Comic books December 1938

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.

Add to cart FR 1.0 $200.00 View scan Trimmed TRIMMED. Spine damaged (book removed from a bound volume). Staples added (not manufacturing). Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Stories and art by Roy Crane, J. R. Williams, 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, 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. Frank Hawks escapes from Rico's narcotic ring, in his final appearance. Captain Easy's enemy Bow Wow Jones meets Lulubelle, the one person who might be able to outfight Easy in the ring. Don Winslow and Red are captured by munitions smugglers. Dan Dunn; Captain Frank Hawks, Air Ace; 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: Against the Spy Ring; Flapper Fanny; Annibelle; Buck Jones: Killers of Crooked Butte. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Vol. 1, No. 2. December 1939. Painted cover art. Sensationalistic true crime articles, stories and photos. 8.5" x 11.5". 114 pages. Black and white. Cover price $0.25.

Cover art by Jim Chambers. Slam Bradley story, script by Jerry Siegel, art by Joe Shuster. Larry Steele story, script and art by Will Ely. Crimson Avenger story, art by Jim Chambers. The Song of Death (Part 3) starring Bruce Nelson, art by Tom Hickey. A Sticky Clue text story by Gardner Fox (Paul Dean). Untitled story featuring a break-in at the Bartilian Embassy, script by Jerry Siegel, art by Joe Shuster. Dr. Fu Manchu story, script by Sax Rohmer, art by Leo O'Mealia. Cosmo story, art by Sven Elven. Inspector Kent story, art by George Newman. The Snow Murder starring Speed Saunders, script by Gardner Fox, art by Fred Guardineer. 64 pgs. $0.10. First Crimson Avenger cover. Cover price $0.10.

December 3, 1938. Cover by Rudolph Belarski. "The Puppets of Madame Bovard" by Paul Ernst, plus other detective stories by Eric Howard, William Brandon, Edward S. Williams, Stookie Allen, Joseph Fulling Fishman, Edgar Franklin, and C. S. Montanye. 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.

Add to cart Fine $195.00 View scans Paper: Cream Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Volume 12, Issue 4 - December, 1938. 6.75" x 9.75", 132 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Official organ of the International Society of Junior Magicians, containing news and tips. 16 pages on newsprint.

Victor E. Pazmiño cover. Christmas cover. Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Jitter" by Arthur B. Poinier; "Goofie Gags" by Victor E. Pazmiño; "The Gay Thirties" by Hank Barrow; "Roy Powers, Eagle Scout" by Paul Powell; "Life's Like That" by Fred Neher; "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); "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; "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "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; "Nipper" and "Footprints on the Sands of Time" by Clare Victor Dwiggins; "Queenie" by S. M. Iger (as Bob Bliss); "Homer Hoopee" by Fred Locher; and "Butty and Fatty" and "Animals in the News" by M. E. Brady. "The Ghost of Pirate's Roost" text story by John A. Thorne. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 68 pages. Full color. Cover Price 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 learns that a pirate submarine is sinking American ships, in an attempt to goad the (then still neutral) US into joining WWII. Far from home, Gallant Knight Sir Neville defends a lonely castle from strange invaders. In the early Eisner strip Archie O'Toole, King Archie goes to America to seek a loan for his country, Pyromania. Plus 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. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 43 Issue #8 - December 1938. Cover by Lynn Bogue Hunt. Spot illustrations by Hunt, Herman Rountree, Arthur Fuller and many more. "On the Ivory Trail" by Edison Marshall (author of The Vikings, adapted into the movie starring Kirk Douglas), illustrated by Fuller. Articles and stories about fishing, hunting, arms and ammunition, conservation laws and much more. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/4-in. 100 pages, black and white. Cover price $0.15.

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Add to cart Very Good $86.00 View scans Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart GD 2.0 $69.00 View scans 3" Cumulative spine split(chew).

Volume 69, Issue 596 - December, 1938. 8.5" x 11.5", 74 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.20.

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Issue 986 - Dec. 10, 1938. UK weekly comic. Featuring one-page comic strips of Laurel and Hardy, George Formby, Wheeler and Woolsey, Harold Lloyd, Joe E Brown, Claude Hubert and Max Miller. Also features text stories, usually running two pages. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/4-in., 24 pages, B&W.

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Issue 987 - Dec. 17, 1938. UK weekly comic. Featuring one-page comic strips of Laurel and Hardy, George Formby, Wheeler and Woolsey, Harold Lloyd, Joe E Brown, Claude Hubert and Max Miller. Also features text stories, usually running two pages. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/4-in., 24 pages, B&W.

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Issue 988 - Dec. 24, 1938. UK weekly comic. Featuring one-page comic strips of Laurel and Hardy, George Formby, Wheeler and Woolsey, Harold Lloyd, Joe E Brown, Claude Hubert and Max Miller. Also features text stories, usually running two pages. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/4-in., 24 pages, B&W.

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Issue 985 - Dec. 3, 1938. UK weekly comic. Featuring one-page comic strips of Laurel and Hardy, George Formby, Wheeler and Woolsey, Harold Lloyd, Joe E Brown, Claude Hubert and Max Miller. Also features text stories, usually running two pages. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/4-in., 24 pages, B&W.

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Issue 989 - Dec. 31, 1938. UK weekly comic. Featuring one-page comic strips of Laurel and Hardy, George Formby, Wheeler and Woolsey, Harold Lloyd, Joe E Brown, Claude Hubert and Max Miller. Also features text stories, usually running two pages. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/4-in., 24 pages, B&W.

Bedsheet Format Cover price $0.15.

Contains comic strip reprints, text articles, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Alley Oop" by V. T. Hamlin; "The Worry Wart" by J. R. Williams; "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; "Stranger than Fiction" by Richard W. Thomas and Walter Galli; "Bronc Peeler" by Fred Harman; "Out Our Way" by J. R. Williams; "Reg'lar Fellers" by Gene Byrnes; "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: The Last Stand" film adaptation; and "Be a Champ" by Ed Cronin. "Coast Guard Pinch-Hitter Part Two" text story by H. T. Sperry. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.