Comic books September 1939

Cover art by Fred Guardineer. Superman story, script by Jerry Siegel, art Joe Shuster. Pep Morgan story, script by Gardner F. Fox, art by Fred Guardineer (as Gene Baxter). Adventures of Marco Polo story, art by Sven Elven. Clip Carson story, script by Bill Finger, art by Bob Kane. Tex Thomson story, art by Bernard Baily. Chuck Dawson story, art by Homer Fleming. The Terror from Saturn starring Zatara Master Magician, script by Gardner F. Fox, art by Fred Guardineer, Features a Martian Manhunter prototype 68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $17.00 View scans Paper: Off white Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $9.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Front cover detached 15%. Back cover detached 40%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $8.00 View scans Paper: Cream Front cover detached 15%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

Vol. 101, No. 5 - September 1939. 7" x 9.75", 128 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart CGC 5.5 $2,149.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: Cream to off white Label #4032878002 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $900.00 View scans Cover coming detached at both staples. Oxidation. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by Bud Plant

Vol 2 # 9. "The Fantom of the Fair" by Paul Gustavson; "Air-Sub DX" by Carl Burgos; "The Inner Circle"; "Don Dixon and the Hidden Empire, Part 2" by Bob Moore and Carl Pfeufer; "Speed Centaur" by Martin Kildale; "Daredevil Barry Finn" by Tarpe Mills; "Knuckle Down" by Martin Filchock; plus a two-page text story, "Rocketship Race" by Lloyd Victor. Gustavson cover. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Fine $7.00 View scans Paper: Off white Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.	Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $5.00 View scans Paper: Off white Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.	Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $2.65 View scans Paper: Cream Front cover detached 20%. Back cover detached 40%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Extensive.	Add to cart GD- 1.8 $3.00 View scans
Add to cart Poor $2.50 View scans Paper: Cream Front and Back Cover Detached. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.

"Hurricane Range" 3/5 a serial by Luke Short.

Add to cart FN- 5.5 $4.00 View scans Paper: Off white	Add to cart Very Good $3.00 View scans Paper: Cream Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.	Add to cart Very Good $3.00 View scans Paper: Off white Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate.	Add to cart VG- 3.5 $2.65 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
Add to cart GD- 1.8 $3.00 View scans

September 23, 1939. Cover by Rudolph Belarski. Stories include "Lords of Creation" (part 1) by Eando Binder, "Little Rat, What Now?" by Donald Barr Chidsey, "Spurs for Sacatone" by Bennett Foster, "Ticket at Twenty" by Richard Howells Watkins, "Remember Tomorrow" (part 2) by Theodore Roscoe, "The Aztec Heart" by Brice Purcell, "The Long Journey" by Philip Ketchum, "You Can't Walk Home" by Clifford L. Alderman, "River Rogues" (conclusion) by Fred MacIsaac and C.F. Harkins, and "Men of Daring" by Stookie Allen. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 128 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Fine $30.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart Very Good $9.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Front cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart Very Good $13.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $2.65 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Front cover detached 20%. Back cover detached 50%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Slight.

September 30, 1939. Satan cover by Rudolph Belarski. Stories: "The Devil's Diary" (Part 1 of 6) by William Du Bois, "The Blood Call" By Georges Surdez, "Big Gun from Texas" by Ralph R. Perry, "No Patriot There" by Richard Sale, "Women of Daring" by Stookie Allen, "Lords of Creation" (Part 2 of 6) by Eando Binder, "Savage Quest" by Walter C. Brown, "Remember Tomorrow" (Part 3 of 6) by Theodore Roscoe, and "Take 'em Away, McCoy" by Harry Bedwell. Softcover Pulp, 7-in x 10-in, 128 Pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $5.00 View scans Paper: Light tan to off white Front cover detached 5%. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $2.50 View scans

Volume 69, Issue 5 - September, 1939. 6.5" x 10", 194 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $200.00 View scans Centerfold detached. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by Bud Plant

