Comic books February 1942

Vol. 75 No. 2 - Feb 1942. Fishing and hunting articles with photos. 8-in. x 11-in. 48 pages B&W. Cover price $0.15.

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February, 1942. Previously titled Future Fiction. Cover by John R. Forte, Jr. "Once in a Blue Moon" by Norman L. Knight. Other stories by Ray Cummings, Martin Pearson, Joseph Gilbert, Hugh Raymond, E. A Grosser, J. S. Kilmaris, Wilfred Owen Morley, James Blish, and Mallory Kent. 7-in. x 10-in., black and white; 114 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

February, 1942. Canadian publication featuring articles and fiction stories. 10 7/8" x 8 1/2", 36 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Vol. 1 #3 - Feb. 1942. Single panel gags and cartoons. 10 1/2-in. x 13 1/2-in., 30 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Art by Arturo Cazeneuve and others. Cover by Joe Simon. Vita-rays transform Michael Shelby into the hero known as the Green Mask. The Green Mask and his teen sidekick Domino help a woman regain the custody of her nephew from a criminal relation; Mickey Hawkins finds a genie called Alla Kazam in an old bottle; The Night Bird battles a villain called The Censor, in his final appearance. Cover by Captain America creator Joe Simon. Death Wields a Scalpel; The Devil's Hatchet Men; Horror Sings a Lullaby; The Mystery of Barren Island; Bonnie O'Toole: Harvest For Famine; Anchor Aweigh; Mickey and the Magic Bottle; The Night Bird: The Censor! 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 6, Issue 2 - February, 1942. Painted cover. True crime articles, stories and photos. 8.5" x 11.25", 68 pages, B&W with spot color Cover price $0.10.

Vintage supermarket tabloid magazine full of high profile true crime stories of the FBI and the CIA, some with testimonials from those involved in, or close to the cases themselves. 8.5" x 10.5", 66 pages, B&W. Recommended for ages 16+. Cover price $0.15.

Cover art by Reed Crandall. The Deadly Scheme of Dr. Bork, art by Max Elkan; Dr. Bork plans to start an epidemic by infecting the milk supply, and they stand to make a fortune since they've cornered the supply of the treatment serum. Dan Tootin humor page by Jack Cole [as Ralph Johns]. Mail Duty starring Bob and Swab, script and art by Klaus Nordling. Murder's Last Act starring Betty Bates, art by Al Bryant. The Spy Snatchers, script and art by George Brenner [as Wayne Reid]; FBI Chief Weever asks the Ghost to deliver sensitive documents to the War Department, which he does.....but only after battling a German brute, who was a giant with near superhuman strength. The Elevator Murders starring Red Bee, script by Witmer Williams [as B. H. Apiary], art by Witmer Williams. The Photo Hunters starring Lion Boy, art by Henry Kiefer. The War Games That Weren't Games starring Don Glory, art by Arthur Peddy. 68 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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.

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Articles with photography about hunting and fishing. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 68 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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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.

Glamour photos and single-panel cartoons magazine. Stars like Virginia Mayo, Rita Hayworth and Ida Lupino are pictured but the vast majority are B starlets and extras. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/4-in., 31 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Military humor digest book. Digest Sized. Cover price $0.15.

