the Eel," script and art by Russell Cole (as Alger). Untitled The Adventures of Marco Polo story, art by Sven Elven; In a narrow mountain pass, Marco sends an avalanche onto the bandits threatening the Polo caravan; The few survivors are taken as hostage for save passage through this dangerous land. "South Sea Strategy" Part 2 text story by Captain Frank Thomas. "The Sealed City" Part 1, art by Bernard Baily; The One-Eyed Gorrah rules a legendary city that had been buried by a volcano; However, he had overthrown the "real" Gorrah and Tex Thompson and Bob Daley team up with the "real" Gorrah to retake his throne. "Vindication," art by Leo O'Mealia; Disgraced police inspector Bob Donald disappears and his son Bobby is determined to find him. Untitled story, art by Homer Fleming; Having escaped from jail, Chuck continues his quest to bring down the A-G gang who stole his father's property. "The Haunted Farm," script by Gardner Fox, art by Fred Guardineer; Zatara investigates a murder on a reportedly haunted farm. "Play Ball" one-page story, art by Sheldon Moldoff. 68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $14.00 View scans Staple rust: Extensive.

Adventures of Eva, Pora and Ted, 1938 variant edition. A premium for the Evaporated Milk Association. 12 pages, black and white, unique 14.5" x 5" size, no cover price. Cover may be blue, green or white paper stock. NOTE: This promotional item came folded so a center fold is not deemed a defect that reduces grade. The cover was designed with that in mind; this can be seen by the way the cartoons lie, and by observing the back cover ads which are divided perfectly by the fold.

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $10.00 View scans Paper: Off white

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $10.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Water damage: Slight.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $9.00 View scans Paper: Cream Water damage: Moderate.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $8.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.

Volume 282, Issue 6 - July 2, 1938. 6.75" x 9.75", 132 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $7.00 View scans Paper: Off white

Add to cart Very Good $7.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white

Volume 283, Issue 1 - July 9, 1938. 6.75" x 9.75", 132 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $7.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Foxing. Soiling. Water damage.

Add to cart Very Good $7.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $3.00 View scans Paper: Off white Front cover detached 15%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

Volume 283, Issue 4 - July 30, 1938. 6.75" x 9.75", 132 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

July 1938. Volume 21, Issue 5. Cover by Howard V. Brown. Science fiction stories by L. Ron Hubbard ("The Dangerous Dimension" - 1st published 'Science Fiction' story by Hubbard), Clifford D. Simak, Ross Rocklynne, Ray Cummings, Clifton B. Kruse, Kent Casey, and Raymond Z. Gallun. Illustrations by Howard V. Brown, Elliot Dold Jr, Charles Schneeman, C. R. Thomson, and H. Wesso. Trimmed pulp, 6.5-in. x 9.5-in.; black and white; 160 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.20.

Volume 1, Issue 1 - July 1938. Late 1930's editorial magazine focused on Governmental and Business relations with Latin America. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 64 pages, Text (with PC/PB&W Spot Illustrations) Cover price $0.25.

Doe NOT include Free Whoopie Mask. Issue 1 - July 30th 1938. Weekly Humor Magazine. Pages bound with glue. 28 pages, PC/PB&W

Includes Free Whoopie Mask. Issue 1 - July 30th 1938. Weekly Humor Magazine. Pages bound with glue. 28 pages, PC/PB&W

Volume 6, Issue 7 - July, 1938. Painted cover by Peter Driben. Short fiction stories by Phyllis Hoerner, Claire Kennedy, Ken Cooper, Patsy Hunt, Clinton Harcourt, Tom Kane, Mason Johns, and Cliff Carruth. 7" x 10", 64 pages, B&W. -MATURE READERS- Cover price $0.25.

Volume 7, Issue 2 - July, 1938. 6.75" x 9.75", 116 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $24.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Foxing. Soiling. Water damage.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $16.00 View scans Trimmed Paper: Off white Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $23.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart Good $8.00 View scans Trimmed Paper: Cream to off white Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

July 1938. Cover by Herbert Morton Stoops. Fiction by William Chester ("Kioga of the Unknown Land" part 5), Capt. Michael Gallister, Gordon Keyne, Owen Francis, H. Bedford-Jones, Capt. L.B. Williams, William Byron Mowery, Kenneth Perkins, Bill Adams, and Fulton Grant. Illustrations by Austin Briggs (7) and others. 6.5-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 144 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart Very Fine $2.50 View scans

Add to cart Very Fine $2.50 View scans

Facsimile reprint of UK weekly Boy's Cinema issue 970 from July 16, 1938. Standard magazine format, 8.25" x 11", 28 pages, B&W. Number 3 in the Screen Facts Press reprint series. Cover price $1.25.

