Ace Comics, #30

Published: September 1939

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Ace Comics #30

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Issue Contents:
1 page humor; children
Credits
Story 1 1 page non-fiction

"The Katzenjammer Kids are off to the Fair..."

Story Notes

The inside-front cover.

Story 2 4 pages adventure; jungle

"In the flesh, Brant! And now, if you will drag your worthless carcass out of bed..."

Characters
  • Jungle Jim Bradley
Credits
Dodger Discovery
Story 3 1 page non-fiction; sports
Characters
  • Harold 'Pete' Reiser
Credits
The Pie-Eating Contest (1)
Story 4 1 page humor
Story 5 4 pages humor; children

"Ah! A rare opportunity."

Credits
  • Pencils:
  • Script:
  • Inks:
Do You Know...
Story 6 1 page non-fiction

"that Nicaragua Has Issued..."

Credits
  • Script:
Story Notes

Includes stamp ads.

Story 7 1 page children; fantasy
Story Notes

Four 2/9-pages

Featuring Cyrano De Bergerac Jr.

Story 8 0 pages children
Story Notes

Four 1/9-pages (1/3 of the top 1/3 of each page)

Story 9 3 pages humor; children

"Yes, sir -- when it gets toward the Fourth of July..."

Story Notes

Four 2/3 pages spread through the comic.

Story 10 4 pages adventure

"Curley, I want you to cover the building of Marksville's new dam."

Skimming the Cream from the Milky Way
Story 11 1 page humor
Credits
Story Notes

Jokes from readers, for $1 if published,

Story 12 2 pages humor; children

"You leave me alone, Butch Meekin."

Credits
Story 13 2 pages teen

"Oh, boy! If I only had a car, I'd drive over..."

Story 14 2 pages humor

"Miz Smif -- if ye hain't hard put I'd like to borry..."

Jean Parker; Hedy Lamarr
Story 15 2 pages non-fiction
Characters
  • James Whale
Story 16 4 pages adventure

"And you'll find Sheik Kut-el-Hadin at the desert village of Tihara..."

Rustlers of Shadow Canyon - Part 6
Story 17 3 pages western-frontier
Credits
  • Script:
Story 18 1 page humor

"For the third and last time no!"

Credits
Story 19 1 page humor

"What is he? A musky!"

Story 20 4 pages humor; domestic

"Mama, can Daisy and I stay at Alvin's tonight?"

Credits
Story 21 4 pages adventure; historical

"So the three survivors of the adventure set out for Camelot."

Credits
Reprint Notes

from the Prince Valiant newspaper strips dated 06-05-1937, 06-12-1937, 06-19-1937, 06-26-1937.

Story 22 2 pages drama

"Hold it, Tillie! There's no privacy..."

Story 23 2 pages humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals; satire-parody

"Jess fency, Offissa Pup, the tree of us riding around tigedda - like boom kimpenions."

Credits

Featuring Puz-L-Zoo; How Smart Are You

Story 24 1 page non-fiction
Loretta Young
Story 25 1 page non-fiction
Characters
  • Loretta Young
  • Henry Wilcoxon
  • Ben Turpin
  • Sonja Henie
  • Charles Bickford
Story 26 4 pages adventure; jungle; superhero

"On the Llongo plain, the great pitched battle approaches."

Credits
Reprint Notes

From Phantom daily strips (King Features Syndicate) 1937-05-28 - 1937-05-29 and 1937-05-31 - 1937-06-05, but one panel is omitted from one of the dailies on each page, in order to fit two 4-panel strips onto each 7-panel page.

Boy Hopeful to Old Reliable in Two Years
Story 27 1 page non-fiction; sports
Characters
  • Bob Feller
Credits
Story 28 4 pages humor; children

"$100 reward for information leading to capture of..."

Credits
Story 29 2 pages anthropomorphic-funny animals; fantasy

"Watch closely and you will see..."

Credits
Story 30 2 pages humor; domestic

"While the madam is out shopping..."

Credits
Presto! A New Magazine - Magic Comics
Story 31 1 page
Story Notes

With a small cover repro and vignettes of many of the other characters.