Comic books August 1939

Stories and art by Roy Crane, Hugh Harmon and Rudolf Ising, Art Krenz, Fred Harman, Norman Marsh, Al McWilliams, Merrill Blosser, Ray Thompson, Charles Coll, Martha Orr, Sol Hess, Wallace Carlson, Al Lewin, Frank V. Martinek, Leon A. Beroth, Virginia Krausmann, Sylvia Sneidman and Abe Martin. Crackajack Funnies presented original stories and reprints of classic comic strips, including Roy Crane's influential Wash Tubbs & Captain Easy. Helga's gang escapes, leaving Wash Tubbs, Beverly and Captain Easy trapped in the abandoned plantation house. While Red Ryder searches for Ace Hanlon's rustlers in the South Hills, his aunt, known as The Duchess of Painted Valley, must defend her ranch against the rustlers. After a masked bandit robs the bank, Buck's only clue is that the bandit called his horse Dusty. Plus How to Draw Cartoon Characters, by legendary animators Hugh Harmon and Rudolf Ising! In This Corner; Dan Dunn; Red Ryder; Freckles and His Friends; Myra North, Special Nurse; Wash Tubbs; Apple Mary; The Nebbs; Our Boarding House; Clyde Beatty; Don Winslow of the Navy; Tom Mix; Boots and Her Buddies; Ed Tracer, G-Man X32; Annibelle; Buck Jones: The Bandits of Dead Man's Gulch; How to Draw Cartoon Characters; Time Marches Back with Looney Luke; Speed Bolton, Air Ace; Out Our Way; Flapper Fanny; A Wise Crack for Crackajack. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 4, Issue 4 - August, 1939. 6.75" x 9.75", 132 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Fred Guardineer. Batman story, script by Gardner F. Fox, pencils Bob Kane and Sheldon Moldoff, inks by Bob Kane. Oscar the Gumshoe humor page, art by Bob Kane. Finger of Doom starring Buck Marshall, Range Detective, art by Homer Fleming. Spy story, script by Jerry Siegel, art by Mart Bailey. Larry Steele, Private Detective story, art by Will Ely. Shadowed text story by Frank Thomas. The Crossbow Mystery starring Speed Saunders, Ace Investigator, art by Fred Guardineer. The Tea Racketeers starring Bruce Nelson, script and art by Tom Hickey. Cosmo, the Phantom of Disguise, art by Sven Elven. Slam Bradley story, script by Jerry Siegel, art by Joe Shuster. 64 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

2nd app. Candid Camera Kid Cover price $0.10.

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

Add to cart Good $4.50 Discounted from $5.00.

Add to cart Good $5.40 View scans Spine split 10%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Extensive. Discounted from $6.00.

Vol. 15, No. 7. August 18, 1939. Cover photo from New York World's Fair of Mechano, the man who never changes expressions, with article and photos. Full-page B&W ad for Snowdrift Shortening. 8.5" x 11.5". 16 pages. Black and white.

Victor E. Pazmiño cover. Jack Kirby promotional pin-up for "Lightnin' and the Lone Rider"; reprints begin in Famous Funnies (1934) #62. Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "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); "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; "The Gay Thirties" by Hank Barrow; "Spunky Dory" by M. E. Brady; and "Star Flashes" by Charles Bruno. "Valley of Doom" text story by Robert M. Hyatt. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 68 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Ed Cronin. "Introducing Charlie Chan," script and art by Alfred Andriola; British intelligence calls Chan (first appearance) in to help them find a missing chemist, Peter Charing. Untitled Dixie Dugan story, script by J. P. McEvoy, art by J. H. Striebel. "Thunder in the Orient," script and art by Vernon Henkel; Sir Raymond vs. Tartars; Lady Alice appears. Untitled Ned Brant story, script by Bob Zuppke, art by R. W. Depew. "The Burton Kidnapping," script and art by George E. Brenner; Brian attempts to work his way into Inspector Kane's latest case, but Kane, who really doesn't mind help, merely considers O'Brien nothing more than his golfing buddy, leaving Brian to his undercover devices as the Clock in rounding up Butch and Squint. One-page Rube Goldberg's Side Show story. Untitled Mickey Finn story, script and art by Lank Leonard. Untitled Jane Arden and Lena Pry story, script by J. P. McEvoy, art by J. H. Striebel; Jane leaps from a window to escape the killer who entered her room. "Jim Slade's Plot," script and art by Art Pinajian; Jim Slade and his gang cause trouble. "Trouble At the Mountain Valley Ranch" starring Rance Keane, script and art by William A. Smith (as Will Arthur). Untitled Joe Palooka story, script by Ham Fisher, art by Mo Leff (ghost for Ham Fisher). 68 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $64.80 View scans Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight. Discounted from $72.00.

