Comic books July 1940

July 1940 Volume 2, No. 4. Timely Detective Magazine. Photo cover. Girls in Bondage. True crime articles, stories and photos. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 66 p, B&W Cover price $0.15.

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Agriculture and farming magazine. Includes articles, fiction, and humor. 11" x 14", 78 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.05.

Cover art by Gill Fox. The Black Condor In America, script by Will Eisner [as Kenneth Lewis], art by Lou Fine; On his first trip to America, the Condor serves as protector to a friend's daughter. Untitled Ned Brant story, script by Bob Zuppke, art by B. W. DePew. Thomas Andrews Kidnapped By the Spider starring Alias the Spider, script and art by Paul Gustavson. Untitled Molly the Model story, script and art by John Devlin. The Pirate Subs starring Red Torpedo, script by Henry Kiefer [as Roy Larkin], art by Kiefer. Gang Czar's Right Hand Man Arrested starring The Clock, script and art by George E. Brenner. The Death-Ray Decoy starring Wizard Wells, script and art by Harry Francis Campbell. Untitled Jane Arden story, script by Monte Barrett, art by Russell E. Ross. The Escape of Lucky Largo featuring the Space Legion, script and art by Vernon Henkel. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Roy Crane, Fred Harman, Norman Marsh, Art Krenz, Bill Ely, J. R. Williams, Merrill Blosser, Ray Thompson, Charles Coll, Martha Orr, Win Smith, Al McWilliams, Al Lewin, Frank V. Martinek, Leon A. Beroth, and Abe Martin. Crackajack Funnies presented original stories and reprints of classic comic strips, including Roy Crane's influential Wash Tubbs & Captain Easy. Red Ryder, Tess and Little Beaver try to stop Morgan from taking Red's land before more violence breaks out. After a fire aboard the Flying Fortress, Stratosphere Jim learns that one of the crew is a saboteur. When a vaudeville performer is murdered, Ellery Queen discovers that everyone on the bill had a reason to kill her. Plus a Tarzan prose story. And a comics version of the 1940 movie One Million B.C. In This Corner; Ellery Queen; Dan Dunn; Red Ryder; The Owl; Wash Tubbs; Apple Mary; Gabby Scoops; The Crusoes; Stratosphere Jim; Don Winslow of the Navy; One Million B.C.; Tarzan; Time Marches Back with Looney Luke; Out Our Way; Curious World. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Bert Whitman. Stories and art by Jack Kirby, Robert Turner, Rudolf Johnson, Nam Chung Po and Pagsilang Isip. The adventures of Strongman and other early superheroes from the Golden Age of comics. Strongman tries to prevent a powerful nation from invading a neighboring democracy. The Solar Legion encounters sea monsters and an underwater city in the Martian canals, in an early story by comics legend Jack Kirby. The Flying Trio mounts a desperate attack on the enemy with one of their own captured bombers. Plus a story by pioneering Filipino-American artist Pagsilang Rey Isip. Strongman; Buck Burke; Secret Agent Z-2; Solar Legion; Law of the Wild; Blue Streak; The Flying Trio; Jane Drake; Alec: The Reign of Yang; Shangra. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Bob Kane and Jerry Robinson. Batman and Robin story, script by Bill Finger, pencils by Bob Kane, inks by Bob Kane and Jerry Robinson. Spy story, script by Jerry Siegel, art by Maurice Kashuba. Red Logan story, art by Ed Winiarski. The Crimson Avenger story, script and art by Jack Lehti. The Railroad Mystery starring Speed Saunders, Ace Investigator, art by Fred Guardineer. Theft at the Fair text story by Gardner F. Fox. Steve Malone, District Attorney story, art by Don Lynch. Cliff Crosby story, script and art by Chad Grothkopf. Slam Bradley story, script by Jerry Siegel, art by Howard Sherman. 64 pgs. $0.10. Robin's 1st solo. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 23, Issue 3 - July, 1940. 6.75" x 9", 114 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

July 1940. Cover by Emery Clarke. Stories include "The Flying Goblin," a book-length novel by "Kenneth Robeson"; "Troller Twins" by Norman A. Daniels; and "The Black Arrow" by George L. Eaton. 6.75-in x 9.25-in; black and white; 112 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.10.

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Digest sized Spanish language Doc Savage reprints published by Editorial Molino. Slick covers with newsprint interior.

Official organ of the International Society of Junior Magicians, containing news and tips. 16 pages on newsprint. This issue is mislabeled as Volume 8, but 1940 is actually volume 9.

