Comic books March 1939

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Volume 9, Issue 4 - March, 1939. Cover painted by Ben Jorj Harris. Indicia incorrectly indicates that this is Vol. 9, Issue 3. 8.5" x 11.5", 50 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Weekly general interest magazine founded in 1888 by Peter Fenelon Collier. Cover by Paul Shively. 11" x 14", 84 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $0.05.

Weekly general interest magazine founded in 1888 by Peter Fenelon Collier. Cover by Arthur Crouch. 11" x 14", 76 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $0.05.

Weekly general interest magazine founded in 1888 by Peter Fenelon Collier. Cover by Jay Irving. 11" x 14", 80 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $0.05.

Cover by Al Capp. Stories and art by Rex Maxon, Al Capp, Ernie Bushmiller, Bill Conselman, Charlie Plumb, Bernard Dibble, Rudolph Dirks, John Paul Frederics, Paul Berdanier, Harry Lee, Winfield Meggs, Becky Sharp, Harry O'Neill, H. E. Homan, Dudley T. Fisher Jr., Olive Ray Scott, Edward Daniel Kuekes, R. M. Brinkerhoff, Dick Richards, George Lichty, and Raeburn Van Buren. Sometimes listed as Comics on Parade Vol. 1 #12. 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. Tarzan manages to escape the lost city of Opar, but now he must go back after Jane, in an adaptation of The Return of Tarzan with art by Rex Maxon. Slats and his pals help O'Kelly the cop. Looy Dot Dope is knocked unconscious while playing pool, and the next thing he knows, he's in a Flash Gordon-like fantasy world populated by beautiful women. Plus a Li'l Abner storyline by Al Capp, and an illustrated biography of screen legend Katharine Hepburn. Abbie an' Slats; The Captain and the Kids; Tarzan of the Apes; Wayne Webster: In the Rink; Roads of Romance; Cynical Susie; Broncho Bill; Looy Dot Dope; Dynamite Dunn; How to Make It; Stampin' Around; For Junior Readers; Nancy; Billy Make Believe; Alice in Wonderland; Knurl the Gnome; The Boomers; The Pet's Club; Grin and Bear It; Little Mary Mixup; Ella Cinders; Danny Dingle; Li'l Abner. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Agriculture and farming magazine. Includes articles, fiction, and humor. 11" x 14", 104 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.05.

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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.

Stories and art by Roy Crane, J. R. Williams, Jim Gary, Norman Marsh, Al McWilliams, Merrill Blosser, Ray Thompson, Charles Coll, Martha Orr, Sol Hess, Wallace Carlson, Gene Ahern, Al Lewin, Frank V. Martinek, Leon A. Beroth, Abe Martin, Virginia Krausmann, Gladys Parker and Ken Ernst. Crackajack Funnies presented original stories and reprints of classic comic strips, including Roy Crane's influential Wash Tubbs & Captain Easy. In reprints of his first Sunday strips, legendary cowboy hero Red Ryder meets his sidekick, Little Beaver, and battles the Devil's Hole Gang. As Tom Mix closes in on the Kidnappers of Cholla Wash, Mitch gets a bead on him. Nurse Myra North rushes to save an ill baby, but first she must learn who the child's mother is, in a classic medical melodrama. Dan Dunn; Red Ryder; Freckles and His Friends; Myra North, Special Nurse; Wash Tubbs; Out Our Way; Apple Mary; The Nebbs; Our Boarding House; Clyde Beatty; Don Winslow of the Navy; Tom Mix and the Kidnappers of Cholla Wash; Boots and Her Buddies; Tom Traylor, G-Man X32; Flapper Fanny; Annibelle; Buck Jones: Killers of Crooked Butte; Time Marches Back with Looney Luke; Speed Bolton, Air Ace. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Vol. 1, No. 4. March 1939. Painted cover art. Sensationalistic true crime articles, stories and photos. 8.5" x 11.5". 114 pages. Black and white. Cover price $0.25.

