Comic books April 1937

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $1,519.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: Off white to white Label #4365726001 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Cover by Joe Musial. Edited by Ruth Plumly Thompson. Stories and art by Robert L. Ripley, Feg Murray, Clarence D. Russell, H. H. Knerr, Ed Anthony, Doc Winner, Jack Sords, Russ Westover, A. D. Carter, Lyman Young, Nat Edson, Chic Young, Rutherford G. Montgomery, Jack King, Jack Welch, Joe Musial, Billy DeBeck, Romer Grey, Allen Dean, Paul Robinson, Gene Ahern, George Herriman, Don Moore and Alex Raymond. Pioneering comics publisher David McKay presents an anthology series featuring reprints of King Features Syndicate comic strips. Includes Alex Raymond's Jungle Jim and George Herriman's beloved Krazy Kat. The cover features Snuffy Smith and the Katzenjammer Kids interacting with lesser-known characters, like Elmer and Pete the Tramp. Tex Thorne; Ripley's Believe It Or Not; Jungle Jim; Seein' Stars; Pete the Tramp; Katzenjammer Kids; Pussycat Princess; Elmer; Sports in Pictures; Tillie the Toiler; Nicodemus O'Malley & His Whale, Palsy-Walsy; Dream Land; Just Kids; Tim Tyler's Luck; Blondie; Timberline Tales; The Stamp Spotlight; On Our Block; Curley Harper at Lakespur; Teddy and Sitting Bull; Barney Google; Etta Kett; Krazy Kat; Room and Board; Doc Winner's Daffy Doodles. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Fine $37.00 View scans Paper: Off white Front cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight.

April 1937. Cover and illustrations by Leo Morey. Science fiction stories by Walter Rose, Neil R. Jones, Eando Binder, and "Shifting Seas" by Stanley G. Weinbaum. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 144 newsprint pages Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart Good $32.00 View scans Paper: Off white Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $28.00 View scans Paper: Tan to Cream Heavy corner chipping and abrading. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Moderate.

April 1937. Fiction by William L. Chester (Kioga in "One Against a Wilderness" part 2), Leland Jamieson, H. Bedford-Jones, Robert R. Mill, Arthur K. Akers, Capt. L.B. Williams, Raymond Camp, Walter Wilwerding, James Francis Dwyer, and Anthony Rud. Illustrations by Austin Briggs (5) and others. 6.5-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 144 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart Poor $4.60 View scans Paper: Light tan Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 90%. No Back Cover. Page missing. Staple rust: Moderate.

Vol. 17, No. 4 - April, 1937. 7" x 9.75", 130 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Alec and Itchy" by Jimmy George and Merle Mulholland; "Goofie Gags" by Victor E. Pazmiño; "Screen Oddities" by Captain Roscoe Fawcett and Bruno Thompson; "War on Crime", featuring the careers of John Dillinger and Baby-Face Nelson, by Rex Collier and Hammon; "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "Skyroads" by Dick Calkins and Russell Keaton; "Queenie" by S. M. Iger (as Bob Bliss); "Hairbreadth Harry" and "High-Gear Homer" by F. O. Alexander; "Buck Rogers" by Philip Francis Nowlan and Rick Yager (as Dick Calkins); "Strange as it Seems" by John Hix; "Above the Crowd" by Benjamin D. Allen (as Stookie Allen); "Fisher's History of Boxing" and "Joe Palooka" by Al Capp (as Ham Fisher); "Dickie Dare" by Milton Caniff; "Beau Geste" by P. C. Wren and Bill W. Depew; "Scorchy Smith" by Noel Sickles; "Adventures of Patsy" by Mel Graff; "Good Deed Dotty" and "Dixie Dugan" by J. P. McEvoy and J. H. Striebel; "The Frog Pond Ferry" by M. E. Brady; "Holly of Hollywood" and "Keeping Up With The Joneses" by Pop Momand; "Butty and Fatty" by M. E. Brady; "Little Brother" and "The Bungle Family" by Harry J. Tuthill; "Ned Brant of Carter" by Bob Zuppke and Bill W. Depew; "Oaky Doaks" by Ralph Briggs Fuller; "Jolly Geography" and "High Lights of History" by J. Carroll Mansfield; "Olly of the Movies" by Julian Ollendorff; "Connie" and "The Wet Blanket" by Frank Godwin; "Bobby" by S. M. Iger; "Nippie" and "Mickey Finn" by Frank E. Leonard (as Lank Leonard); "Mescal Ike" by S. L. Huntley and Art Huhta; "Lena Pry" and "Jane Arden" by Monte Barrett and Jack W. McGuire; "Flight" by W. D. Tipton and J. H. Mason; "Babe Bunting" by Roy L. Williams; "Toddy" by George Marcoux; "Homer Hoopee" by Fred Locher; and "Seaweed Sam" by Victor E. Pazmiño. "The Boy Who Was Afraid" text story by Robert M. Hyatt. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 68 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

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UK story magazine published by Amalgamated Press between 1907-1939, predominantly featuring the activities of boys at the fictional school St. Jim's. 7.5" x 11", 28 pages, B&W

Add to cart FN- 5.5 $8.00 View scans Spine split 5%. Staple rust: Extensive.