Stories and art by Rex Maxon, R. W. Palmer, Al Capp, Ernie Bushmiller, Bill Conselman, Charlie Plumb, Bernard Dibble, Rudolph Dirks, John Paul Frederics, Paul Berdanier, Harry Lee, Winfield Meggs, Becky Sharp, Harry O'Neill, H. E. Homan, Dudley T. Fisher Jr., Olive Ray Scott, Edward Daniel Kuekes, R. M. Brinkerhoff, Dick Richards, George Lichty, Frank Owen, and Raeburn Van Buren. Sometimes listed as Comics on Parade Vol. 2 #6. Early in the transformation of comic strips to comic books, United Features Syndicate published Comics on Parade as a showcase for its most popular strips, including Tarzan, Li'l Abner and Nancy. Jane manages to escape Rokoff, then tries to survive in the jungle until Tarzan arrives, in the adaptation of The Beasts of Tarzan with art by Rex Maxon. Alice goes through the looking-glass and finds another wonderland of the strange and surreal. After Danny Dingle is exhibited by Pooklehof as "Stupo, the man without a brain," Nellie sneaks into the dime museum to see him. Plus a Li'l Abner storyline by Al Capp, and an illustrated biography of screen actor Warner Baxter. Abbie an' Slats; The Captain and the Kids; Tarzan of the Apes; Wayne Webster: Control Ball; Roads of Romance; Cynical Susie; Broncho Bill; Looy Dot Dope; Dynamite Dunn; How to Make It; Stampin' Around; For Junior Readers; Nancy; Billy Make Believe; Alice in Wonderland; Knurl the Gnome; The Boomers; The Pet's Club; Grin and Bear It; Little Mary Mixup; Ella Cinders; Danny Dingle; Li'l Abner. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $33.00 View scans Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 10%. Staple rust: Moderate.

Volume 107, Issue 3 - September, 1939. Cover by Bradshaw Crandell. Short stories, serials, and features. 8.5" x 11.5", 172 pages, B&W with spot color and full color ads. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $4.00 View scans Spine split 20%. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $2.65 View scans Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Moderate.

Agriculture and farming magazine. Includes articles, fiction, and humor. 11" x 14", 86 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.05.

Add to cart CGC 0.3 $11,499 or Best Offer View scans Paper: Brittle Coverless. Tape on Interior. Reproduction Cover Included. Label #2044251002 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Other items consigned by humble cow

Classic Batman over Castle cover art by Bob Kane. Batman and the Monk story, script by Gardner F. Fox, pencils by Bob Kane and Sheldon Moldoff, inks by Bob Kane. Killer's Bait starring Buck Marshall, Range Detective, art by Homer Fleming. Spy story, script by Jerry Siegel, art by Mart Bailey. Larry Steele, Private Detective story, art by Ken Ernst. Newspaper Nightmare text story by Gardner F. Fox (as Paul Dean). The Mammoth Mystery starring Speed Saunders, Ace Investigator, art by Fred Guardineer. Bruce Nelson story, script and art by Tom Hickey. Cosmo, the Phantom of Disguise story, art by Sven Elven. Slam Bradley story, script by Jerry Siegel, art by Joe Shuster. 68 pgs. $0.10. The Monk, Julie Madison, Batplane, and Batarang 1st appearances. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $23.00 View scans

Official organ of the International Society of Junior Magicians, containing news and tips. 16 pages on newsprint.

Add to cart Good $2.65

Vol. 3 #1 - Sept. 1939. Photography Magazine articles: "Bring 'Em Back Alive," "Don't Be a Photography Widow," "Harvest Time is Picture Time" and more! 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 60 pages, black and white. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $9.00 View scans Trimmed Paper: Off white Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

Sept-Oct 1939. 1st issue. Text Cover. Sci-Fi/Fantasy stories by A. Merritt "The Moon Pool", Manly Wade Wellman "Space Station No.1", Todd Robbins, Robert Neal Leath, Ray Cummings, Donald Wandrei, and J.U. Giesy. Uncredited illustrations. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 128 newsprint pages. Published by Frank A. Munsey Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $7.50 View scans

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $3.00 View scans Water damage: Extensive.

Vol. 33, No. 2 - September 1939. 8.5" x 11.5", 84 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $60.00 View scans Paper: Off white

Vol. 1, No. 1 - Fall 1939. 6.75" x 9.75", 128 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart FN- 5.5 $105.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight.

Volume 18, Issue 4 - September, 1939. 6.75" x 9.75", 116 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $60.00 View scans 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 $30.00 View scans Spine split 15%. 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 VG- 3.5 $15.00 View scans Spine split 5%. Staple rust: Moderate.