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Vol. 41 #7 - July 1940. Trade journal for department stores of all kinds. Full of ads and ideas for various departments including management, inventory, sales, display and even personnel. Profusely illustrated with photographs of displays, products, storefronts, etc. 9 3/4-in. x 12 3/4-in., 114 pages, B&W.

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Cover art by Max Plaisted. The Lost Valley of Mars featuring the Space Rovers, art by Max Plaisted; intro of Mara; vs. Xark. The Voice From the Flames starring Ted Crane, art by George Mandel. The Phony Mask starring The Mask, art by Raymond Thayer. The Theft of the Tank Plans featuring the Son of the Gods, script and art by George Mandel. The Bootleggers starring Dan Williams, art by Raymond Thayer; vs. Chris Toomey. Untitled Sgt. Bill King story, art by Leonard Sansone. The Firebugs starring The Sphinx. The Corpse In the Cave starring Jim Hatfield. 68 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Victor E. Pazmiño cover. Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "The Gay Thirties" by Hank Barrow; "Goofie Gags" by Victor E. Pazmiño; "Butty and Fatty" by M. E. Brady; "Roy Powers, Eagle Scout" by Paul Powell; "Buck Rogers" by Philip Francis Nowlan and Rick Yager (as Dick Calkins); "High Lights of History" by J. Carroll Mansfield; "Skyroads" by Dick Calkins and Russell Keaton; "Hairbreadth Harry" and "High-Gear Homer" by F. O. Alexander; "Jitter" by Arthur B. Poinier; "Speed Spaulding" by Edwin Balmer, Philip Wylie, and Marvin Bradley; "Dickie Dare" by Milton Caniff; "Adventures of Patsy" by Mel Graff; "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "Big Chief Wahoo" by Allen Saunders and Elmer Woggon; "Oaky Doaks" by Ralph Briggs Fuller; "Seaweed Sam" by Victor E. Pazmiño; "Olly of the Movies" by Julian Ollendorff; "Scorchy Smith" by Noel Sickles; "Somebody's Stenog" and "The Back-Seat Driver" by A. E. Hayward; "Lightnin' and the Lone Rider" by Jack Kirby (as Lance Kirby) and Frank Robbins; "Above the Crowd" by Benjamin D. Allen (as Stookie Allen); "Babe Bunting" by Roy L. Williams; "Mescal Ike" by S. L. Huntley and Art Huhta; "Connie" and "The Wet Blanket" by Frank Godwin; "Life's Like That" by Fred Neher; "There's A Town" by M. E. Brady; and "Homer Hoopee" by Fred Locher. "Long Live the King" text story by Eva Hanks Lycan. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 68 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

