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  • Item #61847138
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    Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Joe Palooka" by Al Capp (as Ham Fisher); "War on Crime" by Rex Collier and Hammon; "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "Dumb-Bells" by Charles J. Dunn (as Gar); "Scorchy Smith" by Noel Sickles; "Strange as it Seems" by John Hix; "Butty and Fatty" by M. E. Brady; "Hairbreadth Harry" by F. O. Alexander; "Buck Rogers" by Philip Francis Nowlan and Rick Yager (as Dick Calkins); "The Adventures of Jabby" by Tom Carlisle; "Dickie Dare" by Milton Caniff; "Jolly Geography" and "High Lights of History" by J. Carroll Mansfield; "Goofie Gags" by Victor E. Pazmiño; "Nippie" and "Mickey Finn" by Frank E. Leonard (as Lank Leonard); "Beau Geste" by P. C. Wren and Bill W. Depew; "Mescal Ike" by S. L. Huntley and Art Huhta; "Above the Crowd" by Benjamin D. Allen (as Stookie Allen); "Dixie Dugan" by J. P. McEvoy and J. H. Striebel; "Queenie" by S. M. Iger (as Bob Bliss); "S'matter Pop?" by Charles M. Payne; "Screen Oddities" by Captain Roscoe Fawcett and Bruno Thompson; "Amaze A Minute" by Arnold; "Ned Brant of Carter" by Bob Zuppke and Bill W. Depew; "Toddy" by George Marcoux; "Flight" by W. D. Tipton and J. H. Mason; "Olly of the Movies" by Julian Ollendorff; "Oaky Doaks" by Ralph Briggs Fuller; "Somebody's Stenog" and "The Back-Seat Driver" by A. E. Hayward; "Bobby" by S. M. Iger; "Lena Pry" and "Jane Arden" by Monte Barrett and Jack W. McGuire; "Seaweed Sam" by Victor E. Pazmiño; "Babe Bunting" by Roy L. Williams; "The Frog Pond Ferry" by M. E. Brady; "Homer Hoopee" by Fred Locher; "The Bungle Family" by Harry J. Tuthill; and "Alec and Itchy" by Jimmy George and Merle Mulholland. "Hoodoo Ranch" text story by F. S. Saunders. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 68 pages. Full color Cover price $0.10.

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    Rare pulp issue. Cover and eight full-page color illustrations by Fred Meagher. "The Master of Mars" novel starring Flash Gordon, plus three other unrelated stories. Only issue of series. 7 1/2-in. x 10-in., 96 pages, black and white (text with illustrations). Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #62168029
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    Volume 4, Issue 2 - August/September, 1936. 6.75" x 9.75", 130 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

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    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 notice a suspicious couple on the circus train. Fun Christmas cover features multiple King Features characters interacting. Brick Bradford; Little Annie Rooney; Henry; Sport Features; Scott's Scrapbook; Radio Patrol; Mandrake the Magician; Thimble Theatre; Flash Gordon; The G-Man; Rosie's Beau; 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.

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    Vol. 3, No. 1. August 1936. Cover by George Quintana. Featuring posed photographs of Hollywood starlets and co-stars with new joke captions. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 66 pages, tinted B&W. Cover price $0.20.

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    Vintage men's interest magazine that features erotic fiction stories, as well as humorous poetry, adult comics and tasteful nude pin-up photographs. 7.5" x 10.5", 64 pages, B&W. -MATURE READERS- Cover price $0.25.