Volume 1 Issue 4 - February 1942. Humor tabloid featuring adult cartoons and Pin-Ups. This issue features a pictorial spread of Zorita, the famous striptease artist of the 30's and 40's, and innovator of the famed Snake Woman Dance made famous by Debra Paget in 1959's "The Indian Tomb". Saddle-Stitched, 10 1/2-in. x 13 1/2-in., 32 Pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by George Carlson, Emanuel Demby, and Stephen Douglas. Kids' comics featuring the whimsical fables of beloved artist George Carlson, praised by Harlan Ellison as a "comic of the absurd." A Fisherman's Smart Son and a Rich Lumbago have adventures in a land of delightful nonsense. Timid Mr. Lamb is rescued from jeopardy when his more assertive shadow comes to life. Prince Dimwitri, The Pie-Faced Prince of Old Pretzleburg, sets out to free Princess Panatella Murphy from the Witch's Tower. Jingle Jangle Tales: The Calico Fisherman and the Left-Handed Clay-Pipe; Bingo's Frolics in Fairytale Land; The Friendly Fox; Hortense the Lovable Brat; The Pie-Face Prince of Pretzleburg; Mr. Lamb the Lion Hearted; Bees-Ness Trouble; Benny Bear's Vacation. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Dan Zolnerowich. Edited by Jerry Iger. Stories and art by Will Eisner, Jerry Iger, Sy Reit, Mort Leav, Alex Blum, Charles A. Winter, and Robert Webb. An influential anthology starring jungle hero Sheena, featuring early art by legendary comics artists in the Eisner-Iger Shop. A hostile tribe targets Sheena and Bob on the eve of an intertribal peace conference; Time-traveler Stuart Taylor meets Viking explorers Eric the Red, Rolvaag, and Leif Ericson; ZX-5 tracks Nazi saboteurs to the governor's mansion. With this issue, Malcolm Reiss is no longer listed as the editor. The Hawk; Weird Stories of the Supernatural; Bobby; Sheena, Queen of the Jungle; Pee Wee; Uncle Otto; Midnight the Black Stallion; Tom Dick and Harry; Dead Man's Share; ZX-5 Spies In Action; Inspector Dayton; Lightning. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Dan Zolnerowich. "Gorillas of the Witch-Queen," art by Dan Zolnerowich; The White Queen of the Apes kidnaps Ann to use as leverage to force Kaänga to marry her. Untitled story, art by Henry Kiefer; Wambi tries to persuade the rajah to curtail his hunting which has made game animals very scarce in the jungle. Untitled story; Natives kidnap Gai in order to extort rifles from her trading post father; Tabu rescues her and causes the natives to be eaten by vultures. Untitled story, pencils by George Appel; Red Panther leads treasure hunters to a distant valley where they learn that their treasure map's treasure is the long-lost daughter of the map maker. "The Python Trap" text story. Untitled story; Despondent Vincent, pining for his own kind, leaves the gang but searching for him leads to a pair of explorers in need of rescue. Untitled story, pencils by George Appel; Camilla must overcome a mutinous longboat crew on her way to rescue her pygmy friends from one of their neighboring tribes. Untitled story; Roy is the object of a murder-by-leopard attempt by the pro-Nazi General Badeaux. Untitled story; Ken is taken captive by a treasure hunter who has dammed a river in order to expose an ancient Egyptian city filled with gold. 68 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Joe Musial. Edited by Ruth Plumly Thompson (sometimes credited as Jo King). Stories and art by William Ritt, Clarence Gray, Fran Striker, Brandon Walsh, Nicholas Afonsky, Carl Anderson, Jack Burnley, R. J. Scott, Eddie Sullivan, Charlie Schmidt, Lee Falk, Phil Davis, Tom Sims, Bela Zaboly, George McManus, Otto Soglow, Eddie Rickenbacker, Clayton Knight, Charles Flanders, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Frank Miller, 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 must flee the Amazon lands or be wed to their queen; The Phantom seeks an escape from the deathtrap called The Hole. Brick Bradford; The Lone Ranger; The Phantom; Little Annie Rooney; Henry; Sport Features; Scott's Scrapbook; Hall of Fame of the Air; Sentinel Louie; Radio Patrol; Mandrake the Magician; Thimble Theatre; Flash Gordon; Bringing Up Father; The Little King; Barney Baxter in the Air; Sappo; Stamps: The Black Virgin of Montserrat; Family Portraits: Telephone Technique; A Jack Frost Party. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Dorothy Ford Cover Model. Men's Magazine focusing on Humor, Sports, Politics, News, and Pin-ups. 10 1/2-in. x 13-in., 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Spanish Series. Issue #3 in a 12 issue series. 20 pages, B&W, Spanish language.

February 16, 1942. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: Army sweethearts; U.S. Corps of Engineers; war heroes; keezix comic strip; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 104 pages. Cover price $0.10.

