Comic books March 1940

Add to cart CGC 6.0 $1,190.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: Cream to off white Slab: Chipped/broken bracket Label #4032878003 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

This cover scene, beautifully rendered by Bill Everett, showing a male centaur wrestling a conventional horse is an image Buddy doesn't recall ever seeing on the cover of any other comic book, pulp, or for that on the cover of any magazine!

#18 Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $11.00 View scans Front cover detached 15%. Back cover detached 20%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Volume 14, Issue 3 - March, 1940. 6.75" x 9.75", 148 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart FN+ 6.5 $17.00 View scans Paper: Light tan to Cream	Add to cart Fine $16.00 View scans Paper: Light tan to Cream Back cover detached 5%.	Add to cart Very Good $5.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Foxing. Soiling. Water damage.	Add to cart Very Good $5.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Water damage: Slight.
Add to cart Very Good $7.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.	Add to cart Very Good $7.00 View scans Paper: Cream Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.	Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $4.80 View scans Paper: Light tan Front cover detached 25%. Back cover detached 5%. Staple rust: Slight.	Add to cart Good $4.00 View scans Paper: Light tan Water damage: Slight.
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March 2, 1940. Cover by Rudolph Belarski. Stories include "The Sun Sets at Five" (part 1) by Borden Chase, "The Green Flame" (part 2) by Eric North, "The Shite Oomailik" (part 5) by Frank Richardson Pierce, "The Tin Fish" by Richard Sale, "All at Once, No Alice" by Cornell Woolrich, "Mortal Formula" by Robert W. Cochran, "The Last Illusion" by John Ames York, and "Men of Daring" by Stookie Allen. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 128 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.10.

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March 9, 1940. Cover by Rudolph Belarski. Stories include "Three Men and a Tub" by Theodore Roscoe, "Line of Duty" by Samuel W. Taylor, "The Sun Sets at Five" (part 2) by Borden Chase, "Till Doomsday" by Richard Sale, "The Battle of Dabbit Run" by Jim Kjelgaard, "The Green Flame" (part 3) by Eric North, "Courage for Two" by Robert W. Cochran, "The Shite Oomailik" (conclusion) by Frank Richardson Pierce, 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 $17.00 View scans Paper: Off white Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 20%.

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Volume 297, Issue 5 - March 16, 1940. 6.75" x 9.75", 130 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $5.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $20.00 View scans Paper: Off white Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

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Volume 297, Issue 6 - March 23, 1940. 6.75" x 9.75", 132 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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"The Black Bat's Spy Trail" by "G. Wayman Jones" (Norman Daniels); "Murder at his Heels" by Norman A. Daniels; and "Suckers Fly High" by Robert Sidney Bowen. Pulp magazine format; black and white; 112 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 11, Issue 2 - March, 1940. Cover by Alfred Skrenda. Fiction, jokes, articles and more. 6-page article on a Sadie Hawkins Day party with Al Capp in attendance. 8.5" x 11", 50 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

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Vol. 7, No. 5, Issue 41 - March 1940. 5.25" x 7.5", 140 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $16.00 View scans Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Staple rust: Slight.

Volume 108, Issue 3 - March, 1940. Cover by Bradshaw Crandell. Short stories, serials, and features. 8.5" x 11.5", 180 pages, B&W with spot color and full color ads. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $2.65 View scans Spine split 20%. Staple rust: Slight.

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Agriculture and farming magazine. Includes articles, fiction, and humor. 11" x 14", 106 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.05.

Add to cart CGC 0.1 $280.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Page 6 Only. Label #4649144006 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Cover art by Bob Kane. Batman story, script by Bill Finger, pencils by Bob Kane and Jerry Robinson, inks by Bob Kane. Spy story, script by Jerry Siegel, art by Maurice Kashuba. Cosmo, the Phantom of Disguise story, art by Sven Elven. The Crimson Avenger story. Murder by Sea text story by John Randall. The Crime Roundup starring Speed Saunders, Ace Investigator, script by Gardner F. Fox, art by Fred Guardineer. Steve Malone, District Attorney story, art by Don Lynch. Cliff Crosby story, script and art by Chad Grothkopf. Slam Bradley story, script by Jerry Siegel, art by Mart Bailey. 68 pgs. $0.10. Last solo Golden-Age Batman adventure. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $19.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Staple rust: Moderate.