Classic weekly news/photo magazine. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in., 72 pages, color and B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Good $10.00 View scans Spine split 20%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

September 25, 1939. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in., 104 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG 4.0 $169.95 or Best Offer View scans Interior pen markings. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover by Hank Porter. Stories and art by Floyd Gottfredson, Merrill De Maris, Manuel Gonzales, Ted Thwaites, and Al Taliaferro. Sometimes listed as Mickey Mouse Magazine #48. Published by Disney marketing genius Kay Kamen, Mickey Mouse Magazine featured early Disney comics and stories, along with puzzles, art and activities. This was the first issue to be published in full color. Mickey helps Minnie with a chicken problem. Pluto gets protective when movers want to take his favorite armchair. Donald is gifted a baby penguin, but what does one do with a penguin? Plus vintage ads for Disney merch, including a Mickey Mouse Picture Printing Set. Just Between Us; Donald's Penguin; The Mighty Whale Hunter; Pluto the Pup; Timid Elmer; Wise Quacks Edited by Donald Duck. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $59.00 View scans Front cover detached 5%. Staple rust: Slight.

Vintage celebrity gossip tabloid with a focus on Hollywood during the golden-age of cinema. 8.5" x 11.5", 130 pages, B&W. Includes a 2 page ad for the Wizard of Oz film. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 2.5 $3,850.00 View scans Paper: Off white Label #4271169014

Cover art by Lou Fine. Untitled story, art by Walter Frehm; The Green Mask, alarmed at the Tong wars erupting in Chinatown, seemingly joins forces with the nefarious San Sin in order to find a way to rescue Fong Lee's daughter from his evil clutches. Untitled story, script and art by Dick Briefer; A mysterious plague threatens to destroy all life on Earth, and the only cure is radium: but the Earth doesn't have sufficient quantities in order to deal with the disease. Untitled story, art by Munson Paddock (as Cecilia Munson); River pirate Chang orders his thugs to capture Kendall and take him to the mysterious River Lily aboard the "Dragon Heart." "Famed Statue Missing," art by George Tuska; Zanzibar investigates the theft of the famed statue: the Venus de Milo. Untitled story, script and art by Fred Schwab; Hemlock and the good doctor visit Spookington Castle in order to try and collect a $10 reward for the return of the kidnapped Mrs. Spookington. "The Long Arm of Vengeance" text story by Will Eisner. Untitled story, art by Arthur Peddy; As the Waco Kid rides along, he spots a wanted poster: on himself, for bank robbery and murder! Untitled story, art by Charles Nicholas; A group of thugs rob an armored car of its $80,000 payload and capture the Beetle in the process; A group of thugs rob an armored car of its $80,000 payload and capture the Beetle in the process. Untitled D-13, Secret Agent story, script and art by Bob Powell. Untitled Captain Denny Scott of the Bengal Lancers story, art by John Lindermayer (as L. Mayer); Captain Scott and James enter the town of Gulam, unaware that a sinister figure named Kahn and his men are out to kidnap the boy. Untitled Lt. Drake of the Naval Intelligence story, script and art by Klaus Nordling (as F. Klaus). 68 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $9.00 View scans Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 10%.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $8.00 View scans Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

Tips and tricks of making better photographs. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 124 pages, black and white. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $9.00 View scans Staple rust: Moderate.

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

Add to cart Fine $86.00 View scans Paper: Off white

September 1, 1939. Cover by Graves Gladney. Stories include "The Crime Ray" by Maxwell Grant; "Hot Money" by Milton Lowe; "Double Cross" by Clifford Goodrich; and "The Funniest Thing" by Robert C. Blackmon plus the column "Codes" by Henry Lysing. Edd Cartier illustrations. 7" x 10", black and white, 128 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $62.00 View scans Paper: Off white

Volume 18, Issue 4 - September, 1939. 6.75" x 9.75", 114 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $550.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Label #4552770001

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $799.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: Off white to white Label #4691109005 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $365.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Label #4547023002 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Sept 1939. Cover by Alex Schomburg (1st pulp cover by Alex). Stories by Robert Moore Williams, Robert Arthur, John Russell Fearn, and Edmond Hamilton. "Thrills in Science" by Mort Weisinger. Two-page Alfred Bernhard Nobel bio in comic form. Virgil Finlay illustration. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 128 pages. Cover price $0.15.