Add to cart Very Good $35.10 View scans Staple rust: Moderate. Discounted from $39.00.

Add to cart Good $33.30 View scans Rust migration. Spine stress. 5 1/2" Cumulative spine split. Corner Damage. Centerfold detached. Creasing. Denting. Fingerprints. Soiling. Water damage. Discounted from $37.00.

Add to cart Good $33.30 View scans Spine stress. Edge damage - half inch tear through all pages, center of right edge. Water damage. Dust shadow. Denting. Discounted from $37.00.

Volume 70, Issue 604 - August, 1939. Cover by Enoch Bolles. Humorous captions paired with movie stills and models. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/4-in., 50 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 3, Issue 4 - August, 1939. 8.5" x 11", 54 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Roy Crane, V. T. Hamlin, Chester Gould, J. R. Williams, Frank Frollo, Al McWilliams, John Coleman Burroughs, Hal Forrest, Walt Spouse, C. D. Small, Hugh Harman, and Win Smith. The Funnies presented reprints of classic comic strips, including Roy Crane's influential Captain Easy, alongside original material. John Carter and the captive princess Dejah Thoris are taken to the capital city of the savage Green Martians, in the official comic-strip adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' A Princess of Mars. John Carter art by John Coleman Burroughs, son of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Cowboy hero Tex Ritter is framed for murder after he dresses as Santa for Christmas, and another Santa commits the crime, in an adaptation of the 1939 Western movie Down the Wyoming Trail. Plus a text story featuring Dick Tracy. In This Corner; Gene Autry: Frameup; John Carter Warlord of Mars; Salesman Sam; Alley Oop; Funnie Bone Riddle Page; Bosko; Lightning Jim; Out Our Way; Four Aces; Dick Tracy at Homeville; Carnival; Our Boarding House; The Crime Busters; This Curious World; Oz; Captain Easy; Tom Beatty: The Black Widow. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 18, Issue 3 - August, 1939. 6.75" x 9.75", 116 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 16, Issue 2 - August, 1939. 6.75" x 9.75", 114 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Good $12.60 View scans Spine split 10%. Staple rust: Extensive. Discounted from $14.00.

UK story magazine published by Amalgamated Press between 1907-1939, predominantly featuring the activities of boys at the fictional school St. Jim's. 6.75" x 9.5", 36 pages, B&W

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $18.90 View scans Spine split 5%. Staple rust: Extensive. Discounted from $21.00.

UK story magazine published by Amalgamated Press between 1907-1939, predominantly featuring the activities of boys at the fictional school St. Jim's. 6.75" x 9.5", 36 pages, B&W

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $22.50 View scans Spine split 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Extensive. Discounted from $25.00.

UK story magazine published by Amalgamated Press between 1907-1939, predominantly featuring the activities of boys at the fictional school St. Jim's. 6.75" x 9.5", 36 pages, B&W

Volume 1, issue 1 - August 1939. Vintage magazine of interest to Men and Women focusing on News, Sports, Fashions, Showgirls, and Society! 10 1/2-in. x 13-in., 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $115.20 View scans Discounted from $128.00.

Gulf Oil Company giveaway comic. 7.5" x 10.5, 4 pages, full color.

August 1939. Volume 1 No. 2. Painted cover. True crime articles, stories and photos. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/4-in., 50 p, B&W Cover price $0.10.

"The World's Screwiest Magazine" is a satirical magazine edited by Norman Anthony. The debut issue appears to be the only issue ever published. Inside front cover features a photo of Adolph Hitler. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 32 pages, BW/text with cartoons and photos. Cover price $0.15.

Published by Popular Magazines, Inc. between December 1931 and December 1943, Hooey was a satirical humour magazine that included fake articles, cartoons that depicted social issues of the time and spoof ads in a similar vein as it's successor, Mad Magazine. 8.5" x 11", 32 Pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $35.10 View scans Discounted from $39.00.

Articles with photography about hunting and fishing. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 36 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.05.

Volume 9, Issue 2 - August 1939. Painted cover by Harwood Forsgren. One of many vintage supermarket tabloid magazines full of high profile FBI and CIA cases of the era, accompanied by black and white photographs and testimonials from those involved in, and close to the events themselves. 8.5" x 10.5", 66 pages, B&W, recommended for 16+. Cover price $0.10.