Comic books July 1937

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.

July 1934. Subtitled "All Fact Stories from Official Sources." One-page article on Clark Gable denying he was the father of a child, with photographs. All articles heavily illustrated with period photographs. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 82 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Cover art by Creig Flessel. "Undercover in Grade School," script by Jerry Siegel, art by Joe Shuster; In order to help out Slam Bradleys sixth grade teacher, Shorty has to go undercover as a student. "The Path of Thorns" starring Buck Marshall, script and art by Homer Fleming; a detective story. "The Claws of the Red Dragon" (Part 5) starring Bruce Nelson, script by Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, art by Tom Hickey; Bruce finds Sigrid in a house full of Chinese gangsters but she won't leave until they find her father. "Winged Death" text story, script by Fredric Wells, art by Creig Flessel. "The Elm Park Mystery, script and art by Russell Cole (Alger); a detective story. "The Balinoff Case: Part 5" starring Spy, script by Jerry Siegel, art by Joe Shuster; Bart finally confesses to Sally why he tried to break off their relationship; After she helps him capture Olga Balinoff, she applies for a job with the same agency Bart works for. "The Dope Torpedo" starring Cosmo, the Phantom of Disguise, art by Sven Elven. "Mystery of the Wholesale Kidnappings: Part 1," script and art by Will Ely (as Will Georgi); introduction of Larry Steele and his father, Mr. Steele. "A Most Fishy Robbery" starring Speed Saunders, script and art by Creig Flessel. One-page Silly Sleuths story by Fred Schwab. 64 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 6, Issue 4 - July 1937. Pulp magazine focusing on Crime and Detective stories. Includes the tales "Murder Edits the News" by Norvell W. Page, and "No Parole For the Dead" by Wyatt Blassingame! 7-in. x 9-in, 80 pages, Text (with B&W illustrations and photos) Cover price $0.10.

"The Mummy in My Arms" a novel of stark, unearthly menace by Ray Cummings. See tables of contents page for more stories!

Vol. 14, No. 4. July 1937. 7" x 9.5". 128 pages. Cover by David Berger. Text with occasional B&W illustrations. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $75.00 View scans 1" spine split from top of comic. Staple rust, rust migration. Writing on interior pages. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by Bud Plant

Victor E. Pazmiño cover. Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Screen Oddities" by Captain Roscoe Fawcett and Bruno Thompson; "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "Goofie Gags" by Victor E. Pazmiño; "Alec and Itchy" by Jimmy George and Merle Mulholland; "War on Crime" by Rex Collier and Hammon; "Nipper" by Clare Victor Dwiggins; "Skyroads" by Dick Calkins and Russell Keaton; "Queenie" by S. M. Iger (as Bob Bliss); "Hairbreadth Harry" and "High-Gear Homer" by F. O. Alexander; "Nippie" and "Mickey Finn" by Frank E. Leonard (as Lank Leonard); "Fisher's History of Boxing" and "Joe Palooka" by Al Capp (as Ham Fisher); "Dickie Dare" by Milton Caniff; "Beau Geste" by P. C. Wren and Bill W. Depew; "Scorchy Smith" by Noel Sickles; "Adventures of Patsy" by Mel Graff; "Good Deed Dotty" and "Dixie Dugan" by J. P. McEvoy and J. H. Striebel; "The Frog Pond Ferry" by M. E. Brady; "Holly of Hollywood" and "Keeping Up With The Joneses" by Pop Momand; "Above the Crowd" by Benjamin D. Allen (as Stookie Allen); "Little Brother" and "The Bungle Family" by Harry J. Tuthill; "Ned Brant of Carter" by Bob Zuppke and Bill W. Depew; "Oaky Doaks" by Ralph Briggs Fuller; "Jolly Geography" and "High Lights of History" by J. Carroll Mansfield; "Olly of the Movies" by Julian Ollendorff; "Connie" and "The Wet Blanket" by Frank Godwin; "Bobby" by S. M. Iger; "Somebody's Stenog" and "The Back-Seat Driver" by A. E. Hayward; "Mescal Ike" by S. L. Huntley and Art Huhta; "Lena Pry" and "Jane Arden" by Monte Barrett and Jack W. McGuire; "Butty and Fatty" by M. E. Brady; "Flight" by W. D. Tipton and J. H. Mason; "Babe Bunting" by Roy L. Williams; "Strange as it Seems" by John Hix; "Toddy" by George Marcoux; "Homer Hoopee" by Fred Locher; "The Gay Thirties" by Hank Barrow; "Seaweed Sam" by Victor E. Pazmiño; and "Buck Rogers" by Philip Francis Nowlan and Rick Yager (as Dick Calkins). "Powder for the Fleet" text story by Ruth Colby. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 68 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Vol. 68 #579 - July 1937. Cover by Enoch Bolles. Spicy photographs of models interspersed with movie stills of a romantic nature. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 80 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.20.

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Bedsheet Format Cover price $0.15.

July 1937 Volume 1 No. 4. Cover by Eric Godal. Contains nearly two dozen stories & articles by authors that include Robert Benchley, A. J. Liebling, Heywood Broun, William E. Barrett, and more. Profusely illustrated with cartoons, most are full page gag cartoons. 5.5" x 7.75". 136 pages. Partial color, partial black and white. Cover price $0.25.

