Comic books January 1939

Cover by Al Capp. Stories and art by Rex Maxon, Al Capp, Ernie Bushmiller, Bill Conselman, Charlie Plumb, Bernard Dibble, Rudolph Dirks, 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 #10. 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. Now chief of the Waziri tribe, Tarzan learns of the lost city of Opar, but is captured by its ape-like inhabitants, in an adaptation of The Return of Tarzan with art by Rex Maxon.Wealthy J. Hagstone hires dangerous, accident-prone racer Crash McCoyne to race against Slats in the Crabtree County Race. In Wonderland, Alice meets the Cheshire Cat, along with a strange Cook and Duchess. Plus a Li'l Abner storyline by Al Capp, and an illustrated biography of screen legend Clark Gable. 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; Jest Di-Jest; 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", 80 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 by Jim Gary. 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. Looney Luke's time machine takes him to the Dark Ages, but apparently he's never read A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Captain Easy's enemy Bow Wow Jones tries to get him in the ring with Lulubelle, who is a real devil-girl, but Easy doesn't want to fight a woman. Plus Flapper Fanny strips featuring early art by Gladys Parker, creator of Mopsy. Dan Dunn; Freckles and His Friends; Myra North, Special Nurse; Jaragu and the Lost Islands; 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: Killers of Crooked Butte; Time Marches Back with Looney Luke; Speed Bolton, Air Ace. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Fred Guardineer. The Ski Murder starring Speed Saunders, script by Gardner Fox, art by Fred Guardineer. Larry Steele story, script and art by Will Ely. Nuggets of Lead starring Buck Marshall, script and art by Homer Fleming. Crimson Avenger story, art by Jim Chambers. Gambler's Waterloo starring Bruce Nelson, art by Tom Hickey. Railroad Riddle text story by Gardner Fox (as Paul Dean). Spy story, script by Jerry Siegel, art by Joe Shuster. Dr. Fu Manchu story, script by Sax Rohmer, art by Leo O'Mealia. Kops and Robbers one-pager by Bob Kane. 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.

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January 1, 1939. Cover by ??. "The Venomous Mr. Vollmer" by Walter Ripperger, plus other detective stories by Herbert Koehl, William R. Cox, Robert Arthur, Judson P. Philips, and Robert W. Thompson. Plus "Illustrated Crimes" by Stookie Allen. 7-in. x 10-in., 112 pages, black and white (text with a few illustrations). Cover price $0.10.

Volume 19, Issue 2 - January, 1939. 6.75" x 9.75", 114 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 1, Issue 2 - January, 1939. 6.75" x 9.75", 116 pages, B&W. 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.

January 1939. Photo cover. True crime articles, stories and photos. 8 3/4-in. x11 1/4-in., 66 p, B&W Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 14, Issue 4 - January 27, 1939. 8.5" x 11.5". 24 pages. Black and white.

Victor E. Pazmiño cover. New Years 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; "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; "Jolly Geography" and "High Lights of History" by J. Carroll Mansfield; "Amaze A Minute" by Arnold; "Cat o' Nine Lives" and "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; and "Animals in the News" by M. E. Brady. "The Emerald Buddha" text story by Robert 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, 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, Al Zere, and Vernon Henkel. An early comics anthology published by Harry Chesler, featuring reprints of newspaper comic strips. Will Eisner's spy hero Black X and his sidekick Batu must stop saboteurs from blowing up the 71st Regiment. Gallant Knight Sir Neville is captured while trying to free a young lad from the Black Baron. In the early Eisner strip Archie O'Toole, King Archie eludes crooks and rescues a woman from a runaway balloon. Plus a profile of Hollywood star Hedy Lamarr, and the early strip Lala Palooza by Rube Goldberg. Joe Palooka; They're Still Talking; 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; Reynolds of the Mounted; Flossie; 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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Issue #597 - January, 1939. Humorous captions paired with movie stills and models. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 72 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.20.

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Volume 31, Issue 2 - January, 1939. Fiction, model-making articles, schematics, cartoons and factual essays make up every issue of Flying Aces. Cover by Alex Schomburg. Interior art by Al McWilliams. "Falcons of the Four" by Donald Keyhoe, "A Haunting We Will Go" by Joe Archibald, "Hurricane Winds" by Arch Whitehouse are this issue's stories. Bedsheet format 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 84 pages, black and white. Cover price $0.15.

Stories and art by Roy Crane, V. T. Hamlin, Sheldon Mayer, J. R. Williams, Gene Byrnes, George Swanson, Al McWilliams, Al Smith, Hal Forrest, A. W. Nugent, Walter Galli, Walt Spouse, Gene Ahern, Edwin Alger, George Scarbo, Clyde Lewis, Fred Harman, Ed Cronin, and Al Smith. Edited by comics pioneers M.C. Gaines and Sheldon Mayer, The Funnies presented reprints of classic comic strips, including Roy Crane's influential Captain Easy, alongside original material like Mayer's Scribbly. When Captain Colorful refuses to work with women in his new movie, Scribbly has a secret weapon: sex symbol Vivien Darling. Bronc Peeler is the first Western strip from Red Ryder co-creator Fred Harman, which he famously self-syndicated. Plus a comics adaptation of The Wizard of Oz featuring art by Walt Spouse. Reg'lar Fellers; Salesman Sam; Alley Oop; Crossword Puzzle Page; Cicero's Cat; Out Our Way; Four Aces; Everybody's Playmate; Our Boarding House; The Crime Busters; Stranger Than Fiction; Oz; Captain Easy; Centerfold Contest; Ben Webster; Scribbly; The Comic Zoo; Hold Everything; Test Flight; Bronc Peeler; How to Be a Soccer Fullback. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

January, 1939. Cover price $0.25.

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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

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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- 1.8 $14.00 View scans Spine split 5%. Cover Detached. 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 Good $16.00 View scans Spine split 50%. Staple rust: Moderate.

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