Comic books May 1939

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.

Stories and art by Roy Crane, Hugh Harmon and Rudolf Ising, Fred Harman, Jim Gary, Norman Marsh, Al McWilliams, Merrill Blosser, Ray Thompson, Charles Coll, Allen Saunders, Martha Orr, Sol Hess, Wallace Carlson, Gene Ahern, Russ Winterbotham, Bill Smith, Frank V. Martinek, Leon A. Beroth, Abe Martin, Virginia Krausmann, and Oskar Lebeck. Crackajack Funnies presented original stories and reprints of classic comic strips, including Roy Crane's influential Wash Tubbs & Captain Easy. Framed for murder and robbery by Ace Hanlon, Red Ryder searches for the real outlaws to clear his name. Don Winslow and Red discover evidence of a plot to drag America into the Spanish Civil War. G-Men Ed Tracer and "Jimmie Stewart" pursue Princess Helena and Count Pierre after they are captured by The Piranha. Plus How to Draw Animated Cartoons, by legendary animators Hugh Harmon and Rudolf Ising! Dan Dunn; Red Ryder; Freckles and His Friends; Myra North, Special Nurse; Wash Tubbs; Apple Mary; The Nebbs; Our Boarding House; Clyde Beatty; Don Winslow of the Navy; Tom Mix; Boots and Her Buddies; Ed Tracer, G-Man X32; Annibelle; Buck Jones: The Bandits of Dead Man's Gulch; How to Draw Animated Cartoons; Time Marches Back with Looney Luke; Speed Bolton, Air Ace. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

True Crime magazine featuring articles and photos. 10 1/2" x 13 1/2", 52 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Cover art by Bob Kane. 1st appearance of Batman and Commissioner Gordon. The Case of the Chemical Syndicate starring The Bat-Man (as he's called in the story), script by Bill Finger, art by Bob Kane. The Killers of Kurdistan starring Speed Saunders, Ace Investigator, script by Gardner Fox, art by Fred Guardineer. Bullet Bluff starring Buck Marshall, Range Detective, art by Homer Fleming. Spy story, script by Jerry Siegel, art by Joe Shuster. The Crimson Avenger story, script and art by Jim Chambers. Death on the Airwaves text story by Gardner F. Fox (as Paul Dean), art by Fred Guardineer. Bruce Nelson story, script and art by Tom Hickey. The Mysterious Doctor Fu Manchu story, script and art by Leo O'Mealia. Cosmo, the Phantom of Disguise story, script and art by Sven Elven. Plain Clothes Pete story, script and art by Russell Cole (as Alger). Slam Bradley story, script by Jerry Siegel, art by Joe Shuster. Ad for All-American #2 and Movie Comics #2. 64 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 3, Issue 6 - May, 1939. 6.75" x 9.75", 114 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

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

Cover by Norman Saunders. Stories and art by Ralph Powers, Arden Antony, Stephen McBarron, Cliff Howe, Frank Airth, John Clemons, Laurence D. Smith, Eric Lennox, and David Bernard. Classic pulp fiction featuring horror and mystery of the type called Weird Menace. Stalwart heroes; beautiful women threatened with grim fates; otherworldly creatures; stripped-down narratives with nary an excess word; and terrific painted cover art by Norman Saunders. The Corpse Symphony; Tomb of Torment; Spiders' Realm; Havoc for Sale; Call of the Claw; The Fear Fetish; Time for Death; Song of the Damned; Wedding Hells; Invitation to Murder. 112 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

May, 1939. Anonymous non-fiction content presented in the pulp format. B&W photo covers; somewhat common.

8.5" x 11.5". 16 pages. Black and white.

Victor E. Pazmiño cover. Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "The Gay Thirties" by Hank Barrow; "Goofie Gags" by Victor E. Pazmiño; "Butty and Fatty" by M. E. Brady; "Roy Powers, Eagle Scout" by Paul Powell; "Buck Rogers" by Philip Francis Nowlan and Rick Yager (as Dick Calkins); "Nipper" by Clare Victor Dwiggins; "Skyroads" by Dick Calkins and Russell Keaton; "Hairbreadth Harry" and "High-Gear Homer" by F. O. Alexander; "Life's Like That" by Fred Neher; "War on Crime" by Rex Collier and Hammon; "Jitter" by Arthur B. Poinier; "Big Chief Wahoo" by Allen Saunders and Elmer Woggon; "Dickie Dare" by Milton Caniff; "Adventures of Patsy" by Mel Graff; "High Lights of History" by J. Carroll Mansfield; "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "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; "Queenie" by S. M. Iger (as Bob Bliss); "Homer Hoopee" by Fred Locher; and "Spunky Dory" by M. E. Brady. "Partners Three" text story by John A. Thorne. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 68 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Add to cart GD- 1.8 $75.00 View scans 6" cumulative spine split. Cover and interior oxidation. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Volume 1, Issue 1 - May, 1939. Cover by Robert Fuqua. Science Fiction and Fantasy adventure stories. This issue features "The Invisible Robin Hood" by Eando Binder, "Revolt of the Robots" by Arthur Tofte, and stories by A. Hyatt Verrill, F.A. Kummer Jr. Ross Rocklynne, Murice Duclos, and Harl Vincent. 8.5" x 11.5", 100 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.20.

