Comic books August 1938

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 #5. 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 meets Jane while rescuing her from the ape Terkoz, and one of the great love stories begins, in colorized reprints of the earliest Hal Foster Tarzan strips. Li'l Abner's Aunt Bessie from the city falls for Baron Slinkovitch, from the far-off nation of Skurvia. But neither of them realizes that the Baron is flat broke and after Bessie's riches, in a Li'l Abner storyline by Al Capp. And an illustrated biography of screen legend Edward G. Robinson. Abbie an' Slats; The Captain and the Kids; Tarzan of the Apes; Wayne Webster and the Lighthouse Mystery; 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.

HIGHLIGHTED: The Devil Has Flaming Eyes" a novelette by Hugh B. Cave.

Volume 1, Issue 2 - August, 1938. 6.75" x 9.75", 114 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $32.00 View scans Spine split 5%. Staple rust: Moderate.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $28.00 View scans Staple rust: Slight.

Agriculture and farming magazine. Includes articles, fiction, and humor. 11" x 14", 70 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.

Stories and art by Paul Gustavson, Norman Daniels, Fred Guardineer, Tod Moro, Richard Speed, Fred Schwab, William Allison, Dick Ryan, and Rafael Astarita. Centaur Publishing takes over publishing of the former Star Ranger Comics, one of the first Western-themed comics. Short Western strips, sometimes just one to three pages, with titles like Wild West Junior and Cowboy Jake. The Trouble Hunters tackle a new assignment in the modern West. The Air Patrol gets an aerial view of a crime. A centerfold by Fred Guardineer presents a barroom brawl, complete with a bystander holding "Star Ranger" comics and a wanted poster for publisher Ken Fitch. This series was the only one from Centaur to carry the Centaur brand emblem on its covers. Wild West Junior; Ace and Deuce; Killer McGee; Cowboy Jake; Lyin' Lou; Trouble Hunters; Windy; Lee Trent; Two Buckaroos. Final issue under this title; series continues as Star Ranger Funnies Vol. 1 (1938) #15. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Roy Crane, J. R. Williams, Norman Marsh, Irwin Myers, Al McWilliams, Merrill Blosser, Ray Thompson, Charles Coll, Dan Balkin, Martha Orr, Sol Hess, Wallace Carlson, Gene Ahern, Al Lewin, Frank V. Martinek, Leon A. Beroth, Abe Martin, Virginia Krausmann, Sylvia Sneidman and Ken Ernst. Crackajack Funnies presented original stories and reprints of classic comic strips, including Roy Crane's influential Wash Tubbs & Captain Easy. Don Winslow recaptures his ship from Dr. Centaur, but Centaur isn't beaten yet. Captain Easy boxes Cyclone Duffy and gets knocked out, but then the carnival huckster who manages Cyclone offers Easy a job in the ring. Captain Hawks and Jack are stranded in the mountains after a plane crash. Dan Dunn; Captain Frank Hawks, Air Ace; Freckles and His Friends; Myra North, Special Nurse; Columbus Goes West; Wash Tubbs; Out Our Way; Apple Mary; The Nebbs; Our Boarding House; Clyde Beatty; Don Winslow of the Navy; Tom Mix; Boots and Her Buddies; Tom Traylor, G-Man X32; Flapper Fanny; Annibelle; Buck Jones: The Rock Creek Cattle War. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Fu Manchu cover art by Creig Flessel. The Hilton Diamond starring Speed Saunders, script by Gardner Fox, art by Fred Guardineer. Oscar the Gumshoe one-pager, script and art by Bob Kane. Cosmo story, art by Sven Elven. Larry Steele story, script and art by Will Ely. Dr. Fu Manchu story, script by Sax Rohmer, art by Leo O'Mealia. Death's Ruby starring Spy, script by Jerry Siegel, art by Joe Shuster. The Golden Key text story by Gardner Fox (Paul Dean). The Coolie Smugglers: Part II starring Bruce Nelson, art by Tom Hickey. Steve Malone story, script by Gardner Fox. In the Stratosphere starring Slam Bradley, script by Jerry Siegel, art by Joe Shuster. 64 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 121, Issue 6 - August 20, 1938. 6.75" x 9.75", 114 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $17.00 View scans Paper: Cream

