magawiki

Inside the Pages of Old Magazine Back Issues

Search tip: Searching for a specific date?
Use the following format: YYYY-MM-DD
(ie: August 5, 1946 becomes 1946-08-05)
You are here: Home / Colliers / 1939-01-07 Colliers Magazine Contents

1939-01-07 Colliers Magazine Contents

1939/01/07 — Cover art by Jaro Fabry.
Contents as follows:
Short Stories

  • “Big Boy” by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan & illustrated by Earl Oliver Hurst
  • “Mountain Monarch” by William Arthur Breyfogle & illustrated by Floyd Davis
  • “Eddie Buys a Car” by Budd Wilson Schulberg & illustrated by Gilbert Darling
  • “Decoy” by Hurd Barrett & illustrated by Harry Morse Meyers

    • The Short Short Story

  • “Dispatch from Nanking” by Maurice Barrangon with Illustration by Hy Rubin

    • Serial Stories:

  • “Strange Honeymoon” Part 5 of 10 by Octavus Roy Cohen & illustrated by Elmore Brown
  • “Murder for Christmas” Part 9 of 10 by Agatha Christie & illustrated by Mario Cooper

    • Articles

  • “Bids for the Homestead of the Free” about the G.O.P. Stealing the Farm Vote by John T. Flynn
  • “Where the Thinking Starts” about Leon Henderson by Robert McCormick
  • “Cats on the Logs” about the Log-Birling Championship of the World by Stewart H. Holbrook
  • “King of the B’s” about the Unexpected Masterpieces of Bryan Foy by Kyle Crichton
  • “You’ll Be Seeing Them” about Daughters of the Beach by Aimee Larking

    • Plus:

  • “Keep Up With the World” by Freling Foster
  • Editorial: “Is the Crying Jag Over?”
  • Cartoons by Margot, William Steig, Leonard Dove, Ned Hilton, Sydney Hoff, Jay Irving, Reamer Keller, Perry Barlow, Ted Key, Laurence Reynolds, Jefferson Machamer

    • Notable Advertising includes: Melvyn Douglas for Calox Powder*, Union Pacific Railroad*, color ad on inside back cover for Ford showing the De Luxe V-8 Fordor Sedan and the V-8 Tudor Sedan, beautiful multi-paned Coca-Cola ad on the back cover and shown below this listing. (Note * means ad is less than a full page)