Comic books March 1940

Add to cart CBCS 7.0 $3,899.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Slab: Minor side/edge crack(s) From The Oxford Collection. Label #21-2601C8E-015 Discounted from $3,999.00.

Cover by Ed Kressy and Norman Fallon. Stories and art by Emile C. Schurmacher, Ed Kressy, Norman Fallon and Jack Alderman. An early science fiction comic book from publisher Hillman, featuring Rocket Riley, the Phantom Ranger and other embryonic superheroes. Rocket Riley tries to keep Professor Sterling's atomic rocket from falling into enemy hands, and is captured by the Octopus Men from space. The Phantom Ranger rides for justice in the Old West, like that other famous masked Ranger. Lt. Dick Jones must rescue Jane Wells, daughter of the governor of Monongo, after she is abducted by the modern-day pirate called The Steel Shark. Rocket Riley: The Runaway Rocket; Hurricane Hart: Treasure of Death; Red Roberts; The Phantom Ranger; The Steel Shark; Facts You May Not Know; Buzzard Barnes: Hell in the Heavens; Lefty Larsen: Traitors Must Die. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 1.5 $1,750.00 View scans Paper: Off white Cover detached. Front cover reattached to back cover with 9 pieces of tape. Centerfold detached. Label #18-110B82D-003 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Cover by Lou Fine. Stories by Rodney Weems and Bert Whitman. Art by Emil Gershwin, Robert Webb, George Tuska, and Bert Whitman. An anthology of Golden Age adventure comics featuring sci-fi heroes and some of the very first superheroes. Electric-powered hero Electro becomes Dynamo, and uses his powers to trap a gang of gold thieves in gold electroplate like living statues; Marga the Panther Woman is kidnapped by a mad African ruler who wants to make her his queen; Navy Jones helps the undersea kingdom rebel against its corrupt Prime Minister. Another terrific cover by Lou Fine. Science Fights Crime!; The Eagle: The Mail Pirates; Dynamo: The Fort Knox Gold Robbery; Cosmic Carson: Master of the Ice Ray; Perisphere Payne: Attack On the Moon; Build a Fighting Plane; Build a Super-Locomotive; Marga: Uchunko, Ruler of the Jungle; Gold...1000 Miles Down; Dr. Doom: Battle of the Insects; Navy Jones: The Prime Minister Strikes Back. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart FN- 5.5 $30.60 View scans Paper: Off white Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight. Discounted from $34.00.

Science Fiction and adventure stories pulp magazine. Cover by Frank R. Paul. "The New Life" by John Coleridge and "Men Without a World" by John Russell Feam (as Dom Passante) - incorrectly credited to Dennis Clive on cover, plus stories by Bob Olsen, Carl Jacobi, and Ephriam Winiki. Illustrations by Frank R. Paul, Novick. 7-in. x 10-in., 130 newsprint pages, black and white (text with illustrations). Cover price $0.15.

Volume 22, Issue 8 - March, 1940. Fawcett film magazine incorporating Screen Play and Screen Book. Stories, photo features, and inside reportage on Hollywood. 8.5" x 11", 100 pages, B&W and tinted B&W with spot color. Cover price $0.10.

Women's magazine with articles and fiction. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 82 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Subtitled "A Monthly Digest of Radio and Allied Maintenance". Cover price $0.25.

March 1, 1940. 3rd appearance of Shiwan Khan. Stories include "The Invincible Shiwan Khan" by Maxwell Grant and "Only Death Shall Pass" by Stephen Gould plus the column "Codes" by Henry Lysing. Edd Cartier illustrations. 6.5" x 9", black and white, 114 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 33, Issue 2 - March 15, 1940. 6.5" x 9", 114 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Vintage monthly published magazine with a focus on the film industry as a whole. First published in November of 1930, publication continued through the late 1970s. Priding itself as a source for exclusive behind the scenes stories about filmmaking, Silver Screen also contained a fair amount of articles about celebrities, their relationships, the latest in fashion, and film reviews. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Jack Binder. The Mystery of the Monstrous Fly starring Silver Streak (intro and origin), art by Jack Binder. Did You Know That Lack of Ice-Boxes Caused the Discovery of America? article. The Texas Terror starring Bill Wayne. Lance Hale story, art by John Hampton. Ace Powers story. Dickie Dean story, script and art by Jack Cole. The Flying Ghost text story by Will Harr. Detective Snoop story, script and art by Gill Fox. Sgt. Drake story. Space Patrol story, script and art by Joe Simon. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD 2.0 $490.50 View scans Heavy water damage. Discounted from $545.00.

Volume 1, Issue 2 - March, 1940. Science Fiction and horror stories. Thsi issues features "The Dead Who Love the Living" by Francis James, and "Girls For the Golden Beast" by Donald Dale. 7" x 9.5". 112 pages, text (with B&W illustrations). Cover price $0.15.

