Comic books May 1941

Vintage celebrity gossip tabloid with a focus on Hollywood during the golden-age of cinema. 8.5" x 11.5", 130 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Bernard Baily. "The Incredible Robberies," script by Jerry Siegel, art by Bernard Baily; A series of baffling crimes in Cliffland leads the Chief to suspect the Spectre is behind them, but Corrigan knows better, discovering a man so adept in black magic that he can materialize spirits to accomplish his crimes. "The Sky Hijackers," starring Detective Sergeant Carey, script and art by Joe Donohoe. "The Daring Daylight Diamond Robbery," starring Congo Bill, art by George Papp. "Adventure in Central America," starring Captain Desmo, art by Ed Winiarski. "Riddle of the Statuette," starring Radio Squad, script by Jerry Siegel. "The Flying Dragons," starring Lance Larkin, art by Harold Sharp. "The Mystery Message," starring Biff Bronson, script by Albert Sulman, art by Joe Sulman. Untitled Sergeant O'Malley of the Red Coat Patrol story, art by John Lehti. "The Origin of Dr. Fate," script by Gardner Fox, art by Howard Sherman; In 1920, young Kent Nelson and his father explore the mysteries of the pyramids, there Kent meets Nabu the Wise, an exile from the planet Cilia, who helped build the pyramids; Nabu trains Kent in the mysteries of the universe until Kent assumes the role of Dr. Fate. 68 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 75, Issue 5 - May, 1941. Painted cover by Robert Robinson. Vintage auto magazine with articles about (now) classic cars, with lots of photographs and tons of vintage ads, this is a must have for any car enthusiast. Softcover Magazine, 8" x 11", 174 pages, B&W with some color.

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Volume 16, Issue 85 - May, 1941. 8.5" x 11", 92 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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Vol. 10 #32 - May 17-23, 1941. Subtitled The National Weekly of Personalities and Programs. Marlene Dietrich cover with article. John Barrymore pictorial. Radio program listings for the week. Articles on Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Big Band news. Inside back cover has an ad from NBC showcasing its reporters working in what countries. 10 3 /4-in. x 13 1/2-in., 44 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Chuck Cuidera. Stories by Dick Briefer, Al Weine and Nathaniel Nitkin. Art by Charles Nicholas, Dick Briefer, Walter Frehm, Klaus Nordling and Munson Paddock. An anthology of Golden Age adventure comics from Fox Feature, including the original Blue Beetle. An atomic attack on an Earth city leads Rex to the underwater kingdom of the Ugly Queen, in a Rex Dexter story by Dick Briefer; The killer named Magog bombs schoolyards to terrify the city, and only Blue Beetle can stop him; Zanzibar, who looks like Mandrake the Magician in a blue fez, investigates the murder of a gangster's girlfriend. The Menace of Magog; Attack of the Ugly Queen; The Kidnapping of Joan Tracy; The Radio Bomb Spies; Escape From the Noose; Hollywood Racket; The Return of the Rook; The Murder of a Gunmoll; Attack on the Queensland. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Lou Fine. Untitled stories starring Uncle Sam (script by Will Eisner), Sally O'Neil Policewoman (script by Toni Blum, art by Chuck Mazoujian), Kid Patrol (art by Charles Nicholas), Prop Powers (art by Rudy Palais), Windy Breeze (script and art by Jack Cole), Kid Dixon (script and art by Klaus Nordling), Jack and Jill (art by Chuck Mazoujian), Wonder Boy, Pen Miller (script and art by Klaus Nordling), Paul Bunyan (art by Reed Crandall), and Merlin (art by Emil Gershwin). Death Rides the Racetrack starring Quicksilver, art by Nick Cardy. 68 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Brazilian series. Reprints material from a variety of U.S. publications. Reprints Planet Comics (1940 Fiction House) #9. Ads replaced. 2 page story replaced with a collection of photos. 68 pages, full color, Portuguese language.

Add to cart CGC 2.5 $490.00 View scans Restored: C2 Paper: Cream to off white Restoration includes: small amount of color touch on cover, pieces added to cover, tear seals to cover, spine split sealed. Label #4262600004

Cover art by Irv Novick. Untitled Shield story, script by Harry Shorten, art by Irv Novick. Untitled Danny In Wonderland story, script by Harry Shorten, art by Lin Streeter. Untitled Comet story, script by Joe Blair, art by Lin Streeter. Untitled Fireball story, art by Paul Reinman. Untitled Sergeant Boyle story, art by Charles Biro. Midshipman story, script by Joe Blair. Untitled Kayo Ward story, art by Bob Wood. Untitled Bentley of Scotland Yard story, script by Joe Blair, art by Sam Cooper. 68 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

The Gold Seal Novel was a tabloid-sized weekly supplement of the Philadelphia Inquirer issued with the Sunday edition of the newspaper. Between 1934 and 1949, they published almost 400 of these novels.

