Comic books August 1939

Add to cart Fair $10.80 View scans Spine split 70%. Staple rust: Moderate. Discounted from $12.00.

Short stories, serials, articles, and features with illustrations. Cover by Tchetchet. 8.5" x 11", 60 pages, B&W with spot color. Cover price $0.05.

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Volume 16, Issue 33 - August 19, 1939. Cover by Elise Parks. 8.5" x 11.5", 64 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.05.

Add to cart GD 2.0 $2.25 View scan 4" spine split, rusty staples and centerfold detached at two of three staples. Discounted from $2.50.

August 14, 1939. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: Sandy Henville; Army photographic essay; national swimming meet (including Esther Williams); hay fever season; Oregon history murals; war in the Alps; Italy's German minority; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 68 pages. Cover price $0.10.

August, 1939 Spicy stories, humor, pin-up photos, and cartoons. 6.75" x 10", 68 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart CGC 9.0 $4,595.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Very small amount of dried glue on spine of cover. Label #2052282001 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $250.00 View scans CGC Qualified Paper: Cream to off white Centerfold Missing, Affects Story. Incomplete Label #1293983014 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Other items consigned by Bud Plant

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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, Edwina Dumm, Sheldon Stark, Neil O'Keefe, Robert Storm, Austin Briggs, Thornton W. Burgess, Carl Anderson, Chic Young, Bob Dunn, Frank Miller, Joe Musial, Billy DeBeck, Jimmy Thompson, Fanny Y. Cory, McKay and E.C. Segar. Lee Falk's adventurer Mandrake the Magician gets top billing in this anthology series featuring reprints of King Features Syndicate comic strips. Mandrake investigates when strange beings emerge from a spherical object and claim to be from Mars. Mandrake the Magician; News in Sports; Jan and Aloysius; Seein' Stars; The Romance of Flying; Bunky; Tippie and Cap Stubbs; Inspector Wade; Secret Agent X-9; Little Nature Stories; Henry; Little Acorns; Popeye; Barney Baxter; Blondie; Indian Lore; Roger; Stamp Corner; Little Miss Muffet; Dinglehoofer. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Published in New York, this is an American pulp with a British price sticker of one shilling. If you hold the cover up to the light you can see the 15 cents cover price underneath the sticker. It is not known how many issues of this title were treated this way. Short story by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach. 6 3/4-in. x 9 3/4-in., 128 pages, B&W.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $799.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: Cream to off white Label #4416090018 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

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Aug 1939. Cover by John W. Scott. Science Fiction stories by Frederic Arnold Kummer, Jr, R. DeWitt Miller, Lloyd Arthur Esbach. 7" x 10"; black and white; 128 newsprint pages. NOTE: Title becomes Marvel Tales (1939-1940 Western Fiction) Pulp with Vol. 1 #6 Cover price $0.15.

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Vol. 24 #8 - Aug. 1939. UK magazine featuring articles on engineering feats and vehicles. 8 1/4-in. x 11-in., 86 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart Very Good $5.40 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight. Discounted from $6.00.

Add to cart Good $5.40 View scans Paper: Cream Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight. Discounted from $6.00.

Volume 22, Issue 4 - August, 1939. Mechanical science and technology magazine. This issue's articles include; "Free Power from the Sun!" by Dr. Charles G. Abbot, "Sailplane Magic" by Richard C. Du Pont, "He Potted Plants for Profit" by Edwin Hogg, "Robot Secretary Takes Notes" by George A. Posner, and others. 6 1/2-in. x 9 1/2-in., 130 pages, BW/spot color. Cover price $0.10.