UK story magazine published by Amalgamated Press between 1907-1939, predominantly featuring the activities of boys at the fictional school St. Jim's. 7.5" x 11", 28 pages, B&W

Add to cart FN/VF 7.0 $10.00 View scans Staple rust: Moderate.

UK story magazine published by Amalgamated Press between 1907-1939, predominantly featuring the activities of boys at the fictional school St. Jim's. 7.5" x 11", 28 pages, B&W

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $5.00 View scans Spine split 5%. Staple rust: Moderate.

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UK story magazine published by Amalgamated Press between 1907-1939, predominantly featuring the activities of boys at the fictional school St. Jim's. 7.5" x 11", 28 pages, B&W

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $15.00 View scans water spots front multiple creases 6 in. tear back Spine split 10%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

April 5, 1937. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. 10.5" x 14", 128 pages, PC/PB&W Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $27.00 View scans spine break dents Spine split 10%. Staple rust: Moderate.

April 12, 1937. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. 10.5" x 14", 128 pages, PC/PB&W Cover price $0.10.

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April 19, 1937. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. 10.5" x 14", 128 pages, PC/PB&W Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VF+ 8.5 $85.00 View scans Spine split 10%. Staple rust: Slight.

April 26, 1937. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. 10.5" x 14", 128 pages, PC/PB&W Cover price $0.10.

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Vol. 14, No. 2 - April 1937. 6.75" x 9.75", 130 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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April 1937. Rare first issue of Lone Ranger's pulp magazine. Lone Ranger, Tonto, and Silver cover painted by Kidd. Features "The Phantom Rider," a complete Lone Ranger novel, plus non-Ranger back-up stories by Lawrence A. Keating, George C. Henderson, Wayne Brooks, and Charles A. Roberts. Also two comic strip sections, one illustrates the life of a real Texas Ranger and the other shows the humorous"Doodlebug Jones" by Schaff. Most of the interior illustrations are credited to H. Smilkstein. Approx. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 128 pages. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $8.60 View scans Staple rust: Extensive. Foreign edition: UK.

No. 1520 - April 03, 1937. Weekly British publication that ran for nearly 1,700 issues. Featured the anti-hero Billy Bunter of the Greyfriars School, along with serialized shorts. NOTE: This publication contains negative racial and cultural depictions. It reflects some attitudes of the era in which it was published that would not be acceptable today. 7.5" x 11", 28 pages, B&W.

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Stories and art by Milton Caniff, Chester Gould, Edwina Dumm, Bill Holman, Harold Gray, Frank Willard, Percy Crosby, Dick Ryan, Walter Berndt, Frank Beck, William Ferguson, Garrett Price, Stanley Link, Alice Harvey, Martin Branner, Sidney Smith, Frank V. Martinek, Leon A. Beroth, Carl Ed, Sol Hess, Wallace Carlson, Al Posen, 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. Smilin' Jack makes a daring midair plane-to-plane leap to rescue Mary from a runaway plane. Pirate Captain Blaze is enraged when the Dragon Lady escapes, and challenges Pat to a deadly game of... checkers? Uncle Avery's trailer door comes open, and he loses a crate of his patent cure-all medicine to a passing hillbilly. Also featuring popular strips Little Orphan Annie, Skippy, Dick Tracy and The Gumps. Moon Mullins; Kitty Higgins; Dick Tracy; Skippy; Always Belittlin'; Tom Mix; Smitty; Herby; Tippie; Sister Susie; Winnie Winkle; Looie; The Gumps; Don Winslow; Bos'n Hal Sea Scout; Harold Teen; Little Orphan Annie; Maw Green; Lovey Dovey; Ella and Her Fella; Jinglet; Let's Draw Cartoons; Billy the Kid, Chapter I: The Kid's Boyhood; Dill and Daffy; Life's Little Tragedies; Apple Mary; This Curious World; Tiny Tim; White Boy in Skull Valley; Zipper; Gasoline Alley; A Strain on the Family Tie; Spooky; Simp O'Dill; The Nebbs; Real Magic; 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.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $9.00 View scans Front cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $9.00 View scans Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart Very Good $9.00 View scans Back cover detached 10%. Staple rust: Moderate.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $7.50 View scans Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

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

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Theatre Arts Monthly (April, 1937). TAM is legendary for its thorough and insightful coverage of the stage, both in American and England. Less well-known is the fact that TAM also provided some outstanding coverage of motion pictures. This issue has thematic content centered around "Travel" and features "The World and the Theatre", "Broadway to National Theatre" comprised of reviews of "Richard II", "The Masque of Kings", "Yes, My Darling Daughter", "Having a Wonderful Time", "Marching Song", and "Frederika", "The Scene in Europe" by Ashley Dukes, "Napoleon and the Theatre" by Silvio d' Amico, "Six Actor Vignettes" by Alfred Harding, and much more. 8.5-in. x 11-in., printed on a nice heavy stock. Cover price $0.35.

Add to cart Very Good $13.00 View scans Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart Very Good $17.00 View scans Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Extensive.

True stories with a romantic theme illustrated with period photographs. Also includes jokes, articles and advice. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 162 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

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Volume 53, Issue 4 - April 1937. A collection of stories, advertisements, and suggestions/advice aimed towards ladies. 10" x 13 1/2", 36 pages, PC/PB&W Cover price $0.10.