Comic books March 1940

Add to cart Good $4.00 View scans Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.

Vol. 3 #11, Mar. 1940 - Story titles like "Because He Got Fresh With Me" and "You Have Seven Hours to Live" let you know this magazine's editorial slant. Illustrated with many period photos, some with an added color tint, usually red. 10.5" x 13.25", 52 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart CBCS 4.0 $700.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Centerfold Married. Tape on Entire Spine of Cover and 6 Small Pieces on Interior Cover. Label #21-11A2705-001 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Cover by Bill Everett. "Aman the Amazing Man" by Bill Everett; "Ranch Dude" by Joe Simon; "The Magician From Mars" by John Guinta and Michael Mirando; "The Iron Skull" by Carl Burgos; "Minimidget the Super-Midget"; Chuck Hardy in "The Land Beneath the Sea" by Frank Thomas; "Mighty Man and the Haunted House" by Martin Filchock; "The Shark" by Lew Glanz; plus a two-page Amazing Man text story, "The Test of the Stolen Records" by Lane Browne. Ad for Pinocchio picture book. 68 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $29.00 View scans Paper: Off white Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $18.00 View scans Paper: Cream Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 20%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart Good $12.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Staple rust. Rust migration. Foxing. Soiling. Heavy water damage.

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

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $33.00 View scans Paper: Off white	Add to cart Very Good $26.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Foxing. Soiling. Water damage.	Add to cart Very Good $26.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Water damage: Slight.	Add to cart Very Good $32.00 View scans Paper: Cream Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $21.00 View scans Paper: Cream Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.	Add to cart PR 0.5 $2.50 Missing front cover. 5 1/2" back cover spine split.	Add to cart PR 0.5 $2.50 View scan Interior complete. Full length spine split. Missing front cover.

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.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $2.50 View scans Paper: Off white Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $2.50 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 20%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $2.50 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

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 VG/FN 5.0 $16.00 View scans Paper: Off white Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart Very Good $10.00 View scans Paper: Cream Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 15%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.

Add to cart Very Good $15.00 View scans Paper: Off white Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

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 $7.00 View scans	Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $24.00 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 $86.00 View scans Paper: Off white Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.	Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $7.00 View scans Paper: 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 to off white Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.	Add to cart GD- 1.8 $2.50 View scans Paper: Cream Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Extensive.

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

Add to cart Very Good $86.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Front cover detached 20%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

"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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Add to cart Good $24.00 View scans Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

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.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $21.00 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.

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

Add to cart Very Good $14.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Water damage: Moderate.	Add to cart Very Good $18.00 View scans Trimmed Paper: Cream to off white Water damage: Slight.	Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $17.00 View scans Trimmed Paper: Off white Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.	Add to cart GD 2.0 $11.00 View scans Trimmed Paper: Cream to off white Interior page detached (all pages are present). Front cover detached 50%. Back cover detached 15%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
Add to cart CGC 7.0 $199.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Label #4485053010 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

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

Add to cart Very Good $62.00 View scans Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%.

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $14.00 View scans Front cover detached 30%.

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 2.0 $665.00 View scans Conserved Paper: Off white Conservation includes: tear seals to interior & cover, spine split sealed to cover, cover & interior reinforced. CENTERFOLD MARRIED. Label #3969864005

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.

Add to cart CGC 5.0 $1,000.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: Cream to off white Label #1162767002 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

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 $43.00 View scans Spine split 10%. Staple rust: Slight.	Add to cart Very Good $41.00 View scans Staple rust. Rust migration. Soiling. Water damage.	Add to cart Very Good $41.00 View scans 1 1/2" Cumulative spine split. Corner Damage. Creasing. Denting. Edge damage. Foxing. Scuffing. Soiling.	Add to cart Good $39.00 View scans 3/4" Cumulative spine split. Corner Damage. Creasing. Denting. Foxing. Residue. Scuffing. Soiling. Water damage.
Add to cart Good $39.00 View scans Staple rust. 4" Spine split from base of book. Foxing. Soiling.

Volume 71, Issue 611 - March, 1940. Cover by Enoch Bolles. Humorous captions paired with movie stills and models. 8.5" x 11", 54 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $8.00 View scans Staple rust: Slight.

Volume 34, Issue 4 - March, 1940. 8" x 11", 80 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $65.00 View scans Paper: Cream Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 15%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart GD 2.0 $59.00 View scans Trimmed Paper: Cream to off white Multiple book length creases on front cover. Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.

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.

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $62.00 View scans Spine split 15%. Staple rust: Moderate.

Add to cart Very Good $41.00 View scans Spine split 5%. Staple rust: Moderate.

Issue 1 - March, 1940. Gale's Graphic Models was a short-lived vintage publication meant to be a visual aid for artists interested in the female form. Each page is adorned by a single model in various poses with many different types of lighting and an occasional prop. 6.5" x 10", 40 pages, B&W. -MATURE READERS-

Add to cart Very Good $22.00 View scans Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Moderate.

Volume 10, Issue 3 - March 1940. Painted cover by David Berger. True crime articles, stories and photos. "Thirteen Wicked Women", "New York's Nazi Spy Murder Mystery." 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 66 p, B&W Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $13.00 View scans Spine split 20%. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart Very Good $27.00 View scans Spine split 30%.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $11.00 View scans .5" Spine spilt from top. Cover oxidation.