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    • Restored: B3
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    Stories and art by Milton Caniff, Chester Gould, Frank King, Harold Gray, Bill Holman, Robert Ripley, Frank Willard, Percy Crosby, Hal Forrest, Fontaine Fox, Walter Berndt, Al Smith, Martin Branner, Sidney Smith, Fred Harman, Frank V. Martinek, Leon A. Beroth, Carl Ed, Ferd Johnson, Al Posen, Edwin Alger, Gaar Williams, A. W. Nugent, A. W. Brewerton, Ed Leffingwell, and Tack Knight. An early comic book from Dell, featuring reprinted newspaper comic strips alongside new material. This issue features the first comic-book appearance of comic-strip detective Dick Tracy. Tracy takes the blame after killer Boris Arson escapes from prison. In another beloved strip, Terry and the Pirates, Pat and Terry face the mysterious villain known only as The Skull. Also featuring popular strips Little Orphan Annie, Skippy, Gasoline Alley and Ripley's Believe It or Not. Moon Mullins; Kitty Higgins; Dick Tracy; Skippy; Always Belittlin'; Toonerville Folks; Little Stanley; Smitty; Herby; Gasoline Alley; Ripley's Believe It or Not; Cicero's Cat; Winnie Winkle; Looie; The Gumps; Don Winslow; Bos'n Hal Sea Scout; Harold Teen; Little Orphan Annie; Maw Green; Lovey Dovey; Texas Slim; Ella and Her Fella; Jinglet; Ben Webster; Bertie on a Bust; Mutt and Jeff; Tailspin Tommy; How to Fly; Bronc Peeler; On the Range; A Strain on the Family Tie; Zipper; Red Magic Tricks, Puzzles and Games; Terry and the Pirates; Pam; Smokey Stover; Little Joe; Little Folks; Baby Sister. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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    Stories and art by Milton Caniff, Chester Gould, Frank King, Edwina Dumm, Bill Holman, Sheldon Mayer, Harold Gray, Robert Ripley, Frank Willard, Percy Crosby, Dick Ryan, Gaylord Du Bois, Hal Arbo, Walter Berndt, Al Smith, Frank Beck, Garrett Price, Stanley Link, Martin Branner, Sidney Smith, Fred Harman, Frank V. Martinek, Leon A. Beroth, Carl Ed, Bob Moore, Carl Pfeufer, Ferd Johnson, Al Posen, Edwin Alger, Gaar Williams, A. W. Nugent, Ed Leffingwell, and Tack Knight. Edited by comics pioneers M.C. Gaines and Sheldon Mayer. An early comic book from Dell, featuring reprinted newspaper comic strips alongside new material. Tracy temporarily becomes Chief of Police in small-town Homeville to reduce crime. But his arrival coincides with that of gangsters Cut and Muscle Famon, and their equally deadly mother, Maw Famon. From the Dick Tracy Sundays, Sept. 22 - Oct. 13, 1935. Pat, Terry and Connie are prisoners of the Dragon Lady when an American destroyer comes looking for her hideout. She promises to kill them if the hideout is discovered, and ties them to stakes for good measure. Scribbly meets a cartoonist he admires when he accidentally beans him in the head with a baseball. Also featuring popular strips Little Orphan Annie, Skippy, Mutt and Jeff, Gasoline Alley and Ripley's Believe It or Not. Reg'lar Fellers; Daisybelle; Moon Mullins; Kitty Higgins; Dick Tracy; Skippy; Always Belittlin'; Tom Mix: The Fighting Cowboy; Smitty; Herby; Tippie; Ripley's Believe It or Not; Ginger; Winnie Winkle; Looie; The Gumps; Don Winslow; Bos'n Hal Sea Scout; Harold Teen; Little Orphan Annie; Maw Green; Lovey Dovey; Texas Slim and Dirty Dalton; Ella and Her Fella; Jinglet; Ben Webster; Let's Draw Cartoons; Bertie's Picnic; Life's Little Tragedies; Scribbly; Tiny Tim; White Boy in Skull Valley; Bronc Peeler; On the Range; Death Masquerade; Zipper; Uncle Bill; Gasoline Alley; A Strain on the Family Tie; Mutt and Jeff; Cicero's Cat; Real Magic; Don Dixon and the Hidden Empire; Tad of the Tanbark; Streaky; Terry and the Pirates; Smokey Stover; Little Joe; Little Folks; Baby Sister; Smilin' Jack; Sweeney & Son. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Item #61959439
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  • Item #61092911
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    $2,890.00
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    Volume 27, Issue 6 - June 1936. Edited by Farnsworth Wright. Horror and Fantasy stories in the pulp style. 6.75-in. x 10-in.; 128 newsprint pages, text (with B&W illustrations). Cover price $0.25.

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    Weird Tales (1923-1985 Popular Fiction) Pulp 1st Series Vol. 28 #1 CGC 4.5

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    Volume 28, Issue 1 - July 1936. Edited by Farnsworth Wright. Horror and Fantasy stories in the pulp style. 6.75-in. x 10-in.; 128 newsprint pages, text (with B&W illustrations). Cover price $0.25.

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