Stories and art by Jack Cole, Gus Ricca, Hal Sharp, and Mike Suchorsky. An adventure anthology from Fawcett, featuring such little-known heroes as Jungle King, Hurricane Hansen, and time traveler Mark Swift. Lee Granger becomes a Tarzan-like figure with a twist: his sidekick is a talking lion named Eric. American seaman Hurricane Hansen joins the British Navy just as war with the Kazilians breaks out. Mark Swift encounters Rodney, a man with a "time retarder," and before he knows it, he's meeting Vikings and Native American chieftains. Plus a gag page by Plastic Man creator Jack Cole. Diamond Jack; Slam-Bang Gags; War Bird; Jim Dolan; Tree-Top Murder; Lucky Lawton; Lee Granger, Jungle King; Hurricane Hansen; Mark Swift and the Time Retarder. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Espionage Starring the Black 'X' story, script and art by Will Eisner; Black X has to rescue an American reporter from Germany and once again goes up against Madame Doom. Clip Chance at Cliffside story, script and art by George Brenner [as Scott Sheridan]. Abdul the Arab story, script and art by Vernon Henkel. The Case of the Missing Bullion starring Captain Cook of Scotland Yard, art by Stanley Aschmeier. Sabotage! starring Hugh Hazard and His Iron Man, script and art by George Brenner [as Wayne Reid]. Chic Carter story, script and art by Vernon Henkel. Invisible Justice story, script and art by Art Pinajian [as Art Gordon]. Flash Fulton story, script and art by Paul Gustavson. Danger In Numbers starring John Law, Scientective, script and art by Harry Francis Campbell. Wings Wendall script and art by Vernon Henkel. 68 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Shock Gibson story, art by Maurice Scott. Crash, Cork, and the Baron story, script and art by Klaus Nordling (Fred North). Ted Parrish story, script and art by Bob Powell. Trog of the Congo text story by Robert M. Hyatt. Biff Bannon story, script and art by Dick Briefer (Rem Brant). Lt. Jim Cannon story, script and art by C. A. Winter. Landor, Maker of Monsters story, art by Gregory Torrey. Flames Lick the Stamp That Seals His Doom starring Smoke Carter, script and art by Munson Paddock (Joe E. Martin). Spike Marlin story, art by George Tuska (Carl Larson). 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

March 1940 issue. "Red Wheels" by James A. Lawson, "Two Renegades" by E. Hoffman Price, "Bullet Blizzard" by Clem Tucker and other spicy western stories. 9 3/4" by 6 3/4". 98 pgs. B&W text with illustrations. Cover price $0.25.

March 1940. Spider Story by Grant Stockbridge "Slaves of the Laughing Death". "The Devil's Clearing House" by Wayne Rogers and "Blood Can't Buy Brides" by Costa Carousso. Illustrations by J. Fleming Gould. 7" x 10", black and white; 112 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $36.90 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight. Discounted from $41.00.

March 1940. Stories by Henry Kuttner, Bob Olsen, Oscar J. Friend, and Alfred Bester. "Thrills in Science" column by Mort Weisinger. Two-page Sir Isaac Newton bio in comic form. Alex Schomburg illustrations. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 128 pages. Cover price $0.15.

Cover by Bill Holman. Stories and art by Milton Caniff, Chester Gould, Harold Gray, Bill Holman, Zack Mosley, Stanley Link, Oskar Lebeck, Frank Willard, Gus Edson, Walter Berndt, Ed Leffingwell, Martin Branner, Ken Ernst, Ed Moore, Erwin Hess, Al Posen and Carl Ed. An early comic book from Dell, featuring reprinted newspaper comic strips alongside new material. Pat asks Normandie to leave Sandhurst, but it's too late. Arabian-Nights adventure with the famed Thief of Bagdad. The origin of magical hero Jack Morrow, known as Magic Morro. Also featuring popular strips Little Orphan Annie, Dick Tracy, Smokey Stover and The Gumps. Moon Mullins; Dick Tracy; Tiny Tim; Smitty; Magic Morrow; The Crusoes; Winnie Winkle; The Gumps; Harold Teen; Little Orphan Annie; Bobby & Chip; Zipper; Jack Wander, War Correspondent; Terry and the Pirates; Streaky; Elmer; Sweeney & Son; Smokey Stover; Little Joe; Smilin' Jack. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Joe Shuster. Superman versus Luthor, script by Jerry Siegel, art by Paul Cassidy [as Joe Shuster]; When Clark Kent begins to investigate a new weapon being tested by the Army that artificially causes earthquakes, little does he know that Lex Luthor is hot on the trail of securing the plans for that invention, one way or the other. Attaining Super-Strength tips. This Doggone World by Fred Schwab. From The 4 Corners fact page by Sheldon Moldoff. Untitled Superman story, script by Jerry Siegel, pencils by Joe Shuster, inks by Paul Cassidy [as Joe Shuster]; Superman faces off once again with the evil Luthor, who first has tapped oil from oil wells all over the world for his purposes, then inundating the western coast of the U.S. when he raises a glass-enclosed city of ancient weird design from the murky depths. Superman of America contest info. Changer of Destiny text story, script by Hugh Langley, art by Fred Guardineer. Untitled Superman story, script by Jerry Siegel, pencils by Joe Shuster, inks by Paul Cassidy [as Joe Shuster]; The suicide of the author of a manuscript, which states that sinister forces seek to retard this nation's return to prosperity, prods Superman to dart from place to place, averting the disasters that have been planned by these forces to disrupt vital aspects of national industries. Untitled Superman story, script by Jerry Siegel, pencils by Joe Shuster, inks by Paul Cassidy [as Joe Shuster]; Superman pretends to join a group of racketeers who want to control the city's truck drivers' union so that they can paralyze food distribution and demand blackmail. 68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.