Vol. 135, No. 2 - March 2, 1940. 6.75" x 9.75", 112 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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Vol. 5, No. 4 - March 1940. 6.75" x 9.75", 112 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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Vol. 16, No. 9. March 1, 1940. 8.5" x 11.5". 20 pages. Black and white.

Add to cart FN+ 6.5 $57.00 View scans Staple rust: Slight.

Full-page B&W ad for Snowdrift Shortening. 8.5" x 11.5". 24 pages. Black and white.

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Vol. 16, No. 12. March 22, 1940. 8.5" x 11.5". 28 pages. Black and white.

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Vol. 16, No. 13. March 29, 1940. 8.5" x 11.5". 24 pages. Black and white.

Add to cart FN+ 6.5 $28.00 View scans Trimmed Paper: Off white to white

Add to cart FN+ 6.5 $31.00 View scans Trimmed Paper: Light tan to Cream

Add to cart FN- 5.5 $29.00 View scans Trimmed Paper: Light tan Back cover detached 5%.

Volume 1, Issue 6 - March, 1940. 6.5" x 9", 132 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $64.00 View scans Centerfold detached at one staple. Light chew on back cover. Water damage. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by TheInnerGeek

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $69.95 or Best Offer View scans 1" Spine split from top. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Victor E. Pazmiño cover. Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "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; "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) and Frank Robbins; "Above the Crowd" by Benjamin D. Allen (as Stookie Allen); "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); "Homer Hoopee" by Fred Locher; and "Spunky Dory" by M. E. Brady. "Steve takes a Chance" text story by F. S. Saunders. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 68 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $62.00 View scans Back cover detached 5%. Staple rust: Slight.

Vol. 2 # 3; March 1940. This issue featuring "The Little People" by Eando Binder, plus stories by Phil Nowlan, Nelson S. Bond, F.A. Kummer Jr., and Orlin Tremaine. Cover painting by Robert Fuqua. 8-1/2 in. x 11-3/8 in.; black and white; 100 newsprint pages; mostly text with a few illustrations. Cover price $0.20.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $2,200.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: Cream to off white Label #2041675020 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Add to cart Coverless $999.95 or Best Offer View scans INCOMPLETE. First 2 wraps missing (affects Samson and Sub Saunders stories). Complete spine split in outer wrap. 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 Giant Robots of Kilgor starring Samson, art by Alex Blum. Invasion of the Three-Armed Men starring Flip Falcon, art by Don Rico. The Legend of the Haunted Well starring Golden Knight, art by Grieg Chapian. The Silent Explosive starring Yank Wilson. Headless Men of the Gold Comet, script and art by Fletcher Hanks [as Hank Christy]; Space Smith and Dianna are attacked by the Thinker's headless soldiers while they investigate the comet of gold. Untitled Captain Kidd story, art by Bill Bossert. The Mad Giant Experimenter starring Stardust, script and art by Fletcher Hanks. The Problem of Prince Pizga starring Sub Saunders, art by Henry Kiefer. 68 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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March 1940. Internal trade publication published by Fawcett and available to newsstands and businesses that sold their products. 12" x 17", 4 pages, B&W.

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $200.00 View scans 5" cumulative spine split. Cover-to-cover puncture damage. Centerfold detached. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by Bud Plant

