Comic books September 1920

Add to cart FN+ 6.5 $260.00 View scans Spine split 5%. Water damage: Slight.

Issue #17 - first half of Sept. 1920. NOTE: German language text. Der Orchideengarten or The Orchids Garden is considered the first magazine of the macabre and fantastic. Weird Tales, its nearest competitor, was first published in 1923, four years later. Subtitled Phantastische Blatter, loosely translated to Fantastic Pages. Edited by World War I correspondent Karl Hans Strobl and Alfons von Czibulka. Overall, the magazine published a selection of new and reprinted supernatural and horror stories from both domestic and foreign authors (Dickens, Pushkin, Maupassant, Poe, Valtaire, Wells, Hugo). The Orchids Garden is more well known as being one of the most beautiful fantasy magazines ever published. Artists included Heinrich Kley, Alred Kubin, Karl Ritter, Gustave Dore, Tony Johannot, Otto Linnekogel, Rolf von Hoerschelmann and many others. Extremely scarce. 8 3/4-in. x 12-in., 24 pages on rough book paper, black and white.

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Issue #18 - second half of Sept. 1920. NOTE: German language text. Der Orchideengarten or The Orchids Garden is considered the first magazine of the macabre and fantastic. Weird Tales, its nearest competitor, was first published in 1923, four years later. Subtitled Phantastische Blatter, loosely translated to Fantastic Pages. Edited by World War I correspondent Karl Hans Strobl and Alfons von Czibulka. Overall, the magazine published a selection of new and reprinted supernatural and horror stories from both domestic and foreign authors (Dickens, Pushkin, Maupassant, Poe, Valtaire, Wells, Hugo). The Orchids Garden is more well known as being one of the most beautiful fantasy magazines ever published. Artists included Heinrich Kley, Alred Kubin, Karl Ritter, Gustave Dore, Tony Johannot, Otto Linnekogel, Rolf von Hoerschelmann and many others. Extremely scarce. 8 3/4-in. x 12-in., 24 pages on rough book paper, black and white.

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Volume 8, Issue 14 (Whole Number 210) - Sept. 1, 1920. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 12 pages on white paper plus card-stock pictures. Poland, Old and New. Cover price $0.20.

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Add to cart Poor $4.00 View scans Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Moderate.

Volume 8, Issue 15 (Whole Number 211) - Sept. 15, 1920. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 12 pages on white paper plus card-stock pictures. Literary Landmarks of New York. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $3.50 View scan 4 1/4" cumulative spine split.

Volume 32, Issue 8 (Whole #234) - September, 1920. Cover portrait of Hope Hampton by Hamilton King. "Artistic Thrills for Women" by Leo Ditrichstein, "Shakespeare Said It" by Josephine Victor, ""Favorites Along the Theatrical Front" - Full page portraits, "The Dilemma of Writing Plays" - an interview with J. Hartley Manners, and much more. High quality production. 9 3/4-in. x 12 3/4-in., 64 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

Add to cart Fair $6.00 View scans Spine split 25%. Staple rust: Moderate.

Women's magazine with stories, humor, and recipes. 10.25" x 13.5", 56 pages, B&W Cover price $0.10.