Auctions: comic books 1937

44 Western Magazine (1937-1954 Popular Publications^) Pulp Vol. 1 #1 GD/VG 3.0

Dime Detective Magazine (1931-1953 Popular Publications) Pulp Vol. 23 #3 GD/VG 3.0

Interior oxidation.

Volume 23, Issue 3 - February, 1937. 6.75" x 9.75", 130 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Funnies, The (1936-1942 Dell) 9 GD 2.0

2 centerfold wraps detached. Cover detached at one staple. Cover and interior oxidation. Interior activities completed.

Contains comic strip reprints, text articles, and activity pages. In order of appearance: "Alley Oop" by V. T. Hamlin; "Herky" by Clyde Lewis; "Home Magic" by A. W. Nugent; "Dan Dunn" by Norman Marsh; "Our Boarding House" by Gene Ahern; "Ben Webster's Page" by Jay Jerome Williams (as Edwin Alger); "G Men on the Job" by Dick Blair and Milt Youngren; "Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune" by Roy Crane; "Stranger than Fiction" by Richard W. Thomas and Walter Galli; "Boots" and "Bootkins" by Edgar Martin; "Bronc Peeler" and "Uncle Bill" by Fred Harman; "The Tiny Mites" by Hal Cochran and George Scarbo; "Out Our Way" by J. R. Williams; "Tailspin Tommy" and "Four Aces" by Hal Forrest; "Stories in Stamps" by I. S. Klein; "Og, Son of Fire" by James Irving Crump; "The Worry Wart" by J. R. Williams; "Scribbly" by Sheldon Mayer; "Don Dixon and the Hidden Empire" and "Tad of the Tanbark" by Bob Moore and Carl Pfeufer; "Reg'lar Fellers" and "Daisybelle" by Gene Byrnes; "Mutt and Jeff" and "Cicero's Cat" by Bud Fisher; "Everybody's Playmate" by A. W. Nugent; "Freckles and his Friends" by Merrill Blosser; "Heroes' Hall of Fame" by Benjamin D. Allen (as Stookie Allen); "From the Notes of Major Cosmo Strange, D.S.O." by George Baker; "Now You Tell One!" by Edward Courtney Dunkle; "Be a Champion" by Ed Cronin; "Annibelle" by Virginia Krausmann; and "Salesman Sam" by C. D. Small. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Phantom Detective (1933-1953 Standard Magazines) Pulp Vol. 21 #1 FN 6.0

Romance (1937 Popular Publications) Pulp 4th Series Vol. 1 #1 0.3

Mold. Staple rust.

Zane Grey's King of the Royal Mounted Feature Book (1937 David McKay Publishing) 1 VG- 3.5

1" Cumulative spine split. Cover coming loose at one staple.

Stories by Romer Grey and Stephen Slesinger. Art by Allen Dean. Pioneering comics publisher David McKay's Feature Book was the first US comic book to devote complete issues to a single character. This issue (technically the third, but the first numbered) reprinted King of the Royal Mounted comic strips from 1936.  Canadian Mountie Dave King was based on a character created by Western novelist Zane Grey. Yukon outlaws set fire to King's cabin to distract him while they ambush a dogsled team, killing the men escorting a gold shipment. 9-in. x 12-in., 52 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.