Comic books December 1940

Volume 1, Issue 5 - December 1940. Vintage Men's interest magazine, including pictorials, showgirls, single panel gag comics, and sports articles. 10 1/2-in. x 13 1/2-in., 32 pages, B&W Cover price $0.10.

Vintage supermarket tabloid magazine full of high profile true crime stories of the FBI and the CIA, some with testimonials from those involved in, or close to the cases themselves. 8.5" x 10.5", 66 pages, B&W. Recommended for ages 16+. Cover price $0.15.

Cover art by Lou Fine. The Swords of Death starring The Red Bee, art by Charles Nicholas. Eldorado, City of Gold starring The Strange Twins, script by S. M. Iger [as S. M. Regi]. The Case of Jimmy Meke starring Betty Bates, art by Nick Cardy. Ruckus At the Rubber Plantation starring Bob and Swab, script and art by Klaus Nordling. The Haunted Forest starring the Old Witch, art by John Celardo. The Texas Oil Field Mystery starring Hercules, art by Dan Zolnerowich [as Gregg Powers]; Hercules comes to the aid of a bored Texas oil heiress, descending underwater to fix her father's oil rig. Mercury Vs. Venus starring Blaze Barton, art by Maurice Gutwirth. Jill Doe—Kidnapped starring Jack and Jill, art by Nick Cardy. Introducing Lion Boy, art by George Tuska [as Merton Holmes]. The Invisible Ray starring Neon the Unknown, script by S. M. Iger [as Tagor Maroy], art by Lou Fine. 68 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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 GD 2.0 $375.00 View scans Trimmed TRIMMED. Paper tape and glue on interior cover, back cover mostly split.

Volume 10, Issue 3 - December, 1940. 6.75" x 9.5", 114 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

6th Printing - December 1940, publisher, Greenberg (NOTE: Greenberg is the original publisher and should not be confused with newer editions published by World Publishing Co). by Carl Anderson, the creator of the "Henry" newspaper comic strip. Forty-six lessons by one of America's most successful and experienced cartoonists. With a foreward about the author reprinted from Time Magazine, 1935. Profusely illustrated. Hardcover, 5 3/4-in. x 8 1/2-in., 110 pages, B&W.

3rd printing - No dust jacket. December 1940, publisher, Greenberg (NOTE: Greenberg is the original publisher and should not be confused with newer editions published by World Publishing Co). by Carl Anderson, the creator of the "Henry" newspaper comic strip. Forty-six lessons by one of America's most successful and experienced cartoonists. With a foreward about the author reprinted from Time Magazine, 1935. Profusely illustrated. Hardcover, 5 3/4-in. x 8 1/2-in., 110 pages, B&W.

Cover art by Alex Schomburg. Ad for Captain America Comics #1. Toro's Parents-----Alive? [Part 1] starring the Human Torch, script by Carl Burgos, pencils by Carl Burgos, inks by Harry Sahle (finished art probably); The head of a large spy ring reads about the Torch and Toro in the newspaper, and decides on a plan to eliminate the Torch; He heads out to the circus with his men and attempts to convince Toro that his parents are still alive. Ad for Marvel Comics #16. Toro's Parents-----Alive? [Part 2]. Hot and Wet text story starring Human Torch and Sub-Mariner. Sentinels of Liberty ad; readers are told to look for the next issue of Captain America to learn how they can become one of Captain America's Sentinels. Namor to the Rescue starring Sub-Mariner, script and art by Bill Everett. 68 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Vol. 11, No. 6. December 1940. 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.

Cover by Dan Zolnerowich. Edited by Malcolm Reiss, Jerry Iger and Will Eisner. Stories and art by Will Eisner, Jerry Iger, Charles Wotjkoski, Charles Sultan, Art Saaf, Bob Kane and Bob Powell. An influential anthology starring jungle hero Sheena, featuring early art by legendary comics artists in the Eisner-Iger Shop. Sheena battles the Super-Ape, a giant gorilla; Stuart Taylor ventures into the distant past to rescue Dr. Hayward and Laura from Queen Starina and her wizard; A reprint of the Bob Kane Peter Pupp story from issue #5. Another giant-gorilla cover by Dan Zolnerowich. Peter Pupp; The Hawk; Weird Stories of the Supernatural; Bobby; Uncle Otto; Sheena, Queen of the Jungle; The 13th Notch; Pee Wee; Tom Dick and Harry; ZX-5 Spies In Action; Inspector Dayton; Lightning; Wilton of the West. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $175.00 or Best Offer View scans Centerfold detached at one staple. Cover coming loose at one staple. Tape on interior cover. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by thegeneral

