Comic books December 1937

Add to cart Good $17.00 View scans Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.

Agriculture and farming magazine. Includes articles, fiction, and humor. 11" x 14", 96 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.05.

Known as Farm & Fireside until February 1930, the title was changed to The Country Home to compete with Better Homes and Gardens, and was aimed at families living the farm life in America by offering articles on horticulture, harvest, beef production and anything else needed to run a successful farm. 8.5" x 11.5", B&W with some color illustrations. Cover price $0.05.

Cover art by Creig Flessel. Speed Saunders story, script by Gardner Fox, art by Creig Flessel. Larry Steele story, art by Will Ely. Cosmo story, art by Sven Elven. The Blood of the Lotus (Part 2) starring Bruce Nelson, script by Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, art by Tom Hickey. Green Death text story by Vincent Sullivan. Handcuff Hawkins story, script and art by Russell Cole (as Alger). Spy story, script by Jerry Siegel, art by Joe Shuster. Trail of Yellow starring Buck Marshall, script and art by Homer Fleming. In the Ring starring Slam Bradley, script by Jerry Siegel, art by Joe Shuster. 64 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 8, Issue 1 - December, 1937. Pulp magazine focusing on Crime and Detective stories. Includes the tales "The Riddle of the Headless Men" by John Kobler, "Death Breaks Parole" by Wyatt Blassingame, and tales by Ernst, Cummings, Boswell, and Howard! 7-in. x 9-in, 130 pages, Text (with B&W illustrations and photos) Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Good $4.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Staple rust. 25% Spine split. Foxing. Soiling. Water damage.

Volume 5, Issue 6 - December, 1937. 6.75" x 9.75", 114 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 19, Issue 4 - December, 1937. 6.75" x 9.75", 130 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Santa Claus cover by Alex Raymond. History of comic strips written by Philip Harkins. Included a rare photo of six early comic strip pioneers: Tom Powers, Rube Goldberg, Hy Mayer, R.F. Outcault, Clare Briggs, and George McManus. Article includes photos, art and text. Interior illustrations by Harold Von Schmidt, Courtney Allen, & Vincentini. 8 1/2-in. x 12-in. 64 Pages B&W Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $39.00 View scans Staple rust: Moderate.

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $30.00 View scans 6" cumulative spine split. Oxidation. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Volume 8, Issue 6 - December 1937 (Whole no. 63). Plans and diagrams for all sorts of DIY projects. 8.5" x 11.5", 96 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Vol. 11, No. 27. December 31, 1937. Carole Lombard cover. Full-page B&W ads for Ritz Crackers and Safeway. 8.5" x 11.5". 20 pages. Black and white.