Volume 37, Issue 5 - July, 1938. Digest sized, male oriented magazine filled with cartoons and jokes usually based around the relationships of men and women of the time. 5" x 7", 128 pages, B&W.

10 3/4-in. x 13 1/2-in., black and white, 62 pages. Cover price $0.05.

Stories and art by Hal Foster, Al Capp, Ernie Bushmiller, Bill Conselman, Charlie Plumb, Bernard Dibble, Fred Methot, Rudolph Dirks, Harry Lee, Winfield Meggs, Becky Sharp, Laverne Harding, Harry O'Neill, H. E. Homan, Dudley T. Fisher Jr., Robert Dickey, R. M. Brinkerhoff, J. Carver Pusey, Paul Berdanier, Frank Owen and Raeburn Van Buren. Sometimes listed as Comics on Parade Vol. 1 #4. Early in the transformation of comic strips to comic books, United Features Syndicate published Comics on Parade as a showcase for its most popular strips, including Tarzan, Li'l Abner and Nancy. A young Tarzan encounters other humans for the first time, and challenges ape Kerchak for leadership of his tribe, in colorized reprints of the earliest Hal Foster Tarzan strips. New arrival Slats wins over the town of Crabtree Corners when he beats Joe Pastafazoola in a boxing match, but wealthy J. Hagstone and his daughter Judy have designs on Slats. Fritzi and Nancy tour the countryside in their jalopy, in a VERY early series of strips by Bushmiller. Plus a Li'l Abner storyline by Al Capp, and an illustrated biography of screen legend Gary Cooper. Abbie an' Slats; The Captain and the Kids; Tarzan of the Apes; Wayne Webster of Waverly Prep; Roads of Romance; Jest di-Jest; Cynical Susie; Broncho Bill; Looy Dot Dope; Colonel Wowser; How to Make It; Stampin' Around; For Junior Readers; Joe Jinks; Fritzi Ritz; Billy Make Believe; Buster Beans; Bucky and His Pals; Little Mary Mixup; Benny; Opportunity Knox; Twice Told Tales; Ella Cinders; Danny Dingle; Dub Dabs; Li'l Abner. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Sheldon Mayer, Boody Rogers, Charles Payne, J.R. Williams, C. D. Small, Al Carreño, Frank Engli, Victor Pazmiño, A. W. Nugent, Stookie Allen, Augustus Robinson, James McCague, Willie Whittle, Paul Jepsen, Norman Fallon, Courtney Dunkel, Adolphe Barreaux, Tex O'Reilly, Jack A. Warren, George Swanson, Robert Weinstein, Ed Cronin, Bob Moore, and Carl Pfeufer. Edited by comics pioneers M.C. Gaines and Sheldon Mayer, The Comics presented original stories, art reprinted from Dell's Big Little Books, and reprints of classic newspaper strips. Tex Ritter's rodeo skills cut in on Regan's counterfeiting scheme, so Regan has Tex accused of murder, in an adaptation of the 1937 Western movie Frontier Town. A Deadwood Gulch story by Sparky Watts creator Boody Rogers. Captured by the Mephisians, Space Policeman Rod and Unicor Warrior Taro are sent to the Land of the Living Dead, but luckily Karin has stowed away on the Mephisian ship. S'Matter, Pop?; Salesman Sam; Ted Strong; Tex Ritter: Frontier Town; Gags and Giggles; Out Our Way; Cops and Robbers; Cowboy and Indian Lore; My Big Brudder; Jimmie Jams; Little Artists; Decks Awash; Sailor's Knots and Seaman's Ways; Deadwood Gulch; Bill and Davey; Crossword Puzzle Page; Rod Rian of the Sky Police; Manhunt: A True F.B.I. Story; The Enchanted Stone of Time; Pecos Bill; Penknife Oddities; Midshipman's Revenge; Championship Diving; Did You Know?; Cap'n Cloud; Comic Puzzles; Clancy the Cop; Gordon Fife and the Boy King; Headliners; Thrill-Hunters; Bachelor Bowers. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.