Cover art by Dan Zolnerowich. "The Devil's Death-Trap," art by George Tuska; Gangsters from American attempt to take over Kaänga's jungle. Untitled story, pencils by Arthur Peddy; The Panther rescues a party of scientists from a native tribe and then leads them to diamonds so that they can afford to carry on their scientific research. Untitled story; Camilla and Champion are shrunken to insect size by a mad scientist. Untitled story; Roy helps stops a cattle raiding tribe from plundering the herds of a peaceful village. "Violent Death" text story. Untitled story, script and art by Fletcher Hanks (as Barclay Flagg); A European army plans to use bases in Africa and South America to destroy democracy; Fantomah gives African lions the power of flight to destroy the European airborne assault in South American. Untitled story, art by Witmer Williams; Simba helps rescue a couple taken hostage by the savage chieftain, Wuga Moro. Untitled story, art by Bill Bossert; Terry outwits a group of Arabs determined to destroy an oil pipeline. Untitled story, art by Charles Sultan; Tabu liberates a group of slaves working in a mine for the evil Baron Logh. Untitled story, art by Henry Kiefer; Wambi prevents a Nazi-planned tribal war. 68 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $59.95 or Best Offer View scan 7" cumulative spine split. Water damage. Staple rust. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover by Joe Musial. Edited by Ruth Plumly Thompson (sometimes credited as Jo King). Stories and art by William Ritt, Clarence Gray, Fran Striker, Brandon Walsh, Nicholas Afonsky, Carl Anderson, Jack Burnley, R. J. Scott, Eddie Sullivan, Charlie Schmidt, Lee Falk, Phil Davis, E. C. Segar, George McManus, Otto Soglow, Eddie Rickenbacker, Clayton Knight, Romer Grey, Jim Gary, Charles Flanders, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Don Moore and Alex Raymond. Pioneering comics publisher David McKay presents an anthology series featuring reprints of King Features Syndicate comic strips. Through a telescope, Mandrake the Magician sees something strange approaching mountain climber Marsha Dale - could it be the Ghost Bear of Glass Mountain? Brick Bradford; The Lone Ranger; Little Annie Rooney; Henry; Sport Features; Scott's Scrapbook; Radio Patrol; Mandrake the Magician; Thimble Theatre; Flash Gordon; Bringing Up Father; The Little King; King of the Royal Mounted. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $33.00 View scans Staple rust.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $32.00 View scans Staple rust: Moderate.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $27.00 View scans Staple rust: Extensive.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $13.00 View scan 3" Tear to front cover. 1/2" Spine split from top. Staple rust.

Fu Man Chu & the Panama Canal, a multi-chapter story. This is part 4. Don't know how many parts total there are, but more than 4--this isn't the end.

Cover by J. F. Kernan. 8.5" x 11.5", 60 pages, B&W Cover price $0.05.

Add to cart Very Good $6.00 View scans Staple rust. 2" Spine split from base of book. Soiling.

Add to cart Very Good $29.00 View scans Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Volume 17, Issue 51 - December 21, 1940. 8.5" x 11", 62 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.05.

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Dec. 28, 1940. General interest magazine with articles and fiction. Cover by David Berger. "Fu Manchu and the Panama Canal" by Sax Rohmer. Plus an article by Achmed Abdullah, a short story by Eleanor Roosevelt and much more. 8 1/2-in.x 11-in., 58 pages, B&W with orange spot color. Cover price $0.05.

December 2, 1940. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: balloonist; machine tools for defense; Radio City Rockette; Mexico President Avila Camacho; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 118 pages. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $80.00 View scans Spine split 5%. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $32.00

December 9, 1940. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: Ginger Rogers; Christmas toys photographic essay; Premiere Konoye of Japan; skiing exercises; American painting at the carnegie Institute; antique jewelry; Christmas ornaments; Laurence Olivier; war surgery; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 136 pages. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $7.49

December 16, 1940. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: European children refugees; basketball; Boston congressman George Holden Tinkham; Elsa Maxwell; nightgowns; Christmas cards; California showgirl; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 116 pages. Cover price $0.10.

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December 23, 1940. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: Christmas party; Lana Turner; Army morale; skater Erna Andersen; Cunningham's Comet; 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 72 pages. Cover price $0.10.

December 30, 1940. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: Britain's desert fighters; a year of Europe's war photographic essay; Curier & Ives; Fred Astaire; new fashion colors; B.G. De Sylva; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 60 pages. Cover price $0.10.