Victor E. Pazmiño cover. Christmas cover. Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Goofie Gags" by Victor E. Pazmiño; "Dizzy Dramas" by Joe Bowers; "Roy Powers, Eagle Scout" by Paul Powell; "Such Is Life" by Walt Munson; "Dumb-Bells" by Charles J. Dunn (as Gar); "Skyroads" by Dick Calkins and Russell Keaton; "Hairbreadth Harry" and "High-Gear Homer" by F. O. Alexander; "Buck Rogers" by Philip Francis Nowlan and Rick Yager (as Dick Calkins); "Life's Like That" by Fred Neher; "War on Crime" by Rex Collier and Hammon; "Dickie Dare" by Milton Caniff; "Adventures of Patsy" by Mel Graff; "The Frog Pond Ferry" by M. E. Brady; "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "Screen Oddities" by Captain Roscoe Fawcett and Bruno Thompson; "Above the Crowd" by Benjamin D. Allen (as Stookie Allen); "The Gay Thirties" by Hank Barrow; "Oaky Doaks" by Ralph Briggs Fuller; "Seaweed Sam" by Victor E. Pazmiño; "Jolly Geography" and "High Lights of History" by J. Carroll Mansfield; "Olly of the Movies" by Julian Ollendorff; "Scorchy Smith" by Noel Sickles; "Somebody's Stenog" and "The Back-Seat Driver" by A. E. Hayward; "Bobby" by S. M. Iger; "Dot and Dan in Santa Land" by Robert Pilgrim; "Mescal Ike" by S. L. Huntley and Art Huhta; "Babe Bunting" by Roy L. Williams; "Punky" by Fred Balk; "Connie" and "The Wet Blanket" by Frank Godwin; "Queenie" by S. M. Iger (as Bob Bliss); and "Homer Hoopee" by Fred Locher. "Like the Other Fellers" text story by John A. Thorne. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 68 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Lank Leonard. Stories and art by Will Eisner, Rube Goldberg, Ed Wheelan, Les Marshall, Lank Leonard, Ham Fisher, Mo Leff, John Hix, Russell E. Ross, J. H. Striebel, Jo Metzer, 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, Don DeConn and Ed Cronin. An early comics anthology published by Harry Chesler, featuring reprints of newspaper comic strips. Pioneering masked hero The Clock joins forces with The Orchid to beat a protection racket. Pirate hero The Hawk and Claw Carlos fight over a ruby in Hawks of the Seas, by comics legend Will Eisner. Plus a profile of Hollywood star Joan Crawford, and the early strip Lala Palooza by Rube Goldberg. Joe Palooka; They're Still Talking; Jane Arden; Star Snapshots; Mickey Finn; Off the Record; Modern Planes; Lala Palooza; Strange As It Seems; Off Side; The Clock Strikes; Slim and Tubby; Hawks of the Seas; Puzzle Phun; Flossie; Toddy; Pirates Ahoy; Ned Brant; Big Top; Dixie Dugan; Bungle Family; Lena Pry; Jim Swift. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Add to cart Good $48.00 View scans Staple rust. Spine stress. Creasing. Denting. Edge damage. Soiling. Water damage.

Volume 68, Issue 584 - December, 1937. Humorous and suggestive captions accompany movie stills and posed photographs of Film Fun models. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 84 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.20.

Volume 28, Issue 1 - December, 1937. 8" x 11", 80 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

December, 1937. Volume 1 No. 9. 5.5" x 7.75", 140 pages, B&W with spot color. Cover price $0.25.

Contains comic strip reprints, text articles, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Alley Oop" by V. T. Hamlin; "Herky" by Clyde Lewis; "Dan Dunn" by Norman Marsh; "Stranger than Fiction" by Richard W. Thomas and Walter Galli; "Our Boarding House" by Gene Ahern; "Fun with a Pencil" by Walter Cole Brigham; "Freckles and his Friends" by Merrill Blosser; "Everybody's Playmate" by A. W. Nugent; "Bronc Peeler" by Fred Harman; "The Tiny Mites" by Hal Cochran and George Scarbo; "Boots" by Edgar Martin; "Don Dixon and the Hidden Empire" and "Tad of the Tanbark" by Bob Moore and Carl Pfeufer; "Curious Facts about Stamps" by I. S. Klein; "Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune" by Roy Crane; "Ben Webster's Page" by Jay Jerome Williams (as Edwin Alger); "Scribbly" by Sheldon Mayer; "Out Our Way" by J. R. Williams; "Tailspin Tommy" and "Four Aces" by Hal Forrest; "G-Man vs. The Red X" (Big Little Book adaptation) by Dick Blair and Milt Youngren; "Home Magic" by A. W. Nugent; "Now You Tell One!" by Edward Courtney Dunkle; "Mutt and Jeff" and "Cicero's Cat" by Bud Fisher; "Reg'lar Fellers" and "Daisybelle" by Gene Byrnes; "Be a Big Leaguer" by Ed Cronin; and "Heroes' Hall of Fame" by Benjamin D. Allen (as Stookie Allen). "Sandy Ferguson, Sourdough, Part Two" text story by H. T. Sperry, illustrated by Walter Cole Brigham. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $35.00 View scans Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Moderate.

Volume 4, Issue 4 - December, 1947. Men's interest magazine containing fiction stories, cartoons, non-nude pictorials, and other variety. Cover by Earl Bergey. Illustrations by Raymond Thayer. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 66 pages, text with illustrations and photos. Cover price $0.25.