Volume 21, Issue 4 - August, 1938. 7" x 10", 128 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 1, Issue 1 - August, 1938. Cover by Norman Saunders. Stories and art by Ralph Powers, Ronald Flagg, Harris Clivesey, Cliff Howe, Charles Evans, Robert Gustin, Eric Lennox, Leon Dupont, Rexton Archer and Dennis Storm. Classic pulp fiction featuring horror and mystery of the type called Weird Menace. There's no improving on the magazine's original blurbs: "In the shadows of petrified corpses Special Agent Butler makes his last stand against grisly doom.... Ghoulish figures of the half-dead force Nick and Rhoda toward the citadel of sinister disaster.... A blade of ominous past demands a fresh banquet - of blood!" Good-girl art cover by Norman Saunders. City of Stone Corpses; Tomb Treachery; Brotherhood of the Damned; Immortal Murder; Scourge of the Death Master; Satan's Trio; The Garden of Fate; Curse of a Thousand Cats; Thirsty Steel; Midnight's Sinister Snare. 116 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $30.00 View scans Front cover detached 15%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Extensive.

Volume 9, Issue 3 - August 1938 (whole number 66). 8.5" x 11.5", 84 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

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Vol. 13, No. 7. August 19, 1938. Harold Lloyd cover. Full-page B&W ad for Ritz Crackers. 8.5" x 11.5". 20 pages. Black and white.

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; "Butty and Fatty" by M. E. Brady; "Roy Powers, Eagle Scout" by Paul Powell; "Nipper" and "Footprints on the Sands of Time" by Clare Victor Dwiggins; "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; "Big Chief Wahoo" by Allen Saunders and Elmer Woggon; "Dickie Dare" by Milton Caniff; "Adventures of Patsy" by Mel Graff; "Jolly Geography" and "High Lights of History" by J. Carroll Mansfield; "Jitter" by Arthur B. Poinier; "Holly of Hollywood" and "Keeping Up With The Joneses" by Pop Momand; "Cat o' Nine Lives" by M. E. Brady; "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; "Animals in the News" by M. E. Brady; and "Star Flashes" by Charles Bruno. "Masquerade Magic" text story by Connye M. Hyatt. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 68 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

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, 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 Vernon Henkel. An early comics anthology published by Harry Chesler, featuring reprints of newspaper comic strips. Female reporter Jane Arden suspects corporate executive Mr. Bleak of racketeering. Pioneering masked hero The Clock is framed for the murder of a real estate broker. Pirate hero The Hawk fights for justice in Hawks of the Seas, by comics legend Will Eisner. In an early Will Eisner strip, Archie O'Toole, new king of the island nation of Pyromania, abolishes spinach and fights a duel with his rival, Gil O. Teen. Plus the early strip Lala Palooza by Rube Goldberg. Joe Palooka; They're Still Talking; Jane Arden; Mickey Finn; Off the Record; Modern Planes; Gallant Knight; 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; Clip Chance at Cliffside. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Issue 592 - August, 1938. Humorous captions paired with movie stills and models. 8.5" x 11.5", 72 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.20.

Volume 30, Issue 1 - August, 1938. 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.

August, 1938. Volume 2 No. 4. 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; "Reg'lar Fellers" by Gene Byrnes; "Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune" by Roy Crane; "The Comic Zoo" by George Scarbo; "Four Aces" by Hal Forrest; "Our Boarding House" by Gene Ahern; "Hold Everything" by Clyde Lewis; "Cicero's Cat" by Bud Fisher; "Home Magic" by A. W. Nugent; "The Worry Wart" by J. R. Williams; "Stranger than Fiction" by Richard W. Thomas and Walter Galli; "Bronc Peeler" by Fred Harman; "Out Our Way" by J. R. Williams; "Ben Webster's Page" by Jay Jerome Williams (as Edwin Alger); "Scribbly" by Sheldon Mayer; "The Crime Busters" by Alden McWilliams; "Everybody's Playmate" by A. W. Nugent; "Wonderland of Oz" by Walt Spouse; "Curious Facts about Stamps" by I. S. Klein; "Bob Baker: Courage of the West" film adaptation; "Heroes' Hall of Fame" by Benjamin D. Allen (as Stookie Allen); and "Be a Champion" by Ed Cronin. "Redskin Renegade, Part Four" text story by H. T. Sperry. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Vol. 5, No. 3. August 1938. Men's interest magazine containing fiction stories, cartoons, non-nude pictorials, and other variety. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 64 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

August, 1938. Cover price $0.35.

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $9.00 View scans Spine split 5%. Staple rust: Extensive.

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+ 2.5 $18.00 View scans Spine split 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Extensive.

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 Very Good $29.00 View scans Spine split 10%. Staple rust: Extensive.

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 Fair $6.00 View scans Spine split 20%. Staple rust: Extensive.

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