Auctions: comic books March 1939
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Item #61918253
Published Mar 1939 by Centaur Comics.Amazing Mystery Funnies (1938) 7 CGC 3.0
Paper: Cream to off white
Label #4439932022
Starts Jan 4 Vol 2 #3. Cover art by Bill Everett. Part 1: The Professors Enemy! Starring Air-Sub 'DX', art by Carl Burgos. Untitled Dirk the Demon story, art by Bill Everett; Dirk and the Princess arrive for her wedding to Prince Marcus, but they find the place overtaken by men in strange masks; They're captured, but Dirk escapes and frees the royal couple. Vanishing Men starring Phantom of the Hills. Dictator's Mistake text story, art by George A. Fish. The Madhouse Murder Mystery, art by E. F. Webster. Pay Off For Mr. Ghost starring Pat O'Day, art by Joseph E. Buresch. The Mysterious Poacher starring Captain Dale, art by Howard L. Hastings. Untitled Skyrocket Steele, art by Bill Everett. 52 pgs.$0.10. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #62137741
Published Mar 1939 by Harry A. Chesler.Feature Funnies (1937) 18 CGC 5.0
Paper: Off white
Label #4525122009
Starts Jan 4 Cover by Ed Cronin. Stories and art by Will Eisner, Rube Goldberg, Art Pinajian, Frank Frollo, 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, Bill Sakren, and Vernon Henkel. An early comics anthology published by Harry Chesler, featuring reprints of newspaper comic strips. Will Eisner's spy hero Black X investigates after an American commercial plane is destroyed near a Chinese seaport. Slim and Tubby flee to the hills after escaping prison with Burns and Benton, but then they have a friendly visitor. In the early Eisner strip Archie O'Toole, King Archie encounters Doctor Finklestein, who wants to make a monster. Plus the early strip Lala Palooza by Rube Goldberg. Joe Palooka; They're Still Talking; Captain Cook of Scotland Yard; 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; Richard Manners; Reynolds of the Mounted; Mortimer Mum; 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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Item #61463903
Published Mar 1939 by Street & Smith.Shadow (1931-1949 Street & Smith) Pulp Vol. 29 #1 GD 2.0 (R)
Restored (see item notes)
RESTORATION. Color touch, tear and spine split seals.
Starts Jan 4 March 1, 1939. Stories include "River of Death" by Maxwell Grant; "Kid from New York" by Steve Fisher; "Lightning Strikes Twice" by Clifford Goodrich; and "Eyes That Saw" by Leo Stalnaker plus the columns "Codes" by Henry Lysing and "The Third Degree" by Dean Callahan. 7" x 10", black and white, 128 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.10.