The Plot of Prince Diablo starring Samson, art by Alex Blum. A Trip Into the Unknown starring Flip Falcon, art by Don Rico. Duel With Saladin starring Golden Knight, art by Grieg Chapian. The House of Four Elms starring Yank Wilson, art by George Tuska [as Lance Ferguson]. The Space Leeches of Bloodu [Planet Bloodu], script and art by Fletcher Hanks [as Hank Christy]; Space Smith and Dianna escape imprisonment at the hands of the leech-like inhabitants of the planet Bloodu. The Emerald Men of Asperus starring Stardust, script and art by Fletcher Hanks. The Octopeople of Ectroia starring Sub Saunders, art by Henry Kiefer. 68 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 1, Issue 1 - July, 1940. Virgil Finlay cover and illustrations. 6.75" x 9", 130 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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"El Diablo Blanco," script by William Erwin Maxwell, art by Lou Fine; Doll Man hides himself behind El Diablo Blanco to give the impression that the steed could talk, an act which helps Wampum save his land; The horse was then tamed by Doll Man and used to pursue his enemy right off a cliff! "Sacrifice at Tafu," script and art by Vernon Henkel; Captain Fortune vs. a giant. "Ghost of the Coolnook Church," script by Toni Blum (as Noel Fowler), art by Dan Zolnerowich; Zero, Ghost Detective vs. a ghost. "The Wildman of Wolf's Head Bay," script and art by Art Pinajian; Reynolds of the Mounted vs. Tom Paxton. "Arctic Survival Mission" starring Spin Shaw, script and art by Bob Powell. "The Shakespeare Snatch," script and art by William A. Smith (Will Arthur). "The Black Mask," art by Stan Aschmeier; The Voice begins fielding requests for help and installed a special one-way mirror when he interviewed his clients, speaking to them from the mirror; One of the requests led the Voice to engage the mysterious Black Mask in battle. "The Hearing Eye" starring Capt. Bruce Blackburn, Counterspy, script and art by Harry Campbell. "Mystery in the Mine Shaft" starring Rusty Ryan, script and art by Paul Gustavson. 68 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Bob Powell. Untitled story, script by Herman Bolstein, pencils by John Celardo; Rip Regan vs. Moronie. Untitled story, pencils by George Tuska (as George Aksut); Shark Brodie vs. Rocky and his gang. Untitled The Spy Fighter story, art by Leonard Frank. "Luis Angel Firpo, the Wild Bull of the Pampas" non-fiction story about the famous boxer. Untitled story, art by Charles Sultan; Chip Collins vs. Abdulla; Prince Bara intro. Untitled story; Spencer Steel vs. The Berge gang; Spencer Steel, Jr. intro. Keeping Fit article. Untitled story, art by Steve Broder; Kinks Mason vs. a gang of poachers; intro of Battler, Kinks's trained seal. Untitled story, script and art by Fletcher Hanks (as Chas Netcher); Having bought a tract of land in territory controlled by lumber hijackers, Big Red must protect his investment from Sledge Sloan. Untitled Oran of the Jungle story. Untitled story; Cpl. Strut Warren vs. Muipo. Untitled story; Kayo Kirby (Red Kirby) vs. Bull. 68 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 71, Issue 615 - July, 1940. Painted cover by Enoch Bolles. Humorous captions paired with movie stills and models. 8.5" x 11", 54 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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Flash stars in "The Metal Disintegrator," written by Gardner Fox, art by Everett E. Hibbard. Also includes: King in "The Witch and the Lawyer" by Fox and Harry Lampert; Hawkman in "Czar, the Unkillable Man" by Fox and Sheldon Moldoff; Johnny Thunder in "The Mystery Woman" by John B. Wentworth and Stan Aschmeier; Cliff Cornwall in "The Clue Criminal" by Fox and Sheldon Moldoff (pencils) and Leonard Sansone (inks); "Circus Curse" Flash picture novelette by Ed Wheelan; and The Whip in "The San Creso Mine" by Wentworth and Homer Fleming. Cover art by Moldoff. 68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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8.5" x 11.5", 100 pages, B&W Cover price $0.15.

Cover by E. C. Stoner. Stories and art by Roy Crane, John Coleman Burroughs, Gaylord Du Bois, Bob Jenney, E. C. Stoner, Walker Harman, and Win Smith. The Funnies presented reprints of classic comic strips, including Roy Crane's influential Captain Easy, alongside original material. Tars Tarkas faces a duel to the death with the Jeddak of Thark, in the official comic-strip adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' A Princess of Mars. If he wins, he can rule the Tharks and help John Carter free Dejah Thoris, but if a poisoned blade touches him, it's over. John Carter art by John Coleman Burroughs, son of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Phantasmo, the first true superhero in the Dell pantheon, makes his debut after Phil Anson returns from years of study in the Orient. With the ability to leave his body, he becomes Phantasmo, sort of a cross between the Spectre and Doctor Strange. Phantasmo and his sidekick Whizzer try to rescue a scientist from foreign spies who want his new miracle fuel formula. Phantasmo, the Master of the World; John Carter Warlord of Mars; Rex, King of the Deep; The Sky Ranger; Sky Blazers; Captain Easy; The Test Case; Whitey Harrison; Mr. District Attorney; Speed Martin. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Fran Striker, Joe Musial, J. Norman Lynd, Richard Wormser, Harry Wilson Ramsey, Cesare Zavattini, Federico Pedrocchi, Giovanni Scolari, Lee Falk, and Ray Moore. Cover by Joe Musial. Pioneering comics publisher David presents an early sci-fi comic, combining newspaper strip reprints and some original material. Rebo, a Saturnian overlord wearing what appears to be a chicken-crest hat, declares war against the Earth, and the air force is unable to stop him. This story was a translation of an Italian comic - in fact, the first one ever to appear in the U.S. Also featuring reprints of the Lone Ranger and Phantom comic strips, including the continuation of the first Phantom adventure. The Lone Ranger; Dollar-A-Dither; Rush Newton; Family Portraits; Trem McRea and the Golden Cinders; In the Sport Spotlight; The Phantom; Saturn Against the Earth; The Crimson Vulture. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.