Comic books August 1938

Add to cart FN+ 6.5 $32.00 View scans Paper: Off white

Add to cart Good $12.00 View scans Paper: Tan to Cream Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Staple rust: Moderate.

August 1938. Photo cover by Henry F. Kroeger. Science fiction stories by Robert Bloch ("Secret of the Observatory"), Ralph Milne Farley, Alfred R. Steber, Arthur R. Tofte, A.H. Vance, Thorp McClusky, and Wallace Quitman. Illustrations by Jay Jackson and Harold Welch. 7" x 10".; black and white with color cover; 146 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $1,229.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: Cream to off white Label #4626516003 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Volume 21, Issue 6 - August, 1938. Cover by H. W. Wesso. Trimmed pulp, 6.5" x 9.5", 164 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $7.00 View scans One staple removed. Corner creasing and chipping to multiple pages. Spine split 10%. Water damage: Slight.

Mail order magazine, edited initially by William H. Gannet. In 1888, Gannet created Comfort primarily as a means to advertise his patent medicine, Giant Oxien, a variant of The Moxie Nerve Food. Comfort's circulation increased from 13,000, in 1888, to 1.3 million, in 1894, which made Comfort the first publication in America to reach a circulation of 1 million. 10.5" x 13", 16 pages, B&W.

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Fu Manchu cover art by Creig Flessel. The Hilton Diamond starring Speed Saunders, script by Gardner Fox, art by Fred Guardineer. Oscar the Gumshoe one-pager, script and art by Bob Kane. Cosmo story, art by Sven Elven. Larry Steele story, script and art by Will Ely. Dr. Fu Manchu story, script by Sax Rohmer, art by Leo O'Mealia. Death's Ruby starring Spy, script by Jerry Siegel, art by Joe Shuster. The Golden Key text story by Gardner Fox (Paul Dean). The Coolie Smugglers: Part II starring Bruce Nelson, art by Tom Hickey. Steve Malone story, script by Gardner Fox. In the Stratosphere starring Slam Bradley, script by Jerry Siegel, art by Joe Shuster. 68 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $7.00 View scans Front cover detached 15%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Extensive.

Volume 9, Issue 3 - August 1938 (whole number 66). 8.5" x 11.5", 84 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

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Vol. 13, No. 5. August 5, 1938. 8.5" x 11.5". 24 pages. Black and white.

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Vol. 13, No. 7. August 19, 1938. Harold Lloyd cover. Full-page B&W ad for Ritz Crackers. 8.5" x 11.5". 20 pages. Black and white.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $7.50 View scans Front cover detached 25%. Back cover detached 15%.

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Volume 30, Issue 1 - August, 1938. Fiction, model-making articles, schematics, cartoons and factual essays about airplanes and aviation. Cover by August Schomburg. 8.5" x 11.5", 84 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $8.00 View scans Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.

August, 1938. Volume 2 No. 4. 5.5" x 7.75", 140 pages, B&W with spot color. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $27.00 View scans Staple rust: Slight.

Vol. 5, No. 3. August 1938. Men's interest magazine containing fiction stories, cartoons, non-nude pictorials, and other variety. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 64 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $2.65 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. 6.75" x 9.5", 36 pages, B&W

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $2.65 View scans Spine split 5%. Water damage: Slight. 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. 6.75" x 9.5", 36 pages, B&W

Add to cart Very Good $5.00 View scans Spine split 10%. 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. 6.75" x 9.5", 36 pages, B&W

Add to cart Fair $2.50 View scans Spine split 20%. 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. 6.75" x 9.5", 36 pages, B&W

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $13.00 View scans Paper: Light tan to Cream Front cover detached 25%. Back cover detached 40%.