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Vintage celebrity gossip tabloid with a focus on Hollywood during the golden-age of cinema. 8.5" x 11.5", 92 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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Photo cover of Louis XIV (Philippe of Gascony, Louis Hayward) and Maria Theresa (Joan Bennett). "The Man in the Iron Mask"; Despotic King Louis XIV discovers he has a twin brother who has grown up under the tutelage of his foster father, the patriotic musketeer D'Artagnan; airbrushed and inked over movie photo stills; Based on the 1939 movie. "The Girl and the Gambler"; Learning of a certain cantina dancer, the notorious outlaw El Rayo bets he can bring her voluntarily back that night; Arriving he learns she loves the craps table operator Johnny Powell; airbrushed and inked over movie photo stills; Based on the 1939 movie. "The Family Next Door"; A plumber (a Rodney Dangerfield type) has misadventures with his family; airbrushed and inked over movie photo stills; Based on the 1939 movie. "5 Came Back"; Twelve people are aboard Coast Air Line's flagship the Silver Queen en route to South America when the airplane encounters a storm and is blown off course; airbrushed and inked over movie photo stills; Based on the 1939 movie. "The House of Fear!"; A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred during the performance of a play; airbrushed and inked over movie photo stills; Based on the 1939 movie. "Wolf Call"; Playboy Michael "Mike" Vance, Jr.is night-clubbing in New York City with Natalie; They join a scavenger hunt and break-in a pet shop to get something they require for the treasure-hunt prize; While there, Mike frees Smokey, a police dog, and Smokey follows him home; airbrushed and inked over movie photo stills; Based on the 1939 movie. 68 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Aug. 1939. New films in story form plus the usual movie magazine content. Movies in text and movie stills are Susannah of the Mounties starring Shirley Temple and Randolph Scott, Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever with Mickey Rooney, Good Girls Go to Paris starring Joan Blondell, The Old Maid starring Bette Davis, The Angels Wash Their Faces starring Ann Sheridan, The Wizard of Oz starring Judy Garland, Hotel for Women starring Linda Darnell, Stronger Than Desire with Walter Pidgeon, Massie with Ann Sothern, Secret Enemy starring Boris Karloff. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 90 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Lou Fine. "A Modern Robin Hood," art by Walter Frehm; The Green Mask (Michael Shelby) introduction; vs. Rocky Vilon and Cyrus Boomer. Untitled story, art by Dick Briefer; Origin of Rex Dexter of Mars; vs. Boris Thorax. "How To Become a Detective," script and art by Norman Lee. Untitled story starring Chen Chang, Wong, and Richard Kendall. Untitled story, art by George Tuska; Wing Taylor vs. The Chief and Clutch. Untitled story, art by George Tuska; Magician Zanzibar faces The Top. "The Case of Tintype's Will," art by Fred Schwab; Hemlock Shomes and Dr. Potsam travel to Old Man Tintype's mansion and try to figure out which one of the many men who claim to be his son actually killed him. "The Haunted House" text story by Will Eisner. Untitled story, art by Arthur Peddy; The Waco Kid vs. Brazos Teale. "Another Bombing Outrage," art by Art Franklin; Inspector Bancroft and Inspector Grainger face Stuart Bledsoe. Untitled story, art by Charles Nicholas; Introduction of The Blue Beetle (Dan Garret); vs. The White Face Gang. Untitled story, pencils by Bob Powell (as S.R. Powell); Secret Agent D-13 (Richard Anthony) faces Manata. Untitled story, art by John Lindermayer; Introduction of Capt. Danny Scott of the Bengal Lancers. Untitled Lt. Drake story, art by Klaus Nordling; There are Saboteurs on the S. S. REGINA. 68 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 1, Issue 10 - August 1939. Vintage Men's Humor magazine featuring pictorials, Articles on politics, and humor, and single panel gag cartoons. 10 1/2-in. x 13 1/2-in, 40 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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Vintage photo magazine featuring Reader submitted photographs, and pictorials focusing on Sports, Celebrities, Controversies, and Fashions of the time. Brief article on newspaper comic strip artists with a single panel cartoons. 10-in. x 13 1/2-in., 48 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Picture Play Magazine, originally titled Picture-Play Weekly was an American weekly published magazine centered around the movie industry during the golden-age of Hollywood. It was one of the earliest published tabloid style magazines that focused on celebrity gossip, but also included behind-the-scenes content, and movie reviews. It was first published on April 10, 1915, and ultimately transitioned from a weekly to a monthly publication before the end of it's production run in late 1941 after merging with Charm Magazine. Cover price $0.25.