Comic books December 1939

Add to cart Coverless $250.00 or Best Offer View scans INCOMPLETE. First eight wraps missing. Entire Superman, Zatara and This Doggone World stories removed and Three Aces tory partially affected. Staples removed. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Start Superman covers - Cover art by Joe Shuster. Superman story (in which Clark Kent is credited as a Daily Star reporter), script by Jerry Siegel, art Joe Shuster. Pep Morgan story, script by Gardner F. Fox, art by Fred Guardineer (as Gene Baxter). Chuck Dawson story, art by Homer Fleming. Clip Carson story, script by Bill Finger, art by Bob Kane. The Zombies starring Tex Thomson, art by Bernard Baily. Three Aces story, art by Bert Christman (as Christopher). The Gorilla King starring Zatara Master Magician, script by Gardner F. Fox, art by Fred Guardineer. 68 Pages, Full Color. $.10 Full page ad for 1939 New York World's Fair. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 0.1 $150.00 or Best Offer View scan Paper: Off white to white Coverless. Label #4331230015 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

This issue features an ad with the first in-print mention of The Flash and Hawkman, pre-dating publication of Flash Comics #1! Cover art by Walter Galli, Jon L. Blummer, and William Smith. Origin, Part II starring Gary Concord, the Ultra-Man, script and art by Jon L. Blummer (signed as Don Shelby); Gary's father's story continues; He discovers he is the only one who can breathe the air outside the domed cities. Mutt and Jeff strips by Al Smith (as Bud Fisher). Believe It or Not by Robert L. Ripley. The Volcano starring Red, White and Blue, art by William Smith. Northern Lights starring Hop Harrigan, script and art by Jon L. Blummer (signed as Jon Elby). A Thousand Years A Minute - Part 3--Adventures in the Unknown, script by Carl H. Claudy, art by Stan Aschmeier. Scribbly Teaches the Principal, script and art by Sheldon Mayer. Calling the Roll starring Ben Webster, script and art by Edwin Alger. The American Way [Part 4], script by John B. Wentworth, art by Walter Galli. 68 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Fine $8.00 View scans Paper: Off white Water damage: Slight.	Add to cart Very Good $2.50 View scans Paper: Off white	Add to cart Very Good $2.50 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.	Add to cart Very Good $2.50 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
Add to cart Very Good $4.00 View scans Paper: Off white Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.	Add to cart Fair $2.50 View scans Paper: Light tan to Cream Front cover detached 90%. Back cover detached 60%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.	Add to cart FR 1.0 $2.50 View scan Full length spine split. Back cover missing.

Volume 295, Issue 2 - December 2, 1939. 6.75" x 9.75", 132 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $5.00 View scans Paper: Off white Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart Very Good $5.00 View scans Paper: Off white Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart Very Good $5.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

Volume 295, Issue 5 - December 23, 1939. 6.5" x 9.5", 128 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $2.50 View scans Paper: Off white Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Slight.

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

"Always Send a Reaper" a complete short novel by E. Hofffman Price.

Volume 295, Issue 6 - December 30, 1939. 6.75" x 9.75", 134 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Fair $9.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Front cover detached 80%. Back cover detached 25%.

December, 1939. Volume 24, Issue 4. Trimmed pulp, 6.5-in. x 9.5-in.; black and white; 160 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart PR 0.5 $1,099.95 or Best Offer View scans Interior is complete. Most of front cover gone with 5" cumulative spine split. Includes two unattached low quality reproduction covers. Centerfold detached at one staple. Water damage. Staple rust. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover art by Lou Fine. The Origin of Blue Beetle, pencils by Will Eisner (layouts) and Charles Nicholas (finished pencils), inks by Charles Nicholas; Dan Garret joins the police force and his Dad's old partner Mike to avenge his father's death at the hands of Chick Alonzo. The Coming of the Blue Beetle, art by Charles Nicholas; The Blue Beetle attempts to rescue a kidnapped banker's daughter from the White Face Gang. The Old Hex House starring Yarko, script and art by Will Eisner; Yarko rescues Oliver Tate and his daughter from the hypnotic clutches of the evil Shadibba, who forces them to commit crimes and enrich him. Death and the Devil, script and art by Will Eisner; Death and the Devil lay a trap for Yarko, frustrated because he keeps snatching their victims away. Ad for Fox's cardboard comic-strip "projector, art by Lou Fine. 68 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart FN+ 6.5 $19.00 View scans Trimmed Paper: Light tan to Cream Front cover detached 5%.	Add to cart Very Good $6.00 View scans Paper: Cream	Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $6.00 View scans Paper: Cream Front cover detached 25%. Back cover detached 25%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.	Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $7.00 View scans Trimmed Paper: Cream to off white Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.
Add to cart GD- 1.8 $4.00 View scans Trimmed Paper: Off white Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Moderate.