Cover art by Lou Fine. "The FBI Agent Killing," script and art by George Brenner; The Clock (Brian O'Brien) battles Carl Adolf Voss. Untitled soap opera-type story starring Jane Arden and Lena Pry, script by Monte Barrett, art by Russell E. Ross. "The Phoney Gold Shipment," script and art by Art Pinajian; Reynolds of the Mounted vs. Lane and Jeff Dixon. 2 pages of Rube Goldberg's Side Show. "Collision at Sea" starring Spin Shaw, Captain "Poison" Atkins, and Ann Atkins, script and art by Bob Powell. Untitled Ned Brant story, script by Bob Zuppke, art by R. W. Depew. "The Fate of the DRAGON" starring Captain Fortune, script and art by Vernon Henkel. "The Bomber Engine Robberies," script by Will Eisner (as William Erwin Maxwell), pencils by Will Eisner and Lou Fine, inks by Lou Fine; Doll Man (Darrel Dane) vs. The Nazis. "The Bridge Blasters," script by William A. Smith, art by William A. Smith (as Will Arthur); Rance Keane vs. Seth Cheatham. Untitled Joe Palooka story, script and art by Ham Fisher. "The Dr. Croft Ruby Mystery: Part 1," script and art by Alfred Andriola; Detective-mystery story with Charlie Chan. Untitled Mickey Finn and Nippie story, script and art by Lank Leonard. 68 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Add to cart FR 1.0 $339.95 or Best Offer View scans Full length spine split with covers detached. 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 Will Eisner. Untitled story, script by Will Eisner, art by George Tuska (as George Aksut); Shark Brodie battles desperados Boss Bullard and his gang. Untitled story; Saber (Spy Fighter) vs. a gang of traitors in a story set in 1998. "The Life of Tony Galento"; non-fiction story about the famous boxer. Untitled story; Kayo Kirby (Red Kirby) vs. Bendelli, Slam Deman and Bob Benton. "The Graveyard of Forgotten Ships," script and art by Steve Broder; Kinks Mason vs. Amphibians. Fight Tips For Beginners article. Untitled story, script and art by Fletcher Hanks; After stopping a group of thieves, Big Red is made Mr. Farr's partner. Untitled story; Oran of the Jungle vs. The Malengas. Untitled story, script by Herman Bolstein, art by John Celardo; Origin of Rip Regan (the Power-Man); vs. The Skull. Untitled story, script by Klaus Nordling (as Ed Norris), art by Klaus Nordling; Cpl. Strut Warren vs. a mad scientist. Untitled story, pencils by Charles Sultan; Chip Collins vs. The Japanese. 68 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Fine $185.00 View scans Paper: Tan to Cream Back cover detached 5%.

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March 1940. Cover by J. W. Scott. Stories: "Isles of the Blest" by Frederic Arnold Kummer, Jr., "After Doomsday" by John Cotton, "Interplanetary Graveyard" by Edmond Hamilton, "As in the Beginning" by Jack Williamson, and "Ring Around The Sun" by Isaac Asimov. Softcover Pulp, 7-in x 10-in, 114 Pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

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Volume 17, Issue 9 - March 2, 1940. Walt Disney Pinocchio cover. 8.5" x 11", 64 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.05.

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $8.00 View scans Spine split 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Moderate.

Fiction and non-fiction stories with illustrations. 8.5" x 11.25", 60 pages, B&W with spot color. Cover price $0.05.

Add to cart Good $16.00 View scans Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Classic weekly news/photo magazine. 10.5-in. x 14-in.; partial color; 116 pages. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $40.00 View scans Spine split 10%. Staple rust: Moderate.

March 18, 1940. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. 10.5-in. x 14-in.; partial color; 116 pages. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $35.00 View scans Spine split 5%. Staple rust: Extensive.

March 25, 1940. Classic weekly news/photo magazine. 10.5-in. x 14-in.; partial color; 112 pages. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Good $20.00 View scans Spine split 10%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Moderate.

Vol. 4, No. 6 - March 12, 1940. 10.5" x 13.5", 60 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 23, Issue 5 - March, 1940. Mechanical science and technology magazine. This issue's articles include; "Today's Science is Tomorrow's Magic" by William A. Gluesing, "Hit and Run - But the Law Runs Faster" by R. DeWitt Miller, "Your Job - Photography" by Donald G. Cooley "The Sap that Made Good" by Walter E. Burton, and others. 6 1/2-in. x 9 1/2-in., 146 pages, BW/spot color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart PR 0.5 $74.95 or Best Offer View scan INCOMPLETE. Large piece cut from centerfold, affects art and story. Severe spine split (taped), cover detached, lateral spine tear, pieces of tape throughout interior. 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, Walter de la Mare, Bill Wright, Robin Palmer, Ted Thwaites, and Al Taliaferro. Sometimes listed as Mickey Mouse Magazine #54. Published by Disney marketing genius Kay Kamen, Mickey Mouse Magazine featured early Disney comics and stories, along with puzzles, art and activities. Mickey tries to make sure nothing happens to Minnie's lamp. Mickey's Robinson Crusoe adventure continues. An illustrated text adaptation of Disney's animated short Tugboat Mickey. Plus vintage ads for Disney merch, including a Walt Disney Art Stamp Picture Set. Just Between Us; Tugboat Mickey; Coal; Miss Jemima; March Hare Party; Black Whiskers; Rip Van Winkle; Timid Elmer; Peter the Farm Detective; Wise Quacks Edited by Donald Duck. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Good $13.00 View scans Front cover detached 15%. Back cover detached 10%. Staple rust: Slight.