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 $39.00 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 Poor $5.00 View scans Page missing. 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+ 4.5 $21.00 View scans

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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 Fine $13.00 View scans Front cover detached 5%. Staple rust: Moderate.

Vintage celebrity gossip tabloid with a focus on Hollywood during the golden-age of cinema. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 9.0 $14,495 or Best Offer View scans Moderate professional restoration Paper: Off white to white Moderate/Extensive Professional Restoration Includes: Color touch on cover, pieces added to cover, tear seals to cover and interior, cover and centerfold reinforced, cover and interior cleaned, staples cleaned. Gerber 8. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Cover by Bernard Baily. "The Spectre Strikes," script by Jerry Siegel, art by Bernard Baily; After murdering Corrigan, Benson and his thugs decide to kill the witness, Clarice, but before they can do this, a wraith-like Corrigan appears before them to exact justice. "Biff's Disguise," starring Biff Bronson, script by Albert Sulman, art by Joe Sulman. "The Mine Sweepers," starring Lt. Bob Neal, script by Robert Hirsch, art by Russ Lehman. "The Rocket Ship," starring King Carter, art by Paul Lauretta. "Submarine Pirates," starring Captain Desmo, art by Ed Winiarski. "Murder in the Ring," starring Detective Sergeant Carey, script and art by Joe Donohoe. "The Search for Half Breed Charlie," starring Sergeant O'Malley of the Red Coat Patrol, art by John Lehti. "The Fall of Billy Evans," starring Bulldog Martin, art by Bart Tumey. 68 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Good $17.00 View scans Spine split 5%. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart Good $6.00 View scans Spine split 5%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Slight.

"The Road to Singapore" cover with Hope and Crosby. Cover price $0.10.

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Vol. 9 #25 - Mar. 30-Apr. 5, 1940. Cover of Deanna Durbin. Picture of the Week features Don Ameche. Can Radio Elect Mrs. Roosevelt President? is lead article complete with a state-by-state breakdown. Can Europe's Bootleg News Poison Us? is second lead article. Big Band and radio news. The Secret Story of Charlie Chaplin's New Movie is two pages. This Week in Hollywood features the horse Seabiscuit, Don Ameche, Joan Blondell, George Raft and others. 1,000,000 BC stars Victor Mature. Joan Crawford in Strange Cargo. Plus extensive radio program listings. 10 3 /4-in. x 13 1/2-in., 44 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $35.00 View scans Staple rust: Slight.

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

Add to cart Coverless $145.00 View scans INCOMPLETE. First wrap and centerfold missing, affects Flint Baker, Red Comet, Spurt Hammond, and Auro stories. First present wrap detached and damaged.

Cover art by Will Eisner. Untitled story; Instead of returning to Earth, Mimi sets the controls to alter the course and they land on Pluto, out of fuel; Flint is attacked by weird half-man, half-amphibian creatures and captured. Untitled story, pencils by Alex Blum; Amazonia and her people, the last survivors of a super race that perished during the period of the last ice age, and who live in the far north reaches of the Arctic, are visited by the only survivor of an expedition. Untitled story; While cruising the universe, Red Comet gets a strange message from a ruler on Jupiter, who challenges the entire solar system to battle with his forces. Untitled story, art by Henry Kiefer; While cruising near Mercury, Spurt's Astragraph picks up the images of a young girl being roughly seized by brutal captors, and heads to the planet to investigate. The Lizard-Men of Alpha Astra text story. Untitled story; Sandra and Buzz report to Post 82 on the Moon, and discover that all communication with Post 83 has been cut off, so the pair go and investigate. Untitled story, art by Leonard Frank; The Chief of the Solar Force puts Captain Cole in charge of finding the space pirates that are attacking defenseless space transports. Untitled story, script by Herman Bolstein, art by R. Louis Golden; A strange character approaches Auro's throne and asks him of he intends to wipe out a dragon responsible for the deaths of many of Auro's people. 68 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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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 CBCS 7.0 $3,999.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Slab: Minor side/edge crack(s) From The Oxford Collection. Label #21-2601C8E-015

Cover by Ed Kressy and Norman Fallon. Stories and art by Emile C. Schurmacher, Ed Kressy, Norman Fallon and Jack Alderman. An early science fiction comic book from publisher Hillman, featuring Rocket Riley, the Phantom Ranger and other embryonic superheroes. Rocket Riley tries to keep Professor Sterling's atomic rocket from falling into enemy hands, and is captured by the Octopus Men from space. The Phantom Ranger rides for justice in the Old West, like that other famous masked Ranger. Lt. Dick Jones must rescue Jane Wells, daughter of the governor of Monongo, after she is abducted by the modern-day pirate called The Steel Shark. Rocket Riley: The Runaway Rocket; Hurricane Hart: Treasure of Death; Red Roberts; The Phantom Ranger; The Steel Shark; Facts You May Not Know; Buzzard Barnes: Hell in the Heavens; Lefty Larsen: Traitors Must Die. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CBCS 1.5 $1,750.00 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 FN- 5.5 $31.00 View scans Paper: Off white Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight.

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 GD 2.0 $490.00 View scans Heavy water damage.

Volume 1, Issue 2 - March, 1940. Science Fiction and horror stories. Thsi issues features "The Dead Who Love the Living" by Francis James, and "Girls For the Golden Beast" by Donald Dale. 7" x 9.5". 112 pages, text (with B&W illustrations). Cover price $0.15.