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Volume 9, Issue 10 - May, 1941. Vintage photo magazine featuring Reader submitted photographs, and pictorials focusing on Sports, Celebrities, Controversies, and Fashions of the time. Cannibal Ceremony, Adolf Hitler article & pictorial (one photo of Hitler). 10-in. x 13 1/2-in., 52 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Picture Play Magazine, originally titled Picture-Play Weekly was an American weekly published magazine centered around the movie industry during the golden-age of Hollywood. It was one of the earliest published tabloid style magazines that focused on celebrity gossip, but also included behind-the-scenes content, and movie reviews. It was first published on April 10, 1915, and ultimately transitioned from a weekly to a monthly publication before the end of it's production run in late 1941 after merging with Charm Magazine. Cover price $0.25.

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Cover by John Celardo. Edited by Malcolm Reiss and Gene Fawcette. Stories and art by Dan Zolnerowich, Pierce Rice, Arturo Cazeneuve, Don Lynch, Don Rico, Al Walker, Al Gabriele, and Nick Cardy. The first true science fiction comic, Planet Comics featured classic space opera with square-jawed heroes, rockets, rayguns and bug-eyed aliens of every stripe. The debut of comedy relief Norge Benson, a space cadet with a knack for getting everything wrong; The debut of the heroic outlaw of the spaceways, The Star Pirate; The Red Comet uses his size-changing powers to battle the armored giants of Saturn. Nicely composed cover by John Celardo. The Red Comet; Gale Allen; Auro Lord of Jupiter; Crash Parker; Spurt Hammond; The Outlaw Amazons of Saturns Twelfth Moon; Slaver of the Space Lanes; The Queen of the Red Degmen; Norge Benson; The Star Pirate; The Two-Faced Monsters of Planetoid Zero. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Summer 1941. Cover by Virgil Finlay. Stories by Leigh Brackett "The Dragon-Queen of Jupiter", Nelson S. Bond, Ross Rocklynne, Sam Moskowitz, R.R. Winterbotham, Raymond Z. Gallun, Frederick A. Kummer Jr., Henry Haase, and Ray Cummings. Illustrations by Paul, Don Lynch, Leo Morey, Ed Smalle, and Hannes Bok. 7-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 128 pages. Cover price $0.20.

Stories and art by Zack Mosley, Boody Rogers, Maurice Kashuba, Bob Jenney, Jim Chambers, Jack Alderman, Dan Gormley, Roy Humphries, Clyde Lewis, Victor Boni, Robert Turner, Tom Hickey, Albert Hartje and Bill Ely. An early comic book from Dell, featuring reprinted newspaper comic strips alongside new material. Professor Supermind sends his son Dan after the airborne saboteurs who blew up a munitions factory. Professor Supermind and Son were listed in Jon Morris's 2015 book The League of Regrettable Superheroes. The invisible hero The Voice sets out to rescue Harry Boyd from foreign agents on a remote island in the Caribbean, with only Tim and Curly to aid him. Smilin' Jack's sister has a crush on Cotton Lee, but Cotton is nothing but trouble. A cargo job in Mexico seems like the solution, until Jack learns what he's transporting. These Smilin' Jack strips feature art assists by Boody Rogers, a comics legend in his own right. Another action-packed Supermind and Son cover, possibly by Maurice Kashuba. Did You Know That; Smilin' Jack; Professor Supermind and Son; The Voice, the Invisible Detective; Martan the Marvel Man; Wally Williams, American Boy; True Spy Stories: Haile Selassie's Native Girl-Spy, The Case of the Dirty Shirt; Herky; The Sky Hawk; The Masked Pilot; Gang Busters; The Hurricane Kids. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Untitled stories starring Black Owl, Dr. Frost (art by Ben Thompson), Ted O'Neil, Leif Larson, Green Lama (script by Ken Crossen, art by Charles Sultan), Great Voodini (art by Jon Smalle), and Power Nelson. Task No. 4 starring Twist Turner, art by Irving Roir, Al Ross, Ben Roth, and Salo Roth. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

A magazine for the amateur wireless operators. Cover price $0.25.

Published by Hugo Gernsback, considered the father of science-fiction. This issue is centered around the new medium of television with Gernsback's editorial, "The Television Age". 8.5" x 11.5". 128 pages. Black and white. Cover price $0.25.

Reader's Digest Vol. 38 Issue # 229 (1941) is published by The Reader's Digest Association. Articles from Harper's, the New Republic, Forbes, Life, Look, and more. Topics include the ten most powerful people in Washington, vitamins, baseball, Hitler's religion, the Fuller Brush Man, and more. 160 pages, mostly text (with a few spot illustrations), 5.5-in x 7.5.

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Volume 5, Issue 10 - May, 1941. Cartoons, gags, screen and radio stars, and tasteful (non-nude) vintage pin-up pictorials. 8" x 11.5", 68 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

NOTE: Title continues as Red Hood Detective Stories (1941 Albing Publications)

Vol. 20, Issue 7 - August, 1941. 8.5" x 11", 66 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.