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Cover art by Fred Guardineer. The Death Sled starring Speed Saunders, script by Gardner Fox, art by Fred Guardineer. Larry Steele story, script and art by Will Ely. Death Masquerades starring Buck Marshall, script and art by Homer Fleming. Spy story, script by Jerry Siegel, art by the Shuster Shop. Oscar the Gumshoe humor page by Bob Kane. Dr. Fu Manchu story, script by Sax Rohmer, art by Leo O'Mealia. Secret Service Man text story by Gardner Fox (Paul Dean). Crimson Avenger story, art by Jim Chambers. Back From the Dead (Part 2) starring Bruce Nelson, art by Tom Hickey. Cosmo story, art by Sven Elven. Slam Bradley story, script by Jerry Siegel, art by the Shuster shop. 64 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

March 1939. Stories include "The Freckled Shark," a book-length novel by "Kenneth Robeson"; "It Pays to Fight" by Wallace Brooker; "Pass of Death" by Norman E. Daniels; and "Dog Sledge Express" by Jack Storm. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 128 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.10.

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Official organ of the International Society of Junior Magicians, containing news and tips. 16 pages on newsprint.

March, 1939. Anonymous non-fiction content presented in the pulp format. B&W photo covers; somewhat common.

Victor E. Pazmiño cover. Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "Goofie Gags" by Victor E. Pazmiño; "The Gay Thirties" by Hank Barrow; "Roy Powers, Eagle Scout" by Paul Powell; "Buck Rogers" by Philip Francis Nowlan and Rick Yager (as Dick Calkins); "Nipper" by Clare Victor Dwiggins; "Skyroads" by Dick Calkins and Russell Keaton; "Hairbreadth Harry" and "High-Gear Homer" by F. O. Alexander; "Life's Like That" by Fred Neher; "War on Crime" by Rex Collier and Hammon; "Jitter" by Arthur B. Poinier; "Big Chief Wahoo" by Allen Saunders and Elmer Woggon; "Dickie Dare" by Milton Caniff; "Adventures of Patsy" by Mel Graff; "High Lights of History" by J. Carroll Mansfield; "The Frog Pond Ferry" by M. E. Brady; "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; "Above the Crowd" by Benjamin D. Allen (as Stookie Allen); "Mescal Ike" by S. L. Huntley and Art Huhta; "There's A Town" by M. E. Brady; "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); "Homer Hoopee" by Fred Locher; and "Butty and Fatty" by M. E. Brady. "Spooky Joe" text story by Russel M. Hyatt. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 68 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ed Cronin. Stories and art by Will Eisner, Rube Goldberg, Art Pinajian, Frank Frollo, 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, Bill Sakren, and Vernon Henkel. An early comics anthology published by Harry Chesler, featuring reprints of newspaper comic strips. Will Eisner's spy hero Black X investigates after an American commercial plane is destroyed near a Chinese seaport. Slim and Tubby flee to the hills after escaping prison with Burns and Benton, but then they have a friendly visitor. In the early Eisner strip Archie O'Toole, King Archie encounters Doctor Finklestein, who wants to make a monster. Plus the early strip Lala Palooza by Rube Goldberg. Joe Palooka; They're Still Talking; Captain Cook of Scotland Yard; 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; Richard Manners; Reynolds of the Mounted; Mortimer Mum; Toddy; Pirates Ahoy; Ned Brant; Big Top; Dixie Dugan; Bungle Family; Lena Pry; Clip Chance at Cliffside; The Barbarian. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 69, Issue 599 - March, 1939. Humorous captions paired with movie stills and models. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 76 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.20.

Volume 31, Issue 4 - March, 1939. Fiction, model-making articles, schematics, cartoons and factual essays about airplanes and aviation. Cover by August Schomburg. 8.5" x 11.5", 84 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

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Volume 3, Issue 3 - March, 1939. 8.5" x 11.5", 68 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.