Volume 70, Issue 2 - December, 1939. 6.5" x 10", 194 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $13.00 View scans Spine split 5%. Staple rust: Moderate.

Add to cart Very Good $11.00 View scans Spine split 5%. Staple rust: Slight.

Agriculture and farming magazine. Includes articles, fiction, and humor. 11" x 14", 80 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.05.

Add to cart Fine $68.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Back cover detached 5%.

Vol. 133, No. 2 - December 9, 1939. 6.75" x 9.75", 112 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart FN- 5.5 $62.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Staple rust: Slight.

Vol. 133, No. 3 - December 16, 1939. 6.75" x 9.75", 112 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $40.00 View scans Paper: Off white Front cover detached 15%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Vol. 14, No. 4 - December 1939. 6.75" x 9.75", 116 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Fair $36.00 View scans Paper: Off white

Vol. 5, No. 1 - December 1939. 6.75" x 9.75", 112 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $45.00 View scans Trimmed Paper: Off white to white	Add to cart Very Good $36.00 View scans Trimmed Paper: Off white to white	Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $9.00 View scans Trimmed Paper: Off white Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.	Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $15.00 View scans Trimmed Paper: Off white Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $12.00 View scans Trimmed Paper: Off white Back cover detached 15%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.

Vol. 1, No. 3 - Dec 1939. Text Cover. Sci-Fi/Fantasy stories by A. Merritt ("Conquest of the Moon Pool" - part 2 of 6"), Ralphe Milne Farley, Waldemar Kaempffert, Homer Eon Flint, Philip Fisher, and Edison Tesla Marshall. Illustrations by Virgil Finlay and Frank R. Paul. 6.5-in. x 9.5-in.; black and white; 128 newsprint pages. Published by Frank A. Munsey Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $190.00 View scans Water spotting. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Victor E. Pazmiño cover. Christmas cover. Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Spunky Dory" by M. E. Brady; "Star Flashes" by Charles Bruno; "Goofie Gags" by Victor E. Pazmiño; "The Gay Thirties" by Hank Barrow; "Roy Powers, Eagle Scout" by Paul Powell; "Buck Rogers" by Philip Francis Nowlan and Rick Yager (as Dick Calkins); "High Lights of History" by J. Carroll Mansfield; "Skyroads" by Dick Calkins and Russell Keaton; "Hairbreadth Harry" and "High-Gear Homer" by F. O. Alexander; "Jitter" by Arthur B. Poinier; "Sergeant Stoney Craig" by Frank Rentfrow and Don Dickson; "Big Chief Wahoo" by Allen Saunders and Elmer Woggon; "Dickie Dare" by Milton Caniff; "Adventures of Patsy" by Mel Graff; "Daredevils of Destiny" by Frank Rentfrow and Don Dickson; "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "The Frog Pond Ferry" by M. E. Brady; "Oaky Doaks" by Ralph Briggs Fuller; "Seaweed Sam" by Victor E. Pazmiño; "Olly of the Movies" by Julian Ollendorff; "Scorchy Smith" by Noel Sickles; "Somebody's Stenog" and "The Back-Seat Driver" by A. E. Hayward; "Lightnin' and the Lone Rider" by Jack Kirby (as Lance Kirby); "Above the Crowd" by Benjamin D. Allen (as Stookie Allen); "There's A Town" by M. E. Brady; "Babe Bunting" by Roy L. Williams; "Mescal Ike" by S. L. Huntley and Art Huhta; "Connie" and "The Wet Blanket" by Frank Godwin; "Life's Like That" by Fred Neher; "Queenie" by S. M. Iger (as Bob Bliss); and "Homer Hoopee" by Fred Locher. "Indian Fashion" text story by F. S. Saunders. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 68 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $22.00 View scans

Add to cart Very Good $24.00 View scans 1/4" Spine split from top of comic. Corner Damage. Creasing. Denting. Foxing. Scuffing. Soiling.