Vintage celebrity gossip tabloid with a focus on Hollywood during the golden-age of cinema. 8.5" x 11.5", 108 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $8.00 View scans Staple rust: Slight.

Canadian magazine filled with photos and stories about Canadian events, people, and past histories.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $2.50

Volume 26, Issue 3 - March 1940. Magazine for the promotion of private flying and commercial aviation. "What's at the Front?" (photographs of the main combatants in Europe), "The Fighting Chinese" (China's tiny air force versus Japan's) and an article on the venerable PBY Flying Boat. 8 1/2 in. x 11 1/2 in., 74 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart FN+ 6.5 $47.00 View scans Front cover detached 10%. Staple rust: Moderate.

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

Add to cart FN+ 6.5 $13.50 View scans Staple rust: Slight.

Published by Hugo Gernsback, considered the father of science-fiction. This issue is centered around the new medium of television with Gernsback's editorial, "The Television Age". 8.5" x 11.5". 128 pages. Black and white. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $3,000.00 or Best Offer View scans Restored: C2 Paper: Cream to off white Restoration includes: pieces added to cover, tear seals to cover, cover reinforced. Includes a "Ruben Blades Collection" sticker on front of slab. Label #1572064014 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Other items consigned by thegeneral

Add to cart CBCS 1.5 $1,750.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: Off white Cover detached. Front cover reattached to back cover with 9 pieces of tape. Centerfold detached. Label #18-110B82D-003 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Cover by Lou Fine. Stories by Rodney Weems and Bert Whitman. Art by Emil Gershwin, Robert Webb, George Tuska, and Bert Whitman. An anthology of Golden Age adventure comics featuring sci-fi heroes and some of the very first superheroes. Electric-powered hero Electro becomes Dynamo, and uses his powers to trap a gang of gold thieves in gold electroplate like living statues; Marga the Panther Woman is kidnapped by a mad African ruler who wants to make her his queen; Navy Jones helps the undersea kingdom rebel against its corrupt Prime Minister. Another terrific cover by Lou Fine. Science Fights Crime!; The Eagle: The Mail Pirates; Dynamo: The Fort Knox Gold Robbery; Cosmic Carson: Master of the Ice Ray; Perisphere Payne: Attack On the Moon; Build a Fighting Plane; Build a Super-Locomotive; Marga: Uchunko, Ruler of the Jungle; Gold...1000 Miles Down; Dr. Doom: Battle of the Insects; Navy Jones: The Prime Minister Strikes Back. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $19.00 View scans Paper: Light tan to off white Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 20%. Staple rust: Slight.

Vol. 1, No. 6 - March 1940. Science Fiction and adventure stories pulp magazine. Cover by Frank R. Paul. "The New Life" by John Coleridge and "Men Without a World" by John Russell Feam (as Dom Passante) - incorrectly credited to Dennis Clive on cover, plus stories by Bob Olsen, Carl Jacobi, and Ephriam Winiki. Illustrations by Frank R. Paul, Novick. 7-in. x 10-in., 130 newsprint pages, black and white (text with illustrations). Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $13.00 View scans Staple rust: Slight.

Subtitled "A Monthly Digest of Radio and Allied Maintenance". Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart Very Good $95.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white

Volume 33, Issue 2 - March 15, 1940. 6.5" x 9", 114 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $899.95 or Best Offer View scans Restored (see item notes) RESTORATION. Tear seal and TRIMMED. Cover glued to first wrap. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Stories and art by Jack Cole, Gus Ricca, Hal Sharp, and Mike Suchorsky. An adventure anthology from Fawcett, featuring such little-known heroes as Jungle King, Hurricane Hansen, and time traveler Mark Swift. Lee Granger becomes a Tarzan-like figure with a twist: his sidekick is a talking lion named Eric. American seaman Hurricane Hansen joins the British Navy just as war with the Kazilians breaks out. Mark Swift encounters Rodney, a man with a "time retarder," and before he knows it, he's meeting Vikings and Native American chieftains. Plus a gag page by Plastic Man creator Jack Cole. Diamond Jack; Slam-Bang Gags; War Bird; Jim Dolan; Tree-Top Murder; Lucky Lawton; Lee Granger, Jungle King; Hurricane Hansen; Mark Swift and the Time Retarder. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.