Comic books August 1919

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The classic weekly magazine featuring news and fiction. 10.75-in. x 15-in., 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.05.

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Issue #9 - first half of Aug. 1919. NOTE: German language text. Der Orchideengarten or The Orchids Garden is considered the first magazine of the macabre and fantastic. Weird Tales, its nearest competitor, was first published in 1923, four years later. Subtitled Phantastische Blatter, loosely translated to Fantastic Pages. Edited by World War I correspondent Karl Hans Strobl and Alfons von Czibulka. Overall, the magazine published a selection of new and reprinted supernatural and horror stories from both domestic and foreign authors (Dickens, Pushkin, Maupassant, Poe, Valtaire, Wells, Hugo). The Orchids Garden is more well known as being one of the most beautiful fantasy magazines ever published. Artists included Heinrich Kley, Alred Kubin, Karl Ritter, Gustave Dore, Tony Johannot, Otto Linnekogel, Rolf von Hoerschelmann and many others. Contents this issue include: "Das Tagebuch Des Dr. Hedderson" by Horst Wehner, illustrated by M. Schenke, "Der Saulenheilige" by S.V. Vegesack, "Vom Manne Krapp" by Emil Lucka, "Die Weisse Flote" by Erich Mosse, illustrated by Hans Schelle, "Grenze" by Heide Exner, "Das Treibhaus" by Karl Hans Strobl, "Phantastische Bucher" by uncredited. Extremely scarce. 8 3/4-in. x 12-in., 24 pages on rough book paper, black and white.

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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. 7.5" x 11", 16 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. 7.5" x 11", 16 pages, B&W

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Volume 7, Issue 12 (Serial Number 184) - August 01, 1919. Department of Natural History. In this issue: "The Honeybee" by Frank C. Pellett. Includes Gravures that feature: Manipulaton Of The Hive - Queen Bee Surrounded By A Group Of Her Subjects - An Apiary In The Spring - Swarm Of Bees Taken From A Tree - L.L. Langstroth - Gathering Honey. Each gravure also has educational text on the back. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 12 pages on white paper plus card-stock gravures. Cover price $0.20.

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Volume 7, Issue 13 (Serial Number 185) - August 15, 1918. Department of Literature. In this issue: "Makers of Modern American Fiction (Women)" by Arthur B. Maurice. Includes Gravures that feature; Frances Hodgson Burnett, Gertrude Atherton, Margaret Deland, Edith Wharton, Kate Douglas Wiggin, and Mary Roberts Rhinehart. Also includes 6 index cards, each one features a black and white photo of an author on the front, and a short biography on the back. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 12 pages on white paper plus card-stock gravures. Cover price $0.20.

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Vol. 16, No. 3. August 1919. Cover of Alice Brady by Alfred Cheney Johnston. Film fan magazine. Movy-Dols color paper-doll page of Norma Talmadge. Full-page color ad for Life Savers. 8.5" x 11.5". 138 pages. Black and white. Cover price $0.20.