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

Vol. 97, No. 585 - September 1939. 7.5" x 10", 142 pages, B&W.

Cover by Bill Holman. Stories and art by Milton Caniff, Chester Gould, Frank King, Harold Gray, Bill Holman, Zack Mosley, Stanley Link, Oskar Lebeck, Frank Willard, Gus Edson, Walter Berndt, Ed Leffingwell, Martin Branner, Basil Reynolds, Loy Byrnes, Al Posen and Carl Ed. An early comic book from Dell, featuring reprinted newspaper comic strips alongside new material. Pat, Terry and Connie head up the rescue mission to free Sandhurst from his captors, against their better judgment. Skeezix gets his first traffic ticket while driving Tops' car, and town gossip soon has it as a major moving violation. Smilin' Jack learns the secret of the Legion of Forgotten Pilots. Also featuring popular strips Little Orphan Annie, Dick Tracy, Smokey Stover and The Gumps. Foo-lish Folks; Moon Mullins; Dick Tracy; Tiny Tim; Smitty; Spooky; Gasoline Alley; Tim Todd the Boy Detective; The Crow's Nest; Wyoming Willie; Skit, Skat and the Captain; Winnie Winkle; The Gumps; Harold Teen; Little Orphan Annie; Manuk the Arctic Crusoe; Bobby & Chip; Zipper; Do You Know?; Terry and the Pirates; Streaky; Elmer; Sweeney & Son; Smokey Stover; Little Joe; Smilin' Jack. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Auction Item: Coverless View scans Auction opens July 4 Small piece missing from last page, slightly affects text story.

Auction Item: CGC 0.1 View scans Auction opens July 4 Paper: Off white to white Page 15 Only. Label #4731587005

Add to cart FR 1.0 $6,999.95 or Best Offer View scans Full length spine split. Cover detached, centerfold detached at one staple. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Add to cart Coverless $1,499.95 or Best Offer View scans Trimmed INCOMPLETE. Missing 3 pages (missing pages 12-15 of "Superman Champions Universal Peace", missing last panel from last page of "Superman and the Skyscrapers", missing page 2 of text story and an ad page). All three edges TRIMMED, spine severely damaged (book removed from a bound volume). Unattached reproduction cover included. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover pencils by Joe Shuster, inks by Paul Cassidy. Untitled Superman story starring Larry Trent, script by Jerry Siegel, pencils by Joe Shuster, inks by Paul Cassidy; Superman saves the former heavyweight boxing champion of the world from committing suicide; When Superman learns that Larry Trent was drugged by his former manager to lose the title bout, the Man of Tomorrow disguises himself as Trent and slugs his way back to the title match. Superman's Tips For Super-Health. Superman at the World's Fair ad for New York World's Fair Comics, 1939 edition. Superman Champions Universal Peace!, script by Jerry Siegel, pencils by Joe Shuster, inks by Paul Cassidy [as Joe Shuster]. Ad for the Supermen of America Club. Superman and the Skyscrapers, script by Jerry Siegel (signed), pencils by Joe Shuster, inks by Paul Cassidy [as Joe Shuster]; After five construction workers mysteriously die while trying to erect the Atlas Building, Superman decides to investigate. Superman text story. House ad for Superman in Action Comics. 68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

This first issue FEATURED: "Terror in Kurdistan" a novelette by E. Hoffman Price, plus Robert Leslie Bellem, G.T. Fleming-Roberts.

Volume 1, Issue 1 - Fall, 1939. 6.75" x 9.75", 116 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $6.80 View scans Spine split 10%. Staple rust: Extensive. Foreign edition: UK.

Title resumed with the outbeak of World War II.

Add to cart FN+ 6.5 $115.00 View scans Trimmed Paper: Off white to white

September 1939. Cover by Virgil Finlay. Edited by Farnsworth Wright. Horror and supernatural stories by H. P. Lovecraft, Seabury Quinn, Clark Ashton Smith, August W. Derleth, Illustrations by Virgil Finlay, Harold De Lay, and Hugh Rankin. 6 3/4-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 128 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $17.00 View scans Paper: Off white Front cover detached 15%.

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $6.50 View scans Paper: Cream Front cover detached 30%. Back cover detached 30%. Staple rust: Slight.

Vol. 176, No. 4 - September 9, 1939. Magazine featuring western stories. 7" x 10", 132 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.