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 goes undercover at a munitions factory to smoke out a saboteur, but almost gets smelted for his trouble. Pioneering masked hero The Clock is unmasked by ganglord Boss Marco, but no one can see the Clock's face and live. In the early Eisner strip Archie O'Toole, King Archie investigates the haunted east wing of the castle. 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; The Mystery of Echo Island, Chapter 1: Man of Iron; Big Top; Dixie Dugan; Bungle Family; Lena Pry; Clip Chance at Cliffside; The Outcast. Final issue under this title; series continues as Feature Comics (1939) #21. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 70, Issue 601 - May, 1939. Cover by Enoch Bolles. Humorous captions paired with movie stills and models. 8.5" x 11.5", 52 pages, tinted B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 32, Issue 2 - May, 1939. Fiction, model-making articles, schematics, cartoons and factual essays about airplanes and aviation. Cover by August Schomburg. 8.5" x 11.5", 84 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Stories and art by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Roy Crane, V. T. Hamlin, Chester Gould, Art Krenz, J. R. Williams, Al Micale, Al McWilliams, Jim Gary, Hal Forrest, Norman Fallon, Walt Spouse, Gene Ahern, C. D. Small, William Ferguson, Hugh Harman, and Win Smith. The Funnies presented reprints of classic comic strips, including Roy Crane's influential Captain Easy, alongside original material. Now on Mars and possessing superhuman powers, John Carter meets the Green Martian Tars Tarkas, in the official comic-strip adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' A Princess of Mars. Mistaken for a hired killer, hero cowboy Tom infiltrates an outlaw gang, in an adaptation of the 1939 Western movie Santa Fe Bound. Alley Oop discovers that the mysterious Grand Wizer is none other than the lovely Ooola. Plus a text story featuring Dick Tracy. In This Corner; Gene Autry: The Ghost of Winter Ranch; Salesman Sam; Alley Oop; Funnie Bone Riddle Page; John Carter Warlord of Mars; Bosko; Out Our Way; Four Aces; Dick Tracy and Yellowpony Trail the Arson Gang; Our Boarding House; The Crime Busters; This Curious World; Oz; Captain Easy; Tom Beatty: The Black Widow; Bronc Peeler. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 15, Issue 2 - May, 1939. 6.75" x 9.75", 114 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Cover reprint by Wynne W. Davies from Paris Nights V14#8. Five saucy fictional tales. 16 page nude photo pictorial on slick paper. 6 3/4-in. x 9 3/4-in., 50 newsprint pages, Text with B&W illustrations and Photos. Mature Readers. Cover price $0.25.

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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. 6.75" x 9.5", 36 pages, B&W

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $25.00 View scans Spine split 10%. 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. 6.75" x 9.5", 36 pages, B&W

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $25.00 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. 6.75" x 9.5", 36 pages, B&W

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $25.00 View scans 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. 6.75" x 9.5", 36 pages, B&W

Add to cart Very Good $26.00 View scans Trimmed Paper: Cream Back cover detached 15%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart Very Good $32.00 View scans Trimmed Paper: Light tan to Cream Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Volume 2, Issue 5 - May 1939. Pulp magazine focusing on historical adventures. This issue features "The Sea Drinks Blood" by H. Bedford Jones, and "Count Gaspar" by E. Charles Vivian. 6 /2-in. x 9 1/2-in., 128 pages, Text (with B&W illustrations) Cover price $0.20.

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May 1939. Articles include: "Secrets of an Ugly Duckling" how Lucille Ball reinvented herself; "Selling Danger by the Day" stunt work in the films; Disney related article "Something to Crow About" Florence Gill adds her operatic voice to Disney characters, with her photo and an illustration of the Disney character Madame Clara Cluck. Full-page B&W ads for "Dark Victory" with Bette Davis; "The Story of Alexander Graham Bell" with Don Ameche and Loretta Young; and "Broadway Serenade" with Jeanette MacDonald. Photographic cover with Merle Oberon and Lawrence Olivier from "Wuthering Heights". Full-page color ads for Lucky Strike Cigarettes, Maybelline, and Clopay Window Shades. 8.5" x 11.25". 66 pages. Black and white. Cover price $0.05.