Harry Lucey cover. Cover states "Formerly SURE-FIRE COMICS". Numbering continues from Sure-Fire Comics (1940) #3B. In order of appearance: "'Flash' Lightning"; "The Raven"; "X the Phantom Fed"; "Ace McCoy"; "Hap Hazard"; "Marvo the Magician and Tito"; and "Whiz Wilson and His Futuroscope". "The Golden Siesta" illustrated text story by Clint Douglas. Indicia states: "LIGHTNING COMICS, formerly Sure-Fire Comics". 68 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Joe Musial. Edited by Margery McKay (sometimes credited as G. Whiz). Stories and art by Lee Falk, Phil Davis, Feg Murray, Clayton Knight, H. H. Knerr, Fran Striker, Charles Flanders, Robert Storm, Austin Briggs, Thornton W. Burgess, Carl Anderson, Chic Young, Bob Dunn, Frank Miller, Joe Musial, Billy DeBeck, Jimmy Thompson, Eugene L. Pollack, McKay, Tom Sims, and Bela Zaboly. Lee Falk's adventurer Mandrake the Magician gets top billing in this anthology series featuring reprints of King Features Syndicate comic strips. Investigating the mummy they saw in the museum, Mandrake and Sonny discover a secret passage to the museum vault; The celebrity strip Seein' Stars profiles Errol Flynn and Olivia De Havilland of The Adventures of Robin Hood. Mandrake the Magician; News in Sports; Jan and Aloysius; Seein' Stars; The Romance of Flying; Bunky; Dollar-A-Dither; The Lone Ranger; Secret Agent X-9; Little Nature Stories; Henry; Little Acorns; Popeye; Barney Baxter; Blondie; Indian Lore; Roger; Stamp Corner; The Cartoon Page; Dinglehoofer. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Alex Schomburg. Ad for Human Torch #2, art by Schomburg. Human Torch untitled story, script and art by Carl Burgos; The Torch has a real dilemma: he has to track down members of the Fire Cult who have committed a murder, but the man murdered was intending to destroy the world. Sub-Mariner untitled story, script and art by Bill Everett; After Namor successfully routs invading Nazi paratroopers on an island Dorma and he arrived on for a rest, questioning of the Nazi Lieutenant reveals that the Axis Powers have built a secret submarine base on a little known island 20 miles from the coast of Florida; So Dorma and he head for that base to tackle the Nazi horde. The Angel untitled story, art by Paul Gustavson; The Angel investigates a mine operator that has a lot of equipment for handling radium on his hands, equipment that is being used to create synthetic diamonds. Redskins Bite Cinders text story, script by Andrew McWhiney, art by Harry Ramsey. The Vision untitled story, script by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon, art by Kirby; The Vision must battle two werewolves, one in reality Gordon Sanders, a member of the ill-fated Medwick Expedition that discovered a lost Tibetan city called the City of Demons, where he was bitten by such a creature. Terry Vance untitled story, script by Ray Gill, art by Bob Oksner; Deadline takes Terry along when he is scheduled to interview actress Diana Dunn, but a staged "movie scene" turns out to be a real kidnapping of the actress. Electro, the Marvel of the Age untitled story, art by Steve Dahlman; The destruction of the Fairbanks Iron Works leads Electro into the bowels of the earth to confront the Onees, who take control of the robot and force Professor Zog to come to his rescue. Advenures of Ka-Zar the Great untitled story, art by Ben Thompson; Ka-Zar succeeds in getting Zar out of the zoo he is imprisoned in, and hides out on a British boat heading toward Africa. Unfortunately, the boat is torpedoed by an enemy submarine. 68 pages. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Jack Binder. Untitled story, art by Ben Thompson; The Masked Marvel's assistands, ZR and ZL, former detectives of world renown are flying over the Gulf of Mexico. Untitled story, art by Sam Gilman; Squint Almgren, boss of the Coon Lumber Company, has ordered his men to put "Rip Sawyer", boss of the rival company, out of the way. Untitled story, art by Ben Thompson; The Masked Marvel arch enemy of crime with the aid of his three confederates. Untitled story, art by Ben Thompson; The Winthrop Aircraft company has developed a new fighting plane for the US Army. "Wings on Wheels," script by Eddy Herron, art by Jack Binder; As in days of old a covered wagon strikes out across the desert. "The Case of the Bolted Door," script and art by Harry Francis Campbell; Dean Denton America's foremost ventriloquist has given up his stage screen and radio career. Untitled story, script and art by R. C. Fuller; Billy's daring and brains helps to save US shipping. 68 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover inks by Pete Costanza. Boss Kizer's Political Power Play starring Bulletman, art by Jon Smalle. The Hijacked Bomber, art by Ken Battefield; Devil's Dagger vs. Mr. H. Quest For Jimmie's Parents; El Carim vs. The Duke. Captured By the Djungas; Captain Venture and the Planet Princess vs. Djungas and King Leon. The Drought of Doom starring Lee Granger, Jungle King. Framed For Kidnapping starring Red Gaucho, art by Harry Anderson; a western story. Mark of the White Arrow, pencils by Ken Battefield; In compliance with a mysterious note, Buck heads for the saloon to bait his trap for the unknown "White Arrow" who signed the threat. The Horned Masks starring Zoro, The Mystery Man, art by Jack Binder. 68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 25, Issue 2 - December, 1940. Mechanical science and technology magazine. This issue's articles include; "Bowling Tips From Champions" by Neil C. King, "Riding the Radio Beam" by John L. Scherer, "There's Real Money in a Model Railroad!" by R. DeWitt Miller, "Stock Car Rides Race With Death!" by John R. Whiting, "He Unlocked the Door to Success" by Bob Ruskauff, "Coming - The Frameless Automobile" by Israel Klein, and others. 6 1/2-in. x 9 1/2-in., 146 pages, BW/spot color. Cover price $0.10.

December 21, 1940. Weekly magazine published every Friday in London. Features comic strips, text stories, jokes, articles, and activities. 10 3/4-in. x 15-in., 12 pages, PC/BW.