Contains comic strip reprints, text articles, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Alley Oop" by V. T. Hamlin; "Herky" by Clyde Lewis; "Home Magic" by A. W. Nugent; "Dan Dunn" by Norman Marsh; "Our Boarding House" by Gene Ahern; "Ben Webster's Page" by Jay Jerome Williams (as Edwin Alger); "G Men on the Job" by Dick Blair and Milt Youngren; "Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune" by Roy Crane; "Stranger than Fiction" by Richard W. Thomas and Walter Galli; "Boots" and "Bootkins" by Edgar Martin; "Bronc Peeler" and "Uncle Bill" by Fred Harman; "The Tiny Mites" by Hal Cochran and George Scarbo; "Out Our Way" by J. R. Williams; "Tailspin Tommy" and "Four Aces" by Hal Forrest; "Stories in Stamps" by I. S. Klein; "Og, Son of Fire" by James Irving Crump; "The Worry Wart" by J. R. Williams; "Scribbly" by Sheldon Mayer; "Don Dixon and the Hidden Empire" and "Tad of the Tanbark" by Bob Moore and Carl Pfeufer; "Reg'lar Fellers" and "Daisybelle" by Gene Byrnes; "Mutt and Jeff" and "Cicero's Cat" by Bud Fisher; "Everybody's Playmate" by A. W. Nugent; "Freckles and his Friends" by Merrill Blosser; "Now You Tell One!" by Edward Courtney Dunkle; "Be a Big Leaguer" by Ed Cronin; "Heroes' Hall of Fame" by Benjamin D. Allen (as Stookie Allen); "Annibelle" by Virginia Krausmann; and "Salesman Sam" by C. D. Small. "The Lost Inca Treasure, Part One" text story illustrated by Walter Cole Brigham. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 8, Issue 1 - July, 1937. 6.75" x 9.75", 134 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by George "Lichty" Lichtenstein. Stories and art by George M. Lichtenstein and John Pierotti. A collection of Lichty's one-panel "Grin and Bear It" strip, along with joke pages and spot illustrations. The lovely Miss Tweep meets Spumoni, the disappearing artist. Miss Devere tries to look horror-stricken for a seduction scene, but she can't get the smile off her face. Scientists put an observatory telescope to an earthier use. Grin and Bear It; Fellow Citizens; The Kid Who Said the Plural of Whim Is Women Wasn't Far Wrong. 48 pages, PC/PB&W.

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Volume 3, Issue 6 - August, 1937. Cover by de Marsau. Men's interest magazine containing fiction stories, cartoons, non-nude pictorials, and other variety. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 68 pages, tinted B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart Good $65.00 View scans Staple rust. 2" Spine split from top of book. 2" Spine split from base of book. Foxing. Soiling. Water damage.

Volume 8, Issue 7 - July, 1937. Spicy fiction with illustrations and 16 pages of nude photographs. 7" x 10", 64 pages, B&W. MATURE READERS Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart Very Good $29.00 View scans Spine split 10%. Staple rust: Extensive.

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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", 28 pages, B&W

Add to cart FN/VF 7.0 $55.00 View scans Staple rust: Moderate.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $12.00 View scans Spine split 80%. Cover Detached. Staple rust: Moderate.

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", 28 pages, B&W

Add to cart FN+ 6.5 $51.00 View scans Spine split 5%. Staple rust: Moderate.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $32.00 View scans Spine split 5%. Staple rust: Extensive.

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", 28 pages, B&W

Add to cart FN+ 6.5 $51.00 View scans Spine split 5%. Staple rust: Moderate.

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", 28 pages, B&W

Add to cart FN+ 6.5 $51.00 View scans Spine split 5%. Staple rust: Moderate.

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", 28 pages, B&W

July 4, 1937. The Grit "Story Section" was originally issued weekly as part of the Grit newspaper. Fiction stories by Thomas Walsh, Darragh Aldrich, Hal G. Vermes, Ernest Haycox, Anthony M. Rud, Stella W. Owen, and comic strips Bringing Up Father by George McManus and The Bungle Family by H. J. Tuthill (one page each), plus a page of poems. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 32 pages, black and white text with illustrations.

Vol. 1, No. 4. July 1937. Cartoons, humor, and cheesecake photos. 8.5" x 11.5". 32 pages. Black and white. MATURE. Cover price $0.15.

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.

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", 58 pages, B&W, recommended for 16+. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 112, Issue 2704 - July, 1937. Gardner Rea cover. American humor and Satire cartoons featuring artists such as Harry Douglas, Dunkel, Kirk Stiles, Gardner Rea, and many others. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Cover by Joe Musial. Edited by Ruth Plumly Thompson (sometimes credited as Jo King). Stories and art by William Ritt, Clarence Gray, Brandon Walsh, Nicholas Afonsky, Carl Anderson, Jack Burnley, R. J. Scott, Eddie Sullivan, Charlie Schmidt, Lee Falk, Phil Davis, E. C. Segar, George Clarke, Lou Hanlon, George McManus, Otto Soglow, Eddie Rickenbacker, Clayton Knight, Ed Anthony, Romer Grey, 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. Mandrake the Magician and Lothar encounter man-eating plants in the X Dimension. Brick Bradford; Little Annie Rooney; Henry; Sport Features; Scott's Scrapbook; Radio Patrol; Mandrake the Magician; Thimble Theatre; Flash Gordon; The G-Man; Bringing Up Father; The Little King; Ace Drummond; Ted Towers, Animal Master; King of the Royal Mounted. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.