Issue #608 - December 1939. Cover by Enoch Bolles. Humorous captions paired with movie stills and models. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/4-in., 50 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 9.0 $21,500 View scans Paper: Off white The DC Universe Collection Label #4278170001

Cover by Leo O'Mealia. This comic-sized ashcan issue was used to secure the trademark for the title, "Flash Comics" before the release of Flash Comics (1940 DC) #1. Reuses cover from Adventure Comics #41. Partial interior from All-American Comics (1939) #8. 7 1/2" X 10 1/2". Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Fine $165.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Front cover detached 5%.

Vol. 14, No. 5 - Winter 1939/1940. 7" x 10", 128 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.20.

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Gulf Oil Company giveaway comic. 7.5" x 10.5, 4 pages, full color.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $27.00 View scans Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart Good $12.00 View scans Coupon/Piece missing, story not affected. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

December 18, 1939. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. In this issue: Canada at war; David O. Selznick; the eye; porpoises; Green Bay Packers; Linda Darnell; knitting for British fighters; war toys; and more. 10.5-in. x 13.75-in.; partial color; 96 pages. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $855.00 View scans Paper: Off white

Add to cart CGC 7.5 $3,499.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: White Label #4636243001 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Add to cart CGC 6.0 $1,499.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: Cream to off white Label #4392596018 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Vol. 1, No. 6 - December 1939. See Marvel Science Stories (1938-1939 Postal Publications) Pulp for earlier issues. 6.75" x 9.75", 114 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart FN- 5.5 $23.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $6.00 View scans Back cover detached 10%. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart Very Good $3.00 View scans Front cover detached 30%. Back cover detached 10%.

Volume 23, Issue 2 - December, 1939. Mechanical science and technology magazine. Features include an article on stop-motion animation, dresses made from milk, darkroom tricks and much more. 6 1/2-in. x 9 1/2-in., 146 pages, BW/spot color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.5 $2,200.00 View scans Conserved Paper: Off white Conservation includes: cover reinforced. 10th -12th wraps married. Label #2054014001 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Cover by Lou Fine. Stories by Dick Briefer, Fred Schwab, and Will Eisner. Art by Walter Frame, Dick Briefer, Fred Schwab, Munson Paddock, George Tuska, Klaus Nordling, Arthur Peddy, Charles Nicholas, Art Franklin, Bob Powell, and John Lindermayer. An anthology of Golden Age adventure comics from Fox Feature, including the original Blue Beetle. A mysterious superhuman causes Rex Dexter to age rapidly and menaces him with bizarre monsters, in another one-of-a-kind story by Dick Briefer; Early adventures of The Blue Beetle and The Green Mask likely written by Will Eisner; Zanzibar, who looks like Mandrake the Magician in a blue fez, battles the Walrus Men at the South Pole. The Will of John D. Lovingston; The Robot Solar System; Come! Come!; River Lily and the Purr of Death; The World Race; Big-Shot Krard's Dope Ring; The Case of Oil; Mr. Death; Ki-Mung, Bloodthirsty Buccaneer; A Trap for the Blue Beetle; Inspector Bancroft of Scotland Yard Smashes a Spy Ring; Ki-Mung, Bloodthirsty Buccaneer; Tiger Hunt; Super Sleuths; Marooned at the South Pole. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $11.50 View scans Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Staple rust: Slight.

Monthly magazine that featured abridgements of best-selling books. 8.5" x 11", 160 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.50.

Add to cart VF+ 8.5 $57.00 View scans Paper: White Staple rust: Slight.

Volume 72, Issue 6 - December 1939. Mechanical science and technology magazine. 6.75-in x 9.5-in, 272 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart FN- 5.5 $21.00 View scans Front cover detached 5%.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $2.65 View scans Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 10%.

Vol. 5 #6 - December 1939. Tips and tricks of making better photographs. 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 212 pages, black and white. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart VF- 7.5 $270.00 View scans Water damage: Slight.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $59.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Back cover detached 5%. Staple rust: Slight.

Volume 1, Issue 5 - December 1939. Science Fiction and adventure stories pulp magazine. This issue features "Planet of the Knob Heads" by Stanton A. Coblentz. 7-in. x 10-in., 130 pages, Text Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $145.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 30%.

Volume 32, Issue 2 - December 15, 1939. 6.5" x 9", 114 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $949.95 or Best Offer View scans Cover glued to first wrap. Water damage. Cover oxidation. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover art by Maurice Scott. Shock Gibson story, art by Maurice Scott. Crash, Cork, and the Baron story, script and art by Klaus Nordling (Fred North). Ted Parrish story, script and art by Bob Powell. An Escape From Headhunters text story by Charles Miller. Biff Bannon of the U.S. Marines story, script and art by Dick Briefer (Remington Brant). Smoke Carter story, script and art by Munson Paddock (signed Joe E. Martin). Landor, Maker of Monsters story. Texas Tyler story, script and art by Harry Walters. Spike Marlin story, art by George Tuska (Carl Larson). 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Good $180.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Front cover detached 30%. Back cover detached 40%.