Vol. 17, No. 1 - August 1938. 6.75" x 9.75", 114 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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Vol. 2, No. 18 - August 30, 1938. Biweekly, general-interest photojournalism magazine. 10.5" x 13", 52 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $0.10.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Add to cart CGC 7.5 $3,750.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: White Label #4387117006 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $2,995.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: Off white Slab: Chipped/broken bracket Label #4410955002 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Add to cart CGC 6.5 $2,399.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: White Label #4403012005 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Vol. 1, No. 1 - Aug 1938. Cover by Norman Saunders. Science Fiction stories by Arthur J. Burks, Henry Kuttner "Avengers of Space", Robert O. Kenyon, James Hall, Stanton A. Coblentz, and Leon Byrne. Illustrations by Paul. 7" x 10"; black and white; 128 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

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Volume 3, Issue 2 - August, 1938. 8.5" x 11.5", 50 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

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Volume 13, Issue 3 - August, 1938. Tyrone Power and Norma Shearer from the film "Marie Antoinette" on cover. This issues features include; "You Can't Keep a Young Lad Down" with Jackie Cooper, "Self-made Man" the story of Mickey Rooney in his own words, "Hollywood Stars Tell How to be Happy and Loved" with Joan Crawford, and much more. Softcover Magazine, 8.5" x 11", 66 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $4.00 View scans Staple rust with migration.

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Volume 20, Issue 8 - August, 1938. 8" x 11.5", 36 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VF+ 8.5 $33.00 View scans Paper: White Staple rust: Slight.

Vol. 70, No. 2 - July 1938. Mechanical science and technology magazine. Includes: "Spectacular Fireworks Turn Night into Beauty" in color. 6.75" x 9.5". 240 pages. PC/PB&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Volume 131, Issue 2 - August, 1938. "Marvels of Underground Oil Railroads", fluid freight flows through a vast network of pipelines. "Why We Enjoy Pain", modern psychology traces common habits to mild forms of self-torture. "Fire-Bug Hunters", how arson sleuths make war on incendiaries. "Musical Magician", a college professor coaxes tunes from odd materials, plus much more. 8.5-in. x 11.5-in., black and white w/spot color, 126 pages. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $9.00 View scans Staple rust: Slight.

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

Add to cart Good $8.00 View scans Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Moderate.

Volume 15, Issue 11 - August 1938. Cover price $0.35.

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FEATURED: "Doom World" a novelette by Henry Kuttner, plus 3 short stories, "The Thing from Mars" by Ray Cummings, "Song of the Shadow Death" by Robert Moore Williams, and "Catalyst Planet" by Ray Cummings.

Volume 12, Issue 1 - August, 1938. Stories by Henry Kuttner, Frederic Arnold Kummer Jr., Arthur Leo Zagat, Paul Chadwick, Raymond A. Palmer, Ray Cummings, Gordon A. Giles, and Robert Moore Williams. Alex Schomburg illustrations. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 128 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

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Stories and art by Hal Foster, Al Capp, Ernie Bushmiller, Bill Conselman, Charlie Plumb, Rudolph Dirks, Gus Mager, Dick Moores, Paul Berdanier, Harry O'Neill, Fred Methot, Alan Maver, Ed Dodd, J. Carver Pusey, R. M. Brinkerhoff, Robert Dickey, and Ben Batsford. Sometimes listed as Tip Top Comics Vol. 3 #4. Tip Top Comics presented color reprints of United Features newspaper comic strips. Tarzan is knighted by Sigreda, now queen of the lost Viking tribe, in Tarzan Sunday strips with art by Hal Foster. But then she wishes to marry Tarzan, which angers his friend Thorik. Jim Hardy must stop Nancy from marrying his rival after she thinks Jim has fallen for femme fatale Lola. Swami Riva, the great Hindu mystic, visits Dogpatch and accidentally turns Mammy invisible, in a Li'l Abner storyline by Al Capp. Li'l Abner; The Captain and the Kids; Tarzan of the Apes; Jim Hardy; The Volcano Vulture; Net Results; Bumps; Divot Diggers; Broncho Bill; Stamp Tips; Opportunity Knox; Benny; Home Towners; Frankie Doodle; Bucky and His Pals; Buster Beans; Hawkshaw the Detective; How It Began; Tip Top Cartoon Club; Phil Fumble; Fritzi Ritz; Twice Told Tales; Joe Jinks Featuring Dynamite Dunn; Little Mary Mixup; Ella Cinders; Chris Crusty. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.