68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 174, Issue 5 - February 14, 1942. 6.5" x 9", 132 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Edited by Margery McKay (sometimes credited as G. Whiz). Stories and art by Lee Falk, Phil Davis, Feg Murray, Clayton Knight, H. H. Knerr, Fran Striker, Charles Flanders, Floyd Torbert, Robert Storm, Mel Graff, Carl Anderson, Edwina Dumm, Chic Young, Bob Dunn, Frank Miller, Joe Musial, Billy DeBeck, Jimmy Thompson, Eugene L. Pollack, Tom Sims, and Bela Zaboly. Lee Falk's adventurer Mandrake the Magician gets top billing in this anthology series featuring reprints of King Features Syndicate comic strips. Enemy agents create a double of Dr. Griff that fools everyone but Mandrake; Dagwood may be a hapless everyman, but his son Alexander has a knack for thinking around corners. Mandrake the Magician; Jan and Aloysius; Seein' Stars; The Romance of Flying; Bunky; Dollar-A-Dither; The Lone Ranger; Secret Agent X-9; Little Nature Stories; Henry; Little Acorns; High Spots; Popeye; Barney Baxter; Blondie; Indian Lore; Tippie and Cap Stubbs; Dinglehoofer. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Alex Schomburg. Captain America Comics ad. "The Poison Pill Suicides" starring The Human Torch, story and art by Carl Burgos; Torch and Toro are invited to lead the Coney Island Mardi Gras pageant, but a henchman of a gunrunner named Izan succeeds in interrupting the event with a bomb before committing suicide with a poison pill rather than facing his boss's judgment to be drowned for failure. "The Flying Dutchman" starring Sub-Mariner, script and art by Bill Everett; Intrigued by four ship sinkings by a mysterious 18th-century ghost ship, Namor figures that the tremendous loss of gold shipments carried aboard those ships must be the work of a 20th-century pirate who has bolted the ghost ship to a submarine. Young Allies Comics ad. The Vision untitled story, script by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon, pencils by Kirby and David Walters, inks by Walters; The Vision comes to Earth to battle the "Mad Man of Science", Dr. Korbeau, who has discovered the secret of man's soul and how to remove it; Korbeau removes the souls of seven of his scientific competitors. "The Sea of Grassy Death" text story, script by Mickey Spillane. "The Green-Faced Man,", art by Al Fagaly; The celebrated trial of the Green-Faced Man is interrupted when the prisoner's gang frees him with an attack of gas; However, the Patriot tracks him down. "The Case of the Deadly Letters" starring Terry Vance, script by Ray Gill, art by Bob Oksner; Terry and Deadline suspect that Hollywood director Aubrey de Woode did not commit suicide, but was murdered, and they suspect the dead man's nephew, even though the police have ruled the young man out as a suspect. "Strange Adventures in the Land of Nowhere" starring Jimmy Jupiter, script and art by Ed Robbins; Jimmy is taken up in an airplane but forgets to fasten his safety belt, and falls out of the plane, landing on a soft cloud; He discovers he is in the Land of Nowhere. "The Horror of the Haunted Cathedral" starring Angel; General Henchel faces the prospect of suicide because of his blunder along the German-Russian Front, but instead he makes a hasty departure by submarine to America. 68 pages. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Mac Raboy. Captain Nazis' Assassination Plot, art by Mac Raboy; Captain Nazi kills an underground British agent, attends a secret conference meeting, and then sets out to kill the President of the United States before Captain Marvel Jr. can stop him. The Weeper: The Murderer Who Mourns His Victims!, art by the Binder studio; The Flying Detectives face a circus performer. The Walking Dead Man starring Minute Man, art by Phil Bard. See the Freaks Free starring El Carim, art by George Tuska. Arizona Bound, art by Ralph Carlson; Taggert is behind the robberies and killings on the stage line, and he will try to take over the line for himself. Battle With the Kraken starring the Companions Three. 68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 27, Issue 4 - February, 1942. Mechanical science and technology magazine. This issue's articles include; "The Key to the World's Richest Gold Mine" by Lester David and Irwin Lewis, "Let's Go Skiing" by Frank Elkins, "What Holds the World Together?" by Charles F. Berry, "Give 'em the Works" by Rudy Dusek, "Diamonds Do It!" by Arthur Roberts, "Don't You Wish You Could Read This?" by Charles A. Siegferth, and others. 6 1/2-in. x 9 1/2-in., 146 pages, BW/spot color. Cover price $0.10.

February 14, 1942 issue. Newsprint, 10.5" x 14", 12 pages, B&W with some color.

February 28, 1942 issue. Newsprint, 10.5" x 14", 12 pages, B&W with some color.

Cover art by Chuck Cuidera. The Return of Genghis Khan!, script by Dick French, art by Chuck Cuidera; Genghis Khan is re-born and starts on his reign of terror, until Blackhawk catches up with him; However, Blackhawk is captured and even Chop-Chop becomes one of Khan's own Generals, but recovers his sanity in time to release his leader. The Iceberg of Death, script and art by Fred Guardineer. Untitled Loops and Banks story, script and art by Bob Powell; Cannibal Island story. Untitled The Sniper story, script by Ted Udall, art by Vernon Henkel; The Death of Herr Brock. Untitled Shot and Shell story, script and art by Klaus Nordling; Van Der Dopple's Rice Paddies. Untitled Yankee Eagle story, art by John Stewart; There are spies in the shipyard. Untitled Death Patrol story, script and art by Dave Berg; Introduction of The Patchwork Kid. Untitled story, script and art by Maurice Kashuba; Miss America faces a non-costumed silk thief who uses cards that burst into flames when thrown; Featuring The Moth. Untitled story, script and art by Al Jaffee; The Quartermaster at Fort Bang dons an emblem and cape, calling himself Inferior Man, in order to take care of the Green Terror by whipping out his sissy serum and turning the Terror into a dancing dandy. Women of France text story. Phantom Army of Vengeance Secret War News non-fiction story, script and art by Al McWilliams. 68 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.