Dec. 1939. Spider novel by Grant Stockbridge "Satan's Murder Machines", plus "The Book Shop Killings" by Charles Boswell and "Mr. X's Magic Corpse" by Moran Tudury. Illustrations by J. Fleming Gould. 7" x 10", black and white; 112 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart PR 0.5 $2,499.95 or Best Offer View scans INCOMPLETE. Centerfold and last page missing, affects Dam and Jewel Smuggler stories. Corner pieces cut from several pages. MARRIED front cover (unattached), no back cover. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover art by Joe Shuster. Untitled Superman story, script by Jerry Siegel, pencils by Joe Shuster, inks by Dennis Neville [as Joe Shuster]; When Superman saves a runaway boy from being run over by a train, he discovers the child is from an orphanage where the superintendent abuses the children in a variety of ways. Supermen of America club contest. Untitled Superman story, art by Jerry Siegel; Although Lois has double-crossed him and editor Taylor has fired him, Clark Kent (as Superman) heads to the Valley-Ho Dam to prevent it from collapsing. Death By the Stars text story, script by Bert Lexington, art by Fred Guardineer. Untitled Superman story, script by Jerry Siegel, art by Joe Shuster; Clark Kent is introduced to a fighter manager who claims to be Superman's personal manager. Acquiring Super-Strength muscle training tips. Attaining Super-Health: A Few Hints From Superman! Good Luck Charm text story, script by Hugh Langley, art by Fred Guardineer. Untitled Superman story, script by Jerry Siegel, pencils by Joe Shuster, inks by Paul Cassidy [as Joe Shuster]; Superman must save Lois' life and stop criminals who are smuggling in jewels from Europeans who wish to escape paying custom duties. 68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $165.00 View scans Paper: Off white

No. 9 - Winter 1939. 6.5" x 9", 96 pages, B&W.

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Theatre Arts 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, Broadway and Hollywood. 8.5" x 11", 88 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

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December 16, 1939. Cover by Robert O. Reid. Tabloid-sized weekly supplement issued with the Sunday edition of several major newspapers. 11" x 16", 16 pages, B&W with color.

Edited by Abner Sundell. Cover art by Edd Ashe. Meet Rang-A-Tang The Wonder Dog house ad. "The Pearl Harbor Peril," art by Edd Ashe; The Wizard uses his super powers to stop a Jatsonian attack on Pearl Harbor. "In the Worlds of Time," script by Otto Binder (as Eando Binder), art by Jack Binder; Scott, a traveler through time with Dr. Meade in the "time car" (which is more of a rocket ship), pick ups Thor the Viking and the lovely Elda in the past. One-page SporTopics story, art by Irwin Hasen. "Murder by Sock" Swift of the Secret Service story, art by Charles Biro; introduction of Rex Swift; vs. Jack Snite. "To-nite! Saved from the Flames!" Jungle Town Show Boat story, script and art by Dick Ryan; Only Billy Hippo appearance. "Vendetta with Von Schiller," script by Joe Blair, art by Irv Novick; Ben "Wings" Johnson introduction and origin vs. Capt. Von Schiller and Nazis. "Murder Rap" text story with Lucky Coyne by Ken Fitch. It's Really A Fact! non-fiction story, art by Bob Wood. "The Bat and the Bull," script by Ken Fitch; Lucky Coyne posing as Bat Yardley, jewel thief in prison. One-page Lonesome Luke story. The "Fortune Teller's Revenge," art by Chuck Winter; The Mystic (later Kardak) intro; vs. Chuck and his gang. "Kornell Goes to West Point;" Keith Kornell, a physical and mental marvel, is a Kentucky mountaineer who is a collateral descendant of President Andrew Jackson and the son of a World War hero, is orphaned at the age of 5, when both of his parents succumbed to the ravages of pneumonia epidemic; Reared by a poor relative, Keith's life is one of dire poverty until a newspaper runs a story on him and he meets an old Army buddy of his father's who is now a U.S. Senator. "The Ice Cream Cone," script and art by Bob McCay (as Winsor McCay II). "Case 1: Master Forgers," script and art by Jack Cole; true crime story. "Forgets To Remember" one-page Pokey story, script and art by Dick Ryan. 68 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.